Dick Foran — Actor (19)
Taggart (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Taggart
director: R.G. Springsteen actor: Tony Young / Dan Duryea
other title: 5.000 dollari vivo o morto / 5000 dollars mort ou vif
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache territory to escape the wrath of the trio of hired killers.
Four Wives (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Four Wives
other title: Quatre Jeunes Femmes
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Daughters Courageous (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Daughters Courageous
director: Michael Curtiz actor: John Garfield / Claude Rains
other title: Profughi dell'amore / Vier Töchter räumen auf
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
Violent Road (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Violent Road
other title: Il grande rischio / Carretera infernal
Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.
The Big Noise (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Big Noise
director: Frank McDonald actor: Guy Kibbee / Warren Hull
other title: Mr. Trent schlägt dem Alter ein Schnippchen
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
The Fearmakers (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Fearmakers
director: Jacques Tourneur actor: Dana Andrews / Dick Foran
other title: La piovra nera / Fabricantes do Medo
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth.
Boy Meets Girl (1938) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Boy Meets Girl
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: James Cagney / Pat O'Brien
other title: Der kleine Star / Le Vantard
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie about a cowboy and a baby. The waitress's baby becomes the star. The cowboy and his agent run off with the waitress and her valuable asset. The writers retaliate by hiring an unemployed extra to impersonate the baby's father. But the extra already knows the waitress...
Dangerous (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dangerous
director: Alfred E. Green actor: Bette Davis / Franchot Tone
other title: Paura d'amare / Perigosa
Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
Rangers of Fortune (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rangers of Fortune
director: Sam Wood actor: Fred MacMurray / Patricia Morison
other title: Avéntureros románticos / Le Mystère de Santa Marta
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his young granddaughter. The trio learn that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron, who's endeavoring to push out ranch owners and take over the territory.
My Little Chickadee (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
My Little Chickadee
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Mae West / W.C. Fields
other title: Mon petit poussin chéri / Mi pequeño gorrión
On her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Behind the Eight Ball (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Behind the Eight Ball
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Al Ritz / Jimmy Ritz
The story takes place at a summer theater in the Berkshire Mountains, where heroine Joan Barry (Carol Bruce) is staging a Broadway-bound musical comedy. Only one problem: two guest stars are shot and killed on two successive evenings, right in front of the audience. Hoping to solve the mystery, detective William Demarest demands that everyone -- actors and theatergoers alike -- return the following weekend to restage the show. But with no major performer willing to assume the fatal guest-star slot, Joan is forced to hire the Three Jolly Jesters (Al, Harry and Jimmy Ritz), Manhattan washroom attendants with showbiz aspirations.