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Tammany Young is a Actor American born on 9 september 1886 at New York City (USA)

Tammany Young

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Nationality USA
Birth 9 september 1886 at New York City (USA)
Death 26 april 1936 (at 49 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Tammany Young (September 9, 1886 – April 26, 1936) was an American stage and film actor.

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W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields
(6 films)
Ernie Adams
Ernie Adams
(5 films)
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Filmography of Tammany Young (41 films)

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Every Sunday, 11minutes
Directed by Felix E. Feist
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, Clem Bevans, Richard Powell, Kathryn Sheldon, Tammany Young
Rating66% 3.3366153.3366153.3366153.3366153.336615
Small town friends Edna (Deanna Durbin) and Judy (Judy Garland) are upset. Edna's grandfather and his orchestra, who play free Sunday concerts at a local park, have been fired by the town council because the concerts are poorly attended. The girls hit upon the idea of singing at the concerts and set about promoting the next concert. The following Sunday Edna and Judy join Granddad on the bandstand. Edna's operatic style and Judy's swing bring crowds running from all over the park. The event is a huge success and Granddad's concerts are saved.
Public Hero Number 1, 1h29
Directed by J. Walter Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Prison films
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris, Joseph Calleia, Paul Kelly, Lewis Stone
Roles Bartender (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.342623.342623.342623.342623.34262
Undercover FBI agent Jeff Crane (Chester Morris) is planted in the same prison as Sonny Black (Joseph Calleia), who is suspected of belonging to the notorious Purple Gang. Jeff helps Sonny escape in the hope that he will lead Jeff back to the rest of the gang.
Don't Bet on Blondes, 59minutes
Directed by Robert Florey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Warren William, Claire Dodd, Guy Kibbee, William Gargan, Vince Barnett, Hobart Cavanaugh
Roles Tout at Owen's Place (Uncredited)
Rating60% 3.04813.04813.04813.04813.0481
Small-time racketeer "Odds" Owen and his associates go into the semi-legitimate insurance business, but his first big client is a southern-colonel ne'er-do-well who wants to insure his daughter against getting married. Owen's muscle successfully chases off her various suitors, thereby avoiding the risk of having to pay out against the policy, but Owen himself falls in love with her, placing him in a dilemma, caught between the heart and the wallet.
The Glass Key, 1h20
Directed by Frank Tuttle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors George Raft, Edward Arnold, Bonita Granville, Brian Donlevy, Claire Dodd, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Roles Clarkie
Rating68% 3.4340353.4340353.4340353.4340353.434035
Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold) controls crime and politics in the city, helped by the brains and brawn of Ed Beaumont (George Raft). As he throws his support behind Janet (Claire Dodd) Henry's father in a political campaign, Paul also plans to marry her.
Little Big Shot, 1h18
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Sybil Jason, Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong, Edward Everett Horton, Jack La Rue, Arthur Vinton
Roles Ralph Lewis
Rating61% 3.097643.097643.097643.097643.09764
Mortimer Thompson (Edward Everette Horton) and Steve Craig (Robert Armstrong) are a pair of sidewalk confidence men working Broadway one step ahead of the police selling phony watches. Broke, they arrange to have dinner with Gibbs, an old friend, thinking he will help them with some money, but Gibbs and his daughter Gloria (Sybil Jason) don't have that much money too and think that Steve and Mortimer will help them with money too. At the time Gibbs is hiding from gangsters. After Steve, Mortimer, Gibbs and Gloria are finished with their dinner in the restaurant Gibbs gets shot outside by the gangsters who was chasing him. Steve and Mortimer hurry to leave the restaurant before they get hurt, but by mistake leave Gibbs daughter Gloria, Steve reminds Mortimer that they forgot about Gloria, but Mortimer doesn't care to go back and get Gloria, but Steve convinces him to. Gloria stay's with Steve and Mortimer for a night at their place and Gloria takes Mortimer's bed, so Mortimer has to sleep in the toilet. Later on they try to put Gloria in an orphanage, but Steve felt bad for Gloria because she was crying not to go there so he didn't give her to the orphanage. So Steve and Mortimer try to take care of Gloria with the help of Jean (Glenda Farrell), a hat check girl at their hotel they live in. Steve and Mortimer