I've looked A Shot in the Dark movie
Movie Issued - in 1935.
Production Dates: 1934 -
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Mystery
Languages: English
Locations: Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Runtimes: 69
Sound Mix: Mono
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.37 : 1
Release Dates: USA:1 February 1935
The infallible detective meets the perfect crime!
In movie played:
Ralph Brooks (actor)
Birth Name:Brooke, Ralph T.
Birth Notes:North Carolina, USA
Death Date:23 March 1992
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Date:23 September 1915
Herbert Bunston (actor)
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)
At age 23, the year 1897, Herbert instigate a protracted bit of his donkey work towards acting resting on the British Theater. During that incident the theater be standing individual by route of the prominent Thomas Alva Edison. As a classically inured British comedian he began by acting contained by baby parts on blind and decaying. Fans will probably evoke his most by instrument of the ineffectual Dr. Seward in the classic 'Bela Lugosi' (qv) image of _Dracula (1931/I)_. In certainty Herbert essayed the subdivision both in the film and the segment. When the 1927 stageplay of Dracula was released he play the exceptionally same role of Dr. Seward on the romp, as achieve another British actor, Edward Van Sloan who played Professor Van Helsing both on the play and on screen. After several years beside the British stage he moved on to play parts in Broadway. A very able actor with his versatili ty and courteous manliness. By the deferred 1930s, Herbert become an elder gentlemen in his late 50s and relentless both on stage and screen to play unconditional s upporting role chiefly of which be film version of classic literature novel and acting. By 1935, his career was tragically cut epigrammatic short of a heart volley. He die at 61.
Birth Notes:Surrey, England, UK
Other Works:Stage actor.
Death Date:27 February 1935
Birth Date:15 April 1874
Davy Burnaby (actor)
Death Notes:Angmerling, Sussex, England, UK
Birth Notes:Buckland, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Books:Kurt Ganzl. _The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre._ New York: Shirmer Books, 2001. P. 271. ISBN 0-02-864970-2
Other Works:Stage and radio actor, songwriter.
Birth Name:Burnaby, George Davy
Death Date:18 April 1949
Birth Date:7 April 1881
James Bush (actor)
Death Notes:Van Nuys, California, USA
Birth Notes:Greenfield, Ohio, USA
Death Date:9 April 1987
Birth Date:14 October 1907
Death Notes:Van Nuys, California, USA
Birth Notes:Greenfield, Ohio, USA
Death Date:9 April 1987
Birth Date:14 October 1907
John Davidson (actor)
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA (heart failure)
Birth Notes:New York City, New York, USA
Death Date:16 January 1968
Birth Date:25 December 1886
Julian Madison (actor)
Height:5' 11"
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes:St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Death Date:29 September 1972
Birth Date:23 November 1907
Eric Mayne (actor)
Articles:"New York Times" (USA), 12 February 1947, pg. 25:5, "Eric Mayne; Shakespearean Actor a Veteran of Films in Hollywood", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), March 1926, pg. 54, 82, "A Specialist in Dignity"
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA
Height:6'
Birth Notes:Dublin, Ireland
A Shakespearian actor and lecturer who tended to played heavies on film.
Death Date:9 February 1947
Birth Date:28 April 1865
Robert McKenzie (actor)
Articles:"Films of the Golden Age" (USA), 1998, Iss. 13 (Summer), pg. 36-41, by: Joe Collura, "Fay McKenzie; Girl of the Golden West", "Classic Images" (USA), June 1991, Iss. 192, pg. 56, by: George A. Katchmer, "Forgotten Cowboys and Cowgirls--Part XV", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 30 January 1926, pg. 452, "McKenzie Scenario Head of Joe Rock Productions"
Father of 'Fay McKenzie' (qv), Father of 'Ella McKenzie' (qv)., Father of actress 'Ida Mae McKenzie' (qv).
