Matthew Betz

Acting

Matthew Betz

Born 1881-09-12 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Acting credits

The Unholy Three poster
6.7

Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.

The Unholy Three

1925

Mystery of the Wax Museum poster
6.5

A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.

Mystery of the Wax Museum

1933

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

Salvation Nell poster
7.0

Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out....

Salvation Nell

1931

It's Showtime poster
7.5

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

It's Showtime

1976

High Speed poster
10.0

Billy Brice has been disqualified from the race track. He becomes sweetheart to a car manufacturer's daughter. Billy helps deal with the man's disgruntled ex-employees and hopes to clear his name so that he may race again.

High Speed

1920

Her Man poster
5.2

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

Her Man

1930

Jungle Menace poster
7.0

Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.

Jungle Menace

1937

Outcast poster
8.0

A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.

Outcast

1937

The Man Who Found Himself poster
8.5

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.

The Man Who Found Himself

1937

Fury Below poster
5.0

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if production doesn't increase and the sabotage continues. Mary Norsen, office-secretary, accidentally learns of a plot by Fred Johnson to wreck the mine and force Cole to sell his coal-mine. She and her brother, Joe, join Cole in his fight to stop Johnson.

Fury Below

1936

The Girl in the Glass Cage poster
7.5

A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.

The Girl in the Glass Cage

1929

The Big House poster
6.6

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.

The Big House

1930

Dynamite Denny poster
9.0

When a railroad engineer refuses to participate in a strike, the union drops him and he loses his job.

Dynamite Denny

1932

The Big Chance poster
4.9

Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.

The Big Chance

1933

Reckless Roads poster
8.0

Edith Adams, burdened by her family’s financial struggles, faces pressure from her mother to marry well.

Reckless Roads

1935

Jail Bait poster
5.8

Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.

Jail Bait

1937

Curtain at Eight poster
6.4

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?

Curtain at Eight

1933

Those Who Dance poster
10.0

A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.

Those Who Dance

1924

Sawdust poster
8.0

Nita Moore, a circus performer, is mistreated by the ringmaster and runs away to join an old couple who are persuaded that Nita is their longlost daughter. Phillip Lessoway, the couple's lawyer, falls in love with Nita, but after a quarrel he discovers and reveals to the adoptive parents that Nita is an imposter.

Sawdust

1923

My Lady's Lips poster
10.0

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.

My Lady's Lips

1925

The Wedding March poster
7.1

Against the backdrop of Vienna's hidebound caste system, aristocrat and army officer Nicki is attracted to peasant Mitzi, although he knows it cannot last. Acquiescing to familial pressure, he ultimately gives her up to marry the more socially acceptable – albeit crippled – heiress Cecelia. Mitzi, for her part, is heartbroken and must resign herself to marrying churlish butcher Schani Eberle.

The Wedding March

1928

The Hurricane Express poster
5.4

The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone

The Hurricane Express

1932

The Soldier and the Lady poster
7.3

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.

The Soldier and the Lady

1937