The best Wendell Niles’s movies

Wendell Niles

Wendell Niles

29/12/1904- 28/03/1994
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The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

The Hitch-Hiker

The Hitch-Hiker
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 30/03/1953
  • Character: Wendell Niles
Ray and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.

Four Wives

Four Wives
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/12/1939
  • Character: Concert Radio Announcer (uncredited)
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 10/04/1937
  • Character: Radio News Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Espionage Agent

Espionage Agent
5.9/10
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.

The Crowd Roars

The Crowd Roars
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1932
  • Character: First Radio Announcer
Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.

Indianapolis Speedway

Indianapolis Speedway
5.7/10
This 1939 drama, a reworking of the 1932 James Cagney film "The Crowd Roars", stars Pat O'Brien as a champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother (John Payne) wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/09/1956
  • Character: Announcer
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

Three Faces West

Three Faces West
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/07/1940
  • Character: Man-on-the-Street Radio Announcer
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.

Ever Since Eve

Ever Since Eve
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 15/07/1937
  • Character: Monteray Police Announcer (uncredited)
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.

Harmon of Michigan

Harmon of Michigan
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/09/1941
  • Character: Wendell Niles
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.

Swingin' on a Rainbow

Swingin' on a Rainbow
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/09/1945
  • Character: Radio Announcer
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.

Gaucho Serenade

Gaucho Serenade
6.3/10
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.

Cowboy from Brooklyn

Cowboy from Brooklyn
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyWestern
  • Release: 09/07/1938
  • Character: Radio Announcer
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

The Masked Marvel

The Masked Marvel
7.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 06/11/1943
  • Character: Newscaster
A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome saboteur Sakima.

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