Gene Roth
Birthday: 1903-01-08
Place of Birth: Redfield, South Dakota, USA
Biography: Gene Roth (January 8, 1903 – July 19, 1976) was an American film actor. Born in Redfield, South Dakota, Roth was born Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth. He appeared in over 250 films between 1922 and 1967. Roth is remembered for his portrayals of heavies and bad guys in Three Stooges short films such as Slaphappy Sleuths, Hot Stuff, Quiz Whizz, Outer Space Jitters and Pies and Guys. His most memorable role was as Russian spy Bortsch in Dunked in the Deep (1949), as well as its remake, Commotion on the Ocean (1956). His most famous line was his threat to Shemp Howard: "Give me dat fill-um!" ('fill-um' being 'film' with a Russian accent). Roth also starred in the 1953 Columbia Pictures serial The Lost Planet, as the dictator of the lost planet Ergro. He later made frequent television appearances including seven episodes of The Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1954. His Stooge film appearance was in The Three Stooges Meet Hercules. Roth was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Los Angeles, California on July 19, 1976. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Roth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Attack of the Giant Leeches
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Cimarron
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Atlantis: The Lost Continent
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I Want to Live!
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Tormented
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Framed
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Prince of Pirates
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The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
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Casino Royale
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Earth vs. the Spider
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Zombies of Mora Tau
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Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
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The Shanghai Cobra
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How the West Was Won
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Westward the Women
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The Baron of Arizona
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The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
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Sudan
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Pirates of the High Seas
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Crime, Inc.
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Shake Hands with Murder
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A Game of Death
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Marshal of Cripple Creek
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Dunked in the Deep
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Bad Men of the Border
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Slaphappy Sleuths
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The Big Sombrero
Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the busine...
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Young Dillinger
The 1930s outlaw teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter....
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Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock
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The Black Widow
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Outer Space Jitters
The stooges accompany professor Jones on an expedition to Venus, where they discover that the Venusi...
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Flight to Hong Kong
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Commotion on the Ocean
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Lost City of the Jungle
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Rosie!
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have...
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Pies and Guys
A professor attempts to win a bet by turning the stooges into gentlemen. After some lessons in etiqu...
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The Lost Planet
Dr. Ernst Grood , having already dominated the planet Ergro, now intends to take over the control of...
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Quiz Whizz
Joe wins a contest and is promptly fleeced out of his winnings by some con men. When the stooges go ...
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The Claw Monsters
An evil scientist in a remote jungle location cultivates giant crawfish (!) as a means of scaring tr...
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Target Unknown
World War II drama about members of an American bomber squadron who are captured and held prisoners ...
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Running Target
In the Colorado Rockies, Sheriff Scott, heads a posse that is after four escaped convicts, and thoug...
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Larceny in Her Heart
In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detec...
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Jesse James Rides Again
Jesse James wants to start a new life in a new location, but quickly finds himself wrapped-up in pro...
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Alaska Passage
Al Graham runs a trucking business in Alaska, America’s final frontier which confronts him with wash...
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She Demons
A couple wash up on an uncharted island where Nazi experiments are going on....
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Rogues' Gallery
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of...
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Désirée
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have...
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The Sickle or the Cross
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty ye...
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The Rebel Set
Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ...
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Homesteaders of Paradise Valley
Red Ryder convinces homesteaders to settle in Paradise Valley. Business men in nearby Central City w...
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father
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Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere
Space hero Captain Video battles the evil Vultura on the planet Atoma....
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Wetbacks
Former Coastguardsmen Jim Benson is about to lose his boat when a couple approaches him for a fishin...
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Mutiny
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fet...
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Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
Jesse James returns to Missouri, and he and brother Frank come to the aid of a young woman who owns ...
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Jack McCall, Desperado
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Chicago Calling
Bill Cannon (Dan Duryea) loses everything to alcohol: his job, his family, his self-respect. Soon af...
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Alaska Patrol
Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he trie...
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
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Four Faces West
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks abo...
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Seven Doors to Death
An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem t...
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The Sultan's Daughter
A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American....
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The Young Lions
The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII....
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Twice-Told Tales
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegge...
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The Sea of Grass
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Tower of London
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become t...
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Beyond the Pecos
Rancher Lew Remington is at odds with longtime rival Bob Randall. The two men battle over rights of ...
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Friendly Persuasion
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...
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Melody Ranch
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Ce...
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Mercy Plane
Air-race champions "Speed" Leslie and Branda Fowler combine to open a very profitable airplane servi...
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The Gallant Legion
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Fargo
The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started...
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Gold Fever
Magician-turned-actor John Calvert, previously the suave leading man of Film Classics' "Falcon" seri...
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Rockabilly Baby
The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springville with her two teenage children Jimmy and Cath...
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The Maverick
Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders....
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Ghost of Zorro
Although ostensibly the grand-son of the legendary hero, Clayton Moore's Ken Mason is little more th...
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The James Brothers of Missouri
This 12-part serial concerns the efforts of the infamous James brothers (of which Jesse was a promin...
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Oklahoma Badlands
Oklahoma Badlands is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Oliver Budge is after the Raw...
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The Valiant Hombre
The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western a...
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Sheriff of Wichita
It has been almost five years since the outlaws have stolen the army payroll from Lt. Raymond D'Arcy...
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Red Snow
An Eskimo Army Sergeant is sent to his Arctic tribal village to gather information about a mysteriou...
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The Miracle of the Hills
A minister arrives at a run-down mining town to take over the church there. He finds he has his work...
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Merry-Go-Round
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, eve...
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Strange Journey
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him f...
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The Cat Burglar
Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula...
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Smuggler's Cove
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when...
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Again Pioneers
Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp ...
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Port of Hell
The new warden of a large American harbor raises the hackles of sailors and fishermen by his strict ...
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Montana Belle
Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who fall...
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Sylvia
Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederic...
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Mysterious Island
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end ...
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Stairway to Light
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philip...
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Crazy House
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie....
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The Spider Woman
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain be...
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Here Come the Co-Eds
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publi...
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationsh...
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Interrupted Melody
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjor...
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Nightfall
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery...
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Nightmare Alley
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle ...
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Famous Ghost Stories
A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion Int...
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The Quiet Gun
A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontie...
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Canyon Passage
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty ...
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Mr. District Attorney
An assistant district attorney gets mixed-up with a woman who is working for the group that he is in...
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