Oscar Smith

Acting

Oscar Smith

Born 1885-10-27 · Topeka, Kansas, USA

Acting credits

Double Indemnity poster
8.1

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

Double Indemnity

1944

Blonde Venus poster
6.8

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.

Blonde Venus

1932

This Gun for Hire poster
7.0

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

This Gun for Hire

1942

Mississippi poster
6.8

A young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.

Mississippi

1935

Tom Sawyer, Detective poster
5.6

The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.

Tom Sawyer, Detective

1938

She Loves Me Not poster
6.0

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

She Loves Me Not

1934

Cocktail Hour poster
5.3

Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has as much right as a man to play around.

Cocktail Hour

1933

Nothing but the Truth poster
7.3

A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.

Nothing but the Truth

1941

No artwork available
10.0

Two milkmen foil a prohibition raid set-up; one finds romance with a society deb in the bargain.

Sheer Luck

1931

Thirteen Women poster
6.4

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.

Thirteen Women

1932

The Freshman poster
7.0

An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.

The Freshman

1925

Dangerous Curves poster
6.6

A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.

Dangerous Curves

1929

By Whose Hand? poster
6.6

On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.

By Whose Hand?

1932

The Fleet's In poster
7.3

Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.

The Fleet's In

1942

No Man of Her Own poster
6.5

An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.

No Man of Her Own

1932

Rhythm on the Range poster
5.5

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters

Rhythm on the Range

1936

A Holy Terror poster
6.4

Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous.

A Holy Terror

1931

Stolen Harmony poster
8.0

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.

Stolen Harmony

1935

Florida Special poster
7.0

A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.

Florida Special

1936

Night of Terror poster
5.2

The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.

Night of Terror

1933

The Canary Murder Case poster
5.7

A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.

The Canary Murder Case

1929

The Way of All Flesh poster
4.6

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.

The Way of All Flesh

1940

Quick Millions poster
7.3

A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.

Quick Millions

1931

For Heaven's Sake poster
6.9

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

For Heaven's Sake

1926