Movies my father was an extra in
My father, under the stage name Pat McCall (SAG #5220), worked as a child actor in the movies from about 1935 to about 1945, mostly as an extra. We're not sure how many in all, we have documentation for many of them.
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- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsShirley TempleJohn BolesJack HoltShirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Shirley and "Bojangles" Robinson beg President Lincoln to intercede.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsCharles BickfordFlorence RiceBill BurrudAdoption of an orphan boy by a sergeant champion boxer leads to complications but ends happily.
- DirectorKurt NeumannStarsBobby BreenHenry ArmettaGeorge HoustonAn orphan (Eight-year-old boy soprano Bobby Breen) gets a chance to sing opera in New York
- DirectorAubrey ScottoStarsRoger PryorWendy BarrieClaude GillingwaterJanes Forbes (Barrie) decides to help amnesiac Jack Doe (Pryor) to find the details of his true identity. She doesn't tell anyone she is leaving, which causes her worried father to hire a detective to find the pair. Trouble ensues when a minor gangster with his own night club becomes involved.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsJane WithersIrvin S. CobbSlim SummervilleYoung Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBing CrosbyMadge EvansEdith FellowsLarry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsMae WestWarren WilliamRandolph ScottA movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPat O'BrienHumphrey BogartSybil JasonA by-the-book patrolman who cares more about the letter of the law than justice feels guilty when his inflexibility sends a family man to prison.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsPreston FosterJean MuirVan HeflinA California mining camp is plagued by a series of murders. Four people come under suspicion for the killings and are swiftly run straight out of the camp. During a blizzard they take refuge in an isolated cabin, and conflicts break out among them.
- DirectorArthur RossonStarsKen MaynardTarzanLona AndreMaynard is an easy going cowhand mistaken for a ruthless killer. Using this reputation, he is hired as a ranch foreman where he settles a major dispute over open rangeland and water rights.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsSpencer TracyGladys GeorgeFranchot ToneA World War I veteran who married the girlfriend of his presumed-dead war buddy falls into the racketeering business.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsRichard DixFay WrayVictor KilianWhile hospitalized young Billy meets his silent movie idol Tim Bart but then the talkies came, destroying Bart's career. Now Bart must convince his young friend he is still a star.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsFred AstaireGeorge BurnsGracie AllenA betting castle staff, and a series of misunderstandings and set-ups, leads to an American entertainer and an English damsel falling in love.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsKenny BakerFrank McHughAlice BradyA small town electrician becomes a hit singer in New York and gets involved with a gold digger, a thief, an opera singer and the woman he loves.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerAlice FayeDon AmecheThe O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsRobert TaylorVivien LeighLionel BarrymoreA brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsEdward G. RobinsonJane BryanAllen JenkinsFormer bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsWalter HustonJames StewartGene ReynoldsEthan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsPat O'BrienWayne MorrisJoan BlondellA fight promoter finds his fighter, Homer Baston, in the sticks, a country hick left by his mother when he was young and he won't leave his home as he is still waiting for her to return to him. promoter "Square Shooting Murph" cons him into coming with him by telling him the exposure in the papers will help him find her. Murphy later hires an old drunk woman, Maggie Manell, to play the part of "mom".
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsShirley TempleJoan DavisCharles FarrellShirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum-clearance project; the little miss dances with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Based on Paul Gerard Smith's book "Lucky Penny."
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsRobert WilcoxHelen ParrishMarjorie MainAfter his father is sentenced to death for accidentally killing a cop, Johnny's family is left to fight for survival. His sister becomes a burlesque performer for money while Johnny joins a local gang and turns to a life of street crime.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsSpencer TracyMickey RooneyHenry HullWhen a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsOur GangGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandCarl 'Alfalfa' SwitzerThe gang is putting on a show with Alfalfa billed as "King of the Crooners." But Alfalfa abandons the show saying his crooning days are over, and that opera is his true calling. But after taking a nap and dreaming of a successful future in popular music, he changes his mind and joins the rest of the gang for the closing number.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsPaul KellyRita HayworthFrankie DarroPublic Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids. The Governor provides seed money for the creation of PAL (the Police Athletic League) and all is going well until "Stubby" Adams holds up the box office at a fund raiser for the PAL, and puts the project in jeopardy. Do-gooder story aside, the film is basically a Columbia version of the Dead End Kids, with the hard-headed Darro standing in for Leo Gorcey and Hally Chester as his stand-in Huntz Hall-like punching bag.
- DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneStarsRay MillandOlympe BradnaIrene HerveyIn this farcical comedy, a couple with money woes arrange a financially motivated marriage between their golf-pro son and a wealthy heiress. Little do they know, their son has already been wed while playing a tournament in France.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsJed ProutySpring ByingtonKenneth HowellFather goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsHarry CareyFrankie ThomasJames McCallionHoodlum Tommy Shay is sentenced to die for the murder of Police Lieutenant Carson, although Tommy was in a poker game at the time with a man calling himself "Denver" Collins who has disappeared, and perjured evidence leads to Tommy's conviction. Tommy's younger brother Danny and his gang of alley kids,"The Little Tough Guys"--- Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap---scheme to save Tommy from the electric chair. Police Lieutenant John Lewis, who arrested Tommy, believes he is innocent and goes to the District Attorney and tries so insistently to have the case reopened that he is demoted to a patrolman in the sticks. Bob Lewis, John's son, a radio bug with detective ambitions, starts out on his own to solve the crime and help his father. Searching for Collins, Bob meets Danny and the Little Tough Guys and they join forces. Acting on a tip, they go to the gambling club owned by Chick Foster and tell him the police have reopened the Carson case and suspect him of being implicated. There, they see a man named Halstead whom they believe to be the missing "Denver" Collins. And with the aid of a phony telegram and a Dictaphone planted by Bob, The Little Tough Guys begin to bring law and order to the Gotham streets.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsAnn SheridanPat O'BrienJohn PayneJoe is the three-time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through college. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a racing career. Joe tries to teach Eddie the trade, but they separate when Eddie will not drop "bad girl" Frankie. When Joe causes the death of a driver at the next race, he quits racing and wanders around. Joe winds up at Indianapolis where Eddie is driving the Martin Special.
- DirectorEwald André DupontLewis SeilerStarsThe Dead End KidsMargaret LindsayRonald ReaganA group of tough city kids have 'graduated' from reform school and are assigned to a "Boy's Town" type of inmate self-government city shelter. The shelter is run by Hiram Krispan (Grant Mitchell), a crooked superintendent, assisted by Buck Caesar (Stanley Fields), an ex-racketeer on probation. Buck enjoys trying to straighten out the kids and joins with them and social workers Beth Avery (Margaret Lindsay) and Jim Donahue (Ronald Reagan), in getting Krispan removed from his job.
- DirectorHenry KingOtto BrowerStarsSpencer TracyNancy KellyRichard GreeneTasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsClaudette ColbertJames StewartGuy KibbeeWhen a tycoon (Ernest Truex) is accused of murder, the private eye (James Stewart) tracking him finds himself roped in as an accessory and attempts to evade police, kidnapping a poetess (Claudette Colbert) along the way.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsBruce CabotRalph ByrdZasu PittsThe story of a criminal who flees with his son only to find themselves trapped in a snowstorm with a school bus full of children.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsDorothy LamourJon HallLynne OvermanA young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education, but he returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsGloria JeanRobert CummingsNan GreyA young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first ridiculed and scorned because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls that she's just as good as they are.
- DirectorH.C. PotterStarsEdward G. RobinsonRuth HusseyGene LockhartJohn Ingram, successful oil field firefighter, is really a chain gang escapee. Someone out of his past finds him.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsHenry FondaDorothy LamourLinda DarnellCountry boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany the star equestrian rider. Later he falls in love with Caroline another runaway who becomes the Circus' new bareback rider.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakJean NegulescoStarsJames CagneyAnn SheridanArthur KennedyDanny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsRosalind RussellBrian AherneVirginia BruceCEO Stephen marries his secretary Kendal in name only, an arrangement made to protect his finances from an attempt at a hostile business takeover. Once the threat is neutralized, he asks Kendal for a divorce but she refuses.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsIrene DunneRobert MontgomeryPreston FosterSmall town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues to carry a torch. She meets and marries his brother, a mismatch which eventually grows into real love.
- DirectorHarold YoungStarsBaby SandyEdward Everett HortonDonald WoodsThe lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsHumphrey BogartSylvia SidneyEddie AlbertAfter local grocery clerk rescues a baby from an escaped lion, a circus owner builds him into an attraction but balks when he falls in love with his sister.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsSpencer TracyMickey RooneyBobs WatsonMickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flanagan tries to help every little boy he meets. Larry Nunn and Dwayne Hickman join in this time around as Flanagan discovers a reform school that has neither reforming nor schooling. It's up to Flanagan, Whitey, and the rest of the school to teach them there's no such thing as a bad boy.
