18-08-1890
Birthday
Leo
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
27
Total Films
Also known as (male)
New York City, New York, USA
Place of Birth
18-08-1890
Birthday
Leo
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
27
Total Films
-
Also Known As (male)
New York City, New York, USA
Place of Birth
actor
27 Works
producer
0 Works
director
4 Works
writer
4 Works
other
0 Works
Force of Evil
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.Year:
1950
All the King's Men
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.Year:
1949
The Great Sinner
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.Year:
1949
Specter of the Rose
Ballet dancer Sanine may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one.Year:
1946
Salty O'Rourke
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.Year:
1945
Gentleman Jim
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.Year:
1942
The Big Street
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.Year:
1942
Invisible Stripes
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.Year:
1939
The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.Year:
1939
Naughty But Nice
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.Year:
1939
Sweepstakes Winner
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.Year:
1939
Boy Meets Girl
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...Year:
1938
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.Year:
1938
A Slight Case of Murder
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.Year:
1938
Double or Nothing
A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation that the first one who can double the amount -- without dishonesty-- will win a cool million. Hindering the four are the avaricious relatives of the late millionaire.Year:
1937
Park Avenue Logger
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon undercovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.Year:
1937
Straight from the Shoulder
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.Year:
1936
Big Brown Eyes
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.Year:
1936
Mary Burns, Fugitive
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.Year:
1935
Two for Tonight
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.Year:
1935
Chinatown Squad
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.Year:
1935
Baby Face Harrington
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2."Year:
1935
Me and My Gal
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.Year:
1932
Too Busy to Work
A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him...Year:
1932
The Golden West
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.Year:
1932
Society Girl
Johnny is training for a championship fight. Judy distracts him, so his manager Briscoe walks out on him. Then so does Judy.Year:
1932
Careless Lady
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.Year:
1932
