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Robert Middlemass (3 September 1883, New Britain, Connecticut – 10 September 1949, Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright and stage actor, and later character actor with over 100 film appearances. usually playing detectives or policemen.
Middlemass graduated from Harvard University in 1909 and initially went into the insurance business, but soon went on the stage, joining the Castle Square Theatre stock company in Boston. He debuted on Broadway in September 1914 in The Bludgeon at the Maxine Elliott Theatre.
His best known play was a one-act melodrama written with Holworthy Hall (real name H. E. Porter, a college roommate) titled The Valiant, which was also made into a film of the same name in 1929, and as The Man Who Wouldn't Talk in 1940. The play became a favorite for amateur and local theater groups, and is still performed today.
Middlemass moved to Los Angeles around 1935, and began appearing in films. He died there in 1949.
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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.
30 April 1936
The story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie.
10 October 1930
A convict is released, then lured back to prison, because he was pardoned by mistake.
20 December 1935
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
01 October 1937
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
08 November 1939
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school.
22 June 1939
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely.
17 February 1932
When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr.
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.
02 June 1945
After the death of shipping magnate William Reardon, his young partner, Steve Walker, becomes executor and manager of his shipyards, in accordance with his will.
11 July 1936
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
24 November 1942
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
20 March 1942
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman.
26 March 1938
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
21 June 1940
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money.
31 July 1936
A mother experiences the torment of discovering that her own son is a killer.
28 October 1939
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem.
07 June 1940
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.
31 December 1942
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
19 July 1939
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
11 May 1939
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances.
12 January 1945
A police detective uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket and her gang.
19 May 1929
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
05 August 1939
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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.
14 May 1943
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.
26 September 1941
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers.
26 September 1936
A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
12 July 1937
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress.
19 October 1939
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington.
22 November 1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary.
11 December 1936
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat.
14 January 1938
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
17 November 1938
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby.
07 May 1935
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
27 January 1939
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
21 June 1935
A young attorney, Larry Condon, is on a retainer by a nightclub-owning gangster, to carry and deliver what he thinks are legal papers but he is innocently carrying around millions of dollars in stolen bonds.
22 December 1939
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
09 February 1940
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
15 March 1944
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
05 February 1936
Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
08 September 1939
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
25 October 1935
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
18 May 1935
After his divorced wife dies, Jim Burke takes their son who she had been raising and he hasn't seen in many years.
30 December 1935
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
21 October 1938
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she and her group of friends prove them wrong.
11 June 1937
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil.
27 June 1938
Arrested for speeding by highway patrolman Bill Rolph (Robert Paige), J.W. Brady (Robert Middlemass), the president of an oil refinery, offers him the assignment to find the culprits who have wrecked his gas stations, hi-jacked his trucks and attempted to blow up his plant.
25 June 1937
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War.
25 November 1935
A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.
24 January 1942
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title).
18 August 1939
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr.
30 December 1938
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
30 September 1939
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
13 February 1936
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins.
15 July 1935
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron.
11 April 1941
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
30 September 1935
1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
08 October 1935
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke.
22 February 1940
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