Death Notes:Manunuck, Rhode Island, USA (heart attack)
A small man with a big belly, McKenzie entered films in 1915 and spent most of his career in B-Westerns, usually as a gold-watch-chained banker.
Birth Notes:Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland [now Ballymena District, Northern Ireland, UK]
Birth Name:McKenzie, Robert B.
Spouse:'Eva McKenzie (I)' (qv) (? - 8 July 1949) (his death); 3 children
Death Date:8 July 1949
Birth Date:22 September 1880
George Morrell (actor)
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes:California, USA
Death Date:28 April 1955
Birth Date:10 April 1871
Broderick O'Farrell (actor)
Death Notes:Burbank, California, USA
Broderick O'Farrell individual be unlocatable all for several years since his death. He be a "lost player" who acted principally contained by clown and a number of over-the-top role in "Laurel and Hardy" films in 1930's and up and about until 1944. At the incident of death he was interred in San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, California.
Birth Notes:Portland, Oregon, USA
Birth Name:O'Farrell, George William Broderick
Death Date:2 September 1955
Birth Date:13 July 1882
Charles Starrett (actor)
Articles:"Western Clippings" (USA), 2008, Iss. 84, pg. 19-20, by: Tom Weaver, "Richard Kline", "Classic Images" (USA), November 1995, Iss. 245, pg. 24, 26, by: Mike Newton, "Charles Starrett: Columbia's Action Ace", "Classic Images" (USA), August 1987, Iss. 146, pg. C19, 34, by: John Cocchi, "The 2nd Feature; A History of the B Movies", "Classic Images" (USA), May 1986, Iss. 131, pg. 51, 55, by: Ralph Roberts, "Charles Starrett (1903-1986); 'The Durango Kid'", "Variety" (USA), 2 April 1986, "Charles Starrett", "New York Times" (USA), 26 March 1986, pg. B4:5, "Charles Starrett Dues at 82; Actor on Stage and Screen"
During his last visit to Worcester Academy in the mid-1980s, spoke to students who included future screenwriter 'Caitlin McCarthy (II)' (qv)., Graduate of Worcester Academy, alma mater of legendary composer 'Cole Porter' (qv) and 1960s icon 'Abbie Hoffman' (qv)., His horse was named Raider, although during the run of the Durango Kid series there were actually more than 30 horses used., In 1938 he returned to his college football and vaudeville roots to star with 'Jimmy Durante' (qv) in the campus musical comedy feature "Start Cheering".
Death Notes:Borrego Springs, California, USA (cancer)
While against the Darmouth College football troop, Charles Starrett be hired to gambol a football superfluous enclosed by _The Quarterback (1926)_ (qv). Impressed via the duty, Starrett get the acting syndrome and subsequent go into vaudeville, next regional segment trade and second but not tiniest to Broadway. Spotted by a Paramount talent scout, Starrett was sign to play the idealist harmonize in _Fast and Loose (1930)_ (qv). For the next twosome of years he would be active, but his role be unexceptional. In 1933 he would be one of the family who help organize the Screen Actors Guild. In 1936 he would clue beside Columbia and over and done with the next 16 years celebrity in 115 westerns. Appearing in through numerous films as he accomplish, he was universally call "Steve" something - such was duration on the "B" circuit. During the 1940s Starrett would always be among the climax ten western star. After playing an assortment of sheriffs and ranger, he would become capably encode in sponsorship of his role as the "Durango Kid". Never deliberate with where on earth he kept the white foal and the costume, but he could transmutation outfits and horses until that occurrence the handgun could exonerate the leather. The Durango Kid gap appear in 1940, and towards the closing of his profession he would play the Durango Kid in almost both motion oil, even conversely he was starting to show evidence of his age. When the "B" motion picture westerns ride ancient its sell-by date into the sunset in the careless 1950s, Starrett hang aloft his spur for appropriate.
Height:6' 2"
Birth Notes:Athol, Massachusetts, USA
Other Works:(1929) Stage: Appeared in "The Star of Bengal" on Broadway.
