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Russell Gleason (February 6, 1908 – December 25, 1945) was an American actor who began his career at the very beginning of the talking film era. Born into an acting family, one of his earliest roles was in the 1930 classic film, All Quiet on the Western Front.
While still in the middle of a successful acting career, Gleason joined the U.S. Army in late 1943, during World War II. While awaiting deployment to Europe in December 1945 in New York City, Gleason fell to his death from a hotel window. He was the son of actors Lucille and James Gleason.
Most Popular Russell Gleason Trailers
Total trailers found: 51
31 March 1929
On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers.
24 August 1929
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this nostalgic slice of college, replete with songs, romance, prom dances and the inevitable big football game.
22 April 1942
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
07 November 1941
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.
20 July 1939
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
19 April 1939
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
26 July 1939
Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family
13 April 1940
Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human face in years.
01 October 1943
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin.
31 August 1940
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that his family has "royal" connections.
01 August 1931
The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
06 May 1932
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal.
18 June 1937
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well.
10 November 1939
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to his co-workers at the bank, mother Lil unwittingly sabotages their plans by telling insurance representative Wells that Joe is only forty-four, not forty-five, and is therefore ineligible to collect the annuity insurance that was to pay for the cruise.
25 March 1933
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
27 March 1931
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
04 March 1938
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
20 August 1935
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
29 April 1930
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
04 July 1934
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
06 May 1938
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones.
13 March 1942
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
15 February 1930
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder.
01 November 1943
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
15 September 1935
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
15 October 1936
Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see the land he knows nothing about.
20 May 1939
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean.
02 October 1937
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters.
12 March 1936
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
24 September 1937
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
03 April 1931
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
10 December 1937
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
01 December 1929
A 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on December 1, 1929.
30 May 1938
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
24 March 1939
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
11 October 1938
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
18 September 1932
It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered.
28 March 1938
Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.
31 December 1939
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest.
16 February 1940
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
09 October 1932
When Russel Gleason is thought to have made a kick by Jim Thorpe, he is reinstated on the college team in time for the big game.
28 November 1931
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
02 September 1943
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
29 September 1939
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
22 November 1936
Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners.
05 February 1937
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
10 July 1929
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him.
16 December 1928
The Shady Lady is a 1928 sound part-talkie American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith.
20 September 1940
A doctor looks at his scrapbook and reflects on college days: how success at football took him from his studies, his flirtation with a widow and his true love.
03 July 1943
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort.
15 June 1930
In spite of her best efforts, a Manhattan model falls in love with a country-hick census taker, while trying to help out her sister and the sister's jobless husband.
