Maurice Black
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6184 |
| Birthday | 1891-01-13 |
| Place of Birth | Queens, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Johnny Morris, |
1933
Blondie Johnson
5.9/18
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
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Blondie Johnson
1929
Dark Streets
7.5/2
Pat and Danny McGlone are identical twin brothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and Pat grows up and becomes a policeman while Danny...
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Dark Streets
1931
Little Caesar
6.861/310
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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Little Caesar
1929
Leaping Love
9/1
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.
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Leaping Love
1933
Flying Down to Rio
6.3/75
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,...
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Flying Down to Rio
1930
Framed
5.333/15
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chu...
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Framed
1932
Steady Company
10/1
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and Za...
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Steady Company
1933
Elmer, the Great
5.111/9
Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, where his naivete and arrogance soon put his relati...
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Elmer, the Great
1931
Smart Money
6.883/30
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
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Smart Money
1931
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
7.333/3
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...
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
1936
Laughing Irish Eyes
10/1
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
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Laughing Irish Eyes
1936
Exclusive Story
7.2/5
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
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Exclusive Story
1937
The Firefly
6.5/6
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 fo...
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The Firefly
1933
Murder on the Campus
5.5/6
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local...
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Murder on the Campus
1931
Julius Sizzer
0/0
After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicag...
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Julius Sizzer
1929
Broadway Babies
6.167/6
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...
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Broadway Babies
1936
Ellis Island
6.25/4
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 m...
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Ellis Island
1930
Live and Learn
3.333/3
A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.
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Live and Learn
1932
Dancers in the Dark
5.667/6
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gan...
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Dancers in the Dark
1931
No Limit
6/7
Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well...
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No Limit
1930
Street of Chance
6.773/11
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Fra...
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Street of Chance
1930
Playing Around
5/8
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.
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Playing Around
1930
Numbered Men
5.143/7
Civilian Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other. Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan want t...
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Numbered Men
1934
Wake Up and Dream
5.333/3
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
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Wake Up and Dream
1932
The King Murder
4.857/7
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...
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The King Murder
1933
Twin Husbands
4.7/6
The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating him so they can get their hands on what remains o...
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Twin Husbands
1930
Show Girl in Hollywood
5.75/10
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
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Show Girl in Hollywood
1929
The Carnation Kid
10/1
It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago hitman.
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The Carnation Kid
1928
Show Folks
7/2
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody bu...
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Show Folks
1932
While Paris Sleeps
6.667/6
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are tw...
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While Paris Sleeps
1933
A Shriek in the Night
5.2/20
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell fro...
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A Shriek in the Night
1933
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1/2
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.
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1931
Let's Do Things
8/1
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
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Let's Do Things
1935
Stars Over Broadway
5.6/5
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
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Stars Over Broadway
1934
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
6.75/4
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten dow...
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1935
Bride of Frankenstein
7.503/1138
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 pa...
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Bride of Frankenstein
1937
Adventure's End
5.5/4
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...
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Adventure's End
1937
Under Strange Flags
9/1
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. T...
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Under Strange Flags
1937
Three Legionnaires
8/1
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 uphol...
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Three Legionnaires
1935
Bonnie Scotland
6.651/73
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...
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Bonnie Scotland
1935
The Daring Young Man
10/1
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...
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The Daring Young Man
1933
Ship of Wanted Men
3.75/4
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth...
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Ship of Wanted Men
1931
Lonely Wives
5.3/10
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonat...
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Lonely Wives
1932
Scarface
7.408/715
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 pr...
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Scarface
1933
I Cover the Waterfront
5.067/15
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
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I Cover the Waterfront
1930
The Runaway Bride
6.2/5
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, a...
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The Runaway Bride
1937
The Californian
7/2
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a s...
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The Californian
1930
The Sea God
5.5/4
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.
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The Sea God
1933
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
10/1
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
1928
Marked Money
10/1
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...
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Marked Money
1928
Captain Swagger
7/1
Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills.
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Captain Swagger
1934
West of the Pecos
7/1
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
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West of the Pecos
1936
Silly Billies
8.5/2
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...
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Silly Billies
1934
Down to Their Last Yacht
6.5/8
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs...
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Down to Their Last Yacht
1932
The Face on the Barroom Floor
5/3
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...
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
1938
The Canary Comes Across
5.25/4
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 receive...
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The Canary Comes Across
1932
Tiger Shark
6.471/17
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
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Tiger Shark
1938
Walking Down Broadway
6.75/4
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 differ...
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Walking Down Broadway
1931
The Front Page
6.46/88
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for...
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The Front Page
1933
Night Flight
5.6/22
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Night Flight
1937
The Game That Kills
6.25/4
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 racke...
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The Game That Kills
1934
Half a Sinner
8/1
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
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Half a Sinner
1930
Abraham Lincoln
5.5/42
An episodic dramatization of the 18th President of the United States' life, including his early years, affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Tod...
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Abraham Lincoln
1930
Renegades
5/4
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 reg...
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Renegades
1933
The Keyhole
5/17
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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The Keyhole
1934
Sixteen Fathoms Deep
4/4
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.
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Sixteen Fathoms Deep
1930
Brothers
9/1
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, bu...
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Brothers
1931
Women Go on Forever
10/1
In a New York boarding house, owner Daisy Bowman becomes romantically involved with new tenant Jake while among the other residents taxi driver Eddie,...
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Women Go on Forever
1929
Square Shoulders
8/1
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. What he doesn't know is that his...
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Square Shoulders
1932
Stowaway
6.5/2
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. On the street and bei...
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Stowaway
1933
Picture Snatcher
6.852/27
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Picture Snatcher
1929
Song of Love
4.667/3
Tom and Anna Gibson, along with their little boy, Buddy, form a successful vaudeville song-and-dance act and a happy family. Anna, however, is worried...
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