Bob Burns
Also Known As: Robert Burns, Robin "Bob" Burns, Robin Burn
Biography: Robert Burns appeared in at least 33 films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: August 02, 1890
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 02, 1956
Popularity:
Known For:
Land of Fighting Men
Overview: A cowboy is framed for the murder of a rancher, which was committed by a landgrabber. The cowboy must clear his name and bring in the real killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-03
Popularity:
Thorobred
Overview: Helen Martin takes her father's place when he is too ill to carry out his duties as Sheriff, and followed by Jim Grey, tracks down Blackie Wells, notorious 'bad man,' who has shot up a town. The trail leads over prairie and woodland, ending when Helen assumes the part of a dancing girl in the Last Chance saloon and learns the hiding place of Blackie and his associates.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-01
Popularity:
If I Had a Million
Overview: An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
Popularity:
Sundown Trail
Overview: Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-11
Popularity:
Waikiki Wedding
Overview: Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii. He gets the company to sponsor a contest in which the winner gets a Hawaiian vacation and is obligated to write articles on the islands which, when published, will constitute a publicity coup for the company. Unfortunately, Georgia Smith, the winner, feels lonely and isolated in the Islands and wants to return to the States. With help from buddy Shad Buggle Tony tries to romantically divert Georgia without letting her know his true motivation.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-23
Popularity:
I'm from Missouri
Overview: Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife Julie who has high society aspirations and hopes to have her younger sister Lola Pike marry a British diplomat. Complicating matters is a business rival, Porgie Rowe, who is trying to sell tractors to the government and keeps knocking Sweeney's prize Missouri mules.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-06
Popularity:
Lazy River
Overview: Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-16
Popularity:
The Big Broadcast of 1937
Overview: The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-05
Popularity:
Alias the Deacon
Overview: A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-13
Popularity:
Our Leading Citizen
Overview: Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-23
Popularity:
Up the River
Overview: Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-10
Popularity:
Fast Workers
Overview: Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
Popularity:
Quick Millions
Overview: A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-17
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Radio City Revels
Overview: A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-11
Popularity:
The Arkansas Traveler
Overview: The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
Popularity:
Tropic Holiday
Overview: A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-29
Popularity:
Roof Tops of Manhattan
Overview: Musical performances set in a rooftop nightclub in Manhattan.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-16
Popularity:
Rhythm on the Range
Overview: Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-01
Popularity:
Belle of the Yukon
Overview: Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-27
Popularity:
The Windjammer
Overview: Scott Elliott, a discharged WWII Navy officer and a film executive in civilian life, passes through a small Arkansas town, and meets Bob Burns, a farmer, and his daughter. As a film executive prior to the war, Elliott always had the thought that he could make animals talk on the screen, and when he tells this to Bob, he heartily agrees. They form a partnership whereby Elliott will handle the technical aspects, and Bob will write the dialogue for the talking animals. They go to Hollywood, where they start work on the film with the financial help of a producer. However, when half of the scenes are completed, they run the scenes for the producer, who walks out and refuses to put any more money in the project.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-13
Popularity:
Southern Exposure
Overview: Connie Chase receives a letter from Chaseville in Chase County, Kentucky, informing her that her lawyer husband, Jimmie, is a descendant of the Blue Grass State Chases. Assuming that they are now aristocratic heirs, they take a trip to visit their wealthy relations. They soon discover that Chaseville is a back-country hick town, and that their kin are dirt-poor illiterates who ambulate in bare feet. Nevertheless, Pappy (Charley Chase) could use Jimmie to defend him in a breach of promise lawsuit. Miss Lavinia Watkins sued him for not tying the knot, after pledging to marry her. The case is resolved as the courtroom becomes a dance floor, and everyone celebrates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-05
Popularity:
Young as You Feel
Overview: Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-06
Popularity:
Mountain Music
Overview: Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
Popularity: