Adrian Morris

Adrian Morris

Birthday: 1907-01-12

Place of Birth: Mount Vernon, New York, USA

Biography: Adrian Michael Morris (January 12, 1907 – November 30, 1941) was an American actor of stage and film, and a younger brother of Chester Morris. As a child, Morris performed with his family in a vaudeville act. In his short 10-year career as a Hollywood character actor, he appeared in over 70 films, including Dirigible (1931), Me and My Gal (1932), Bureau of Missing Persons (1933), The Big Shakedown (1934), The Fighting Marines (1935), The Petrified Forest (1936), There Goes the Groom (1937), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Gone With the Wind (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and Blood and Sand (1941).

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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...

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Christmas in July
Christmas in July

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the g...

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Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matu...

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Poppy
Poppy

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff...

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One Frightened Night
One Frightened Night

Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his mo...

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The Petrified Forest
The Petrified Forest

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day pennil...

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The Mayor of Hell
The Mayor of Hell

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. ...

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If I Were King
If I Were King

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his ...

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Pier 13
Pier 13

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling ...

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You and Me
You and Me

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in...

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The Fighting Marines
The Fighting Marines

Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for th...

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My American Wife
My American Wife

Ann Sothern essays the title role in My American Wife. The story opens in Smelter City, Arizona, whe...

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Age of Indiscretion
Age of Indiscretion

A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert...

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Dr. Socrates
Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed d...

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Her Husband Lies
Her Husband Lies

J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler S...

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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyll...

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The Age for Love
The Age for Love

A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and...

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The Woman I Love
The Woman I Love

In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer....

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The Big Shakedown
The Big Shakedown

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate kn...

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6,000 Enemies
6,000 Enemies

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery char...

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Blood and Sand
Blood and Sand

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who neverth...

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Wall Street Cowboy
Wall Street Cowboy

When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he ...

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Radio Patrol
Radio Patrol

About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting...

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West Point of the Air
West Point of the Air

An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer....

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King for a Night
King for a Night

A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is in...

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Tail Spin
Tail Spin

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, ...

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Union Pacific
Union Pacific

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro...

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The Return of the Cisco Kid
The Return of the Cisco Kid

In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid w...

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Rose of Washington Square
Rose of Washington Square

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets de...

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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

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Coast Guard
Coast Guard

Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Br...

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Chicken Wagon Family
Chicken Wagon Family

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam...

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The Cisco Kid and the Lady
The Cisco Kid and the Lady

An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the chil...

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Lucky Cisco Kid
Lucky Cisco Kid

Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the C...

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Fly By Night
Fly By Night

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out t...

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Me and My Gal
Me and My Gal

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley....

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The Return of Frank James
The Return of Frank James

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords....

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Castle on the Hudson
Castle on the Hudson

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....

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Florian
Florian

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by...

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Girl in 313
Girl in 313

A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one ...

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Let’s Be Ritzy
Let’s Be Ritzy

Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not....

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There Goes the Groom
There Goes the Groom

After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. ...

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Belle Starr
Belle Starr

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam...

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Bureau of Missing Persons
Bureau of Missing Persons

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police wor...

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The Pursuit of Happiness
The Pursuit of Happiness

Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in l...

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Every Day's a Holiday
Every Day's a Holiday

When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she ...

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Powdersmoke Range
Powdersmoke Range

Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it....

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Rose Bowl
Rose Bowl

Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; P...

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Tear Gas Squad
Tear Gas Squad

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman....

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Stranded
Stranded

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters....

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Wild Boys of the Road
Wild Boys of the Road

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's f...

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$1,000 a Touchdown
$1,000 a Touchdown

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each to...

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Public Deb No. 1
Public Deb No. 1

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo...

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3 Kids and a Queen
3 Kids and a Queen

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subseq...

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'G' Men
'G' Men

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused ...

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Dirigible
Dirigible

Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with ...

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