Ernest Truex
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1889-09-18
Place of Birth:Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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His Girl Friday (1940)
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his...

Life with Blondie (1945)
Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she...

Private Buckaroo (1942)
The film tells the story of army recruits following basic training, with the Andrew Sisters attending USO dances. The film is a mixture of comedy and...

Come on In (1918)
A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough...

Christmas in July (1940)
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford...

Six Cylinder Love (1923)
After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.

Tillie the Toiler (1941)
While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a...

An American Citizen (1914)
A young American broker at large in London.

It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by...

All Mine to Give (1957)
This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850s. They work very hard and become...

Mama Runs Wild (1937)
Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...

Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

Slightly Honorable (1939)
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.

The Girl from Manhattan (1948)
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...

This Is the Army (1943)
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his...

A Good Little Devil (1914)
A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

Night in Paradise (1946)
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.

Whistling in the Dark (1933)
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

Fluffy (1965)
A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.

Unexpected Uncle (1941)
An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.

These Glamour Girls (1939)
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to...

The Affairs of Martha (1942)
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

Mr. Adam (1933)
Ernest Truex reluctantly turning nudist in this Al Christie Educational short.

The Expectant Father (1934)
Ernest Truex's wife is in the hospital to give birth to their first child, and she wants him there. But his boss, Montagu Love, is in a typically...

Gentlemen of the Bar (1934)
Ernest Truex is a lawyer feuding for no clear reason with the lawyer across the hall. Truex gets a woman seeking a divorce; the lawyer across the...

Dog-gone Babies (1934)
In this short film from Educational Pictures, Ernest Truex stars as a man who doesn't like kids and prefers dogs. This gets him in good with the...

His Lucky Day (1934)
Ernest Truex and family throwing a dinner party.

Fired Wife (1943)
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her...

True to Life (1943)
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins...

We Go Fast (1941)
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes...

The Warrior's Husband (1933)
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with...

Pan-Americana (1945)
A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

Island of Lost Men (1939)
A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.

Chip Off the Old Block (1944)
The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.

Always Together (1947)
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...

Start Cheering (1938)
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Calling All Husbands (1940)
A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.

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,...

Kraft Television Theatre: Alice in Wonderland (1954)
Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, join Alice on her adventure in Wonderland.

The Under-Pup (1939)
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed...

The Gay Vagabond (1941)
Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.

Swing That Cheer (1938)
Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he...

Little Orvie (1940)
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.

Ambush (1939)
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary,...

Freshman Year (1938)
A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.

Swing, Sister, Swing (1938)
In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last...

Little Accident (1939)
A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.

Rhythm of the Islands (1943)
Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones)...

The Leather Saint (1956)
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines...

Don't Get Personal (1942)
Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

Lillian Russell (1940)
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a...

Her Primitive Man (1944)
An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

Twin Beds (1942)
Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

Caprice (1913)
A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears...

Twilight for the Gods (1958)
An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.

You're Telling Me (1942)
Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

Everybody Dance (1936)
When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes...

Men in Her Diary (1945)
Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of...

Adventure in Diamonds (1940)
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

Sleepy Lagoon (1943)
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to...

Club Havana (1945)
A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

Our Town (1955)
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get...

Get That Venus (1933)
A fast-talking philanderer and sometime reporter gets caught up in an octogenarian antiquarian's scheme to steal a classical masterwork, the famous...

Petticoat Junction (1963)
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

Studio One (1948)
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One,...

The Twilight Zone (1959)
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Cameo Theatre (1950)
Cameo Theatre was an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1950 to 1955.

Dennis the Menace (1959)
This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic,...

The Millionaire (1955)
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were...

Lux Video Theatre (1950)
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

Climax! (1954)
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

Pete and Gladys (1960)
Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m....

Matinee Theater (1955)
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily...

The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series...

Grindl (1963)
Grindl is an American situation comedy that began in the fall of 1963 on NBC, originally sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The show, starring Imogene...

Suspense (1949)
An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by...

The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959)
The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts...

Jamie (1953)
After the death of his parents, seven-year-old Jamie is moved from relative to relative until he finally arrives at the home of his aunt Laurie and...

The Tom Ewell Show (1960)
The Tom Ewell Show is an American television situation comedy that aired on CBS during the 1960-61 television season.

Hazel (1961)
Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series...

Lux Video Theatre (1950)
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

Petticoat Junction (1963)
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

The Twilight Zone (1959)
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

The Ann Sothern Show (1958)
The Ann Sothern Show is an American sitcom starring Ann Sothern that aired on CBS for 93 episodes. The series began on October 6, 1958, and ended on...