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsGinger RogersGeorge MurphyAlan MarshalWorking girl Janie is proposed to by a conservative car salesman, a bohemian auto mechanic, and a millionaire playboy and must make a choice.
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsLeon WeaverFrank WeaverJune WeaverElviry Weaver is overcome with emotion when her husband Abner throws a party to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, but manages to enjoy the festivities with their children, Carol, Johnny and Violey, and Abner's brother Cicero. Cicero keeps an eye on his beloved horse Susie while Carol dances with her fiance, Dr. Ed. Suddenly, a cyclone hits, forcing the party-goers to run for the cellar. Later, when they emerge, they discover that everyone's farms have been demolished. The only thing left standing on the Weavers' property is the old stone chimney, which they tear down for building materials. Secreted inside the chimney they find an old metal box, which contains a promissory note, dated 15 Dec 1777, stating that one of Abner's ancestors loaned £50,000 to the United States. Abner figures that the loan, worth approximately $200,000, should be paid by the current government, and the townsfolk chip in the money to send the Weavers to Washington, D.C. to investigate. After the family settles in an auto camp, Abner begins the process of obtaining an appointment with Senator Marvin. Abner tricks Holbrook, Marvin's secretary, into giving him the senator's home address, and although Marvin states that the document has expired, he promises to investigate it as soon as possible. Marvin asks Holbrook to look into the matter promptly, but Holbrook, who is annoyed that Abner outwitted him, misdirects the document and creates a mountain of red tape to cover it up. As time passes, the Weavers run out of money, but Johnny finds a job, while Abner and Cicero continue to look for work. Holbrook finally sends the note to the proper authorities, who verify that it is self-renewing and therefore has not expired. They also discover that with 6% interest compounded semi-annually, the Weavers are now owed millions of dollars by the government. Marvin's assistant, Paul Conrad, who has been trying to date Carol, finds out about the interest, and, without telling anyone, convinces Abner to sell the note for $160,000. Conrad also needs Cicero's signature, and when Cicero finds out about the offer, he rushes off to rescue Susie from the glue factory, where he sent her in order to buy food for the family. When Cicero returns with Susie, he is stopped from signing the document over to Conrad by the arrival of two reporters, who tell the Weavers that they are now the richest family in the world. Conrad claims that he did not know about the situation, and Carol accepts his excuses, although Abner is suspicious. As the next few weeks pass, the government tries to figure out what to do about the note, and the Weavers, overwhelmed by their new wealth, become immersed in a world of polo, fancy cars, parties, society blue-bloods and nightclubs. Only Abner remains unaffected and is distraught to see his family forget their friends back home. Hoping to obtain the fortune, Conrad asks Carol to marry him, much to Abner's dismay. Abner's unhappiness increases when he receives an angry letter from his hometown friends, who wonder why the Weavers have not returned to help them. Determined to save his family from themselves, Abner spreads a rumor that the loan will not be repaid, and that the Weavers are broke. Johnny, Cicero and Elviry are shocked at how quickly their society friends reject them, but Abner happily welcomes them back. Carol, who has learned that Conrad is a fortune hunter, is thrilled when Dr. Ed comes to visit, and Violey also reconciles with her truck driving beau, Bill Jackson, with whom she had broken up due to his blue collar job. With the family reunited, Abner reveals that the note is still good, but, in order to keep the government from going bankrupt, he requests that only the original $200,000 be repaid. With the money in their pockets, the contented Weavers return home to rebuild their community.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsBing CrosbyMary MartinBrian DonlevyJeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louey to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyJudy GarlandHoping his son will attend his alma mater, Judge Hardy agrees to let Andy look for work in New York for the summer before committing to start college. In the big city, Andy is confronted with the harsh realities of life and love.
- DirectorHenry KosterStarsDeanna DurbinCharles LaughtonRobert CummingsIn order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but complications arise when the father's health suddenly improves.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsClaudette ColbertJohn PayneShepperd StrudwickElderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
- DirectorJo GrahamStarsKay FrancisWalter HustonGloria WarrenAfter many years, MacKenzie Scott is pardoned from prison, but his wife is already involved with another man. Nevertheless, he travels incognito to his family's town. There he befriends his daughter Victoria, who doesn't recognize him, and encourages her musical abilities.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsJohnny WeissmullerMaureen O'SullivanJohnny SheffieldTarzan's jungle home, and his family, Jane and Boy, are threatened by men greedy for gold.