Erville Alderson
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1882-09-10
Place of Birth:Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Also Known As:Erville Anderson

Santa Fe Trail (1940)
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are...

The Feathered Serpent (1948)
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that...

The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting...

The Scarlet Empress (1934)
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted...

Salvation Jane (1927)
An ambitious tenement girl forced into a life of crime has a change of heart when her victim tries to kill himself.

Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force...

Along Came Jones (1945)
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the...

Objective, Burma! (1945)
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

Sergeant York (1941)
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep...

Trifles of Importance (1940)
Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number...

The Fighting Code (1933)
The death of a young woman's father puts a cowboy on the trail of a killer.

The Bishop's Wife (1947)
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for...

Haunted Gold (1932)
John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan...

Fleetwing (1928)
Capturing a beautiful horse and slave girl, Thurya young Arab Jaafor’s happiness is short lived when the girl is sold to a cruel sheik....

The Actress (1953)
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.

Outside These Walls (1939)
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...

America (1924)
The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.

The Monroe Doctrine (1939)
The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.

The Exciters (1923)
Ronnie Rand, Required to marry before she is 21 or lose her inheritance, Ronnie Rand meets Pierre Martel, member of a gang of thieves, and, convinced...

When the Daltons Rode (1940)
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing...

An American Romance (1944)
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.

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...

Isn't Life Wonderful (1924)
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the...

Arrowsmith (1931)
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things...

Boys' Ranch (1946)
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.

Desperate (1947)
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

The Man in the Barn (1937)
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to...

Public Opinion (1935)
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.

Parachute Battalion (1941)
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond...

Small Town Boy (1937)
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money...

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...

The Lash (1930)
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.

Career Woman (1936)
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend...

Hello, Everybody! (1933)
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole...

Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.

My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a...

And the Angels Sing (1944)
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of...

They Call It Sin (1932)
An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a...

Tobacco Road (1941)
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick...

Romance of Louisiana (1937)
A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.

Land of Liberty (1939)
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

First Comes Courage (1943)
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies...

Captain China (1950)
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy....

Summer Stock (1950)
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores...

Too Many Cooks (1931)
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

John Meade's Woman (1937)
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her...

Lazy River (1934)
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

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...

Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

The Stranger's Return (1933)
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married...

Station West (1948)
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging...

Redemption (1930)
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée....

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

Stand Up and Fight (1939)
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

Jesse James (1939)
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father...

The Hardys Ride High (1939)
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2...

Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939)
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the...

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new...

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

The Dawn Trail (1930)
Dissension arises between cattlemen in Osage County, Texas, and sheepherders who have settled there and use the same watering stream. Mart Dalton,...

Judge Hardy and Son (1939)
Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.

Lincoln in the White House (1939)
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.

Henry Goes Arizona (1939)
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

Square Shooter (1935)
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.

Fury (1936)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is...

The Black Cat (1941)
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.

The White Rose (1923)
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see...

Rangers of Fortune (1940)
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his...

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his...

Society Fever (1935)
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.

The Valley of the Giants (1927)
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.

Edison, the Man (1940)
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

The Spiral Staircase (1946)
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

The Bad Man (1930)
Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.

Fazil (1928)
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their...

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...

The Fortune Hunter (1927)
The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The...

The Sea of Grass (1947)
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes...

The Richest Man in Town (1941)
The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He...

The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

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...

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe",...

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won...

Hazard (1948)
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a...

Knute Rockne All American (1940)
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.

Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.

Maryland (1940)
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his...

Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Professor McGargle before she dies. Years later...

To the Last Man (1933)
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for...

Geronimo (1939)
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud...

Arizona Trail (1943)
A young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family ranch.

Something to Live For (1952)
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway...

Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been...

Incendiary Blonde (1945)
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged...

Honky Tonk (1941)
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things...

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as...

Cynara (1932)
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.

Mr. Whitney Had a Notion (1949)
Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass...

What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943)
Musicians help a woman (Ann Miller) and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel.

The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942)
In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American...

The Girl from Chicago (1927)
Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces...

Again Pioneers (1950)
Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending...

The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their...

Speakeasy (1929)
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the...

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

Eyes Aloft (1943)
In this documentary short film, a woman volunteer for the civilian aviation observer corps in World War II explains how the U.S. military depends on...

Oklahoma Outlaws (1943)
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Out West with the Hardys (1938)
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.

The Man Without a Country (1937)
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile...

The Shanghai Chest (1948)
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected...

The Mighty Treve (1937)
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.

Her Man (1918)
A wealthy woman moves to Appalachia to educate illiterate mountaineers, but gets caught up between two feuding families.

The Heart of Maryland (1927)
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe....

Dancing in the Dark (1949)
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio...

Highway West (1941)
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Pursued (1947)
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his...

Hoopla (1933)
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.

Sorrowful Jones (1949)
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of...

Educating Father (1936)
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come...

The Tall Target (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Back to Bataan (1945)
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.

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...

Magnificent Doll (1946)
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne...

Marie Antoinette (1938)
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...

Cynthia (1947)
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

Wild and Woolly (1937)
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!)...

The Good-Bad Wife (1920)
William Carter, a young Virginian in Paris, becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La Fare. After William reluctantly returns to America,...

Kidnapped (1948)
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.

You Can't Escape Forever (1942)
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.

State Fair (1933)
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

Canyon Passage (1946)
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the...

Mobs, Inc. (1956)
Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con...

Mobs Incorporated (1956)
Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con...

The Merry Widow (1952)
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a...

Parnell (1937)
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...

The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.

Telephone Time (1956)
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John...

Racket Squad (1951)
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco,...