284 films of JOHN HAMILTON (1887 - 1958)
by milam_ogden | created - 15 Jan 2016 | updated - 16 Jan 2016 | PublicGod smiled on this date in 1887 when John was born in Shippenburg, PA. He got his start in broadway and made his film debut in 1930.
He is a major character actor was appeared in 284 films over a period of 28 years. That is an average of 10 movies per year.
Major movie genres: drama (162), romance (84), comedy (77), crime (76) and westerns (44).
During the 40s, Hamilton appeared in 166 movies, 58% of his total.
IMDb summary: mean - 6.2, median - 6.2, and mode - 6.1 (21 films)
Best known for his role as Perry White, editor of the Daily Planet, in the Superman television series. It ran for six years (1952 - 1958) = 102 episodes. He also appeared in 26 other television series.
Perry died at the age of 71 in October of 1958 from a heart attack.
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1. Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Helen Kane, Victor Moore, James Hall, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 75
2. Heads Up (1930)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Jack Mason meets Mary Trumbull at a Coast Guard Academy graduation ball and falls in love with her. However, the girl's mother considers wealthy Rex Cutting a more appropriate choice for ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Helen Kane, Margaret Breen, Victor Moore
Votes: 72
4. Keep 'Em Rolling (1934)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance, War
Sergeant Benny Walsh, a U.S. Army artilleryman, and his horse, Rodney, share a kindred spirit that is sympathetic to each other's needs. After years of service to his country, Sergeant ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Walter Huston, Frances Dee, Minna Gombell, Frank Conroy
Votes: 135
5. Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A little girl's (Shirley Temple) toe-tapping musical numbers uplift the nation during the Depression in this charming classic that includes Temple's rendition of "Baby Take a Bow.
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, James Dunn, Sylvia Froos
Votes: 573
6. Parole! (1936)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a state penitentiary on New Year's Eve, gangster "Okay" Percy Smith knifes fellow inmate Zingo Browning, killing him. The next day, convicted lawyers Russell Whalen and Marty Crawford ... See full synopsis »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Henry Hunter, Ann Shepherd, Alan Dinehart, Alan Baxter
Votes: 39
7. The Final Hour (1936)
Approved | 57 min | Drama
An alcoholic attorney becomes embroiled in blackmail and murder when he continues to aid a falsely-accused client.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Marguerite Churchill, John Gallaudet, George McKay
Votes: 17
8. Two-Fisted Gentleman (1936)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance
Mickey (James Dunn), is a prizefighter whose bright career hits the skids when he comes under the guidance of Ginger (June Clayworth), a female fight promoter, when he becomes involved with... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: James Dunn, June Clayworth, George McKay, Thurston Hall
9. Craig's Wife (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke, Jane Darwell
Votes: 1,001
10. Two in a Crowd (1936)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea, Henry Armetta, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 91
11. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 832
12. Legion of Terror (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Postal inspectors Frank Marshall and Slim Hewitt infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan-like vigilante group which has mailed a bomb to a senator. When the legion kills Nancy Foster's brother, she helps Frank and Slim in their investigation.
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Marguerite Churchill, Crawford Weaver, Ward Bond
Votes: 62
13. Love Letters of a Star (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Mystery
A half-demented blackmailer named Sigurd Repellen confronts Jenny Aldrich with a stack of intimate fan letters she wrote to stage star Meredith Landers. Initially Jenny submits to ... See full summary »
Directors: Milton Carruth, Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles, C. Henry Gordon, Walter Coy
Votes: 10
14. Three Smart Girls (1936)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland
Votes: 1,522 | Gross: $3.00M
15. Lady from Nowhere (1936)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: Mary Astor, Charles Quigley, Thurston Hall, Victor Kilian
16. A Man Betrayed (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Honest stock salesman Frank Powell attempts to verify the authenticity of his merchandise and his employer commits suicide. Dishonest partners in the company employ gangsters to make the ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Edward J. Nugent, Kay Hughes, Lloyd Hughes, John Wray
Votes: 112
17. Breezing Home (1937)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.
Director: Milton Carruth | Stars: Binnie Barnes, William Gargan, Wendy Barrie, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 18
18. Two Wise Maids (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Drama
On the day schoolteacher Agatha Stanton, who is called "Old Lady Ironsides" by her pupils, expects to be selected as the new principal of her school, she and her roommate, fellow teacher ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Alison Skipworth, Polly Moran, Irene Manning, Donald Cook
Votes: 29
19. Her Husband Lies (1937)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Her Husband Lies is a 1937 American drama film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Wallace Smith and Eve Greene. The film stars Gail Patrick, Ricardo Cortez, Akim Tamiroff, Tom Brown, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Gail Patrick, Ricardo Cortez, Akim Tamiroff, Tom Brown
Votes: 39
20. Seventh Heaven (1937)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, then marches away to war.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 1,039
21. I Promise to Pay (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Eddie Lang (Chester Morris), a decent family man making $27.50 a week, borrows fifty-dollars from Richard Farra (Leo Carrillo) in order to take his wife, Mary (Helen Mack) and two small ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Helen Mack, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 183
22. Criminals of the Air (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers. Since the town is also noted for a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Rosalind Keith, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, John Gallaudet
Votes: 91
23. This Is My Affair (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, History
Navy Lt. Richard Perry becomes an undercover man out to discover the leaders of a group of well connected men who pull off bank robberies during the McKinley administration (early 20th century).
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 679
24. Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
A man hides out in the country to avoid testifying in his friends' divorce. A girl who he thinks is a process server thinks he's a gangster. So do the sheriff and his men.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, Slim Summerville, Jane Darwell
Votes: 84
25. Married Before Breakfast (1937)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy
After a leading razor company pays inventor Tom Wakefield a quarter of a million dollars not to publicize a hair-removing shaving cream that makes razors obsolete, he makes plans to take ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Robert Young, Florence Rice, June Clayworth, Barnett Parker
Votes: 250
26. It Could Happen to You (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
(1937, Republic) Alan Baxter, Andrea Leads, Owen Davis, Astrid Allwyn. Captivating story of two brothers, one good, one bad. The good one becomes a lawyer while the bad one resorts to crime and ultimately.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Alan Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Owen Davis Jr., Astrid Allwyn
Votes: 49
27. She Had to Eat (1937)
Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Arizona gas station owner (Haley) faces comic adventures after he is kidnapped by gangsters who have mistaken him for an escaped killer.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Jack Haley, Rochelle Hudson, Arthur Treacher, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 37
28. The Singing Marine (1937)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
Bob Brent (Dick Powell) recruit from Arkansas is a marine who is shy, reserved and modest. Despite these handicaps, he is a big help to his corps buddies. On moonlit nights and sun-kissed ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Doris Weston, Lee Dixon, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 299
29. Bad Guy (1937)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama
"Lucky" Walden is a power lineman-turned-criminal. He is due to go to the electric chair, which he helps prison electricians wire correctly, when his sentence is commuted for an act of ... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Virginia Grey, Edward Norris, Jean Chatburn
Votes: 146
30. On Such a Night (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In Louisiana, gangster Ice Richmond blackmails Nicky Last, who has been trying to go straight, to take the rap for a murder charge by threatening to hurt Nicky's famous actress wife, Gail ... See full summary »
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Grant Richards, Karen Morley, Roscoe Karns, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 17
31. The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
An actor continually confesses to murders he didn't commit, figuring that the police won't believe him when he confesses to a murder that he actually does intend to commit.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Lewis Stone, Barbara Read, Tom Brown, Forrester Harvey
Votes: 68
32. That Certain Woman (1937)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter
Votes: 1,670
33. One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Leopold Stokowski
Votes: 1,214 | Gross: $2.27M
34. Dangerously Yours (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama
Several jewel thieves sail from Europe to New York hoping to steal a famous gem that is being carried aboard a luxury liner. Double-crosses and a budding romance complicate matters considerably
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Cesar Romero, Phyllis Brooks, Jane Darwell, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 92
35. Night Club Scandal (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Romance, Thriller
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: John Barrymore, Lynne Overman, Charles Bickford, Louise Campbell
Votes: 171
36. Missing Witnesses (1937)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The daring of the racketeers all working for one organization in an East Coast city, leads the Governor to create a new undercover law agency formed to combat the gangsters, and to find ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: John Litel, Dick Purcell, Virginia Dale, Sheila Bromley
Votes: 130
37. Murder Is News (1937)
Approved | 55 min | Mystery
A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Barsha | Stars: John Gallaudet, Iris Meredith, George McKay, Doris Lloyd
Votes: 108
38. Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery
When the #1 heavyweight contender is mysteriously poisoned during a bout, Moto knows that identifying the gambler who placed large bets against him is the key to solving the murder.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Peter Lorre, Keye Luke, Dick Baldwin, Lynn Bari
Votes: 808
39. Over the Wall (1938)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance
Jerry Davis is a street tough and troublemaker who winds up in Sing Sing framed for murder. There he discovers he has a great singing voice, and with the help of prison chaplain Father Connor, Jerry begins to rehabilitate himself.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Dick Foran, June Travis, John Litel, Dick Purcell
Votes: 147
40. Doctor Rhythm (1938)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Bing Crosby, Mary Carlisle, Beatrice Lillie, Andy Devine
Votes: 98
41. Hunted Men (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Mary Carlisle, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 56
42. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold
Votes: 27,771 | Gross: $4.66M
43. Boys Town (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Family