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Don McGuire is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer born on 28 february 1919

Don McGuire

Don McGuire
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Birth 28 february 1919
Death 13 april 1999 (at 80 years)

Don McGuire est un acteur, scénariste, réalisateur et producteur américain né le 28 février 1919 à Chicago, Illinois (États-Unis), mort le 13 avril 1999 à Los Angeles (États-Unis).

Best films

Tootsie (1982)
(Story)

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Filmography of Don McGuire (35 films)

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Actor

The Tall Stranger, 1h20
Directed by Thomas Carr
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Ansara, Whit Bissell, George N. Neise
Roles Settler
Rating63% 3.1983353.1983353.1983353.1983353.198335
Ned Bannon est laissé pour mort par des brigands. Il est retrouvé à temps par un train qui appartient à son demi-frère ; bravant l'animosité de celui-ci, Bannon va essayer d'éviter un massacre.
Double Dynamite, 1h20
Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, Don McGuire, Howard Freeman, William Edmunds
Roles R.B. 'Bob' Pulsifer Jr.
Rating59% 2.951872.951872.951872.951872.95187
Johnny Dalton, un caissier de banque pour avoir voulu aider un bookmaker à se sortir d'une situation inextricable se trouve à son tour dans une facheuse situation. Seul son meilleur ami Emile pourra le sortir de cette impasse.
Three Guys Named Mike
Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, Barry Sullivan, Phyllis Kirk, Jeff Donnell
Roles MacWade Parker
Rating61% 3.0958753.0958753.0958753.0958753.095875
Marcy Lewis is a young woman from Indiana with an ambition to become an airline stewardess and see the world. She takes an American Airlines training course and passes. Her first flight is nearly her last when, after inadvertently offending the pilot, Mike Jamison, she forgets the passengers' food. Mike's intervention earns Marcy a second chance.
Armored Car Robbery, 1h7
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley, Steve Brodie, Don McGuire
Roles Detective Danny Ryan
Rating69% 3.4938553.4938553.4938553.4938553.493855
Mastermind Dave Purvis (William Talman) is a professional criminal who devises a scheme to rob an armored car on its last pickup of the day. He recruits Benny McBride, who brings Mapes & Foster to complete the gang of thieves.
The Underworld Story, 1h31
Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva, Michael O'Shea, Mary Anderson
Roles Reporter in Bar (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.487663.487663.487663.487663.48766
When newspaper reporter Mike Reese (Duryea) loses his job at a big city paper he finds that no one else will hire him. Reese borrows money from a gangster and buys half the interest in a small-town newspaper, The Lakewood Gazette, in the town of Lakeville. The newspaper is owned by Catherine Harris (Storm), who immediately has differences with Reese on how the paper should operate. Reese, trying to use the paper as a step up, latches onto a murder of a woman who happens to be the daughter-in-law of a newspaper magnate. When a local black woman is suspected, Reese turns the story into a media circus and soon his reporting is back in the spotlight again. The film is notable for the pejorative use of the word "nigger", though this is clearly dubbed, not what was originally filmed.
The Threat
The Threat (1949)
, 1h6
Directed by Felix E. Feist
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Michael O'Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Julie Bishop, Frank Conroy, Robert Shayne
Roles Joe Turner
Rating66% 3.340483.340483.340483.340483.34048
Detective Ray Williams (Michael O'Shea) is recuperating from a broken rib as his wife Ann (Julie Bishop) tries to persuade him to get a desk job, especially with the new baby on the way. However, a call from the police inspector (Robert Shayne) informs him that homicidal criminal "Red" Kluger (who Williams apprehended) has busted out of Folsom Prison. As Williams is going to leave in his police car, he is kidnapped by Kluger (Charles McGraw) and his men. District attorney Barker MacDonald (Frank Conroy) is also kidnapped by his men. Lastly, nightclub singer Carol (Virginia Grey), who apparently ratted him out is kidnapped. She however claims it was Tony, one of Kluger's associates, who Red has arranged to come out of Mexico City to Palm Springs to give Red and his associates the $12,000 from a deposit box and give them an escape plane to leave the country out of. Kluger makes no secret of his plans to kill Williams and MacDonald once he's made a getaway. Carol claims to not have ratted him out constantly, but Kluger rejects her claims. Kluger also takes in another hostage, Joe Turner, driver of the truck escorting the gang. The gang is housed up at a shack, awaiting Tony. Joe tries to escape with a gun he had stolen from the truck earlier, but Kluger subdues him, takes the gun and kills him.
Congo Bill
Congo Bill (1948)
, 4h30
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Cleo Moore, Don McGuire, Jack Ingram, I. Stanford Jolley, Leonard Penn, Charles King
Roles Congo Bill
Rating62% 3.1250553.1250553.1250553.1250553.125055
A girl is about to inherit a fortune, but she is missing in Africa. Only then, family charges Congo Bill, an adventurer, to find her, and bring her back to civilization. He follows a legend about a mysterious White Queen, but his path is full of difficulties, by an inhospitable jungle, and the man who will lose the fortune if the girl is found alive...
Whiplash
Whiplash (1948)
, 1h31
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jeffrey Lynn, S.Z. Sakall
Roles Markus
Rating63% 3.1901253.1901253.1901253.1901253.190125
