Jack Chefe
Popularity:0.8668
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1894-04-01
Place of Birth:Kiev, Russian Empire
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Also Known As:Jack Chefé, Jacques Chefé

Jewel Robbery (1932)
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

Leaping Love (1929)
Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.

Heartbeat (1946)
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.

The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul....

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too...

Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)
The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with...

Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They they get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money...

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.

The Strange Door (1951)
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country. While...

The Great Flamarion (1945)
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

One Hour with You (1932)
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist...

My Man Godfrey (1957)
The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and...

Sudan (1945)
A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.

Murder Is My Business (1946)
Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper...

Houseboat (1958)
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

A Thrill for Thelma (1935)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.

Fight for Your Lady (1937)
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.

There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back...

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

That's My Baby! (1944)
A love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim Jones, and the company's wily manipulative manager Hilton...

Three Husbands (1950)
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions...

The Lady Gambles (1949)
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...

The Perfect Snob (1941)
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover...

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who...

In a Lonely Place (1950)
A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.

The Story on Page One (1959)
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.

I Accuse My Parents (1944)
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy...

Man Of The People (1937)
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.

We Have Our Moments (1937)
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down...

Vogues of 1938 (1937)
An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All This and Glamour Too....

I'll Give a Million (1938)
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is...

Guys and Dolls (1955)
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky...

The Maze (1953)
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow...

His Greatest Gamble (1934)
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

Spy Hunt (1950)
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden...

Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

Back Street (1932)
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces;...

Mama Steps Out (1937)
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.

All About Eve (1950)
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo...

Sirocco (1951)
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's...

Midnight (1939)
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

Roadblock (1951)
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come...

Bachelor Mother (1939)
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,...

Second Fiddle (1939)
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage...

First Love (1939)
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's...

Holiday Affair (1949)
Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by...

The Flying Deuces (1939)
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the...

Shakedown (1950)
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity,...

Pier 23 (1951)
Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly...

Spring Parade (1940)
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she...

An American in Paris (1951)
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist...

The Last Hurrah (1958)
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle,...

Espionage (1937)
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

The Girl from Mandalay (1936)
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that...

To Have and Have Not (1945)
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

Dixie Dugan (1943)
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast...

Bordertown (1935)
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.

Hangover Square (1945)
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a...

I Take This Woman (1940)
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

All by Myself (1943)
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to...

This Is My Affair (1937)
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint...

Angel Face (1953)
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

The Great Sinner (1949)
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

Scarlet Dawn (1932)
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a...

Waterfront Lady (1935)
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he...

Hired Wife (1940)
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...

It Had to Be You (1947)
A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

The Heiress (1949)
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who...

Bitter Sweet (1940)
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

Between Us Girls (1942)
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.

Girl in 313 (1940)
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?

Drums of the Desert (1940)
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene...

I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con...

Champagne Waltz (1937)
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss...

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...

California Passage (1950)
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure...

Top of the Town (1937)
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper....

Crime of Passion (1956)
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the...

Confession (1937)
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's...

Once More, My Darling (1949)
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to...

That Girl from Paris (1936)
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an...

Forty Little Mothers (1940)
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

Silver Queen (1942)
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.

They Dare Not Love (1941)
An Austrian prince flees his homeland when the Nazis take over and settles in London. He meets a beautiful Austrian émigré who makes...

Madame X (1929)
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing...

Seven Thieves (1960)
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo.

Straight, Place and Show (1938)
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his...

Bombers B-52 (1957)
Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even more reason to, Jim is dating his daughter, Lois.

A Date with the Falcon (1942)
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his...

Over My Dead Body (1942)
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes)...

The Devil with Hitler (1942)
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the...

Foreign Agent (1942)
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.

Escapade (1932)
Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going straight, and visits his lawyer brother John. Phillip...

That Certain Thing (1928)
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.

Above Suspicion (1943)
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Background to Danger (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.

Something to Shout About (1943)
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

Mission to Moscow (1943)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set...

Kid Dynamite (1943)
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend...

Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

The Bigamist (1953)
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr....

Bunco Squad (1950)
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest...

Man Wanted (1932)
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for...

Pretty Baby (1950)
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.

The Big Sleep (1946)
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the...

Hunt the Man Down (1950)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.

The Naughty Nineties (1945)
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating...

Lured (1947)
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached...

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.

Private Affairs (1940)
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.

Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house...

My Man Godfrey (1936)
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in...

Double Exposure (1944)
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to...

The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom...

This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her...

Nightmare (1956)
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the...

The Blue Veil (1951)
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.

Swing Fever (1943)
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

Secret Service In Darkest Africa (1943)
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.

Movie Crazy (1932)
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.

Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying...

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

The Big Street (1942)
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.

The Mad Martindales (1942)
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

The Tarnished Angels (1957)
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne,...

Dick Tracy (1945)
Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki).

Flying with Music (1942)
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with...

Fast Company (1938)
Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

The Leopard Man (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

I Love Lucy (1951)
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
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The Ann Sothern Show (1958)
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.