William Gargan
Birthday: 1905-07-17
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography: William Gargan, born William Dennis Gargan July 17, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA and died February 17, 1979 aged 73 on a flight between New York and San Diego. He was an American motion picture, television and radio actor. Gargan played character roles in many Hollywood productions, including two appearances as detective Ellery Queen, but was best known for his role as Detective Martin Kane in the 1949-51 radio-television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye, sponsored by U.S. Tobacco. He also appeared as a private detective in the NBC radio show Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, which ran from 1951 to 1955.
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Man on the Ledge
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel mor...
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Strange Impersonation
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her sche...
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Hot Cargo
Two discharged service men go to the redwood country in northern California to visit the family of a...
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I Wake Up Screaming
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitre...
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The Bells of St. Mary's
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He ...
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Sealed Lips
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For o...
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Night Editor
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall....
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The Story of Temple Drake
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out,...
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Within the Law
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge up...
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The Milky Way
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manage...
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Rain
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pag...
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Broadway Gondolier
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job....
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Four Frightened People
Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic ...
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Behind Green Lights
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the le...
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Who Done It?
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio stat...
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A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try a...
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A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters....
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Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds....
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The Canterville Ghost
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage wh...
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Star Dust
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build ...
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You Only Live Once
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a bre...
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Double Alibi
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect....
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His fir...
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Black Fury
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and manage...
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Night Flight
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night....
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They Knew What They Wanted
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his...
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Miracle in the Rain
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York....
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Till the End of Time
Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss o...
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The Animal Kingdom
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy w...
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Waterfront at Midnight
Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by ...
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Emergency Call
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital....
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Murder in the Music Hall
An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder....
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, he...
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Turnabout
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants the...
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Bright Lights
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head....
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Broadway Serenade
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audi...
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British Agent
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The House of Fear
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during th...
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Destination Unknown
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking....
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Miss Annie Rooney
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn'...
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Headline Shooter
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot....
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Things Are Looking Up
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister....
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Sweepings
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest depart...
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Traveling Saleslady
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting bu...
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Women in the Wind
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women....
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Strictly Dynamite
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian....
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The Argyle Secrets
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of Amer...
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop....
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A Night at the Ritz
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef....
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Navy Born
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the so...
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She Gets Her Man
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer....
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The Devil's Party
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion....
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The Mayor of 44th Street
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the sa...
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The Adventures of Jane Arden
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her miss...
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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption....
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Isle Of Destiny
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island....
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Personal Secretary
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband....
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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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The Sport Parade
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation....
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The Crowd Roars
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's...
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She Asked for It
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependen...
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The Sky Parade
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-bo...
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Dynamite
Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at o...
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Reported Missing
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed....
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You're a Sweetheart
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production...
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Fury and the Woman
A tough Irishman tries to help a logging company owner on Vancouver Island who is being sabotaged by...
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Alibi for Murder
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish ...
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Sporting Blood
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and...
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The Misleading Lady
A bored socialite wagers with a Broadway producer in order to land the lead role in his play but has...
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Wings Over Honolulu
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii....
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Some Blondes Are Dangerous
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty o...
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No Place for a Lady
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, ...
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Keep 'Em Flying
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to...
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Bombay Clipper
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passeng...
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Song of the Sarong
An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by ...
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfacti...
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kys...
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Swell Guy
Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature u...
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The Rawhide Years
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with h...
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The Hollywood Gad-About
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master...
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935....
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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Follow That Woman
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army....
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Flying Hostess
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses....
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Blackmailer
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead....
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