Paul Stanton
Birthday: 1884-12-20
Place of Birth: Sterling, Illinois, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Stanton (1884-1955) was an American character actor and bit-part player in American films. Originally from Illinois, he appeared in about 130 films between 1918 and 1952, mostly in supporting roles. He often portrayed authoritarian figures like judges, attorneys, managers, officials and doctors.
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I Love You Again
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and love...
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Dimples
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains...
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Charlie Chan at the Circus
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investi...
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Undercover Doctor
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, high...
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Whipsaw
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who...
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Air Raid Wardens
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs ...
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Shadow of a Woman
Brooke's brief marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that he is starvin...
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying ...
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Across the Pacific
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-mart...
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Whistling in the Dark
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenou...
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The Night of January 16th
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-...
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Her Price
Marcia Calhoun, a talented but penniless singer, leaves her Southern home hoping to study opera in N...
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Flight for Freedom
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles ...
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Kentucky Moonshine
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show....
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The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paral...
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Welcome Stranger
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and yo...
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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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Here Comes Trouble
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the p...
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Wednesday's Child
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced....
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Crime of the Century
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a...
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Youth on Parole
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get ...
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Law of the Underworld
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connectio...
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Pacific Blackout
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. U...
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Crack-Up
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage....
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Should Ladies Behave
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daugh...
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Strange Alibi
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identit...
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Half Angel
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Re...
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap ...
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Sing, Baby, Sing
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed i...
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Private Number
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son whi...
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Midnight Taxi
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeit...
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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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Stella Dallas
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter....
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marr...
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His Greatest Gamble
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold....
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The Big Store
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store,...
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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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Strangers All
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children....
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Champagne Charlie
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry....
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They Shall Have Music
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step f...
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Bachelor Mother
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a fo...
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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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The Road to Glory
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are kille...
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Portia on Trial
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lo...
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He ...
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Night Waitress
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Fra...
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Sister Kenny
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences gr...
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Sins of Man
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo...
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The Awful Truth
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start underm...
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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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Her Husband's Affairs
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constr...
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Red Salute
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy ...
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Paid to Dance
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances...
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Rascals
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a soc...
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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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20,000 Men a Year
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boos...
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It Can't Last Forever
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the ...
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Army Girl
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martia...
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Remember the Day
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him ...
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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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Dangerous Number
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his fo...
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Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...
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You're in the Army Now
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge....
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A Million Me's
Lee at the piano singing a fragment of a blues when a young man enters her home with a pile of recor...
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It Could Happen to You
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the c...
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So's Your Uncle
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself p...
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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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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pr...
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Once Upon a Time
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set o...
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Another Face
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new ...
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The Women in His Life
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ...
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Every Saturday Night
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through...
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Crash Dive
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant ra...
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The Public Pays
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is bro...
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Public Deb No. 1
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo...
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Lucky Jordan
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to ...
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The Fountainhead
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite...
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Always Together
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical...
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Black Legion
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining ...
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A Star Is Born
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at...
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The Magnificent Dope
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure...
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Queen of the Mob
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns...
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The Longest Night
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner....
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Stand Up and Cheer!
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in ord...
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of Presid...
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Shine on Harvest Moon
Biographical movie about the early 20th century broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth....
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The Farmer's Daughter
Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show w...
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