
Acting
Stanley Fields
Born 1883-05-19 · Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA
Stanley Fields (born Walter L. Agnew; May 20, 1883 – April 23, 1941) was an American actor. On Broadway, Fields performed in Fifty Miles from Boston (1908) and The Red Widow (1911). After that, for eight years, Fields performed in vaudeville with Frank Fay. Thanks to Norma Talmadge, who thought his broken nose gave him a ferocious appearance, he started on a film career with a screen debut as a gunman in her talkie New York Nights. In 1930, he signed a long-term contract with Paramount Pictures. He died on April 23, 1941. He died of a heart attack. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stanley Fields (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
6.7A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Kid Millions
1934
7.4Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935
6.9An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Island of Lost Souls
1932
5.5In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Wells Fargo
1937
7.1Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
Way Out West
1937
6.9A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Little Caesar
1931
6.5An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Terror Aboard
1933
5.5When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
Cimarron
1931
5.2A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
Her Man
1930
6.2The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938
7.0A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before.
Manslaughter
1930
7.0A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
6.7Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Show Boat
1936
4.8The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
The Last Train from Madrid
1937
6.4Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.
Algiers
1938
7.3A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
One Way Passage
1932
6.9A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
New Moon
1940
6.3A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
Way Back Home
1931
3.7Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
King of the Lumberjacks
1940
5.9A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Roman Scandals
1933
6.3A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
City Streets
1931
6.8A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
Hell's Kitchen
1939
10.0Jimmy Kelly, who can't hold on to a job because of his hot temper, finds his calling as a process server. He serves process on a gangster and exposes a criminal conspiracy while trying to stop his long-suffering girlfriend from taking a vacation with her lecherous boss.
He Couldn't Take It
1933
6.0While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.
Ali Baba Goes to Town
1937