
Acting
Michael Whalen
Born 1902-06-30 · Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Acting credits
7.3A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Elmer Gantry
1960
5.7A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Blonde Ice
1948
6.8Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
Walking Down Broadway
1938
3.7Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.
Missile to the Moon
1958
5.7This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.
Batman and Robin
1949
9.0A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
Woman-Wise
1937
5.8Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940
9.0When two outlaw gangs team up to rob gold shipments, the U.s. Army sends their ace-troubleshooter, Dan Parker, to the area. Sam Casey, the mystery-man behind the gangs, kills Parker's father, and this induces his sweetheart, Rita Starr, to side with the law-and-order faction. An attempt by Casey to kill Rita is foiled by Parker, which leads to a widespread gun-battle. Written by Les Adams
Outlaw Treasure
1955
6.5Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.
Shep Comes Home
1948
6.6Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
Poor Little Rich Girl
1936
6.6In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
Wee Willie Winkie
1937
7.0Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
Sign of the Wolf
1941
5.2A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.
Treasure of Monte Cristo
1949
7.0A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
White Fang
1936
4.2A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
1955
6.5A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
The Country Doctor
1936
8.0Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
Pardon Our Nerve
1939
7.5Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.
Everybody's Dancin'
1950
6.0Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
The Living Bible
1952
6.0A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Time Out for Romance
1937
4.8Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
Sky Liner
1949
5.4After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
The Mysterious Miss X
1939
A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
The Man I Marry
1936
5.8A fingerprint expert figures out who killed the mayor.
Fingerprints Don't Lie
1951