Tom Fadden

Tom Fadden

Birthday: 1895-01-06

Place of Birth: Bayard, Iowa, USA

Biography: Tom Fadden (January 6, 1895 – April 14, 1980) was an American actor. He performed on the legitimate stage, vaudeville, in films and on television during his long career. He would make his film debut with a small role in 1939's I Stole a Million. He would have his first memorable bit in his next film, Destry Rides Again, where in the opening scene he is playing cards, and is cheated when the character portrayed by Marlene Dietrich distracts him by spilling coffee in his lap. His film career would span almost forty years and encompass over 90 films, mostly in small or supporting roles, although with an occasional starring role, as in 1940's Zanzibar. His final acting credit was the 1977 science fiction horror film Empire of the Ants. Fadden died of natural causes on April 14, 1980 in Vero Beach, Florida.

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Pocketful of Miracles
Pocketful of Miracles

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...

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Devil's Doorway
Devil's Doorway

A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people....

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless ali...

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The Good Fellows
The Good Fellows

The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Po...

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Panhandle
Panhandle

An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler....

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Flareup
Flareup

A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners....

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Cheyenne
Cheyenne

Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence ...

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Destry Rides Again
Destry Rides Again

Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the...

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Toughest Man in Arizona
Toughest Man in Arizona

Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only s...

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I Stole a Million
I Stole a Million

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways....

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Thy Neighbor's Wife
Thy Neighbor's Wife

In 1841, in the small Morovian village of Skalni Hradec, a judge makes his much younger wife witness...

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Dirty Dingus Magee
Dirty Dingus Magee

Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsi...

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Kansas Pacific
Kansas Pacific

Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railr...

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Congo Maisie
Congo Maisie

Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, cro...

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The Lawless Breed
The Lawless Breed

After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography p...

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Tomorrow, the World!
Tomorrow, the World!

German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to ...

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Northern Pursuit
Northern Pursuit

Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escape...

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The Hairy Ape
The Hairy Ape

Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watch...

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Singing Guns
Singing Guns

Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sherif...

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Moonrise
Moonrise

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one ...

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Whispering Smith
Whispering Smith

Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and be...

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Winners of the West
Winners of the West

Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a va...

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Flaming Star
Flaming Star

Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle sta...

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That Hagen Girl
That Hagen Girl

Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has bee...

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My Favorite Blonde
My Favorite Blonde

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an...

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Held For Ransom
Held For Ransom

A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman....

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Raw Deal
Raw Deal

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic...

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Wings for the Eagle
Wings for the Eagle

Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle....

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A Medal for Benny
A Medal for Benny

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is t...

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Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysittin...

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Baby Face Nelson
Baby Face Nelson

Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful m...

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Empire of the Ants
Empire of the Ants

A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades calle...

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Dragonwyck
Dragonwyck

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be go...

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It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life

A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people...

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The Judge Steps Out
The Judge Steps Out

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook....

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The Slowest Gun in the West
The Slowest Gun in the West

The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A....

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The Hired Man
The Hired Man

The LA County sheriff's department is on the hunt for a man who approaches his victims as a prospect...

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Edge of Eternity
Edge of Eternity

Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin wor...

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Drums in the Deep South
Drums in the Deep South

Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an...

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Dark Passage
Dark Passage

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove hi...

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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
A Big Hand for the Little Lady

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopar...

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When the Daltons Rode
When the Daltons Rode

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Dalto...

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The Night Before the Divorce
The Night Before the Divorce

Marital comedy with a dash of murder....

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The Captain Is a Lady
The Captain Is a Lady

Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody find...

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The Howards of Virginia
The Howards of Virginia

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries d...

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Blondie Goes to College
Blondie Goes to College

Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Compan...

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Sundown Jim
Sundown Jim

US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful ...

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Lone Star Ranger
Lone Star Ranger

Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns...

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The Shepherd of the Hills
The Shepherd of the Hills

Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparent...

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A Lady Takes a Chance
A Lady Takes a Chance

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her ci...

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The Royal Mounted Rides Again
The Royal Mounted Rides Again

In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found t...

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Trail to Vengeance
Trail to Vengeance

A cowboy investigating his brother's murder finds himself going up against a banker who holds the de...

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The Remarkable Andrew
The Remarkable Andrew

When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budge...

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Fall In
Fall In

An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy....

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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...

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Dragnet
Dragnet

Scotland Yard Inspector Geoffrey James comes to the United States looking for a band of internationa...

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The Inside Story
The Inside Story

A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the far...

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State of the Union
State of the Union

An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both ...

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The Well Groomed Bride
The Well Groomed Bride

A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a ...

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The Hunted
The Hunted

A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims sh...

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Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wa...

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Murder, He Says
Murder, He Says

Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opi...

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The Glass Key
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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Pursued
Pursued

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighb...

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Hard to Get
Hard to Get

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill...

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Pardon My Sarong
Pardon My Sarong

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their...

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In Society
In Society

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the p...

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The Naughty Nineties
The Naughty Nineties

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act...

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Zanzibar
Zanzibar

A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worsh...

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Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where h...

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The Tall Men
The Tall Men

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas t...

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Vengeance Valley
Vengeance Valley

A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As th...

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California
California

"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but...

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Come Live with Me
Come Live with Me

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writ...

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