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Douglas Walton is a Actor Canadien born on 16 october 1910 at Ontario (Canada)

Douglas Walton

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Birth name J. Douglas Dunder
Nationality Canada
Birth 16 october 1910 at Ontario (Canada)
Death 15 november 1961 (at 51 years)

Douglas Walton (October 16, 1910 – November 15, 1961) was a Canadian actor who worked in American films during the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in 60 films between 1931 and 1950.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Douglas Walton (49 films)

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Actor

Three Came Home, 1h40
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Political films, Women in prison films, Children's films
Actors Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Westcott, Jerry Fujikawa
Roles Un prisonnier australien
Rating72% 3.642793.642793.642793.642793.64279
American-born Agnes Keith (Colbert) and her British husband Harry Keith (Patric Knowles) live a cushioned colonial life in North Borneo with their young son George in 1942. Keith is the only American in Sandakan. Worried about the rumors surrounding Japanese invasion, Harry asks Agnes if she would leave for the United States along with George. Agnes replies that she would send George but not go herself. In the meantime, the Pearl Harbor attack takes place. Japanese soldiers led by Colonel Suga (Sessue Hayakawa) capture the place. Suga is fluent in English and has read a book on Borneo authored by Mrs. Keith. During the Japanese invasion of Sandakan, Agnes has a miscarriage. Europeans living there are moved to prison camps. Harry lives in the camp meant for men while George and Agnes live in another camp. After a few days, women and children are taken to another camp.
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass, 1h25
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Action, Historical, Western
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Lloyd Bridges, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Willard Parker, Norman Lloyd
Roles un bookmaker
Rating59% 2.9521152.9521152.9521152.9521152.952115
Sam Bass débarque dans une petite ville pour y trouver un emploi. Mal reçu par le sheriff du lieu qui n'aime pas les joueurs, il fait la connaissance de Calamity Jane et finit sur la pression de l'entourage à trouver un emploi chez ce même sheriff. Là, il tombe amoureux de la soeur de ce dernier et promet de l'épouser. Avant cela il souhaite faire fortune en acquérant un cheval de course qu'il inscrit à une compétition dans la ville d'Albuquerque. Il y mise non seulement son argent personnel mais aussi celui des ranchers pour lesquels il travaille après s'être querellé avec le sheriff. Malheureusement la course est truquée et Sam Bass doit maintenant récupérer les 16000 dollars correspondants. Il attaque le convoi qui transporte l'argent et est désormais poursuivi pour attaque à main armée, puis pour meurtre.
Hills of Home, 1h37
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Edmund Gwenn, Pal, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams
Roles le pasteur
Rating65% 3.2946153.2946153.2946153.2946153.294615
Dr. William MacLure (Edmund Gwenn) a Scottish doctor, adopts Lassie, who has an unnatural aversion to water. The Dr. tries to cure Lassie of her fears, but she remains water-shy.
Trouble Preferred, 1h3
Directed by James Tinling
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Peggy Knudsen, Lynne Roberts, Charles Russell, Paul Langton, Marcia Mae Jones, June Storey
Roles Slippy Patterson - Pickpocket (uncredited)

Green Dolphin Street, 2h21
Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Richard Hart, Frank Morgan, Edmund Gwenn
Roles Sir Charles Maloney
Rating67% 3.394713.394713.394713.394713.39471
In the 1840s, on an island in the English Channel, two sisters, Marguerite (Donna Reed) and Marianne Patourel (Lana Turner), daughters of the wealthy Octavius Patourel (Edmund Gwenn), fall in love with the same man, William Ozanne (Richard Hart).
Forever Amber, 2h18
Directed by Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Richard Haydn, Glenn Langan
Roles un dandy
Rating64% 3.2444353.2444353.2444353.2444353.244435
The film begins in 1644 during the English Civil War, as we see a group of Roundheads pursuing a Cavalier's carriage. The carriage drives into the country where its passengers abandon a baby, named Amber, on the doorstep of a farming cottage. The roundheads soon catch up with the carriage and kill all the passengers while the farmers discover and decide to adopt Amber.
High Tide
High Tide (1947)
, 1h12
Directed by John Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Lee Tracy, Francis Ford, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey, Douglas Walton, Anthony Warde
Roles Clinton Vaughn
Rating63% 3.1913153.1913153.1913153.1913153.191315
Newspaperman is caught in the middle of a ruthless city power struggle.
Cloak and Dagger, 1h46
Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, J. Edward Bromberg, Marc Lawrence
Roles Un pilote britannique
Rating65% 3.2973253.2973253.2973253.2973253.297325
L'action se déroule pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Un chercheur italien qui a découvert la formule de la bombe atomique est aux mains des Allemands. Un espion américain fait tout pour le délivrer.
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball, 1h2
Directed by Gordon Douglas, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Morgan Conway, Dick Wessel, Esther Howard, Anne Jeffreys, Rita Corday, Ian Keith
Roles Percival Priceless, Antique Store Owner
Rating58% 2.9473252.9473252.9473252.9473252.947325
Luxurious diamonds are stolen but before the thief can safely hide them aboard an ocean liner he is strangled by ex-conman Cueball. Cueball takes the valuable diamonds and is given refuge by Filthy Flora, madam of the Dripping Dagger Bar, and then continues on murdering people that he believes are trying to double-cross him. Dick Tracy allows his attractive girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the diamonds but is put in grave danger when Cueball vows to eliminate . . .
Murder, My Sweet, 1h35
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Douglas Walton
Roles Lindsay Marriott
Rating74% 3.7473.7473.7473.7473.747
Temporarily blinded with his eyes bandaged, private detective Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) is being interrogated by police lieutenant Randall (Don Douglas) about two murders.
Kitty
Kitty (1945)
, 1h43
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen, Cecil Kellaway, Constance Collier
Roles Philip (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.486733.486733.486733.486733.48673
In 1783, Kitty (Goddard) is caught trying to pick the pocket of the painter Thomas Gainsborough (Kellaway). He offers to pay her more to sit for a portrait for him. There, she attracts the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy (Milland) and the Earl of Carstairs (Knowles). Sir Hugh, upon finding out her real social status, offers her a job as a scullery maid. Kitty learns that he is impoverished, having lost his post in the foreign office due to a scandal.
Bring on the Girls, 1h32
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds, Peter Whitney, Alan Mowbray
Roles Edgar
Rating60% 3.0034653.0034653.0034653.0034653.003465
Ce film en couleurs et en partie musical est une adaptation de L'Homme qui cherche la vérité, film français d'Alexander Esway sorti en 1940.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1h49
Directed by Albert Lewin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Peinture
Actors George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Lowell Gilmore
Roles Allen Campbell
Rating74% 3.74613.74613.74613.74613.7461
Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) is a handsome, wealthy young man living in 19th century London. While generally intelligent, he is naive and easily manipulated. These faults lead to his spiral into sin and, ultimately, misery.
Desperate Journey, 1h47
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey, John Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Coleman, Ronald Sinclair
Roles un officier britannique jouant aux dés
Rating67% 3.394623.394623.394623.394623.39462
Assigned to bomb a German railway, Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes (Errol Flynn) presses home an attack but flies too low and the RAF bomber is shot down near the former Polish border. Along with his crew, consisting of Flying Officer Johnny Hammond (Ronald Reagan), Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards (Alan Hale, Sr.), Flying Officer Jed Forrest (Arthur Kennedy) and Flight Sergeant Lloyd Hollis (Ronald Sinclair) who is wounded, they are captured by the Germans.