Paul Stanton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Stanton (1884-1955) was an American character actor and bit-part player in American films.
Originally from Illinois, he appeared in about 130 films between 1918 and 1952, mostly in supporting roles. He often portrayed authoritarian figures like judges, attorneys, managers, officials and doctors.
Known For | Acting |
---|---|
Most Rating | 2.142 |
Birthday | 1884-12-20 |
Place of Birth | Sterling, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As | Paul George Stahl, |
1940
I Love You Again
7.3/51
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
Watch Now
I Love You Again
1936
Dimples
6.5/16
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady...
Watch Now
Dimples
1936
Charlie Chan at the Circus
6.1/23
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Watch Now
Charlie Chan at the Circus
1939
Undercover Doctor
5.5/2
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his n...
Watch Now
Undercover Doctor
1935
Whipsaw
6.2/15
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfri...
Watch Now
Whipsaw
1943
Air Raid Wardens
7.1/17
Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
Watch Now
Air Raid Wardens
1947
Cry Wolf
5.9/28
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
Watch Now
Cry Wolf
1946
Shadow of a Woman
4.2/10
Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in ord...
Watch Now
Shadow of a Woman
1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
6/15
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice....
Watch Now
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1942
Across the Pacific
6.5/74
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship f...
Watch Now
Across the Pacific
1941
Whistling in the Dark
5.8/14
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's h...
Watch Now
Whistling in the Dark
1941
The Night of January 16th
5/5
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interes...
Watch Now
The Night of January 16th
1918
Her Price
0/0
Marcia Calhoun, a talented but penniless singer, leaves her Southern home hoping to study opera in New York. Her instructor, Professor Didot, promises...
Watch Now
Her Price
1943
Flight for Freedom
5.2/6
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of th...
Watch Now
Flight for Freedom
1938
Kentucky Moonshine
5.3/3
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
Watch Now
Kentucky Moonshine
1941
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
7/3
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.
Watch Now
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
1947
Welcome Stranger
6.6/5
Crusty Dr. McRory of Fallbridge, Maine, hires his vacation replacement sight unseen. Alas, he and young singing Doctor Jim Pearson don't hit it off; b...
Watch Now
Welcome Stranger
1937
Danger – Love at Work
8/2
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Watch Now
Danger – Love at Work
1948
Here Comes Trouble
4.6/7
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
Watch Now
Here Comes Trouble
1934
Wednesday's Child
3/3
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
Watch Now
Wednesday's Child
1946
Crime of the Century
5/1
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of th...
Watch Now
Crime of the Century
1937
Youth on Parole
2.7/3
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thiev...
Watch Now
Youth on Parole
1938
Law of the Underworld
5.3/3
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
Watch Now
Law of the Underworld
1941
Pacific Blackout
6.3/3
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the r...
Watch Now
Pacific Blackout
1945
Hit the Hay
0/0
An unsophisticated farm girl pursues a career as an opera singer.
Watch Now
Hit the Hay
1936
Crack-Up
5.7/9
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
Watch Now
Crack-Up
1933
Should Ladies Behave
4.3/6
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.
Watch Now
Should Ladies Behave
1941
Strange Alibi
6.5/4
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
Watch Now
Strange Alibi
1936
Half Angel
0/0
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
Watch Now
Half Angel
1936
Poor Little Rich Girl
6.6/16
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en...
Watch Now
Poor Little Rich Girl
1936
Sing, Baby, Sing
5.7/3
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolph...
Watch Now
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936
Private Number
6.3/3
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler a...
Watch Now
Private Number
1937
Midnight Taxi
5/3
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
Watch Now
Midnight Taxi
1939
Rose of Washington Square
5.7/3
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
Watch Now
Rose of Washington Square
1937
Stella Dallas
6.9/80
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
Watch Now
Stella Dallas
1937
Man Of The People
7/3
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Watch Now
Man Of The People
1938
Condemned Women
6.3/3
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
Watch Now
Condemned Women
1939
Hollywood Cavalcade
5.1/4
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...
Watch Now
Hollywood Cavalcade
1934
His Greatest Gamble
5/3
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
Watch Now
His Greatest Gamble
1941
The Big Store
6.3/65
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
Watch Now
The Big Store
1939
Stronger Than Desire
5.8/6
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Watch Now
Stronger Than Desire
1935
Strangers All
5.5/1
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
Watch Now
Strangers All
1935
West Point of the Air
6/3
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
Watch Now
West Point of the Air
1936
Champagne Charlie
4.8/4
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
Watch Now
Champagne Charlie
1947
My Wild Irish Rose
6/6
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Watch Now
My Wild Irish Rose
1939
They Shall Have Music
5.9/7
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the...
