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Tom Fadden (January 6, 1895 – April 14, 1980) was an American actor. He performed on the legitimate stage, vaudeville, in films and on television during his long career.
He would make his film debut with a small role in 1939's I Stole a Million. He would have his first memorable bit in his next film, Destry Rides Again, where in the opening scene he is playing cards, and is cheated when the character portrayed by Marlene Dietrich distracts him by spilling coffee in his lap.
His film career would span almost forty years and encompass over 90 films, mostly in small or supporting roles, although with an occasional starring role, as in 1940's Zanzibar.
His final acting credit was the 1977 science fiction horror film Empire of the Ants.
Fadden died of natural causes on April 14, 1980 in Vero Beach, Florida.
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20 December 1946
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr.
17 June 1938
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.
22 August 1946
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen.
28 February 1950
Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.
22 September 1955
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
19 January 1940
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors.
20 December 1960
Pacer Burton, a young man of mixed Kiowa and white heritage, is caught between two worlds as conflict erupts between Native Americans and white settlers in Texas.
05 February 1956
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
20 March 1942
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.
07 April 1948
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
20 November 1942
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
10 October 1952
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack.
01 August 1939
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
29 June 1977
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the swampland will soon be developed.
08 June 1966
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
05 September 1947
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
19 September 1940
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard.
10 November 1969
A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.
18 December 1961
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
08 September 1942
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
23 August 1940
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company.
16 April 1945
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
07 November 1943
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp.
14 February 1951
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.
24 December 1944
Hoping for a peaceful visit with his parents in the small town of Sycamore Springs, Nick Charles and his wife Nora soon find themselves surrounded by old rivalries, family tensions, and a mysterious murder.
10 April 1946
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
02 November 1959
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon.
20 June 1945
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house.
17 May 1946
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.
18 August 1950
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
30 April 1948
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
16 August 1944
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society.
21 February 1947
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train.
18 July 1942
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
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.
09 April 1943
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers.
15 December 1947
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
08 March 1940
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
21 May 1948
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled.
05 November 1938
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds.
11 August 1943
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly makes a shambles of a real estate deal his oldest daughter, Ethel is working on, almost wrecks her romance with Captain Tom Drayson, and gets involved in a game with a pool shark in an effort to raise the remaining $75 of the $6,750 needed (that they didn't have) by the Wakefield Lodge to host the national convention of the Noblest Romans.
09 December 1948
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him.
05 March 1947
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s.
18 November 1970
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his money.
28 December 1952
After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.
30 November 1939
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
11 December 1957
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll.
23 June 1945
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing.
23 October 1945
In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this minor Universal serial.
31 January 1941
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
01 October 1948
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor.
02 July 1940
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
14 March 1948
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping.
06 March 1942
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
19 August 1943
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
06 June 1947
Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit.
23 September 1953
In 1841, in the small Morovian village of Skalni Hradec, a judge makes his much younger wife witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who is bound with ropes to a wooden half-cross.
02 April 1942
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
15 January 1942
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company.
01 June 1945
A cowboy investigating his brother's murder finds himself going up against a banker who holds the deed to the cowboy's family ranch.
