Francis Sayles
Popularity:0.9666
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1891-11-22
Place of Birth:Buffalo, New York, USA
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Easy Living (1937)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

Strangers of the Evening (1932)
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.

Blonde Venus (1932)
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as...

Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.

Alcatraz Island (1937)
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938)
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.

Midnight Phantom (1935)
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no...

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

The Purple Vigilantes (1938)
David Ross organizes the ranchers into a vigilante group to rid the town of outlaws. The plan succeeds but the trouble starts when some of the men...

One in a Million (1935)
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.

Overland with Kit Carson (1939)
When Pegleg and his Black Raiders threaten the westward expansion of the United States, the government sends Kit Carson and David Brent to straighten...

Riders of Pasco Basin (1940)
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and...

Bum Voyage (1934)
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.

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...

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

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
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...

The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.

Moonlight in Vermont (1943)
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.

Devil's Island (1939)
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

The Night Riders (1939)
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers...

Dodge City (1939)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

Union Pacific (1939)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

Dr. Broadway (1942)
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

The Arizona Kid (1939)
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to...

Man-Made Monster (1941)
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

The Glass Key (1942)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Girl Missing (1933)
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June...

Ball of Fire (1941)
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang...

Below the Deadline (1936)
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to...

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...

Citizen Kane (1941)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...

Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are...

Satan Met a Lady (1936)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

The Son of Davy Crockett (1941)
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy...

Sunset on the Desert (1942)
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he...

Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

Pacific Blackout (1941)
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the...

One Crowded Night (1940)
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.

Coney Island (1943)
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night...

Down on the Farm (1938)
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

Crazy House (1943)
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

Honeymoon Lodge (1943)
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a...

Riders of Black River (1939)
Former Texas Ranger Wade Patterson (Starrett) returns to his home town, only to find that the territory is in the grip of cattle rustlers. For a...

Black Legion (1937)
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates...

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

Alibi for Murder (1936)
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them...

Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring...

Yours for the Asking (1936)
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....

Florida Special (1936)
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.