Sid Tomack
Also Known As: Sid Tomak
Biography: In addition to credited roles, he appears in the stock episode opening-credits footage for seasons 2 and 3 of "Perry Mason", as a spectator seated immediately behind Lt. Tragg (Ray Collins).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 08, 1907
Deathday: November 12, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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My Girl Tisa
Overview: 1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Blondie's Holiday
Overview: Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters worse Dagwood becomes involved with a gang running a gambling establishment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-10
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Hoodlum Empire
Overview: It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-15
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Hollow Triumph
Overview: Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-18
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Abandoned
Overview: A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Framed
Overview: Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-25
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A Double Life
Overview: A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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I Love Trouble
Overview: A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-15
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Blind Spot
Overview: A mystery writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when a publisher he last saw is found dead.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-06
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Sail A Crooked Ship
Overview: A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Overview: Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-02
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For the Love of Rusty
Overview: Danny Mitchell, feeling that he has been misunderstood by his parents, takes his dog, Rusty, and leaves home, camping out near the trailer of veterinary Dr. Francis Xavier Ray. Gas escapes in the trailer during the night, and Rusty rescues the vet before he is overcome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-01
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Song of the Open Road
Overview: A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-21
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The Kettles in the Ozarks
Overview: Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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My Sister Eileen
Overview: Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent' sign on Barrow Street". They find an apartment, but fame and fortune are a lot more elusive. Ruth gets the attention of playboy publisher Bob Baker when she submits a story about her gorgeous sister Eileen. She tries to keep his attention by convincing him that she and the gorgeous, man-getting Eileen are one and the same person.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-22
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Homicide for Three
Overview: While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-08
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Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
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That Certain Feeling
Overview: When Larry Larkin's comic strip needs some freshening up, he calls in ghost-writer Francis X. Dignan to help him with the strip. Things get complicated when Francis rekindles his love for his ex-wife, who happens to be Larkin's secretary and soon-to-be wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-04
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Somebody Loves Me
Overview: Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-24
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Side Street
Overview: A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-23
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The Fuller Brush Girl
Overview: A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Spring Reunion
Overview: A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Overview: Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't know a jib from a jigger. What none of them knows, including Crandall, is that this ship has a very important top-secret mission to complete in waters patrolled by the Japanese fleet. Their mission will save hundreds of allied lives – if only they can get there in one piece.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-29
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Force of Evil
Overview: Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-24
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Reunion in Reno
Overview: A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-09
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Alias Nick Beal
Overview: After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
Genres: Drama Crime Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Appointment with Danger
Overview: Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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The Thrill of Brazil
Overview: Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with Linda. Because of this they all get small problems.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-06
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The Opposite Sex
Overview: Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-15
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Sorrowful Jones
Overview: A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-04
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Living It Up
Overview: Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-15
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Joe Palooka in Triple Cross
Overview: Joe Palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-16
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House of Strangers
Overview: Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-01
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Wake Me When It's Over
Overview: The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-10
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