Oliver Blake
Birthday: 1905-04-04
Place of Birth: Centralia, Illinois, USA
Biography: Character actor with a wildly distinctive face. Used real name Oliver Prickett for stage work, especially at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where he was a longtime fixture and teacher and where his brother was managing director. Used stage name Oliver Blake for scores of small film and television roles. Brother-in-law of actress Maudie Prickett. He died on 12 February 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Movies
Julius Caesar
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassi...
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The Lemon Drop Kid
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid ...
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Conflict
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll...
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The Guilty
Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead....
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Bells Are Ringing
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She lis...
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The Senator Was Indiscreet
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Pre...
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Blonde Alibi
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspic...
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an ...
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House of Wax
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly r...
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The Stooge
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act...
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Giant from the Unknown
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scient...
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The Cobweb
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but...
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The Doughgirls
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occu...
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Brigadoon
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn t...
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Colorado Territory
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recogn...
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Moonrise
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one ...
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Face to Face
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by ...
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Wake Up and Dream
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother....
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Let's Dance
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her weal...
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Casanova's Big Night
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to roma...
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Son of Paleface
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found....
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of ...
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Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...
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Cry of the City
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still ...
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Shed No Tears
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance pol...
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. J...
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A Medal for Benny
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is t...
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Up in Arms
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-b...
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Gypsy Wildcat
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's...
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Greenwich Village
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue....
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Drum Beat
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and...
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Christmas Holiday
A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel....
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Feudin' Fools
Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive...
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Castle in the Desert
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle...
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Raintree County
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted fr...
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The Walls of Jericho
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman...
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom'...
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My Reputation
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems...
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Merton of the Movies
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studio...
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Out of the Past
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and f...
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Hell's Outpost
A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine....
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Inside Job
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who k...
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Room for One More
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innoce...
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Summer Holiday
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neigh...
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The Greatest Show on Earth
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though t...
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The Mighty McGurk
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from Eng...
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy rac...
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Susan Slept Here
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gof...
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Saboteur
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of sta...
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The Pirate
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Maco...
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New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City s...
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Get Hep to Love
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her...
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Design for Scandal
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry bos...
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to colleg...
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help ru...
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Father of the Bride
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she annou...
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Corvette K-225
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....
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A Woman's Secret
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at...
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Let's Live a Little
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a s...
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Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
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The Iron Mistress
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother,...
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The Miracle of the Bells
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she ...
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Alias Jesse James
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in que...
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Shadow of the Thin Man
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigatin...
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The Challenge
Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of ...
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The Fearmakers
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and t...
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Fancy Pants
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refi...
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Rhubarb
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The...
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So You're Going to Be a Father
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father...
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Reunion in France
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed ...
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The Seven Little Foys
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with a...
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The Long, Long Trailer
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humoro...
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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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Chain of Circumstance
A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause ...
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The Thin Man Goes Home
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation....
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Come Fill the Cup
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. A...
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