Buddy Messinger
Buddy Messinger (born Melvin Joseph Messinger; 26 October 1907 – 25 October 1965) was an American actor who was cast in substantial roles in dozens of films during the silent film era. He began his career as a jovial chubby child actor. With the advent of sound films he was relegated mostly to bit parts.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4929 |
| Birthday | 1907-10-26 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Buddy Messinger, Bud Messinger, Buddie Messinger, Buddie Messenger , Melvin Joseph Messinger , Buddy Messenger , Melvin Joseph "Buddy" Messinger, |
1919
Jinx
10/1
The circus comes to town, and the town's orphans are treated to a day at the circus. The circus troupe's 'Jinx' girl causes so many problems for the p...
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Jinx
1922
Shadows
6.222/18
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin el...
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Shadows
1926
Monkeys Prefer Blondes
0/0
A Sunkist Comedy
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Monkeys Prefer Blondes
1922
When Love Comes
8/1
Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve...
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When Love Comes
1928
A Lady of Chance
6.5/5
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
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A Lady of Chance
1936
Three of a Kind
5.75/8
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
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Three of a Kind
1930
Cheer Up and Smile
10/1
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especiall...
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Cheer Up and Smile
1921
The Old Nest
8/1
A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and successes fill her life, but she grows lonely with...
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The Old Nest
1917
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
4.8/12
In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil alch...
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
1933
Keyhole Katie
0/0
A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority...
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Keyhole Katie
1936
An All American Toothache
8/1
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
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An All American Toothache
1938
Hold That Kiss
7/3
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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Hold That Kiss
1936
College Holiday
6.125/4
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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College Holiday
1939
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
7.333/3
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart br...
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
1936
The Devil Is a Sissy
7/12
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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The Devil Is a Sissy
1939
Four Girls in White
7.25/4
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Four Girls in White
1923
Abysmal Brute
9/1
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of hi...
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Abysmal Brute
1933
Stage Mother
6.333/3
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even bla...
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Stage Mother
1939
Idiot's Delight
6.118/17
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Idiot's Delight
1939
Fast and Loose
5.875/8
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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Fast and Loose
1939
Sergeant Madden
7.5/2
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Sergeant Madden
1939
Fast and Furious
5.182/11
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal,...
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Fast and Furious
1939
The Housekeeper's Daughter
4.6/5
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
1927
A Sorority Mixup
0/0
Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)
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A Sorority Mixup
1924
What an Eye
7/1
Buddy, an office-boy in a newspaper plant, puts on long trousers to get a man's-size job on the paper, and impress his girl. His brother, a reporter,...
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What an Eye
1937
Wings Over Honolulu
6.4/5
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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Wings Over Honolulu
1936
Modern Times
8.28/4064
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the w...
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Modern Times
1936
Libeled Lady
7.287/134
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the pub...
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Libeled Lady
1941
Hold Back the Dawn
6.67/50
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert...
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Hold Back the Dawn
1944
Crime by Night
6.375/8
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
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Crime by Night
1927
Dumb-Belles
6.5/2
Two henpecked men run off and pretend to be athletic trainers in order to get jobs in a weight loss club for women. The Sunkist Bathing Beauties are...
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Dumb-Belles
1940
Turnabout
6.036/14
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
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Turnabout
1940
Hullabaloo
6.5/2
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
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Hullabaloo
1940
Keeping Company
6.7/5
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.
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Keeping Company
1940
Love Thy Neighbor
7.333/3
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each oth...
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Love Thy Neighbor
1920
Edgar and the Teacher's Pet
8/1
The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a s...
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Edgar and the Teacher's Pet
1941
Citizen Kane
7.977/6020
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, ty...
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Citizen Kane
1923
A Howling Success
9/1
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A Howling Success
1920
Edgar's Hamlet
10/1
Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have never seen.
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Edgar's Hamlet
1920
Edgar Takes the Cake
9/1
Edgar delivers a cake to his sister's ill friend. The cake arrives safely, but not sound, and Edgar is taken to task for his careless handling of the...
