Clifton Young
Also Known As: Robert H. Young, Robert H. 'Clifton' Young, Bobby Young, Bobby 'Bonedust' Young, Hal Roach's Rascals, Robert Howard Young
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Schenectady, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 15, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 10, 1951
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Possessed
Overview: After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-29
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Nora Prentiss
Overview: Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-22
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Pursued
Overview: A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-05
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Blood on the Moon
Overview: Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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Dark Passage
Overview: A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-05
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Shivering Spooks
Overview: The kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells them to be quiet. They join Mary, Farina, and Scooter in the gang's hide-out while Mary is reading ghost stories. While on the other side of the wall, the Arab-looking man is cheating people out of their money by staging a fake séance using state-of-the-art special effects. The cave entrance for the gang's hide-out collapses, so they light candles and dig into the wall, entering into the house. The "suckers" find out they are being cheated and run to get the cops to book the guys. The guys find out that the kids are in the house, and one dresses up in a ghost costume and chases the kids throughout the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-07
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War Feathers
Overview: While on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy with a never-ending game of cowboys and Indians. During a stopover in the sleepy town of Red Dog, the kids disembark in hopes of savoring a taste of genuine Western life. They get more than they bargained for when a trio of bandits rides into town for a showdown with the local sherff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-20
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Ten Years Old
Overview: Ten Years Old is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 58th Our Gang short subject released. It was remade as Birthday Blues in 1932. Nobody comes to Joe's birthday party so he goes to the rich kid's party with his own special cake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-13
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Chicken Feed
Overview: Chicken Feed is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 66th Our Gang short subject released. The kids go to a magic show and decides to try a little magic of their own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-06
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The President's Mystery
Overview: The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-28
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Deception
Overview: After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-26
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A Woman of Distinction
Overview: Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-16
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Bells of Coronado
Overview: An insurance investigator must track down thieves before they take off in a plane with stolen uranium ore.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-08
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Baby Brother
Overview: Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-26
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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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The Return of Jesse James
Overview: Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Whiplash
Overview: An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-24
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Backfire
Overview: When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-26
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My Wild Irish Rose
Overview: Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-24
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Love My Dog
Overview: Farina Hoskins discovers a stray dog. Joe Cobb suggests that he and Farina take the dog to the gang's dog show. In the middle of the show, the dogcatchers crack down on picking up all unlicensed strays to control a hydrophobia epidemic; the injection to control the disease costs five dollars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-16
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Overview: Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-15
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Thundering Fleas
Overview: The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-18
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Always Together
Overview: An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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Three's a Crowd
Overview: Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his telescope and sends her by carrier pigeon a note that, alas, is received by the wrong party. The Girl marries and, poverty-striken, leaves her husband during a snowstorm. Harry takes her in, and minutes later her child is born. He works like a slave for the mother and child, pretending they are his own. Meanwhile, the husband finds her and comes to the shack on Christmas Eve as Harry is preparing to play Santa Claus. Not realizing the unhappiness she is causing him, The Girl thanks him profusely and leaves with her husband. Overcome, Harry sits overnight on the doorstep and the next morning is found frozen stiff except for his eyes--with amusing results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-28
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Blood and Thunder
Overview: Mickey overhears the gang rehearsing a play and thinks it's real.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-17
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Salt Lake Raiders
Overview: A man is sent to jail for murder escapes while being transferred, Rocky is sent to bring him in. When he catches him in a ghost town the man claims to be innocent and was trying to clear himself by finding the stolen money that was never recoveded at the time of the killing. But then they find themselves prisoners of an outlaw gang that is also after the money.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-01
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So You're Going on a Vacation
Overview: Joe takes his wife on a much-needed vacation, and almost survives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-05
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The Fourth Alarm
Overview: The rascals once again, now as a plumbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-11
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Trail of Robin Hood
Overview: Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commercial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-15
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Helping Grandma
Overview: The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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Love Business
Overview: Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-14
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Little Daddy
Overview: Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-28
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Illegal Entry
Overview: Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-01
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The Sting of Stings
Overview: Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six underprivileged children out for a fun day at the carnival. Unfortunately, the children come from Juvenile Hall, and each one is more trouble than the last.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
Overview: Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-28
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The Unfaithful
Overview: Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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So You Want to Build a House
Overview: In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-15
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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
Overview: Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty storekeeper Katherine Egan (the sheriff's sister) and that wild frontiers woman, Calamity Jane. Circumstances make Sam richer by a very fast race horse. But his seemingly good luck with horses and women leads him to disaster. Will he be forced into a life of crime?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-20
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So You Want to Be a Gambler
Overview: In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-14
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So You Want an Apartment
Overview: Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-03
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Telling Whoppers
Overview: Farina and Joe fib to the gang that they've beaten up the neighborhood bully. Later, they hear he's been murdered and think they'll get the blame.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-19
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Union Station
Overview: Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-04
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Fair and Muddy
Overview: Living in an orphanage, the gang has to deal with Amanda, a child-hating spinster. To receive a bequest from a rich uncle, she must acquire a child. Thinking suspicion, the gang causes all kinds of havoc toward her including a mud battle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-05
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So You Want to Be Popular
Overview: Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-12
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So You Want to Be an Actor
Overview: Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees agents and tries out for casting directors and producers
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-03
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