Filmografía de James Gleason como actor
Películas protagonizadas por James Gleason
🎭 Self (archive footage)
5.7
2002
An assembled compilation of footage from rushes, outtakes, and behind-the-scenes moments featuring Charles Laughton directing The Night of the Hunter, the seminal 1955 work considered one of the ...
🎭 Henry Devers
5.3
1958
Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers. ...
🎭 Postmaster
8.5
1958
Two zany cowboys steal a herd of cattle only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are worth. ...
🎭 Doc Simpkins
6.8
1958
An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer. ...
🎭 Sheriff Jim Jackson
2.5
1958
Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town of Dusty Flats. After outdrawing wanted outl ...
🎭 Dolph Grimes
0
1958
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people on the ground. ...
🎭 Tom Maloney
5.9
1958
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daugh ...
🎭 Hank James
6.8
1957
In effect, modern cow town Spurline is run by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire Ranch. One night, two of Virgil's henchmen go a little too far and beat a "bracero" ranch hand to death. ...
🎭 Carl Meade
6.1
1957
Deke Rivers is a delivery man who is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote the talented newcomer to fame and fortune, giving him every ...
🎭 Collie
5.8
1957
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion. ...
🎭 Orval Jones
4.6
1956
The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sa ...
🎭 Ed Shafer
6
1955
A small town sportswriter attending the World Series recognizes a young ballplayer as the son of former baseball hero who was banned for throwing a game. ...
🎭 Ether Ferguson
3.7
1955
When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single gal Kim Halliday jumps at a caller's claim that she's part-owner of a Las Vegas "hotel." But h ...
🎭 Birdie Steptoe
7.9
1955
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money. ...
🎭 Peter 'Pop' Benson
6.4
1954
Suddenly es un pequeño pueblo de California donde nunca pasa nada. Un día, la noticia de que el tren del Presidente de los Estados Unidos hará una parada en el pueblo, provoca un gran revuelo. ...
🎭 Risky Russell
0
1954
Biplane action scenes highlight this story of the lives and loves of two Hollywood stuntmen. ...
🎭 Eddie Woods
6.9
1953
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore. ...
🎭 General Cokely
5.5
1952
Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between ...
🎭 Bert Lynn
6
1952
Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers ...
🎭 Duffy
5.7
1952
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married. ...
🎭 Fred Townsend
4.7
1951
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression. ...
🎭 Charley Dolan
7
1951
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoho ...
🎭 Knobby Walsh
0
1951
Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals. ...
🎭 Max Howard
0
1951
A singing couple gets their own television show, and the strains of putting on a TV show every week starts to jeopardize their relationship. ...
🎭 Knobby Walsh
0
1950
Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law. ...
🎭 Harry Summers
6.9
1950
Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he's incurred. ...
🎭 Racing Secretary
5.8
1950
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race. ...
🎭 Mickey Corkins
6.3
1950
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab ...
🎭 Sergeant Hogan
6.1
1950
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standi ...
🎭 Timothy Gleason
5.4
1949
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal ...
🎭 Captain Gledhill
5.4
1949
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate b ...
🎭 Gillis
7
1949
Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working husband-and-father with no shortage of family problems. ...
🎭 Lefty Moore
4.8
1948
Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the ...
🎭 Uncle Willie Ramsey
6.5
1948
A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie. ...
🎭 Sam Briggs
5.8
1948
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the ...
🎭 Sam Corkle
5
1948
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past. ...
🎭 Police Inspector Oscar Piper
5.5
1947
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love with his boss's dau ...
🎭 Sylvester
7.1
1947
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing s ...
🎭 Max Corkle
6
1947
Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the show's producer and he incor ...
🎭 Sacramento Sam
5.4
1946
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned. ...
🎭 Sgt. O'Hare
4.7
1946
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. ...
🎭 Captain Hornby
4
1946
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship. ...
🎭 Snarp
5.2
1946
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding atten ...
🎭 Tom Clark
6
1945
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his p ...
🎭 Al Henry
7.2
1945
Una chica conoce a un soldado en la Estación de Pennsylvania en Nueva York. El joven tiene un permiso de 48 horas, tiempo suficiente para enamorar a la muchacha y casarse con ella. ...
🎭 McGarrity
7.5
1945
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's sca ...
🎭 Jimmy Shannon
6.4
1945
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but ...
🎭 Rev. Dr. Wilbur Fiske
7
1944
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in ...
🎭 Lt. Rooney
7.6
1944
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell ...
🎭 Moke McGillicuddy
5.8
1944
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Flynn meets a young boy who just might save the ...
🎭 “Nails” Kilpatrick
6.5
1943
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignme ...
🎭 Chief Mike 'Mac' McDonnell
6.1
1943
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has bee ...
🎭 Tim O'Rourke
7
1942
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters. ...
🎭 Joe - Mission Aid Society
6.2
1942
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not include ...
🎭 Bruce McKay
0
1942
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat La ...
🎭 Inspector Mike O'Hara
6
1942
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps ...
🎭 Pat Hawley
5.8
1942
Biopic chronicling the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society, writing one hit song after another ...
