Personal Info
Birth date
1900-08-08 (124 Years)
Day of death
1983-12-11
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Freedom, Indiana, USA
Also known as
Jim Pierce
James Hubert Pierce
James Pierce
Biography
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Filmography
Wings
7.22
Overview:
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.My Favorite Brunette
6.639
Overview:
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.You Only Live Once
7.128
Overview:
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.Zorro's Fighting Legion
5.2
Overview:
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor. Francisco was put in charge of a legion to combat the Yaqui tribe and protect the land, but when attacked Zorro came to his rescue. Francisco's partner recognized Zorro as the hidalgo Don Diego Vega, then ask him to take over the fighting legion as his alter-ego Zorro.Union Pacific
6.5
Overview:
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?Flash Gordon
6.337
Overview:
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.Stars in My Crown
6.9
Overview:
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a few of his parishioners.Rocket Ship
4.8
Overview:
A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.Strange Cargo
7
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Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.Racket Busters
5.1
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A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.Horse Feathers
6.881
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Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.North West Mounted Police
6.3
Overview:
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)Emergency Squad
5
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Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.Nocturne
5.8
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In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.The Killer That Stalked New York
6.086
Overview:
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.Spaceship to the Unknown
6
Overview:
A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.The Phantom of the Range
NYR
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Duke Carlton, an actor stranded in a small western town, gets a job as a cowboy on Tim O'Brien's ranch as a reward for beating up "Flash" Corbin, a real estate agent who has been trying to swindle the rancher. A romance develops between the actor and Patsy O'Brien, the rancher's daughter, but it is interrupted by the appearance of his former stage partner, Vera Van Swank, who claims him as her husband. He clears himself of the bigamy charge, foils a plot to cheat the rancher out of a $90,000 land property, and wins the daughter's hand.Chad Hanna
6
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Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.When the Daltons Rode
6
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Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?Johnny Apollo
6.8
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Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.Winners of the West
NYR
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Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.The Texas Rangers Ride Again
5.5
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With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.Love Crazy
7.1
Overview:
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.Michael Shayne: Private Detective
6.5
Overview:
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.Undercover Girl
5.786
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After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.Timber War
5
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The owners of a lumber mill hire an investigator to find out who is sabotaging their mill.Wives Never Know
NYR
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The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death".Suicide Fleet
4.3
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Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.High Flyers
7
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Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.Young as You Feel
NYR
Overview:
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.Acting
1966Spaceship to the Unknown as Prince Thun (archive footage)
1951Cattle Queen as Bad Bill Smith
1950Undercover Girl as Lt. Kirby (uncredited)
1950The Killer That Stalked New York as Police Commissioner (uncredited)
1950Stars in My Crown as Townsman (uncredited)
1947My Favorite Brunette as Detective (uncredited)
1946Nocturne as Policeman (uncredited)
1941Love Crazy as San Francisco Private Investigator (uncredited)
1941Across the Sierras as Man on Wagon
1940Chad Hanna as Big Man
1940Michael Shayne: Private Detective as Burly Man Downstairs
1940The Texas Rangers Ride Again as High Boots
1940North West Mounted Police as Corporal
1940The Gay Caballero as Henchman
1940When the Daltons Rode as Deputy Sheriff
1940Arizona Frontier as Kansas
1940Rainbow Over the Range as Jim Rader
1940Winners of the West as Charlie Nelson - Lumberman
1940Johnny Apollo as Guard (uncredited)
1940Strange Cargo as Guard (uncredited)
1940Emergency Squad as Policeman
1939Zorro's Fighting Legion as Henchnam Moreno
1939These Glamour Girls as Joy Lane Bouncer (uncredited)
1939Captain Fury as Guard
1939Union Pacific as Card Player (uncredited)
1939Persons in Hiding as G-Man (uncredited)
1938Racket Busters as Martin's Henchman (uncredited)
1938Rocket Ship as Prince Thun
1937High Flyers as Cop
1937You Only Live Once as Guard (uncredited)
1936Wives Never Know as Dentist (uncredited)
1936Flash Gordon as Prince Thun
1935Timber War as Charlie Braden
1932Horse Feathers as Ed Mullen (uncredited)
1931Suicide Fleet as Recruit (uncredited)
1931Young as You Feel as Jack, a cop
1928Ladies of the Mob as The officer
1928The Phantom of the Range as 'Flash' Corbin
1928Her Summer Hero as Chris
1927Jesse James as Frank James
1927Wings as Army MP (uncredited)
1927Tarzan and the Golden Lion as Tarzan
1926The Return of Grey Wolf as Louis LaRue
1924Her Man as Unknown