James Donlan
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1888-07-23
Place of Birth:San Francisco, California, USA
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Also Known As:Jim Donlan

Thirteen Women (1932)
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.

The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to...

Belle of the Nineties (1934)
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.

The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank...

The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

I Loved a Woman (1933)
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...

Exclusive Story (1936)
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

The Nuisance (1933)
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans,...

College Humor (1933)
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.

Big Dame Hunting (1932)
A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!

Just a Pain in the Parlor (1932)
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.

Dr. Socrates (1935)
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling...

The Good Bad Girl (1931)
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.

Sporting Blood (1931)
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.

Danger Lights (1931)
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job;...

The Fall Guy (1930)
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her...

Remote Control (1930)
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

We're Only Human (1935)
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.

Dark Hazard (1934)
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame...

Wise Girls (1929)
Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.

Five Star Final (1931)
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman...

Men of Chance (1931)
A gambler falls for a fake countess.

The Painted Desert (1931)
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still...

Copy (1929)
On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.

Under Pressure (1935)
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs...

The Plot Thickens (1936)
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.

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

The Bishop Murder Case (1929)
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where...

The Sins of the Children (1930)
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.

A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...

Hi, Nellie! (1934)
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a...

What! No Beer? (1933)
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.

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.

Here Comes the Band (1935)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...

Mothers Cry (1930)
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life...

Boulder Dam (1936)
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

Professor Beware (1938)
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the...

Babes in Arms (1939)
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie...

Traveling Saleslady (1935)
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and...

Daybreak (1931)
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

Now I'll Tell (1934)
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by...

20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Design for Living (1933)
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.

The Daring Young Man (1935)
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...

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...

Huddle (1932)
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...

Paris Interlude (1934)
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

Life Begins at Forty (1935)
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft...

The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame,...

Pilgrimage (1933)
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

Music for Madame (1937)
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party...

Doctor Bull (1933)
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly...

Beau Bandit (1930)
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and...

The Final Edition (1932)
A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.

The Death Kiss (1932)
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...

A Free Soul (1931)
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically...

Borrowing Trouble (1937)
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Hot Tip (1935)
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.

Crash Donovan (1936)
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

The Working Man (1933)
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected...

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

Big News (1929)
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.

The Avenger (1933)
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.

Night Work (1930)
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's...

Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring...

Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a...