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Lynne Overman is a Actor American born on 18 september 1887 at Maryville (USA)

Lynne Overman

Lynne Overman
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Nationality USA
Birth 18 september 1887 at Maryville (USA)
Death 19 february 1943 (at 55 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

Lynne Overman (September 19, 1887 – February 19, 1943) was an American actor. Born in Maryville, Missouri, he began his career in theatre before becoming a film actor in the 1930s and early 1940s. In films he often played a sidekick.

Best films

Aloma of the South Seas
Aloma of the South Seas
(1941)
(Actor)

Usually with

Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(24 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(14 films)
William LeBaron
William LeBaron
(12 films)
Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour
(10 films)
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
(5 films)
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Filmography of Lynne Overman (51 films)

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The Desert Song
The Desert Song (1943)
, 1h30
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Gene Lockhart, Faye Emerson
Roles Johnny Walsh
Rating59% 2.953192.953192.953192.953192.95319
Paul Hudson, qui mène un groupe de bandits dans le désert contre plusieurs nazis, veut les utiliser comme employés pour son entreprise de chemin de fer.
Reap the Wild Wind
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
, 2h3
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford
Roles Captain Phillip Philpott
Rating65% 3.2975453.2975453.2975453.2975453.297545
Au milieu du XIX siècle, seuls les grands voiliers ont la possibilité, avant l'arrivée du chemin de fer, d'assurer la liaison entre le Nord-Est des États-Unis et la vallée du Mississippi. Mais il faut tenir compte des récifs de Floride, où s'échouent les navires. Pilleurs d'épaves et sauveteurs s'affrontent...
Roxie Hart
Roxie Hart (1942)
, 1h15
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman, Hugh Downs, Nigel Bruce
Roles Jake Callahan
Rating68% 3.4466153.4466153.4466153.4466153.446615
As soon as Stuart Chapman (Ted North) starts his new job as a newspaper reporter in Chicago, he is pulled into a murder investigation together with his new colleague Homer Howard (George Montgomery). As they sit down in a bar having a drink after a long day, Homer starts telling about a case he reported on in 1927 - a murder case involving the young dancer Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers).
My Favorite Blonde
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
, 1h18
Directed by Frank Butler, Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, Macdonald Carey, Walter Kingsford
Rating69% 3.4930053.4930053.4930053.4930053.493005
When a British secret agent is murdered in the line of duty, agent Karen Bentley inherits the mission from her partner. The mission is to deliver a flight plan for a hundred American bomber planes to a British agent in Chicago. The plans are hidden in a small medallion of a scorpion that Karen wears.
Silver Queen
Silver Queen (1942)
, 1h20
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors George Brent, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Eugene Pallette
Roles Hector Bailey
Rating58% 2.9082352.9082352.9082352.9082352.908235
En 1873 à New York, le joueur professionnel James Kincaid tombe amoureux de Coralie, fille de l'homme d'affaires Stephen Adams, que courtise également le riche Gerald Forsythe. Après la mort de son père, ruiné par un krach boursier et le jeu, Coralie disparaît alors qu'elle est assaillie par les créanciers. James la retrouve en 1877 à San Francisco, où elle est devenue la propriétaire d'un casino, connue sous le surnom de La Reine de l'argent...
Star Spangled Rhythm
Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
, 1h39
Directed by Ralph Murphy, George Marshall, Frank Tuttle, A. Edward Sutherland, Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Victor Moore, Walter Abel, Anne Revere, Cass Daley
Roles Mark
Rating65% 3.292583.292583.292583.292583.29258
Pop Webster (Victor Moore) is a former silent movie star once known as "Bronco Billy" who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, he's told his son Johnny (Eddie Bracken), who's in the Navy, that he's the studio's Executive Vice President in Charge of Production. When Johnny shows up in Hollywood on shore leave, Pop and the studio's switchboard operator Polly Judson (Betty Hutton) go all-out to maintain the illusion for Johnny and his sailor friends that Pop's a studio big-wig. Things get a bit complicated when Pop offers to put on a variety show for the Navy, featuring all of Paramount's stars, but Polly convinces Bob Hope and Bing Crosby to do the show, and they convince the rest of the stars on the lot.
