Frank Meredith

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography26 Titles

#1Red River

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Train Engineer (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
Western

Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.

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#2The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Cop (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
ComedyFantasyRomance

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.

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#3Badman's Territory

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Deputy Marshal (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
ActionWestern

After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.

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#4They Made Me a Criminal

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Cop #2 (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

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#5Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Second Detective

6.7 / 10
MysteryThriller

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.

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#6Deadline at Dawn

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Policeman (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
MysteryThrillerRomance

A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.

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#7Slave Ship

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Crew Member

5.1 / 10
AdventureDrama

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

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#8Dick Tracy's G-Men

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Officer Duffy

5.3 / 10
ActionCrimeMystery

A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.

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#9The Last Crooked Mile

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Bank Guard

5.5 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

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#10Highway West

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Cop (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
CrimeDrama

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

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#11Waterfront Lady

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m as Patrol Boat Officer

5.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.

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#12Mills of the Gods

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m as Guard

8.0 / 10
Drama

Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)

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#13Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Army Messenger

6.8 / 10
Crime

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

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#14Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
ComedyCrimeMystery

Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.

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#15Safety in Numbers

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Motor Cop

7.0 / 10
Comedy

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

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#16The Girl in 419

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m as Cop

4.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.

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#17The Gracie Allen Murder Case

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Motorcycle Cop

6.3 / 10
ComedyMystery

Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.

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#18Hold That Woman!

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Police Officer Mike

7.0 / 10
CrimeComedy

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.

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#19Government Agents vs Phantom Legion

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Motorcycle Cop

7.5 / 10
ActionCrime

Two federal agents battle a gang that hijacks trucks carrying materials vital for the security of the country and sells them to foreign powers.

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#20Mary Jane's Pa

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m as Motor Cop

6.8 / 10
Drama

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.

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#21The Man from Hell's Edges

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m as Barfly

6.5 / 10
Western

A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working as a deputy in a distant town, hoping to ultimately find the outlaw who killed his father during a robbery years ago.

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#22Dragnet Patrol

Movie - 1931, 2h 15m as Federal Officer

6.2 / 10
ActionCrimeDrama

A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.

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#23Murder by Television

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m as Plainclothesman (Uncredited)

4.2 / 10
ThrillerMysteryHorror

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.

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#24The Magnificent Rogue

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Cell Guard

6.5 / 10
ComedyDrama

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.

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#25Riders of the Purple Sage

Movie - 1931, 2h 15m as Court Extra

8.0 / 10
Western

Lassiter's sister was killed and her young daughter taken and raised by outlaws. Years later Lassiter arrives at the Withersteen ranch looking for the now grown daughter. He immediately gets caught up in the ranch's struggle against rustlers. Trailing a rustled herd of horses leads him to the rustler's hideout and the missing daughter.

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#26Behind Stone Walls

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m as Court Guard (uncredited)

4.7 / 10
CrimeDrama

Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jack. Bob comes to her defense and confesses to the shooting. The father prosecutes the son who receives a life imprisonment sentence. Jack Keene's butler Druggett knows the truth and blackmails Esther. Bob's girlfriend Peg Harper summons John Clay to the scene...

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