Grant Richards

Acting

Grant Richards

Born 1916-03-23 · New York City, New York, USA

Acting credits

Night of Mystery poster
10.0

Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.

Night of Mystery

1937

Guns Girls and Gangsters poster
5.9

Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren and his ex-cellmate's wife, Vi. Vi's husband Mike is a trigger happy and jealous hothead and will not grant her a divorce. Mike escapes from prison right before the armored truck job goes into motion and promises trouble as he tries to locate his associates and his wandering wife.

Guns Girls and Gangsters

1959

Isle Of Destiny poster
5.7

A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.

Isle Of Destiny

1940

Inside the Mafia poster
5.8

A mob assassin holds innocent hostages at an airport in upstate New York.

Inside the Mafia

1959

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake poster
6.0

Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim.

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

1959

You Have to Run Fast poster
6.7

Dr. Frank Harlow is in the process of trying to save a man badly beaten by two gangsters whom he identifies to the police. When the victim dies the charge becomes murder and Harlow hightails it to the far woods where he finds a job as clerk Roger Condon in a sporting-goods store. Harlow's plan is to lay low until the gangsters forget about him. But complications arise from two different sectors. First, Harlow falls in love with the local beauty Laurie Maitland and second, the murderers find out where he is hiding.

You Have to Run Fast

1961

Twelve Hours to Kill poster
4.8

After witnessing a gangland murder, a young Greek immigrant flees for his life and hides out in a small town, but he soon realizes he's not as safe there as he thought.

Twelve Hours to Kill

1960

Risky Business poster
6.5

Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.

Risky Business

1939

Just Off Broadway poster
5.8

Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!

Just Off Broadway

1942

Oklahoma Territory poster
7.0

Temple Houston (Sam Houston's son) who is the DA with a sense of Justice. He is located in Fort Smith, Ark and works with Judge Parker in 1872. His area includes the Oklahoma Territory which was the Indian territory at that time. Chief Buffalo Horn who is falsely accused of murder.

Oklahoma Territory

1960

On Such a Night poster
7.0

When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.

On Such a Night

1937

Hopalong Cassidy Returns poster
6.8

A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

1936

Secret of Deep Harbor poster
5.5

A reporter learns that his girlfriend's father, an old sea captain, is being paid by the mob to transport gangsters out of the country.

Secret of Deep Harbor

1961

Under the Big Top poster
6.7

Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze star.

Under the Big Top

1938

The Music Box Kid poster
7.0

A young gangster in 1920's New York quickly rises through the ranks of the mob, then sets up his own murder-for-hire organization. When he starts kidnapping other mobsters for ransom, the New York gangs band together for revenge.

The Music Box Kid

1960

My Old Kentucky Home poster
7.5

Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.

My Old Kentucky Home

1938

Inside Information poster
9.0

A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.

Inside Information

1939

Love on Toast poster
5.8

The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk, who doesn't want to play along until he is given the honor of choosing his own Miss Brooklyn.

Love on Toast

1937