James Donlan

James Donlan

Birthday: 1888-07-23

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA

Biography: James Donlan was an American stage and screen actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1929 and 1939.

Movies

Thirteen Women
Thirteen Women

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is n...

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The Whole Town's Talking
The Whole Town's Talking

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late ...

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Belle of the Nineties
Belle of the Nineties

Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular...

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The Penguin Pool Murder
The Penguin Pool Murder

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker G...

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The Mayor of Hell
The Mayor of Hell

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. ...

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I Loved a Woman
I Loved a Woman

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as...

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Exclusive Story
Exclusive Story

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster be...

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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery ...

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The Nuisance
The Nuisance

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving...

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College Humor
College Humor

A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coe...

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Big Dame Hunting
Big Dame Hunting

A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!...

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Just a Pain in the Parlor
Just a Pain in the Parlor

Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to...

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Dr. Socrates
Dr. Socrates

Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed d...

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The Good Bad Girl
The Good Bad Girl

A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding youn...

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Sporting Blood
Sporting Blood

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multipl...

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Danger Lights
Danger Lights

Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight ...

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The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, ...

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Remote Control
Remote Control

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves....

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We're Only Human
We're Only Human

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster....

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Dark Hazard
Dark Hazard

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling c...

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Five Star Final
Five Star Final

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a se...

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Wise Girls
Wise Girls

Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications...

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Men of Chance
Men of Chance

A gambler falls for a fake countess....

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The Painted Desert
The Painted Desert

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash o...

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Copy
Copy

On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety is...

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Under Pressure
Under Pressure

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other...

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The Plot Thickens
The Plot Thickens

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the c...

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It Happened in Hollywood
It Happened in Hollywood

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound....

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The Bishop Murder Case
The Bishop Murder Case

The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance dedu...

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The Sins of the Children
The Sins of the Children

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate ou...

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A Very Honorable Guy
A Very Honorable Guy

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacterist...

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Hi, Nellie!
Hi, Nellie!

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield wit...

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What! No Beer?
What! No Beer?

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters...

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Back Street
Back Street

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets...

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Here Comes the Band
Here Comes the Band

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an un...

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Mothers Cry
Mothers Cry

Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious...

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Boulder Dam
Boulder Dam

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on th...

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Professor Beware
Professor Beware

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join...

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Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his gir...

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Traveling Saleslady
Traveling Saleslady

A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting bu...

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Daybreak
Daybreak

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy....

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Now I'll Tell
Now I'll Tell

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love ...

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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
20,000 Years in Sing Sing

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, b...

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Design for Living
Design for Living

An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves....

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The Daring Young Man
The Daring Young Man

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a...

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This Is My Affair
This Is My Affair

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well ...

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Huddle
Huddle

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company...

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Paris Interlude
Paris Interlude

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro......

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Life Begins at Forty
Life Begins at Forty

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to to...

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The Case of the Curious Bride
The Case of the Curious Bride

After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China....

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Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she ...

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Music for Madame
Music for Madame

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks wh...

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Doctor Bull
Doctor Bull

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portr...

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Beau Bandit
Beau Bandit

Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of...

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The Final Edition
The Final Edition

A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crim...

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The Death Kiss
The Death Kiss

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to ...

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A Free Soul
A Free Soul

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when hi...

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Borrowing Trouble
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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Hot Tip
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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Crash Donovan
Crash Donovan

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring....

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The Working Man
The Working Man

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of hi...

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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Mystery of the Wax Museum

A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed hi...

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Big News
Big News

A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he did...

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The Avenger
The Avenger

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him...

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Night Work
Night Work

Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. T...

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Dance, Fools, Dance
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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Murder on a Bridle Path
Murder on a Bridle Path

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper...

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