Granville Bates
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1882-01-06
Place of Birth:Chicago, Illinois, USA
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The Mortal Storm (1940)
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...

Under Suspicion (1937)
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally,...

Poppy (1936)
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...

Midnight (1934)
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the...

They Won't Forget (1937)
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with...

Of Mice and Men (1939)
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Blackwell's Island (1939)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Times Square Playboy (1936)
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.

Women in Hiding (1940)
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...

Pursuit (1935)
"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...

Larceny on the Air (1937)
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.

Mr. Chump (1938)
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.

A Man to Remember (1938)
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

Woman in the Dark (1934)
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...

O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.

The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning (1937)
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...

When's Your Birthday? (1937)
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.

Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

Woman Wanted (1935)
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...

Go Chase Yourself (1938)
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.

Mountain Justice (1937)
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

Next Time I Marry (1938)
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would...

The Perfect Specimen (1937)
Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's...

Romance on the Run (1938)
A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process...

The Sap from Syracuse (1930)
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...

Men Against the Sky (1940)
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane...

The Great Man Votes (1939)
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,...

The Affairs of Annabel (1938)
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...

Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

Beloved Enemy (1936)
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...

Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
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...

The Plainsman (1936)
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

Wells Fargo (1937)
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

Back in Circulation (1937)
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...

It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

Jealousy (1929)
Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier...

Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
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...

Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
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...

Waikiki Wedding (1937)
Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful...

Garden of the Moon (1938)
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...

Naughty But Nice (1939)
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
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...

Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939)
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....

Espionage Agent (1939)
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...

Fast and Furious (1939)
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,...

Eternally Yours (1939)
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...

Pride of the Blue Grass (1939)
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

Millionaire Playboy (1940)
A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.

Wings Over Honolulu (1937)
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

The Great O'Malley (1937)
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

Here Comes Trouble (1936)
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.

Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

Brother Orchid (1940)
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...

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

Flowing Gold (1940)
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...

My Favorite Wife (1940)
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...

Chatterbox (1936)
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the...

The Captain's Kid (1936)
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.

I Live My Life (1935)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

Young Mother Hubbard (1917)
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...

Important News (1936)
In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page.

13 Hours by Air (1936)
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves...

Green Light (1937)
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...

Sweepstakes Winner (1939)
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.

Honor Among Lovers (1931)
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.

The Good Old Soak (1937)
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

Hard to Get (1938)
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...

The Jury's Secret (1938)
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 Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

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

Drunk Driving (1939)
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...

The Shining Hour (1938)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Mannequin (1938)
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...

Alibi Racket (1935)
How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.

Let's Get Married (1937)
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The Wiser Sex (1932)
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.

Our Neighbors - The Carters (1939)
A small town drugstore owner considers selling one of his children for money.