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Clancy Cooper
Clancy Cooper (July 23, 1906 – June 14, 1975) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1938 and 1962. He also guest-starred on numerous TV series, such as ''The Rifleman'', '' Lawman'', '' Wanted: Dead or Alive'', '' Maverick'', and ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''; he also appeared on ''Sanford and Son'' as Kelly, an elderly friend of Fred Sanford, in the episode "The Copper Caper", the fourth episode in the first season of the series. He appeared as the Sheriff in ''The Lone Ranger (TV series)'' 1949 episode (1/15) "Old Joe's Sister". Cooper's Broadway credits as an actor included ''Eight O'Clock Tuesday'' (1941), ''Horse Fever'' (1940), ''Night Music'' (1940), ''The Man Who Killed Lincoln'' (1940), ''Summer Night'' (1939), ''Stop Press'' (1939), ''The Fabulous Invalid'' (1938), and ''Casey Jones'' (1938). He also directed plays. Selected filmography * '' Mr. Wong, Detective'' (1938) - Warehouse Man (uncredited) * ''Flying G-Men'' (1939, Serial) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls In Chains
''Girls in Chains'' is a 1943 American women in prison film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Arline Judge. Plot Johnny Moon is a mob boss who controls everything from politicians to a profitable women's penitentiary he runs. He has ruined many lives, including that of Helen Martin, a teacher, and her sister Jean. A political reformer, Frank Donovan, is able to persuade Helen to go undercover behind bars, posing as an inmate, to unearth evidence that will prove Moon's abuse of the incarcerated women. She ultimately succeeds, but not before placing her life in grave danger. Cast *Arline Judge as Helen Martin *Roger Clark as Frank Donovan * Robin Raymond as Rita Randall *Barbara Pepper as Ruth *Dorothy Burgess as Mrs. Peters * Clancy Cooper as Marcus * Addison Randall as Johnny Moon *Patricia Knox as Jean Moon *Sid Melton as Pinkhead *Russell Gaige as Dalvers *Emmett Lynn as Lionel Cleeter *Richard Clarke as Tom Havershield *Betty Blythe Betty Blythe (born Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Died With Their Boots On
''They Died with Their Boots On'' is a 1941 American black-and-white Western film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Hal B. Wallis and Robert Fellows, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The film's storyline offers a highly fictionalized account of the life of Gen. George Armstrong Custer, from the time he enters West Point military academy through the American Civil War and finally to his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Custer is portrayed as a fun-loving, dashing figure who chooses honor and glory over money and corruption. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse (played by Anthony Quinn) is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation that wants the land Custer promised to the Native Americans. The film was one of the top-grossing films of 1941. ''They Died with Their Boots On'' was the eighth and final film collaboration between Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. The supporting cast features Arthur K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riding Through Nevada
''Riding Through Nevada'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by William Berke and written by Gerald Geraghty. The film stars Charles Starrett, Shirley Patterson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Jimmie Davis, Clancy Cooper and Davison Clark. The film was released on November 2, 1942, by Columbia Pictures. Plot Cast *Charles Starrett as Steve Lowrey *Shirley Patterson as Gail Holloway *Arthur Hunnicutt as Arkansas *Jimmie Davis as Jimmie Davis *Clancy Cooper as Ed Kendall *Davison Clark as Bob Holloway *Minerva Urecal as Widow Humbolt *Edmund Cobb as Sheriff *Ethan Laidlaw as Woods *Art Mix Art Mix (born George Washington Kesterson; June 18, 1896 – December 7, 1972), was an American character actor from the 1920s until the mid-1940s. Biography Prior to becoming an actor, Mix worked as a circus performer and a boxer. He initiall ... as Burgess *Stanley Brown as Hotel Clerk References External links * {{William Berke 1942 films 1940s English-language films Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Of Chance (1942 Film)
