Purnell Pratt
Birthday: 1885-10-19
Place of Birth: Bethel, Illinois, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Purnell Pratt (October 20, 1885 – July 25, 1941) was an American film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1914 and 1941. He was born in Bethel, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California.
Movies
Scarface
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
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Under Suspicion
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his milli...
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A Shriek in the Night
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the ...
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My Wife's Relatives
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordere...
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Grand Hotel
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache....
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Name the Woman
The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, b...
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Alibi
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When ...
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Doctors Don't Tell
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for night...
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Five Star Final
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a se...
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The Locked Door
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character...
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The Unwritten Law
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother w...
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The Trespasser
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family...
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The Winning Ticket
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife....
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Bachelor Apartment
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, H...
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The Casino Murder Case
After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, a...
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A Night at the Opera
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin...
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The Furies
Fifi Sands, whose husband is constantly unfaithful, is prevented from obtaining a divorce by Bedlow,...
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Emma
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with rese...
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Behind the Green Lights
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal l...
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Dance, Fools, Dance
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling a...
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Come On, Rangers
A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot...
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The Roadhouse Murder
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper...
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The Mystery Squadron
Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister ...
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The Public Defender
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled...
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Pick-up
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caug...
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Ladies Crave Excitement
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures....
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Road to Paradise
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels...
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Midnight Alibi
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his gir...
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Murder with Pictures
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the sto...
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Painted Faces
After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a t...
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The Witching Hour
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his...
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The Gay Diplomat
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit...
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The Return of Sophie Lang
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her ow...
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Crimson Romance
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria...
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Common Clay
Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with th...
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Traveling Husbands
A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit....
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Grand Ole Opry
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crook...
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Up for Murder
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, ...
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The Chief
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to be...
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Murder Goes to College
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the un...
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False Faces
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours...
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The Hell Cat
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a ...
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Death Flies East
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decid...
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The Spider
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening...
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Ladies of the Big House
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder...
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Wedding Present
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involve...
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Paid
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plot...
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High, Wide and Handsome
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in tow...
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Red Haired Alibi
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the...
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Pot o' Gold
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. B...
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The Plainsman
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner....
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The Band Plays On
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars....
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Lawful Larceny
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedica...
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Rendezvous at Midnight
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especiall...
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Dancing Feet
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate part...
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The Secret Witness
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a s...
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The Gorilla
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an a...
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The Famous Ferguson Case
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following e...
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On With the Show!
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters,...
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The Prodigal
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy...
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Midshipman Jack
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S....
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Hollywood Boulevard
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of ...
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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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$1,000 a Minute
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend ...
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I Cover the Waterfront
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter....
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King of Gamblers
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for...
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Waterfront Lady
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he be...
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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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Beyond Victory
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind....
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Rosalie
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an Europ...
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Skyscraper Souls
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his...
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Fast Life
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to de...
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Is Everybody Happy?
It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was writt...
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Diamond Jim
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady....
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The Silver Horde
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll....
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Midnight Lovers
During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called bac...
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Headline Shooter
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot....
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Join the Marines
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Ma...
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A Night at the Opera
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin...
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Lady Be Careful
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware retu...
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Frisco Waterfront
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the poll...
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A Wicked Woman
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's cond...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher ta...
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Magnificent Obsession
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death....
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Wives Never Know
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. ...
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The Public Enemy
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life...
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The Billion Dollar Scandal
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved wi...
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Ringside Maisie
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confide...
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Sinners' Holiday
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story inv...
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The Lady Who Lied
During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with F...
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School for Girls
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered...
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Let's Make a Million
A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket....
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Puttin' on the Ritz
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are....
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Straight from the Shoulder
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son....
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Colorado Sunset
When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing ...
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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nons...
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Thru Different Eyes
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body wa...
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Phantom Police
Phantom Police is a 1926 American action film serial directed by Robert A. Dillon....
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