Nat Pendleton (1895-1967)

biography

Born in Davenport, Iowa on August 9, 1895, Nat Pendleton came from a privileged background as the son of a well-to-do prominent lawyer who was descended from Revolutionary War hero Nathaniel Greene. Not long after Pendleton's birth, his father moved the family to New York. Although he often played simple-minded characters, in actuality Pendleton was a highly intelligent man who graduated from Columbia University with a degree in economics and spoke four languages fluently. While at Columbia, he won several wrestling championships. He later competed as a wrestler during the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Losing just one match during the competition, he was awarded a silver medal.

After his return, he became a professional wrestler but turned to acting after an embarrassing loss. In the mid to late 1920s, he was cast in several plays on Broadway, which proved to be a launching board to his film career. Initially under contract to Paramount, Pendleton worked at Fox, Warner Bros., and Columbia, but the most prestigious film work came at MGM, where he acted in such top films as The Thin Man (1934; with William Powell and Myrna Loy) and The Great Ziegfeld (1936; with William Powell and Myrna Loy). He was also a fixture in the Dr. Kildare series of films in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

the films of nat pendleton

Baby Face (1933)

The Gay Bride (1934)

Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

Reckless (1935)

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Life Begins at College (1937)

Swing Your Lady (1938)

At the Circus (1939)

The Golden Fleecing (1940)

Scared to Death (1947)

later years

While he was never a big star, Nat Pendleton worked in many films from the 1920s through the 1940s. Wisely investing his earnings, Pendleton retired from films in 1947, after the releases of Scared to Death (1947; with Bela Lugosi) and Buck Privates Go Home (1947; with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello). Afterward, Pendleton moved to San Diego but would, on occasion, tackle a television role in the 1950s. He passed away on October 12, 1967, at the age of 72. He was survived by his second wife.

Pendleton had a much younger brother, Steve Pendleton (1908-1984), who was a character actor in films and television from the 1930s through the 1970s and got his start on stage in the 1920s.

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The Cecil B. DeMille Collection [DVD] DVD
Cecil B. DeMille's epic "The Sign of the Cross" (1932) stars Fredric March as the Roman prefect in love with Christian martyr Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton as depraved emperor Nero, and Claudette Colbert as his scheming wife, Poppea. After abandoning a bubonic plague-infested ship, "Four Frightened People" (1934) take a perilous journey through a jungle inhabited by fierce animals and a tribe of wild natives. Colbert, Herbert Marshall star. "The Crusades" (1935) is the sweeping drama of England's King Richard the Lion-Hearted leading his armies into battle in the Holy Land against the Muslim forces of Saladin. Wilcoxon, Loretta Young star. Feuding rail magnates, brave settlers, Indian attacks, and a timely arrival by the U.S. Cavalry were blended in "Union Pacific" (1939), DeMille's take on the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea star. Also includes "Cleopatra" (1934). 9 1/2 hrs. total on five discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish.
Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1 [DVD] DVD
First, a Canadian soldier is forced to give up the woman he loves when his well-to-do family learns she's a prostitute, in director James Whale's heartbreaking drama "Waterloo Bridge" (1931). Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery and a young Bette Davis star. Then, "Red-Headed Woman" (1932) is a saucy, pre-Production Code drama starring Jean Harlow as a golddigging secretary who hooks the company's married boss, while carrying on with chauffeur Charles Boyer. With Lewis Stone, Chester Morris. Finally, the daring-for-its-time romantic drama "Baby Face" (1933) (available here in both the prerelease version and the theatrical version) stars Barbara Stanwyck as an amoral, greedy gal who sleeps her way up the corporate ladder in a New York bank, not caring who gets hurt. George Brent, Donald Cook, Henry Kolker, and a young John Wayne co-star as some of Stanwyck's conquests. 3 3/4 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; theatrical trailer. Two-disc set.
Exposure [DVD](1932) DVD
Early newsroom drama stars Walter Byron as an alcoholic reporter who tries to help an heiress whom he's fallen for keep her late father's struggling paper from folding. Mary Doran, Lila Lee, and Tully Marshall also star. 70 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.
Hell-Fire Austin (1932)/Texas Gun Fighter [DVD](1932) DVD
First, in "Hell-Fire Austin," Ken Maynard helps rescue an indebted woman from a ruthless loan shark by riding her prized stallion in a big race. With Ivy Merton, Nat Pendleton. Then, in "Texas Gun Fighter," Maynard stars as a desperado who splits with his gang over take in a bank job and decides to go straight. After becoming the sheriff in a small town, his old friends want him to return to thieving and he is forced to prove to everyone that his criminal ways are behind him. With Sheila Mannors (Bromley), Harry Woods. 125 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions.
Meet The Mayor [DVD](1938) DVD
Originally released in 1932 as "A Fool's Advice," this hilarious farce stars vaudeville favorite Frank Fay as an elevator operator at a backwoods hotel. After he is thrust into a mayoral race, he gets a crash course in the ups and downs of politics. With Ruth Hall, Franklin Pangborn, and George Meeker (in a rare sympathetic role). AKA: "His Honor the Mayor." 63 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions.
The Thin Man [DVD](1934) DVD
Madcap blend of screwball comedy and murder mystery that inspired five sequels, with William Powell and Myrna Loy as married amateur detectives Nick and Nora Charles. Based on Dashiell Hammett's book; with Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Ellis and Asta. 91 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French; theatrical trailers.
The Complete Thin Man Collection [DVD] DVD
All six films from the popular MGM series starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Dashiell Hammett's sophisticated crimesolvers, Nick and Nora Charles, are featured in a seven-disc boxed set. The duo's search for a missing inventor leads to a deadly whodunit, in "The Thin Man" (1934). With Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, and Edward Ellis in the title role. Nick and Nora return to solve a murder among San Francisco's bluebloods, in "After the Thin Man" (1936). A young James Stewart co-stars. Baby Nick Charles, Jr. makes his debut in "Another Thin Man" (1939), as mom and pop aid an old friend who fears for his life. C. Aubrey Smith and Virginia Grey co-star. It's murder among the "horsey set" in "Shadow of the Thin Man" (1941), with Barry Nelson and Donna Reed. "The Thin Man Goes Home" (1944), only to find crime has followed him there. With Gloria De Haven, Lucille Watson. And, New York's jazz joints provide the backdrop for "Song of the Thin Man" (1947). With Keenan Wynn, Gloria Grahame. 10 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French; bonus shorts; theatrical trailers; radio show; documentaries.
TCM Spotlight: Myrna Loy And William Powell Collection [DVD] DVD
William Powell re-teamed with Myrna Loy after the first "Thin Man" movie for "Evelyn Prentice" (1934), an expert thriller in which Powell plays a womanizing lawyer whose adulterous affair leads to blackmail, deceit, and murder. Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens, and Rosalind Russell, in her debut, also star. Then, "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934) is a compelling crime drama starring Powell and Clark Gable as boyhood friends from the New York streets who grow up to follow different paths, one as a gangster, the other as a crusading D.A. Loy and Mickey Rooney co-star. "Double Wedding" (1937) is a frantic screwball story with Powell as a Bohemian painter and Loy as a workaholic dress shop owner who spar over Loy's younger sister's life choices. Edgar Edgar Kennedy co-stars. Stodgy businessman Powell is headed for divorce from wife Loy when a konk on the head reverts him back to his real persona of a slick con artist, in "I Love You Again" (1940). And, in "Love Crazy" (1941), Powell and Loy are a married couple whose fourth wedding anniversary is not a happy affair, thanks to a series of events that occur after Loy's gossipy mother visits. 7 1/2 hrs. total on five discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
Trapped By Television [DVD](1936) DVD
