Harry Semels
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1887-11-20
Locus Natus: New York City, New York, USA
Et ut: Harry Semil, Harry Semmels
Disorder in the Court
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is...
release : 1936.05.30popularis : 9.626
Twentieth Century
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
release : 1934.05.11popularis : 8.02
The Crackerjack
A pickle salesman finds himself in the middle of a South American revolution, impersonating a rebel general and falling for the general's daughter.
release : 1925.05.08popularis : 0.942
Into the Net
Madge Clayton, a society girl, mysteriously disappears. The police suspect a master criminal is behind the girl's abduction, but her brother, Bob,...
release : 1924.08.03popularis : 2.096
King of the Wild Horses
Columbia's King of the Wild Horses is a remake of the silent Hal Roach western feature of the same name -- and with the same "star," Rex the Wonder...
release : 1933.11.10popularis : 1.615
The Revenge Rider
Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.
release : 1935.03.18popularis : 0.851
The Girl of the Golden West
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
release : 1938.03.18popularis : 1.799
Here Comes the Bride
A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.
release : 1919.01.19popularis : 1.853
Movie Maniacs
The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business. They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new...
release : 1936.02.20popularis : 3.378
Elmer, the Great
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is...
release : 1933.04.29popularis : 5.433
Rocky Rhodes
Rocky Rhodes returns to find his father dead and his best friend Joe accused of the murder. The culprit is Murtch who now lets Joe break jail and...
release : 1934.09.24popularis : 0.712
Can't Help Singing
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has...
release : 1944.12.25popularis : 6.386
Safe in Hell
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the...
release : 1931.12.12popularis : 5.602
She's Oil Mine
Buster fights a duel over a girl.
release : 1941.11.20popularis : 1.085
General Nuisance
A millionaire falls for an army nurse, who tells him she likes men in uniform. So he enlists at Camp Cluster. She still has no time for him, so he...
release : 1941.09.18popularis : 3.029
Broadway Bill
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his...
release : 1934.11.30popularis : 2.563
I Love a Mystery
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the...
release : 1945.01.25popularis : 2.768
Damaged Lives
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
release : 1933.09.15popularis : 8.198
Hawk of the Hills
Hawk of the Hills (1927), a ten episode serial, re-edited into a five-reel feature length version released in 1929. Newhall, California. A band of...
release : 1929.03.16popularis : 3.063
Riding High
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
release : 1950.04.12popularis : 5.54
Kid Galahad
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
release : 1937.05.29popularis : 3.669
Big News
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
release : 1929.09.06popularis : 1.337
Three Little Sew and Sews
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with...
release : 1939.01.06popularis : 3.741
I'll Name the Murderer
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
release : 1936.01.26popularis : 0.659
Young Blood
A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
release : 1932.11.05popularis : 5.992
King of the Turf
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has...
release : 1939.02.17popularis : 1.808
The Phantom Foe
Janet Dale feels that there is a danger looming over her home but cannot put her finger on what it is. Days later her father disappears at her 18th...
release : 1920.10.11popularis : 1.19
Dizzy Pilots
The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are...
release : 1943.09.24popularis : 2.705
The Black Secret
Adventures of an American Secret Service-girl in search of an important German secret during the war.
release : 1919.01.02popularis : 0.986
New News
Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and...
release : 1937.04.01popularis : 2.38
Swing It Professor
A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes to Chicago to learn more about the subject in...
release : 1937.03.13popularis : 2.119
More Than a Secretary
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant....
release : 1936.12.10popularis : 3.342
South of the Rio Grande
Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-wreaking bandits, and the femme fatale who ruined...
release : 1932.03.05popularis : 0.825
Flirting with Fate
A troupe of traveling entertainers become stranded in Paraguay.
release : 1938.12.02popularis : 3.491
Movie Night
A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...
release : 1929.05.11popularis : 1.498
Drum Taps
Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops them. Skinner frames Ken for rustling but the...
release : 1933.01.23popularis : 1.383
I Don't Remember
Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
release : 1935.12.25popularis : 1.291
The Royal Rider
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance....
