David Durand
Biography: David Durand (born David Grey Parker) was an American child, teen, and young-adult actor whose career ran from 1925 to 1944.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 27, 1920
Deathday: July 25, 1998
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Golden Gloves
1940-08-02
Golden Gloves
Overview: An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-02
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Little Men
1934-01-01
Little Men
Overview: The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Good Cheer
1926-01-09
Good Cheer
Overview: On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Santa Claus really exists for those who wish fervently enough.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-09
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Son of the Border
1933-05-05
Son of the Border
Overview: An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned younger brother into his own home. The boy, however, isn't aware he's now living with the man responsible for his brother's death. This 1933 RKO B-western, directed by Lloyd Nosler, stars Tom Keene, Lon Chaney Jr., David Durand, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy, Charles King and Al Bridge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-05
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A Criminal Is Born
1938-06-05
A Criminal Is Born
Overview: An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-05
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Live and Learn
1930-06-15
Live and Learn
Overview: A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-15
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Wednesday's Child
1934-10-26
Wednesday's Child
Overview: A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-26
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Boys' Reformatory
1939-05-01
Boys' Reformatory
Overview: A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-01
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Probation
1932-03-15
Probation
Overview: Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-15
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As the Earth Turns
1934-02-14
As the Earth Turns
Overview: Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
1933-06-03
The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Overview: Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-03
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The Great Jasper
1933-03-03
The Great Jasper
Overview: Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son. Drama.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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Innocents of Paris
1929-01-02
Innocents of Paris
Overview: A Parisian junk dealer has to choose between love and fame after he rescues a boy.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-02
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The Bands Plays On
1934-12-21
The Bands Plays On
Overview: A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-21
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Wells Fargo
1937-12-31
Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Get Your Man
1927-12-06
Get Your Man
Overview: A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-06
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Pleased to Mitt You
1940-09-06
Pleased to Mitt You
Overview: Terry Kelly is leaving for college, and Ma Kelly and Uncle Pat invite his friends and sweetheart Kitty to the house for a going-away party. The bigger surprise is Uncle Pat's gift of $1400 for Terry's tuition, money he earned promoting Terry as an amateur boxer. Accompanying Terry and Kitty's school friends to the party is Diggins, Terry's rival for Kitty's affections. After an argument, Diggins takes off... with the envelope containing Pat's gift. The kids track Diggins down at Regan's Road House, and a brawl breaks out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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Her First Romance
1940-12-25
Her First Romance
Overview: A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin, she gets a dress, but after learning it’s a joke, she initially declines—until a charming opera star offers to escort her, leading to surprising revelations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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Hat, Coat and Glove
1934-07-26
Hat, Coat and Glove
Overview: A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-26
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He Married His Wife
1940-01-19
He Married His Wife
Overview: Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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Viva Villa!
1934-04-27
Viva Villa!