Unusual offering about an inventor looking for financial backing on a project involving television who gets mixed up with some shady characters out to steal his invention and use it for blackmail purposes. Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot and Nat Pendleton star. 62 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions.
The Great Ziegfeld [DVD](1936) DVD
William Powell stars as Broadway's Glorifier of the American Girl in this lavish, song-filled biodrama that won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Stars like Fanny Brice and Ray Bolger play themselves, Luise Rainer and Myrna Loy are the impresario's lady loves, and the score includes "Rhapsody in Blue," "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody," "Makin' Whoopee," and "If You Knew Susie." Look quickly for former First Lady Pat Nixon as an extra. 185 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; "making of" documentary; newsreel footage.
The Shopworn Angel [DVD](1938) DVD
Classic soaper about a Broadway showgirl (Margaret Sullavan) who meets an Army recruit (James Stewart) about to be shipped overseas during World War I. After spending the day together touring the city, the smitten Stewart asks Sullavan to marry him and she reluctantly agrees. Walter Pidgeon, Nat Pendleton, and Alan Curtis also star. 85 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
On Borrowed Time [DVD](1939) DVD
Death takes human form and comes to Earth looking to take an old man (Lionel Barrymore) into the afterlife. However, Barrymore is caring for his orphaned grandson with an uncertain future, so he refuses to acquiesce. The cagey codger tricks the Grim Reaper into climbing an apple tree and traps him there to buy more time, but this only leads to other problems. Cedric Hardwicke, Bobs Watson, and Beulah Bondi co-star in this whimsical fantasy. 99 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
Another Thin Man [DVD](1939) DVD
In their third outing, the Charleses travel to the Long Island estate of a wealthy munitions mogul who's convinced his ex-business partner is out to kill him. And when his premonition comes eerily true, it's up to Nick and Nora to catch the murderer. Features the first appearance of Nick Charles, Jr. Myrna Loy, William Powell, C. Aubrey Smith star. 102 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; bonus shorts "Love on Tap" (1939), "The Bookworm" (1939); theatrical trailer. NOTE: This Title Is Out Of Print; Limit One Per Customer.
The Marx Brothers Collection [DVD] DVD
In "Room Service" (1938), Groucho, Harpo, and Chico are Broadway producers who have a play, some hungry actors, no backers, and a hotel bill that keeps rising. Their attempts to stay one step ahead of everyone will leave you in the aisle. Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Frank Albertson co-star. Then, in "At the Circus" (1939), the boys try to save circus owner Kenny Baker's big top from bankruptcy. With Margaret Dumont. Five-disc set also includes "A Night at the Opera," "A Day at the Races," "Go West," "The Big Store," and "A Night in Casablanca." Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; audio commentary; audio outtakes; bonus shorts; bonus cartoons.
Greatest Classic Films Collection: Marx Brothers [DVD] DVD
Two-disc set includes "A Day at the Races," "Room Service," "At the Circus," and "A Night in Casablanca."
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case [DVD](1940) DVD
Accepting a position at a prestigious research hospital, Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) strives to save a mental patient suffering from a stranger disorder through experimental brain surgery. Compelling entry from the drama series also stars Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day. 77 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions.
The Best Of Bud Abbott And Lou Costello, Vol. 1 [DVD] DVD
Abbott and Costello's screen debut finds them as detectives cracking an insurance scam in "One Night in the Tropics" (1940); boot camp becomes a course in basic comedy training in the team's first starring film, "Buck Privates" (1941); the boys set sail for seafaring silliness in the service comedy "In the Navy" (1941); there are high spirits when the pair get trapped in a haunted house in "Hold That Ghost!" (1941); take off for laughs with the duo as would-be pilots in "Keep 'Em Flying" (1941); "Ride 'Em Cowboy" (1942) has them as city slickers-turned-comical cowhands; Chicago bus drivers Bud and Lou take a really wrong turn in "Pardon My Sarong" (1942); and, in "Who Done It?" (1942), they're private eyes "helping" the police catch a killer. 11 hrs. on two discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: French, Spanish.
Universal Cult Horror Collection [DVD] DVD
Five-disc set includes "Murders in the Zoo," "The Mad Doctor of Market Street," "The Strange Case of Doctor Rx," "The Mad Ghoul," and "House of Horrors."
The Mad Doctor Of Market Street [DVD](1942) DVD
When his experiments with keeping humans in suspended animation go awry, a San Francisco-based mad scientist goes on the run from the cops. After the vessel he stows away on shipwrecks on a remote tropical island, he wows the locals with his knowledge and they quickly dub him the "God of Life." Can he win the heart of a beautiful heroine and continue his bizarre scientific pursuits? Lionel Atwill, Una Merkel, Claire Dodd star. 61 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; movie posters; photo gallery; more.
The Best Of Bud Abbott And Lou Costello, Vol. 2 [DVD] DVD
Abbott and Costello pull off a bank heist in "Hit the Ice" (1943); they star as plumbers who are mistaken as members of the social elite in "In Society" (1944); Bud and Lou are caretakers at an all-girl college in "Here Come the Co-Eds" (1945); the only big screen appearance of their "Who's on First?" routine is featured in "The Naughty Nineties" (1945); Lou plays a vacuum cleaner merchant in "Little Giant" (1946); "The Time of Their Lives" (1946) has Lou as a falsely accused ghost; the problems of homecoming G.I.s are spoofed in "Buck Privates Come Home" (1947); it's fun on the frontier in "The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap" (1947). 11 hrs. on two discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: French, Spanish; theatrical trailers.
Scared To Death [DVD](1947) DVD
A mad hypnotist, his dwarf sidekick, and a dead woman who relates the eerie circumstances that led to her demise all make for an eerie tale of horror. Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Joyce Compton, Angelo Rossitto star; Lugosi's only color film. 67 min.Standard; Soundtrack: English mono. Plays All Regions.
Horror Classics, Vol. 5 [DVD] DVD
Includes "Scared to Death" (1947), "Kill, Baby, Kill," "Silent Night, Bloody Night," and "Good Against Evil."

