Richard Gaines
Also Known As: Richard Houston Gaines, Richard H. Gaines
Biography: Richard Houston Gaines (July 23, 1904 – July 20, 1975) was an American actor. He appeared in over 75 film and television productions between 1940 and 1962.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Birthday: July 23, 1904
Deathday: July 21, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Double Indemnity
Overview: A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-06
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Ace in the Hole
Overview: An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-29
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Nobody Lives Forever
Overview: A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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Humoresque
Overview: A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-25
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Brute Force
Overview: Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-16
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Love Me or Leave Me
Overview: A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-26
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Flight to Mars
Overview: Four scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-11
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The Enchanted Cottage
Overview: A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-28
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The Invisible Wall
Overview: A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-15
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Ride the Pink Horse
Overview: A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-08
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The Howards of Virginia
Overview: Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-19
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The More the Merrier
Overview: It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-13
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Tender Comrade
Overview: Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-30
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Unconquered
Overview: England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-10
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A Night to Remember
Overview: A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-10
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5 Steps to Danger
Overview: Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-05
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Dangerous Years
Overview: Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo. They hang out at a juke joint where Eve works. When Jeff tries to stop a robbery planned by Danny, he is killed and Danny goes on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-07
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Do You Love Me
Overview: Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-17
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Cass Timberlane
Overview: Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-06
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White Tie and Tails
Overview: When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-30
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Ransom!
Overview: A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-24
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Double Exposure
Overview: In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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A Gun in His Hand
Overview: In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-15
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The Lucky Stiff
Overview: A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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Francis in the Haunted House
Overview: A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-09
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A Kiss for Corliss
Overview: After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous. Corliss' father had also served as attorney representing Kenneth Marquis' ex-wife during his most recent divorce trial. When Corliss and Dexter don't come home one evening until five in the morning, Corliss decides to pretend to have amnesia to avoid the inevitable punishment awaiting her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-25
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The Hucksters
Overview: A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
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Twice Blessed
Overview: Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-31
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That Wonderful Urge
Overview: When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-20
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Trial
Overview: A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-07
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So Goes My Love
Overview: Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling inventor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-01
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The Great Impostor
Overview: Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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Every Girl Should Be Married
Overview: Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Overview: Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-19
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Marry Me Again
Overview: Bill, a jet pilot hero from the Korean War, returns home with intentions of marrying his sweetheart, Doris. But Doris has inherited a million dollars and Bill won't marry her because he dreams of a home and babies, with himself as the sole source of income on his $65 a week. Doris has to find a way to make him change his mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-22
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Drum Beat
Overview: President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-10
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The Bride Wore Boots
Overview: A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-05
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Strange Bargain
Overview: Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the company is closing down. Jarvis then makes a strange proposition, saying he intends to commit suicide but wants Sam to make it look like a murder, in order for his wife and son to inherit Jarvis's life insurance. Sam declines, but when he goes to see Jarvis and finds his dead body, he reluctantly goes along with the scheme.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-05
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Don Juan Quilligan
Overview: When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-01
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The Petrified Forest
Overview: Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams of a better place, and finds his own sense of worth refreshed by this vital young girl. When Duke Mantee and his gang, wanted killers, show up and take hostages, Gabrielle falls in love with the poetic Alan, and Squier begins to see a way to give Gabby the life she deserves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-30
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