Writing
John Larkin
Born 1901-11-30 · New York, New York
Acting credits
6.5A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Diamond Jim
1935
4.4The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Alexander Hamilton
1931
6.0A gambler falls for a fake countess.
Men of Chance
1931
6.5The story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie.
Frankie and Johnnie
1936
Behind the camera
6.7Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939
6.5When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
Dead Men Tell
1941
6.4The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.
Two Weeks with Love
1950
7.7A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
1940
5.2A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Circumstantial Evidence
1945
6.8Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
Charlie Chan in Panama
1940
5.6Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
City of Chance
1940
7.0Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.
Carnival in Costa Rica
1947