James Conaty

James Conaty

Birthday: 1895-12-13

Place of Birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Biography: James Conaty was an American screen actor whose career spanned from 1928 to his death.

Movies

The Mating Season
The Mating Season

Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her so...

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Kansas City Confidential
Kansas City Confidential

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery....

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The Cowboy and the Lady
The Cowboy and the Lady

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out ...

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Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera

Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed i...

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Without Reservations
Without Reservations

Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train...

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Blondie in the Dough
Blondie in the Dough

BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so...

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Experiment Perilous
Experiment Perilous

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him tha...

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Deception
Deception

After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer...

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I Dream Too Much
I Dream Too Much

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evenin...

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I Love a Mystery
I Love a Mystery

In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk...

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Fight for Your Lady
Fight for Your Lady

Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich...

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Flamingo Road
Flamingo Road

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town societ...

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The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best Years of Our Lives

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return...

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Romance of Radium
Romance of Radium

Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-...

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Illegal
Illegal

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find o...

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Singapore
Singapore

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, h...

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The Unknown Man
The Unknown Man

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty....

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The Lady Gambles
The Lady Gambles

When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the ti...

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Show Girl in Hollywood
Show Girl in Hollywood

Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy director...

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Frisco Lil
Frisco Lil

Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her fat...

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Weary River
Weary River

A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the ...

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A Wonderful Life
A Wonderful Life

Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen...

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Never Wave at a WAC
Never Wave at a WAC

A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of he...

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The Bad and the Beautiful
The Bad and the Beautiful

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, ...

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Girls of the Road
Girls of the Road

The story of an eclectic group of women - tramps, job-seekers and fugitives - either running from or...

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Room for One More
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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Special Investigator
Special Investigator

A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is kill...

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Vogues of 1938
Vogues of 1938

An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reis...

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It Happened in Hollywood
It Happened in Hollywood

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound....

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Blond Cheat
Blond Cheat

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan duri...

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Rich Man, Poor Girl
Rich Man, Poor Girl

A millionaire courts a working-class woman....

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Hold That Kiss
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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Fugitives for a Night
Fugitives for a Night

A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive....

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Bright Victory
Bright Victory

A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life....

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Stronger Than Desire
Stronger Than Desire

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing....

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Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Who Killed Doc Robbin?

A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a m...

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Johnny Stool Pigeon
Johnny Stool Pigeon

A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate....

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Gilda
Gilda

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss....

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They Won't Believe Me
They Won't Believe Me

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to ...

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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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Buck Rogers
Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught ...

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Made for Each Other
Made for Each Other

A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship....

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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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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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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures la...

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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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Good Girls Go to Paris
Good Girls Go to Paris

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor ...

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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation

Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the ...

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Everything Happens at Night
Everything Happens at Night

Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter....

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Holiday Affair
Holiday Affair

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, ...

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Slightly Honorable
Slightly Honorable

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name....

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Espionage Agent
Espionage Agent

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo...

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The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally...

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Kentucky
Kentucky

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby...

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All the King's Men
All the King's Men

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wi...

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Missing Witnesses
Missing Witnesses

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City....

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The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... b...

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Race Street
Race Street

A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend....

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The Judge Steps Out
The Judge Steps Out

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook....

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Glory Alley
Glory Alley

A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea....

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Circumstantial Evidence
Circumstantial Evidence

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an...

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Woman Against Woman
Woman Against Woman

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence...

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Wintertime
Wintertime

Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After No...

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Hangover Square
Hangover Square

When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in hi...

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Woman in Hiding
Woman in Hiding

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in...

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He Married His Wife
He Married His Wife

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony ...

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Broadway Melody of 1940
Broadway Melody of 1940

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as...

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The Fighting 69th
The Fighting 69th

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the ...

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and ...

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The Earl of Chicago
The Earl of Chicago

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Ear...

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Edison, the Man
Edison, the Man

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...

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Secrets of the Lone Wolf
Secrets of the Lone Wolf

Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers....

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Laura
Laura

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating....

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The Killers
The Killers

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, ...

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Out of the Past
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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The Caine Mutiny
The Caine Mutiny

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first office...

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Boom Town
Boom Town

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov...

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Rocketship X-M
Rocketship X-M

Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A space...

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Two in the Dark
Two in the Dark

Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventu...

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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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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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City for Conquest
City for Conquest

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug...

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The Man with Nine Lives
The Man with Nine Lives

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an e...

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Hazard
Hazard

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before h...

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It's in the Air
It's in the Air

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants ...

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Lady with Red Hair
Lady with Red Hair

An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top....

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My Love Came Back
My Love Came Back

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arran...

