John Bleifer
Know for: Acting
Born: 1901-07-26
Place of birth: Zawiercie, Poland, Russian Empire [now Zawiercie, Slaskie, Poland]
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Call Northside 777 (1948)
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal...
Crashing Las Vegas (1956)
An electric shock enables Satch to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win enough money at the roulette wheels to let their...
The 27th Day (1957)
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a...
Spy Chasers (1955)
Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
Clear All Wires! (1933)
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being...
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul....
Les Misérables (1935)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...
Fall Guy (1947)
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escapes in search of answers to the mystery himself.
Without Reservations (1946)
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who...
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a...
Chain of Evidence (1957)
A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill...
Waterfront (1944)
A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his code book, and he must get it back.
Full Confession (1939)
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
Smuggler's Cove (1948)
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name,...
The Monster and the Girl (1941)
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape...
The Frisco Kid (1979)
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced...
Dead End Kids Go To War (1942)
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon...
Inside Out (1987)
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous...
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is...
Eleanor, First Lady of the World (1982)
Biography of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who forged a new role for herself in the years after her husband's death.
Captured! (1933)
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured...
Seventh Heaven (1937)
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the...
If a Man Answers (1962)
Rich socialite Chantal marries photographer Eugene and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation,...
The Hook (1963)
Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
Blood Money (1933)
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work,...
Night Alarm (1934)
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He...
Sutter's Gold (1936)
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
36 Hours to Kill (1936)
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000...
The Moon Is Down (1943)
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
Pacific Liner (1939)
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the...
Sirocco (1951)
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
Balalaika (1939)
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
The Road to Glory (1936)
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and...
Heavy Traffic (1973)
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.
Girl from God's Country (1940)
Jim Holden, a young doctor practicing in Alaska, eagerly awaits the arrival of his new nurse, Anne Webster. All of his previous left within a few...
Pack Up Your Troubles (1939)
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
State Penitentiary (1950)
A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
Come to the Stable (1949)
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's...
Headin' for God's Country (1943)
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger...
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays...
Junior G-Men of the Air (1942)
A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
Comrade X (1940)
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
The Blue Angel (1959)
Remake of Josef von Sternberg's 1930 classic.
White Lightning (1953)
The Red Devils, a professional ice hockey team, owned by Jack Monohan, is in the midst of a long losing streak, due to bribes being accepted from...
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical....
The Crimson Trail (1935)
A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.
Surrender (1927)
Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is...
World Without End (1956)
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first...
Red Snow (1952)
Lieutenant Johnson, a U. S. Air Force pilot, on the tip of Alaska, a few miles from the Bering Straits from Siberia, helps foil a Soviet plot to test...
Slave Ship (1937)
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Eagle Squadron (1942)
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years...
Lure of the Islands (1942)
Tana, a voluptuous half-caste girl of the South Seas, falls in love with FBI agent Wally and wishes to marry him and leave the island. Wally, with...
Footsteps in the Night (1957)
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
Background to Danger (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the...
Mr. Lucky (1943)
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
The Enchanted Valley (1948)
Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming.
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the...
Fighting Trouble (1956)
An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a picture of a mob boss.
High Conquest (1947)
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
F.I.S.T. (1978)
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher...
Bowery Battalion (1951)
Slip, Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
Secret Service In Darkest Africa (1943)
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
We Americans (1928)
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H....
The Black Room (1935)
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the...
French Leave (1948)
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for...
Kismet (1955)
A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah....
Judgment at Nuremberg (1959)
Judgment at Nuremberg is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was a...