James Donlan
James Donlan was an American stage and screen actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1929 and 1939.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6446 |
| Birthday | 1888-07-23 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Jim Donlan, |
1932
Thirteen Women
6.4/36
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
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Thirteen Women
1935
The Whole Town's Talking
6.873/63
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to h...
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The Whole Town's Talking
1934
Belle of the Nineties
6.1/15
Nightclub entertainer Ruby Carter moves from St. Louis to New Orleans to escape Tiger Kid. At Ace Lamont's club, she gains fame but faces drama with A...
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Belle of the Nineties
1932
The Penguin Pool Murder
5.921/19
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank...
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The Penguin Pool Murder
1933
The Mayor of Hell
7/33
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Dep...
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The Mayor of Hell
1933
I Loved a Woman
4.786/14
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in l...
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I Loved a Woman
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
1936
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
6.2/32
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1933
The Nuisance
6/5
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, un...
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The Nuisance
1933
College Humor
5.611/9
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
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College Humor
1932
Big Dame Hunting
10/1
A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!
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Big Dame Hunting
1932
Just a Pain in the Parlor
5.5/2
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
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Just a Pain in the Parlor
1935
Dr. Socrates
6.556/9
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor...
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Dr. Socrates
1931
The Good Bad Girl
6.5/4
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
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The Good Bad Girl
1931
Sporting Blood
5.4/10
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
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Sporting Blood
1931
Danger Lights
6.1/18
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job;...
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Danger Lights
1930
The Fall Guy
6.333/3
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre,...
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The Fall Guy
1930
Remote Control
5.4/8
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
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Remote Control
1935
We're Only Human
6.5/4
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
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We're Only Human
1934
Dark Hazard
5.714/7
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valeri...
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Dark Hazard
1929
Wise Girls
5.4/5
Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.
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Wise Girls
1931
Five Star Final
6.6/48
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman in...
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Five Star Final
1931
Men of Chance
6/6
A gambler falls for a fake countess.
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Men of Chance
1931
The Painted Desert
5.167/21
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitter...
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The Painted Desert
1929
Copy
6.5/2
On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.
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Copy
1935
Under Pressure
5.2/6
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs...
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Under Pressure
1936
The Plot Thickens
6.3/10
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
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The Plot Thickens
1937
It Happened in Hollywood
6.3/15
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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It Happened in Hollywood
1929
The Bishop Murder Case
5.406/16
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where h...
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The Bishop Murder Case
1930
The Sins of the Children
4.65/10
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
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The Sins of the Children
1934
A Very Honorable Guy
6/2
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to se...
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A Very Honorable Guy
1934
Hi, Nellie!
6.682/11
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a s...
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Hi, Nellie!
1933
What! No Beer?
5.667/12
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
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What! No Beer?
1932
Back Street
6.429/14
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
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Back Street
1935
Here Comes the Band
7/2
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfrie...
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Here Comes the Band
1930
Mothers Cry
5.667/3
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life o...
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Mothers Cry
1936
Boulder Dam
5.7/3
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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Boulder Dam
1938
Professor Beware
6/7
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the po...
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Professor Beware
1939
Babes in Arms
6.413/46
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wa...
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Babes in Arms
1935
Traveling Saleslady
6.063/8
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a...
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Traveling Saleslady
1931
Daybreak
4.333/6
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
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Daybreak
1934
Now I'll Tell
5.1/7
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by whic...
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Now I'll Tell
1932
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
6.389/45
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1933
Design for Living
7.1/216
Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away...
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Design for Living
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
1937
This Is My Affair
7.278/18
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Pa...
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This Is My Affair
1932
Huddle
7/6
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...
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Huddle
1934
Paris Interlude
4/6
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
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Paris Interlude
1935
Life Begins at Forty
10/1
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft fr...
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Life Begins at Forty
1935
The Case of the Curious Bride
6.024/21
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meet...
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The Case of the Curious Bride
1933
Pilgrimage
7.1/19
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
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Pilgrimage
1937
Music for Madame
6.333/3
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party w...
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Music for Madame
1933
Doctor Bull
6.667/12
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regar...
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Doctor Bull
1930
Beau Bandit
4.25/4
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and hi...
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Beau Bandit
1932
The Final Edition
6.5/4
A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.
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The Final Edition
1932
The Death Kiss
5.292/36
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...
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The Death Kiss
1931
A Free Soul
6.163/49
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically invo...
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A Free Soul
1937
Borrowing Trouble
7/2
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
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Borrowing Trouble
1935
Hot Tip
7/3
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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Hot Tip
1936
Crash Donovan
8/1
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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Crash Donovan
1933
The Working Man
6.5/8
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor;...
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The Working Man
1933
Mystery of the Wax Museum
6.5/155
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both p...
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
1929
Big News
4.5/9
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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Big News
1933
The Avenger
8/2
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
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The Avenger
1930
Night Work
6.3/10
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's...
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Night Work
1931
Dance, Fools, Dance
6.455/22
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter...
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Dance, Fools, Dance
1936
Murder on a Bridle Path
5.364/11
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper presumes her death was accidental, until his frie...
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Murder on a Bridle Path
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
1932
Air Mail
5.5/10
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
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