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Angels Over Broadway
Angels Over Broadway

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-...

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Red, Hot and Blue
Red, Hot and Blue

In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water w...

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Too Many Husbands
Too Many Husbands

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for ju...

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An Angel from Texas
An Angel from Texas

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show....

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Affair in Trinidad
Affair in Trinidad

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer....

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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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Road to Singapore
Road to Singapore

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer....

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Johnny Apollo
Johnny Apollo

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then tur...

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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Thank Your Lucky Stars

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....

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Let's Do It Again
Let's Do It Again

Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alle...

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The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...

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Sinner Take All
Sinner Take All

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing f...

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The Fleet's In
The Fleet's In

Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous ...

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Forty Little Mothers
Forty Little Mothers

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's scho...

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Silver Queen
Silver Queen

A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and h...

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A Night at the Ritz
A Night at the Ritz

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef....

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My Favorite Spy
My Favorite Spy

The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy miss...

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I Wake Up Screaming
I Wake Up Screaming

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitre...

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The Big Game
The Big Game

A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene....

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They're Always Caught
They're Always Caught

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of...

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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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Champagne for Caesar
Champagne for Caesar

When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters'...

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A Woman's Secret
A Woman's Secret

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at...

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Penrod's Double Trouble
Penrod's Double Trouble

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical...

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Crash Dive
Crash Dive

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant ra...

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Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait

Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is ...

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December 7th
December 7th

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering ...

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Mission to Moscow
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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Duffy of San Quentin
Duffy of San Quentin

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse....

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Undercurrent
Undercurrent

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his...

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The Affairs of Susan
The Affairs of Susan

Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three form...

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Born to Be Bad
Born to Be Bad

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get wh...

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The Secret Fury
The Secret Fury

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married...

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Bunco Squad
Bunco Squad

Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, ...

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Strange Affair
Strange Affair

Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet h...

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Strange Impersonation
Strange Impersonation

A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her sche...

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Walk Softly, Stranger
Walk Softly, Stranger

A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter....

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Pretty Baby
Pretty Baby

A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on t...

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If You Could Only Cook
If You Could Only Cook

An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion....

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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite...

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The Truth About Youth
The Truth About Youth

A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him....

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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...

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Bright Leaf
Bright Leaf

Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market....

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The Major and the Minor
The Major and the Minor

Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train...

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Boots and Saddles
Boots and Saddles

Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real wester...

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Club Havana
Club Havana

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fas...

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Marked Woman
Marked Woman

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste...

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The Time of Their Lives
The Time of Their Lives

Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th cen...

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Lured
Lured

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared...

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Scarface
Scarface

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...

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Love Affair
Love Affair

Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses....

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Bedside Manner
Bedside Manner

A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle...

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Black Market Babies
Black Market Babies

Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket ...

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Small Town Girl
Small Town Girl

Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speedin...

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Serenade
Serenade

A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make ...

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One Rainy Afternoon
One Rainy Afternoon

Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young...

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Goodbye, My Fancy
Goodbye, My Fancy

Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a stu...

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This Woman Is Dangerous
This Woman Is Dangerous

A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the h...

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The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they disco...

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Young Widow
Young Widow

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war....

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Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautif...

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The Chance of a Lifetime
The Chance of a Lifetime

A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wart...

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The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim

After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her b...

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The Cobweb
The Cobweb

Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but...

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Eyes of the Navy
Eyes of the Navy

Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators throu...

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Maisie Goes to Reno
Maisie Goes to Reno

A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife....

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The Big Street
The Big Street

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses...

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Carefree
Carefree

Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persu...

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Call Me Madam
Call Me Madam

Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy....

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Thrill of a Romance
Thrill of a Romance

A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business mee...

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The Locket
The Locket

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters....

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Nora Prentiss
Nora Prentiss

Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a stree...

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Make Way for Tomorrow
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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Motorboat Mamas
Motorboat Mamas

Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short....

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Easter Parade
Easter Parade

On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affec...

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Destination Gobi
Destination Gobi

A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to s...

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Johnny Angel
Johnny Angel

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death....

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Hold That Blonde!
Hold That Blonde!

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a g...

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Living It Up
Living It Up

Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he fi...

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The Long, Long Trailer
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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Rhubarb
Rhubarb

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The...

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The Toast of New Orleans
The Toast of New Orleans

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman c...

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Possessed
Possessed

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor th...

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Ransom!
Ransom!

A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers....

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The Steel Trap
The Steel Trap

Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday a...

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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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The Next Voice You Hear...
The Next Voice You Hear...

The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preemp...

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Christmas Holiday
Christmas Holiday

A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel....

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