Dick French

Acting
1904-10-19
Saint-Nicolas, Wallonia, Belgium

Known For & Full Filmography25 Titles

#1They Died with Their Boots On

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

6.7 / 10
WesternWarDrama

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

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#2You Can't Take It with You

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Bank Clerk (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

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#3Love Is News

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Reporter (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
RomanceComedy

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.

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#4The Gilded Lily

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m as Patron at Nate's Cafe (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
ComedyRomance

Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged Charles has hurt Marilyn, he fabricates an article casting her as the "No Girl" who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Marilyn unexpected fame, and Charles returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.

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#5Jimmy the Gent

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m as Tea Drinker Next to Jimmy (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
DramaComedyRomance

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

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#6The Hard Way

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Playboy (Uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Drama

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

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#7Stranded

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

6.0 / 10
RomanceDrama

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

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#8Fog Over Frisco

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m as Dick, Bandleader (Uncredited)

6.4 / 10
ThrillerCrimeMystery

Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.

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#9Melody for Two

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Nightclub Patron

7.0 / 10
MusicRomance

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

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#10Time Out for Romance

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Reporter

6.0 / 10
AdventureComedy

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

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#11A Bill of Divorcement

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m as Party Guest

6.3 / 10
Drama

A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.

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#12River Gang

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Reporter

9.0 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.

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#13Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Reporter

6.6 / 10
ComedyMystery

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.

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#14Dames

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m as Man On Ferry (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
RomanceMusicComedy

A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

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#15No, No, Nanette

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Congratulator

6.2 / 10
MusicComedy

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?

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#16The Housekeeper's Daughter

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Gangster

4.6 / 10
Comedy

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

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#17The Lady Objects

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Student

5.7 / 10
RomanceDramaMusic

A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.

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#18Girl on the Spot

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

10.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot of the title because she was on the scene of a murder. The police conclude she didn't do it and they use her to set a trap for the real killer, a G&S addict, by financing a Broadway production starring Collier.

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#19Big Town Girl

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Reporter

7.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.

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#20Margin for Error

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Photographer

6.3 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.

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#21Dixie Dugan

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Phillips

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.

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#22Give Me Your Heart

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m as Leaving Guest (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
DramaRomance

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

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#23The Mad Martindales

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as Barber

7.5 / 10
Comedy

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

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#24Step Lively, Jeeves!

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Reporter (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
ComedyCrime

A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.

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#25Hold 'Em Navy

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Game Announcer

4.7 / 10
Drama

Two football players fight over the same girl.

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