Biography: Norris made his television debut in 1951 with two appearances on Fireside Theater. He went on act for 30 years in both television and film. During the course of his 12-year span on television he made two guest appearances on Perry Mason: "The Case of the Fiery Fingers" and "The Case of the Tarnished Trademark". His final appearance was when he appeared on an episode of The Third Man, titled "Ghost Town".
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 10, 1911
Deathday: December 18, 2002
Popularity:
1946-09-14
Overview: A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-14
Popularity:
1938-09-08
Overview: Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-08
Popularity:
1950-12-01
Overview: The "Tri-State" gang goes on a successful bank robbing streak causing local authorities to turn up the heat on the daring career criminals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-01
Popularity:
1944-11-10
Overview: A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-10
Popularity:
1955-07-22
Overview: A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-22
Popularity:
1953-06-14
Overview: A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-14
Popularity:
1937-07-14
Overview: A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-14
Popularity:
1942-01-29
Overview: Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
Popularity:
1948-05-13
Overview: Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-13
Popularity:
1950-11-20
Overview: Gene Autry hunts bank robbers Al Bartlett and Trot Lucas with his old friend Mike. Bartlett, to throw off his pursuers, kills Trot and his own brother. When Kitty Bartlett comes to town claiming to be the slain Bartlett's widow, Gene has to save her from the irate townspeople who are not aware that her name isn't Bartlett but she really is the daughter of a law officer slain by Al Bartlett. Ben Luder, a local hood, tricks Bartlett back into town by saying he has to fixed to have Doc Larry Taylor do plastic surgery on him. En route they meet Doc and his assistant Helen Ellis and Ben's ruse is exposed. Bartlett kills Ben and forces Doc to drive him to the railroad. Gene, in a fight atop a runaway train, captures Bartlett.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-20
Popularity:
1940-08-07
Overview: When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-07
Popularity:
1944-07-27
Overview: A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-27
Popularity:
1951-05-18
Overview: A warden and his assistant clash over prison reform, triggering a violent riot.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
Popularity:
1944-01-07
Overview: In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with Muriel Crane, the boss' daughter, who is at first unaware of the fact that King is the heartthrob of millions (he's gotten the job under an assumed name).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-07
Popularity:
1942-01-20
Overview: Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-20
Popularity:
1943-07-23
Overview: An American officer discovers a Nazi plot to take over an island in the Pacific on which oil has been discovered.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-23
Popularity:
1940-02-23
Overview: True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
Popularity:
1934-02-02
Overview: A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
Popularity:
1946-04-10
Overview: An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
Genres: Crime Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-10
Popularity:
1950-03-19
Overview: A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an accident in which his father and a crewman are badly injured, he tries to make up for it by rounding up another crew and going back out on the hunt. However, things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-19
Popularity:
1942-02-26
Overview: A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful crime wave.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-26
Popularity:
1939-07-28
Overview: Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
Popularity:
1935-09-14
Overview: How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-14
Popularity:
1942-12-18
Overview: An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
Popularity:
1944-01-11
Overview: Joan Terry, from Kansas City, comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity, she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance, the people there decide to build a talent pool, where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support, trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-11
Popularity:
1941-02-18
Overview: Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-18
Popularity:
1939-10-16
Overview: The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-16
Popularity:
1941-08-15
Overview: This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" and the pre-"Uncle Miltie" Milton Berle plays his clarinet. The rest of the players, with contract-player faces belonging to 20th-Century Fox, RKO Radio, Universal and Columbia, just pass through. Production Number 3851.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-15
Popularity:
1941-09-22
Overview: Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
Genres: Action Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-22
Popularity:
1935-12-06
Overview: A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-06
Popularity:
1935-04-08
Overview: The son of Sheriff Clay Hartley, of the frontier town Elder, has gotten into bad company and hangs out with an outlaw gang in which, Collins, owner of the Golden Rule Saloon, is the secret head. Sheriff Hartley suspects him, but has been unable to gather the needed evidence. Collins instructs his gang, including young Hartley, to hold up the stagecoach on its return trip from Missionary Flats and take the cargo of gold dust it is carrying. Sheriff Hartley is notified of the planned holdup by one of his deputies who has been spying on Collins, and organizes a posse. A deputy-sheriff is killed in the ensuing gunfight between the lawmen and the outlaws, but Deputy Joe Larkin, pursues and captures Clay Hartley Jr. The latter is quickly tried and convicted of the killing of the deputy, and sentenced to be hung. Sheriff Hartley has only a few hours to prove his son was not the killer. He enlists the aid of Collins' step-daughter, Joan, who is in love with Hartley's son.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-08
