Filmografía de Roscoe Karns como actor
Películas protagonizadas por Roscoe Karns
🎭 Major Phipps
6.9
1964
Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly ann ...
🎭 'Windy' Woods
🎭 Officer Carmody
6
1948
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Alon ...
🎭 Kangaroo
5
1948
Stunt driver Cliff Jordan takes a job with his old pal Jerry McGee, branch manager of an express trucking firm. Jerry is married to Mary, Cliff's former girl friend. Also working for Jerry is Pet ...
🎭 Lt. Hardy
5.4
1948
John Calvert takes over as the Falcon in this Poverty-Row continuation of the film series. ...
🎭 Mal Stamp
5.7
1948
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is removed by ...
🎭 Toby Gleeton
6
1947
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before. ...
🎭 Bill Delaney
0
1947
The ranch of Red Ryder (Allan Lane) and his aunt, The Duchess (Martha Wentworth), is being used as the training site for "Gentleman Jim" Corbett (George Turner) for his upcoming fight in Carson C ...
🎭 Red Kelly
🎭 Stubby
0
1946
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, t ...
🎭 Hobie Simmons
7
1946
A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and the other must write commercial jingles. ...
🎭 Archie
5.7
1944
An usher at a radio station studio pretends to be an executive at the station in order to help a pretty girl become a singer. ...
🎭 Frankie Gimble
5.7
1944
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp. ...
🎭 Lasses White
5
1944
Unusually elaborate for a PRC film, Minstrel Man is a lively musical drama built around the talents of veteran vaudevillian Benny Fields. The star is cast as Dixie Boy Johnson, who rises from the ...
🎭 Charlie Archer
7
1943
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives. ...
🎭 Fields
7.1
1943
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway. ...
🎭 Shorty
4
1943
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a f ...
🎭 Roscoe Karns
6.1
1943
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. Th ...
🎭 Big-Time Morgan
0
1943
Learning that his long-unseen son is soon to arrive for a visit, a small-time con-man enlists the help of his cronies to help him pretend to be a wealthy and important businessman. Comedy. ...
🎭 'Mac' McTurk
5.4
1942
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin. ...
🎭 Al Devers
4.7
1942
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well. ...
🎭 Phil Whittaker
6.9
1942
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. ...
🎭 Cassidy
4
1942
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom. ...
🎭 Charley Grady
5.5
1941
A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy. ...
🎭 Henry Warren
0
1941
After his wife walks out on him, obnoxious Roscoe takes his son to the movies and creates havoc in the theater. ...
🎭 Arthur Dixon / Jerry Dixon
0
1941
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business. ...
🎭 Alfred Harmon
0
1941
Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno. ...
🎭 Monahan
6.9
1941
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about h ...
🎭 Joe Higgins
0
1941
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent. ...
🎭 Hippo
0
1940
Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow. ...
🎭 Pete Larrabee
6
1940
A small town farmer, who happens to be very wealthy, meets and falls for an actress, but his friends warn him she's only interested in his money. ...
🎭 Irish McGurn
6.9
1940
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while try ...
🎭 Willie Sands
6.4
1940
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet. ...
🎭 Jeremiah Jenkins
4.5
1940
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect. ...
🎭 McCue
7.4
1940
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle ...
🎭 Eustace Peabody
6.4
1939
J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to ...
🎭 Felix Miller
4.8
1939
Comedy about a little girl who's uncle makes her an ice skating star, only to take all of her money. ...
🎭 Joe Drews
6.2
1939
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star. ...
🎭 Rep Harrigan
5.9
1939
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown. ...
🎭 George Kent
5.7
1938
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publisher who is still carrying a torch for her. ...
🎭 Cuffy
6.8
1938
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen ...
🎭 Tom Benson aka Tommy Logan
6
1938
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers. ...
🎭 Duncan
6.5
1938
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a ...
🎭 Austin Brown
0
1938
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the ...
🎭 Sim Perkins
0
1937
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor. ...
🎭 Joe Flynn
0
1937
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence. ...
🎭 Sergeant Heath
0
1937
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance ...
🎭 Sim Perkins
3
1937
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics. One of the professor ...
🎭 Clarence Smith
🎭 Mopsy
0
1937
The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy a ...
🎭 Reilly
6.2
1936
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt. ...
🎭 Peter Cary
0
1936
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent fail ...
🎭 Calico Smith
6
1936
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard an ...
🎭 Toots O'Grady
6.1
1935
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the ...
🎭 Carey
6.3
1935
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting. ...
🎭 Johnson
5.8
1935
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the ...
🎭 Man in court room (uncredited)
6.1
1935
A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama. ...
🎭 Bud Keene
5.8
1935
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion. ...
🎭 Nick Williams
6.4
1935
In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions, aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback does ...
🎭 Monk
4.5
1934
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned? ...
🎭 Sailor Burke
5
1934
The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to suit his purposes, but this time it is he who e ...
🎭 Owen O'Malley
6.8
1934
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him. ...
