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Frederick Alvin Kelsey (August 20, 1884 – September 2, 1961) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Kelsey directed one- and two-reel films for Universal Film Manufacturing Company. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives. He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920. Kelsey was caricatured as the detective in the 1943 MGM cartoon Who Killed Who? directed by Tex Avery. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio and died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Hollywood, California, aged 77.
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24 April 1942
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers.
25 August 1935
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him.
06 June 1942
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies.
21 December 1930
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop.
15 October 1930
Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble.
17 November 1939
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
28 February 1935
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place.
14 January 1934
Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party.
29 January 1930
This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts of his daughter, Molly Sommers (Dorothy Revier), a nightclub singer and two newspapers reporters, Ted Palmer (David Newell) and the inaptly-named Drinkwater (Raymond Hatton), posing as a drunk, to clear him.
01 July 1950
Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor.
19 September 1931
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
19 July 1940
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
31 January 1931
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
03 January 1932
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios.
01 August 1935
Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he's lured away on a false pretence and robbed by Conrad's henchmen.
27 August 1927
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
24 March 1917
Billy Carter and two Mexicans, Cuteo and Estaban, are smugglers of opium which they bring across the border from Mexico into the United States.
03 February 1945
Harry and El, private sleuths, are hired to follow a beautiful showgirl.
16 May 1925
As youths, Carl Pfeiffer and Henry Block came to America from Germany. Pfeiffer became a wholesale shoe dealer, while Block became a banker.
27 July 1945
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane.
10 August 1939
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities.
14 March 1928
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout.
10 April 1915
A dead child's broken doll reunites an estranged husband and wife.
07 March 1942
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison.
06 January 1917
The sheriff, Dan Beckham, and his deputy, Bud Cameron, are posting signs offering a reward for the capture of Cheyenne Harry, accused of holding up a Wells Fargo shipment.
30 May 1914
Mary Jones, slavey, lonely and unloved, advertises in a matrimonial paper for a good man to marry her.
31 October 1953
Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.
08 December 1945
U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.
05 June 1936
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications.
10 October 1926
Monty Milde, would-be newspaper reporter, stumbles into a high-profile kidnapping mystery.
04 October 1932
James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up.
29 March 1952
Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.
01 November 1941
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
02 July 1949
Joe wants to be a muscle man.
23 April 1936
Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking the stairs to avoid being seen by the elevator operator (Frank Jenks).
14 November 1921
In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence against suspected opium smuggler George Sala.
17 July 1925
Disguised as a boy, a young woman gets an inner-city street gang back on the straight and narrow path.
12 August 1932
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station.
01 February 1930
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
11 January 1940
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family.
14 June 1953
A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
23 March 1956
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart.
16 July 1937
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
03 November 1939
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
18 December 1954
Do-gooder Joe McDoakes is the guest on the "Know Your Relatives" TV show where, to his chagrin, many of his black sheep relations reveal the skeletons in the family closet.
25 September 1934
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott.
11 June 1917
Henry Martin receives a letter from Buck Lessen, a convict about to be released from prison, telling him that his time is up and he is going to get him for sending him to prison and marrying his sweetheart, Jane.
24 January 1930
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
02 March 1936
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
21 April 1919
A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in love him.
31 January 1942
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
01 November 1923
Country girl Hope Anthony follows Hal Tracy to the city, where she becomes involved in a jewel theft after a criminal named Jathrow Billings mistakes her handbag for a satchel of jewels he stole from the wealthy Mrs.
17 October 1927
A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder.
28 December 1946
Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses.
24 March 1939
Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.
21 October 1932
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
09 April 1954
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
30 November 1932
Frank Albertson's parents are worried about his seeing a showgirl instead of an "upstanding" young lady of class.
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' .