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filmography

FILM
Buck Privates Come Home (1947) with Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Don Porter
Scared to Death (1947) with Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Molly Lamont, Joyce Compton, and Gladys Blake
Death Valley (1946) with Robert Lowery and Sterling Holloway
Swing Fever (1943) with Kay Kyser, Marilyn Maxwell, William Gargan, Lena Horne, Morris Ankrum, and Maxie Rosenbloom
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943) with Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Keye Luke, Margaret O'Brien, Donna Reed, William Lundigan, and Marilyn Maxwell
Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942) with Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Susan Peters, Keye Luke, and Stephen McNally
Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942) with Lionel Barrymore, Philip Dorn, and Donna Reed
The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) with Una Merkel, Lionel Atwill, and Anne Nagel
Jail House Blues (1942) with Anne Gwynne, Robert Paige, Reed Hadley, and Paul Fix
Top Sergeant Mulligan (1941) with Carol Hughes, Sterling Holloway, Tom Neal, Frank Faylen, and Betty Blythe
Buck Privates (1941) Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, The Andrews Sisters, Jane Frazee, and Shemp Howard
Flight Command (1940) with Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Kelly, Shepperd Strudwick, Red Skelton, and Dick Purcell
Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940) with Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Robert Young
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) with Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Gene Lockhart
The Golden Fleecing (1940) with Lew Ayres, Rita Johnson, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Grey, Leon Errol, Ralph Byrd, and William Demarest
Phantom Raiders (1940) with Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Florence Rice, and Cecil Kellaway
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) with Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Shepperd Strudwick
The Ghost Comes Home (1940) with Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ann Rutherford, Reginald Owen, and Donald Meek
Northwest Passage (1940) with Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Donald MacBride, and Isabel Jewell
The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939) with Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, and Laraine Day
Another Thin Man (1939) with William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith, Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, and Sheldon Leonard
At the Circus (1939) with the Marx Brothers, Florence Rice, Eve Arden, and Margaret Dumont
On Borrowed Time (1939) with Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel, Bobs Watson, and Phillip Terry
6,000 Enemies (1939) with Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Paul Kelly, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Raymond Hatton, and Tom Neal
It's a Wonderful World (1939) with Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Edgar Kennedy, Andy Clyde, and Hans Conried
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939) with Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Lana Turner, and Phillip Terry
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939) with Dennis O'Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Harry Carey, Alan Curtis, and Tom Neal
Young Dr. Kildare (1938) with Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, and Monty Woolley
The Crowd Roars (1938) with Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan, William Gargan, Lionel Stander, Jane Wyman, Don 'Red' Barry, and Isabel Jewell
The Chaser (1938) with Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Morriss, and Lewis Stone
The Shopworn Angel (1938) with Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel, and Alan Curtis
Fast Company (1938) with Melvyn Douglas, Florence Rice, Shepperd Strudwick, Louis Calhern, Douglass Dumbrille, George Zucco, and Dwight Frye
Arsene Lupin Returns (1938) with Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Monty Woolley, and George Zucco
Swing Your Lady (1938) with Humphrey Bogart, Louise Fazenda, Penny Singleton, and Ronald Reagan
Life Begins in College (1937) with Joan Davis, Tony Martin, Gloria Stuart, and the Ritz Brothers
Gangway (1937) with Jessie Matthews
Song of the City (1937) with Margaret Lindsay, Dean Jagger, J. Carrol Naish, and Dennis Morgan
Under Cover of Night (1937) with Edmund Lowe, Florence Rice, and Dean Jagger
