Preston Foster
Birthday: 1900-08-22
Place of Birth: Pitman, New Jersey, USA
Biography: Preston Foster (August 24, 1900 – July 14, 1970) was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley. Some of his notable films include: Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Annie Oakley (1935), The Last Days of Pompeii (also 1935), The Informer (1935) (as the head of the organization), and My Friend Flicka (1943). He starred on the television drama, Waterfront (1954–1955), playing the role of Captain John Herrick. Foster has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was sometimes credited in movies as Preston S. Foster. His first wife was stage actress Gertrude Warren (1926–1945; divorced). He had one daughter, Stephanie. He was married to his second wife, actress Sheila Darcy, from 1946 until his death. During World War II while serving with the United States Coast Guard, he rose to the rank of Captain, Temporary Reserve. He eventually held the honorary rank of Commodore in the U.S. Coast Guard. After the war and before his productive movie career, Foster became a singer of some note. In 1948 Foster created a trio with himself, Gene Leis and Foster’s wife, actress Sheila Darcy. Gene arranged the songs, and they played on radio and in clubs, appearing with Orrin Tucker, Peggy Ann Garner and Rita Hayworth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Preston Foster, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Doctor X
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer....
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Kansas City Confidential
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery....
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American Empire
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking the...
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Sensation Hunters
Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pac...
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Strange Triangle
In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to...
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Inside Job
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who k...
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I Shot Jesse James
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry...
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...
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The Big Night
A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the...
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Ramrod
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she dete...
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I, the Jury
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to...
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Guadalcanal Diary
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the prep...
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Ladies They Talk About
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot....
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The Valley of Decision
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family ...
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Annie Oakley
Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show....
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The Informer
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperat...
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Tomahawk
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and...
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The Hunted
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims sh...
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The Time Travelers
Research scientists experimenting with time warps are accidentally propelled forward into an unbeara...
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Classification of Enlisted Men
War Department documentary short focusing on four inductees into the US Army....
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My Friend Flicka
Ken McLaughlin is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch. When...
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The Last Mile
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on de...
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Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to...
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North West Mounted Police
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) trave...
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Hoopla
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager....
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The People's Enemy
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by ...
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Law and Order
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some...
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Unfinished Business
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman...
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Heat Lightning
Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discon...
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A Gentleman After Dark
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, ...
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Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 m...
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Thunder Birds
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World...
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The Bogus Green
Advance man Brass McGannon is nearly arrested for passing counterfeit money while promoting his circ...
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Lucy and Desi
Explore the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in en...
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First Lady
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President....
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Advance to the Rear
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his ap...
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Night in New Orleans
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under int...
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Three Desperate Men
When they learn that their brother Matt Denton is awaiting trial in California, charged with train r...
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Love Before Breakfast
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for K...
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most po...
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Life Begins
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward...
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The Man from Galveston
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stem...
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Missing Evidence
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself up...
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Double Danger
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". ...
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Corruption
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for...
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You Can't Beat Love
The film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a tux...
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Sea Devils
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming of...
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The Big Cat
A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a co...
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The Arizonian
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and d...
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Muss 'em Up
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding...
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster....
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Strangers All
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children....
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The Last Days of Pompeii
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, thou...
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The Plough and the Stars
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebe...
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The Big Gusher
Hoping to strike it rich, four people--two best buddies, a blonde waitress and a cheerful oldtimer--...
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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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Tangier
In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneu...
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Moon Over Burma
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American enter...
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Submarine Patrol
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a m...
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Elmer, the Great
Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, w...
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Just Around the Corner
Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's ho...
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Wharf Angel
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar....
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Twice Blessed
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced...
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Follow the Leader
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway sh...
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His Woman
Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missiona...
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Two Seconds
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sen...
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You Said a Mouthful
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When...
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The Lady in the Morgue
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue....
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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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Everybody's Doing It
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspap...
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We Who Are About to Die
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sente...
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Secret Agent of Japan
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari....
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The Harvey Girls
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young wo...
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Geronimo
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage o...
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Heads Up
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, ...
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The Tougher They Come
Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inheri...
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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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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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Montana Territory
John Malvin , prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner and ...
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The Marshal's Daughter
To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a za...
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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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The Roundup
A woman's believed-dead cowhand beau shows up on her wedding day to cause trouble....
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The Man Who Dared
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire duri...
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Bermuda Mystery
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week....
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Chasing Danger
When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a fi...
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Society Smugglers
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected o...
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The Westland Case
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows wer...
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The Last Warning
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate t...
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The Devil's Mate
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name...
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Nothing But the Truth
A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth....
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Cafe Hostess
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to...
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Sleepers East
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to...
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King of the Wild Horses
The deep unbreakable bond between a wild stallion and the boy he rescues is chronicled in this child...
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A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles....
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder...
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Up the River
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape ...
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It's Your America
This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government speci...
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You've Got To Be Smart
A slick conman finds a singing teenage preacher in a small town in Arkansas and brings him to Los An...
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The 42nd Street Special
As part of a publicity campaign for the film 42nd Street (1933), Warner Bros. Pictures, with the ass...
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