Roy Chanslor

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25-08-1899

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25-08-1899

Birthday

Virgo

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Total Films

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Cat Ballou

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

6.4

Year:

1965

Johnny Guitar

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.

7.4

Year:

1954

The Steel Key

An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.

5.5

Year:

1953

The House Across the Street

Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.

4.5

Year:

1949

Hazard

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.

8.0

Year:

1948

Hazard

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.

8.0

Year:

1948

Michigan Kid

A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.

6.0

Year:

1947

Michigan Kid

A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.

6.0

Year:

1947

The Vigilantes Return

Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden.

2.2

Year:

1947

Black Angel

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.

6.0

Year:

1946

Strange Conquest

Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.

0.0

Year:

1946

Perilous Holiday

A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley.

0.0

Year:

1946

The Daltons Ride Again

The notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be seized by a greedy land company. Before they can help, the man is killed by a company assassin. The brothers do manage to rescue his widow and head for the hills. There, they decide to revert back to outlaw life. Meanwhile, a newspaper publisher's daughter falls for one of the brothers.

3.0

Year:

1945

The House of Fear

The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.

6.8

Year:

1945

Destiny

Framed for two crimes he didn't commit, and betrayed by his girl, Cliff Banks finds himself on the run from the police. Now distrustful of everyone, he finds a safe haven hiding out at a quaint country cottage under the care of a kindly old farmer and his daughter, a Cinderella-like blind woman who seems to be able to communicate with nature. There he is forced by their love to question his misanthropy.

4.6

Year:

1944

Secret Command

Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.

6.8

Year:

1944

Idaho

A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.

5.7

Year:

1943

Tarzan Triumphs

Zandra, white princess of a lost civilization, comes to Tarzan for help when Nazis invade the jungle with plans to conquer her people and take their wealth. Tarzan, the isolationist, becomes involved after the Nazis shoot at him and capture Boy: "Now Tarzan make war!"

6.1

Year:

1943

The Navy Comes Through

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

5.6

Year:

1942

You Can't Escape Forever

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.

5.4

Year:

1942

Drums of the Congo

A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.

0.0

Year:

1942

Escape from Hong Kong

Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.

6.0

Year:

1942

Unseen Enemy

The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.

0.0

Year:

1942

Treat 'Em Rough

When his father is accused of graft, a former boxer returns home to clear his name.

6.0

Year:

1942

Bombay Clipper

Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.

5.5

Year:

1942

Flying Cadets

Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.

3.0

Year:

1941

Burma Convoy

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

0.0

Year:

1941

Washington Melodrama

An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.

5.0

Year:

1941

Golden Hoofs

A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.

7.0

Year:

1941

Double Alibi

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

4.5

Year:

1940

Framed

A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.

5.8

Year:

1940

Honeymoon Deferred

Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract. His wife, played by Margaret Lindsay, insists on following him around, not only to help him solve the case, but to make sure he doesn't get too friendly with any members of the opposite sex, either.

6.0

Year:

1940

Honeymoon Deferred

6.0

Year:

1940

One Hour To Live

Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.

0.0

Year:

1939

The Devil's Party

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

5.5

Year:

1938

The Nurse from Brooklyn

A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name.

6.0

Year:

1938

Goodbye Broadway

Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.

0.0

Year:

1938

Love Is on the Air

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

5.0

Year:

1937

Wine, Women and Horses

An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.

4.0

Year:

1937

Public Wedding

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.

5.7

Year:

1937

Men in Exile

An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.

4.8

Year:

1937

California Mail

The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.

4.8

Year:

1936

Here Comes Carter

A radio commentator avenges an old wrong by blowing the whistle on Hollywood scandals

5.0

Year:

1936

The Girl on the Front Page

The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

0.0

Year:

1936

Bengal Tiger

After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.

4.5

Year:

1936

Murder by an Aristocrat

A wealthy family is blackmailed. Murder results. And a nurse at the scene of the crime is determined to figure out who-done-it.

3.0

Year:

1936

Times Square Playboy

A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.

4.8

Year:

1936

Man Hunt

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

0.0

Year:

1936

Front Page Woman

Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.

5.8

Year:

1935

Murder in the Clouds

Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.

4.7

Year:

1934

Murder in the Clouds

4.7

Year:

1934

Hi, Nellie!

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

6.5

Year:

1934

The Final Edition

A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.

5.0

Year:

1932

The Menace

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

4.5

Year:

1932

Shanghaied Love

Captain Angus Swope (Noab Beery), known as The Black Yankee, skipper of the Golden Bough, treats his crew shamefully and he treats women no better, as evidenced by his handling of a woman he has abducted, together with her baby daughter, Mary (Sally Blaine), from seaman Newman (Willard Robertson). When the woman dies as a result of his cruelty, he brings up Mary as his own daughter.

0.0

Year:

1931

Fifty Fathoms Deep

In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older diver, and his younger protege. They become enemies when a gold-digger marries the latter. She soon leaves him in favor of a wealthy yachtsman. She is aboard his boat when an accident occurs. The two divers must salvage the costly boat before it sinks.

1.0

Year:

1931