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Stanley Prager is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter American born on 8 january 1917 at New York City (USA)

Stanley Prager

Stanley Prager
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 january 1917 at New York City (USA)
Death 18 january 1972 (at 55 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Stanley Prager (January 8, 1917 – January 18, 1972) was an American actor and a television and theatre director.

Best films

A Foreign Affair (1948)
(Actor)

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Lyle Wheeler
Lyle Wheeler
(4 films)
Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan
(4 films)
Cy Endfield
Cy Endfield
(2 films)
Gerd Oswald
Gerd Oswald
(2 films)
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Filmography of Stanley Prager (20 films)

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Actor

Three Husbands, 1h18
Directed by Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Karnes
Roles Sharpy - Tout (uncredited)
Rating55% 2.7585552.7585552.7585552.7585552.758555
When a recently deceased playboy, Max, gets to heaven, he is granted a wish. His request: to watch his three best friends, with whom he regularly played poker, for the next 24 hours. That day, each man would receive a letter; tomorrow, Max's will is to be read. Each letter states that he had an affair with that man's wife, all of with whom he was close. With one, Max attended Friday symphony matinees and had tea afterwards; with another, he went to night clubs and taught French; the last, he repeatedly hired as his nurse through his long battle with heart disease.
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M (1951)
, 1h28
Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie, Raymond Burr
Roles Police Detective (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3921153.3921153.3921153.3921153.392115
In this Americanized remake of the 1931 German film of the same name, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious killer who preys on small children.
Dark City
Dark City (1950)
, 1h38
Directed by William Dieterle, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Don DeFore, Dean Jagger, Jack Webb
Rating66% 3.3461153.3461153.3461153.3461153.346115
A group of hustlers take a man for $5000 in a poker game. When the man ends up killing himself, the heat is put on the gamblers in the game. The dead man's vengeful brother begins picking off the gamblers one by one.
Gun Crazy
Gun Crazy (1950)
, 1h26
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Russ Tamblyn, Morris Carnovsky, Mickey Little, Harry Lewis
Roles Bluey-Bluey (uncredited)
Rating75% 3.798013.798013.798013.798013.79801
At the age of 14, Bart Tare robs a hardware store and steals a gun. He is sent to reform school by a sympathetic Judge Willoughby (Morris Carnovsky), despite the testimony of his friends Dave and Clyde, his older sister Ruby and others that he would never kill any living creature, even though he has had a fascination with guns even as a child. Flashbacks provide a portrait of Bart who, after he kills a young chick with a BB gun at age seven, is hesitant to harm anyone with guns even though he is a good shot with a pistol.
Force of Evil, 1h18
Directed by Abraham Polonsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Noir, Crime
Actors John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Marie Windsor, Paul Fix, Howland Chamberlain, Roy Roberts
Roles Wally
Rating71% 3.594313.594313.594313.594313.59431
The drama tells of a lawyer, Joe Morse (Garfield), working for a powerful gangster, Tucker, who wishes to consolidate and control the numbers racket in New York. This means assuming control of the many smaller numbers rackets, one of which is run by Morse’s older brother Leo Morse (Thomas Gomez). The plot which unfolds is a terse, melodramatic thriller notable for realist location photography, almost poetic dialogue and frequent biblical allusions (Cain and Abel, Judas's betrayal, stigmata).
Here Comes Trouble, 55minutes
Directed by Fred Guiol
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Emory Parnell, Betty Compson, Joan Woodbury, Paul Stanton
Roles Cartoonist (uncredited)
Rating54% 2.7122252.7122252.7122252.7122252.712225
Returning home from his Army service in the Pacific, Dodo Doubleday resumes his former job as a copy boy at a newspaper. Dodo's girlfriend Penny Blake is determined to have her father, the editor of the newspaper, promote Dodo to a job with a salary where they can afford to marry. However her father, "Windy" Blake detests Dodo and wishes Penny to marry someone of her own social standing. After a fourth of the paper's police reporters is beaten up by gangsters and leaves town, Windy sees the answer to his problems by promoting Dodo to Police Reporter.
A Foreign Affair, 1h56
Directed by Billy Wilder, Charles C. Coleman, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell, Stanley Prager, William Murphy
Roles Mike
Rating72% 3.6471753.6471753.6471753.6471753.647175
In 1947, a United States congressional committee which includes prim Phoebe Frost of Iowa (Jean Arthur) arrives in post-World War II Berlin to visit the American troops stationed there. Phoebe hears rumors that cabaret torch singer Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich), suspected of being the former mistress of either Hermann Göring or Joseph Goebbels, is being protected by an unidentified American officer. She enlists Captain John Pringle (John Lund) to assist in her investigation, unaware he is Erika's current lover.
