Oliver Blake
Character actor with a wildly distinctive face. Used real name Oliver Prickett for stage work, especially at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where he was a longtime fixture and teacher and where his brother was managing director. Used stage name Oliver Blake for scores of small film and television roles. Brother-in-law of actress Maudie Prickett.
He died on 12 February 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6558 |
| Birthday | 1905-04-04 |
| Place of Birth | Centralia, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Oliver Prickett, |
1953
Julius Caesar
7.103/234
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to ass...
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Julius Caesar
1951
The Lemon Drop Kid
6.565/31
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Cr...
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The Lemon Drop Kid
1945
Conflict
6.667/78
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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Conflict
1947
The Guilty
5.523/22
Two friends land in hot water when they begin dating twins and one of the women ends up dead.
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The Guilty
1960
Bells Are Ringing
6.433/52
Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to...
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Bells Are Ringing
1947
The Senator Was Indiscreet
6.167/6
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary...
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The Senator Was Indiscreet
1946
Blonde Alibi
4.75/6
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a chec...
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Blonde Alibi
1945
The Horn Blows at Midnight
5.8/21
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactl...
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
1953
House of Wax
6.916/381
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands...
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House of Wax
1951
The Stooge
6.735/34
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the...
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The Stooge
1958
Giant from the Unknown
4.406/16
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former prof...
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Giant from the Unknown
1955
The Cobweb
5.671/35
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.
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The Cobweb
1944
The Doughgirls
7.6/5
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and...
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The Doughgirls
1954
Brigadoon
6.53/168
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order...
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Brigadoon
1949
Colorado Territory
6.98/75
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.
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Colorado Territory
1957
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
5.611/18
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1948
Moonrise
6.25/74
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persist...
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Moonrise
1952
Face to Face
6.5/4
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a...
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Face to Face
1953
So This Is Love
4.333/6
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
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So This Is Love
1946
Wake Up and Dream
7.375/4
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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Wake Up and Dream
1950
Let's Dance
6.125/8
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and joble...
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Let's Dance
1954
Casanova's Big Night
6.053/19
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little susp...
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Casanova's Big Night
1952
Son of Paleface
6.414/35
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
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Son of Paleface
1941
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
7.091/11
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman...
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H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1943
Casablanca
8.141/6016
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Casablanca
1948
Cry of the City
6.729/72
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his clien...
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Cry of the City
1948
Shed No Tears
5.079/19
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
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Shed No Tears
1954
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
6.5/9
The Indians try to make a fire in the Kettles fireplace the old fashion way, the smoke signal way. Judges are a comin' to award a child with a scholar...
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
1945
A Medal for Benny
5.6/5
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they p...
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A Medal for Benny
1944
Up in Arms
5.7/10
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
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Up in Arms
1944
Gypsy Wildcat
6/5
In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wi...
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Gypsy Wildcat
1944
Greenwich Village
6.667/6
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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Greenwich Village
1954
Drum Beat
6.091/33
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy...
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Drum Beat
1944
Christmas Holiday
6.514/36
A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
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Christmas Holiday
1952
Feudin' Fools
5.5/4
Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillb...
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Feudin' Fools
1942
Castle in the Desert
7.139/18
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert...
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Castle in the Desert
1957
Raintree County
6.441/59
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susa...
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Raintree County
1948
The Walls of Jericho
5.643/7
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
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The Walls of Jericho
1951
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
6.708/12
The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether t...
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm
1946
My Reputation
7.273/22
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own...
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My Reputation
1947
Merton of the Movies
6.3/5
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert...
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Merton of the Movies
1947
Out of the Past
7.652/643
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried...
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Out of the Past
1954
Hell's Outpost
5.5/6
A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.
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Hell's Outpost
1946
Inside Job
5.875/8
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unles...
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Inside Job
1952
Room for One More
6.548/52
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her hu...
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Room for One More
1948
Summer Holiday
5.15/10
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the gi...
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Summer Holiday
1952
The Greatest Show on Earth
6.365/275
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won c...
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The Greatest Show on Earth
1947
The Mighty McGurk
6.688/8
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District.
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The Mighty McGurk
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
7.875/8
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he i...
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation
1954
Susan Slept Here
6.081/31
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Ma...
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Susan Slept Here
1942
Saboteur
6.888/544
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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Saboteur
1948
The Pirate
6.458/106
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and...
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The Pirate
1941
New York Town
8.5/2
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stef...
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New York Town
1942
Get Hep to Love
7/2
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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Get Hep to Love
1941
Design for Scandal
5.125/8
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
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Design for Scandal
1955
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
7.375/8
Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from an...
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
6.5/9
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter i...
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1950
Father of the Bride
6.991/231
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself,...
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Father of the Bride
1943
Corvette K-225
6.154/13
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Corvette K-225
1949
A Woman's Secret
5.614/44
A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal p...
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A Woman's Secret
1948
Let's Live a Little
7/4
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fianc...
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Let's Live a Little
1943
Mission to Moscow
5.738/21
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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Mission to Moscow
1952
The Iron Mistress
5.269/13
In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse'...
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The Iron Mistress
1948
The Miracle of the Bells
6.125/16
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days...
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The Miracle of the Bells
1959
Alias Jesse James
6.036/28
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent t...
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Alias Jesse James
1941
Shadow of the Thin Man
6.983/118
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
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Shadow of the Thin Man
1948
The Challenge
7.5/2
Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.
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The Challenge
1947
Ginger
9/1
The adventures of a boy and his dog in a small town.
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Ginger
1958
The Fearmakers
6.179/15
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works th...
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The Fearmakers
1950
Fancy Pants
5.789/19
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The compli...
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Fancy Pants
1951
Rhubarb
5.833/9
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...
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Rhubarb
1947
So You're Going to Be a Father
5.5/4
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.
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So You're Going to Be a Father
1942
Reunion in France
6.405/21
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get hi...
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Reunion in France
1955
The Seven Little Foys
6.156/16
Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they...
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The Seven Little Foys
1954
The Long, Long Trailer
6.902/56
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage...
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The Long, Long Trailer
1947
Nightmare Alley
7.194/234
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
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Nightmare Alley
1951
Chain of Circumstance
7/1
A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant.
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Chain of Circumstance
1944
The Thin Man Goes Home
7.112/103
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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The Thin Man Goes Home
1951
Come Fill the Cup
7/6
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back a...
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