Maurice Black

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Maurice Black (January 14, 1891 – January 18, 1938) was an American character actor known for his portrayal of mobsters. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1928 to 1938, when he died of pneumonia, four days after his 47th birthday. He was married to Edythe Raynore.

Most Popular Maurice Black Trailers

Total trailers found: 72

Street of Chance Trailer (1930)

08 February 1930

'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him.

Marked Money Trailer (1928)

11 November 1928

Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left instructions that The Boy is to be delivered to the home of Captain Fairchild (Bert Woodruff) the father's old sailing master, along with $25,000 in cash to finance the boy's education.

Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles Trailer (1933)

13 July 1933

When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.

Under Strange Flags Trailer (1937)

11 April 1937

Not quite a western, not quite a historical drama, Under Strange Flags is a little bit of both, and a lot of former RKO Radio cowboy hero Tom Keene.

Smart Money Trailer (1931)

11 June 1931

Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.

Leaping Love Trailer (1929)

22 June 1929

Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.

The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble Trailer (1933)

15 April 1933

Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.

The King Murder Trailer (1932)

15 September 1932

A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.

The Runaway Bride Trailer (1930)

04 May 1930

Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through.

Broadway Babies Trailer (1929)

30 June 1929

Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star.

Square Shoulders Trailer (1929)

10 March 1929

Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father.

Show Folks Trailer (1928)

20 October 1928

Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians.

Playing Around Trailer (1930)

10 January 1930

New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.

Murder on the Campus Trailer (1933)

26 December 1933

A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus.

Little Caesar Trailer (1931)

25 January 1931

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

Let's Do Things Trailer (1931)

06 June 1931

Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.

The Californian Trailer (1937)

18 July 1937

Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families.

Scarface Trailer (1932)

09 April 1932

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Bride of Frankenstein Trailer (1935)

20 April 1935

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

Night Flight Trailer (1933)

06 October 1933

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

Ellis Island Trailer (1936)

04 November 1936

It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash.

The Front Page Trailer (1931)

04 April 1931

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime.

Down to Their Last Yacht Trailer (1934)

31 August 1934

Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas.

Adventure's End Trailer (1937)

05 December 1937

Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.

Walking Down Broadway Trailer (1938)

11 March 1938

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.

Elmer, the Great Trailer (1933)

29 April 1933

Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, where his naivete and arrogance soon put his relationship and career into jeopardy.

West of the Pecos Trailer (1934)

27 December 1934

Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.

Friends of Mr. Sweeney Trailer (1934)

28 July 1934

Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again.

The Daring Young Man Trailer (1935)

17 July 1935

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke).

Lonely Wives Trailer (1931)

15 February 1931

A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line.

Picture Snatcher Trailer (1933)

06 May 1933

An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.

Stowaway Trailer (1932)

01 March 1932

On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder.

Stars Over Broadway Trailer (1935)

23 November 1935

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

Wake Up and Dream Trailer (1934)

01 October 1934

The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.

Ship of Wanted Men Trailer (1933)

08 September 1933

A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws.

Abraham Lincoln Trailer (1930)

08 November 1930

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A.

Renegades Trailer (1930)

26 October 1930

Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War.

Live and Learn Trailer (1930)

15 June 1930

A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.

The Firefly Trailer (1937)

05 November 1937

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain.

The Sea God Trailer (1930)

13 September 1930

The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.

Captain Swagger Trailer (1928)

13 October 1928

Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills.

Laughing Irish Eyes Trailer (1936)

04 March 1936

An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.

The Keyhole Trailer (1933)

25 March 1933

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands Trailer (1931)

15 June 1931

Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.

Blondie Johnson Trailer (1933)

25 February 1933

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

Tiger Shark Trailer (1932)

24 September 1932

A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.

The Canary Comes Across Trailer (1938)

26 January 1938

A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.

Show Girl in Hollywood Trailer (1930)

20 April 1930

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

Bonnie Scotland Trailer (1935)

23 August 1935

Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.

Three Legionnaires Trailer (1937)

10 July 1937

Set in the post-WWI days in the Siberian tank town of Skzavoskanoff, U. S. Army Sergeant Chuck Connors and Private Jiimy Barton are charged with upholding the principles of American Democracy in the face of the exotic charms of Olga, and a dastardly plot by the phony General Stavinski and his treacherous aide.

The Carnation Kid Trailer (1929)

02 March 1929

It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago hitman.

Steady Company Trailer (1932)

13 March 1932

Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable.

The Game That Kills Trailer (1937)

21 September 1937

Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers.

A Shriek in the Night Trailer (1933)

22 July 1933

Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony.

Sixteen Fathoms Deep Trailer (1934)

01 January 1934

A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.

Flying Down to Rio Trailer (1933)

22 December 1933

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends try to help him, while learning the local dance, The Carioca.

Brothers Trailer (1930)

19 October 1930

Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers that were separated in infancy. Bob is raised by a rich lawyer, has all the advantages, but is a drunk with no moral character.

The Face on the Barroom Floor Trailer (1932)

14 October 1932

Bill Bronson is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control until he joins his wife Mary at getting blotto at a company party.

Julius Sizzer Trailer (1931)

06 September 1931

After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicago gang war.

Silly Billies Trailer (1936)

20 March 1936

The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.