Houseley Stevenson
Also Known As: Housley Stevens Sr., Housely Stevens, Houseley Stevenson Sr., Housely Stevenson Sr., Housley Stevenson Sr., Housely Stevenson, Housley Stevenson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Houseley Stevenson (July 30, 1879 – August 6, 1953) was an American character actor who was born in London on July 30, 1879, and died in Duarte, California on August 6, 1953. He began his movie career in 1936 and had a short career in early television productions. Stevenson performed in live stage productions in New York under the name Houseley Stevens. He was a resident teacher at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. He was the father of actors Houseley Stevenson Jr., Edward Stevenson and Onslow Stevens.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: July 30, 1879
Age: 145 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 06, 1953
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Take One False Step
Overview: Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that he's a prime suspect and should investigate before he's arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-14
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Moonrise
Overview: Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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Colorado Territory
Overview: After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.
Genres: Western Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-11
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The Lady Gambles
Overview: When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-20
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Edge of Doom
Overview: A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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The Gal Who Took the West
Overview: In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-01
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The Sun Sets at Dawn
Overview: A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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Thunder in the Valley
Overview: The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in Utah’s Garfield County. Gwenn is a crusty shepherd whose struggling relationship with his son McCallister is complicated by a predatory animal that is attacking the flocks of local shepherds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-01
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Without Reservations
Overview: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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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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Casbah
Overview: Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-01
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Hollywood Story
Overview: An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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Sierra
Overview: Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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Cave of Outlaws
Overview: Having served a prison sentence for robbery, Pete Carver decides to go back for the hidden loot. But someone is on his trail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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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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Secret Beyond the Door
Overview: After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-24
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Overview: Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-07
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Oklahoma Annie
Overview: A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-24
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Overview: A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-25
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Time Out of Mind
Overview: The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-03
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Isle of Fury
Overview: An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-10
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The White Angel
Overview: In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-25
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The Man Who Returned to Life
Overview: An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-05
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Kidnapped
Overview: In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-28
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Midnight Court
Overview: After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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All the King's Men
Overview: A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-16
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Bride of Vengeance
Overview: The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-07
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Four Faces West
Overview: Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun collateral. The banker hands over the money in exchange for an I.O.U., signed "Jefferson Davis". McEwen rides out of town and catches a train, but not before being bitten by a rattler. On the train, a nurse, Miss Hollister, tends to his wound. A posse searches the train, but McEwen manages to escape notice. However a mysterious Mexican has taken note of the cowboy, and that loudmouthed brat is still nosing around. Who will be the first to claim the reward for the robber's capture?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-03
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Once a Doctor
Overview: Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
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The Gunfighter
Overview: The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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Masked Raiders
Overview: Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizing the frontier. Infiltrating the gang, Holt and Martin learn that the raiders are operating altruistically, robbing from the rich to give to the poor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-14
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Happy Land
Overview: An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
Genres: Drama Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-10
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The Wild North
Overview: In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-28
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Crime Doctor
Overview: Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-22
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Ramrod
Overview: A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic Dave Nash as foreman and a crew of Ivey's enemies. Ivey fights back with violence and destruction, but Dave is determined to counter him legally... a feeling not shared by his associates. Connie's boast that, as a woman, she doesn't need guns proves justified, but plenty of gunplay results.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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The Walking Hills
Overview: A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-05
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Apartment for Peggy
Overview: Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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Song of Surrender
Overview: In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in their ages in this May-to-December union, Elizha is a man of culture while Abigail is uneducated. Bruce Edridge, young, handsome and wealthy, comes into her life, and they fall in love. Abigail is now faced with two choices; the chance of wealth versus her present mediocre circumstances, or her love for Bruce versus her loyalty to Elisha.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-27
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Smart Woman
Overview: A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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All That I Have
Overview: As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to God." His nephews bring him to court to determine his mental competence in the hopes of stopping him from disposing of all his money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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The Adventurous Blonde
Overview: The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
Genres: Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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Rendezvous with Annie
Overview: A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-22
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The Secret of Convict Lake
Overview: After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-29
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Leave It to Henry
Overview: Henry Latham and town Mayor Colton continue their misadventures in Smalltown, America. This time, twelve-year-old David Latham is testifying at the trial of his father, Henry, who is accused of burning down the McCluskey bridge.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-12
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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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The Challenge
Overview: Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-02
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The Brasher Doubloon
Overview: Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-06
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China Clipper
Overview: An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-11
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You Gotta Stay Happy
Overview: Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-28
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Darling, How Could You!
Overview: Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-08
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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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Joan of Arc
Overview: In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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Native Land
Overview: By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-11
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Little Miss Big
Overview: A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Cheyenne
Overview: Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann, who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-06
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Joe Santa Claus
Overview: Disgusted that he's been moved from the hardware department to duties as a department store Santa Claus and angry that his wife wants to go to work and earn money, young father Joe Peters deserts his family. While in his Santa role, Joe chances to meet his daughter and discovers what she really wants for Christmas.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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