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Edward Ellis

Edward Ellis

Character actor in films, often portraying strident types, he is best remembered cast as "The Thin Man" (actually, "Wynant") of the hit 1934 MGM film. He Ellis was active on Broadway as an actor, producer and playwright from 1905-32 (see "Other Works"). He died in Beverly Hills, CA at age 81 in 1952.

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The Omaha Trail (1942)

The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war. ...

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Steel Against the Sky (1941)

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman. ...

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A Man Betrayed (1941)

A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook - all while falling in love with the politician's daughter. ...

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Main Street Lawyer (1939)

A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster. ...

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Three Sons (1939)

A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business. ...

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Career (1939)

Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart when they woo the same woman. ...

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Man of Conquest (1939)

The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas. ...

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A Man to Remember (1938)

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients. ...

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Little Miss Broadway (1938)

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. ...

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Midnight Madonna (1937)

A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father. ...

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Let Them Live (1937)

A young man goes up against a crooked town boss. ...

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Maid of Salem (1937)

When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. Sh ...

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Winterset (1936)

A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed. ...

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The Texas Rangers (1936)

Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw. ...

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Fury (1936)

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested. ...

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The Lady Consents (1936)

Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized. ...

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Chatterbox (1936)

Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working ...

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The Return Of Peter Grimm (1935)

The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong. ...

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Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)

Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospectin ...

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Village Tale (1935)

The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy. ...

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Transient Lady (1935)

A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent. ...

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The President Vanishes (1934)

The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex St ...

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The Thin Man (1934)

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts. ...

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The Last Gentleman (1934)

In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in him is his money, a ...

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The Trumpet Blows (1934)

In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the ...

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The 9th Guest (1934)

Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to ...

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Hi, Nellie! (1934)

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the m ...

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From Headquarters (1933)

When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates. ...

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After Tonight (1933)

When war is declared in 1914, glamorous Russian Carla Vanirska manages to get to Vienna from Luxembourg, with the help of Captain Rudolph Ritter of the Austrian army. Meanwhile, Ritter is assigned to detect the identity of a spy. ...

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Strictly Personal (1933)

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promi ...

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Girl Missing (1933)

Showgirls Kay and June are stranded on Palm Beach when they become involved in the case of a fellow chorine who has gone missing on her wedding night. ...

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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

A World War I veteran's dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he's falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang. ...

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