Sam Lee

Acting

Sam Lee

Born 1891-07-12 · Newark, New Jersey, USA

Sam Lee was born Samuel Levy in Newark, New Jersey. He is best known as "Lee" in the comedy team Shaw and Lee, active on stage, screen, radio, and television from 1911 to 1957.

Acting credits

Jamaica Inn poster
6.1

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

Jamaica Inn

1939

Ready, Willing and Able poster
5.4

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

Ready, Willing and Able

1937

Hollywood Varieties poster
9.0

Entertainment trade-paper headlines report the resurgence of vaudeville as the new medium of television searches for new talent. At the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles, master of ceremonies Robert Alda introduces vaudeville performers while being frequently interrupted by several comedians

Hollywood Varieties

1950

King of Burlesque poster
6.3

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.

King of Burlesque

1936

No Lady poster
6.0

A henpecked husband takes his wife and her children to Blackpool, where confusion reigns.

No Lady

1931

The Gracie Allen Murder Case poster
6.3

Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

1939

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch poster
6.0

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

1934

Going Places poster
NR

Two bums manage to get into a restaurant. They admit that they are a couple of self made men. A couple of comics they are.

Going Places

1930

No artwork available
10.0

A wife tries to hide a surprise birthday present from her husband but the butler causes trouble.

Hunting Trouble

1933

No artwork available
6.8

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.

Neutral Port

1940

Skipalong Rosenbloom poster
7.0

Skipalong Rosenbloom is the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. He is at odds with western bad guy Butcher Baer.

Skipalong Rosenbloom

1951

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NR

This "Colortone Musical" follows two gypsy children who steal toys from the camp puppeteer's wagon, then have a horrific nightmare

Gentlemen of Polish

1934

Under Western Skies poster
5.9

An Arizona teacher (Noah Beery Jr.) saves a vaudeville star (Martha O'Driscoll) and her troupe from a bandit (Leo Carrillo).

Under Western Skies

1945

The Beau Brummels poster
5.9

Vaudeville team Shaw & Lee sing songs and tell jokes in hilarious deadpan.

The Beau Brummels

1928

No artwork available
8.0

A British film directed by Gustav A. Mindzenti

A Yell of a Night

1932

Yellow Caesar poster
6.2

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

Yellow Caesar

1941

Behind the camera