Sing Me a Love Song (1936) with James Melton, Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert, and Zasu Pitts
Two in a Crowd (1936) with Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea, Alison Skipworth, Reginald Denny, Elisha Cook Jr., Andy Clyde, and Donald Meek
The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936) with Jane Wyatt, Louis Hayward, and Eugene Pallette
Sworn Enemy (1936) with Robert Young and Florence Rice
Trapped by Television (1936) with Mary Astor, Lyle Talbot, and Joyce Compton
The Great Ziegfeld (1936) with William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, Virginia Bruce, Reginald Owen, and Ray Bolger
The Garden Murder Case (1936) with Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume, Gene Lockhart, and H.B. Warner
It's in the Air (1935) with Jack Benny, Ted Healy, and Una Merkel
Here Comes the Band (1935) with Ted Lewis, Virginia Bruce, Ted Healy, and Spanky McFarland
Calm Yourself (1935) with Robert Young, Madge Evans, Betty Furness, Ralph Morgan, and Raymond Hatton
Murder in the Fleet (1935) with Robert Taylor, Jean Parker, Ted Healy, Una Merkel, and Jean Hersholt
Reckless (1935) with Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, Ted Healy, and Rosalind Russell
Baby Face Harrington (1935) with Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, and Eugene Pallette
Times Square Lady (1935) with Robert Taylor, Virginia Bruce, Helen Twelvetrees, and Isabel Jewell
The Gay Bride (1934) with Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Zasu Pitts, and Leo Carrillo
Death on the Diamond (1934) with Robert Young, Madge Evans, Ted Healy, Paul Kelly, and Mickey Rooney
Straight Is the Way (1934) with Franchot Tone and May Robson
The Girl from Missouri (1934) with Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Lewis Stone, Patsy Kelly, Alan Mowbray, and Clara Blandick
The Cat's-Paw (1934) with Harold Lloyd and Una Merkel
The Defense Rests (1934) with Jack Holt and Jean Arthur
The Thin Man (1934) with William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Minna Gombell, and Cesar Romero
Manhattan Melodrama (1934) with Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Isabel Jewell, and Mickey Rooney
Sing and Like It (1934) with Zasu Pitts, Pert Kelton, and Edward Everett Horton
Lazy River (1934) with Jean Parker, Robert Young, and Ted Healy
Fugitive Lovers (1934) with Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Ted Healy, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Curly Howard
Baby Face (1933) with Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, and John Wayne
College Coach (1933) with Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Pat O'Brien, Lyle Talbot, Hugh Herbert, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
The Chief (1933) with Ed Wynn, Dorothy Mackaill, and Mickey Rooney
Penthouse (1933) with Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, and Mae Clarke
Lady for a Day (1933) with Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, and Jean Parker
Child of Manhattan (1933) with Nancy Carroll, John Boles, Buck Jones, Clara Blandick, Jane Darwell, and Betty Grable
Goldie Gets Along (1933) with Lili Damita
Whistling in the Dark (1933) with Ernest Truex, Una Merkel, and Edward Arnold
The Sign of the Cross (1932) with Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, and Charles Laughton
Deception (1932) with Leo Carrillo, Dickie Moore, and Thelma Todd
The Night Club Lady (1932) with Adolphe Menjou and Mayo Methot
Exposure (1932) with Lila Lee
By Whose Hand? (1932) with Ben Lyon and Dwight Frye
Attorney for the Defense (1932) with Edmund Lowe, Evelyn Brent, and Dwight Frye
Hell Fire Austin (1932) with Ken Maynard
A Fool's Advice (1932) with Frank Fay and Franklin Pangborn
The Secret Witness (1931) with Una Merkel and Zasu Pitts
Blonde Crazy (1931) with James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Ray Milland
The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931) with Lew Ayres, Sally Blane, and Andy Devine
The Star Witness (1931) with Walter Huston, Sally Blane, and Dickie Moore
Mr. Lemon of Orange (1931) with Fifi D'Orsay
Fair Warning (1931) with George O'Brien and George Brent
The Sea Wolf (1930) with Milton Sills
The Big Pond (1930) with Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert
The Laughing Lady (1929) with Ruth Chatterton
Let's Get Married (1926) with Richard Dix
The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1924) with Henry Hull

TELEVISION GUEST APPEARANCES
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, episode The Big Payoff, originally aired December 28, 1956
The George Gobel Show, two appearances, 1955-1956

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