Personal Info
Birth date
1888-07-23 (136 Years)
Day of death
1938-06-07
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also known as
Jim Donlan
James Donlan
Biography
James Donlan was an American stage and screen actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1929 and 1939.
Filmography
Mystery of the Wax Museum
6.5
Overview:
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.The Working Man
6.6
Overview:
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.Murder on a Bridle Path
5.3
Overview:
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.The Mayor of Hell
7.2
Overview:
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.Huddle
6.6
Overview:
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.20,000 Years in Sing Sing
6.3
Overview:
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.This Is My Affair
7.3
Overview:
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.Back Street
6.1
Overview:
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.Thirteen Women
6.3
Overview:
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.Dance, Fools, Dance
6.4
Overview:
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.The Penguin Pool Murder
5.6
Overview:
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.Babes in Arms
6.4
Overview:
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.The Painted Desert
4.8
Overview:
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?The Whole Town's Talking
6.787
Overview:
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.Five Star Final
6.744
Overview:
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.Hot Tip
5
Overview:
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.Dr. Socrates
6.4
Overview:
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.It Happened in Hollywood
6.1
Overview:
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.Hi, Nellie!
6.5
Overview:
Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.The Fall Guy
5.5
Overview:
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.The Daring Young Man
NYR
Overview:
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.Life Begins at Forty
NYR
Overview:
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.The Case of the Curious Bride
6
Overview:
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.A Very Honorable Guy
2
Overview:
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.The Death Kiss
5.1
Overview:
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.Pilgrimage
6.853
Overview:
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.Acting
1939Babes in Arms as Fred (uncredited)
1938Professor Beware as Man Reported at Museum
1937Borrowing Trouble as Casey
1937Music for Madame as Suspect with Cold (Uncredited)
1937It Happened in Hollywood as Shorty
1937This Is My Affair as Reporter
1936The Plot Thickens as Jim
1936Crash Donovan as Smokey
1936The Ex-Mrs. Bradford as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1936Murder on a Bridle Path as Detective Kane
1936Boulder Dam as Nightclub Manager (uncredited)
1936Exclusive Story as Managing Editor (uncredited)
1935We're Only Human as Casey
1935Dr. Socrates as Salesman in Car
1935Here Comes the Band as Joe (uncredited)
1935Hot Tip as Bill - Racetrack Bettor
1935The Daring Young Man as Captain of the Prison Guard
1935The Case of the Curious Bride as Detective Fritz
1935Traveling Saleslady as Andy McNeill
1935Life Begins at Forty as Farmer
1935The Whole Town's Talking as Detective Sergeant Patrick J. Howe
1935Under Pressure as Corky
1934Belle of the Nineties as Kirby (Tiger Kid's manager)
1934Paris Interlude as Jones - Times Reporter
1934Now I'll Tell as Honey Smith
1934A Very Honorable Guy as Mr. O'Toole
1934Dark Hazard as Man Advising Jim at Dog Track
1934Hi, Nellie! as Evans (uncredited)
1933Design for Living as Fat Man with Ring (uncredited)
1933I Loved a Woman as Voting Returns Announcer (uncredited)
1933Doctor Bull as Harry Weems
1933The Avenger as Durant
1933Pilgrimage as Unknown
1933College Humor as Marcus Lafflin
1933The Mayor of Hell as Sam (uncredited)
1933The Nuisance as Photographer (uncredited)
1933The Working Man as Hartland Company Salesman (uncredited)
1933Mystery of the Wax Museum as Morgue Attendant (Uncredited)
1933What! No Beer? as Al (uncredited)
193220,000 Years in Sing Sing as First Reporter (uncredited)
1932The Penguin Pool Murder as Security Guard Fink
1932The Death Kiss as Max Hill
1932Thirteen Women as Mike, Detective (uncredited)
1932Back Street as Profhero
1932Huddle as Heckler at Game (uncredited)
1932Just a Pain in the Parlor as Mr. Smith
1932The Final Edition as Freddie
1932Big Dame Hunting as Getchel
1931Men of Chance as Clark
1931Five Star Final as Unknown
1931Sporting Blood as Jim, a Trainer (uncredited)
1931A Free Soul as Reporter (uncredited)
1931The Good Bad Girl as Police Sgt. Donovan
1931Daybreak as Drunk Inviting Laura to Dance
1931Dance, Fools, Dance as Clinton (uncredited)
1931The Painted Desert as Steve - Ore Wagon #2 Shotgun Rider
1931Danger Lights as Picnic Barker (uncredited)
1930Mothers Cry as City Editor
1930Remote Control as Blodgett
1930Night Work as Mr. McEvoy
1930The Sins of the Children as Bide Taylor
1930The Fall Guy as The Bill Collector
1930Beau Bandit as Buck
1929The Bishop Murder Case as Ernest Heath
1929Copy as Adams
1929Wise Girls as Ben Wade
1929Big News as Deke