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Charles Brown Middleton (October 3, 1874 – April 22, 1949) was an American stage and film actor. During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, he appeared in nearly 200 films as well as numerous plays. Sometimes credited as Charles B. Middleton, he is perhaps best remembered for his role as the villainous emperor Ming the Merciless in the three Flash Gordon serials made between 1936 and 1940.
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15 December 1939
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
01 January 1944
With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941's "White Eagle", Columbia's 24th serial (following "The Desert Hawk-1944" and ahead of 1945's "Brenda Starr, Reporter"), "Black Arrow" finds carpet-baggers Jake Jackson and Buck Sherman arriving in Blue Mesa in search of gold.
21 February 1941
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
25 April 1940
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
11 April 1935
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a proponent of Indian rights.
15 March 1940
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure.
26 July 1940
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
01 April 1933
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
05 July 1938
Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow.
21 January 1935
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.
27 June 1939
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
22 December 1933
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew.
02 March 1930
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse.
23 October 1932
A pre-Code drama.
10 June 1939
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters.
07 June 1932
Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.
02 March 1934
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh.
12 December 1931
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum.
15 December 1938
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities.
30 August 1946
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight.
28 May 1937
Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes a picture and goes camping.
20 January 1934
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents.
31 January 1942
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
07 October 1933
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' .
12 December 1948
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father.
30 November 1945
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold across the border, his superior Sgt.
31 July 1936
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.
30 November 1935
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
09 November 1932
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities.
07 July 1933
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime.
14 January 1939
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
27 September 1941
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
06 April 1937
Hero Bob Larson takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains.
16 June 1937
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
23 October 1930
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sang Kee.
23 April 1942
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
24 December 1931
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
08 October 1943
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel.
25 March 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.
12 November 1933
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs.
03 November 1939
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles.
27 September 1940
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City.
31 May 1943
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.
18 May 1934
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander.
03 March 1940
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust.
06 April 1936
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet.
28 March 1936
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
02 May 1940
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
26 March 1938
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
30 November 1934
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that.
16 July 1943
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies.
11 March 1939
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord.
13 December 1932
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
28 February 1936
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back.
25 April 1947
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
19 October 1933
When a married stockbroker falls in love with another woman, he becomes the prime suspect in his wife's accidental death.
24 March 1933
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned.
10 November 1939
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface.
19 September 1941
An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic.
18 July 1941
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die.