''Street of Chance'' is a 1942 American film noir mystery film directed by Jack Hively and starring Burgess Meredith as a man who finds he has been suffering from amnesia and Claire Trevor as a woman who protects him from the police, who suspect him of murder. He is suspected of the murder of the wealthy Harry Diedrich. The only eyewitness to the murder was Harry's mute grandmother, and she can only communicate with others through sign language. The story was based on Cornell Woolrich's novel ''The Black Curtain''. It was later dramatized three times on the CBS Radio series ''Suspense''. Plot Frank Thompson awakens in the middle of the street after wreckage falling from a building in New York City narrowly misses hitting him on the head. Frank soon discovers that his apartment has been rented out for a year and his wife Virginia has been living on her own elsewhere. Frank confronts Virginia, who is shocked to see the husband who, a year earlier, disappeared without explanation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man's World (1942 Film)
''A Man's World'' is a 1942 American drama film, directed by Charles Barton. It stars William Wright, Marguerite Chapman, and Larry Parks, and was released on September 17, 1942. Cast list * William Wright as Dan O'Driscoll * Marguerite Chapman as Mona Jackson (aka Mona Smith) * Larry Parks as Chick O'Driscoll * Wynne Gibson as Blossom Donovan * Roger Pryor as Bugsy Nelson * Frank Sully as Sammy Collins * Ferris Taylor as Chief DeShon * Edward Van Sloan as Doc Stone * Clancy Cooper as John Black * James Millican as Parks * Lloyd Bridges as Brown * Al Hill as Eddie Dartlett * Ralph Peters as Vince Carrol * Alan Bridge as Capt. Peterson * Eddie Kane as Doc Drake * Beulah Parkington as Girl * Grace Lenard as Girl * Diana Snyder as Girl * Thelma White as Girl * Frank Richards as Thomas * Shirley Patterson Shirley Patterson, sometimes billed as Shawn Smith, (December 26, 1922 – April 4, 1995) was a Canadian-born B-movie actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Early ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Code (serial)
''The Secret Code'' (1942) was the 19th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It features the masked hero "The Black Commando" facing Nazi saboteurs, inspired by Republic Pictures' successful ''Spy Smasher'' serial of the same year. The chapters of this serial each ended with a brief tutorial in cryptography. Plot This serial introduces the World War II scenario when a masked hero tries to prevent Nazi agents from crippling the US's war effort. The spy ring is led by fifth columnist Jensen, who, with his lieutenant Rudy Thyssen and a network of Nazi saboteurs, is trying to get possession of a top-secret formula the United States had developed for manufacturing synthetic rubber while creating explosive gases and radio-controlled bombs to sabotage the exhausting war effort. Then Police Lieutenant Dan Barton stages a public dismissal from the police department, in order to join the saboteurs ring and learn the secret code they have been using. To further assist his efforts (especial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wings For The Eagle
''Wings for the Eagle'' (aka ''Shadow of Their Wings'') is a 1942 American drama film starring Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson and George Tobias, directed by Lloyd Bacon. It tells the story of workers at a Lockheed aircraft assembly plant in the months preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was the first of 11 films in which Morgan and Carson appeared together, though they did not become known as a movie "team" until a few years later. Plot In 1940, Corky Jones (Dennis Morgan) and Gil Borden (Don DeFore) come to Burbank, California, looking for jobs. They get work at the Lockheed aircraft factory. Corky stays with his friend Brad Maple (Jack Carson) and his wife Roma (Ann Sheridan) Brad is unemployed. At work, Corky befriends Jake Hanso (George Tobias) and his son Pete (Russell Arms). Pete is studying to become a military pilot. Corky rents a room from Jake after Brad becomes jealous of him. Jake is a supervisor at the plant, born abroad, who loses his job because he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pride Of The Yankees
''The Pride of the Yankees'' is a 1942 American film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. It is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before its release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which later became known to the lay public as "Lou Gehrig's disease". Though subtitled ''The Life of Lou Gehrig'', the film is less a sports biography than an homage to a heroic and widely loved sports figure whose tragic and premature death touched the entire nation. It emphasizes Gehrig's relationship with his parents (particularly his strong-willed mother), his friendships with players and journalists, and his storybook romance with the woman who became his "companion for life," Eleanor Twitchell. Details of his baseball career—which were still fresh in most fans' minds in 1942—are limited to montages of ballparks, pennants, and Cooper swinging ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight Lieutenant (film)
