Jackie Searl
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John E. Searl (July 7 1921 – April 29 1991) was an American actor. Searl was especially known for playing bratty kids, and often had only small roles, such as "Robin Figg" in 1934's Strictly Dynamite.
His first movie role was in Daughters of Desire (1929), followed by Tom Sawyer (1930) with Jackie Coogan and Mitzi Green, and Huckleberry Finn in 1931.
Notable films in which he appeared include Skippy, High Gear, Peck's Bad Boy, Great Expectations, and Little Lord Fauntleroy. In the 1940s, he had some supporting character roles before disappearing for nearly a decade. In the early 1960s, Searl enjoyed a flurry of activity as a supporting villain on television.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5506 |
| Birthday | 1921-07-07 |
| Place of Birth | Anaheim, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Jack Searl, Jackie Searle, Jack Searle, |
1936
Little Lord Fauntleroy
6.782/62
An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfathe...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
1933
Alice in Wonderland
6.143/63
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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Alice in Wonderland
1929
Daughters of Desire
8/1
When widowed attorney Richard Tucker refuses to defend bootlegger Julius Molnar in court, the latter swears revenge. Tucker pays no heed to Molnar, co...
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Daughters of Desire
1935
Unwelcome Stranger
9/1
Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around. T...
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Unwelcome Stranger
1966
The Magnificent Stranger
7/4
Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault.
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The Magnificent Stranger
1940
My Little Chickadee
6.5/34
On her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When...
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My Little Chickadee
1934
She Was a Lady
8/1
Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allo...
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She Was a Lady
1948
The Paleface
6.156/77
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Pete...
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The Paleface
1931
Skippy
6.18/25
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogc...
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Skippy
1939
Angels Wash Their Faces
6.667/9
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up wit...
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Angels Wash Their Faces
1948
Lady at Midnight
9/1
A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.
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Lady at Midnight
1934
No Greater Glory
6.639/18
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
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No Greater Glory
1932
Hearts of Humanity
4.75/4
Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the...
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Hearts of Humanity
1933
The Return of Casey Jones
7.5/2
Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy grows up to be a rai...
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The Return of Casey Jones
1933
High Gear
5.75/4
When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young ha...
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High Gear
1933
Topaze
6/24
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's nam...
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Topaze
1935
Ginger
4.8/5
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and fa...
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Ginger
1931
Finn and Hattie
6.25/4
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wear...
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Finn and Hattie
1938
Little Tough Guy
5.731/13
The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime sp...
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Little Tough Guy
1933
One Year Later
7.25/4
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution...
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One Year Later
1932
The Miracle Man
5.857/7
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 use...
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The Miracle Man
1931
Huckleberry Finn
7/4
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences li...
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Huckleberry Finn
1967
Divorce American Style
5.82/25
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
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Divorce American Style
1931
Scandal Sheet
10/1
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
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Scandal Sheet
1941
Small Town Deb
6.5/2
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
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Small Town Deb
1938
Little Tough Guys in Society
7.333/3
A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
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Little Tough Guys in Society
1931
Daybreak
4.333/6
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
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Daybreak
1934
Peck's Bad Boy
6/4
Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result...
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Peck's Bad Boy
1937
Two Wise Maids
10/1
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy th...
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Two Wise Maids
1931
Newly Rich
4.333/3
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sis...
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Newly Rich
1933
A Lady's Profession
7/1
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
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A Lady's Profession
1948
Hazard
8/3
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private dete...
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Hazard
1938
That Certain Age
5.5/8
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send h...
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That Certain Age
1934
Murder on the Blackboard
6.4/9
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in h...
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Murder on the Blackboard
1933
The Chief
5.5/2
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
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The Chief
1930
Tom Sawyer
6.333/6
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous ad...
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Tom Sawyer
1934
A Wicked Woman
5/5
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed...
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A Wicked Woman
1941
Golden Hoofs
8/2
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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Golden Hoofs
1932
Lovers Courageous
6/6
A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.
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Lovers Courageous
1962
The Couch
6.25/16
A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst.
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The Couch
1940
Military Academy
7/3
Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tom...
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Military Academy
1934
Great Expectations
7/5
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood...
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Great Expectations
1945
Club Havana
5.857/7
A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
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Club Havana
1937
Wild and Woolly
10/1
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) tea...
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Wild and Woolly
1934
Strictly Dynamite
6.5/4
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
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Strictly Dynamite
1963
Shotgun Wedding
6.25/4
While Rafe Anchors longs to marry the daughter of his father's sworn enemy, his father is being pressured into marriage by a sexy, shady gold-digger c...
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Shotgun Wedding
1941
Glamour Boy
6.5/2
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living...
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Glamour Boy
1931
Sooky
5/2
Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The Boo...
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Sooky
1936
Gentle Julia
7/1
A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
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Gentle Julia
1932
Officer Thirteen
6.6/5
A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndicate that controls the gambling--and much of the ju...
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Officer Thirteen
1930
Paramount on Parade
6.111/9
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
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Paramount on Parade
1933
The World Changes
4.75/8
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr....
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The World Changes
1933
Dangerous Crossroads
6.5/2
A railroad detective is having a difficult time stopping or even slowing down a gang that is robbing the merchandise carried on the freight trains, wi...
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