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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 shows
1964.
1 Movie
Guns of Diablo
1964
Bronson and Russell are up against some bad guys who run the town to which the pair have gone for supplies. Bronson runs into an old girl friend, Oliver, who is now married to his enemy Macklin. Brons...
1963.
1 Movie
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
4.94
1963
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the power he has has disastrous consequences.
1962.
1 Movie
Tower of London
4.75
1962
Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of the people he killed in his attempt to become the King of England.
1961.
1 Movie
Most Dangerous Man Alive
1961
An escaped, but framed, prisoner escapes prison during a cobalt explosion and soon discovers he has grown a special power that makes his body impervious to everything. Learning this, he seeks vengeanc...
1958.
10 Movies · 2 TV shows
From the Earth to the Moon
1958
After the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He wants to use it to power rockets and send a projectile to the moon. He will be ...
Tarawa Beachhead
1958
Director Paul Wendkos' 1958 WWII drama stars Kerwin Mathews, Julie Adams, Ray Danton, Karen Sharpe and Onslow Stevens.
TV
Sea Hunt
1958
Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, wit...
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
Pete Dumond, the master monster make-up man, uses his creations to exact revenge after he was fired by the American International studios.
TV
The Rifleman
6.67
1958
Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford are in The Rifleman as Lucas McCain and Mark McCain, respectively. It was set in the New Mexico Territory. Black-and-white half-hour episodes were filmed for the show...
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 gruesome murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist who he dislikes. The killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador who was resurrected by a...
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...
Frontier Gun
1958
Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
1957.
7 Movies
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 ...
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.
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 direct...
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.
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
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.
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...
Walk the Proud Land
1956
The Indian agent was sent to try a new approach to peace with Apaches. He won over the Indian widow and the reservation chiefs. Through diplomacy and demonstrations of faith, reservation is put on the...
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.
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
A direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction, culminated in a test space rockets exp...
1955.
7 Movies · 1 TV show
TV
Gunsmoke
6
1955
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the sett...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 Little Lamb: A Christmas Story
1955
A lamb that had wandered off plays a significant part in the Nativity.
1954.
11 Movies
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...
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.
Silver Lode
1954
A respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode has his wedding interrupted by four men led by an old acquaintances who is a US marshal and arrested Dan for the murder of his brother and the th...
Cattle Queen of Montana
8
1954
Sierra Nevada Jones needs to fight a villainous rancher to get back the land that is rightfully hers.
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 ...
Drums Across the River
1954
A bigoted young man is forced into a role as a peacekeeper when whites want the gold on the Indian land.
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...
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.
Taza, Son of Cochise
1954
The peacemaking chief Cochise died three years after the end of the Apache wars. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war. Thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, Naiche sta...
Apache
4
1954
After the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. He escaped and went to his homeland to win back his girl and gro...
1953.
10 Movies
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.
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.
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...
Invaders from Mars
7
1953
In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappears into the sand dunes just beyond his house. All of the adults, including his parents, begin to act strange....
1952.
8 Movies · 1 TV show
TV
Cowboy G-Men
1952
Cowboy G-Men is an American Western series that aired in syndication from September 1952 to June 1953, for a total of thirty-nine episodes.
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.
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...
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.
Son of Ali Baba
1952
In ancient Persia, the son of Ali Baba was a military cadet by day and a party goer at night. He fell in love with a girl who he later found out was an escaped slave girl belonging to the Caliph. His ...
1951.
7 Movies
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.
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 ...
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
The new federal marshal saved Tim from being lynched by the clan and hopes to get him to trial. Ned wants revenge for Ed's death, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him. Will just...
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
In a Lonely Place
5.5
1950
An aspiring actress is starting to suspect that her 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...
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
The rocketship X-M is used to explore the moon. They end up landing on Mars because of a malfunction and fuel miscalculations. Evidence of a once powerful civilization is found on Mars. Most of the Ma...
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...
1949.
4 Movies
Colorado Territory
1949
Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
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...
The Fountainhead
1949
Despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards, an uncompromising visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism.
Bad Men of Tombstone
1949
A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.
1948.
3 Movies
Joan of Arc
1948
After the One hundred Years War against England, France was defeated and ruined in the 15th century. Joan of Arc claims to have heard voices in her head asking her to lead the God's Army against Orlea...
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.
8 Movies
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...
Merton of the Movies
1947
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generat...
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...
1946.
4 Movies
Courage of Lassie
1946
Bill was separated from his litter and made friends with the wild creatures until he was found and adopted by Kathie. He was drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue took its toll an...
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1
1946
A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plan to murder her husband.
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 was asked by a publishing executive to locate the wife of Derace Kingsby. She had sent a telegram to her husband telling him she was going to Mexico to marry Chris Lav...
1945.
4 Movies
Purity Squad
1945
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investor...
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.
10 Movies
The Thin Man Goes Home
5.52
1944
Nick Charles got mixed up in a murder investigation while on a trip to visit his parents.
Main Street Today
1944
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials neede...
Return from Nowhere
1944
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.
Dark Shadows
1944
This Crime Does Not Pay series short focuses on a psychiatrist investigating the murder of another psychiatrist.
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Reunion in France
1942
Pat Talbot, an American flyer who was downed by the Nazis in Paris, is hidden by a Frenchwoman, who is trying to get him out of the country.
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
A tailcoat cursed by its tailor has an effect on those who wear it. The video has a W.C. The original theatrical release did not include the Fields segment.
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
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...
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.
Pirates on Horseback
1941
Hoppy, Lucky, and California are looking for a mine that was taken from the owner by a swindling gambler. The mine is found and Hoppy and Gibson fight 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...
Wide Open Town
1941
cattle rustlers are taking over a town run by Belle Langtry. She is also a front for the outlaws, led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with the help of the Bar 20 boy...
Border Vigilantes
1941
After their own committee fails to solve the town's problems, Hoppy, Lucky and California are sent to another town. The bad guys are led by the town boss, and so are the vigilantes.
In Old Colorado
1941
Two ranchers and Joe Weller have a conflict over water rights. The idea is for the ranchers to do each other first and then take over. Hoppy and the good guys will not allow this to 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
The Light of Western Stars
1940
A prim Eastern woman heads West and ends up in the arms of a vulgar, alcoholic ranch hand.
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...
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...
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 a group of local men in a plan to steal horses. Hoppy, Lucky, and Speedy have to find and expose the horse thieves.
1937.
4 Movies
Rustlers' Valley
1937
Hoppy clears Lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle up a herd of cattle and take over the valley.
Hills of Old Wyoming
1937
Indian half-breeds are being used to rustle cattle by an evil deputy. The trouble between the cattlemen and Indians is caused by this. Hoppy, Windy and Lucky can see that justice is being served. Ther...
Borderland
1937
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw so that he can drink and be mean to children in order to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. The head bad guy pretends to be a moron in order t...
North of the Rio Grande
1937
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and is on the trail of the murderers. He wants to get them so he makes himself look like a wanted man.
1936.
2 Movies
Trail Dust
1936
Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a gang that is trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching the 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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