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Morris Ankrum
Known For: Acting · Birthday: 1896-08-28
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Biography
Morris Ankrum (born Morris Nussbaum, August 28, 1896 – September 2, 1964) was an American radio, television, and film character actor.
Early Life
Born in Danville in Vermilion County in eastern Illinois, Ankrum originally began a career in academics. After graduating from The University of Southern California with a law degree, he went on to an associate professorship in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley he became involved in the drama department and eventually began teaching drama and directing at the Pasadena Playhouse.From 1923-39 he acted in several Broadway stage productions, including Gods of the Lightning, The Big Blow, and Within the Gates.
Movies & TV Series
1965.
1 Movie
1962.
1 Movie
1961.
1 Movie
1958.
9 Movies
The Saga of Hemp Brown
1958
Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in whic...
How to Make a Monster
1958
When master monster make-up man Pete Dumond is fired by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1958
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by moder...
The Power of the Resurrection
1958
A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate. Peter tells him of fear he felt in following Jesus' arrest in the Gar...
Giant from the Unknown
1958
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the sci...
Badman's Country
1958
Pat Garrett arrives in Abilene where he catches five of Butch Cassidy's gang. He calls in Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and they learn there is a half million dollar shipment of money arriving by train...
Curse of the Faceless Man
1958
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
From the Earth to the Moon
1958
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans t...
Frontier Gun
1958
Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
1957.
7 Movies
Kronos
6
1957
Scientists investigate a huge meteor that crashes into the ocean off Mexico, and encounter a skyscraper-tall, mobile machine which is designed to syphon energy from earth, including any energy direc...
Hell's Crossroads
1957
An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford (Robert Vaughn) and Vic Rodell (Stephen McNally) are nabbed, but the governor offers them amnesty in exchange for their...
Drango
1957
A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the obstility.
The Giant Claw
1957
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
Omar Khayyam
1957
Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of ...
Zombies of Mora Tau
1957
American tycoon George Harrison, his beautiful wife, Mona, and deep-sea diver Jeff Clark are off the coast of Africa hoping to salvage a fortune in diamonds at the bottom of the sea near the voodoo-ha...
Beginning of the End
2.67
1957
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is e...
1956.
7 Movies
Walk the Proud Land
1956
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs and the Indian widow (Bancroft) given to him as h...
Naked Gun
1956
Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later, an American insurance man promises to deliv...
The Desperados Are in Town
1956
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He...
Fury at Gunsight Pass
1956
An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery.
Quincannon, Frontier Scout
1956
A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
When Gangland Strikes
1956
In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a ...
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
7
1956
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious...
1955.
7 Movies
Crashout
1955
Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck t...
The Eternal Sea
1955
Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
Chief Crazy Horse
1955
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new ...
The Silver Star
1955
A third generation deputy sheriff doubts whether or not he has the guts for the job that killed both his father and grandfather. His doubts are re-enforced when three vicious gunmen arrive in town. Fr...
No Man's Woman
1955
A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead--among them a rich husband she wouldn't divorce unless he...
Tennessee's Partner
1955
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder b...
The Little Lamb: A Christmas Story
1955
A lamb that had wandered off plays a significant part in the Nativity.
1954.
11 Movies
The Outlaw Stallion
1954
A young boy and a veterinarian in a red convertible help thwart a gang of horse thieves. Director Fred F. Sears' 1954 outdoor drama stars Billy Gray, Phil Carey, Roy Roberts, Dorothy Patrick, Gordon ...
The Steel Cage
1954
Drama set in San Quentin prison.
Drums Across the River
1954
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.
Silver Lode
1954
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murde...
Vera Cruz
1954
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and...
Two Guns and a Badge
1954
In the last of his four western programmers for Allied Artists, Wayne Morris plays frontiersman Jim Bisby. Mistaken for a notorious gunslinger, Jim is appointed deputy sheriff of a wide-open cattle to...
Southwest Passage
1954
Director Ray Nazarro's 1954 western, originally filmed in 3-D, stars John Ireland and Joanne Dru as fugitive bank robbers who hide out by joining a government expedition bound for California.
Three Young Texans
1954
A Texan robs a train in an effort to prevent his father from committing the crime. A young girl attempts to help him after learning about the theft. A cowboy friend demands a share of the money.
Cattle Queen of Montana
8
1954
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
Taza, Son of Cochise
1954
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no t...
Apache
4
1954
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland t...
1953.
10 Movies
Devil's Canyon
1953
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
Flight Nurse
1953
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
Arena
1953
Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.
Mexican Manhunt
1953
Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved with a murder case that...
Fort Vengeance
1953
Two brothers flee America and join the Canadian North West Mounted Police. One brother is good, the other bad, both men on a collision course just as trouble starts to brew with the Indians.
I Beheld His Glory
1953
George Macready plays the centurion who presided over Christ's crucifixion.
The Man Behind The Gun
1953
This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan...
Sky Commando
1953
Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His co-pilot, Lt. Hobson Lee, and Jo McWethy, a war correspondent assigned to the squadron become more frie...
The Moonlighter
1953
A savage story of hate turned love and frenzy turned loose!
Invaders from Mars
7
1953
In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all of the adults, including his once loving parents, be...
1952.
8 Movies
Red Planet Mars
1952
Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.
Mutiny
1952
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered f...
Hiawatha
1952
A young Indian brave attempts to bring peace to two warring tribes.
