Maurice Cass
Birthday: 1884-10-12
Place of Birth: Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
Biography: From Wikipedia Maurice Cass was a character actor in numerous films and television shows. Born in Lithuania, he came to the US to pursue an acting career. His slight build, frizzy hair and pince-nez glasses cast him as the "absent minded professor" or eccentric scientist type in many of his films, such as the character who discovers the element kryptonite in Adventures of Superman. He is best remembered for his role as Professor Newton in the 1954 TV science fiction series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.
Movies
Charlie Chan at the Opera
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting r...
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The Skull Murder Mystery
When a skeleton is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tena...
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The Baroness and the Butler
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government....
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Menace from Outer Space
A nontheatrical (16mm) film comprise of three contiguous episodes of the TV series "Rocky Jones, Sp...
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Mrs. Parkington
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in fr...
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The Catman of Paris
When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government...
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King of Burlesque
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway...
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an A...
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Crash of Moons
A three-part episode from the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger edited together and released as a ...
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Gold Diggers in Paris
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite th...
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Danger – Love at Work
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina...
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Professional Soldier
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and th...
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Once More, My Darling
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical je...
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Federal Operator 99
Jerry Blake (aka Federal Operator 99) teams-up with Joyce Kingston to thwart the plans of escaped cr...
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When Were You Born
A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police loo...
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Two for Tonight
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days....
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Life Begins in College
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it th...
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Exposed
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue...
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Exiled to Shanghai
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in ...
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Spook Busters
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and g...
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Gangs of New York
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate....
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Manhunt in Space
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger fights space pirates over an invisible spaceship....
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We're Not Married!
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later...
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Too Many Women
Thanks to a fib intended to ward off an annoying real estate developer, a young bachelor finds himse...
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him....
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Josette
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the ...
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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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Blood and Sand
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who neverth...
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Week-End in Havana
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is s...
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The Affairs of Annabel
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve ...
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Fatal Lady
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of...
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The Amazing Mr. Williams
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secret...
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Naughty But Nice
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-to...
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Easy to Look At
In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in t...
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The Great Man Votes
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to...
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Second Fiddle
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi...
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The Lady Escapes
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a Euro...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
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Follow Me Quietly
When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim...
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Balalaika
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activiti...
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf....
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Whispering Smith Speaks
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. ...
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Sunset Trail
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ran...
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Big Town Girl
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Maske...
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A Desperate Adventure
In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his wel...
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The Notorious Lone Wolf
Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft....
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This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well ...
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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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The Son of Monte Cristo
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil Gen...
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Florian
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by...
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Cross-Country Romance
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco....
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No, No, Nanette
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy fr...
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Making the Headlines
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief tr...
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Champagne Waltz
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its ...
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Big Business
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil...
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Nothing Ever Happens
In this parody of Grand Hotel, despite a dying man's efforts to enjoy his final days, a jewel thief ...
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I've Always Loved You
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maest...
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Blondie Goes to College
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Compan...
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Confession
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is reveal...
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Give Us This Night
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout...
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Something to Live For
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alc...
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Forbidden Moon
Rocky Jones is dispatched to investigate an SOS received from a space station. He finds that the sta...
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Walking Down Broadway
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod...
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The Magician's Daughter
A magician's daughter falls in love with a reporter for a magazine. When the magazine publishes a st...
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A Girl's Best Years
A woman reporter is hired by an author-songwriter to help him avoid additional breach-of-promise sui...
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High School
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new su...
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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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Song of My Heart
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair....
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Her Lucky Night
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their r...
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Sorrowful Jones
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her fath...
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Angel on My Shoulder
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up f...
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Two Sisters from Boston
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New...
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Paris Underground
Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie ...
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The Lone Wolf in Paris
Former jewel thief Michael Lanyard toys with a princess and a grand duke....
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She Gets Her Man
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer....
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She Had to Eat
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to...
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The Gypsy Moon
Rocky Jones and his buddies happen upon two strange moons orbiting each other. They soon discover th...
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Beyond the Moon
This outer space adventure marked the debut of Rocky Jones and his Space Rangers. Two of Rocky's all...
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Silver Needle in the Sky
Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha....
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The Girl from Manhattan
A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that h...
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Charley's Aunt
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt fr...
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Pepper
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take he...
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Everybody's Old Man
An elderly businessman thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's c...
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Murder on a Bridle Path
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper...
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So You Want to Be a Musician
Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument....
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The Last Train from Madrid
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War....
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The Chocolate Soldier
Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. ...
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Superman's Peril
Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episode #47 ("The Golden Vultur...
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