Kenneth Howell

Acting

Kenneth Howell

Born — Died

1913-02-21 — 1966-09-28

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 13 titles

Ball of Fire poster
7.4

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Ball of Fire

1941

Henry Aldrich for President poster
6.5

Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.

Henry Aldrich for President

1941

Nice Girl? poster
6.4

Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.

Nice Girl?

1941

Young as You Feel poster
8.0

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.

Young as You Feel

1940

On Their Own poster
8.0

The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.

On Their Own

1940

Scattergood Rides High poster
10.0

When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.

Scattergood Rides High

1942

Pride of the Bowery poster
6.2

Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.

Pride of the Bowery

1940

Her First Beau poster
6.5

15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.

Her First Beau

1941

Girls' Town poster
10.0

A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.

Girls' Town

1942

Junior G-Men poster
6.5

A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism

Junior G-Men

1940

Hurry, Charlie, Hurry poster
5.7

In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.

Hurry, Charlie, Hurry

1941

Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc. poster
NR

The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!

Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.

1940

Sweater Girl poster
5.3

College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

Sweater Girl

1942

1930s · 29 titles

Too Busy to Work poster
10.0

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.

Too Busy to Work

1939

I Give My Love poster
7.5

After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...

I Give My Love

1934

The Jones Family in Hollywood poster
10.0

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

The Jones Family in Hollywood

1939

The Eagle and the Hawk poster
6.6

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

The Eagle and the Hawk

1933

Hot Water poster
6.5

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

Hot Water

1937

A Trip to Paris poster
5.5

The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.

A Trip to Paris

1938

She Had to Choose poster
6.0

A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.

She Had to Choose

1934

Girls' School poster
6.4

At an exclusive boarding school for adolescent girls, the lives of two very different students intertwine when introverted class monitor Natalie Freeman learns of the more popular Linda Simpson's secret boyfriend.

Girls' School

1938

Off to the Races poster
10.0

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.

Off to the Races

1937

Educating Father poster
9.0

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.

Educating Father

1936

Down on the Farm poster
10.0

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Down on the Farm

1938

What's to Do? poster
6.5

Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his rival, Harry Vanderpool, he and his whole family are going to have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one.

What's to Do?

1933

Four Days Wonder poster
9.0

Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity, Judy insists upon playing sleuth, dragging teenaged astronomer Tom Fenton into her Sherlock shenanigans.

Four Days Wonder

1936

Safety in Numbers poster
7.0

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

Safety in Numbers

1938

The Little Red Schoolhouse poster
6.7

Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.

The Little Red Schoolhouse

1936

Borrowing Trouble poster
7.0

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Borrowing Trouble

1937

Quick Millions poster
7.3

In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

Quick Millions

1939

Old Man Rhythm poster
7.0

Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

Old Man Rhythm

1935

Everybody's Baby poster
8.0

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

Everybody's Baby

1939

The Iron Master poster
7.0

The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.

The Iron Master

1933

Pardon My Pups poster
6.0

Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog instead, mainly because he himself wants to have a dog that he can take hunting. After a dispute with his father, Sonny leaves home. As he walks along a railroad track, he finds a frightened lost dog, and soon he begins to feel differently about dogs.

Pardon My Pups

1934

Love on a Budget poster
8.0

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.

Love on a Budget

1938

Saturday's Millions poster
7.0

Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.

Saturday's Millions

1933

Big Business poster
7.5

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

Big Business

1937

Back to Nature poster
9.0

The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.

Back to Nature

1936

No artwork available
8.0

Ruth Etting is looking to get away from the glare of publicity for a few days so she heads to the countryside and takes a room in a small boardinghouse. She makes the acquaintance of the owner and her young son who works as a soda jerk in the ice cream parlor and notices that he is teased by the other kids in town so she comes up with a way to help. Ruth sings "St. Louis Blues" & "It Had to Be You".

Melody in May

1936

The Wrong Way Out poster
6.4

Two young people get married and run away, even though their parents advise them to build up their savings first. After they get settled they can barely make ends meet. When opportunity suddenly presents itself, they start on a downward spiral of crime.

The Wrong Way Out

1938

Every Saturday Night poster
7.0

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

Every Saturday Night

1936

No artwork available
9.0

A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.

Flicker Fever

1935