Acting

Tom Daly

Born — Died

1911-05-24 — 1982-07-19

Place of birth

Kankakee, Illinois, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

25 titles

Known for

Duel in the Sun poster
6.4

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Duel in the Sun

1946

Objective, Burma! poster
6.9

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

Objective, Burma!

1945

Don't Bother to Knock poster
6.7

An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

Don't Bother to Knock

1952

Scarlet Street poster
7.6

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

Scarlet Street

1945

Jet Pilot poster
5.5

U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon is tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and marrying her, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan.

Jet Pilot

1957

The Angry Red Planet poster
5.5

The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?

The Angry Red Planet

1959

Film credits

1960s · 3 titles

1950s · 13 titles

Don't Bother to Knock poster
6.7

An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

Don't Bother to Knock

1952

Jet Pilot poster
5.5

U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon is tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and marrying her, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan.

Jet Pilot

1957

The Angry Red Planet poster
5.5

The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?

The Angry Red Planet

1959

The Man from Planet X poster
5.8

While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.

The Man from Planet X

1951

Hard, Fast and Beautiful! poster
6.2

When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis prodigy who could be Milly’s ticket to money and fame.

Hard, Fast and Beautiful!

1951

Gog poster
5.8

A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station.

Gog

1954

The Shadow on the Window poster
5.9

Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?

The Shadow on the Window

1957

The Whip Hand poster
5.8

A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.

The Whip Hand

1951

The Miracle of the Hills poster
10.0

A minister arrives at a run-down mining town to take over the church there. He finds he has his work cut out for him, especially when an earthquake causes a flood in the mineshaft and traps some of the local children.

The Miracle of the Hills

1959

Young Man with Ideas poster
5.2

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

Young Man with Ideas

1952

Captive Women poster
5.0

In post-apocalyptic New York, three tribes of survivors (the Norms, the Mutates and the Upriver People) vie for the right to exist. When the treacherous Upriver People attack the Norms, kill their chief and take their people captive, two Norm refugee men must find a way to ally with the Mutates, who have previously kidnapped Norm women in an effort to reproduce healthy children, to rout the Uprivers, who also seek to kill off the Mutates.

Captive Women

1952

Frontier Gun poster
6.8

Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.

Frontier Gun

1958

Callaway Went Thataway poster
5.6

Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is in demand. Unfortunately no one can find him. When a lookalike sends in a photo, the marketing team hires him to impersonate Callaway. Things get sticky when the real Callaway eventually shows up.

Callaway Went Thataway

1951

1940s · 9 titles

Duel in the Sun poster
6.4

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Duel in the Sun

1946

Objective, Burma! poster
6.9

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

Objective, Burma!

1945

Scarlet Street poster
7.6

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

Scarlet Street

1945

It Had to Be You poster
7.8

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

It Had to Be You

1947

The Threat poster
6.0

A violent escaped con and his gang kidnap the police detective and DA who put him behind bars.

The Threat

1949

The Spider Woman Strikes Back poster
6.8

A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.

The Spider Woman Strikes Back

1946

My Gal Loves Music poster
10.0

A sister act finds itself stranded and broke, and teams up with a medicine man who is promoting a child talent contest.

My Gal Loves Music

1944

The Burning Cross poster
7.0

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.

The Burning Cross

1947

Trouble Preferred poster
6.0

A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.

Trouble Preferred

1948