Michael Whalen
Also Known As: Joseph Kenneth Shovlin, Michael Whelan
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 30, 1902
Age: 122 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 14, 1974
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Blonde Ice
Overview: A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-24
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The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
Overview: A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-01
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Missile to the Moon
Overview: Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-15
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Wee Willie Winkie
Overview: In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-30
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
Overview: Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-30
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The Dawn Express
Overview: A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Outlaw Treasure
Overview: When two outlaw gangs team up to rob gold shipments, the U.s. Army sends their ace-troubleshooter, Dan Parker, to the area. Sam Casey, the mystery-man behind the gangs, kills Parker's father, and this induces his sweetheart, Rita Starr, to side with the law-and-order faction. An attempt by Casey to kill Rita is foiled by Parker, which leads to a widespread gun-battle. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-15
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Elmer Gantry
Overview: A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-07
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Highway 13
Overview: Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-28
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While New York Sleeps
Overview: Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Tough Assignment
Overview: A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
Genres: Western Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-15
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Treasure of Monte Cristo
Overview: A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-27
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Fingerprints Don't Lie
Overview: A fingerprint expert figures out who killed the mayor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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Change of Heart
Overview: While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Mask of the Dragon
Overview: A private eye and his girlfriend avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-10
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Career Woman
Overview: A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Island in the Sky
Overview: A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Time Out for Murder
Overview: A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-25
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Professional Soldier
Overview: Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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Cody of the Pony Express
Overview: Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-06
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The Mysterious Miss X
Overview: After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Sign of the Wolf
Overview: Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-25
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Outside These Walls
Overview: Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-04
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Overview: The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-21
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Sky Liner
Overview: Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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I'll Sell My Life
Overview: A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-12
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Kentucky Jubilee
Overview: A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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The Country Doctor
Overview: A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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Inside Story
Overview: A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-10
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Everybody's Dancin'
Overview: Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Overview: Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
Genres: Adventure Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-18
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White Fang
Overview: A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-17
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The Man I Marry
Overview: A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-31
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The Living Bible
Overview: Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Lady Escapes
Overview: A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-22
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Parole, Inc.
Overview: A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-24
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Song and Dance Man
Overview: Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-11
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Tahiti Honey
Overview: The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-06
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Time Out for Romance
Overview: A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-10
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According to Mrs. Hoyle
Overview: A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-20
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Speed to Burn
Overview: Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-07
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Pardon Our Nerve
Overview: Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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They Asked For It
Overview: In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an old hermit who lived on the fringe of town.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-20
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Son of a Badman
Overview: Lash and Fuzzy come to town to unmask the mysterious outlaw kingpin, El Sombre.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Overview: The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-23
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Omoo-Omoo the Shark God
Overview: The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-09
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Thunder in the Pines
Overview: Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Romance Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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Batman and Robin
Overview: This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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King of the Bullwhip
Overview: A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thief.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-20
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Waco
Overview: After killing a man in self defense over a poker game, Wild Bill Elliott turns outlaw in order to escape a lynch mob.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-24
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The Silver Star
Overview: A third generation deputy sheriff doubts whether or not he has the guts for the job that killed both his father and grandfather. His doubts are re-enforced when three vicious gunmen arrive in town. From the original 35mm widescreen negative.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-07
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G.I. Jane
Overview: A civilian, ordered to report to his draft board, slips off into a dream about the army life ahead of him. He is assigned to a remote desert post where the soldiers crave female companionship. He forges orders that brings a platoon of WACs who are forbidden to fraternize with the soldiers.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-06
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Walking Down Broadway
Overview: Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-11
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Sarumba
Overview: Sailor meets singer in Cuba. He's due to ship out, but hits it off with her, so he sticks around. Trouble brewing on many fronts - singer's best friend doesn't like the sailor, and singer has another suitor anyway. Rich guy takes her to all the fancy Cuban sports events - jai-alai, horse racing. Much more glamorous than spending time with Sailor. Can he win her over before he gets in trouble for letting his ship sail without him?
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-31
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Woman-Wise
Overview: A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Wild Weed
Overview: A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-20
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Shep Comes Home
Overview: Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-03
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