Granville Bates
Birthday: 1882-01-06
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography: Granville Bates (January 7, 1882 - July 8, 1940) was an American actor.
Movies
The Mortal Storm
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...
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Under Suspicion
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his milli...
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Poppy
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff...
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Midnight
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter S...
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They Won't Forget
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration D...
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Of Mice and Men
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranc...
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Times Square Playboy
A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he...
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Women in Hiding
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of tell...
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Pursuit
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of Cali...
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Larceny on the Air
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent...
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Mr. Chump
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy....
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A Man to Remember
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients....
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Woman in the Dark
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in a...
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative...
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The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-en...
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When's Your Birthday?
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes...
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Indianapolis Speedway
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather...
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Woman Wanted
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into anoth...
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Go Chase Yourself
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team....
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Mountain Justice
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prej...
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Next Time I Marry
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." H...
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The Perfect Specimen
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wic...
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Romance on the Run
A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in...
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The Sap from Syracuse
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a pro...
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Men Against the Sky
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve d...
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The Great Man Votes
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to...
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The Affairs of Annabel
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve ...
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Twelve Crowded Hours
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders....
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Beloved Enemy
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks....
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now t...
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The Plainsman
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner....
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Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil...
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Back in Circulation
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival paper...
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It Happened in Hollywood
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound....
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Jealousy
Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affai...
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Youth Takes a Fling
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to Ne...
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Young Dr. Kildare
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigo...
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Waikiki Wedding
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunte...
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Garden of the Moon
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performin...
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Naughty But Nice
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-to...
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Make Way for Tomorrow
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to t...
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who i...
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Espionage Agent
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo...
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Fast and Furious
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a ...
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Eternally Yours
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say pre...
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Pride of the Blue Grass
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion....
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Millionaire Playboy
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman....
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Wings Over Honolulu
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii....
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The Great O'Malley
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly a...
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Here Comes Trouble
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette l...
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f...
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Brother Orchid
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, h...
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Flowing Gold
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and th...
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My Favorite Wife
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her hu...
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Chatterbox
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes th...
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The Captain's Kid
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town d...
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Young Mother Hubbard
Forced by the death of her mother to care for her three brothers and sisters, little Mona Fairfax is...
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Important News
In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's fron...
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13 Hours by Air
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to Calif...
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Green Light
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's ...
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Sweepstakes Winner
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes tick...
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Honor Among Lovers
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who...
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The Good Old Soak
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction....
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Hard to Get
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill...
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The Jury's Secret
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia...
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The Smiling Lieutenant
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his vi...
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Private Affairs
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love...
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Drunk Driving
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too m...
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The Shining Hour
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it....
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Mannequin
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to fi...
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Let's Get Married
Political kingmaker Joe Quinn attempts to elevate his daughter's ambitious suitor, George Willoughby...
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The Wiser Sex
A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been fra...
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Our Neighbors - The Carters
A small town drugstore owner considers selling one of his children for money....
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The Music Goes 'Round
Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from ...
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