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Hal K. Dawson

Hal K. Dawson

Hal K. Dawson (October 17, 1896 – February 17, 1987) was an American actor. The films he performed in include: Dr. Socrates, My American Wife, Libeled Lady, Wells Fargo,, Broadway Melody of 1940, Star Dust, The Doctor Takes a Wife, Washington Melodrama, Week-End in Havana,, Guest Wife, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Chicken Every Sunday, Bonzo Goes to College and The Benny Goodman Story.

He died on February 17, 1987, in Loma Linda, California aged 90.

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Movies Starring Hal K. Dawson (114)

The Touch of Satan (1971)

A murderous and decrepit old woman resides on a California walnut farm with her family. On a whim, a traveler named Jodie makes a brief side trip to the farm, where he meets and falls in love with Melissa, the proverbial farmer's daughter. Jodie and Meliss ...

Funny Girl (1968)

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein. ...

An American Dream (1966)

Stephen Rojack is a decorated war vet who has now found success as an outspoken television personality. During a vicious argument with his wife, Deborah, Stephen snaps and pushes her from his high-rise apartment to her death. He manages to convince the aut ...

The Rat Race (1960)

An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops. ...

The Alligator People (1959)

Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely man ...

Face of a Fugitive (1959)

A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot settle in peace as his chasers are trying to find him. ...

The Last Hurrah (1958)

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while ...

Teacher's Pet (1958)

A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor. ...

The Female Animal (1958)

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an ' ...

The Tin Star (1957)

An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge. ...

A Lawless Street (1955)

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town. ...

Foxfire (1955)

A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride. ...

Three for the Show (1955)

This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's songwriting partner, Gower Champion, but the new marriage is thrown for a loop when Lemmon, her first ...

The Country Girl (1954)

An 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 Yellow Mountain (1954)

A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin. Crooked mine-owner Bannon wants to merge their interests so they can create a m ...

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s. ...

Park Row (1952)

In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner. ...

Young Man with Ideas (1952)

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children. ...

The Captive City (1952)

A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob. ...

Superman and the Mole Men (1951)

Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to ...

Rhubarb (1951)

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them ...

You're My Everything (1949)

In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood ...

Slightly French (1949)

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery. ...

Chicken Every Sunday (1949)

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes. ...

You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to Ca ...

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems. ...

Blondie in the Dough (1947)

BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads. ...

Merton of the Movies (1947)

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract ...

Danger Street (1947)

Magazine owners sell a revealing photo, then play detective when the deal leads to murder. ...

A Likely Story (1947)

A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not. ...

Blondie's Big Moment (1947)

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As ...

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare. ...

Guest Wife (1945)

Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to fond of Joe and tired of her husband's idolizing. On the eve of ...

Greenwich Village (1944)

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue. ...

Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife. ...

Mr. Lucky (1943)

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him. ...

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is o ...

Baby Face Morgan (1942)

When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his mother. Rogers has naïve Edward brought to the city and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency. G ...

The Magnificent Dope (1942)

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson ...

My Favorite Spy (1942)

The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman). ...

Meet the Stewarts (1942)

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget. ...

The Mad Martindales (1942)

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures. ...

Obliging Young Lady (1942)

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce. ...

Song of the Islands (1942)

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his f ...

The Fleet's In (1942)

Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies. ...

Hellzapoppin' (1941)

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way. ...

Three Girls About Town (1941)

Faith 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 hid ...

Week-End in Havana (1941)

A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waivers from all of the passengers with the exception of Nan Spencer, a department store salesgirl who wants her ...

Lydia (1941)

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lyd ...

Cracked Nuts (1941)

A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men... ...

Washington Melodrama (1941)

An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder. ...

You're the One (1941)

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character. ...

This Thing Called Love (1940)

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible. ...

Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England. ...

Little Men (1940)

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Bur ...

Public Deb No. 1 (1940)

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company. ...

The Great Profile (1940)

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy. ...

We Who Are Young (1940)

A man violates company policy by getting married. ...

Millionaires in Prison (1940)

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside. ...

Lillian Russell (1940)

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star. ...

The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)

A 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. ...

Two Girls on Broadway (1940)

Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and ...

Star Dust (1940)

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own. ...

Blondie on a Budget (1940)

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat. ...

Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner. ...

Swanee River (1939)

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the t ...

The Great Victor Herbert (1939)

In his last film assignment, portly Walter Connolly fills the title role (in more ways than one) in The Great Victor Herbert. Very little of Herbert's life story is incorporated in the screenplay (a closing title actually apologizes for the film's paucity ...

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself. ...

Pack Up Your Troubles (1939)

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines. ...

Two Bright Boys (1939)

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away. ...

Blackmail (1939)

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him. ...

Hotel for Women (1939)

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling. ...

I Stole a Million (1939)

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways. ...

Rose of Washington Square (1939)

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble. ...

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them ...

The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work. ...

How to Sub-Let (1939)

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away. ...

Kentucky (1938)

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family. ...

There Goes My Heart (1938)

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk. ...

Too Hot to Handle (1938)

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America ...

Boy Meets Girl (1938)

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the wa ...

How to Read (1938)

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading. ...

Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)

A millionaire courts a working-class woman. ...

Keep Smiling (1938)

Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary. ...

Gateway (1938)

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island. ...

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader. ...

You and Me (1938)

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in l ...

Safety in Numbers (1938)

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit. ...

The Nurse from Brooklyn (1938)

A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of shooting the man knows that he didn't do it, and sets out to find the real killer and clear his own name. ...

International Settlement (1938)

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio). ...

Wells Fargo (1937)

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in ...

Mama Runs Wild (1937)

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her pu ...

Love and Hisses (1937)

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column. ...

Second Honeymoon (1937)

Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys Raoul's presence - in part because Vicky is his not Raoul's and in part because Raoul is a lot of fun. Th ...

A Night at the Movies (1937)

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through ...

Danger – Love at Work (1937)

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family. ...

Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)

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

Vogues of 1938 (1937)

An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too. The top models of the era, including several who are advertising household products, are in the cast. The plo ...

One Mile from Heaven (1937)

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds. ...

Easy Living (1937)

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away somethin ...

On Again—Off Again (1937)

This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company, William "Willy" Hobbs and Claude Augustus Horton, who agree to wrestle each other for the sole ownership of the business. The winner will take the com ...

She Had to Eat (1937)

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster. ...

Café Metropole (1937)

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress. ...

We're on the Jury (1937)

A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent. ...

Libeled Lady (1936)

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty ...

Wedding Present (1936)

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their ...

China Clipper (1936)

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China. ...

My American Wife (1936)

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, where the richest man in town is grizzled old Indian fighter Lafe Cantillon (Fred Stone). Lafe's social-climbing sister-in-law (Billie Burke) insists that her ...

Public Enemy's Wife (1936)

Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it. ...

Everybody's Old Man (1936)

An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business. ...

Paddy O'Day (1936)

A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York. ...

Music Is Magic (1935)

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus. ...

Dr. Socrates (1935)

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout. ...

The Firebird (1934)

Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola leaves the building, Brandt catches her in the stairwell and propose ...

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