Andrew Tombes
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 28, 1885
Place of Birth: Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
Known For
The Singing Sheriff
In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.
Oklahoma Annie
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
Big City
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Meet John Doe
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Here Comes Cookie
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Hellzapoppin'
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
His Butler's Sister
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
Easy Living
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Larceny, Inc.
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Phantom Lady
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.
Filmography
as Mr. Symington
as Police Sgt. Moon
as R.E. Howard
as Mayor
as Pritchett (uncredited)
as Sheriff Grogan
as Ted Held
as The Texan
as Auctioneer
as Frank Patton
as Joe Brayden, Night Watchman
as 'Prof' Enrico Blanchetti / Mr. Dillingham
as Gorman
as Recording Session Director (uncredited)
as Doc Quillan
as Judge Prescott
as Cartwright
as Drunk
as Mr. Million
as Sam Bassett
as Reverend Horace
as Dr. Spender
as Sad Sam
as Dr. Carroll
as Cyclone Kenyon
as Jonas
as Parker
as Judge
as Mr. Cook
as Jefferson Statling, Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
as Constable
as Mac - Bartender
as Brophy
as Mortician Eagan
as Dr. Clyde L. Star
as Horace L. Gregory
as Mr. Alfred Spelvin
as Mr. McGowan (uncredited)
as Doorman
as Judge Wilkins
as Horace Carter
as Roscoe Swade
as Jerry MackIntosh, Cook
as Big-Hearted Charlie
as Judge
as Mr. Smith (uncredited)
as Oso Bucco (uncredited)
as Doctor
as Crane
as Oscar Engelhart
as First Train Conductor
as Bates
as L.L. Snookie Wadsworth
as James M. Snow
as Dean Albert Manning
as Max Kane (uncredited)
as Pierce
as Mayor Tubbs
as Tennessee
as Sheriff Frank Taylor
as Art Seidel, Hotel Detective
as Silas Biggsby
as Nixon
as Mickey Delany
as Mayor
as Spencer
as 'Doc' Dunbar
as W.J. Brady
as Mr. Kelland
as Sad Eyes
as Attorney
as Mr. J.D. Swinnerton
as Brown
as Wilbur Allison (uncredited)
as Robinson
as Wilbur Wentworth
as Prof. Abernathy
as Mr. Svively
as James C. Darlington
as Dr. Bruno
as Judge Brandon
as Cosmo Carrington
as William Nolan
as J.W. Ridgeway
as Judge Hutchins
as Judge
as Uncle George
as Tobias Somers
as Judge
as Inspector Matthews (as Andrew J. Tombes)
as E.J. Hulgar
as J. Ardmore Potts
as Thomas Lane
as Eddie Byrd
as Chief of Homicide E. R. Scott
as J. C. Farnham
as James Blanchard
as Commander Otis
as Muldoon - a Policeman
as Burns Heywood
as Willie
as Nirney
as Jury Foreman (uncredited)
as Sen. Rawlings
as Adams
as Dooley
as Slattery
as Mr. Grass
as Ben Pomeroy
as Botts
as Huxley Hossefrosse
as McBride
as Sidney - Columnist
as Shill (uncredited)