Richard Fiske
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Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Blondie Meets the Boss
Overview: Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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The Devil Commands
Overview: A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-15
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The Officer and the Lady
Overview: A woman who refuses to become involved with a dedicated police officer unknowingly dates a man who is in cahoots with a criminal mastermind.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-12
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Flying G-Men
Overview: Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even further.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-28
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The Major and the Minor
Overview: Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-16
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You Nazty Spy!
Overview: In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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The Taming of the Snood
Overview: A jewel thief uses Buster as an unsuspecting dupe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Pest from the West
Overview: A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-16
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Pardon My Berth Marks
Overview: Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Dizzy Pilots
Overview: The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attempting to avoid the draft but when their plane, the Buzzard, fails miserably, they march off to war. Richard Fiske, formerly a busy supporting player in Stooges comedies, appears courtesy of stock footage from the earlier Boobs in Arms (1940). Ironically, Fiske had himself been drafted and would be killed in action in France in August of 1944.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-24
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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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Boobs in Arms
Overview: The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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Men Without Souls
Overview: A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-20
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Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
Overview: Once again, the Stooges are three hapless tramps. After nearly destroying a farmer's (Richard Fiske) pile of firewood, the boys come to the assistance of the Widow Jenkins (Eva McKenzie), who has just been cheated out of her land by a trio of swindlers (Dick Curtis, Eddie Laughton, James Craig). Attempting to fix the woman's well, the Stooges instead unleash an oil geyser. They manage to retrieve the deed to the land and are allowed to marry the now wealthy Widow Jenkins' daughters. Moe tells Curly to wish for quintuplets, and Curly replies, "We'll honeymoon in Canada!" (a reference to the Dionne quintuplets).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Overview: The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Behind Prison Gates
Overview: An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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Perils of the Royal Mounted
Overview: Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
Genres: Action Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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The Spider's Web
Overview: Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Overland with Kit Carson
Overview: When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten things out.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-21
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The Man from Tumbleweeds
Overview: Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-02
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Konga, the Wild Stallion
Overview: A long-standing feud between a rancher and a neighboring wheat farmer only intensifies after the rancher's wild stallion causes damage to the farmer's property. Western drama.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-30
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Rattling Romeo
Overview: Charley buys a wreck of an automobile that's been made to appear new by a disreputable used car dealer, but he soon realizes it's literally falling apart. He stops payment, and then must dodge repossesors as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-14
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Girls' School
Overview: Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-30
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Blondie
Overview: Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Homicide Bureau
Overview: After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-05
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Overview: Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-20
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The Son of Davy Crockett
Overview: Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-15
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
Overview: Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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Across the Sierras
Overview: Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knocking out several baddies and putting up with the zany antics of his sidekick Taylor, Elliott guns down his antagonist, but Luana Walters, the girl he almost marries, will not abide a gunslinger so Elliott is compelled to ride off alone into the sunset once more.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-13
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Glove Slingers
Overview: A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-24
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Overview: A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-30
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Overview: Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-02
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The Lone Wolf Strikes
Overview: Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Nothing But Pleasure
Overview: To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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The Heckler
Overview: An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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Texas Stagecoach
Overview: The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-23
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Blondie Plays Cupid
Overview: The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-31
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Five Little Peppers at Home
Overview: The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-08
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Arizona
Overview: Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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North of the Yukon
Overview: In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and forced to run a gauntlet of Mountie whips. When the gang learns of this, they convince him to join them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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The Medico of Painted Springs
Overview: Medico of Painted Springs was the first of western hero Charles Starrett's appearances as frontier doctor Steven Monroe. Riding into a small town, Dr. Monroe finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-26
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Valley of the Sun
Overview: An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-06
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The Man from Sundown
Overview: The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leader.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-14
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The Stranger from Texas
Overview: Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The villains are a band of rustlers who play both sides of the confrontation against one another, the better to move in and claim all the livestock.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-02
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Before I Hang
Overview: Dr. John Garth conducting an innovative medical experiment aimed at prolonging life and combating aging. The experiment takes an unexpected turn, placing the doctor in a confrontation with the ethics of his work and the consequences of his research.
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-17
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Island of Doomed Men
Overview: An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-20
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Juvenile Court
Overview: Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-10
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North from the Lone Star
Overview: Wild Bill Hickock (William Elliott), aka The Peaceable Man, meters out justice in the tough town of Deadwood in this highly fictional western from Columbia. Unlike the historic character, Elliott's gunfighter survives his encounter with the South Dakota hellhole, where he arrives to aid beleaguered livery stable owner Clint Wilson (Richard Fiske) and his sister, Madge (Dorothy Fay), in their battle against self-appointed town czar "Flash" Kirby (Arthur Loft). But before he gets that far, there is a little matter of proving Kirby guilty of wrongdoing and to achieve that, Wild Bill earns the enmity of both the Wilsons.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-30
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Outlaws of the Panhandle
Overview: Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star is cast as Jim Endicott, bound and determined to put an end to the underhanded activities of gin-mill operator Faro Jack Vaughn (Norman Willis). The villain's strategy is to get the local cowpunchers tanked up on rotgut that they'll prove to be easy pickings for a gang of rustlers-and will be unable to complete work on a railroad spur which will bypass the outlaws' hideaway.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Pioneers of the Frontier
Overview: Wild Bill Saunders discovers that his uncle Mort has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman, Matt Brawley. But before he can right Brawley's wrongs, Wild Bill is arrested for a murder he didn't commit. Sidekick Cannonball Sims and disgruntled girl rancher Joan Darcy plot to break Wild Bill out of jail but Brawley is wise to their plan.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-14
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Prairie Schooners
Overview: Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) leads a wagon train of settlers from Kansas to Colorado. Along the way, they cross a group of Indians who don't want any more settlers on their land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-29
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Go West, Young Lady
Overview: A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-27
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Texas
Overview: Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-09
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Convicted Woman
Overview: A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-31
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They Dare Not Love
Overview: An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes him realize his mistake in leaving. He makes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for some Austrian prisoners, but discovers that the Nazis are not to be trusted.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-16
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Glamour for Sale
Overview: A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Black Eyes and Blues
Overview: Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-18
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Blondes and Blunders
Overview: A beautiful blonde places a stolen diamond on an unsuspecting man. Later, she returns to retrieve it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Teacher's Pest
Overview: Charley arrives in a backward mountain town to be the new schoolteacher and receives a hostile welcome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-02
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