Comedias de Donald MacBride
Películas de Donald MacBride filtradas por género
🎭 M. Brady
7.1
1955
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they so ...
🎭 Cmdr. J.E. Gerrens
0
1952
Two sailors (Robert Hutton) mail love letters from a remote weather station, enclosing photos of their chief (Cathy Downs). ...
🎭 Bob's Boss
0
1952
Newlyweds Bob and Suzi have landlord troubles when Suzi's mother arrives on a visit and brings her dog and dogs are forbidden in their apartment house and they face eviction. Mother leaves and al ...
🎭 JR Lynch
6
1952
Gil Lamb, window washer at the "Daily Record" has aspirations of becoming a reporter and marrying Carol Hughes, the city editor's secretary. When he hears of the disappearance of a town millionai ...
🎭 Chief Bos'n Mate (uncredited)
6.1
1952
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is a ...
🎭 Diner Proprietor (uncredited)
6.6
1951
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. A ...
🎭 Concessionaire #2
4.4
1951
A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister. ...
🎭 Captain Brown
4.5
1951
Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los Angeles to claim a multimillion-dollar inheritance. ...
🎭 Herbert Frisbie
7.5
1951
Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army. ...
🎭 Mayor
4
1950
Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager, Knobby Walsh. ...
🎭 Police Capt. James Q. Broaderik
4.7
1948
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target ...
🎭 Insp. Watson
0
1948
A photographer is choked to death just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it is being whisked from one point to anot ...
🎭 Phineas Wharton, Sr. / Phineas Wharton, Jr.
6
1948
The growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center. ...
🎭 Coach Johnson
6.3
1947
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. ...
🎭 Crockett
6
1947
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the sto ...
🎭 Lawyer Gilbert
5.8
1947
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attend ...
🎭 Mr. Henty
6.9
1947
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the cru ...
🎭 Police captain
6.3
1947
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--an ...
🎭 Lt. Mason
6.9
1946
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence. ...
🎭 Inspector Carmichael
3.9
1946
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past. ...
🎭 The conductor
5.3
1946
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crac ...
🎭 Lawyer Ferguson
4.5
1945
Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike decides that she can get both culture and plenty of ...
🎭 Mr. Kratz
7
1945
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upo ...
🎭 Dennis Kavanaugh
5.7
1945
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role. ...
🎭 J.C. Crawford
7.3
1945
An all-girl band hits paydirt—and mud—when they sign a male crooner and then sell five 25% shares of his contract. ...
🎭 Brewster
0
1945
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline ...
🎭 Henry Wright
3.7
1945
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer. ...
🎭 Police Chief MacGregor
7.1
1944
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation. ...
🎭 Capt. Bradd
6
1943
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boo ...
🎭 Mason
5.9
1943
Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her. When h ...
🎭 R.L Barclay
4
1943
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year ...
🎭 Bolling
6.3
1942
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in ...
🎭 Officer Lonigan
6.7
1942
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up ...
🎭 Percy Fitzbadden
4.4
1942
Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb. ...
🎭 Sgt. Valentine
2
1942
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to g ...
🎭 Capt. Pierre Whitfield
6.6
1941
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty. ...
🎭 Colonel Dobson
3.6
1941
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge. ...
🎭 Coach Graham
6
1941
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game ...
🎭 Top Sergeant
6.6
1941
A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend. ...
🎭 Inspector Williams
6.9
1941
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's b ...
🎭 'Pinky' Grayson
7.1
1941
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity. ...
🎭 Sgt. Roberts
6.3
1941
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victi ...
🎭 Jeff Crandall
6
1941
Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This time they try to con a millionairess into funding th ...
🎭 Foghorn
5.7
1940
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss. ...
🎭 Chief Peter Painter
6.5
1940
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and contin ...
🎭 Insp. Vance
6
1940
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on. ...
🎭 Hotel Clerk
6.9
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 shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alo ...
🎭 Jeff Crandall
7.3
1940
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find. ...
🎭 Lieutenant Bixler
5.8
1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fia ...
🎭 Harvey Morton
6.2
1939
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens. ...
🎭 Mike Bascom
4
1939
An outlaw kidnaps a dancer and her lover in order to win a bet. ...
🎭 Dist. Atty. John, Markham
5.5
1939
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. ...
🎭 L. B. Renner
4.2
1939
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsa ...
🎭 Iron Hat McCarthy
6.1
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, and his children, who know him for what he is ...
🎭 Thompson, RR Conductor
5
1938
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head Webb re-hire disgraced publicity agent Morgan ...
🎭 Gregory Wagner
6.5
1938
Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast. ...
0
1937
Harry (Harry Gribbon) and Beulah are married when the story begins. However, Harry has plenty of evidence that Beulah might be cheating on him...but he's VERY slow to notice the signs. However, w ...
🎭 Elevator operator
0
1937
Tim Ryan teams with his wife, Irene, playing a salesman who runs into a saleswoman with an identical sales case. ...
🎭 Dan Riley (uncredited)
🎭 Irate Camper
0
1936
An Educational Pictures comedy starring the husband and wife team of Tim and Irene Ryan. ...
🎭 Muscle Bound Pete (as Don MacBride)
0
1935
Johnny (Shemp Howard) is promised the chief process server's job if he can serve a summons on Musclebound Pete, a local hood. Like the servers before him, he's not only unsuccessful, but beat up ...
🎭 Fire Chief (as Don McBride)
0
1935
After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on Moe and plays a humiliating joke on him. ...
🎭 Angry Neighbor (uncredited)
3.5
1934
A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip. Along for the ride are the boorish downstairs neighbors (Shemp Howard and Ruth Gillette) ...
🎭 Stagehand (uncredited)
0
1934
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme. ...
🎭 Egyptian (uncredited)
0
1934
Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt. ...
🎭 I. Peek - Head Detective
0
1934
A freshly minted private eye is sent to a sanitarium as a gag. ...
🎭 Customs Officer
0
1934
Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting involved with an actress in vaudeville and her ...
🎭 Flossie's Driver
0
1933
A clumsy handyman mixes up a mail-order bride and a prize cow, both named "Flossie," with humorous results. ...
🎭 Mr. Dawson (uncredited)
0
1933
Tom Howard gets into a poker game on the train with some guys who make up their own rules. ...
🎭 Policeman
6
1933
Fatty invents a liquid with flubber-like properties which makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house to demonstrate his invention, he unknowingly ...
0
1932
George Shelton asks Tom Howard to help him impress his girl as a he-man. Howard is to insult him, and then Shelton comes up and punches out Howard. The gag works, so Howard tries to use the same ...
🎭 Bill - Asylum Guard
0
1932
A scheming socialite meets her match in the out-of-touch wildlife explorer she ventures to ensnare. ...
🎭 House Party Guest (uncredited)
6.9
1930
The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse whe ...
🎭 Willie
8
1916
Husbandless Jane has her eye set on Willie but he is too bashful to take the initiative. To make him jealous, she creates a scarecrowl who happens to resemble the notorious bank robber Banker Bil ...
5
1915
A husband scolds his wife for not being able to manage her finances better. Unbeknown to her, he's getting rich from a crooked stock scam he's started, and is making so much money that he brings ...