John Laing

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as 2nd Platelayer

In the second series of the widely celebrated ITV detective programme, Dr John Watson finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Corporal

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as John the Chauffeur (uncredited)

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as WLR Radio Announcer (Uncredited)

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Hotel Clerk

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Room Clerk

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Intern (Uncredited)

A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Saunders

At a family gathering, an elderly man reflects on the follies of his youth during his freshman year at college.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Bank Customer

Ma Webster and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Concessionaire at Circus

Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.