Spouse:'Mary McKinnon' (? - ?); 2 children
Death Date:22 March 1986
Birth Date:28 March 1903
Eddie Tamblyn (actor)
Death Notes:Hollywood, California, USA
Height:6'4"
Birth Notes:Yonkers, New York, USA
Birth Name:Tamblyn, Edward
Father of 'Russ Tamblyn' (qv) and musician 'Larry Tamblyn' (qv)., Grandfather of 'Amber Tamblyn' (qv).
Death Date:22 June 1957
Birth Date:5 January 1907
Edward Van Sloan (actor)
Articles:"Classic Images" (USA), May 1996, Iss. 251, pg. C12-C13, by: Blackie Seymour, "Edward Van Sloan: 'Nemesis of Evil'", "Midnight Marquee" (USA), September 1979, Iss. 28, pg. 26-31, by: James T. Coughlin, "Edward Van Sloan: The Elder Statesman of Horror", "Variety" (USA), 8 April 1964, "Edward Van Sloan"
His wife and son predeceased him., Stage: Played Van Helsing in the 1927 Broadway production of "Dracula", with 'Bela Lugosi' (qv) playing the Count., The 1910 U.S. Census and his California death certificate both say that Van Sloan was born in Minnesota.
Death Notes:San Francisco, California, USA
US exceptionality thespian; he of the close-cropped gray pelt, gummy safety glasses and clipped, ominous tone who would spoon over maximum memorably by ability of the righter of wrong of evil-doers and monster inside 30's and 40's horror films and suspensers, antagonizing most ancient the like of 'Bela Lugosi' (qv) and 'Boris Karloff' (qv) and consequently, years following, 'Erich von Stroheim' (qv).
Birth Notes:San Francisco, California, USA
Other Works:The Vigil (1948)., Remote Control (1929). Drama. Directed and co-written by 'Clyde North' (qv). Co-written by 'Albert C. Fuller' (qv) and Jack T. Nelson. 48th Street Theatre: 10 Sep 1929- Nov 1929 (79 performances). Cast: Dave Abrams, Patricia Barclay, Louise Barrett, Frank Beaston, Audrey Berry, 'Hobart Cavanaugh' (qv), Polly Clarke, Alice Davenport, Consuelo Flowerton, William Foran, William Honohan, Raleigh Kennedy, Donald Kirke, George Leach, Mimi Lehman, Lawrence Leslie, 'George Lessey' (qv) (as "W.L. Oakwood"), Michael Markham, James V. Nolan, Claire Nolte, 'Al Ochs' (qv) (as "Professor Murrey"), Arthur Pierson, 'Edward Van Sloan' (qv) (as "Doctor A.P. Workman"), Harold Woolf. Produced by A.L. Jones and Morris Green. Note: Produced as a 'William Haines (I)' (qv) vehicle by MGM as _Remote Control (1930)_ (qv) (released 15 Nov 1930). The characters' names were altered completely for the film and re-written as a comedy., Dracula (1927). Drama. Written by 'Hamilton Deane' (qv) and 'John L. Balderston' (qv). Based on the novel by 'Bram Stoker' (qv). Directed by 'Ira Hards' (qv). Fulton Theatre: 5 Oct 1927- May 1928 (closing date unknown/261 performances). Cast: Herbert Bunston (as "Dr. Seward"), Alfred Frith (as "Butterworth"), 'Nedda Harrigan' (qv) (as "Miss Wells, a maid"), 'Bernard Jukes' (qv) (as "R.M. Renfield"), 'Bela Lugosi' (qv) (as "Count Dracula"), Terence Neill (as "Jonathan Harker"), Dorothy Peterson (as "lucy Seward"), 'Edward Van Sloan' (qv) (as "Abraham Van Helsing"). Produced by Horace Liveright., Lost (1927). Drama., Juarez and Maximilian (1926). Historical drama. Written by 'Franz Werfel' (qv). Directed by 'Philip Moeller' (qv). Guild Theatre: 11 Oct 1926- Nov 1926 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: Charles Allais, Albert Bruning, 'Morris Carnovsky' (qv) (as "Riva-Palacio Canon Soria"), 'Harold Clurman' (qv) (as "Mariano Escobedo, Polyphemie"), 'Cheryl Crawford' (qv) (as "Madame Barrio"), 'Arnold Daly (I)' (qv) (as "Francois Achille Bazaine"), Stanley DeWolfe, 'Dudley Digges' (qv) (as "Archbishop Labastida of Mexico and Puebla"), 'Clare Eames' (qv) (as "Carlotta"), 'Margalo Gillmore' (qv) (as "Princess Agnes Salm"), 'Perry Ivins' (qv) (as "Theodosio Lares"), 'Earle Larrimore' (qv) (as "State Councillor Stephen Herzfield"), 'Philip Leigh' (qv) (as "City Deputy of Chihuahua, Yapitan"), Alfred Lewis, 'Philip Loeb (I)' (qv) (as "Elizea" and "General Tomas Mejia"), 'Alfred Lunt' (qv) (as "Maximilian"), Maurice McRae, 'Sanford Meisner' (qv) (as "Blasio"), 'Edward G. Robinson (I)' (qv) (as "Porfirio Diaz"), John Rynne, 'Erskine Sanford' (qv) (as "Lawyer Siliceo"), Roland Twombley, 'Edward Van Sloan' (qv) (as "Captain Miguel Lopez"), Dan Walker. Produced by The Theatre Guild., Schweiger (1926). Written by 'Franz Werfel' (qv). Translated by Jack Charash and William A. Drake. Directed by 'Jacob Ben-Ami' (qv). Mansfield Theatre: 23 Mar 1926- Apr 1926 (closing date unknown/30 performances). Cast: Jacob Ben-Ami (as "Franz Schweiger"), 'Hugh Buckler' (qv) (as "Travnick"), 'Minnie Dupree' (qv) (as "Mrs. Stroschneider"), Edward Forbes, 'Ann Harding' (qv) (as "Anna Schweiger"), Philip Leigh, 'Herbert Ransom' (qv) (as "Father Rotter"), 'Samuel Rosen' (qv) (as "Selcher"), Georgina Tilden, 'Edward Van Sloan' (qv) (as "Dr. Burghardt Von Viereck"). Produced by The Fifth Avenue Playhouse., Morals (1925)., Polly Preferred (1923). Comedy. Written by Guy Bolton. Directed by 'Winchell Smith' (qv). Little Theatre: 11 Jan 1923- Jun 1923 (closing date unknown/184 performances). Cast: William Bailey, William Betts, David Burns, Augustus Collette, George Deaner, Marjorie Eggleston, Briggs French, Betty Fromen, William Harrigan, Dorrance M. Hubbell, Charles Laite, Richard Malchien, Virginia Lee Moore, Beatrice Nichols, Arthur Pierce, Gosta E. Richter, Edna Rivers, Thomas W. Ross, George Spelvin (as "Mr. X"), 'Genevieve Tobin' (qv) (as "Polly Brown"), Arline Tucker, 'Edward Van Sloan' (qv) (as "Crawford Boswell"), Harold Waldridge, Ada Waters, Sam White, John Wray. Produced by F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest., The Unknown Purple (1918)., Active on Broadway in the above productions:
Robert Warwick (actor)
Helen Jerome Eddy (actress)
Jane Keckley (actress)
Doris Lloyd (actress)
Marion Shilling (actress)
George R. Batcheller (producer)
Charles Belden (writer)
Clifford Orr (writer)
M.A. Anderson (cinematographer)
Charles Lamont (director)
Roland D. Reed (editor)
George R. Batcheller (miscellaneous crew)
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