🎭 Inspector Michael 'Mike' O'Hara
6.5
1942
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, ...
🎭 Colonel J. A. Barkley
🎭 Thornton Reed
6.4
1941
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer ca ...
🎭 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
7
1941
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941. ...
🎭 Sergeant Daniels
5
1941
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions. ...
🎭 Col. 'Spitfire' Barkley
4.9
1941
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory. Inexplicably promoted to sergeant, Doubleday becomes the bane of topkick Sg ...
🎭 Max Corkle
6.9
1941
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's b ...
🎭 'Chet' Phillips
4
1941
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females. ...
🎭 Henry Connell
7.3
1941
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John W ...
🎭 Joe Higgins
0
1940
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections. ...
🎭 Joe Higgins
0
1940
Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human fa ...
🎭 Joe Higgins
0
1939
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000. ...
🎭 Joe Higgins
0
1939
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance r ...
🎭 Phil Dolan Sr.
3.9
1939
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer. ...
🎭 Joe Higgins
2
1939
Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy ...
🎭 Joe Higgins
0
1939
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter ...
🎭 Hennessy
6
1938
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed. ...
🎭 James Gleason
6
1938
A visit to Buck Jones's new ranch and his horse, Silver, to James Gleason and his dog, to Charles Ruggles and his kennels; on the set of 'You Can't Take it With You', director Frank Capra and sta ...
🎭 Cool Kelly
0
1938
Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family. ...
🎭 Danny The Duck
5.8
1937
In this musical comedy, a crooked record producer uses his mob connections to force performers to do their stuff. The trouble really begins when the gangster's strong-arm tactics nearly cause a s ...
🎭 Inspector Oscar Piper
5.2
1937
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show. ...
🎭 Himself
0
1937
Actor Lee Tracy presides as ringmaster over a show that combines the best elements of cinema with the circus, what he calls a Cinema Circus. Tracy introduces a number of professional circus acts, ...
🎭 Oscar Piper
6.2
1936
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case. ...
🎭 George Scott
5.8
1936
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene. ...
🎭 Detective Daniels
4.8
1936
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote. ...
🎭 Saratoga
1
1936
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille on ...
🎭 Inspector Corrigan
6
1936
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife. ...
🎭 Police Insp. Oscar Piper
5
1936
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur det ...
🎭 Detective Danny Walsh
6.5
1935
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster. ...
🎭 Himself
6
1935
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big names such as Boris Karloff, Buster Crabbe, and C ...
🎭 Joe 'Bags'
6
1935
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer. ...
🎭 Inspector Oscar Piper
5.8
1935
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoo ...
🎭 Inspector Oscar Piper
5.3
1934
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly a ...
🎭 Hot Dog Vendor
6.3
1934
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work. ...
🎭 Dan Healy
5.9
1934
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures. ...
🎭 Duke Slater
6.5
1934
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town. ...
🎭 Cuke Gillen
7.1
1933
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager. ...
🎭 Ed Waggermeyer
0
1933
A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and hi ...
🎭 Lefty Williams
6.5
1933
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds ...
🎭 "Ratsy" Harris
0
1933
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter. ...
🎭 'Beef' Evans
4.8
1932
Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is ac ...
🎭 Pop Mathews
5.3
1932
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium. ...
🎭 Arthur Crimmer
4.6
1932
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists. ...
🎭 Picture in Opening Credits
0
1932
It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter insists that his nephew, Minor, can really ...
🎭 Pa McClune
6
1932
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to ...
🎭 Danny Ruff
0
1932
Sixth entry in the Rufftown 2-reel comedy series based on stories by Arthur 'Bugs' Baer. ...
🎭 Silk Henley
🎭 Skeets
3.6
1931
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway. ...
🎭 Fred 'Squint' Dugan
6
1931
A gambler, hopelessly in debt, agrees to pay off his debt by allowing his creditor to take out a life insurance policy on him and collecting once the one-year suicide clause has elapsed. ...
🎭 Eddie
6.2
1931
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him. ...
🎭 Joe Higgins
0
1931
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. ...
🎭 Jim Mobley
0
1931
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind. ...
🎭 Gustave Corton
5.7
1930
Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are remarried and with children. ...
🎭 Mike
4
1930
In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Sieg ...
🎭 Johnny Trump
🎭 James 'Jimmy' Tierney
5.2
1930
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are. ...
🎭 Jimmy
0
1930
Before taking his wife to a play called Florida, Jimmie gets drunk and winds up on a beach in the state of Florida, instead. When he returns, his wife and brother have conspired against him for r ...
🎭 Husband
0
1929
Two couples meet on the fairway for a golfing competition. ...
🎭 Bert La Motte
0
1929
When the story begins, James is confronted by his wife for his roving eyes! Soon after this, he goes to a speakeasy and begins chatting up women. One in particular catches his eye and so he bring ...
🎭 Music Publisher (uncredited)
5.2
1929
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon ...
🎭 Paul Gordon
0
1922
A romantic comedy, focusing on the love triangle between Bob Jones, Alysia Potter and Polly Meachum. Originally engaged, Bob and Alysia elope to Bowling Green, Connecticut, where they meet Silas ...