Bernard Nedell
Also Known As: Bernard J. Nedell, Bernard Jay Nedell
Biography: Bernard Jay Nedell (October 14, 1898 – November 23, 1972) was an American film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1916 and 1972.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: October 14, 1898
Deathday: November 23, 1972
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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One Body Too Many
Overview: An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
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Allotment Wives
Overview: Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-08
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The Loves of Carmen
Overview: Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-23
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Behind Green Lights
Overview: An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-15
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Strange Cargo
Overview: Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Northern Pursuit
Overview: Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
Genres: Adventure War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-07
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Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
Overview: A criminal psychologist investigates the murder of a veteran with amnesia.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-24
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
Overview: Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-07
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Angels Wash Their Faces
Overview: A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-26
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Slightly Honorable
Overview: A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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The Man from Chicago
Overview: 'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-22
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Come Across
Overview: A bank robber pulls off a heist and comes out with a good haul. However, he winds up being forced to give most of it to his gangland "friends" to hide him from the police, and who now turn their backs on him when his money runs out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-14
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Those High Grey Walls
Overview: Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-21
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Some Like It Hot
Overview: Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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Lucky Night
Overview: Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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They All Come Out
Overview: A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-04
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Exposed
Overview: A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-05
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Ship Ahoy
Overview: Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-16
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The Desperadoes
Overview: Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-25
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A Knight in London
Overview: A prince makes a socialite think she spent the night in his room.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-12-17
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Leap to Fame
Overview: Charles Trevor is a young chap just out of college, who is put to work on a daily newspaper and at once starts to lead a life of adventure and romance. A German spy and a maiden in distress cross his path the first day and, before the end of the story, he has landed a big scoop for his paper, put the German in jail and married the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-24
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Lazybones
Overview: Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-23
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Secret Service of the Air
Overview: Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-04
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Heat Wave
Overview: Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South American banana republic. He becomes mistaken for a gun-runner, and problems arise when Albert begins using the names of vegetables as code words for weapons and ammunition that they are smuggling! Albert saves not only his own skin, but also those of the Presidente and his attractive daughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-30
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Fast and Furious
Overview: Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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Rangers of Fortune
Overview: An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his young granddaughter. The trio learn that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron, who's endeavoring to push out ranch owners and take over the territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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So You Won't Talk?
Overview: A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-02
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Monsieur Verdoux
Overview: The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-26
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Oh, Boy!
Overview: A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-12
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The Lone Wolf in Mexico
Overview: In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break up a ring of diamond smugglers. Along the way, he winds up accused of both robbery and murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-16
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Her Imaginary Lover
Overview: A New York socialite Celia invents an aristocratic English fiancé named Lord Michael Ware to deflect the tedious attention of would-be suitors. Celia travels to London to claim an inheritance...and meets an aristocratic Englishman called Lord Michael Ware. The imaginary romance becomes real.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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First Offence
Overview: After his father sells his car, an immature playboy steals it back, and gets involved with a gang of professional car thieves. British remake of "Mauvaise graine" (1934).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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The Call of the Sea
Overview: Lt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-30
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The Girl in Possession
Overview: An American woman is fooled into thinking that she is the heiress to an estate in England.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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Albuquerque
Overview: Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-20
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Maisie Goes to Reno
Overview: A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-15
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Shadows
Overview: The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-31
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The Innocents of Chicago
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-20
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The Feminine Touch
Overview: A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan (Van Heflin), who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie (Kay Francis), who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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Ziegfeld Girl
Overview: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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The Return of the Rat
Overview: The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-30
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Hickey & Boggs
Overview: Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
Genres: Crime Action Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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The Silver King
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-01
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The Live Wire
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-13
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Bachelor Apartments
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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Ignorance
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Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-01
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