Gus Reed

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Juror (uncredited)

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Train Conductor

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Mac (uncredited)

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.

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Man Asking J. B. (uncredited)

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Counter Clerk

Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Min. Pretending to be Aunt Min's handyman, he performs his tasks so well that she refuses to let him leave.

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as Department Head (uncredited)

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Choir Member (uncredited)

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Member of quartette, singing waiters

Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.

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

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Townsman (uncredited)

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Customer

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Chef

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Dutchman

A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Singer at Beulah's

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Manager (uncredited)

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

Movie - 1930, 2h 15m • as Bit Role (uncredited)

A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • as Dr. Truly A. Singer

Jack Osterman is smitten with a woman on a park bench, and cannot stop saying the word "Umpa" for the rest of the film, which involves his treatment by a doctor and his singing and dancing temptress nurses. Somewhere between utterly silly and consummately brilliant with its fully rhyming dialogue, "Umpa" is the catchword for that enduring urge that makes people do ludicrous things with absolute determination.