Howard Freeman
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Howard Freeman (December 9, 1899 – December 11, 1967) was an American stage actor of the early 20th century, and film and television actor of the 1940s through the 1960s.
Freeman was born in Helena, Montana, and began working as a stage actor in his 20s. He entered the film industry in 1942, when he played a small uncredited role in Inflation. Despite his late start in film acting, Freeman would build himself a fairly substantial career in that field that would last over twenty-three years. From 1943 onward he worked on a regular basis, sometimes in uncredited roles, but more often than not in small but credited bit or supporting parts.
In 1951 he began appearing on numerous television series, which would be his main acting roles for the remainder of his career, lasting into 1965.
He retired from film and television acting in 1965, and settled into retirement in New York City, where he was living at the time of his death.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 18.768 |
Birthday | 1899-12-09 |
Place of Birth | Helena, Montana, USA |
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1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman
7.8/287
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forc...
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1949
Take One False Step
5.4/14
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...
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Take One False Step
1946
Abilene Town
5.2/21
Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with th...
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Abilene Town
1943
Girl Crazy
5.6/20
Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West w...
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Girl Crazy
1943
Margin for Error
5.7/6
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of...
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Margin for Error
1952
The Turning Point
6.2/28
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't unders...
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The Turning Point
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.
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Air Raid Wardens
1948
The Snake Pit
7.036/97
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions an...
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The Snake Pit
1947
The Long Night
5.8/31
City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
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The Long Night
1946
The Blue Dahlia
6.612/147
Soon after a veteran's return from war his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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The Blue Dahlia
1944
Secret Command
6.8/4
Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jef...
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Secret Command
1945
That Night with You
0/0
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That Night with You
1943
Whistling in Brooklyn
6.3/3
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
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Whistling in Brooklyn
1946
House of Horrors
6.1/34
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his...
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House of Horrors
1951
Double Dynamite
6.2/13
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Double Dynamite
1943
Hitler's Madman
5.6/10
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
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Hitler's Madman
1947
That Way with Women
6/5
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
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That Way with Women
1945
A Song to Remember
6.1/23
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, wher...
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A Song to Remember
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.
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Slightly Dangerous
1944
Carolina Blues
5.3/3
When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes.
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Carolina Blues
1944
Rationing
3/2
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
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Rationing
1945
This Love of Ours
5.7/3
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This Love of Ours
1953
Remains to Be Seen
5.7/3
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
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Remains to Be Seen
1948
Give My Regards to Broadway
7/1
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
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Give My Regards to Broadway
1947
Easy Come, Easy Go
0/0
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
Magic Town
6.6/27
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country....
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Magic Town
1948
The Time of Your Life
5.8/13
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Jo...
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The Time of Your Life
1946
The Killers
7.338/371
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Si...
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The Killers
1945
You Came Along
7/2
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...
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You Came Along
1945
Where Do We Go from Here?
5.333/6
Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bi...
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Where Do We Go from Here?
1948
If You Knew Susie
7.5/2
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they...
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If You Knew Susie
1944
Meet Miss Bobby Socks
0/0
A teenage fan sets out to boost her favorite radio singer's career. Comedy with songs.
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Meet Miss Bobby Socks
1952
Scaramouche
7.063/88
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
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Scaramouche
1946
Cross My Heart
0/0
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
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Cross My Heart
1944
Meet the People
5/4
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some importan...
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Meet the People
1944
The Unwritten Code
5.2/4
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The Unwritten Code
1945
Mexicana
5.3/3
A Mexican crooner tries to put off fans by faking marriage to his American co-star.
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Mexicana
1945
I'll Tell the World
0/0
A PR man saves a struggling radio station from ruin.
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I'll Tell the World
1944
The Mark of the Whistler
5.867/15
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, w...
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The Mark of the Whistler
1965
Dear Brigitte
6.4/25
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little art...
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Dear Brigitte
1950
Perfect Strangers
6.2/6
Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from the...
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Perfect Strangers
1946
Inside Job
5.6/7
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unles...
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Inside Job
1948
Summer Holiday
4.9/9
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the gi...
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Summer Holiday
1951
Here Comes the Groom
5.1/16
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
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Here Comes the Groom
1944
Dancing in Manhattan
6/1
In this comedy, a garbage truck driver stumbles across $5,000. He decides to use the money for a wild night on the town. He and his girlfriend do not...
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Dancing in Manhattan
1947
California
6.6/17
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Jo...
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California
1947
Cigarette Girl
0/0
A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.
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Cigarette Girl
1948
Up in Central Park
7/4
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
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Up in Central Park
1943
Lost Angel
7.5/6
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts A...
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Lost Angel
1947
The Perfect Marriage
4/1
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
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The Perfect Marriage
1952
Million Dollar Mermaid
6.391/23
After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
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Million Dollar Mermaid
1944
Once Upon a Time
5.8/11
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Once Upon a Time
1948
Arthur Takes Over
2/1
A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.
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Arthur Takes Over
1943
Madame Curie
7.2/35
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern...
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Madame Curie
1942
Inflation
5/1
The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.
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Inflation
1948
Cry of the City
6.8/61
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his clien...
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Cry of the City
1947
My Brother Talks to Horses
6/1
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. Wh...
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My Brother Talks to Horses
1948
The Girl from Manhattan
5/1
A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his boarding...
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The Girl from Manhattan
1949
Chicago Deadline
6/11
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but c...
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Chicago Deadline
1946
So Goes My Love
7/5
Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling i...
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So Goes My Love
1953
Raiders of the Seven Seas
5.7/6
After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa (John Payne) takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida (D...
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Raiders of the Seven Seas
1943
Pilot #5
5.8/8
A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five p...
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