Kirby Grant
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 24, 1911
Place of Birth: Butte, Montana, USA
Known For
There Goes My Heart
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Call of the Klondike
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
Hollywood Wonderland
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
The Spider Woman Strikes Back
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
Hello, Frisco, Hello
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 troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
Blondie Goes Latin
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
Trail of the Yukon
When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gunfight erupts and Jim Blaine gets away with the money. Mountie Bob McDonald gets Jim Blaine to return the money. Bob thinks the Banker was really behind the robbery and now uses the money to try and lure him into a trap.
Black Midnight
A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with his uncle Bill (Damian O’Flynn). When he buys a wild stallion from his black-sheep cousin Daniel (Rand Brooks), Scott names the horse Midnight and does his best to tame him. But when the sheriff (Sky King’s Kirby Grant) suspects the stallion was stolen and Daniel’s plan to get rid of the horse ends with a man being trampled, Scott must prove Midnight acted in self-defense before his uncle destroys him. The fourth of six films McDowall coproduced and starred in for Monogram Pictures, Black Midnight was directed by Oscar “Budd” Boetticher, whose seven Westerns with Randolph Scott are considered classics of the genre.
She Wrote the Book
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name. When she arrives she gets a bump on the head which brings on a form of amnesia and she begins to believe she is the author of the book. Hijinks and adventures follow.
Comin' Round the Mountain
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find.
Filmography
as RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
as Rod Webb
as RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
as RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
as Schuyler 'Sky' King
as Sky King
as RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
as Clark Winfield
as RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
as Dusty Rhodes
as RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
as Len
as Lieutenant Randy Mason
as RCMP Cpl. Rod McDonald
as Ace Lucky
as RCMP Cpl. Rod Webb
as Sheriff Gilbert
as Bob McDonald - Royal NW Mounted
as Jeff Carter
as Highlander (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
as Ted Everett
as Bob Ryan
as Jack Douglas aka Duke Masters
as Eddie Caldwell
as Hal Wentley
as Henry Rothmore (Uncredited)
as Kip Lewis
as Grant Carter posing as Chad Hilton
as Dick Ryan
as Ted Cameron
as Jeff Gordon
as Tyler
as Dave Ball
as Dick Lorimer
as Peter Evans
as Clay Edwards
as Clyde Miller
as King Castle
as Tom Barstow
as Pilot
as Specialty Singer
as Kenneth Hale
as Hal Trent
as Bud Matthews
as Bill
as Lt. Bob Hobbes
as Airline Clerk
as Bert Pardway
as Tex Reilly
as Customer (uncredited)
as Violinist (uncredited)