Wheeler Oakman

Acting

Wheeler Oakman

Born — Died

1890-02-21 — 1949-03-19

Place of birth

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars poster
6.3

When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

1938

'G' Men poster
6.6

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

'G' Men

1935

The Shakedown poster
5.6

A grifter in a boxing scam learns a better way from an orphan and a beautiful girl.

The Shakedown

1929

Bowery at Midnight poster
5.0

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.

Bowery at Midnight

1942

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty poster
7.2

A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained as a polo pony. He escapes, meets Rinty and with the help of Frank Bradley is returned to Sujan. The natives have been persuaded to turn against their God-Horse, however he is rescued just in time before he is burned as a sacrifice.

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

1935

Guilty or Not Guilty poster
7.0

Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified confession because they thought she knew something they didn't want known.

Guilty or Not Guilty

1932

Film credits

1940s · 10 titles

Bowery at Midnight poster
5.0

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.

Bowery at Midnight

1942

Ghosts on the Loose poster
4.2

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

Ghosts on the Loose

1943

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack poster
5.7

A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

1943

Radio Ranch poster
5.6

Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.

Radio Ranch

1940

Three of a Kind poster
7.0

Two vaudeville performers adopt the son of an actor friend.

Three of a Kind

1944

Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways poster
4.7

Hop Harrigan, a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military and he and his mechanic, Tank Tinker, open up a small charter air service. They are hired to fly an inventor, Dr. Tabor, to his secret laboratory, where he is working on a new and powerful energy machine. However, a mysterious villain named The Chief Pilot is determined to have the new energy machine for his own purposes and kidnaps Dr. Tabor.

Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways

1946

Double Trouble poster
10.0

Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.

Double Trouble

1941

Fall In poster
6.5

An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.

Fall In

1942

Kid Dynamite poster
6.7

The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.

Kid Dynamite

1943

The Medico of Painted Springs poster
7.0

Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier doctor Steven Monroe. Riding into a small town, Dr. Monroe finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen.

The Medico of Painted Springs

1941

1930s · 34 titles

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars poster
6.3

When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

1938

'G' Men poster
6.6

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

'G' Men

1935

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty poster
7.2

A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained as a polo pony. He escapes, meets Rinty and with the help of Frank Bradley is returned to Sujan. The natives have been persuaded to turn against their God-Horse, however he is rescued just in time before he is burned as a sacrifice.

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

1935

Guilty or Not Guilty poster
7.0

Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified confession because they thought she knew something they didn't want known.

Guilty or Not Guilty

1932

One Is Guilty poster
4.2

Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.

One Is Guilty

1934

Special Agent poster
6.2

A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.

Special Agent

1935

Torture Ship poster
3.8

A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.

Torture Ship

1939

Frontier Days poster
4.3

Henry Jethrow is after the Wilson ranch. He has George Wilson unknowningly sign a note for the ranch, has him killed, and then presents the note. The Pinto Kid, investigating cattle rustlers, accidentally drops his glove at the murder scene and now has a price on his head. He has Beth Wilson turn him and use the reward money to reclaim the note. Now he has to escape jail and find the real killers.

Frontier Days

1934

Death from a Distance poster
5.2

While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.

Death from a Distance

1935

Beauty Parlor poster
7.5

Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.

Beauty Parlor

1932

The Lone Ranger Rides Again poster
7.3

Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.

The Lone Ranger Rides Again

1939

The Man from Guntown poster
10.0

When Tim Hanlon arrives to tell Ruth McArthur her long lost brother has been killed, she mistakes him for her brother. He stays on to help her retain control of the dam her farther started. But DeLong is after the dam and having had McArthur killed, he now sends his man after Tim.

The Man from Guntown

1935

Murder in the Clouds poster
5.1

A scientist carrying the secret to a new high-powered explosive must be safely escorted to Washington and ace pilot Bob "Three Star" Halsey is the best man for the job. Moments before takeoff, crooks take control of the flight and steal the formula. Halsey watches helplessly from the ground as the plane goes down in flames and the thieves esape by parachute. His sweetheart Judy, whose brother was also aboard, races to the crash site, only to be kidnapped by the villains. Halsey and his co-pilot Wings risk everything to save her, calling on their world-class flying skills in the film's terrifying finale.

Murder in the Clouds

1934

The Good Bad Girl poster
6.5

A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.

The Good Bad Girl

1931

No artwork available
10.0

A radio singer tires of life in the big city and moves into the country in a valley where a long-standing battle has been raging between sheepherders and cattlemen. His dog Gandhi is quickly but wrongly suspected of killing sheep.

Paradise Valley

1934

No artwork available
10.0

During a boxing match a fighter accidentally kills his opponent in the ring. Afterwards he finds himself falling in love with the dead man's sister.

Heart Punch

1932

Buried Alive poster
5.1

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.

Buried Alive

1939

Thoroughbred poster
10.0

An out-of-work reporter wins a horse in a dice game. The horse turns out to be a champion runner. His girlfriend helps him get the horse into professional racing, but they get mixed up with gamblers.

Thoroughbred

1935

Mutiny in the Big House poster
5.3

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...

Mutiny in the Big House

1939

The Phantom Empire poster
5.8

When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.

