Buddy Messinger
Birthday: 1907-10-26
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Biography: Buddy Messinger (born Melvin Joseph Messinger; 26 October 1907 – 25 October 1965) was an American actor who was cast in substantial roles in dozens of films during the silent film era. He began his career as a jovial chubby child actor. With the advent of sound films he was relegated mostly to bit parts.
Movies
Jinx
The circus comes to town, and the town's orphans are treated to a day at the circus. The circus trou...
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Shadows
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deepl...
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When Love Comes
Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl a...
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A Lady of Chance
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama....
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Three of a Kind
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama ...
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Cheer Up and Smile
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fi...
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The Old Nest
A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and ...
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son o...
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Keyhole Katie
A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before it...
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An All American Toothache
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to pr...
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Hold That Kiss
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. C...
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College Holiday
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy....
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to k...
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The Devil Is a Sissy
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-wel...
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Four Girls in White
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They...
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Abysmal Brute
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great stren...
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Stage Mother
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls eve...
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Idiot's Delight
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are close...
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Sergeant Madden
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime....
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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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The Housekeeper's Daughter
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop....
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What an Eye
Buddy, an office-boy in a newspaper plant, puts on long trousers to get a man's-size job on the pape...
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Wings Over Honolulu
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii....
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Modern Times
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...
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Libeled Lady
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she f...
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Hold Back the Dawn
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota sys...
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Crime by Night
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy....
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Dumb-Belles
Two henpecked men run off and pretend to be athletic trainers in order to get jobs in a weight loss ...
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Turnabout
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants the...
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Hullabaloo
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic....
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Keeping Company
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents)...
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Love Thy Neighbor
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars p...
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Edgar and the Teacher's Pet
The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the trium...
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Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich ...
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Edgar's Hamlet
Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have nev...
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Edgar Takes the Cake
Edgar delivers a cake to his sister's ill friend. The cake arrives safely, but not sound, and Edgar ...
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Edgar's Sunday Courtship
On the way to Sunday school, Edgar meets the lady of his heart--and his hated rival. The Sunday-scho...
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Edgar's Jonah Day
Edgar is called upon by his mother to execute a disagreeable errand, has to mind his troublesome you...
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Edgar's Feast Day
Episode 11 of the series of 2-reel comedies “The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy”....
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The Hoodlum
A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, whe...
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Hot Stuff
An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man....
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He...
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautif...
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The Affairs of Martha
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids i...
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Brooklyn Orchid
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort....
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Midnight Madonna
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and i...
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The Whispered Name
Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is go...
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Penrod and Sam
Penrod and his gang don't want to let neighborhood "goodie-goodie" Georgie Bassett into their club, ...
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Young Ideas
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine stor...
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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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The Flirt
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to R...
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Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pi...
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Edgar's Little Saw
Among other Christmas gifts, Edgar receives a tool chest containing a little saw. While he is out di...
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Edgar Camps Out
Edgar is about to lose the lady of his heart because the Bates boys have been given a complete campi...
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Edgar, the Detective
Edgar buys a badge and a book of instructions and starts to learn the detective business. When he an...
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Edgar's Country Cousin
Edgar from the city goes to visit his country cousin and at once begins to impress him and his gang ...
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Baba, a poor Turkish wood chopper, discovers that a robbers' cave, concealed in the mountains th...
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Devil's Doorway
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people....
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The Babes in the Woods
A story within a story, including a passage from Hansel and Gretel....
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Fan Fan
The Japanese emperor's son, Hanki Pan (Francis Carpenter) is in love with beautiful Fan Fan (Virgini...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack c...
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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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Too Hot to Handle
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi...
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Trifling with Honor
Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his moth...
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