Popularity:
1937-02-05
Overview: A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
Popularity:
1939-04-01
Overview: An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-01
Popularity:
1950-11-17
Overview: Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion of the continent.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-17
Popularity:
1937-07-09
Overview: Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-09
Popularity:
1945-01-22
Overview: A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-22
Popularity:
1937-08-27
Overview: A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-27
Popularity:
1942-04-23
Overview: A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-23
Popularity:
1946-04-01
Overview: A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-01
Popularity:
1938-12-24
Overview: A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-24
Popularity:
1939-09-29
Overview: The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
Popularity:
1942-06-16
Overview: A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-16
Popularity:
1943-01-29
Overview: A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-29
Popularity:
1940-05-09
Overview: In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-09
Popularity:
1951-05-02
Overview: A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-02
Popularity:
1935-03-08
Overview: Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
Popularity:
1937-04-02
Overview: A carefree San Francisco bachelor rediscovers life's values when he's rescued from the sea by an Italian fisherman with a wise and earthy family.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-02
Popularity:
1939-10-05
Overview: An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-05
Popularity:
1935-08-02
Overview: Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-02
Popularity:
1939-02-19
Overview: Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-19
Popularity:
1939-05-26
Overview: When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-26
Popularity:
1935-05-24
Overview: A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
Genres: Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-24
Popularity:
1956-01-01
Overview: Feature version of the 1945 Universal serial, JUNGLE QUEEN.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
Popularity:
1936-10-11
Overview: A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-11
Popularity:
1943-12-16
Overview: A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-16
Popularity:
1941-03-15
Overview: Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-15
Popularity:
1944-02-12
Overview: A famous singer reflects on her life, including her journey from being an orphan to her fame as a singer, as she tries to decide which of her three suitors she will choose.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-12
Popularity:
1945-01-05
Overview: Two show-business wannabees get their big chance to show off their big-time act and talents in a nightclub,and bomb. Othet acts come on---endlessly---and do well, but the kids will be back.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-05
Popularity:
1944-09-01
Overview: In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.
Genres: Western Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
Popularity:
1942-08-27
Overview: A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-27
Popularity:
1949-09-10
Overview: A cowboy is accused of his father's murder.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-10
Popularity:
1947-06-28
Overview: Up-and-coming Hollywood actor/crooner, Vic Morton, has a secret. He starts receiving death threats in the mail and an attempt on his life is made. Soon after, two of his associates are murdered. Who is behind it all?
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-28
Popularity:
1933-12-26
Overview: Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
Popularity:
1950-09-15
Overview: Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
Popularity:
1941-03-14
Overview: Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
Popularity:
1942-12-18
Overview: Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
Popularity:
1949-10-29
Overview: A Canadian Mountie follows a fugitive to a small fur-trapping community. Most of the action is handled by Chinook, a handsome German Shepherd.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-29
Popularity:
1953-08-07
Overview: During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-07
Popularity:
1941-05-27
Overview: Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-27
Popularity:
1949-07-17
Overview: A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar. Most of what passes for action is a couple of car wrecks, understandable considering the amount of sauce consumed in Harry's bar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-17
Popularity:
1943-02-11
Overview: A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-11
Popularity:
1945-06-22
Overview: Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-22
Popularity:
1935-08-15
Overview: The day after his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln meets a wounded Confederate soldier in a hospital. The blinded rebel, not knowing his visitor's identity, regales him with memorized lines from the speech.
Genres: History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-15
Popularity:
1935-03-29
Overview: In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-29
Popularity:
1935-07-12
Overview: An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
Popularity:
1935-04-27
Overview: The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-27
Popularity: