Robert Gleckler

Acting

Robert Gleckler

Born 1887-01-10 · Pierre, South Dakota, USA

Acting credits

The Finger Points poster
6.4

Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital.

The Finger Points

1931

Tarnished Angel poster
5.3

A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.

Tarnished Angel

1938

Go Into Your Dance poster
7.2

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.

Go Into Your Dance

1935

Stand Up and Fight poster
6.0

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

Stand Up and Fight

1939

Little Miss Broadway poster
6.5

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.

Little Miss Broadway

1938

Big Money poster
10.0

A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.

Big Money

1930

They Made Me a Criminal poster
6.3

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

They Made Me a Criminal

1939

Alexander's Ragtime Band poster
6.8

Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.

Alexander's Ragtime Band

1938

Great Guy poster
6.3

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.

Great Guy

1936

Here Comes the Band poster
7.0

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."

Here Comes the Band

1935

Dante's Inferno poster
6.2

A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.

Dante's Inferno

1935

The Defense Rests poster
7.1

A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

The Defense Rests

1934

The Farmer Takes a Wife poster
6.2

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

The Farmer Takes a Wife

1935

The Glass Key poster
6.5

When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.

The Glass Key

1935

Pick a Star poster
4.8

A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

Pick a Star

1937

The Daring Young Man poster
10.0

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.

The Daring Young Man

1935

Yours for the Asking poster
5.3

Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.

Yours for the Asking

1936

Sworn Enemy poster
5.8

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Sworn Enemy

1936

Now I'll Tell poster
5.1

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.

Now I'll Tell

1934

Wings Over Honolulu poster
6.4

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

Wings Over Honolulu

1937

Whipsaw poster
6.4

Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.

Whipsaw

1935

The Headline Woman poster
4.6

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.

The Headline Woman

1935

The Sea God poster
5.5

The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.

The Sea God

1930

Million Dollar Ransom poster
5.0

To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.

Million Dollar Ransom

1934