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Edgar Takes the Cake
1920
Edgar's Sunday Courtship
9/1
On the way to Sunday school, Edgar meets the lady of his heart--and his hated rival. The Sunday-school lesson on David and Goliath so intrigues Edgar...
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Edgar's Sunday Courtship
1920
Edgar's Jonah Day
8/1
Edgar is called upon by his mother to execute a disagreeable errand, has to mind his troublesome younger brother, and runs away.
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Edgar's Jonah Day
1921
Edgar's Feast Day
10/1
Episode 11 of the series of 2-reel comedies “The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy”.
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Edgar's Feast Day
1919
The Hoodlum
5.967/15
A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleas...
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The Hoodlum
1929
Hot Stuff
10/1
An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.
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Hot Stuff
1940
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
5.667/12
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and ev...
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Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
1941
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
4.556/9
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1942
The Affairs of Martha
6.571/7
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
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The Affairs of Martha
1942
Brooklyn Orchid
6.667/3
Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
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Brooklyn Orchid
1937
Midnight Madonna
8/1
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.
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Midnight Madonna
1924
The Whispered Name
9/1
Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When they arrive at a hotel, ano...
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The Whispered Name
1923
Penrod and Sam
7.5/3
Penrod and his gang don't want to let neighborhood "goodie-goodie" Georgie Bassett into their club, but Penrod's father pressures him to allow the boy...
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Penrod and Sam
1924
Young Ideas
7/1
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has...
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Young Ideas
1938
The Shining Hour
6.727/22
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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The Shining Hour
1922
The Flirt
7/1
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, wh...
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The Flirt
1917
Treasure Island
6/1
Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pirate attack, they stay with friend, the squire, fo...
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Treasure Island
1920
Edgar's Little Saw
10/1
Among other Christmas gifts, Edgar receives a tool chest containing a little saw. While he is out displaying some of his other presents to the boy nex...
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Edgar's Little Saw
1920
Edgar Camps Out
9/1
Edgar is about to lose the lady of his heart because the Bates boys have been given a complete camping outfit for their back yard: tent, stove, and ev...
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Edgar Camps Out
1921
Edgar, the Detective
9/1
Edgar buys a badge and a book of instructions and starts to learn the detective business. When he and his chum accompany his uncle's hired hand and hi...
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Edgar, the Detective
1921
Edgar's Country Cousin
7/1
Edgar from the city goes to visit his country cousin and at once begins to impress him and his gang with the superiority of life and ways in the city....
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Edgar's Country Cousin
1918
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
0/0
Ali Baba, a poor Turkish wood chopper, discovers that a robbers' cave, concealed in the mountains that surround his house, opens to the magical phrase...
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1950
Devil's Doorway
6.857/49
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
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Devil's Doorway
1917
The Babes in the Woods
6/1
A story within a story, including a passage from Hansel and Gretel.
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The Babes in the Woods
1918
Fan Fan
0/0
The Japanese emperor's son, Hanki Pan (Francis Carpenter) is in love with beautiful Fan Fan (Virginia Lee Corbin) and is determined to marry her, even...
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Fan Fan
1917
Jack and the Beanstalk
5/3
Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack climbs, arriving at a castle that is his. Jack sets...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
1933
Wild Boys of the Road
6.814/51
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their par...
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Wild Boys of the Road
1938
Too Hot to Handle
6.024/21
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he m...
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Too Hot to Handle
1923
Trifling with Honor
7/1
Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for...
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Trifling with Honor
1922
A Front Page Story
7/1
Rodney Marvin hears a vague account of a dispute between Mayor Gorham and Matt Hayward from Hayward's daughter, Virginia. She is employed by her fathe...
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A Front Page Story
1924
The Racing Kid
10/1
Buddy, mischievous son of a race horse owner, is a competent youth around the stable and racetrack. He, Martha and Spec are pals. The day of the big s...
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The Racing Kid
1928
Undressed
7/1
Undressed is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Phil Rosen and starring David Torrence, Hedda Hopper, and Virginia Brown Faire.
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