Frank Darien
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1876-03-18
Place of Birth:New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Also Known As:Frank Guderian, Frank Darion

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his...

Belle Starr's Daughter (1948)
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.

The Woman on the Beach (1947)
A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

The Whip Hand (1951)
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.

Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

Anne of Green Gables (1934)
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their...

The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the...

The Perfect Clue (1935)
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs...

Born to Be Wild (1938)
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep...

Fashions of 1934 (1934)
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide...

I Take This Woman (1931)
A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a...

Wedding Present (1936)
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...

Cassidy of Bar 20 (1938)
Hopalong Cassidy, boss of the Bar 20 ranch in Texas, rides down the Camino Real in the New Mexico cattle country near Alamogordo, in response to an...

Captain January (1936)
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding...

Professional Sweetheart (1933)
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In...

The House on 56th Street (1933)
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits...

Big Business Girl (1931)
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

Bluebeard (1944)
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?

Trapped by G-Men (1937)
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

Service with a Smile (1934)
Walter Webb, thinking his gas station has been destroyed, describes a "super-deluxe" gas station run by chorus girls to his insurance agent.

From Headquarters (1933)
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.

Dr. Socrates (1935)
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling...

King of the Texas Rangers (1941)
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.

Western Jamboree (1938)
Knowing that is contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch which Gene straw-bosses. When that fails, they lay...

Panama Patrol (1939)
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.

Kiss and Tell (1945)
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly...

Here Comes Cookie (1935)
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to...

Hello, Everybody! (1933)
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole...

Magic Town (1947)
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire...

Roxie Hart (1942)
A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime...

The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the...

Prison Break (1938)
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for...

Prosperity (1932)
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

The Tip-Off (1931)
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.

Five Star Final (1931)
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman...

Behind the Evidence (1935)
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds...

Blame It on Love (1940)
A short film put out by the Hotpoint Company to demonstrate their Electric Ranges.

The Miracle Man (1932)
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and...

The Accused (1949)
A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with...

Wine, Women and Horses (1937)
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.

The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual...

Bad Girl (1931)
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their...

Gentle Annie (1944)
The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed,...

Arkansas Judge (1941)
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.

Lilly Turner (1933)
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young...

Sutter's Gold (1936)
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Crossroads - U.S.A. (1952)
Group of people trapped in gas station during a storm teach a young man valuable life lessons.

His Greatest Gamble (1934)
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

The Long Shot (1939)
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their...

Here Comes the Band (1935)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...

The Public Defender (1931)
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

Stand Up and Fight (1939)
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

Everything’s Rosie (1931)
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.

Journal of a Crime (1934)
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father...

Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's...

Dark Victory (1939)
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love...

At the Circus (1939)
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take...

Two Thoroughbreds (1939)
A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.

That's My Man (1947)
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose...

Blackmail (1939)
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Babes in Arms (1939)
Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie...

The Flying Saucer (1950)
The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his "nurse," to investigate flying saucer sightings. At first, installed...

A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love.

Viva Cisco Kid (1940)
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to...

Sis Hopkins (1941)
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.

Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

The Panther's Claw (1942)
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he...

A Likely Story (1947)
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.

Arizona (1940)
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But...

Maisie (1939)
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch...

Time Out for Romance (1937)
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Undercover Man (1936)
An operative from the Wells Fargo company goes undercover to trap a crooked sheriff and his equally nefarious hirelings in this standard B-Western...

Under Fiesta Stars (1941)
Rodeo champ Gene Autry inherits half interest in both a ranch and a mine that provides steady employment for the surrounding rancheros....

Syncopation (1942)
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

The Sea of Grass (1947)
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Bad Bascomb (1946)
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.

Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they...

Lillian Russell (1940)
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Brides Are Like That (1936)
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not...

Jezebel (1938)
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

The Way of All Flesh (1940)
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...

Marie Galante (1934)
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt...

Nurse to You! (1935)
Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on to live life to the fullest.

Old Ironsides (1926)
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then...

Life Begins at Forty (1935)
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft...

Life Begins (1932)
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and...

Jackass Mail (1942)
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

Satan Met a Lady (1936)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

Sabotage (1939)
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt...

Hurricane Smith (1941)
Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to...

Fair Warning (1937)
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy...

Wide Open Town (1941)
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected...

Early to Bed (1936)
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...

Way Back Home (1931)
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

Big Town Girl (1937)
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a...

The Great American Mug (1945)
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.

Get Hep to Love (1942)
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.

The Walking Dead (1936)
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his...

The Gay Bride (1934)
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.

The Little Colonel (1935)
After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to...

Alias Nick Beal (1949)
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking...

The Big Shot (1931)
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.

The Good Old Soak (1937)
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.

Dames (1934)
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

The Secret Heart (1946)
Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother,...

The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.

Baby Face (1933)
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her...

Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the...

Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...

Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

Now We'll Tell One (1932)
Charley unwittingly puts on a belt that has the power to change the wearer's personality.

Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the...

Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious...

You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the...

Trouble for Two (1936)
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called...

Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his...

Appointment for Love (1941)
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her...

Okay, America! (1932)
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.

The Last Installment (1945)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a criminal idolizes the life of a famous gangster - unaware that his hero met a tragic end.

Mad Love (1935)
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands...

Female (1933)
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design...

Union Depot (1932)
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend...

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

The Gang's All Here (1943)
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

Out of the Fog (1941)
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves...

Smarty (1934)
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips...

Meet the Stewarts (1942)
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

Gallant Journey (1946)
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn...