
Roger Pryor
Actor · 1901 – 1974 · New York City, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roger Pryor (August 27, 1901 – January 31, 1974) was an American film actor. He also appeared in theatre and radio. Pryor often had leading roles in B movies in the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1930 and 1945.
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Movie6.3CrimeDramaA couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Missing Girls
1936 · 4 votes
Movie6.6Science FictionHorrorDr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
The Man They Could Not Hang
1939 · 49 votes
Movie7.0ActionAdventureSomewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.
A Man's World
1942 · 2 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. Dr. O'Hara must find a way to rescue Sock and stop Mason's contamination of hospital food supplies.
Bowery Boy
1940 · 2 votes
Movie5.7CrimeA reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
Gambling on the High Seas
1940 · 6 votes
Movie6.1ThrillerA cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
I Live on Danger
1942 · 7 votes
Movie7.0CrimeMysteryAfter an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a jewelry store and takes a picture of one of the robbers as he is leaving the scene-of-the-crime in which murder has also been committed. At the risk of his own life, over the protests of his sweetheart, he sets a trap to catch the crook.
The Case of the Missing Man
1935 · 2 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaNightclub entertainer Ruby Carter moves from St. Louis to New Orleans to escape Tiger Kid. At Ace Lamont's club, she gains fame but faces drama with Ace's ex Molly. A jewel theft and fixed fight lead to confrontations.
Belle of the Nineties
1934 · 15 votes
Movie4.4CrimeDramaAn embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
Money and the Woman
1940 · 5 votes
Movie9.0DramaIn 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 · 1 votes
Movie7.0RomanceComedyLee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
I'll Tell the World
1934 · 1 votes
Movie5.2MusicComedyConceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Gift of Gab
1934 · 4 votes
Movie5.8ComedyTwo rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
$1,000 a Minute
1935 · 14 votes
Movie5.7CrimeLeslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
A Fugitive from Justice
1940 · 3 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryHedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo. There is also a sequence dedicated to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin world premiere of the first short in this series attended by more that a few film stars.
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941 · 2 votes
Movie6.7ComedyCrimeA dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
So's Your Aunt Emma!
1942 · 13 votes
Movie6.4MysteryComedyA hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
1940 · 14 votes
Movie9.0ComedyRomanceThe publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Romance in the Rain
1934 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyTwo big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town.
She Couldn't Say No
1940 · 3 votes
Movie6.3Science FictionHorrorDr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
The Man with Nine Lives
1940 · 25 votes
Movie5.3ComedyDramaA successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.
Sitting on the Moon
1936 · 4 votes
Movie5.3DramaActionTim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
High Powered
1945 · 4 votes
Movie10.0ComedyThe conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
The Richest Man in Town
1941 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southern colonel, gun moll kills gangster and wants to be taken to the precinct house.
Taxi Talks
1930 · 1 votes
Series1
TV6.8ComedyTalk ShowThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · 23 votes