Spec O'Donnell
Popularity:0.223
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1911-04-09
Place of Birth:Fresno, California, USA
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Also Known As:Walter O'Donnell, Walter 'Speck' O'Donnell, Walter 'Spec' O'Donnell, Speck O'Donnell, 'Spec' O'Donnell, Walter D. "Spec" O'Donnell

One Night of Love (1934)
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless...

The Male Animal (1942)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also...

Rich Uncles (1930)
When the rich uncle finds the bride in the company of one of her former suitors, he mistakes him for the bridegroom.

Blondes Prefer Bonds (1931)
Louise Fazdenda decides to get a make-over to rekindle the romance in her marriage. Somehow the rejuvenation process takes them back to the time of...

Hold Your Temper (1933)
The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.

Earthworm Tractors (1936)
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.

The Mystery Train (1931)
A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.

Don Key (Son of Burro) (1926)
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring...

The Devil's Cargo (1925)
John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspaper. He is determined to clear the town of the...

Hello Trouble (1932)
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits...

Call of the Cuckoo (1927)
Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

Private Izzy Murphy (1926)
Isadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen...

Two Plus Fours (1930)
This short subject was done by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm boys shortly after they finished The King of Jazz where lead singer Bing Crosby made his motion...

Freshman Year (1938)
A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.

Stand by for Action (1942)
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his...

Alcatraz Island (1937)
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

The Grand Parade (1930)
No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the...

Exposure (1932)
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to...

Pass the Gravy (1928)
Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant...

Show Girl (1928)
An aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble with her boyfriend.

Don't Tell Everything (1927)
Max and his son Asher are invited to a party, where Max meets a rich widow, but Asher keeps annoying all of the guests, so Max refuses to speak to...

Dumb Daddies (1928)
Max mistakes his son's acting for reality. When the play calls for the son to commit a murder (on a mannequin), Max winds up trying to hide the body...

Traffic Tangle (1930)
A drive in a new car with the family turns into a fiasco.

Dance Hall (1929)
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.

Speed Boys (1924)
While Spec's father is ill, he takes over as conductor on the miniature railroad.

College Holiday (1936)
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

Who's Who in the Zoo (1931)
Billy takes a trip to the the zoo with his wife and two sons. He is proud to show his knowledge about wild animals to his older son, who is preparing...

Why Girls Say No (1927)
A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.

Held For Ransom (1938)
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.

A Pair of Tights (1929)
Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors,...

Movie Night (1929)
A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.

Convoy (1978)
Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But...

Casey at the Bat (1927)
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York...

Sparrows (1926)
Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master...

Special Delivery (1927)
The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his...

Ride the High Country (1962)
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old...

The Sophomore (1929)
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is enticed into a craps game, and loses all in this...

You're Only Young Once (1937)
Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.

Parole Girl (1933)
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

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...

Sweepstakes (1931)
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

Love Is on the Air (1937)
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

Melody for Two (1937)
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

Public Wedding (1937)
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their...

Stars Over Broadway (1935)
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

Exclusive (1937)
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government...

The Big Broadcast (1932)
The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.

Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten...

King of Hockey (1936)
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.

The Daredevil Drivers (1938)
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

Hers to Hold (1943)
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the...

Love Crazy (1941)
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

The Secrets of Wu Sin (1932)
A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.

The Glass Key (1942)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Night Club Scandal (1937)
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

Varsity Show (1937)
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big...

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets...

Little Annie Rooney (1925)
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood. Preserved by the Academy Film...

Dressed to Kill (1941)
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

Pat and Mike (1952)
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she...

Should Second Husbands Come First? (1927)
A woman's two sons pretend to be insane in order to de-rail their mother's plans to remarry.

The Dancing Millionaire (1934)
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition

All by Myself (1943)
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to...

Man Hunt (1936)
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

Blood and Thunder (1931)
Mickey overhears the gang rehearsing a play and thinks it's real.

The Knockout (1932)
When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.

Freshman Love (1936)
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

Mickey's Touchdown (1933)
Mickey and the gang get ready for a big game of football. But Stinky Davis has a few tricks up his sleeve to stop the gang from winning. Special...

Hot News (1928)
Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best...

Second Chorus (1941)
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their...

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...

The Darling of New York (1923)
Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their...

Accidents Will Happen (1938)
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.

Angel's Holiday (1937)
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline...

Danger Street (1928)
Rolly Sigsby, a society clubman bitterly weary of life, wanders into the middle of a gunfight between the organized gangs on the lower East side in...

Vamping Venus (1928)
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost.

The Dressmaker from Paris (1925)
An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to...

The Death Kiss (1932)
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...

Once Upon a Time (1944)
Broadway producer Jerry Flynn is anxious to recapture the magic and reclaim the crowds after a set of costly flops. Outside his theater one night,...

Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

Blondes at Work (1938)
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals...

Walking Down Broadway (1938)
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...

Crazy House (1943)
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married...

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so...

We're All Gamblers (1927)
The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between Meighan and director James...

The Country Kid (1923)
Ben Applegate's father dies, leaving him and his brothers Joe and Andy orphans and having to run the family farm. Their Uncle Grimes is their legal...

The Itching Hour (1931)
Comedy spoof of THE CAT AND THE CANARY. A female athlete and her entourage take refuge on a stormy night in a strange hotel that seems to be haunted.

Kentucky Blue Streak (1935)
A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence. Now, Coughlin can ride his family's pride and...

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...

It Ain't Hay (1943)
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack,...

Double Exposure (1944)
In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to...

Little Johnny Jones (1923)
Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and...

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.

Boarding House Blues (1930)
A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.

Young America (1932)
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old...

Alice's Fishy Story (1924)
Alice wants desperately to get out of practicing her piano so she can go have fun with her friends. She tricks her mother into thinking she's still...

Webs of Steel (1925)
A railroad engineer and his wife try to stop a gang of robbers from holding up their train.

The Good Fairy (1935)
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by...

David Harum (1934)
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank...

Circumstantial Evidence (1935)
A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake"...

The Twilight Zone (1959)
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three...