Personal Info
Birth date
1913-02-21 (112 Years)
Day of death
1966-09-28
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known as
-Kenneth Howell
Biography
We dont have a biography for Kenneth Howell
Filmography
Ball of Fire
7.364
Overview:
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.The Eagle and the Hawk
6.6
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The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.Hot Water
5
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The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.The Jones Family in Hollywood
NYR
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Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.Girls' School
6
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Wealthy high school girls are sent to a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. Linda Simpson stays out all night. She tells her roommate, Betty Fleet, that it was because she's planning to elope. Linda gets in trouble when the faculty finds out from a monitor's report submitted by reluctant Natalie Freeman, a poor girl attending on scholarship.Nice Girl?
5.3
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Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.Henry Aldrich for President
4
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Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.Pride of the Bowery
6.1
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Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.Safety in Numbers
NYR
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The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.Borrowing Trouble
6
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The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
NYR
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The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!Her First Beau
5
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15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.Saturday's Millions
5
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Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.Junior G-Men
6.1
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A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of PatriotismOn Their Own
NYR
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The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.Too Busy to Work
NYR
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The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.In Old Amarillo
6
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A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.Off to the Races
NYR
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The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.Hurry, Charlie, Hurry
4.5
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In this comedy, the marital conflicts between a meek banker and his nagging wife are chronicled.She Had to Choose
5
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A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.Big Business
5
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A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.Everybody's Baby
NYR
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The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.Down on the Farm
NYR
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Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.Every Saturday Night
NYR
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First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.Love on a Budget
NYR
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This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.Sweater Girl
4
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College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.Educating Father
NYR
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Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.Acting
1951In Old Amarillo as Phil Hills
1942Sweater Girl as Miles Tucker
1942Scattergood Rides High as Phillip Dane
1942Girls' Town as Kenny Lane
1941Ball of Fire as College Boy
1941Henry Aldrich for President as Irwin Barrett
1941Hurry, Charlie, Hurry as Jerry Grant
1941Her First Beau as Roger Van Vleck
1941Nice Girl? as Unknown
1940Pride of the Bowery as Allen
1940Junior G-Men as Harry Trent
1940Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc. as Harry Trent
1940On Their Own as Jack Jones
1940Young as You Feel as Jack Jones
1939Too Busy to Work as Jack Jones
1939Quick Millions as Jack Jones (as Ken Howell)
1939The Jones Family in Hollywood as Jack Jones
1939Everybody's Baby as Jack Jones
1938The Wrong Way Out as Windy Brown
1938Down on the Farm as Jack Jones
1938Girls' School as Edgar Brown
1938Safety in Numbers as Jack Jones
1938A Trip to Paris as Jack Jones
1938Love on a Budget as Jack Jones
1937Borrowing Trouble as Jack Jones
1937Hot Water as Jack Jones
1937Big Business as Jack Jones
1937Off to the Races as Jack Jones
1936Four Days Wonder as Tom Fenton
1936Back to Nature as Jack Jones
1936Educating Father as Jack Jones
1936Melody in May as Chuck
1936Every Saturday Night as Jack Evers
1936The Little Red Schoolhouse as Schuyler Tree
1935Flicker Fever as Sidney Roth
1935Old Man Rhythm as College Boy
1934She Had to Choose as Announcer
1934I Give My Love as Frank Howard
1934Pardon My Pups as Harry Vanderpool
1933What's to Do? as Harry Vanderpool
1933Saturday's Millions as Student
1933The Eagle and the Hawk as Lt. John Stevens
1933The Iron Master as Dance Extra