Overview: In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-27
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Follow the Leader
1944-06-03
Follow the Leader
Overview: Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a large amount of medical supplies have been stolen from the warehouse where he works. Muggs see Spider, a new member of the gang, flashing a large amount of money around, and Muggs shrewdly turns toughie, boasting that he has a dishonorable discharge because of thievery. This leads Spider to confide in Muggs that he is the one who has been aiding in the theft of supplies from the warehouse, and he gets paid for the loot by Larry, operator of a nightclub where Muggs' sister, Milly, is an entertainer. Fingers, a henchman for Larry, kills Spider when he learns that Muggs has been let in on the operation. The police then suspect Muggs of killing Spider.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-03
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Million Dollar Kid
1944-02-28
Million Dollar Kid
Overview: The gang is friend with a millionaire because they saved him from an agression. However, the gang is suspecting that the man's son was actually one of the agressors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-28
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Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943-10-29
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Overview: Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an engagement party for Mrs. Murray's spoiled daughter Brenda, Muggs enlists his pals as extra help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-29
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Kid Dynamite
1943-02-05
Kid Dynamite
Overview: The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-05
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The Ghost Breakers
1940-06-21
The Ghost Breakers
Overview: After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-21
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Ladies Love Brutes
1930-05-14
Ladies Love Brutes
Overview: The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-14
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The Tulsa Kid
1940-08-16
The Tulsa Kid
Overview: A protegee of notorious outlaw Montana (Beery), young Tom Benton decides to stay on the good side of the Law upon reaching maturity. Montana, however, has no such inclination to reform, the result being a climactic gun duel between the ageing gunman and his former pupil.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Keep 'Em Slugging
1943-03-01
Keep 'Em Slugging
Overview: A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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Scouts to the Rescue
1939-01-17
Scouts to the Rescue
Overview: Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack sets off in search of lost treasure and finds adventure
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-17
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The Kink of the Campus
1941-12-25
The Kink of the Campus
Overview: Terry is framed by a rival so that he'll be ineligible to play in the big football game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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Fresh as a Freshman
1941-01-29
Fresh as a Freshman
Overview: Terry arrives at school, but doesn't get exactly the welcome he expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-29
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Glove Affair
1941-04-03
Glove Affair
Overview: Terry protects his girlfriend's little brother from the town bully.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-03
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Mitt Me Tonight
1941-11-06
Mitt Me Tonight
Overview: Terry and his gang stow away on board an ocean liner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-06
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Glove Birds
1942-02-13
Glove Birds
Overview: Terry (Durand) is erroneous jailed prior to an important boxing match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-13
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College Belles
1942-10-16
College Belles
Overview: Terry and the gang put on a boxing exhibition in order to sell war bonds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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A Study in Socks
1942-05-21
A Study in Socks
Overview: Terry invents a new formula for gasoline and shows it to his girlfriend's father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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The Jazz Cinderella
1930-09-01
The Jazz Cinderella
Overview: Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed when she learns that Herbert has fallen in love with Pat Murray, a model in Darrow's dress shop. Pat's emphatic refusal to take Mrs. Carter's "suggestion" that she give up Herbert leads to her being fired, and she reluctantly accepts Herbert's invitation to weekend at the Carter country home. Finally realizing the hopelessness of the situation, Pat makes a spectacle of herself at a party; but Herbert is not fooled, and their love triumphs.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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Harmon of Michigan
1941-09-11
Harmon of Michigan
Overview: A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-11
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Off the Record
1939-01-21
Off the Record
Overview: After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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Silver Dollar
1932-12-22
Silver Dollar
Overview: A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-22
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Rich Man's Folly
1931-11-14
Rich Man's Folly
Overview: The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-14
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Cradle Song
1933-11-19
Cradle Song
Overview: In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-19
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Tropic Madness
1928-12-19
Tropic Madness
Overview: Herbert Pomeroy's wife Juanita spends his money extravagantly and irresponsibly, finally driving him to bankruptcy. Desperate, he sends his son Frankie to live with his friend Henderson, a South Seas trader, then commits suicide. Although Juanita spends years searching for her son, she finally gives up and takes a world cruise on the yacht of wealthy Jules Lennox. One day the yacht docks on Henderson's island and Juanita, meeting Henderson, persuades him to let her be Frankie's governess. Complications ensue, involving a poor physician, a jealous island woman and a witch doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-19
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Naval Academy
1941-06-05
Naval Academy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-05
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The Bad Sister
1931-03-29
The Bad Sister
Overview: Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-29
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Streets of New York
1939-04-12
Streets of New York
Overview: Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but through it all, he considers the actions of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, for guidance. Will Jimmy see his dreams come true, or will he be another of the countless hopefuls chewed up and spit out by New York's mean streets?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-12
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The Spy
1931-04-26
The Spy
Overview: Sweethearts pitted against lovers, wives against husbands, sons against mothers, in a frantic struggle to escape the clutch and claw of the 'Tcheka,' Russia's sinister spy system.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-26
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