Wally Vernon

Acting

Wally Vernon

Born 1905-05-27

Acting credits

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island poster
6.7

Charlie 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

He Walked by Night poster
6.7

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.

He Walked by Night

1949

What a Way to Go! poster
7.1

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

What a Way to Go!

1964

What Price Glory poster
5.8

Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.

What Price Glory

1952

Happy Landing poster
6.3

Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

Happy Landing

1938

Behind Locked Doors poster
6.3

Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.

Behind Locked Doors

1948

Broadway Serenade poster
6.6

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.

Broadway Serenade

1939

Here Comes Elmer poster
10.0

This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city. Their journey begins when Elmer decides to eject their female singer because she isn't really right. Unfortunately, her angry father is their sponsor and when he finds out, he withdraws all support.

Here Comes Elmer

1943

Alexander's Ragtime Band poster
6.8

Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.

Alexander's Ragtime Band

1938

Bloodhounds of Broadway poster
6.9

A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?

Bloodhounds of Broadway

1952

Tail Spin poster
6.3

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.

Tail Spin

1939

Affair with a Stranger poster
4.8

Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband.

Affair with a Stranger

1953

The Man from the Rio Grande poster
8.0

The suspicious death of Henry King during a hunting trip with his brother John leaves the inheritance of the rich Santa Rita Ranch to be shared with John, Henry's daughter Doris and a young girl from New York, Twinkle Watts. King says that a son, Henry King Jr., who left home as a young boy was killed in a Texas gunfight. - Written by Les Adams

The Man from the Rio Grande

1943

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All poster
7.5

Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

1948

A Scream in the Dark poster
4.1

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.

A Scream in the Dark

1943

Silent Partner poster
7.0

A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.

Silent Partner

1944

The Gorilla poster
4.8

When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.

The Gorilla

1939

Meet the Girls poster
5.0

Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

Meet the Girls

1938

You Can't Have Everything poster
6.5

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...

You Can't Have Everything

1937

Sailor's Lady poster
6.5

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

Sailor's Lady

1940

King of the Gamblers poster
7.0

Dave Fowler is an honest and sincere American football player. Dave goes up against professional match gambler Bernie Dupal and Mike Burns, the corrupt sports magazine publisher. One day, Dave is found murdered and Jerry Muller, Burns' lawyer and son-in-law, sets out to find the killer.

King of the Gamblers

1948

Fury at Gunsight Pass poster
6.2

An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery.

Fury at Gunsight Pass

1956

No artwork available
7.0

Wally ignores warnings and marries a domineering woman. Plagued by his "on-again, off-again" marital status, he is tempted to escape his unhappy, restrictive life by a friend named Eddie, who describes a "gentleman's hobo life" to him.

He Took a Powder

1955

Kentucky Moonshine poster
5.2

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

Kentucky Moonshine

1938