Russell Hopton
Acting
Biography
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Born: February 17, 1900
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
The Circus Show-Up
The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.
Desirable
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
Some Like It Hot
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk to attract the customers, "The Living Corpse" and other low-rent acts aren't enough to lure the seen-it-all boardwalk strollers, and the landlord closes the show in lieu of never-paid rent. Nicky, always promoting, goes to Stephen Hanratty, head of the pier's Dance Pavilion, to plug Krupa's band as an attraction, but Hanratty won't even listen to them. But, while there, he meets singer Lily Racquel, who knows he is a phoney but might have the ability to to talk a radio-station manager into giving her an audition. She gives him a ring to help finance the project; he promptly loses it in a crap-game.
Blonde Crazy
The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Ella Cinders
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
Once in a Lifetime
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Lady Killer
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
The Little Giant
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
We Who Are About to Die
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
The Miracle Woman
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind former aviator restore her faith and happiness?
Filmography
as Police Sergeant (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Reporter (uncredited)
as Jeff Slinger
as Benny
as (uncredited)
as Thief
as Wagon Driver (uncredited)
as Dickens (uncredited)
as Police Detective
as Benny Sarto
as Dave Nolan
as Police Officer
as Police Broadcaster
as Harry 'The Carver' Bogard
as Convict Frankie
as Bob Smoky Joslin
as Barker (uncredited)
as Harry Donnell
as Collins (uncredited)
as Lou
as Jerry Clayton
as Kelly
as Charlie Edwards
as Peter Brindell
as Gus
as MacAndrews
as Randy Randall
as Sheriff Arthur Billings
as Terry Mulvaney
as Cable Operator (uncredited)
as Crazed Sailor
as Joe (uncredited)
as Frisco
as Eddie
as Pat Brennan
as Kelly Dillon
as Lee Adams
as Det. Lt. Ted Mallory
as Craig
as Gerard
as A Dip
as Tommy Tennant
as Ed Brennan
as Dispatch Operator Harper
as Jake Brashear
as Duke Milford
as Hugh Collins
as Smiley
as Phil Stardon
as Chet
as Bill Hamilton
as Monk, Curly's Hitman
as 'Slim' Sullivan
as Steve Karns
as Pete
as Elliott Robbins, aka Buck Kreegar
as 'Spats' Edwards
as Smiley
as Brice Regal
as 'Flea' Madigan
as Reporter Mooney
as Tony Richards
as Max, Chauffeur
as Albert J. 'Al' Daniels
as Whitey
as Georgie
as 'Dizzy' Wilkins
as Jerome 'Jerry' Hyland
as Reporter (uncredited)
as American Legion Doctor
as Crooked Owner
as Pat Bourke
as Klauss
as Rusty Callahan
as Sullivan
as Billy Dooley
as Luther Johnson
as Montana
as Bob Adair
as Terry Wickett
as Jerry (uncredited)
as Steve Sankey
as Deputy Thorpe
as Bill Welford
as Whitey
as State's Attorney
as Dimitri
as Alec
as Frank
as Eddie Smith
as Captain Enrique Vargas
as Studio Actor (uncredited)