Charles Cane
Know for: Acting
Born: 1899-04-18
Place of birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Dead Reckoning (1946)
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the...
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
Lucky Me (1954)
Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting,...
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be...
Framed (1947)
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous...
Quiet Please, Murder (1943)
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943)
Gildersleeve has jury duty.
Bodyguard (1948)
A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation.
The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
Born Yesterday (1950)
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress,...
Southside 1-1000 (1950)
The U.S. Secret Service goes after a counterfeiting ring by placing one of its agents in a criminal mob.
No Escape (1953)
When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfriend, a police detective, arranges for a...
Ruby Gentry (1952)
A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
El valle de los zombies (1946)
A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
Dangerous Mission (1954)
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
The Steel Jungle (1956)
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with hoodlums.
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a...
Come to Dinner (1934)
MGM's all-star feature Dinner at Eight is parodied in this comic short, in which a cast of unidentified look-alike actors impersonate Lionel...
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The...
Native Son (1951)
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the...
The Hairy Ape (1944)
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
Lucky Jordan (1942)
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie...
Girl on the Run (1958)
A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer.
The Blonde Bandit (1949)
A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
Prison Warden (1949)
The new warden of a bad prison finds his biggest problem is his wife.
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Lady on a Train (1945)
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one...
All Through the Night (1942)
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Casanova Brown (1944)
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby,...
Gun Battle at Monterey (1957)
An outlaw saved by a Mexican girl hunts the holdup partner who shot him in the back.
Girls in the Night (1953)
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
The Dark Past (1948)
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be...
In a Lonely Place (1950)
A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
A Day of Fury (1956)
Town marshal Alan Burnett life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade, a gunslinger just returned after...
Holiday Affair (1955)
Connie is a widow and mother whose work involves checking up on the competition for her department store employer. When Steve, a charming salesman...
Crime of the Century (1946)
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of...
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces;...
Christmas Holiday (1944)
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin...
Marty (1955)
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family...
The Killing (1956)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one...
Crime Wave (1953)
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then...
The Man in the Trunk (1942)
The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942)
A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown...
Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve...
The Big Heat (1953)
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a...
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure (1956)
Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life at home in Bayport dull, the boys hope their...
Belle Le Grand (1951)
Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do...
Bells of Capistrano (1942)
America's favorite singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this vintage tale as an up-and-coming rodeo singer caught in the middle of two rival companies,...
Invaders from Mars (1953)
In the early hours of the night, young David Maclean sees a flying saucer land and disappear into the sand dunes just beyond his house. Slowly, all...
Adventures in Silverado (1948)
Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures...
The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the...
The Lady and the Monster (1944)
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
Corvette K-225 (1943)
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Circumstantial Evidence (1945)
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
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.
True to Life (1943)
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins...
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948)
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up...
The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood...
Convicted (1950)
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a...
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his...
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty...
The Big Street (1942)
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
The Dark Corner (1946)
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his...
Brimstone (1949)
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
Lady in a Jam (1942)
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of...