Frank Darien

Frank Darien

Birthday: 1876-03-18

Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Biography: Frank Darien was an American actor. He appeared in 225 films and between 1915 and 1951.

Movies

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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Belle Starr's Daughter
Belle Starr's Daughter

The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find ...

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The Woman on the Beach
The Woman on the Beach

A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seduct...

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The Whip Hand
The Whip Hand

A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge....

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Love Finds Andy Hardy
Love Finds Andy Hardy

Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time....

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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were exp...

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The Mummy's Tomb
The Mummy's Tomb

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all...

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The Perfect Clue
The Perfect Clue

Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her fath...

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Born to Be Wild
Born to Be Wild

Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking c...

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Fashions of 1934
Fashions of 1934

When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Sna...

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I Take This Woman
I Take This Woman

A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits h...

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Wedding Present
Wedding Present

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involve...

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Cassidy of Bar 20
Cassidy of Bar 20

Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico ca...

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Captain January
Captain January

A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A ...

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Professional Sweetheart
Professional Sweetheart

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponso...

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The House on 56th Street
The House on 56th Street

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a d...

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Big Business Girl
Big Business Girl

A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfrie...

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Bluebeard
Bluebeard

Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before ...

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Trapped by G-Men
Trapped by G-Men

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men....

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Service with a Smile
Service with a Smile

Walter Webb, thinking his gas station has been destroyed, describes a "super-deluxe" gas station run...

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From Headquarters
From Headquarters

When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of ...

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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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King of the Texas Rangers
King of the Texas Rangers

Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network...

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Western Jamboree
Western Jamboree

Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch w...

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Panama Patrol
Panama Patrol

A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal....

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Kiss and Tell
Kiss and Tell

Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-ye...

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Here Comes Cookie
Here Comes Cookie

A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performe...

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Hello, Everybody!
Hello, Everybody!

The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sis...

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Magic Town
Magic Town

Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview...

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Roxie Hart
Roxie Hart

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audienc...

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The Fabulous Suzanne
The Fabulous Suzanne

Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when ...

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Prison Break
Prison Break

Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemp...

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Prosperity
Prosperity

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry....

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The Tip-Off
The Tip-Off

A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs...

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Five Star Final
Five Star Final

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a se...

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Behind the Evidence
Behind the Evidence

Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Ma...

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Blame It on Love
Blame It on Love

A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges....

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The Miracle Man
The Miracle Man

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leade...

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The Accused
The Accused

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense....

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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the countr...

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Wine, Women and Horses
Wine, Women and Horses

An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife....

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The Story of Temple Drake
The Story of Temple Drake

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out,...

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Bad Girl
Bad Girl

A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of co...

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Gentle Annie
Gentle Annie

The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the c...

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Arkansas Judge
Arkansas Judge

Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accu...

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Lilly Turner
Lilly Turner

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a car...

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Sutter's Gold
Sutter's Gold

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush....

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Crossroads - U.S.A.
Crossroads - U.S.A.

Group of people trapped in gas station during a storm teach a young man valuable life lessons....

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His Greatest Gamble
His Greatest Gamble

A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold....

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The Long Shot
The Long Shot

A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thorough...

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Here Comes the Band
Here Comes the Band

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an un...

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The Public Defender
The Public Defender

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled...

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Stand Up and Fight
Stand Up and Fight

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom....

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Everything’s Rosie
Everything’s Rosie

A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ro...

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Journal of a Crime
Journal of a Crime

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime....

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his...

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Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until ...

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Dark Victory
Dark Victory

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few...

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At the Circus
At the Circus

Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Cart...

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Two Thoroughbreds
Two Thoroughbreds

A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own....

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That's My Man
That's My Man

A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he s...

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Blackmail
Blackmail

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him....

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Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his gir...

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The Flying Saucer
The Flying Saucer

The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his "nurse," to investi...

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A Stolen Life
A Stolen Life

A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love....

