Dan Dowling
Known For & Full Filmography28 Titles

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Extra (uncredited)
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Museum Patron (uncredited)
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Playboy (uncredited)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Son of Lone Star State (uncredited)
Lucky Jackson arrives in Las Vegas with his car literally in tow ready for the first Grand Prix — once he has the money for an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he'll lose both race and girl, problems complicated by rivalry from womanizing fellow racer Elmo Mancini.

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Restaurant Patron (Uncredited)
After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Waiter (uncredited)
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Officer at Christmas Party (uncredited)
In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Club Patron (uncredited)
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Mine Owner (uncredited)
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Mine Owner (uncredited)
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Naval Officer at Meeting (uncredited)
Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II.

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Reporter (uncredited)
After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her dress in rags; murder results. Top New York defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly.

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Party Guest (uncredited)
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as First-Nighter (uncredited)
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Townsman (uncredited)
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Soldier
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.

Movie - 1928, 2h 15m • as Aviator
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Night Club Patron (uncredited)
Two stepsisters become rivals for the same handsome bachelor. Comedy.

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Bank Clerk (uncredited)
Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.
