Granville Bates
Granville Bates (January 7, 1882 - July 8, 1940) was an American actor.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.58 |
Birthday | 1882-01-06 |
Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As |
1940
The Mortal Storm
7.1/76
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...
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The Mortal Storm
1936
Poppy
6.5/4
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter...
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Poppy
1934
Midnight
5.043/23
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangste...
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Midnight
1937
They Won't Forget
5.7/27
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with polit...
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They Won't Forget
1939
Of Mice and Men
7.286/77
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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Of Mice and Men
1939
Blackwell's Island
5/7
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Blackwell's Island
1936
Times Square Playboy
4.8/4
A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.
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Times Square Playboy
1940
Women in Hiding
0/0
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospit...
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Women in Hiding
1935
Pursuit
6/3
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Ru...
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Pursuit
1937
Larceny on the Air
5/0
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.
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Larceny on the Air
1938
Mr. Chump
0/0
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
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Mr. Chump
1938
A Man to Remember
6.5/6
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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A Man to Remember
1934
Woman in the Dark
5.786/14
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is dis...
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Woman in the Dark
1935
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
6/4
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1937
The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
4.5/2
Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of indigest...
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The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning
1937
When's Your Birthday?
4/1
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
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When's Your Birthday?
1939
Indianapolis Speedway
5/7
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Indianapolis Speedway
1935
Woman Wanted
6.3/7
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Bax...
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Woman Wanted
1938
Go Chase Yourself
4.5/4
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.
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Go Chase Yourself
1937
Mountain Justice
5.5/2
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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Mountain Justice
1938
Next Time I Marry
6.8/6
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would s...
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Next Time I Marry
1937
The Perfect Specimen
5.7/5
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's wish...
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The Perfect Specimen
1938
Romance on the Run
0/0
A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also...
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Romance on the Run
1940
Men Against the Sky
4.4/5
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane...
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Men Against the Sky
1939
The Great Man Votes
6.1/6
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...
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The Great Man Votes
1930
The Sap from Syracuse
4.8/4
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foil...
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The Sap from Syracuse
1939
Twelve Crowded Hours
5.2/3
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
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Twelve Crowded Hours
1938
The Affairs of Annabel
4/3
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for pu...
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The Affairs of Annabel
1938
Cowboy from Brooklyn
4/1
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
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Cowboy from Brooklyn
1936
Beloved Enemy
5.75/7
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is no...
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Beloved Enemy
1937
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
0/0
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her...
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1936
The Plainsman
6.2/30
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
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The Plainsman
1937
It Happened in Hollywood
6.2/13
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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It Happened in Hollywood
1937
Back in Circulation
5.3/3
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express get...
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Back in Circulation
1937
Wells Fargo
4.9/9
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fres...
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Wells Fargo
1938
Youth Takes a Fling
1/1
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it m...
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Youth Takes a Fling
1938
Young Dr. Kildare
6.5/8
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his k...
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Young Dr. Kildare
1937
Waikiki Wedding
5.3/7
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful Hawaii....
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Waikiki Wedding
1938
Garden of the Moon
5.8/4
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast ov...
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Garden of the Moon
1939
Naughty But Nice
6.2/6
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindse...
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Naughty But Nice
1937
Make Way for Tomorrow
7.6/173
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with d...
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Make Way for Tomorrow
1936
Here Comes Trouble
0/0
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
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Here Comes Trouble
1939
Espionage Agent
5.9/9
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an esp...
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Espionage Agent
1939
Fast and Furious
5.2/8
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal,...
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Fast and Furious
1939
Eternally Yours
5.6/16
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengt...
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Eternally Yours
1939
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
6/1
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. Wh...
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1940
Millionaire Playboy
2.7/3
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
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Millionaire Playboy
1939
Pride of the Blue Grass
6/2
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
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Pride of the Blue Grass
1937
The Great O'Malley
6.7/8
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien...
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The Great O'Malley
1937
Wings Over Honolulu
0/0
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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Wings Over Honolulu
1940
Brother Rat and a Baby
5.2/3
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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Brother Rat and a Baby
1940
Brother Orchid
6.403/31
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himsel...
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Brother Orchid
1939
Thou Shalt Not Kill
0/0
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
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Thou Shalt Not Kill
1940
Flowing Gold
7/7
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires hi...
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Flowing Gold
1940
My Favorite Wife
6.9/150
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock...
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My Favorite Wife
1936
Chatterbox
6/2
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapprov...
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Chatterbox
1936
The Captain's Kid
6/2
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
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The Captain's Kid
1935
I Live My Life
6.4/8
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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I Live My Life
1917
Young Mother Hubbard
5/1
Forced by the death of her mother to care for her three brothers and sisters, little Mona Fairfax is known to farmers of her district as Young Mother...
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Young Mother Hubbard
1936
Important News
6/3
In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page.
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Important News
1936
13 Hours by Air
4.6/5
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves o...
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13 Hours by Air
1937
Green Light
6.3/7
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research...
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Green Light
1939
Sweepstakes Winner
3.7/3
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
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Sweepstakes Winner
1931
Honor Among Lovers
5.9/11
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
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Honor Among Lovers
1937
The Good Old Soak
0/0
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
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The Good Old Soak
1938
Hard to Get
6/5
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making b...
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Hard to Get
1938
The Jury's Secret
3/1
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the inn...
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The Jury's Secret
1931
The Smiling Lieutenant
6.873/51
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
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The Smiling Lieutenant
1940
Private Affairs
0/0
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
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Private Affairs
1939
Drunk Driving
5.2/6
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes...
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Drunk Driving
1938
The Shining Hour
6.6/20
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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The Shining Hour
1938
Mannequin
6.1/19
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left beh...
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Mannequin
1935
Alibi Racket
6/2
How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.
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Alibi Racket
1937
Let's Get Married
0/0
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Let's Get Married
1932
The Wiser Sex
6/1
A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.
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The Wiser Sex
1937
Under Suspicion
0/0
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally,...
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Under Suspicion
1929
Jealousy
0/0
Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier who...
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