''Flight Lieutenant'' (aka ''Flight Captain'' and ''He's My Old Man'') is a 1942 American drama war film starring Pat O'Brien as Sam Doyle, a disgraced commercial pilot who works to regain the respect of his son ( Glenn Ford) against the backdrop of World War II. Its advertising slogan was "roaring with thrills, throbbing with romance" with the love interest provided by Evelyn Keyes as Susie Thompson. ''Flight Lieutenant'' was directed by Sidney Salkow, a Harvard Law School grad who had himself served in the Pacific and been shot down. Plot World War I combat pilot Sam Doyle has developed a drinking problem. In 1932, he causes the death of his co-pilot, William Thompson, and has his license revoked. A single parent, he leaves young Danny behind with a guardian and goes off to South America to find gainful employment. He leaves money to the dead co-pilot's widow and daughter, but the dead man's brother, John Thompson (Warren Ashe), wants revenge. Danny grows up to be an expert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Shot (1942 Film)
''The Big Shot'' (1942) is an American film noir crime drama film starring Humphrey Bogart as a crime boss and Irene Manning as the woman he falls in love with. Having finally reached stardom with such projects as '' The Maltese Falcon'' (1941), this would be the last film in which former supporting player Bogart would portray a gangster for Warner Bros. (He would play a gangster one last time in his penultimate film, '' The Desperate Hours'', distributed by Paramount). Although ''The Big Shot'' entered production after '' Across the Pacific'', it was released nearly three months earlier. Considered one of Bogart's lesser-known works, contemporary reviews of ''The Big Shot'' describe it as an unexceptional throwback to his earlier gangster films, most likely trying to take advantage of the success of crime drama '' High Sierra'' (1941). It was released on DVD for the first time by Warner Archive early in 2015. Plot summary Three-time loser Duke Berne is dying in a prison hosp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juke Girl
''Juke Girl'' is a 1942 American drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt, written by A. I. Bezzerides, and starring Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan. The supporting cast includes Richard Whorf, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Alan Hale Sr., Howard Da Silva, Donald MacBride, Faye Emerson, Willie Best, and Fuzzy Knight. The plot focuses on the plight of exploited farmers and farmworkers in the South. Tagline "Shapely Ann Sheridan is starred with Ronald Reagan in the story of a Taxi dancer, dime-a-dance girl who discovers her veneer of hardness is not so solid as she had thought."Staff, "Fox Will Show The 'Juke Girl'", ''The Spokesman-Review'', Spokane, Washington, Friday 12 June 1942, Volume 60, Number 29, page 5. Plot Farm workers Steve and Danny seek jobs in the fields of Florida, where a man named Henry Madden runs a packing plant and uses strong-arm tactics while preventing many farmers from selling their crops. Steve meets and falls in love with Lola Mears, a "juke girl" employed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unseen Enemy
''Unseen Enemy'' is a 1942 American spy thriller film directed by John Rawlins and starring Don Terry as a Canadian military intelligence agent trying to uncover a plot to sabotage American ships. Leo Carrillo plays the unscrupulous waterfront club owner who sells usage of his club as a rendezvous point for German, Italian and Japanese spies. Cast *Irene Hervey as Gin Rand, Nick's stepdaughter *Don Terry as Capt. William Flynn Hancock, Canadian spy with multiple aliases *Leo Carrillo as Nick Rand, owner of The Schooner Club *Andy Devine as Sam Dillon *Lionel Royce as Capt. Willhelm Roering *Turhan Bey as Ito *Clancy Cooper as Police inspector Alan Davies *Hugh Beaumont Eugene Hugh Beaumont (February 16, 1909 – May 14, 1982) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Ward Cleaver on the television series '' Leave It to Beaver'', originally broadcast from 1957 to 1963; and as private detec ... as Narrator References External links * * * * 1942 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
