George Ernest

Acting

George Ernest

Born — Died

1921-11-20 — 2009-06-25

Place of birth

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 9 titles

Remember the Day poster
7.3

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

Remember the Day

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

Petticoat Politics poster
9.0

Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.

Petticoat Politics

1941

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

Four Sons poster
7.0

Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.

Four Sons

1940

Golden Gloves poster
6.0

An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.

Golden Gloves

1940

Stardust on the Sage poster
5.5

A singing cowboy and his partner thwart a foreman who wants their mine.

Stardust on the Sage

1942

Meet the Missus poster
7.0

Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.

Meet the Missus

1940

Mountain Moonlight poster
7.0

A cyclone destroys the Weaver family farm leaving only the old stone chimney. When the chimney is torn down for building supplies, found secreted inside is an old metal box containing a promissory note, dated 15 Dec 1777, stating that one of their ancestors loaned $50,000 to the US government. The township chip in money to send the Weavers to Washington, DC to attempt to reclaim the money.

Mountain Moonlight

1941

1930s · 45 titles

The Plainsman poster
6.5

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

The Plainsman

1936

The Big Trail poster
6.8

Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.

The Big Trail

1930

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

The Chief poster
5.5

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

The Chief

1933

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

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

Wife, Doctor and Nurse poster
7.0

Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

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

20,000 Men a Year poster
6.2

Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.

20,000 Men a Year

1939

Diamond Jim poster
6.5

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Diamond Jim

1935

The Fourth Horseman poster
9.0

Retiring from a life of train robbing, Benjamin R. Jones takes over the ghost town of Stillwell, knowing full well that the property belongs to Molly O'Rourke. Enter horse wrangler Tom Mason, who smells a rat and does his best to unmask Jones as the crook he knows him to be. Molly at first falls for Jones' scheme, but confronts him when a general feeling of lawlessness sets in. The villain, alas, has an ace up his sleeve: Molly owes back taxes on her property, which is ripe for a takeover.

The Fourth Horseman

1932

Union Depot poster
6.1

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.

Union Depot

1932

Music in the Air poster
5.6

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

Music in the Air

1934

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

The Mystery of Edwin Drood poster
5.9

A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

1935

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

The Star Witness poster
6.8

A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.

The Star Witness

1931

Song of the Saddle poster
7.3

Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.

Song of the Saddle

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

Dinky poster
7.2

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

Dinky

1935

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

Beloved poster
9.0

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

Beloved

1934

Shiver My Timbers poster
7.2

The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.

Shiver My Timbers

1931

Handle with Care poster
10.0

Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.

Handle with Care

1932

Fireman, Save My Child poster
6.4

Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?

Fireman, Save My Child

1932

Lady Behave! poster
4.8

It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.

Lady Behave!

1937

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

Boy Friend poster
9.0

A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.

Boy Friend

1939

Straight from the Heart poster
9.0

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.

Straight from the Heart

1935

The Glass Key poster
6.7

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

Motor Madness poster
10.0

After winning a qualifying trial for a big speed-boat race in Santa Monica, California, Joe Dunn is offered a bribe, by gamblers, not to take part in the race and is so incensed that he starts a fight which lands him in jail. The girl he loves, Peggy McNeil, takes his place, but crashes into a buoy and is seriously injured---and Joe goes to desperate lengths to raise money for the services of a famous surgeon.

Motor Madness

1937

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

Man Hunt poster
10.0

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

Man Hunt

1936

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

Along Came Youth poster
7.3

Broke and stranded in England, American sportsman Larry Brooks and his pal Ambrose take on increasingly odd jobs to remain in proximity to the aristocratic lady that Larry would woo.

Along Came Youth

1930

The Human Side poster
9.0

The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

The Human Side

1934

Racing Luck poster
8.0

Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a rival owner who knows that Dan's horse can win a high-stakes race. Trying to clear his name, Dan runs into many difficulties and incidents, including a blazing barn filled with valuable horses, before he is able to gather the needed evidence against the guilty man.

Racing Luck

1935

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

The Perfect Tribute poster
7.0

The day after his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln meets a wounded Confederate soldier in a hospital. The blinded rebel, not knowing his visitor's identity, regales him with memorized lines from the speech.

The Perfect Tribute

1935

Speed Demon poster
6.0

A mechanic works for his sweetheart's father, who builds racing boats. He begs for and gets the chance to race a new-design boat, but his rival gets him intoxicated before the race and he wrecks the boat. Now he has to make good and show he has the right stuff.

Speed Demon

1932

No artwork available
5.2

Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.

Too Many Parents

1936

The Deadline poster
10.0

On parole from prison for a murder he did not commit, and not allowed to carry a gun, Buck sets out to find the real killer. His clue is a corner torn off a wanted poster with some handwriting on it.

The Deadline

1931

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