
Acting
Eddie Laughton
Born — Died
1903-06-20 — 1952-03-21
Place of birth
Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
7.6Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
The Lost Weekend
1945
6.3A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
It Happened in Hollywood
1937
10.0Dave Crockett comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
The Son of Davy Crockett
1941
6.3Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
Before I Hang
1940
6.0When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
Out West with the Peppers
1940
5.8While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Honolulu Lu
1941
Film credits
1940s · 47 titles
7.6Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
The Lost Weekend
1945
10.0Dave Crockett comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
The Son of Davy Crockett
1941
6.3Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
Before I Hang
1940
6.0When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
Out West with the Peppers
1940
5.8While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Honolulu Lu
1941
4.6A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
Convicted Woman
1940
4.2The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
Ghosts on the Loose
1943
6.0A cocky pilot at a Panama Canal bomber station clashes with his trainer over recklessness and a woman. After causing a fatal crash while hungover, he seeks redemption when his rivals crash in the jungle.
Canal Zone
1942
7.0Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his property being stolen by two unscrupulous townsmen. She receives help from a sympathetic lawman and from a masked rider known as "the Black Shadow" whose whip-scarred back is evidence of his own grudge against the townsmen.
Vengeance of the West
1942
6.8A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
The Doctor Takes a Wife
1940
5.5A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
Meet the Stewarts
1942
7.0Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940
4.7An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
Murder in Times Square
1943
5.5An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
Island of Doomed Men
1940
5.0Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
The Man from Tumbleweeds
1940
6.7When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
The Lady in Question
1940
6.5Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Three Girls About Town
1941
6.2Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged in helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace.
Hold That Blonde!
1945
6.5Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
The Affairs of Susan
1945
6.4A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940
4.0The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
7.1To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion, but they wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place.
A Plumbing We Will Go
1940
10.0Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
The Secret Seven
1940
7.5A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
Sabotage Squad
1942
8.0El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
His Wedding Scare
1943
8.5Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
Hello, Annapolis
1942
7.3In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.
You Nazty Spy!
1940
10.0Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
Down Rio Grande Way
1942
5.4The story of an eclectic group of women - tramps, ne'er-do-wells, innocents, fugitives, the once-priviledged, and all down-trodden - either running from or toward something, but who find they must support each other as they hitch-hike their way across Great Depression-era America in search of an increasingly elusive decent life.
Girls of the Road
1940
5.4A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Cafe Hostess
1940
7.2The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
7.0In a saloon shooting, a cowboy thinks he killed Prince Katey, a man he closely resembles. Cannonball arrives and thinking the cowboy to be Katey, gets him to return to the Katey ranch where the mother is in trouble. She thinks her missing son has returned and even though the Sheriff is chasing him, he decides to take up the mother's fight against the man who is trying to throw her off the ranch.
Bullets for Bandits
1942
6.2A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
7.0In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find themselves in the midst of a battle started by the feisty saloon owner's wicked ex-husband who loots the safe in the ensuing scuffle.
Lawless Plainsmen
1942
7.2Wild Bill Hickock and Cannonball help two young people in love and bring the murderer of Cannonball's father to justice.
Hands Across the Rockies
1941
5.7It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
Alias Boston Blackie
1942
7.0After his wife complains about the number of nights Woodcock (Shemp Howard) spends at the Hoot Owl Lodge, he takes her on a belated honeymoon. The first person they meet is lodge member Joe Wilson, who asks Woodcock to help him retrieve some ill-advised letters to lovely hotel guest Irene (Christine McIntyre). Woodcock soon finds himself caught between his jealous wife, and Irene's Latin-tempered fiancee Ricardo.
Open Season for Saps
1944
6.2American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs. The Nazis send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the harbor and keep the patrols blocked in. The officers in charge of the patrols have to find the spies and stop them before they achieve their objective.
Atlantic Convoy
1942
7.0Nurses parachuting.
Parachute Nurse
1942
7.5Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star is cast as Jim Endicott, bound and determined to put an end to the underhanded activities of gin-mill operator Faro Jack Vaughn (Norman Willis). The villain's strategy is to get the local cowpunchers tanked up on rotgut that they'll prove to be easy pickings for a gang of rustlers-and will be unable to complete work on a railroad spur which will bypass the outlaws' hideaway.
Outlaws of the Panhandle
1941
6.9The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
They Stooge to Conga
1943
6.5During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
Power of the Press
1943
6.2Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940
7.5A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Harmon of Michigan
1941
7.0A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.
I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
1941
6.8Buster fights a duel over a girl.
She's Oil Mine
1941
9.0The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
Texas Stagecoach
1940
1930s · 13 titles
6.3A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
It Happened in Hollywood
1937
6.6Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
1939
6.5Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
It Can't Last Forever
1937
8.0Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
Almost a Gentleman
1939
7.1A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her. This is a reworking of Keaton's 1936 feature The Invader (An Old Spanish Custom).
Pest from the West
1939
6.7G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.
Smashing the Spy Ring
1938
7.1Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
8.0In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
North of Shanghai
1939
5.4U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.
Special Inspector
1938
6.8Once again, the Stooges are three hapless tramps. After nearly destroying a farmer's (Richard Fiske) pile of firewood, the boys come to the assistance of the Widow Jenkins (Eva McKenzie), who has just been cheated out of her land by a trio of swindlers (Dick Curtis, Eddie Laughton, James Craig). Attempting to fix the woman's well, the Stooges instead unleash an oil geyser. They manage to retrieve the deed to the land and are allowed to marry the now wealthy Widow Jenkins' daughters. Moe tells Curly to wish for quintuplets, and Curly replies, "We'll honeymoon in Canada!" (a reference to the Dionne quintuplets).
Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
1939
7.0The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
Scandal Sheet
1939
6.6The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some bad guys after the same objective. The villains, who have kidnapped a professor from the museum, want the jewels buried inside the mummy. When Curly accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages to fool the bad guys. They manage to rescue the professor and retrieve the real mummy of Rootin-Tootin who turns out to have been a midget.
We Want Our Mummy
1939
5.9Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
Mandrake the Magician
1939
