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Samuel S. Hinds is a Actor American born on 3 april 1875 at New York City (USA)
Samuel Southey Hinds (April 4, 1875 – October 13, 1948) was an American actor who often portrayed kindly authority figures like the father of George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life.
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Samuel S. Hinds
Birth name Samuel Southey Hinds
Nationality USA
Birth 3 april 1875 at New York City (USA)
Death 13 october 1948 (at 73 years) at Pasadena (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 3 april 1875 at New York City (USA)
Death 13 october 1948 (at 73 years) at Pasadena (USA)
Samuel Southey Hinds (April 4, 1875 – October 13, 1948) was an American actor who often portrayed kindly authority figures like the father of George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life.
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The Bribe (1949)
, 1h38Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Transport films
Actors Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, John Hodiak, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Dr. Warren
Rating65%
Federal agent Rigby (Taylor) travels to Los Trancos on the island of Carlota (somewhere off the coast of Central America) to break up a war-surplus aircraft engine racket and finds himself tempted by corruption, namely Elizabeth Hintten (Gardner), a café singer married to Tug Hintten (Hodiak), a drunken ex-pilot.
Call Northside 777 (1948)
, 1h46Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Children's films
Actors James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Moroni Olsen, Helen Walker, J. M. Kerrigan
Roles Judge Charles Moulton (uncredited)
Rating72%
In Chicago in 1932, during Prohibition, a policeman is murdered inside a speakeasy. Frank Wiecek (Richard Conte) and another man are quickly arrested, and are later sentenced to serve 99 years' imprisonment each for the killing. Eleven years later, Wiecek's mother (Kasia Orzazewski) puts an ad in the newspaper offering a $5,000 reward for information about the true killers of the police officer.
The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
, 1h22Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about adoption, Films about education, Films about children, Films about racism, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about school violence
Actors Dean Stockwell, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Pat O'Brien, Walter Catlett, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Dr. R.T. Knudson
Rating66%
Finding a curiously silent young runaway boy (Stockwell) whose head has been completely shaved, small-town police call in a psychologist (Ryan) and discover that he is a war orphan named Peter Fry. Moving in with an understanding retired actor named Gramps (O'Brien), Peter starts attending school and generally begins living the life of a normal boy until his class gets involved with trying to help war orphans in Europe and Asia.
The Return of October (1948)
, 1h38Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Glenn Ford, Terry Moore, Albert Sharpe, James Gleason, May Whitty, Henry O'Neill
Roles Judge Northridge
Rating61%
Terry is a teenaged girl whose Uncle Willy, a horse trainer, dreams of winning the Derby. He bets everything on his horse Sunset, then collapses and dies after it loses.
Time Out of Mind (1947)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Eddie Albert, Leo G. Carroll, Helena Carter
Roles Dr. Weber
Rating62%
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
The Egg and I (1947)
, 1h48Directed by Charles Lamont, Chester Erskine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Meg Randall, Louise Allbritton, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Sheriff Drum
Rating69%
It tells the story of a young married couple who become chicken farmers. Betty follows her husband Bob to the countryside where his dream is to be a successful chicken farmer. The problem is, their home is old and needs to be repaired and the baby chicks need constant care. When a rich single woman with a new house and new farm equipment flirts with Bob, Betty questions their decision to move to the farm in the first place. In the end, she finds out that Bob was trying to buy the new house for Betty as a surprise.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
, 2h10Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about angels, Alternate history films
Actors James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers, Thomas Mitchell, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Pa Bailey
Rating85%
In Bedford Falls, New York, on Christmas Eve 1945, George Bailey is suicidal. Prayers for him reach Heaven. Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George in order to earn his angel wings. To prepare Clarence, his superior Joseph shows flashbacks of George's life.
Inside Job (1946)
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Alan Curtis, Milburn Stone, Samuel S. Hinds, Joe Sawyer
Roles Judge Kincaid
Rating56%
An ex-con has a choice of losing his job or participating in a robbery.