The Phantom Empire

1935

Silent Men poster
9.0

In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He is after the Wilder brothers who he thinks are rustling cattle.

Silent Men

1933

Code of the Rangers poster
10.0

A Texas Ranger is faced with the task of bringing his outlaw brother to justice.

Code of the Rangers

1938

The Lost Jungle poster
3.9

Clyde Beatty, an animal trainer and circus star, leads a search for his missing girlfriend and her father who were on an expedition looking for a lost tropical island. Using a dirigible as his mode of transportation, Beatty and his band head off in search of the missing explorers only to crash their airship on the same island their friends are located. Battling wild animals and a gang of greedy men searching for gold, Beatty and his party must rescue his girlfriend and father all the while trying to escape their jungle island. Feature version of the same-title serial of the same year, with refilmed sequences substantially altering the plot and characters of the original chapterplay.

The Lost Jungle

1934

Undercover Men poster
6.3

For showing cowardice during a holdup, bank teller Bob Hunter is fired. He joins the Mounties and is assigned to look for those robbers. To have him work undercover, the Inspector's scheme is to have Bob supposedly kicked out of the Mounties.

Undercover Men

1934

Bank Alarm poster
4.8

A federal agent learns the gangsters he's been investigating have kidnapped his sister.

Bank Alarm

1937

Radio Patrol poster
10.0

About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

Radio Patrol

1937

The Honor of the Press poster
8.0

Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not rounding up the crooks. Daniel discovers that a coded message in the newspaper's editor's box tips the crooks about each robbery.

The Honor of the Press

1932

The Airmail Mystery poster
10.0

A pilot and a gold mine owner go up against the evil Black Hawk, who has invented a plane that can take off and land without using a runway.

The Airmail Mystery

1932

Man Of Action poster
8.0

The Sheriff shoots the robber of the Bank and recovers the money bag only to find it empty. Ranger Tim Barlow arrives and takes over the investigation.

Man Of Action

1933

The Costello Case poster
8.0

An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.

The Costello Case

1930

No artwork available
8.0

Ralph Ingram, a brain specialist whose alcoholism has ruined his career, tries to regain his reputation while working with an ambulance team. He is in love with Lil Hollins, who works as a taxi dancer, but Lil's boss, Michael Rush, is also in love with her.

First Aid

1931

Two-Fisted Law poster
4.8

Rancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be unable to repay the money. Thus Russell is able to cheat Clark out of his ranch. Clark becomes a prospector for silver and ultimately comes to settle accounts with Russell and crooked deputy Bendix.

Two-Fisted Law

1932

Soldiers of the Storm poster
7.0

Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.

Soldiers of the Storm

1933

No artwork available
9.0

Moran and Mack decide to attend the races and end up winning a large sum on a horse named Mud Lark. They decide that to make even more money, they need a horse of their own. They buy a horse with a broken leg from a crooked gambler, but manage to con the gambler into buying back his own horse.

Hot Hoofs

1933

1920s · 12 titles

The Shakedown poster
5.6

A grifter in a boxing scam learns a better way from an orphan and a beautiful girl.

The Shakedown

1929

The Pace That Thrills poster
9.0

Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him. He wrestles them away from her, then falls down the stairs and stabs himself. Due to the perjured testimony of the maid and butler, Paula is convicted of murder and sent to jail. Her son, Danny, grows up to be a movie star. There is a controversy surrounding him because he refuses to do his own stunts. The reason he won't take any chances is that he is using all his money to get his mother out of jail. Finally, to redeem himself, he agrees to participate in a charity auto race, but his mother's hearing is scheduled for the race day.

The Pace That Thrills

1925

Outside the Law poster
6.2

Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…

Outside the Law

1921

No artwork available
10.0

Gerald Morely's father is ruined in a stock fraud and commits suicide. When shortly afterwards the man who perpetrated it is murdered, the evidence is framed so that Gerald appears guilty.

Handcuffed

1929

Father and Son poster
8.0

A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower and his 10-year old child who receives it as a birthday present.

Father and Son

1929

Out All Night poster
10.0

A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.

Out All Night

1927

The Power of the Press poster
6.4

The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.

The Power of the Press

1928

The Son of the Wolf poster
7.0

Scruff Mackenzie, arriving at his quarters in the Yukon, announces his intentions of seeking a wife. Later, he meets Father Roubeau and his Indian ward, Chook-Ra, whom Scruff comes to love, but the priest forbids their marriage until the arrival of her father, Chief Tinner. When Scruff goes to a nearby town to buy gifts for Chook-Ra, he becomes infatuated with a dance hall girl.

The Son of the Wolf

1922

Shanghai Lady poster
10.0

Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his act.

Shanghai Lady

1929

Lights of New York poster
5.4

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

Lights of New York

1928

Peck's Bad Boy poster
4.4

This portrayal of small town life before the War is based on a small boys determination to get to see the circus, over all obstacles. Escaped lions, lightheaded blackmail of his father, and playfully planting stolen papers on his sisters boyfriend are all in a days work for little Henry Peck.

Peck's Bad Boy

1921

The Masked Angel poster
7.0

The Masked Angel is a 1928 silent romantic drama film directed by Frank O'Connor.

The Masked Angel

1928

1910s · 3 titles