José Portugal
Known For & Full Filmography28 Titles
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Empire Theatre Patron (uncredited)
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Party Guest (uncredited)
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Country Club Patron (uncredited)
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Waiter (uncredited)
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars, and self-preserving gangsters. Soon, Marlowe's life is on the line right along with his case.
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Club Patron (uncredited)
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Barfly (uncredited)
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Bar Patron (uncredited)
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Servant (uncredited)
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Villager (uncredited)
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Party Guest (uncredited)
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Mourner (uncredited)
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Arab (uncredited)
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Ship Passenger (uncredited)
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Casino Patron (uncredited)
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Buyer (uncredited)
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Jose
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Party Guest (uncredited)
While on leave in New York, a serviceman both weds a chorus girl and wins a red convertible in a charity raffle. Both his wife and the car turn out to be problematic.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Young Lover (uncredited)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Gambling Casino Patron (uncredited)
Gambler Arnold Rothstein marries an actress, avenges his buddy and meets an underworld fate.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Man at Immigration Office (uncredited)
An undercover U.S. Immigration agent falls in love with an immigrant attempting to enter the United States through Havana, Cuba in an illegal smuggling ring.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Citizen (uncredited)
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Delegate (uncredited)
Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Officer (uncredited)
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Nostalgic comedy about medical students circa 1905.