find out that Gloria could sing and dance so they try to make money off of her talents on the street, Gloria also helps them sell their fake watches too, Gloria finds out and she doesn't like the idea, but Steve and Mortimer still do it. Steve goes into a crap game with a gangster, but the gangster refuses to pay Steve the money he gambled, Steve threatens to kill the gangster and later on the gangster is actually found dead and Steve is the suspect for a crime he didn't do. Jean puts Gloria in an orphanage because she thinks that Steve and Mortimer ain't responsible enough to take care of Gloria. Another gang kidnaps Gloria to force Steve out of hiding, Steve later on convinces the gangsters to release Gloria, and just about as they are trying to kill him, the police, tipped of by Mortimer and Jean, arrive at the hideout. His name cleared, Steve marries Jean and adopt Gloria, and also open a roadside cafe with Mortimer.
Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1h5
Directed by W. C. Fields, Clyde Bruckman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mary Brian, W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Grady Sutton, Billy Bletcher, Vera Lewis
Roles 'Willie' the Weasel
Rating74% 3.73713.73713.73713.73713.7371
Ambrose Wolfinger works as a "memory expert" for a manufacturing company's president; he keeps files of details about all the people President Malloy (Oscar Apfel) meets with, so that Malloy will never be embarrassed about not remembering things when meeting with them. Ambrose supports himself, his shrewish wife Leona (Kathleen Howard), his loving daughter Hope (from a previous marriage; played by Mary Brian), his freeloading brother-in-law Claude (Grady Sutton), and his abusive mother-in-law Cordelia (Vera Lewis).
Bad Boy
Bad Boy (1935)
, 56minutes
Directed by John G. Blystone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors James Dunn, Dorothy Wilson, Louise Fazenda, Victor Kilian, Beulah Bondi, John Wray
Roles Pool Hall Cashier
Rating63% 3.178153.178153.178153.178153.17815
Little Miss Marker, 1h20
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman, Warren Hymer
Roles Bugs (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.4429953.4429953.4429953.4429953.442995
The film tells the story of "Marky" (Shirley Temple), whose father gives her to a gangster-run gambling operation as a "marker" (collateral) for a bet. When he loses his bet and commits suicide, the gangsters are left with her on their hands. They decide to keep her temporarily and use her to help pull off one of their fixed races, naming her the owner of the horse to be used in the race.
You're Telling Me!, 1h6
Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Louise Carter
Roles Caddy
Rating73% 3.6881053.6881053.6881053.6881053.688105
Sam Bisbee (W. C. Fields) is an optometrist and an amateur inventor. His daughter Pauline (Joan Marsh) is in love with Bob Murchison (Buster Crabbe), but Bob's upper-class mother (Kathleen Howard) wants nothing to do with anyone related to uncouth Sam Bisbee. Even Sam's wife Bessie (Louise Carter) is ashamed of him, because he prefers to be himself rather than put on airs. Pauline is the one woman who truly loves Sam, accepting her father as he is.
It's a Gift, 1h8
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Tammany Young, Baby LeRoy, Morgan Wallace
Roles Everett Ricks
Rating70% 3.543863.543863.543863.543863.54386
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced biss-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia (Kathleen Howard), self-involved daughter Mildred (Jean Rouverol) and bothersome son Norman (Tommy Bupp). The information about the orange grove is confirmed: his barren plot contains only a tumbledown shack and a tumbleweed. Disgusted, his wife and family are walking out on him.
The Old-Fashioned Way, 1h14
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors W. C. Fields, Baby LeRoy, Tammany Young, Judith Allen, Oscar Apfel, Nora Cecil
Roles Marmaduke Gump
Rating72% 3.6407653.6407653.6407653.6407653.640765
In 1897, a blustery actor-manager, "The Great McGonigle" (W.C. Fields), and his traveling theater troupe is perpetually underfunded and always just a step ahead of the law and creditors. McGonigle's daughter Betty (Judith Allen) is loyal to her father, and she tries to discourage a suitor named Wally Livingston (Joe Morrison), telling him he should follow his own father's wishes and go to college instead of trying to become an actor. Along with the rest of the troupe is McGonigle’s rather dim-witted assistant Marmaduke (Tammany Young).
Gold Diggers of 1933, 1h36
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers
Roles Gigolo Eddie (uncredited)
Rating76% 3.844653.844653.844653.844653.84465
The "gold diggers" are four aspiring actresses: Polly the ingenue (Ruby Keeler), Carol the torch singer (Joan Blondell), Trixie the comedienne (Aline MacMahon), and Fay the glamour puss (Ginger Rogers).