Aloma of the South Seas
Aloma of the South Seas (1941)
, 1h17
Directed by Alfred Santell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on plays, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Lynne Overman, Phillip Reed, Katherine DeMille, Fritz Leiber
Roles Corky
Rating54% 2.724592.724592.724592.724592.72459
Aloma and Prince Tanoa, are promised by the islanders to wed from their childhood, though the two despise each other and fight. Tanoa is sent to the United States for an education and does not return for 15 years after the death of his father. Once crowned, Tanoa's treacherous cousin Revo who has plotted to rule in place of Tanoa since childhood, sees his chance by arming himself and his band with rifles and a light machine gun.
New York Town
New York Town (1941)
, 1h34
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Eric Blore
Roles Sam
Rating62% 3.138313.138313.138313.138313.13831
Victor Ballard (Fred MacMurray) is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski (Akim Tamiroff). When Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis (Mary Martin), he realizes she is desperate and in need of a friend who can guide her through the ways and means of surviving in Manhattan with no money. Alexandra moves in as a third roommate and helps out with Victor's street photography Victoria attempts to help her by getting her hooked up with a rich Park Avenue swell, but Alexandra accidentally meets his handsome son, Paul Bryson Jr. (Robert Preston) instead, and Victor, to his own surprise, becomes jealous. Before Victor and Alexandra come together as a couple, there are (of course) further misunderstandings and fisticuffs and the like.
Caught in the Draft
Caught in the Draft (1941)
, 1h22
Directed by David Butler, Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Nana Bryant, Eddie Bracken, Clarence Kolb
Roles Steve Riggs
Rating64% 3.242523.242523.242523.242523.24252
Famous Hollywood actor Don Bolton (Hope) is a vain movie star whose biggest fear is to be drafted into the US Army. He definitely lacks the qualities of a good soldier, and he is so afraid of loud noise that he would not last a day in the service, let alone cope with hearing a single gunshot when he is on set shooting a war film at the studio. Colonel Peter Fairbanks (Clarence Kolb) visits the studio set as a consultant for the war film, and with him he has brought his beautiful daughter Antoinett, known as "Tony" (Dorothy Lamour). Don is smitten by Tony, and also realizes that his ticket out of the Army is to marry the colonel’s daughter to avoid the draft.
Edison, the Man
Edison, the Man (1940)
, 1h47
Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Charles Coburn, Lynne Overman, Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers
Roles Bunt Cavatt
Rating69% 3.4943153.4943153.4943153.4943153.494315
In 1869, anxious to be more than a tramp telegraph operator, Edison (Spencer Tracy) travels to New York at the prompting of an old friend, Bunt Cavatt (Lynne Overman). He goes to work for Mr. Els (Henry Travers). He tries to persuade financier Mr. Taggart (Gene Lockhart) to fund the development of his inventions, but Taggart has no interest in financing “green electrical workers”. However, General Powell (Charles Coburn), the president of Western Union, does.
North West Mounted Police
North West Mounted Police (1940)
, 2h6
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Madeleine Carroll, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, George Bancroft
Roles Tod McDuff
Rating62% 3.148923.148923.148923.148923.14892
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers (Gary Cooper) is sent to Canada during the 1880s in pursuit of outlaw Jacques Corbeau (George Bancroft), arriving in the midst of the Riel Rebellion. Dusty meets nurse April Logan (Madeleine Carroll) and quickly falls in love with her. However, she is already involved with Canadian Mountie Sergeant Jim Britt (Preston Foster). Dusty and April have become involved with one another, which becomes evident to Jim, to whom April wishes to remain loyal.
Typhoon
Typhoon (1940)
, 1h10
Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish, Chief Thundercloud, Frank Reicher
Roles Skipper Joe
Rating58% 2.908822.908822.908822.908822.90882
Deux hommes à la recherche de perles noires sont reléguées sur une île lorsque leur équipage de mutineries. Là, ils courent dans une belle fille qui avait été lavé sur l'île dans son enfance. Ils doivent combattre les indigènes en colère et un typhon pour survivre.