Fort Osage
1952
Lesley Selander took time off from his directorial duties on Tim Holt's RKO western series to helm the Monogram oater Fort Osage. Rod Cameron stars as frontier scout Tim Clay, assigned to guide a wago...
The Raiders
1952
A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered his wife.
Because of You
1952
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
A Star Shall Rise
1952
Story of the Three Magi's search for the Christ child following their discovery of a new star foretold in Jewish scripture and Zoroastrain religious texts.
Son of Ali Baba
1952
In ancient Persia the son of Ali Baba (of forty thieves fame), Kashma Baba is a military cadet by day and a party goer by night. He falls for a girl who he later finds is an escaped slave girl belongi...
1951.
7 Movies
My Favorite Spy
1951
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
Along the Great Divide
1951
New Federal marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants p...
The Lion Hunters
1951
A lion trapper and his daughter rendezvous with their hardheaded partner in the African jungle. Bomba, with some assistance from the local natives and lions, runs them off.
Fighting Coast Guard
1951
Story of how the Coast Guard trained to help win World War II.
The Redhead and The Cowboy
6
1951
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder. His only alibi is Candace Bronson, who is aiding the Confederate cause ...
Tomorrow Is Another Day
1951
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her...
Flight to Mars
1951
Five astronauts successfully fly to Mars where they encounter seemingly friendly and advanced inhabitants who harbor covert plans to use their ship to invade Earth.
1950.
7 Movies
Southside 1-1000
1950
The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a criminal mob.
Rocketship X-M
4
1950
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evide...
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Short Grass
1950
Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back. And the bad blood stirred up by his return and the violence...
Borderline
1950
Two undercover agents infiltrate a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico, thee find them selves falling in love with each other. Neither is aware of the other's identity As they decide to make a run for the b...
In a Lonely Place
5.5
1950
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Chain Lightning
1950
Matt Brennan runs into Jo Holloway, the Red Cross girl he romanced in Europe when he was a flyer in World War II, when he is offered a job by jet manufacturer Leland Willis as a test pilot. Carl Troxe...
1949.
3 Movies
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.
We Were Strangers
6
1949
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan t...
Colorado Territory
1949
Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
1948.
3 Movies
Joan of Arc
1948
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen years old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her t...
Fighting Back
1948
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
For the Love of Mary
1948
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
1947.
7 Movies
Undercover Maisie
1947
Chorus girl Maisie (Ann Sothern) helps a Los Angeles police detective (Barry Nelson) catch a gang of con artists.
The Mighty McGurk
1947
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan recently arrived in the United States. Director John Waters' 1946 period comedy, set in New York's Bowery, stars Wallace Beery, D...
High Wall
1947
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lo...
Good News
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. Tommy...
Little Mister Jim
1947
After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.
Cynthia
1947
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
Desire Me
1947
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
1946.
3 Movies
The Cockeyed Miracle
1946
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
Lady in the Lake
1946
Private detective Philip Marlowe is asked by a publishing executive, Adrienne Fromsett, to locate the wife of her boss, publisher Derace Kingsby. Earlier she had sent her husband a telegram saying she...
Courage of Lassie
1946
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenche...
1945.
2 Movies
The Hidden Eye
1945
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
Phantoms, Inc.
1945
This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance t...
1944.
8 Movies
Meet the People
1944
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
Marriage Is a Private Affair
1944
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts the proposal...
Rationing
1944
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
The Thin Man Goes Home
5.52
1944
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dark Shadows
1944
This Crime Does Not Pay series short focuses on a psychiatrist investigating the murder of another psychiatrist.
Barbary Coast Gent
1944
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complicati...
Gentle Annie
1944
The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones...
The Heavenly Body
1944
The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.
1943.
3 Movies
Swing Fever
1943
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Best Foot Forward
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 boost he...
Dixie Dugan
1943
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman P...
1942.
9 Movies
Tennessee Johnson
1942
The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunc...
Reunion in France
1942
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but o...
Roxie Hart
1942
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.
Tales of Manhattan
1942
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in ...
Time to Kill
1942
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
The Omaha Trail
1942
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
Ride 'Em Cowboy
1942
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows a...
1941.
9 Movies
I Wake Up Screaming
1941
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
The Roundup
1941
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the f...
Pirates on Horseback
1941
Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by thw swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.
Doomed Caravan
1941
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure...
The Bandit Trail
1941
A cowboy turns bad for revenge, but can't stomach his new evil ways.
Wide Open Town
1941
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Ba...
Border Vigilantes
1941
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss, a...
In Old Colorado
1941
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen...
This Woman Is Mine
6
1941
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
1940.
6 Movies
Cherokee Strip
1940
Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of al...
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, si...
Three Men From Texas
1940
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
Knights of the Range
1940
Russell Hayden, taking a break from playing Hopalong Cassidy pictures, stars as Renn Frayne, a college-educated youth heading westward who finds more than he bargained for. Following a terrifying run-...
The Showdown
1940
European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
The Light of Western Stars
1940
A prim Eastern woman heads West and ends up in the arms of a vulgar, alcoholic ranch hand.
1937.
4 Movies
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
An evil deputy is using Indian half-breeds to rustle cattle. This causes trouble between the cattlemen and Indians. Hoppy, Windy and Lucky see that justice is served. Songs abound.
Borderland
1937
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspici...
Rustlers' Valley
1937
Hoppy clears Lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle a herd of pedigree cattle and take over the valley.
North of the Rio Grande
1937
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.
1936.
2 Movies
Trail Dust
1936
Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936
A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.
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