Maurice Black
Birthday: 1891-01-13
Place of Birth: Queens, New York, USA
Biography: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Blondie Johnson
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to c...
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Dark Streets
Pat and Danny McGlone are identical twin brothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and...
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Little Caesar
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?...
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Flying Down to Rio
An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends...
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Framed
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years l...
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Steady Company
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Cly...
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Elmer, the Great
Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, w...
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Smart Money
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events....
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated f...
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Exclusive Story
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster be...
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The Firefly
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her...
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Murder on the Campus
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the colle...
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Julius Sizzer
After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, ...
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Broadway Babies
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in ...
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Ellis Island
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a ...
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Live and Learn
A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spo...
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Dancers in the Dark
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, t...
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No Limit
Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, a...
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Street of Chance
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with th...
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Playing Around
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich play...
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Numbered Men
Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinald...
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Wake Up and Dream
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time....
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The King Murder
A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is ...
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Twin Husbands
The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating...
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy director...
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The Carnation Kid
It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a...
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Show Folks
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault o...
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While Paris Sleeps
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques C...
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A Shriek in the Night
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the ...
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the ...
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Stars Over Broadway
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation....
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to hi...
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Bride of Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The...
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Adventure's End
Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuad...
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Under Strange Flags
Not quite a western, not quite a historical drama, Under Strange Flags is a little bit of both, and ...
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Three Legionnaires
Set in the post-WWI days in the Siberian tank town of Skzavoskanoff, U. S. Army Sergeant Chuck Conno...
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Bonnie Scotland
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't qu...
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The Daring Young Man
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a...
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Ship of Wanted Men
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws...
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Lonely Wives
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law t...
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Scarface
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
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I Cover the Waterfront
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter....
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The Runaway Bride
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then sh...
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The Californian
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing...
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The Sea God
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pac...
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The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony....
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Marked Money
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left i...
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Captain Swagger
Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills....
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West of the Pecos
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling....
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Silly Billies
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in t...
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Down to Their Last Yacht
Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sai...
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
Bill Bronson is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control...
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The Canary Comes Across
A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks li...
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Walking Down Broadway
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod...
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The Front Page
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer e...
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Night Flight
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night....
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The Game That Kills
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing mor...
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Abraham Lincoln
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining cha...
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Renegades
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderl...
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The Keyhole
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame....
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Sixteen Fathoms Deep
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival dive...
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Brothers
Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers that were separated in infancy. Bob is r...
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Women Go on Forever
In a New York boarding house, owner Daisy Bowman becomes romantically involved with new tenant Jake ...
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Square Shoulders
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, ...
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Stowaway
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the adv...
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Picture Snatcher
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist....
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