, 1h20Directed by Robert Siodmak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines, Sara Allgood, Moyna MacGill, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Dr. Adams
Rating66%
Harry Quincy (Sanders) is an amiable middle-aged man working as a designer in a fabric mill in the small town of Corinth. Younger people in the factory call him "Uncle Harry". He lives as a bachelor in a large house with his two sisters; Lettie (Fitzgerald) and Hester (MacGill). Lettie is pretty but spoiled, and idles days away in bed, feigning numerous ailments. Hester is a widow and is harder working. It is made clear that although the family was rich, the money was lost in the Depression.
Scarlet Street (1945)
, 1h43Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Peinture
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff, Jess Barker
Roles Charles Pringle
Rating76%
Christopher "Chris" Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a meek amateur painter and cashier for clothing retailer, J.J. Hogarth & Company, is fêted by his employer, honoring him for twenty-five years of dull, repetitive service. Hogarth presents him with a watch and kind words, then leaves getting into a car with a beautiful young blonde. Walking home through Greenwich Village, Chris muses to an associate, "I wonder what it's like to be loved by a young girl." He helps Kitty (Joan Bennett), an amoral fast-talking femme fatale, apparently being attacked by a man, stunning the assailant with his umbrella. Chris is unaware that the attacker was Johnny (Dan Duryea), Kitty's brutish boyfriend, and sees her safely to her apartment building. Out of gratitude and bemusement, she accepts his offer for a cup of coffee at a nearby bar. From Chris's comments about art, Kitty believes him to be a wealthy painter.
Lady on a Train (1945)
, 1h34Directed by Felix Jackson, Charles David
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, Dan Duryea, Allen Jenkins, Edward Everett Horton
Roles Mr. Wiggam, Waring Lawyer
Rating66%
Debutante Nikki Collins, an enthusiastic reader of detective stories, witnesses a murder through a building window while passing by on a train entering New York's Grand Central Station. She goes to the police, but is frustrated to find that no one believes her. The police think that her story is the product of an overactive imagination.
Secret Agent X-9 (1945)
Directed by Ray Taylor, Lewis D. Collins
Origin USA
Genres Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Lloyd Bridges, Keye Luke, Victoria Horne, Samuel S. Hinds, Jan Wiley, Cy Kendall
Roles Solo
Rating65%
On a neutral island in the Pacific called Shadow Island (above the island of Formosa), run by American gangster Lucky Kamber, both sides in World War II attempt to control the secret of element 722, which can be used to create cheap aviation fuel.
Swing Out, Sister (1945)
, 1hOrigin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Rod Cameron, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher, Samuel S. Hinds, Jacqueline deWit, Fuzzy Knight
Roles Rufus Mariman
Rating48%
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
, 2h10Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn
Roles Mr. Jessup
Rating65%
The film focuses on various guests staying at New York City's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Among them are lonely screen star Irene Malvern, in town with her maid Anna for a childhood friend's wedding and the premiere of her latest movie; war correspondent Chip Collyer, mistaken for a jewel thief by Irene but playing along to catch her attention; flyer Capt. James Hollis, wounded in World War II and facing perilous surgery in three days; wealthy shyster Martin X. Edley, who is trying to sign the Bey of Aribajan to a shady oil deal; Oliver Webson, a cub reporter for Collier's Weekly hoping to expose Edley; and bride-to-be Cynthia Drew, whose upcoming wedding is endangered by her belief her fiancé Bob is in love with Irene Malvern. Also on the scene are Bunny Smith, the hotel's stenographer/notary public, who hopes to escape her low income roots by marrying Edley, and reporter Randy Morton, who loiters in the lobby hoping to stumble upon a scoop for his newspaper.
Escape in the Desert (1945)
, 1h19Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Actors Jean Sullivan, Philip Dorn, Irene Manning, Helmut Dantine, Alan Hale, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Gramp
Rating59%