George Shelton
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: March 04, 1885
Deathday: February 12, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Breaking Even
Overview: Vaudeville comic Tom Howard meets a man about to shoot himself and takes him into his store to try and talk him out of it. But Tom may prove to be crazier than the guy he's trying to help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-29
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The Acid Test
Overview: George Shelton asks Tom Howard to help him impress his girl as a he-man. Howard is to insult him, and then Shelton comes up and punches out Howard. The gag works, so Howard tries to use the same gag, recruiting Donald MacBride as his foil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-27
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Divorce Sweets
Overview: A pre-code Tom Howard Educational Pictures two reel comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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Pardon My Accident
Overview: Professor Pierre Ginsbairge, an instructor at a success school, tells his class that nothing falls from the sky into their laps. On his way out, a safe falling from an upper-story window, nearly drives him into the sidewalk. Uninjured, but learning that the safe-owning company is insured, he claims to be injured and is sent to the hospital.There, he is mistaken for a look-alike famous surgeon and is in a jam when the surgeon arrives and finds Pierre making love to his wife, the nurse.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-10
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Grooms in Gloom
Overview: George wants to marry Lena Schmidt but her father disapproves. Tom calls on old man Schmidt to fix things up for his friend George. He calls on the wrong Schmidt, who also has a daughter named Lena, and the two think Tom is there to ask for her hand for himself. Arrangements are made for a marriage but Tom and George think the intended bridegroom is George, as George does not know the wrong Schmidt was approached by Tom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-10
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Rural Romeos
Overview: Harry Gribbon is a down-and-outer on the road and stops at a farm for a hand-out. The a farmer's wife makes him chop wood to earn the food and he sees and falls in love with her daughter. The hired-hand is also in love with her so conflicts arise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-16
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Sleepless Hollow
Overview: Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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Aces Wild
Overview: Tom Howard gets into a poker game on the train with some guys who make up their own rules.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-09
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Vest With A Tale
Overview: This Educational short features Tom Howard teamed with George Shelton.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-09
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The Big Meow
Overview: When the story begins, Harry the Heaver calls a judge and threatens him. The police, however, have no idea where the crook is...so he hires two idiots to follow Harry's girlfriend so that they can lead them to his hideout. Unfortunately, since they are pretty dim, they end up following the judge's wife instead!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-09
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The Wrong Bottle
Overview: In "The Wrong Bottle", Tom is annoyed since his freeloading brother-in-law lives with them and he's quite thoughtless. After some arguing, the brother-in-law informs Tom that his insurance policy has lapsed....and soon after this Tom thinks he's accidentally drank poison. However, when he heads to the store to buy some antidote, he's frustrated by a dopey druggist and other store employees....and there's more craziness after this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Second Hand Husband
Overview: Tom Howard has married a widow. She keeps comparing him to her first husband, to Howard's cost. To make himself seem nobler, he has pal George Shelton burgle the place. However, another burglar is also trying to break in, to general confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-26
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It Pays to Be Ignorant
Overview: The first of a very short series, since it would become a TV series in 1949, based on the radio program that ran on CBS from 1944 through 1949. The premise of the program was intended as a satire and parody version of the "intellecutual" quiz shows on radio in the 40's, such as "Information Please" and "The Quiz Kids."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-24
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Dumb Luck
Overview: Two criminals hear about a woman who has won a prize in the lottery, and decide to kidnap her to force her to give them the money. Unfortunately, they don't know that the prize she won amounted to $50.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-18
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Just Plain Folks
Overview: In a burlesque of the radio program "One Man's Family", Tim pays a visit to his fiancée, Irene Carr, to meet her family. He is ignored, insulted and relieved of his cash for a raffle in which he is not allowed to participate, and is finally deserted when Irene and all of her family walk out of the house and leave him all alone. This happens after two of her cousins stage a wrestling match, and a food-fight at the dinner table.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-13
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Rodeo Day
Overview: Frank Luther was a famous country music singer back in the 1930s. As a result of this success, he was able to make a few films. There isn't a ton of plot in this short and what plot there is seems to be an excuse for all sorts of musical performances.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
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One Big Happy Family
Overview: When Tim Ryan's leading lady walks out in a small hillbilly town, the leading lady he selects -- at gunpoint -- is dumb bell Irene Ryan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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The Magic Word
Overview: A couple of hecklers ruin a magician's act when the magician asks for an audience volunteer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-05
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Meet the Bride
Overview: Meet the Bride
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-07
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Sing for Sweetie
Overview: Sally Newton is in love with Lee Sullivan, a young tenor singer with Johnny Johnson's Orchestra, but her father prefers a stuffy young clerk as her suitor. She makes him taker her to the nightclub where Lee sings. Lee has arranged for Sally to elope with him, his song "Let's Take It on the Chin" being the signal for her. But the clerk has hired a tough gangster to keep Lee from singing.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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Kiss of Death
Overview: An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-27
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