Anderson Lawler

Acting

Anderson Lawler

Born — Died

1902-05-05 — 1959-04-06

Place of birth

Russellville, Alabama, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encycloped Anderson Lawler (May 5, 1902 – April 6, 1959) was an American film and stage actor and producer, who had a career lasting from the 1920s through the 1950s. He began on Broadway, before moving to featured and supporting roles in Hollywood over a ten-year career at the very beginning of the talking picture era. After the end of his acting career, Lawler would move to the production end of the film industry, as well as becoming a producer of legitimate theater in the late 1940s and 1950s. Life and career Lawler was born Sidney Lawler on May 5, 1902 in Russellville, Alabama to Earnest H. and Dona C. Lawler. Prior to 1927, Lawler would move to New York City,…

Known for

Devil and the Deep poster
5.1

Naval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.

Devil and the Deep

1932

Somewhere in the Night poster
6.7

George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.

Somewhere in the Night

1946

American Madness poster
6.9

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.

American Madness

1932

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air poster
5.4

A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

1937

The River of Romance poster
5.7

Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.

The River of Romance

1929

Confession poster
6.2

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.

Confession

1937

Film credits

1930s · 34 titles

Devil and the Deep poster
5.1

Naval commander Charles Sturm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.

Devil and the Deep

1932

American Madness poster
6.9

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.

American Madness

1932

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air poster
5.4

A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air

1937

Confession poster
6.2

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.

Confession

1937

Ace of Aces poster
5.9

A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the fight. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.

Ace of Aces

1933

Public Hero Number 1 poster
6.3

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.

Public Hero Number 1

1935

Sinners in the Sun poster
5.0

A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.

Sinners in the Sun

1932

Maid's Night Out poster
5.9

A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.

Maid's Night Out

1938

Girls About Town poster
6.6

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

Girls About Town

1931

Heart of the North poster
5.2

A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.

Heart of the North

1938

A Lady to Love poster
4.4

Middle-aged Napa Valley grape-grower Tony posts a marriage proposal to San Francisco waitress Lena enclosing a photo of his handsome younger brother Buck. When she gets there she overlooks his duplicity and marries him. Then she falls in love with Buck.

A Lady to Love

1930

Hollywood Speaks poster
10.0

The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.

Hollywood Speaks

1932

Beloved poster
9.0

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

Beloved

1934

Let's Talk It Over poster
10.0

A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.

Let's Talk It Over

1934

The Adventurous Blonde poster
5.3

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.

The Adventurous Blonde

1937

Be Yourself! poster
5.7

Ethnic comedy of a nightclub entertainer trying to train a boxer.

Be Yourself!

1930

Let's Fall in Love poster
8.0

A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.

Let's Fall in Love

1933

The Road to Reno poster
4.0

Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.

The Road to Reno

1931

Men Must Fight poster
6.2

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

Men Must Fight

1933

The Daredevil Drivers poster
6.0

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

The Daredevil Drivers

1938

Alcatraz Island poster
5.1

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

Alcatraz Island

1937

Only Saps Work poster
6.0

Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) inadvertently aids our hero during one of his heists, ending up in deep doo-doo with the law. Before Wilson is able to extricate Payne from his dilemma for the sake of heroine Barbara Tanner (Mary Brian), he pauses long enough to pose as a private eye -- and even gives bellboy Oscar (Stu Erwin) tips on how to spot a crook! If only all of Leon Errol's feature films had been as consistently hilarious as Only Saps Work.

Only Saps Work

1930

Fly Away Baby poster
6.3

Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.

Fly Away Baby

1937

Torchy Blane in Chinatown poster
6.8

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

1939

Ever Since Eve poster
5.8

Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.

Ever Since Eve

1937

Empty Holsters poster
8.0

Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for Clay. Since Ace is a crook, he holds up the stage and has his cronies swear that Clay was the bandit which gets Clay 10 years in jail. After he gets out in 5 for good behavior, Clay sets out to find who framed him and stole the stage strongbox. Since the sheriff does not like Clay, he takes his guns away as part of his probation and it makes Clay a target for the Ace gang.

Empty Holsters

1937

Mystery House poster
4.8

When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to get to the bottom of the case.

Mystery House

1938

The Cheyenne Kid poster
5.5

Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.

The Cheyenne Kid

1933

Over the Wall poster
5.7

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

Over the Wall

1938

Born to Love poster
5.3

A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.

Born to Love

1931

Every Woman's Longing poster
8.0

Tony, a prosperous Italian vineyardist in California, advertises for a young wife, passing off a photograph of his handsome hired man, Buck, as himself. This film is the alternate German version of A Lady to Love (1930)

Every Woman's Longing

1930

Night After Night poster
6.3

A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl.

Night After Night

1932

The Invisible Menace poster
4.3

Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.

The Invisible Menace

1938

Accidents Will Happen poster
6.2

A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.

Accidents Will Happen

1938

1920s · 2 titles

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