🎭 Spud McGurke
5
1934
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war ...
🎭 Oscar Shapeley
7.8
1934
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops. ...
🎭 Tweedledee
6
1933
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters. ...
🎭 Aloysius Lester
4
1933
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him. ...
🎭 Snappy Downer
6.3
1933
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him. ...
🎭 Blooey
5.2
1933
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they ...
🎭 Tony
0
1933
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse. ...
🎭 McGinnis
6.5
1933
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait." ...
🎭 Contest Radio Announcer
3.7
1933
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge. ...
🎭 Merritt - Reporter (uncredited)
5.8
1932
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eag ...
🎭 Dannie
4
1932
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister ...
🎭 Private O'Brien
6.6
1932
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory. ...
🎭 Brad - Rehearsal Director (uncredited)
5.8
1932
An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big city and is left fending for ...
🎭 Leo
6.2
1932
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl. ...
🎭 S.S. Maloa Bartender (uncredited)
7.3
1932
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret. ...
🎭 Harry Carter
4.6
1932
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists. ...
🎭 Segall, reporter
5.6
1932
A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend. ...
🎭 Jim Davis
6
1932
In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner. ...
🎭 Dale
3.3
1932
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric Linden, Dorothy Jordan, Bruce Cabot, Roscoe Ates ...
🎭 Gambler (uncredited)
5.3
1932
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler. ...
🎭 Frank - Twenty Questions player (uncredited)
6
1931
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit. ...
🎭 Gilbert
0
1931
Two married couples are involved in divorce proceedings; Patricia and Ronny, who are still in love with each other, and Jerry and Amy who couldn't care less for each other. Patricia's friendship ...
🎭 Fred Geer
5.5
1931
Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens intenta suicidarse cuando Hamilton la abandona. Menos mal que aparece un predicador del Ejército de Salvación que está dispuesto a ocuparse de ella. ...
🎭 Stan Price
0
1931
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant. ...
🎭 Sock McGuire
5.2
1931
Un explorador francés, que desea hacer un viaje al Polo Sur, consigue la ayuda de la marina norteamericana. El almirante John S. Martin hará que el comandante Jack Bradon y su amigo y acróbata ...
🎭 Simmons
🎭 Blair
0
1930
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter. ...
🎭 Scott
🎭 Joe Higgins
0
1930
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby. ...
🎭 Bertram Shapiro
4.5
1930
Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge about the "underside" of big-city life. ...
🎭 Bugs
7
1930
Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville theater in California, they enlist in the U. S. ...
🎭 Johnny Dolan
4.5
1929
Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster, and she leaves her hus ...
🎭 Harry Bertrand
0
1929
A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss. ...
🎭 City Editor John Mack
🎭 Shipwrecked Radio Operator (uncredited)
6.2
1929
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while ...
🎭 Dance Director
0
1928
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins. ...
🎭 Sol Levy
0
1928
A composer and his daughter emigrate to America in the hope that he can sell his symphony. But he meets with little success and begins to give up hope. His daughter and her friends, however, neve ...
🎭 Swatty
🎭 Lame Hoppy
7.1
1928
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car ...
🎭 Johnny Norton II
0
1928
A gridiron rivalry between two colleges is entering its third generation, and the Norton family (father and grandfather were members of teams defeated by rival squads captained by members of the ...
🎭 'Scoop'
0
1928
Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run ...
🎭 Ray Hearn
0
1928
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople. ...
🎭 Pvt. Terry
0
1928
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortu ...
🎭 Man on Ship (uncredited)
6.2
1928
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey. ...
🎭 Buddy
0
1928
The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace ...
🎭 Agent (uncredited)
6.1
1927
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized ...
🎭 Lieutenant Cameron
7.2
1927
Jack Powell (Charles Rogers), un joven que vive en una pequeña ciudad de Estados Unidos en 1917, está enamorado de la sofisticada Sylvia Lewis (Jobyna Ralston) y se siente irritado por las cons ...
🎭 Benny Burnaway
0
1927
A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer. ...
🎭 Party Guest
6.3
1926
A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights ar ...
🎭 Switch Hogan
3
1924
Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard as a laborer. An escaped convict, Silent Bil ...
🎭 The Boy in the Rain (uncredited)
6.5
1923
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the ...
🎭 Hubert
0
1923
Dorothy Kane leaves home after being denounced by her father, a businessman, who is dictatorial with his family but very lavish to his female companions in the city. Dorothy unwittingly becomes i ...
🎭 Jerry Woodward
0
1922
After five years of marriage, Mildred comes to the realization that her husband, Lew, is going nowhere in the real estate business. Mildred, however, has managed to squirrel away two thousand dol ...
🎭 Sam Perkins
5.2
1920
An attorney is thrust into wild adventures by an attractive young woman. ...
🎭 Dal Tucker
0
1920
Beverly Tucker, the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic Southern family, has scraped together her last pennies to put her brother Dal through college in the hope that he will support the fam ...