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Horace Murphy is a Actor American born on 2 june 1880
Horace Murphy (June 3, 1880 – January 20, 1975) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1953.
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Crack-Up (1946)
, 1h33Directed by Irving Reis, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall, Ray Collins, Wallace Ford, Erskine Sanford
Roles Train Conductor (Uncredited)
Rating64%
Art critic and forgery expert George Steele (O'Brien) is stopped by a policeman as he breaks into the Manhattan Museum. He claims that he was in a train wreck. Police Lieutenant Cochrane (Wallace Ford), however, finds that there has been no recent wreck. Steele, unsure himself what happened, relates the bizarre events leading up to the present. A flashback ensues:
, 59minutesDirected by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Kirby Grant, Rondo Hatton, Milburn Stone, Hobart Cavanaugh
Roles Older Rancher
Rating57%
Une jeune fille va travailler comme concierge chez une vieille femme effrayante. Elle ne sait pas que chaque nuit, la femme lui draine un peu de sang pour nourrir son étrange plante.
Fallen Angel (1945)
, 1h38Directed by Otto Brower, Otto Preminger, George Schaefer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere, Bruce Cabot
Roles Sheriff (uncredited)
Rating69%
Eric Stanton (Andrews), a down-on-his-luck drifter, gets pulled off a bus in the hamlet of Walton because he does not have the $2.25 extra fare to take him to San Francisco. He finds a greasy spoon called Pop's Eats, where Pop (Percy Kilbride) is worried about waitress Stella because she has not shown up for work for days. Ex-New York cop Mark Judd (Bickford) tells him not to worry. Sure enough, the sultry Stella (Darnell) soon returns. Stanton (like the others) is attracted to her, but she is unimpressed by his smooth talk and poverty.
Scarlet Street (1945)
, 1h43Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Peinture
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, Jess Barker
Roles Milkman (uncredited)
Rating76%
Christopher "Chris" Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a meek amateur painter and cashier for clothing retailer, J.J. Hogarth & Company, is fêted by his employer, honoring him for twenty-five years of dull, repetitive service. Hogarth presents him with a watch and kind words, then leaves getting into a car with a beautiful young blonde. Walking home through Greenwich Village, Chris muses to an associate, "I wonder what it's like to be loved by a young girl." He helps Kitty (Joan Bennett), an amoral fast-talking femme fatale, apparently being attacked by a man, stunning the assailant with his umbrella. Chris is unaware that the attacker was Johnny (Dan Duryea), Kitty's brutish boyfriend, and sees her safely to her apartment building. Out of gratitude and bemusement, she accepts his offer for a cup of coffee at a nearby bar. From Chris's comments about art, Kitty believes him to be a wealthy painter.
Song of Old Wyoming (1945)
, 1h5Origin USA
Genres Musical, Western
Actors Eddie Dean, Sarah Padden, Ian Keith, Lash LaRue, Jennifer Holt, Emmett Lynn
Roles Editor Timothy Meeks
Rating64%
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
, 1h26Directed by Henry Hathaway, William A. Seiter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers, Mary Field, Don Costello
Roles Poker Player
Rating62%
Dans les années 1930 à New York, Molly J. Truesdale est une employée de banque rêvant de grands espaces. Elle s'offre un circuit en bus dans l'Ouest sauvage qui la mène en Oregon. Là, elle rencontre Duke Hudkins qui concourt en itinérant dans des rodéos, accompagné par son partenaire Waco...
Song of Texas (1943)
Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Roy Rogers, Sheila Ryan, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon, Arline Judge, William Haade
Roles Notary
Rating60%
After a fib by Sam Bennett, a former rodeo star and old friend of Roy's, to his daughter back East that he owns a big ranch, Roy agrees to pretend that's the truth when Sue Bennett decides to travel to Texas and pay her father a visit. Complications develop when Sue makes a deal to sell half the ranch to someone else.
Honky Tonk (1941)
, 1h45Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Claire Trevor, Frank Morgan, Marjorie Main, Albert Dekker
Roles Jim - Candy's Butler
Rating65%
Con man "Candy" Johnson (Clark Gable) and his friend "Sniper" (Chill Wills) flee town using quick wits and magic tricks. They catch a train to Yellow Creek, Nevada, where a gold rush is in progress. Aboard, he meets Elizabeth Cotton (Lana Turner); she takes an instant dislike to him. When they arrive, Candy is amused to discover she is the daughter of "Judge" Cotton (Frank Morgan), an old acquaintance of his. Elizabeth is unaware of her father's crooked past and present.
Arizona Bound (1941)
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Raymond Hatton, Luana Walters, Dennis Moore, Kathryn Sheldon
Roles Bunion
Rating58%
Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)
, 1h1Directed by Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Carol Adams, Monte Blue, Henry Brandon, Herbert Rawlinson
Roles Seth Belden
Rating57%
The town of Deadwood and its businesses are controlled by Ripper and his gang of thugs. Roy and Gabby enter the town to set up a show business but are run over by Ripper and his gang. When the going gets too tough Roy and Gabby fight back to bring the gang to the law with evidence.
Boom Town (1940)
, 1h59Directed by Jack Conway, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Buddy films
Actors Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill
Roles Tom Murphy
Rating69%
"Big John" McMasters (Clark Gable) and "Square John" Sand (Spencer Tracy) are two down-on-their-luck oil wildcatters who join forces. Without enough money, they steal drilling equipment from a skeptical Luther Aldrich (Frank Morgan). Their well proves a bust and they have to hastily depart when Aldrich shows up with the sheriff to take back his property. The two oilmen team up and make enough money to partially pay Aldrich. To get him to back them for a second try, they cut him in for a percentage of the well. This time, they strike it rich.
Melody Ranch (1940)
, 1h24Directed by Sol C. Siegel, Joseph Santley, F. Hugh Herbert
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller, Barton MacLane, Jerome Cowan, George "Gabby" Hayes
Roles Loco - Cowboy Radio Actor
Rating61%
Gene Autry (Gene Autry) returns to his hometown of Torpedo as guest of honor at the Frontier Days Celebration, where he meets his childhood enemies, the Wildhack brothers—Mark (Barton MacLane), Jasper (Joe Sawyer), and Bud (Horace McMahon)—who are now local gangsters. The Wildhacks own a saloon next door to the school, and when their shooting and brawling endangers the safety of the children, Gene protests and threatens to expose them during his next radio broadcast. The Wildhacks stop the broadcast and beat Gene up.
Legion of the Lawless (1940)
Directed by David Howard
Genres Western
Actors George O'Brien, Virginia Vale, Herbert Heywood, Eddy Waller, Delmar Watson, Bud Osborne
Roles Peddler Driving Wagon (uncredited)
Rating63%
Union Pacific (1939)
, 2h15Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson, Charles Barton, James Patrick Hogan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy
Roles Irishman (uncredited)
Rating69%
The 1862 Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad westward across the wilderness toward California, but financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau. Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
, 1h25Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Historical, Western
Actors James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Ward Bond, Rosemary Lane, Donald Crisp
Roles Bartender (uncredited)
Rating63%
The American government has agreed with the Cherokee Indians to purchase the rights to their land known as the Cherokee Strip (actually, the Cherokee Outlet) in the future state of Oklahoma. After the money arrives by train, it is then loaded onto a stagecoach which subsequently gets robbed by Whip McCord (Humphrey Bogart) and his gang. Jim Kincaid, aka, "The Oklahoma Kid", (James Cagney) sees the robbery, and then ambushes the gang and makes off with the money.