Jimmy Conlin
Birthday: 1884-10-13
Place of Birth: Camden, New Jersey, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jimmy Conlin (October 14, 1884 – May 7, 1962) was an American character actor who appeared in almost 150 films in his 32-year career. Conlin was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1884, and his acting career started out in vaudeville, where he and his first wife Myrtle Glass played the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuits billed as "Conlin & Glass", a song-and-dance team. They also starred together in two short films, Sharps and Flats (1928) and Zip! Boom! Bang! (1929) for Vitaphone. Conlin made another comedy short without Glass in 1930 (A Tight Squeeze), but his film career started for good in 1933, and for the next 27 years, with the single exception of 1951, every year saw the release of at least one film in which Conlin appeared – at the height of his career, often more than a dozen of them. Recognizable by his small size and odd appearance, Conlin played all sorts of small roles and bit parts, many times not receiving an onscreen credit. In the 1940s, Conlin was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in nine films written and directed by Sturges. His roles in Sturges' films were often sizable and often came with good billing. One of his best performances came in Sturges' The Sin of Harold Diddlebock in 1946, when he played "Wormy", the racetrack tout who convinces Harold Lloyd to have his first drink, setting off the events of the film. The loyalty between Sturges and Conlin ran both ways, and when the former golden boy of Hollywood fell on hard times, Conlin remained a friend, stayed in contact, and helped out in any way he could. Conlin did not make many television appearances, but he did have a regular role as a bartender on Duffy's Tavern, a syndicated series from 1954. He made his final film in 1959, when he played a habitual criminal in Anatomy of a Murder.
Movies
The Town Went Wild
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched a...
View Movie
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered H...
View Movie
The Palm Beach Story
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, de...
View Movie
Fallen Angel
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around t...
View Movie
Christmas in July
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the g...
View Movie
The Great McGinty
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he...
View Movie
Hail the Conquering Hero
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow ...
View Movie
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to...
View Movie
The Great Rupert
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the at...
View Movie
Whistle Stop
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity betw...
View Movie
The Remarkable Andrew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budge...
View Movie
Tulsa
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in...
View Movie
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a rubbish collector and inven...
View Movie
Sideshow
A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival t...
View Movie
Knock on Any Door
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the cour...
View Movie
It's a Joke, Son!
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a ...
View Movie
College Humor
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coe...
View Movie
Operation Haylift
A pilot devises a plan to airlift hay to thousands of ranch cattle stranded and dying due to severe ...
View Movie
No Place to Go
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but ...
View Movie
Rolling Home
An elderly rodeo rider, his young grandson and their injured horse help transform the lives of vario...
View Movie
Footlight Parade
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when ...
View Movie
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell ...
View Movie
The Hucksters
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be...
View Movie
Rose Marie
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive bro...
View Movie
Blue Skies
Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numb...
View Movie
The Bride Comes Home
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, ...
View Movie
And the Angels Sing
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing t...
View Movie
Petticoat Larceny
An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for...
View Movie
Cross Country Cruise
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kill...
View Movie
The Man Who Found Himself
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passio...
View Movie
Hazard
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before h...
View Movie
Smashing the Rackets
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothin...
View Movie
Living on Love
A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basem...
View Movie
Dixie
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up...
View Movie
She Learned About Sailors
Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of...
View Movie
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secret...
View Movie
City Limits
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of b...
View Movie
He Couldn't Say No
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marr...
View Movie
On Dangerous Ground
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effectiv...
View Movie
Prejudice
Joe Hanson, who believes himself to be tolerant of other races and religions, gradually comes to rea...
View Movie
The Seven Little Foys
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with a...
View Movie
Idiot's Delight
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are close...
View Movie
Nancy Drew... Reporter
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a...
View Movie
Summer Storm
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks he...
View Movie
Let's Make Music
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song....
View Movie
Two Girls on Broadway
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He se...
View Movie
Crashing Hollywood
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood....
View Movie
Torchy Blane in Panama
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from Ne...
View Movie
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and ...
View Movie
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and severa...
View Movie
The Lady Eve
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Ch...
View Movie
Calling Philo Vance
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to...
View Movie
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform can...
View Movie
Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...
View Movie
It Happened Tomorrow
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings...
View Movie
Anatomy of a Murder
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...
View Movie
Second Chorus
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men...
View Movie
Mourning Becomes Electra
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tyco...
View Movie
Captains Courageous
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat...
View Movie
King of the Lumberjacks
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new b...
View Movie
My Little Chickadee
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked ...
View Movie
The Forest Rangers
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidenc...
View Movie
Prison Farm
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy f...
View Movie
Florian
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by...
View Movie
Angels Over Broadway
Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-...
View Movie
Madame Spy
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister who travels by his si...
View Movie
The Way of All Flesh
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of f...
View Movie
Over the Wall
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfr...
View Movie
And Sudden Death
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the tw...
View Movie
Broadway Musketeers
Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a youn...
View Movie
Bring on the Girls
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. ...
View Movie
The Jazz Singer
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...
View Movie
Ridin' on a Rainbow
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accompli...
View Movie
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for...
View Movie
A Shot in the Dark
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder....
View Movie
Sullivan's Travels
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp...
View Movie
It Happens Every Thursday
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspap...
View Movie
Hitler's Madman
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen...
View Movie
New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City s...
View Movie
Woman of the Year
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relation...
View Movie
Obliging Young Lady
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor...
View Movie
Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...
View Movie
The Inspector General
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a ...
View Movie
$1,000 a Touchdown
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each to...
View Movie
Grand Slam
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winn...
View Movie
The Adventurous Blonde
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) i...
View Movie
Blondes at Work
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself a...
View Movie
The Accusing Finger
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly c...
View Movie
The Gay Falcon
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is...
View Movie
Old Acquaintance
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives....
View Movie
Hard to Get
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill...
View Movie
The Shining Hour
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it....
View Movie
What, No Cigarettes
There is movement afoot in Edgar Kennedy's house, where he lives with his wife Florence, and relucta...
View Movie
Lost in a Harem
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic unc...
View Movie
Two Sisters from Boston
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New...
View Movie
Mannequin
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to fi...
View Movie
Comet Over Broadway
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition....
View Movie
Swing Shift Maisie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in...
View Movie
Out of the Fog
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen ...
View Movie
Rose Bowl
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; P...
View Movie
Handy Andy
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national ch...
View Movie
The Lady Is Willing
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a bab...
View Movie
Advice to the Lovelorn
Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demote...
View Movie
The Bowery
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had g...
View Movie