Jack Oakie
Jack Oakie (November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0209 |
| Birthday | 1903-11-12 |
| Place of Birth | Sedalia, Missouri, USA |
| Also Known As | Джек Оуки, Lewis Delaney Offield, |
1940
The Great Dictator
8.3/3682
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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The Great Dictator
1929
Fast Company
8/1
Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an intere...
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Fast Company
1944
It Happened Tomorrow
6.783/69
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new...
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It Happened Tomorrow
1949
Thieves' Highway
7.2/114
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his fa...
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Thieves' Highway
1928
Finders Keepers
8/1
Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.
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Finders Keepers
1959
The Wonderful Country
6.125/68
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mex...
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The Wonderful Country
1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
4/4
In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin. Then the master...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
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
1961
Lover Come Back
6.973/166
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out...
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Lover Come Back
1943
Wintertime
5.333/3
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her...
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Wintertime
1929
The Dummy
8/1
The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the p...
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The Dummy
1951
Tomahawk
7/21
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the...
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Tomahawk
2007
Hitler: The Comedy Years
5/1
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
1929
The Wild Party
6.846/13
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets i...
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The Wild Party
1941
Rise and Shine
7.333/3
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
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Rise and Shine
1937
The Toast of New York
6.167/12
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he str...
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The Toast of New York
1936
The Texas Rangers
6.595/21
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
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The Texas Rangers
1934
Murder at the Vanities
5.455/11
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading la...
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Murder at the Vanities
1933
The Eagle and the Hawk
6.68/25
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enem...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
1945
That's the Spirit
6.667/3
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
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That's the Spirit
1940
Young People
5.25/10
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the f...
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Young People
1937
Hitting a New High
5.455/11
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
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Hitting a New High
1932
Once in a Lifetime
7.333/3
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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Once in a Lifetime
1932
If I Had a Million
6.609/46
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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If I Had a Million
1960
The Rat Race
6.8/18
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance...
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The Rat Race
1938
The Affairs of Annabel
5.5/4
Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for pu...
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The Affairs of Annabel
1929
The Man I Love
5.5/4
Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress Olga Ba...
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The Man I Love
1929
Street Girl
6.111/9
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
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Street Girl
1943
Something to Shout About
6.5/6
A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.
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Something to Shout About
1936
Colleen
5.75/4
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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Colleen
1934
Looking for Trouble
6.667/6
Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss Dan is a crook but are trapped by criminals and lef...
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Looking for Trouble
1932
Million Dollar Legs
6.818/22
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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Million Dollar Legs
1932
Uptown New York
6.4/5
Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a...
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Uptown New York
1935
Call of the Wild
6.245/53
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck...
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Call of the Wild
1944
Sweet and Low-Down
5.714/7
After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid...
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Sweet and Low-Down
1928
Road House
10/1
Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to more heady, roadhouse entertainment. There he becom...
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Road House
1937
Super-Sleuth
5.6/5
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
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Super-Sleuth
1930
Let's Go Native
7.667/3
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
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Let's Go Native
1948
When My Baby Smiles at Me
5.5/6
Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on...
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When My Baby Smiles at Me
1933
From Hell to Heaven
7.833/3
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in di...
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From Hell to Heaven
1933
College Humor
5.611/9
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
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College Humor
1933
Sitting Pretty
8/5
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon propriete...
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Sitting Pretty
1935
The Big Broadcast of 1936
5.833/12
Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of...
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
1950
Last of the Buccaneers
6.667/3
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.
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Last of the Buccaneers
1934
Shoot the Works
6.667/3
The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to su...
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Shoot the Works
1941
Navy Blues
4.75/4
On a layover in Hawaii, two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to wager bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having fou...
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Navy Blues
1923
Big Brother
10/1
When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge proper...
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Big Brother
1944
The Merry Monahans
5.333/6
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself...
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The Merry Monahans
1936
That Girl from Paris
6.857/7
Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American...
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That Girl from Paris
1936
King of Burlesque
6.25/10
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who hel...
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King of Burlesque
1938
Radio City Revels
7.667/3
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.
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Radio City Revels
1937
Fight for Your Lady
5.6/5
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
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Fight for Your Lady
1932
Dancers in the Dark
5.667/6
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gan...
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Dancers in the Dark
1938
Thanks for Everything
6.667/3
Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with...
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Thanks for Everything
1933
Too Much Harmony
7/2
A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."
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Too Much Harmony
1930
Sea Legs
6/2
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a re...
