Russell Gleason
Birthday: 1908-02-06
Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon, USA
Biography: Russell Gleason (February 6, 1908 – December 25, 1945) was an American actor who began his career at the very beginning of the talking film era. Born into an acting family, one of his earliest roles was in the 1930 classic film, All Quiet on the Western Front. While still in the middle of a successful acting career, Gleason joined the U.S. Army in late 1943, during World War II. While awaiting deployment to Europe in December 1945 in New York City, Gleason fell to his death from a hotel window. He was the son of actors Lucille and James Gleason.
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Earl of Puddlestone
When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decide...
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The Covered Trailer
The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell to ...
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Condemned to Live
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pr...
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Fingers at the Window
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen...
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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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Laugh and Get Rich
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've be...
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Unexpected Uncle
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy....
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Fury Below
Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low p...
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I Can't Escape
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock...
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The Flying Fool
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if ...
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Off His Base
It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up...
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Love on a Budget
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending ...
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Officer O'Brien
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang...
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Beyond Victory
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind....
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A Trip to Paris
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jone...
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The Sophomore
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is ent...
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A Tenderfoot Goes West
Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate ...
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Seeing Hands
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities ...
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News Is Made at Night
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a co...
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Dudes Are Pretty People
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch....
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Should Husbands Work?
Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Famil...
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Money To Burn
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contes...
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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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The Higgins Family
Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentr...
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Grandpa Goes To Town
Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discover...
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Everybody's Baby
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture o...
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Hot Tip
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the po...
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Salute to the Marines
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese inva...
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his fa...
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Young as You Feel
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life....
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All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...
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Private Jones
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by tell...
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Strange Cargo
On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the pa...
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Hot Water
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous new...
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Borrowing Trouble
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a l...
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Safety in Numbers
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral d...
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Down on the Farm
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest....
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Nice Women
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love....
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Off to the Races
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps...
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Always Kickin'
When Russel Gleason is thought to have made a kick by Jim Thorpe, he is reinstated on the college te...
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The Strange Case of Clara Deane
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife does...
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Swing Shift Maisie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in...
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Seven Faces
A 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation ...
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robe...
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The Shady Lady
The Shady Lady is a 1928 sound part-talkie American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith....
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Sisters
In spite of her best efforts, a Manhattan model falls in love with a country-hick census taker, whil...
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