Billy Nelson
Also Known As: William Nelson, William "Billy" Nelson, Bill Nelson
Biography: Billy Nelson was an American vaudeville comedian.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 19, 1903
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 06, 1973
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His Kind of Woman
Overview: Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-15
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Cowboy in Manhattan
Overview: Bob Allen, a struggling songwriter poses as a millionaire cowboy to win Broadway star Babs Lee.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-21
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Vicki
Overview: A supermodel gets murdered. While investigating the case the story of a waitress turned glamor girl is revealed.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-05
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Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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The Undercover Man
Overview: Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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Waterfront
Overview: A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his code book, and he must get it back.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-10
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Search for Danger
Overview: The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Minesweeper
Overview: A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-10
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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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Harvest Melody
Overview: Farmer Tommy and his girl Jane come in from the country for a night at the Hollywood Trocadero. There, they meet Chuck, Hollywood's Number One press agent, and his Girl Friday, Daisie. Hearing of the hardships imposed down on the farm by the war-related labor shortage, Chuck offers the help of his clients, movie star Gilda Parker, heavyweight boxer Canvas, and Eddie Le Baron and his whole orchestra, to help harvest the crops.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-22
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Drums in the Deep South
Overview: Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Navy Bound
Overview: A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial trouble. He becomes a prizefighter and one day signs up for a winner-take-all boxing match, which could make him a lot of money but could also result in the end of his boxing career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-04
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Mixed Nuts
Overview: Oddly enough for a Roach comedy the premise of MIXED NUTS is grounded in topical political satire aimed at the New Deal, although the satire is of a very lightweight (and light-hearted) nature. The film begins at a city council meeting where an unidentified politician announces that the government has released $50,000 for the relief of unemployed plumbers. This prompts applause, but also a pointed question from an angry woman who wants to know what the government is going to do for the members of her profession: chorus girls. The politician glibly replies that the administration has set aside money—two million dollars, no less!—for the re-education of chorus girls, "to fit them for the better things in life."
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-16
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I Live on Danger
Overview: A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-16
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A Duke for a Day
Overview: Movie star Gloria Blossom (Jeanette Loff) is unhappy with her press agent's (Eddie Foy, Jr.) attempts at publicity. After reading newspaper stories about other stars marrying into royalty, she demands that Eddie "promote me a husband with a title within 24 hours". With the dubious assistance of reporter Don Barclay and photographer Billy Nelson he talks the first man with a British accent that he meets into marrying Gloria, fooling her into believing he is a Duke. The trouble is that the man is a big fan of Gloria the movie star and is madly in love with her, so after the wedding, when she finds out the truth, her new husband refuses to divorce her. A wild free-for-all fight ensues in the hotel. In typical Hal Roach comedy fashion, numerous innocent bystanders are pulled into the action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-12
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The Milkman
Overview: A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-17
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Maid in Hollywood
Overview: Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-19
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I'll Be Suing You
Overview: Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-23
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Mister 880
Overview: The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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High Powered
Overview: Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-27
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Look Up and Laugh
Overview: Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-13
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The Shadow on the Window
Overview: Three delinquents murder a prosperous farmer at an isolated farm house. One witness to the crime - the dead man's secretary - is then taken hostage. The other witness - her young son - is thrown into state of shock. Can he recover soon enough to help the police - and his father - rescue his mother before it's too late?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-06
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Gambler's Choice
Overview: The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-27
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When Strangers Marry
Overview: A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-21
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Overview: The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-04
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Senorita from the West
Overview: Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man who is actually the real voice of a famous radio crooner, who actually can't sing at all.
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-12
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The Penny Pool
Overview: 'The Penny Pool' (1937) features Duggie Wakefield and his Crazy Gang who come to the assistance of young lovers Tommy Bancroft and Renee Harland, who have been sacked from their jobs for filling in the penny football pools during work hours. But the Crazy Gang's assistance is not always useful!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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False Faces
Overview: A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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Wrecking Crew
Overview: Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-07
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The Whip Hand
Overview: A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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My Six Convicts
Overview: A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-20
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Anchors Aweigh
Overview: Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-13
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12 Angry Men
Overview: The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-10
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Crook's Tour
Overview: A down-and-out Englishman, mistaken for a duke, is invited (for $50.00) to meet the wife of a gangster who is a passenger on a boat chartered by gangsters. When he cannot initially find his wife, the gangster tells the "duke" to remain in his room with his daughter while he finds the wife. Crazy complications ensue!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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Broadway
Overview: Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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