Arthur Loft
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 24, 1897
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
Known For
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Footlight Glamour
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.
Scarlet Street
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
The Magnificent Dope
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
Rawhide
Saunders with his Cattlemen's Protective Agency is running roughshod over the ranchers. Lawyer Larry Kimball is fighting him but he needs a rancher that will stand up with him against Saunders. He finds him when Lou Gehrig retires from baseball to take up ranching. Lou expects to relax on his ranch but quickly joins Larry in the fight.
Start Cheering
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
This Gun for Hire
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Hangmen Also Die!
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Filmography
as Thaddeus White
as Mr. Conroy
as Dr. Crocker
as Police Chief Jim Murphy
as Charlie Pickett
as Sampler-Publisher
as "Wolf" at Bar (uncredited)
as Harvey Martin
as Bernadock Clinton
as Head Purser (uncredited)
as Mayor
as Dellarowe
as Bradford Harris
as Attorney Reynolds
as Dr. Horace Thompson
as Cyrus P. Clevenger
as Oscar Berton
as Mr. Follinsbee
as Sheriff
as Fulton (uncredited)
as J. J. Cardigan
as Billy Boy (uncredited)
as Sheriff Weeks
as Joe (uncredited)
as Jack Weimar
as Waldron
as Bill Wetherbee
as Claude Mazard / Frank Howard / Charlie the Hatcheck Man
as Col. von Reichenau
as Griffith - Member of the Local Draft Board (uncredited)
as Inspector Jones
as Fenton
as Norton
as Mr. Clark
as Bulldog Bailey
as Charley Sargent
as Prosecuting Attorney Lucas (uncredited)
as Dr. Post (uncredited)
as Sig Hammersmith
as Man with Microphone (uncredited)
as Vice-President (uncredited)
as Gen. Votruba
as Hearndon
as Sheriff Lew Stebbins
as Sam Kohler
as Clyde Matthews
as E. V. Hartley
as Mr. Morton, Fire Engine Salesman
as Police Sergeant Bliss
as Impatient Man in Office (uncredited)
as Captain Mahoney
as Detective (uncredited)
as Man who Bumps into Raven (uncredited)
as Trustee (uncredited)
as Peter Moreland
as Hooker
as Mr. Weston (uncredited)
as Inspector Karns
as Joseph P. McCordy
as Enemy Sub Capt. Tranker [Ch. 1]
as Tillaman (uncredited)
as Station Manager (uncredited)
as Poker Player
as Homer Gerard
as Cattleman
as Barney
as Mr. Elvestad
as Francis X. Futter
as Marshal Capturing Youngers
as Movie director
as 'Flash' Kirby
as E.G. Blaine
as Tauer - Chief Gangster
as Olin Blake
as Harry T. Braddock
as Jim Macklin - Indian Commissioner
as Marshall
as The Obnoxious Drunk
as Detective Grady
as Carl Gobel
as Matthew Kirby
as Football Coach
as Policeman at Booking Desk
as Big Jim Rafferty
as Steve Mason
as Joe Ogden (uncredited)
as Sam Wyatt
as Still Proprietor (uncredited)
as Chief Clerk (uncredited)
as Dave Miller
as Tim Ryan
as Masterson
as Elmer Krispan
as Dr. Garfield
as Warden (uncredited)
as Chief Kelly
as Phoney Captain Jeffries
as Director (uncredited)
as Police Captain Wallace
as Engineering Officer Dearborn (uncredited)
as Clyde Chase
as Charles Clarke
as Tom Ross
as Dr. Goodman
as Lou Tanner
as Jack Benson
as Inspector Nat Corrigan
as Ed Saunders
as Joe Green
as Barney Morse
as Jules Stevens
as Wyatt Blake
as Sheriff Jackson
as Cap Collender
as Jack Miranada
as Rudy Maxwell
as Pete
as Jack Shannon
as 'Lucky' Leonard Raymond
as Glover
as Damage Control Officer
as Stu Saddler
as William Van Horne
as Borgum
as Henchman Glen (uncredited)
as Convict
as Gardner
as Air Controller Calkins
as Chang-Ho
as Opposing Coach
as John Snead
as Inspector Gene Richards
as Fletcher
as Clem Larkin
as Editor (uncredited)
as Wentworth
as Bailiff
as Bartender
as Carpet Bagger
as Croupier
as Police Radio Diispatcher (uncredited)
as Gilroy - Grant's Henchman
as Reporter
as Pete
as Donahue
as Benson
as Sheriff Stockton
as Clem W. Slade
as Dennis O'Shea