Watch Now
They Shall Have Music
1939
Bachelor Mother
7.1/57
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, D...
Watch Now
Bachelor Mother
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.9/1034
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon...
Watch Now
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1936
The Road to Glory
6.3/5
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and m...
Watch Now
The Road to Glory
1937
Portia on Trial
5/4
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condo...
Watch Now
Portia on Trial
1940
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
4/2
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The...
Watch Now
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1936
Night Waitress
5.8/3
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low char...
Watch Now
Night Waitress
1946
Sister Kenny
6.5/14
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validi...
Watch Now
Sister Kenny
1936
Sins of Man
0/0
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the secon...
Watch Now
Sins of Man
1937
The Awful Truth
7.2/299
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
Watch Now
The Awful Truth
1937
Time Out for Romance
5.6/5
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Watch Now
Time Out for Romance
1947
Her Husband's Affairs
5.5/4
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constructive (and on-target) feedback, which he hates. T...
Watch Now
Her Husband's Affairs
1935
Red Salute
5.8/6
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and...
Watch Now
Red Salute
1937
Paid to Dance
5.3/3
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance hal...
Watch Now
Paid to Dance
1938
Rascals
6/0
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite who has amnesia. She works as a fortune tel...
Watch Now
Rascals
1937
Make Way for Tomorrow
7.5/180
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...
Watch Now
Make Way for Tomorrow
1939
20,000 Men a Year
5.5/4
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it...
Watch Now
20,000 Men a Year
1940
Lady with Red Hair
6.5/6
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Watch Now
Lady with Red Hair
1940
And One Was Beautiful
6.2/6
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
Watch Now
And One Was Beautiful
1937
It Can't Last Forever
5/1
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspap...
Watch Now
It Can't Last Forever
1938
Army Girl
6/1
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to m...
Watch Now
Army Girl
1941
Remember the Day
6.8/4
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Da...
Watch Now
Remember the Day
1934
Anne of Green Gables
5.7/23
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their fa...
Watch Now
Anne of Green Gables
1937
Dangerous Number
5/5
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry....
Watch Now
Dangerous Number
1943
Slightly Dangerous
5.8/6
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Watch Now
Slightly Dangerous
1941
You're in the Army Now
3.6/5
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
Watch Now
You're in the Army Now
1930
A Million Me's
0/0
Lee at the piano singing a fragment of a blues when a young man enters her home with a pile of records: - Hello Miss Morse. I've brought over those re...
Watch Now
A Million Me's
1937
It Could Happen to You
1/1
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigra...
Watch Now
It Could Happen to You
1943
So's Your Uncle
5/1
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not appr...
Watch Now
So's Your Uncle
1945
She Gets Her Man
3.7/3
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
Watch Now
She Gets Her Man
1942
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
5.8/5
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
Watch Now
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1944
Once Upon a Time
5.8/11
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night, Fly...
Watch Now
Once Upon a Time
1935
Another Face
4.2/4
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
Watch Now
Another Face
1933
The Women in His Life
4/4
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
Watch Now
The Women in His Life
1936
Every Saturday Night
0/0
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
Watch Now
Every Saturday Night
1943
Crash Dive
6.1/22
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new...
Watch Now
Crash Dive
1936
The Public Pays
7/6
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and...
Watch Now
The Public Pays
1940
Public Deb No. 1
4.2/3
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his c...
Watch Now
Public Deb No. 1
1942
Lucky Jordan
6/3
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie...
Watch Now
Lucky Jordan
1949
The Fountainhead
6.8/140
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to...
Watch Now
The Fountainhead
1947
Always Together
6.7/3
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...
Watch Now
Always Together
1937
Black Legion
6.5/50
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates fore...
Watch Now
Black Legion
1937
A Star Is Born
7.2/205
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her ido...
Watch Now
A Star Is Born
1942
The Magnificent Dope
7.2/10
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" t...
Watch Now
The Magnificent Dope
1940
Queen of the Mob
4.5/2
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
Watch Now
Queen of the Mob
1936
The Longest Night
5.7/2
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
Watch Now
The Longest Night
1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
4.8/10
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...
Watch Now