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Kill the Umpire is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Lloyd Bacon released in USA on 27 april 1950 with William Bendix
Kill the Umpire (1950)
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Add to a movie listKill the Umpire is a 1950 baseball comedy film starring William Bendix and Una Merkel, directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Frank Tashlin.
Bendix two years earlier had portrayed baseball great Babe Ruth in the biographical film The Babe Ruth Story. One of the ballplayers in this picture is played by Jeff Richards, billed as Richard Taylor, a minor-league ballplayer before becoming an actor.
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Bill Johnson is a former baseball player whose fanatical devotion to the game has cost him several jobs. He remains steadfast in one thing: he hates umpires. Matters are complicated by the fact that his father-in-law Evans (Ray Collins) is a retired umpire.Actors
William Bendix
(Bill 'Two Call' Johnson)
Una Merkel
(Betty Johnson)
Ray Collins
(Jonah Evans)
Gloria Henry
(Lucy Johnson)
William Frawley
(Jimmy O'Brien)
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