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Sea Legs
1930
The Sap from Syracuse
5.5/7
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foil...
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The Sap from Syracuse
1938
Annabel Takes a Tour
5.667/3
Annabel Allison, star of Wonder Pictures, is irked at her poor publicity, especially when a rival gets engaged to a Marquis; so she makes studio head...
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Annabel Takes a Tour
1932
Madison Square Garden
6.833/3
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When...
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Madison Square Garden
1942
Song of the Islands
7/5
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by tr...
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Song of the Islands
1930
The Social Lion
7.5/2
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most pr...
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The Social Lion
1929
Close Harmony
6.75/2
Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together a...
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Close Harmony
1941
The Great American Broadcast
6/8
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coa...
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The Great American Broadcast
1948
Northwest Stampede
3.333/3
In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo rider whose late father bequ...
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Northwest Stampede
1929
Chinatown Nights
4.375/8
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the de...
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Chinatown Nights
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
0/0
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
1931
Dude Ranch
5.5/4
Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Mead...
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Dude Ranch
1936
Florida Special
7/3
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.
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Florida Special
1965
Kilroy
0/0
Just discharged from the Marine Corps, Oscar Kilroy arrives in the small town of Wilton Junction. Befriending the young Bill Fuller, he gets involved...
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Kilroy
1940
Little Men
5.7/10
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's h...
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Little Men
1943
Hello, Frisco, Hello
6.412/34
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 tr...
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
1929
Sweetie
6.625/4
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
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Sweetie
1929
Hit the Deck
8.5/2
A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.
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Hit the Deck
1934
College Rhythm
5.6/5
The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After gra...
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College Rhythm
1929
Hard to Get
7/1
A dress shop employee falls in love with a millionaire.
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Hard to Get
1940
Tin Pan Alley
5.364/11
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new s...
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Tin Pan Alley
1944
Bowery to Broadway
10/1
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erup...
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Bowery to Broadway
1937
Champagne Waltz
10/2
In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss a...
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Champagne Waltz
1931
The Stolen Jools
5.629/31
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tubercu...
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The Stolen Jools
1941
Polo with the Stars
5.25/4
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies. Buddy Rogers buys one of the ponies in training...
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Polo with the Stars
1934
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
6.333/3
Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
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Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
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
1956
Around the World in 80 Days
6.657/573
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in 80 Days
1932
Sky Bride
8/1
Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager, Alec Dugan, performing at fairs and air shows and...
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Sky Bride
1946
She Wrote the Book
6.5/2
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written...
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She Wrote the Book
1928
The Fleet's In
7/1
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with he...
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The Fleet's In
1942
Iceland
6.5/4
Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Ka...
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Iceland
1936
Collegiate
7/1
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
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Collegiate
1944
Take It or Leave It
6/2
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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Take It or Leave It
1923
His Children's Children
8/1
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil...
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His Children's Children
1934
Hollywood Rhythm
8/1
This short plugs the new tunes written by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel for the movie "College Rhythm" and shows the audience how they were written and...
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Hollywood Rhythm
1931
June Moon
8/1
An ordinary Joe has ambitions to become a Tin Pan Alley writer.
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June Moon
1931
The Gang Buster
6.167/6
Naïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute with gangster Mike Slade. When Sylvia is kidnapped...
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The Gang Buster
1933
Sailor Be Good
8/1
A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up for a fight.
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Sailor Be Good
1945
On Stage Everybody
8/1
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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On Stage Everybody
2014
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
7/2
Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in w...
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Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
1931
Touchdown!
8/1
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.
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Touchdown!
2011
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
6/1
In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well...
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The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
1942
Breakdowns of 1942
6/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
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Breakdowns of 1942
1932
Make Me a Star
6.4/5
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
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Make Me a Star
1928
Someone to Love
8/1
A poor but honest sheet-music salesman is parted from his wealthy fiancée when she comes to believe he’s nothing but a golddigger. But circumstance pl...
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Someone to Love
2025
One to One: John & Yoko
7.2/16
An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples — John Lennon and Yoko Ono — spent living in Greenw...
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One to One: John & Yoko
1929
Sin Town
9/1
Two World War I veterans are wrongly accused of killing a rancher and arrested for murder. With the help of the rancher's daughter, they escape and se...
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Sin Town
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
0/0
Essentially an advertisement for Murder at the Vanities (1934). Features Chico Marx, W.C. Fields, Duke Ellington and many others.
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