Alan Ladd
Birthday: 1913-09-03
Place of Birth: Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
Biography: Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film and television producer. Ladd found success in film the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in Westerns and film noirs where he was often paired with Veronica Lake, as she was one of the few Hollywood actresses shorter than he. His popularity diminished in the late 1950s, though he continued to appear in popular films until his death from cerebral edema in January 1964. Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, but later relocated to North Hollywood, California when his mother re-married. He worked briefly as a studio carpenter (as did his stepfather) and for a short time was part of the Universal Pictures studio school for actors. Intent on acting, he found work in small theatres. He had short term stints at MGM and RKO, and eventually started getting steady work on radio. Ladd began by appearing in dozens of films in small roles, including Citizen Kane , before reaching recognition for his 1942 appearance in This Gun for Hire, invigorating Hollywood's desire for gangster-crime features. His cool, unsmiling persona proved popular with wartime audiences, and he was quickly established as one of the top box office stars of the decade.
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Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man
In the 1942 film "This Gun For Hire," he was only a supporting actor. But his portrayal of a cold, r...
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Shane
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and ra...
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The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop...
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The Reluctant Dragon
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gent...
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Appointment with Danger
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to ar...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc...
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Petticoat Politics
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend ...
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Saigon
After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the e...
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Calcutta
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they inv...
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Chicago Deadline
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a ...
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The Black Knight
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the ha...
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The Black Cat
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first....
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The Carpetbaggers
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around...
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Whispering Smith
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and be...
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Boy on a Dolphin
Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an anc...
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The Blue Dahlia
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attem...
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Joan of Paris
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact t...
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This Gun for Hire
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bill...
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The Man in the Net
An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew w...
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The Glass Key
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help d...
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Gangs Inc.
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a c...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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Once in a Lifetime
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies....
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My Favorite Brunette
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective....
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The Green Hornet
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious maske...
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Cadet Girl
A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band....
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Victory
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats....
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The Howards of Virginia
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries d...
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Pigskin Parade
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college footbal...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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Great Guns
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nel...
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Souls at Sea
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave tra...
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Blame It on Love
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges....
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The Goldwyn Follies
Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from...
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Hell on Frisco Bay
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeer...
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The Red Beret
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wan...
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The Badlanders
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out ...
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O.S.S.
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (ba...
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Petunia Natural Park
As a narrator describes the scene, we watch the whole Katzenjammer clan camping in the park of the t...
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Secrets of a Nurse
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. Th...
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Murder at the Vanities
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vaniti...
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A Cry in the Night
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped....
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All Over Town
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being ha...
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Freshman Year
A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insur...
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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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Come On, Leathernecks!
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and joi...
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The Iron Mistress
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother,...
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The Proud Rebel
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word si...
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The McConnell Story
Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It...
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The Deep Six
The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars...
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son a...
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Beyond Glory
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky vi...
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Hell Below Zero
Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through, partl...
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Salty O'Rourke
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse....
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Drum Beat
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and...
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a ri...
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The Big Land
Back home in Texas following the Civil War, former Confederate officer Chad Morgan (Alan Ladd) leads...
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Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char...
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Captain Carey, U.S.A.
Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong ...
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And Now Tomorrow
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to ...
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Red Mountain
Towards the end of the American Civil War, a rebel captain flees to Colorado to join a band of South...
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Saskatchewan
Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enli...
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All the Young Men
During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Befor...
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One Foot in Hell
Mitch Barrett becomes embittered because his wife is allowed to die when he can't pay for the medici...
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13 West Street
Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work ...
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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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China
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil ...
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Branded
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by...
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Botany Bay
Based on the story of the start of Australia's colonisation. An American medical student is falsely ...
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Thunder in the East
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plan...
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Duel of Champions
A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Roman...
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Santiago
Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the C...
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Desert Legion
A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess....
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Guns of the Timberland
Logger Jim Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for new forest to cut. They locate a prime pro...
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Two Years Before the Mast
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaie...
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Skirmish on the Home Front
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization ...
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Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...
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Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich ...
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Those Were the Days!
At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year ...
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The Mysterious Miss X
After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler...
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American Portrait
This movie's preamble explains the importance of salesmanship after the great depression The industr...
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Her First Romance
A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her pre...
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Duffy's Tavern
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces t...
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f...
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In Old Missouri
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is...
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Captain Caution
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British d...
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With t...
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Tom Brown of Culver
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter....
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The Light of Western Stars
Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition acros...
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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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Wild Harvest
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson....
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I Look at You
Alan Ladd was discovered by Sue Carol for his incredible voice in radio. And then she married him. I...
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Hollywood Victory Caravan
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She pe...
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Meat and Romance
A young doctor and his home economics expert sister teach us about the benefits of meat....
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Saturday's Millions
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's fath...
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A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest wo...
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Sauce for the Gander
Working stiff Tom Tupper is stopped by a 'man on the spot' reporter during his daily commute. Asked ...
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Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation
When naval Lieutenant Phil Bowen encounters his friend, Air Forces Captain Grover, he inquires as to...
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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy a...
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Rulers of the Sea
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks...
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Military Training
Training Film No. A-3: Poor Instruction, Rifle Litter, First Aid Demonstration, Bayonet Drill, Firin...
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Unfinished Rainbows
Produced by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1940 and released in 1941 , Unfinished Rainbo...
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