Frank Shannon
Birthday: 1874-07-27
Place of Birth: Ireland
Biography: Frank Shannon was an Irish-born stage and screen performer. He had his film debut in The Prisoner of Zenda (1913). He is most fondly remembered as the brilliant Dr. Zarkov in the three Flash Gordon serials.
Movies
Flash Gordon
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth....
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Mannequin
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to fi...
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End of the Trail
In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he b...
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship...
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The Texas Rangers
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to ...
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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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The Phantom
Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a sc...
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The Night of Nights
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left hi...
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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming t...
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Purple Death from Outer Space
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a synd...
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Blondes at Work
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself a...
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Boomerang Bill
When New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a life of...
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Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll....
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform can...
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Black Gold
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruth...
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Woman in the Dark
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in a...
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Federal Fugitives
A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash....
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A Burglar to the Rescue
He is working on the books to cover his crimes, when a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversati...
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Rawhide Rangers
A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money ...
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Ever Since Eve
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lechero...
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Next Time I Marry
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." H...
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hosp...
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Men Without Names
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory....
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Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro...
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The Ship That Died
This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered ...
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Rocket Ship
A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale...
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You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K...
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from Ne...
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The Eagle's Brood
When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson....
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chine...
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Emergency Squad
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emer...
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Brigham Young
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transp...
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The Return of Frank James
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords....
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The Phantom
Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a sc...
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A Dispatch from Reuters
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age...
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The Prisoner of Zenda
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take...
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Road Gang
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a ...
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Over the Wall
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfr...
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The Bride's Play
A sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which...
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Mars Attacks the World
Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS. Flash Gordon fights Ming the Me...
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy ...
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The Secret Code
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial l...
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Icebound
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. H...
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The Perfect Set-Up
In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of ...
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The Adventurous Blonde
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) i...
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Torchy Gets Her Man
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwi...
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Batman
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's ...
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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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'G' Men
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused ...
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Spaceship to the Unknown
A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an effici...
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The Pace That Kills
A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them i...
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A Dangerous Profession
A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame....
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Monsieur Beaucaire
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with ...
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Crack-Up
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or th...
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Perjury
Robert Moore is the general manager of the firm run by John Gibson. After Gibson makes several visit...
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Peril from the Planet Mongo
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov return to the planet Mongo for an antidote to the Purple Dea...
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