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Viva Cisco Kid
Viva Cisco Kid

Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father i...

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Sis Hopkins
Sis Hopkins

An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical....

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Here I Am a Stranger
Here I Am a Stranger

The story of a young man's discovery of his father....

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The Panther's Claw
The Panther's Claw

The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is be...

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A Likely Story
A Likely Story

A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself t...

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Arizona
Arizona

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when ...

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Maisie
Maisie

Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer cl...

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Time Out for Romance
Time Out for Romance

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his l...

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Undercover Man
Undercover Man

An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally ...

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Under Fiesta Stars
Under Fiesta Stars

Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employ...

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Syncopation
Syncopation

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love....

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The Sea of Grass
The Sea of Grass

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by t...

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Bad Bascomb
Bad Bascomb

A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl....

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Jim Hanvey, Detective
Jim Hanvey, Detective

Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance com...

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Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star....

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Brides Are Like That
Brides Are Like That

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his n...

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Jezebel
Jezebel

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who car...

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The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of f...

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Marie Galante
Marie Galante

On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bo...

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Nurse to You!
Nurse to You!

Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on...

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Old Ironsides
Old Ironsides

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Iron...

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Life Begins at Forty
Life Begins at Forty

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to to...

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Life Begins
Life Begins

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward...

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Jackass Mail
Jackass Mail

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father....

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Satan Met a Lady
Satan Met a Lady

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress...

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Sabotage
Sabotage

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to ...

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Hurricane Smith
Hurricane Smith

Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a ne...

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Fair Warning
Fair Warning

In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealt...

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Wide Open Town
Wide Open Town

Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, ...

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Early to Bed
Early to Bed

Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before...

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Way Back Home
Way Back Home

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own....

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Big Town Girl
Big Town Girl

When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Maske...

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Get Hep to Love
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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The Great American Mug
The Great American Mug

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout ...

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The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to d...

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The Gay Bride
The Gay Bride

Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectanc...

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The Little Colonel
The Little Colonel

After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Con...

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Alias Nick Beal
Alias Nick Beal

After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul...

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The Big Shot
The Big Shot

A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to ...

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The Good Old Soak
The Good Old Soak

A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction....

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Dames
Dames

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show....

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The Secret Heart
The Secret Heart

Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death ...

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The Adventures of Mark Twain
The Adventures of Mark Twain

A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain....

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Baby Face
Baby Face

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins t...

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Hellzapoppin'
Hellzapoppin'

Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together...

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Public Hero Number 1
Public Hero Number 1

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which ...

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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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Now We'll Tell One
Now We'll Tell One

Charley unwittingly puts on a belt that has the power to change the wearer's personality....

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Tarzan and the Amazons
Tarzan and the Amazons

A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women....

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Anchors Aweigh
Anchors Aweigh

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affai...

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You Gotta Stay Happy
You Gotta Stay Happy

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face th...

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Trouble for Two
Trouble for Two

A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London dis...

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Hello, Frisco, Hello
Hello, Frisco, Hello

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk ...

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Appointment for Love
Appointment for Love

Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymo...

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Okay, America!
Okay, America!

A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell....

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The Last Installment
The Last Installment

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a criminal idolizes the life of a famous gangster - una...

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Mad Love
Mad Love

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's han...

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Female
Female

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of bu...

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Union Depot
Union Depot

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr...

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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Mystery of the Wax Museum

A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed hi...

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The Gang's All Here
The Gang's All Here

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific....

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Out of the Fog
Out of the Fog

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen ...

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Smarty
Smarty

Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being...

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Meet the Stewarts
Meet the Stewarts

A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget....

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Gallant Journey
Gallant Journey

Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio o...

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None Shall Escape
None Shall Escape

Through flashbacks going as far back as the end of WW1, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed ...

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Tall in the Saddle
Tall in the Saddle

When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been...

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That Certain Woman
That Certain Woman

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval....

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