release : 1929.02.17popularis : 1.21
Sin's Pay Day
A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she believes are guilty.
release : 1932.03.02popularis : 1.563
Weary River
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations...
release : 1929.02.10popularis : 5.19
The Delightful Rogue
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
release : 1929.09.21popularis : 0.811
Command Performance
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance...
release : 1931.01.19popularis : 1.956
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
release : 1927.11.04popularis : 7.529
Ghost Valley
A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.
release : 1932.05.13popularis : 1.244
My Dear Miss Aldrich
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
release : 1937.09.17popularis : 2.113
Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...
release : 1937.12.31popularis : 5.624
Midnight Taxi
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
release : 1937.04.04popularis : 0.788
I'll Give a Million
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is...
release : 1938.07.27popularis : 2.443
Hollywood Round-Up
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery...
release : 1937.11.06popularis : 1.819
A Very Honorable Guy
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...
release : 1934.04.18popularis : 1.05
I Am Suzanne!
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his...
release : 1933.12.25popularis : 3.02
Crashing Thru
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
release : 1939.12.11popularis : 5.519
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For...
release : 1939.11.22popularis : 9.384
Storm at Daybreak
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...
release : 1933.06.14popularis : 1.134
Overland Mail
Overland mail riders Jack Mason and his pal, Porchy, learn that an Indian uprising is imminent because one of the tribe has been murdered by a gang...
release : 1939.11.16popularis : 0.857
Hell's Angels
When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
release : 1930.11.15popularis : 8.432
Star Reporter
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
release : 1939.02.22popularis : 0.783
Midnight
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 5.808
Thunder Afloat
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
release : 1939.09.15popularis : 2.374
Sally of the Subway
Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company.
release : 1932.01.15popularis : 1.343
Vanity Street
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
release : 1932.10.14popularis : 1.111
Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
release : 1939.11.23popularis : 17.573
Balalaika
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
release : 1939.12.15popularis : 2.912
It Happened One Night
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other...
release : 1934.02.22popularis : 12.889
Night Beat
A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.
release : 1931.12.26popularis : 2.013
Stone of Silver Creek
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the...
release : 1935.04.14popularis : 1.277
Eve Knew Her Apples
Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She...
release : 1945.04.12popularis : 1.912
Captain Thunder
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the...
release : 1930.12.27popularis : 2.383
Missing Witnesses
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
release : 1937.12.11popularis : 3.167
The Yellow Ticket
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she...
release : 1931.10.30popularis : 2.19
The Thrill Hunter
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
release : 1933.04.30popularis : 2.91
The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
release : 1940.10.15popularis : 17.371
American Madness
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery...
release : 1932.08.15popularis : 6.835
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...
release : 1938.09.01popularis : 9.421
Riley the Cop
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
release : 1928.11.25popularis : 3.169
The Bad Man
Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
release : 1930.09.11popularis : 2.823
Kit Carson
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
release : 1940.08.30popularis : 4.958
This Is the Night
When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife...
release : 1932.04.08popularis : 2.832
North West Mounted Police
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques...
release : 1940.10.22popularis : 4.586
I Sell Anything
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
release : 1934.10.20popularis : 3.605
Plunder
Various groups of people, both well-intentioned and otherwise, search for a buried treasure that is buried underneath a skyscraper.
release : 1923.01.28popularis : 0.39
Foreign Correspondent
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...
release : 1940.08.16popularis : 8.153
Strange Cargo
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
release : 1940.03.01popularis : 5.318
Little Nellie Kelly
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on...
release : 1940.11.22popularis : 1.475
Seven Sinners
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel,...
release : 1940.10.25popularis : 3.965
New Moon
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
release : 1940.06.28popularis : 1.975
They Drive by Night
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...
release : 1940.07.26popularis : 9.846
Phantom Raiders
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter...
release : 1940.06.07popularis : 3.941
And One Was Beautiful
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
release : 1940.04.05popularis : 2.573
He Stayed for Breakfast
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive...
release : 1940.08.31popularis : 3.968
He Stayed for Breakfast
Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive...
