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Hugh Beaumont

Hugh Beaumont

Eugene Hugh Beaumont (February 16, 1909 – May 14, 1982) was an American actor and television director. He was also licensed to preach by the Methodist church. Beaumont is best known for his portrayal of Ward Cleaver on the 1957-1963 television series Leave It to Beaver. He had earlier played the role of the private detective Michael Shayne in a series of films in the 1940s.

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Movies Starring Hugh Beaumont (86)

The Human Duplicators (1965)

An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies. ...

Night Passage (1957)

Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss. ...

The Mole People (1956)

A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a five millennia-old mutant Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia. ...

Mobs, Inc. (1956)

Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con artistry. Included are tracking down a dance hall girl, who, together with a big operative, are thwarted in a ...

Mobs Incorporated (1956)

Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con artistry ...

Hell's Horizon (1955)

The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather. ...

The Mississippi Gambler (1953)

Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's ...

The Member of the Wedding (1952)

Tomboy, Frances 'Frankie' Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South. ...

Night Without Sleep (1952)

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder. ...

Washington Story (1952)

A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth. ...

Wild Stallion (1952)

A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappeared years earlier. ...

Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)

Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman. ...

Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)

Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself. ...

Overland Telegraph (1951)

Not to be confused with the 1929 film The Overland Telegraph, this Western from director Lesley Selander stars Tim Holt as a cowboy appropriately named Tim Holt. In order to hinder the construction of a new telegraph line for his own financial gain, schemi ...

Callaway Went Thataway (1951)

Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is in demand. Unfortunately no one can find him. When a lookalike sends in a photo, the marketing team hires ...

Lost Continent (1951)

When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, tab ...

Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951)

Posing as a man over 70, a lecturer (Clifton Webb) enters an old-folks home to prove age is a state of mind. ...

Home Town Story (1951)

Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin works in the "Herald" newspaper office. Wh ...

Pier 23 (1951)

Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth ...

Go for Broke! (1951)

A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. The ...

Roaring City (1951)

A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder. ...

Danger Zone (1951)

A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party. ...

The Last Outpost (1951)

The cavalry defend a small town from indians. ...

Target Unknown (1951)

World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners by the German army. ...

A Date with Your Family (1950)

Educational short showing how you should never show any emotions at the dinner table. ...

The Flying Missile (1950)

A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines. ...

Second Chance (1950)

A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years of their marriage. ...

Trader Thorne (1950)

Trader Thorne (1950)

Joe Wilding is the hotshot car salesman at the local Ford dealer. The year is 1950 and the new Fords have just come out. He's assigned to teach the new salesman how to sell cars. The movie follows Joe thru a typical day of calling leads, dropping off busin ...

Tokyo Joe (1949)

An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities. ...

The Counterfeiters (1948)

Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang. ...

Money Madness (1948)

A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town. ...

Reaching from Heaven (1948)

Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and a ...

Bury Me Dead (1947)

A woman watches her own funeral, then sets out with her lawyer to learn who was in the casket. ...

Railroaded! (1947)

A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man. ...

Too Many Winners (1947)

Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track. ...

Three on a Ticket (1947)

A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. ...

The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war. ...

Blonde for a Day (1946)

Newspaper reporter Tim Rourke keeps writing articles that attack the police department for its failure to solve a chain of murders, which nearly leads to the reporter's death. He calls in private detective Michael Shayne, who turns up a blonde and a blackm ...

Larceny in Her Heart (1946)

In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order ...

The Blue Dahlia (1946)

Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer. ...

Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)

Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight business. ...

Murder Is My Business (1946)

Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor R ...

Tars and Spars (1946)

Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum f ...

Apology for Murder (1945)

Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman. ...

A Gun in His Hand (1945)

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime. ...

You Came Along (1945)

War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically inv ...

Blonde from Brooklyn (1945)

A brash young singer and an unemployed "jukebox girl" hire an elderly Confederate "colonel" to teach them to be "southern" so they can land a radio gig for sponsor Plantation Coffee. ...

The Lady Confesses (1945)

An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her. ...

Blood on the Sun (1945)

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time. ...

Objective, Burma! (1945)

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they ...

I'm a Civilian Here Myself (1945)

A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II. ...

Practically Yours (1944)

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with P ...

They Live in Fear (1944)

After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp "Dachau" German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student endangers Paul's new American existence and his family's which stayed in Germany. ...

Strange Affair (1944)

Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can ...

The Seventh Cross (1944)

In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to fr ...

Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)

Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific. ...

I Love a Soldier (1944)

During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is ov ...

Song of the Open Road (1944)

A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop ...

The Racket Man (1944)

A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime. ...

Prunes and Politics (1944)

Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him. ...

There's Something About a Soldier (1943)

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training. ...

The Seventh Victim (1943)

After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery. ...

The Fallen Sparrow (1943)

Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investig ...

Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. S ...

Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event (1943)

Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens. ...

Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front. ...

Bombardier (1943)

A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with ...

Flight for Freedom (1943)

A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission. ...

He Hired the Boss (1943)

A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies. ...

Keep 'Em Sailing (1942)

An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships. ...

Northwest Rangers (1942)

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler. ...

Wake Island (1942)

In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base. ...

Flight Lieutenant (1942)

A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with. ...

The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)

Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer qua ...

Canal Zone (1942)

A 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. ...

Right to the Heart (1942)

John T. Bromley III is a young man from high society who is physically humiliated by a prizefighter before his socialite sweetheart, Jenny Killian. He goes to a training camp to redeem his self-respect and ensure his success in a return engagement with the ...

Unfinished Business (1941)

Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between a small-town girl in the big city, and the brother of the man ...

Sucker List (1941)

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have. ...

South of Panama (1941)

South of Panama (1941)

Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible. ...

Forbidden Passage (1941)

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to ...

You, the People (1940)

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly co ...

Good Bad Boys (1940)

Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary. ...

Soak the Old (1940)

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams. ...

Buyer Beware (1940)

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise. ...

Phantom Raiders (1940)

In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taur ...

Jack Pot (1940)

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking. ...

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