Wally Vernon
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 27, 1905
Known For
What a Way to Go!
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Reveille with Beverly
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Bloodhounds of Broadway
A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
He Walked by Night
Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
The White Squaw
A Swedish settler starts a war when he tries to drive Dakotas off their Wyoming reservation.
Broadway Serenade
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Behind Locked Doors
Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.
Chasing Danger
When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting desert warfare.
Filmography
as Agent
as Faro Bill
as Wally
as Okay, Okay
as Joe, Taxi Driver
as Harry 'Poorly' Sammis
as Lipinsky
as Wally
as Klaxon
as Hungry Hicks
as Clifton Gulliver
as Clem
as Vicente
as Sam Short
as Wally Vernon - Comic
as Seldom Sam Jenks
as Postman (uncredited)
as Taxi Driver
as Maintenance Man (uncredited)
as Archie Stone
as Throckmorton 'Other-Hand' Snodgrass
as Wildcat Higgens
as Room Service Waiter
as Handsome
as Buckshot Peters
as Tumbleweed Smith
as The Joker
as Beauty Bradshaw
as Wally
as Jimpson Simpson
as Klousky
as Deputy Deadeye
as Jack Pot Murphy
as Maxie
as Stomp McCoy (uncredited)
as Goofer
as Elmer
as Seaman
as Waldo Winkle [AFI Name: Waldo Rohrbeck]
as Joey, the Jinx
as Chick
as Waldo
as Delbert Jones
as Wally Vernon
as Gus Bryce
as Al Mahoney
as Bumps
as Jerry
as Odette Potta