Maurice Black

Maurice Black

Maurice Black (January 14, 1891 – January 18, 1938) was an American character actor known for his portrayal of mobsters. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1928 to 1938, when he died of pneumonia, four days after his 47th birthday. He was married to Edythe Raynore. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maurice Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Maurice Black
  • Popularity: 5.204
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1891-01-13
  • Place of Birth: Queens, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Johnny Morris
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    Blondie Johnson

    Blondie Johnson

    6.1 1933 HD

    A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Joan Blondell

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    Dark Streets

    Dark Streets

    5 1929 HD

    Pat and Danny McGlone are identical twin brothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and Pat grows up and becomes a policeman while Danny...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Jack Mulhall

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    Little Caesar

    Little Caesar

    6.86 1931 HD

    A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Edward G. Robinson

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    Leaping Love

    Leaping Love

    1 1929 HD

    Charley falls for both a mother and her daughter.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Charley Chase

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    Flying Down to Rio

    Flying Down to Rio

    6.1 1933 HD

    A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Dolores del Río

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    Framed

    Framed

    5.182 1930 HD

    Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Evelyn Brent

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    Steady Company

    Steady Company

    1 1932 HD

    Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Norman Foster

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    Elmer, the Great

    Elmer, the Great

    4.3 1933 HD

    Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joe E. Brown

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    Smart Money

    Smart Money

    6.9 1931 HD

    Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Edward G. Robinson

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    Stout Hearts and Willing Hands

    Stout Hearts and Willing Hands

    1 1931 HD

    Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Frank Fay

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  • 1936
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    Laughing Irish Eyes

    Laughing Irish Eyes

    1 1936 HD

    An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Phil Regan

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    Exclusive Story

    Exclusive Story

    6.5 1936 HD

    A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Franchot Tone

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    The Firefly

    The Firefly

    6.4 1937 HD

    Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Jeanette MacDonald

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    Murder on the Campus

    Murder on the Campus

    5.4 1933 HD

    A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Shirley Grey

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    Julius Sizzer

    Julius Sizzer

    1 1931 HD

    After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious...

    Genre:

    Cast: Benny Rubin

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    Broadway Babies

    Broadway Babies

    5.25 1929 HD

    Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alice White

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  • 1936
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    Ellis Island

    Ellis Island

    5 1936 HD

    It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a...

    Genre:

    Cast: Donald Cook

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    Live and Learn

    Live and Learn

    1 1930 HD

    A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Gertrude Astor

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    Dancers in the Dark

    Dancers in the Dark

    4.5 1932 HD

    A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Miriam Hopkins

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    No Limit

    No Limit

    6 1931 HD

    Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Clara Bow

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    Street of Chance

    Street of Chance

    6.417 1930 HD

    'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: William Powell

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    Playing Around

    Playing Around

    4.7 1930 HD

    New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alice White

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    Numbered Men

    Numbered Men

    4.6 1930 HD

    Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bernice Claire

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    Wake Up and Dream

    Wake Up and Dream

    4 1934 HD

    The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Russ Columbo

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    The King Murder

    The King Murder

    3 1932 HD

    A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Conway Tearle

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    Twin Husbands

    Twin Husbands

    4.2 1933 HD

    The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating him so they can get their hands on what remains...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Miljan

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    Show Girl in Hollywood

    Show Girl in Hollywood

    5.8 1930 HD

    Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Alice White

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    The Carnation Kid

    The Carnation Kid

    1 1929 HD

    It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago hitman.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Douglas MacLean

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  • 1928
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    Show Folks

    Show Folks

    6 1928 HD

    Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Eddie Quillan

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    While Paris Sleeps

    While Paris Sleeps

    5.8 1932 HD

    To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Victor McLaglen

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    A Shriek in the Night

    A Shriek in the Night

    5 1933 HD

    Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Ginger Rogers

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    Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles

    Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles

    1 1933 HD

    When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Charles Ray

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    Let's Do Things

    Let's Do Things

    1 1931 HD

    Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Zasu Pitts

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  • 1935
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    Stars Over Broadway

