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Murray Alper is a Actor American born on 11 january 1904 at New York City (USA)

Murray Alper

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Nationality USA
Birth 11 january 1904 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 november 1984 (at 80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Murray Alper (January 11, 1904 – November 16, 1984) was an American actor.

Alper worked on Broadway from 1927 to 1940 in a number of shows including: The Wild Man of Borneo, This is New York, Broadway Boy, Sailor Beware! and Every Man for Himself.

Alper appeared in more than 200 films and TV series from the 30s to the end of the 60s. Quite often his work was uncredited and he never received a top billing in one of his movies. His first known screen credit was in The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) a part he had already played on Broadway in 1927/28.

In The Maltese Falcon (1941); he plays a friendly cabbie who drives the character Sam Spade played by Humphrey Bogart during a mid-film wild goose chase. His biggest role should have been the part of Gus Smith in the Alfred Hitchcock film Lifeboat in 1943. Due to his becoming ill right before the start of shooting in August he was replaced by actor William Bendix. However he worked for Hitch on three other movies Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941), Saboteur (1942) and Strangers on a Train (1951).

Frequently seen in comedies, Alper was featured in the Three Stooges films Tricky Dicks (1953) and The Outlaws IS Coming! (1965). One of Alper's least characteristic roles was the judo instructor in Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor (1963).

Usually with

James Flavin
James Flavin
(18 films)
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
(4 films)
Perc Westmore
Perc Westmore
(12 films)
Edgar Dearing
Edgar Dearing
(12 films)
Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(11 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Murray Alper (126 films)