A struggling painter, Mike Gordon, is unhappy that cafe owner Sam has let a customer, Laurie Durant, purchase one of his works. Mike considers his art worthless and goes to Laurie offering to buy it back. She insists on keeping it, so Mike invites her to dinner instead.
Always Together, 1h18
Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Ernest Truex, Don McGuire, Douglas Kennedy
Roles McIntyre
Rating57% 2.8587552.8587552.8587552.8587552.858755
A millionaire on his deathbed leaves a million dollars to Jane Barker, a film addict who believes life is like the movies. Jane gets married without telling her new husband about the inheritance. The millionaire gets better and wants his million dollars back. Throughout the film Jane dreams her experiences are taking place in movies with real movie stars.
The Fuller Brush Man, 1h33
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Red Skelton, Janet Blair, Don McGuire, Hillary Brooke, Adele Jergens, Trudy Marshall
Roles Keenan Wallick
Rating67% 3.3925753.3925753.3925753.3925753.392575
Success doesn't exactly stare the unfortunate street cleaner Red Jones (Red Skelton) in the eye, and when he decides to propose to his sweetheart Ann Elliot (Janet Blair), who is a secretary at the Fuller Brush company, she demands that he makes something more of himself before she can accept the offer. She suggests he should follow the example of a salesman and friend of hers, Keenan Wallick (Don McGuire), who works at her company. Red gets a chance to prove himself worthy sooner than he had expected when he is fired from his job as a cleaner by his boss, Gordon Trist (Nicholas Joy), because he accidentally sets a trash can on fire in the line of duty, and smashes Trist's car window. Ann gets him a chance to show his skills as a door-to-door salesman for the Fuller Brush company, and he is teamed up with her friend Keenan. Both Ann and Red are unaware that Keenan himself had a romantic interest in Ann, and wants to get Red out of the way as soon as possible, so he can pursue Ann without competition. Keenan assigns Red a list of the hardest homes, and Red fails tremendously with his task of selling to an almost impossible potential customer. He has a comical run-in with a troublesome small boy, and a beautiful model at another home tries to seduce him. Seeing how unsuccessful Red's sales attempts are, Keenan comes up with the idea of a bet - the winner gets to pursue Ann without interference of the other man - which he suggests to Red. The bet is that Red won't be able to sell a single brush to the households on their run. Red takes the bet, and the next household on their run is the mansion of his old boss Gordon Trist. After Red tries to hide from Gordon and the groundskeeper, Gordon recognizes Red and sends him packing, but his wife comes after Red and buys ten brushes from him. Red returns to Anna and Keenan with high spirit, until he realizes he forgot to collect the payment money from Mrs Trist. When Red comes back to the Trist home, he overhears a conversation between his former boss, Keenan, Gregory Cruckston (Donald Curtis) and a few other persons, as they discuss their involvement in a racketeering operation. Red is caught eavesdropping and knocked unconscious after he is brought into the house. When he comes back to life, Gordon has been murdered in the dark, and everyone present in the house is arrested by police lieutenant Quint (Arthur Space), all suspected of murder. Red is released since there is no evidence pointing to him being the killer, and when he comes home he discovers Mrs Trist (Hillary Brooke) waiting for him with the money. Soon after, Anna arrives to his home, and shortly after that Freddie Trist (Ross Ford), Gordon's son, with two armed gangsters. The gangsters hold everyone hostage as they search in vain for the murder weapon that killed Gordon. Ann and Red concludes that the weapon must have been a Fuller brush, molded into a knife-looking object. Cruckston stops them from telling policeman Quint about the weapon, and it turns out Cruckston, who is Gordon's partner in crime, is the murderer. Ann and Red escape from him and his gangsters. Cruckston is arrested and Red is the hero of the day, winning Ann's heart in the process.
Humoresque
Humoresque (1947)
, 2h5
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler, Peggy Knudsen
Roles Eddie
Rating72% 3.646773.646773.646773.646773.64677
In New York City, a performance by noted violinist Paul Boray (John Garfield) is cancelled. At his apartment, Boray is at rock bottom emotionally. His manager Frederic Bauer (Richard Gaines) is angry with him for misunderstanding what a performing career would be like, and for thinking that music is no longer part of his life. To the more sympathetic Sid Jeffers (Oscar Levant), Boray says he has always wanted to do the right thing, but has always been "on the outside, looking in," and cannot "get back to that happy kid" he once was.
Possessed
Possessed (1947)
, 1h48
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, Moroni Olsen
Roles Dr. Craig - Dr. Willard's asst.
Rating70% 3.5472253.5472253.5472253.5472253.547225
A woman (Joan Crawford) is found wandering Los Angeles, unable to say anything other than "David". Admitted to a hospital, she is coaxed into recounting her life.
The Man I Love, 1h36
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Noir
Actors Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett, Andrea King, Martha Vickers, Alan Hale
Roles Johnny O'Connor
Rating65% 3.29323.29323.29323.29323.2932
Homesick for her family in Los Angeles, lounge singer Petey Brown (Ida Lupino) decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Shortly she lands a job at the nightclub of small-time-hood Nicky Toresca (Robert Alda) where her sister Sally (Andrea King) is employed.