    Stars Over Broadway

    5.2 1935 HD

    An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Pat O’Brien

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    Friends of Mr. Sweeney

    Friends of Mr. Sweeney

    6 1934 HD

    Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Charles Ruggles

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  • 1935
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    Bride of Frankenstein

    Bride of Frankenstein

    7.484 1935 HD

    Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Boris Karloff

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    Adventure's End

    Adventure's End

    5.5 1937 HD

    Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: John Wayne

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    Under Strange Flags

    Under Strange Flags

    1 1937 HD

    Not quite a western, not quite a historical drama, Under Strange Flags is a little bit of both, and a lot of former RKO Radio cowboy hero Tom Keene....

    Genre: History

    Cast: Tom Keene

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    Three Legionnaires

    Three Legionnaires

    1 1937 HD

    Set in the post-WWI days in the Siberian tank town of Skzavoskanoff, U. S. Army Sergeant Chuck Connors and Private Jiimy Barton are charged with...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Armstrong

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    Bonnie Scotland

    Bonnie Scotland

    6.6 1935 HD

    Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Stan Laurel

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    The Daring Young Man

    The Daring Young Man

    1 1935 HD

    The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: James Dunn

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    Ship of Wanted Men

    Ship of Wanted Men

    2 1933 HD

    A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dorothy Sebastian

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    Lonely Wives

    Lonely Wives

    4.167 1931 HD

    A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Edward Everett Horton

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    Scarface

    Scarface

    7.451 1932 HD

    In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Paul Muni

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    I Cover the Waterfront

    I Cover the Waterfront

    5 1933 HD

    An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ben Lyon

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    The Runaway Bride

    The Runaway Bride

    5 1930 HD

    Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Mary Astor

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    The Californian

    The Californian

    1 1937 HD

    Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Ricardo Cortez

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    The Sea God

    The Sea God

    4.667 1930 HD

    The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Richard Arlen

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    The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble

    The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble

    1 1933 HD

    Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: George Sidney

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  • 1928
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    Marked Money

    Marked Money

    1 1928 HD

    Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left instructions that The Boy is to be delivered to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Frank Coghlan Jr.

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    Captain Swagger

    Captain Swagger

    1 1928 HD

    Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills.

    Genre:

    Cast: Rod La Rocque

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    West of the Pecos

    West of the Pecos

    1 1934 HD

    Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Richard Dix

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    Silly Billies

    Silly Billies

    8 1936 HD

    The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Bert Wheeler

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    Down to Their Last Yacht

    Down to Their Last Yacht

    6 1934 HD

    Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Mary Boland

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    The Face on the Barroom Floor

    The Face on the Barroom Floor

    3 1932 HD

    Bill Bronson is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control until he joins his wife Mary at getting blotto...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Dulcie Cooper

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    The Canary Comes Across

    The Canary Comes Across

    3.5 1938 HD

    A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Erik Rhodes

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    Tiger Shark

    Tiger Shark

    6.7 1932 HD

    A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Edward G. Robinson

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    Walking Down Broadway

    Walking Down Broadway

    5.7 1938 HD

    Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Claire Trevor

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    The Front Page

    The Front Page

    6.5 1931 HD

    Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Pat O’Brien

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    Night Flight

    Night Flight

    5.7 1933 HD

    Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Barrymore

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    The Game That Kills

    The Game That Kills

    5.3 1937 HD

    Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Charles Quigley

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    Half a Sinner

    Half a Sinner

    1 1934 HD

    A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Sally Blane

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    Renegades

    Renegades

    4.5 1930 HD

    Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Warner Baxter

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    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

    5.4 1930 HD

    A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Walter Huston

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    The Keyhole

    The Keyhole

    4.9 1933 HD

    A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kay Francis

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    Sixteen Fathoms Deep

    Sixteen Fathoms Deep

    2.3 1934 HD

    A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Sally O'Neil

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