release : 1940.08.31popularis : 3.968
Bombay Mail
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
release : 1934.01.06popularis : 2.291
I Live My Life
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
release : 1935.10.04popularis : 7.483
The Wedding Night
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of...
release : 1935.03.08popularis : 3.755
Midnight Blunders
The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and...
release : 1936.12.13popularis : 1.676
Down to Their Last Yacht
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with...
release : 1934.08.31popularis : 1.466
Give Us This Night
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip...
release : 1936.03.06popularis : 1.094
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
release : 1942.01.31popularis : 2.202
A Lady Takes a Chance
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
release : 1943.08.19popularis : 3.417
Texas Buddies
Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When they try to get the money, prospectors Ted and...
release : 1932.10.18popularis : 2.968
The Gay Desperado
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to...
release : 1936.10.02popularis : 4.768
The Soldier and the Lady
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke...
release : 1937.04.09popularis : 1.537
Suicide Fleet
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.
release : 1931.11.20popularis : 1.44
Human Cargo
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens...
release : 1936.05.15popularis : 2.994
Bridal Bail
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
release : 1934.02.09popularis : 0.378
Woman of the Year
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess'...
release : 1942.02.05popularis : 6.605
Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
release : 1943.04.01popularis : 4.835
Those Who Dance
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
release : 1930.04.18popularis : 3.156
Beware of Blondes
Jeffrey (Matt More), a jewelry store clerk prevents a robbery and, as a reward, given a vacation in Honolulu, provided that he transports a valuable...
release : 1928.07.01popularis : 2.516
The House Without a Key
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to...
release : 1926.11.21popularis : 2.107
The Last Command
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
release : 1928.01.21popularis : 5.157
Hurricane Hutch
Story concerns a paper mill, a mortgage and the struggle to obtain the lost formula for making paper from seaweed. Star is given opportunity to...
release : 1921.09.25popularis : 1.014
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
release : 1943.03.18popularis : 2.107
Hot Water
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
release : 1937.09.24popularis : 1.214
Torch Singer
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later,...
release : 1933.09.08popularis : 4.129
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead...
release : 1939.12.01popularis : 3.277
State Police
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
release : 1938.03.18popularis : 1.488
Make Your Own Bed
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for...
release : 1944.06.10popularis : 1.848
Strange Affair
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up...
release : 1944.10.05popularis : 2.638
Baby Face
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her...
release : 1933.07.13popularis : 17.037
Road to Morocco
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
release : 1942.11.10popularis : 6.269
Road to Utopia
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her...
release : 1946.02.27popularis : 4.922
Badman's Territory
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law...
release : 1946.05.04popularis : 2.237
Rogues and Romance
Sylvia Lee, a young American in Spain, is torn between her attraction to dashing revolutionary Pedro Pezet and her American boyfriend, Reginald.
release : 1920.12.26popularis : 0.307
A Fallen Idol
The Hawaiian Princess Laone's love for Keith Parrish is thwarted by social pressure. After being persuaded to refuse Mr. Parrish's proposal she...
release : 1919.05.18popularis : 0.841
A Thousand and One Nights
On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it...
release : 1945.07.20popularis : 5.63
One Rainy Afternoon
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to...
release : 1936.05.13popularis : 2.736
Moontide
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
release : 1942.05.29popularis : 3.992
The Hard Way
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
release : 1943.01.13popularis : 1.424
Our Daily Bread
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the...
release : 1934.10.02popularis : 5.559
Tiger Shark
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
release : 1932.09.24popularis : 4.828
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr....
release : 1946.02.15popularis : 5.164
Marie Antoinette
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...
release : 1938.08.26popularis : 6.468
The Chance of a Lifetime
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
release : 1943.10.26popularis : 1.309
Reunion in France
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get...
release : 1942.12.25popularis : 4.586
Virgin Lips
In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is...
release : 1928.07.25popularis : 1.237
Dishonored
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
release : 1931.04.04popularis : 4.327
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a...
release : 1936.07.03popularis : 2.064
One Too Many
Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.
release : 1934.12.28popularis : 1.195