
Acting
Jack Kenney
Born — Died
1902-12-05 — 1961-01-27
Place of birth
Vladimir, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Known for
6.9A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
House of Wax
1953
7.1A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
A Star Is Born
1954
6.6Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.
Death Valley Days
1952
7.0An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
The Tin Star
1957
7.0An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.
The Country Girl
1954
6.0When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang.
Riding Shotgun
1954
Film credits
1960s · 5 titles
5.9Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
5.3The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
The Gambler Wore a Gun
1961
6.0Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
Noose for a Gunman
1960
5.3Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
Gun Fight
1961
6.3A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.
When the Clock Strikes
1961
1950s · 22 titles
6.9A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
House of Wax
1953
7.1A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
A Star Is Born
1954
7.0An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
The Tin Star
1957
7.0An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.
The Country Girl
1954
6.0When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang.
Riding Shotgun
1954
8.1A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
The Joker is Wild
1957
7.1Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
Crime Wave
1953
7.2The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Somebody Up There Likes Me
1956
6.0An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
Chicago Syndicate
1955
6.1The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
Battle Stations
1956
5.9Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren and his ex-cellmate's wife, Vi. Vi's husband Mike is a trigger happy and jealous hothead and will not grant her a divorce. Mike escapes from prison right before the armored truck job goes into motion and promises trouble as he tries to locate his associates and his wandering wife.
Guns Girls and Gangsters
1959
6.2A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
Vice Raid
1959
6.0Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
New York Confidential
1955
5.8A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
Women's Prison
1955
6.2A young orphan rejects his foster parents and instead turns to a German shepherd whose master was recently murdered. Stumbling on some evidence, the boy is rescued from the killer by his dog.
A Dog's Best Friend
1959
5.4The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.
Frankenstein 1970
1958
7.2An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.
The Catered Affair
1956
5.7A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
Curse of the Faceless Man
1958
6.6A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with hatred and fear for his previous killings.
Top Gun
1955
5.0Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased.
Invisible Invaders
1959
6.3The Stooges are sent by their mother to stop their rich father's plan to remarry. Shemp plays dual role as Shemp and Father.
Up in Daisy's Penthouse
1953
5.0In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
Chicago Confidential
1957
1940s · 16 titles
6.2A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Deadline at Dawn
1946
6.8Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1941
6.4A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Adventure
1945
5.0A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Bowery at Midnight
1942
5.8On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
I Take This Woman
1940
6.6When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Brother Orchid
1940
6.3A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
Million Dollar Baby
1941
7.5An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Jackass Mail
1942
5.4Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
The Gang's All Here
1941
5.9The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
The Payoff
1942
6.7Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
5.7Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Mission to Moscow
1943
6.5An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
Fall In
1942
6.5Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
The Hard Way
1943
6.7Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
Beyond the Forest
1949
6.3In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
Atlantic City
1944
1930s · 17 titles
7.0The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Manhattan Melodrama
1934
7.0Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
6.8Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
We Live Again
1934
5.2A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Dick Tracy's G-Men
1939
5.6A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Racket Busters
1938
6.2After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
The Toast of New York
1937
6.5Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
Uncivil Warriors
1935
6.8A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
Hell's Kitchen
1939
4.8Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
Daredevils of the Red Circle
1939
6.0The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.
Movie Maniacs
1936
4.6A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
You're a Sweetheart
1937
5.8Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Don't Bet on Blondes
1935
6.0While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which high school students are asked to submit a news story, Nancy Drew intercepts a real story assignment concerning the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
8.0A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Let's Fall in Love
1933
5.8Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
Wyoming Outlaw
1939
7.3The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
Pop Goes the Easel
1935
6.2The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
In Old Monterey
1939