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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, 1h45
Directed by James Neilson, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino, Richard Haydn, Mike Mazurki
Rating63% 3.1980153.1980153.1980153.1980153.198015
Griffin est le majordome très propre sur lui d'un habitant de Boston, Jack Flagg. Mais lorsque Flagg décide de déménager pour la Californie lors de la Ruée vers l'or de 1949, Griffin le suit docilement.
The Big Mouth, 1h45
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Jerry Lewis, Harold J. Stone, Buddy Lester, Jeannine Riley, Susan Bay, Frank De Vol
Roles Ed - Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
Rating55% 2.752512.752512.752512.752512.75251
Gerald Clamson (Lewis) is a bank examiner who loves fishing on his annual two week holiday. Unfortunately one day at the ocean he reels in an injured gangster in a scuba diving suit named Syd Valentine (also played by Lewis). Syd tells Gerald about diamonds he has stolen from the other gangsters and hands him a map. Gerald escapes as frogmen from a yacht machine gun the beach. They swim ashore and locate Syd where they machine gun him. Their leader Thor (Harold J. Stone) ensures Syd's demise by firing a torpedo from his yacht that goes ashore, blowing a crater into the beach.
The Outlaws Is Coming, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Adam West, Nancy Kovack, Mort Mills
Roles Chief Crazy Horse
Rating59% 2.996232.996232.996232.996232.99623
In 1871, Rance Roden (Don Lamond) plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy the U.S. Cavalry (his real enemy), Rance and his gang will take over the West. Meanwhile, a Boston magazine gets wind of the buffalo slaughter and sends editor Kenneth Cabot (Adam West) and his associates (Moe, Larry and Curly Joe) to Casper, Wyoming to investigate. Once there, Ken's shooting skills (secretly aided by sharp shooter Annie Oakley (Nancy Kovack)) earn him the job of town sheriff. Rance has his band of bad guys called in to have the lawmen wiped out, but the Stooges sneak into the gang's hideout while the gang is asleep and glue their firearms to their holsters. When Ken confronts the bad guys, the bad guys decide that a life of justice is better than crime. Meanwhile, Rance and Trigger attempt to sell firearms to the Indians, including an armoured wagon containing a Gatling Gun and cannon in a turret, but the Stooges foil this plan by snapping a picture of them making the sale.
The Nutty Professor, 1h47
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Comedy science fiction films
Actors Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Kathleen Freeman, Gary Lewis, Elvia Allman, Milton Frome
Roles Gym Attendant (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.299483.299483.299483.299483.29948
Professor Julius Kelp is a nerdy, unkempt, buck-toothed, accident-prone, socially inept university professor whose experiments in the classroom laboratory are unsuccessful and humorously destructive. When a football-playing bully humiliates and assaults him, Kelp decides to "beef up" by joining a local gym. Kelp's lack of physical prowess prompts him to invent a serum that turns him into the handsome, extremely smooth, cool, and obnoxious girl-chasing hipster, Buddy Love.
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Joan Freeman, Walter Burke, Peter Forster
Roles Gus
Rating61% 3.0980153.0980153.0980153.0980153.098015
Phileas Fogg III (Jay Sheffield), great-grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great-grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish (Peter Forster) who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, 2h8
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about films, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Vieillesse, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Gina Gillespie, Wesley Addy, Maidie Norman
Roles Projectionist (uncredited)
Rating79% 3.999133.999133.999133.999133.99913
In 1917, Baby Jane Hudson is a vaudevillian child star while her sister Blanche Hudson is not famous and overlooked by their father. By 1935, both sisters are movie actors, but Blanche has achieved stardom, while Jane’s films have flopped, leading Jane to drink heavily. One night, returning from a party, one of the sisters (implied to be Blanche) gets out of the car to open the garage door, while the driver (implied to be Jane) attempts to run her over, misses, and crashes into the garage. The accident leaves Blanche paralyzed.
The Ladies Man, 1h35
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jerry Lewis, Helen Traubel, Kathleen Freeman, Buddy Lester, George Raft, Marty Ingels
Rating63% 3.1503053.1503053.1503053.1503053.150305
Herbert H. Heebert (Jerry Lewis) is a young man who loses his girlfriend, swears off romance, and then takes a job at a genteel, women-only boarding house, run by Helen Wellenmellen (Helen Traubel). Although most of the women treat him like a servant, Fay (Pat Stanley) helps him with his fear of women.
Ocean's Eleven, 2h2
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Patrice Wymore, Joey Bishop
Roles Deputy (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.249123.249123.249123.249123.24912
A gang of World War II 82nd Airborne veterans is recruited by Danny Ocean (Sinatra) and Jimmy Foster (Lawford) to rob five different Las Vegas casinos (Sahara, Riviera, Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn, Sands and the Flamingo) on a single night.
The Geisha Boy, 1h30
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jerry Lewis, Sessue Hayakawa, Marie McDonald, Suzanne Pleshette, Barton MacLane, Nobu McCarthy
Rating63% 3.1994753.1994753.1994753.1994753.199475
The Great Wooley (Jerry Lewis) is a magician who is entertaining GIs in Japan. Upon their arrival, he causes a series of unfortunate mishaps for the headliner, actress Lola Livingston (Marie McDonald), including tearing her dress, knocking her down a flight of stairs, and rolling her up in the red carpet. An orphan, Mitsuo Watanabe (Robert Hirano) witnesses the spectacle and laughs for the first time since his parents died. When his aunt Kimi Sikita (Nobu McCarthy) brings the boy to Wooley to thank him, he and the boy become close, which irritates the aunt's boyfriend, a Japanese baseball player, as well as a USO liaison (Suzanne Pleshette) who has fallen for Wooley.
Baby Face Nelson, 1h25
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Noir, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Leo Gordon, Jack Elam, Anthony Caruso
Roles Alex – Bank Guard
Rating62% 3.141113.141113.141113.141113.14111
Chicago mob boss Rocca manages to get Lester Gillis sprung from jail in Joliet. His motive is to have Gillis kill a labor organizer, but Gillis refuses, preferring to work with Rocca's gang on robberies instead. He meets mob moll Sue Nelson and they start a relationship.
Hold That Hypnotist, 1h1
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Queenie Smith, Jane Nigh, Robert Foulk
Roles Gail
Rating54% 2.7191652.7191652.7191652.7191652.719165
The Bowery Boys' landlady Mrs. Kelly believes in a theory proposed by Dr. Simon Noble. The theory is that through hypnosis, one can regress into a former life that they supposedly lived centuries ago. The boys believe that Noble is a phony until Sach manages to get himself hypnotized. Evidently Sach once lived as Algy Winkle, an English tax collector in Charleston, South Carolina. Winklemanaged to receive a map from Captain Blackbeard leading to buried treasure.
Slightly Scarlet, 1h39
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Documentary, Action, Noir, Crime
Actors John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, Kent Taylor, Ted de Corsia, Lance Fuller
Rating64% 3.244923.244923.244923.244923.24492
The ruthless Solly Caspar is fighting to retain control of Bay City's criminal activities when Frank Jansen (Kent Taylor), an honest man and mayoral hopeful, begins a strong anti-crime campaign. Caspar tasks his right-hand man Ben Grace to dig up some dirt on the candidate and ruin his chances of election.
Women's Prison, 1h19
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Audrey Totter, Cleo Moore, Phyllis Thaxter, Howard Duff
Rating64% 3.2426553.2426553.2426553.2426553.242655
A ruthless superintendent of a prison, Amelia van Zandt, makes life hell for the female inmates. Her rules are rigid and she makes no exceptions.
Jail Busters, 1h1
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, Bernard Gorcey, Benny Bartlett, Barton MacLane
Roles Kitchen Trustee Gus
Rating62% 3.1457753.1457753.1457753.1457753.145775
Chuck gets a job working for a newspaper. When promoted, he has to go under cover in the state prison to dig up some information on some of the inmates. When one of the inmates beats Chuck up and lands him in the hospital, it's up to Slip, Sach, and Butch to finish Chuck's job. Slip decides that he and the boys should commit a crime so that they can be sent to jail. Another reporter, Cy Bowman, agrees to inform the penitentiary that the boys are actually working under cover for the newspaper once they get arrested. However, Bowman does not actually keep his promise. Now the trio are forced to spend what they think is a short sentence in jail. While there, the boys dig up some information on Percival P. Lannigan and some other inmates who have been living it up in jail, unknown to the warden. Lannigan soon gets word that Slip and his pals are under cover for Chuck (whom Lannigan had beaten up earlier), and intends to have Chuck and Louie killed. The boys eventually expose the inmates scam and turn them over to the warden, who pardons them and arranges for their release.
Highway Dragnet, 1h10
Directed by Nathan Juran
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Richard Conte, Joan Bennett, Wanda Hendrix, Reed Hadley, Mary Beth Hughes, Iris Adrian
Roles Ice Cream Truck Driver
Rating62% 3.1445753.1445753.1445753.1445753.144575
A former Korean War-era Marine hitches a ride with a female fashion photographer and her young assistant to escape from the Las Vegas police on a murder charge.