You Gotta Stay Happy, 1h40
Directed by H. C. Potter, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Percy Kilbride, Willard Parker
Roles Jack Samuels
Rating66% 3.343963.343963.343963.343963.34396
Marvin Payne (Stewart) is a World War II army air force veteran trying to make it on a shoe-string with a startup air-freight business. On an overnight stay in New York he has the misfortune of being roomed next to the reluctant bride Dee Dee Dillwood (Fontaine) and her rather formal husband Henry Benson. A ruckus causes Payne to become enmeshed in the world of Miss Dillwood. Hiding from her husband, Payne assumes the rather vague Miss Dillwood is a penniless country girl come to the city, who has descended to sleeping with married men to get by. He grudgingly agrees to give her a lift out of town and encourages her to go back to her parents. All the while Payne does not realize that Miss Dillwood is independently wealthy, and the married man she was to sleep with was the man she had just exchanged vows with that afternoon. Meanwhile, Payne's fellow veteran and co-pilot, Bullets Baker (Albert) encourages Payne to relax and enjoy life. His encouragements to join him and a couple of young ladies for a few laughs fall on deaf ears. It is with great surprise than that Baker finds a girl in the straight-laced Payne's room the following morning. A rough and tumble flight across country result in a number of surprises, not the least of which is that Marvin discovers he cares for the tag-along Miss Dillwood.
Stork Bites Man, 1h7
Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jackie Cooper, Meg Randall, Emory Parnell, Gus Schilling, Dave Willock, Stanley Prager
Roles Invisible Stork (Voice)
Rating60% 3.0107353.0107353.0107353.0107353.010735
Ernie, an apartment manager gets fired and evicted when his boss, who hates kids, learns that Ernie's wife is pregnant. Taking advice from a mysterious, invisible stork, Ernie organizes an apartment workers' strike, which eventually forces his boss to soften up.
Behind Green Lights, 1h4
Directed by Otto Brower
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Carole Landis, William Gargan, Don Beddoe, Mary Anderson, John Ireland, Richard Crane
Roles Ruzinsky, Milkman
Rating63% 3.192093.192093.192093.192093.19209
Police Lieutenant Sam Carson spots Walter Bard's bullet-ridden corpse in a car brazenly left in front of the police station. Carson questions Janet Bradley after finding her name in the dead man's appointment book. She admits that the Bard had been blackmailing her friend for $20,000, and that she went to see him, though she had been able to raise only half the money. When he refused to settle for that, she claims she took what she came for at gunpoint. Max Calvert, a newspaper owner, pressures Carson to arrest Bradley to hurt her father's election campaign for mayor. Carson declines.
Do You Love Me, 1h31
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes, Reginald Gardiner, Richard Gaines, Lex Barker, Betty Grable
Roles Jay Dilly
Rating63% 3.1897853.1897853.1897853.1897853.189785
Jimmy Hale (Dick Haymes), a successful singer chases Katharine "Kitten" Hilliard (Maureen O'Hara), a prim, bespectacled music-school dean who, after traveling to the big city, transforms herself into a desirable, sophisticated lady. Jimmy isn't the only one eager to win Katharine's affections: It turns out smooth-as-silk trumpeter and bandleader Barry Clayton (Harry James) has designs on Katharine as well,
A Bell for Adano, 1h43
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Minor Watson, Glenn Langan, Richard Conte
Roles Sgt. Trampani
Rating66% 3.340763.340763.340763.340763.34076
The story concerns Italian-American U.S. Army Major Joppolo, who is placed in charge of the town of Adano during the invasion of Sicily. The title refers to Major Joppolo's attempts to replace the 700-year-old bell that was taken from the town by the Fascists at the start of the war to be melted down for ammunition. Through his actions, Joppolo also wins the trust and love of the people.
Doll Face
Doll Face (1945)
, 1h20
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Vivian Blaine, Dennis O'Keefe, Carmen Miranda, Martha Stewart, Lex Barker, Stephen Dunne
Roles Flo's Aide
Rating57% 2.8996652.8996652.8996652.8996652.899665
"Doll Face" Carroll is an entertainer looking to expand her reportoire. After a failed audition, where she is recognized as a burlesque performer from the Gayety Theatre, her manager and fiancé Mike Hannegan suggest she writes an autobiography to project a more literate image and he hires Frederick Manly Gerard as a ghostwriter. Doll Face agrees on the condition she is allowed to dedicate the book to Mike with "For the love of Mike".
Junior Miss, 1h34
Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Peggy Ann Garner, Allyn Joslyn, Stephen Dunne, Mona Freeman, Faye Marlowe, Sylvia Field
Roles Joe-Elevator Operator
Rating72% 3.614983.614983.614983.614983.61498
Lively and imaginative sisters Judy and Lois Graves, thirteen and sixteen years old, live in a small apartment in New York City with their forgiving and patient mother and father, Harry, a lawyer, and Grace, a housewife. Judy's equally energetic friend Fuffy Adams frequently visits, and the two girls have their own ideas about the relations of the grown-ups surrounding them. They often use movie plots to interpret the reality around them.