Tom Fadden
Tom Fadden (January 6, 1895 – April 14, 1980) was an American actor. He performed on the legitimate stage, vaudeville, in films and on television during his long career.
He would make his film debut with a small role in 1939's I Stole a Million. He would have his first memorable bit in his next film, Destry Rides Again, where in the opening scene he is playing cards, and is cheated when the character portrayed by Marlene Dietrich distracts him by spilling coffee in his lap.
His film career would span almost forty years and encompass over 90 films, mostly in small or supporting roles, although with an occasional starring role, as in 1940's Zanzibar.
His final acting credit was the 1977 science fiction horror film Empire of the Ants.
Fadden died of natural causes on April 14, 1980 in Vero Beach, Florida.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9162 |
| Birthday | 1895-01-06 |
| Place of Birth | Bayard, Iowa, USA |
| Also Known As |
1961
Pocketful of Miracles
7.307/184
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying...
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Pocketful of Miracles
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
1956
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
7.465/1189
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1943
The Good Fellows
8/1
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forge...
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The Good Fellows
1948
Panhandle
5.75/16
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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Panhandle
1969
Flareup
5.313/16
A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.
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Flareup
1947
Cheyenne
7/12
Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover...
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Cheyenne
1939
Destry Rides Again
7.205/193
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into...
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Destry Rides Again
1952
Toughest Man in Arizona
7/1
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring...
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Toughest Man in Arizona
1939
I Stole a Million
8/2
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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I Stole a Million
1953
Thy Neighbor's Wife
6.833/3
In 1841, in the small Morovian village of Skalni Hradec, a judge makes his much younger wife witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who...
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Thy Neighbor's Wife
1970
Dirty Dingus Magee
4.667/15
Ass-breaker Dingus Magee is looking for a gold train when he comes upon old acquaintance Hoke Birdsill on stage to San Francisco, and robs him of his...
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Dirty Dingus Magee
1953
Kansas Pacific
5/21
Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the front...
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Kansas Pacific
1940
Congo Maisie
4.625/8
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has...
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Congo Maisie
1952
The Lawless Breed
6.761/23
After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished re...
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The Lawless Breed
1944
Tomorrow, the World!
8.071/7
German boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
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Tomorrow, the World!
1943
Northern Pursuit
6.19/21
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the...
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Northern Pursuit
1944
The Hairy Ape
6.286/7
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
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The Hairy Ape
1950
Singing Guns
6.364/11
Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new jo...
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Singing Guns
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
1948
Whispering Smith
6.688/24
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go...
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Whispering Smith
1940
Winners of the West
7/1
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from bein...
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Winners of the West
1960
Flaming Star
6.5/97
Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the...
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Flaming Star
1947
That Hagen Girl
5.278/9
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her re...
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That Hagen Girl
1942
My Favorite Blonde
6.432/22
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded...
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My Favorite Blonde
1938
Held For Ransom
6/4
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.
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Held For Ransom
1948
Raw Deal
6.693/109
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pu...
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Raw Deal
1942
Wings for the Eagle
6.143/7
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
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Wings for the Eagle
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
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
7/1
Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysitting service.
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Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
1957
Baby Face Nelson
5.638/29
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll.
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Baby Face Nelson
1977
Empire of the Ants
4.937/126
A Florida real estate developer and her captain lure investors to a property in the Everglades called Dreamland Shores, under false pretenses that the...
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Empire of the Ants
1946
Dragonwyck
6.701/117
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley...
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Dragonwyck
1946
It's a Wonderful Life
8.281/4869
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entir...
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It's a Wonderful Life
1947
The Judge Steps Out
7/3
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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The Judge Steps Out
1960
The Slowest Gun in the West
4.5/2
The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff....
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The Slowest Gun in the West
1957
The Hired Man
0/0
The LA County sheriff's department is on the hunt for a man who approaches his victims as a prospective used car buyer. Directed by Don Siegel for the...
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The Hired Man
1959
Edge of Eternity
6.652/33
Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the...
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Edge of Eternity
1951
Drums in the Deep South
5.333/12
Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
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Drums in the Deep South
1947
Dark Passage
7.297/350
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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Dark Passage
1966
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
7.103/78
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose...
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
1940
When the Daltons Rode
6.227/22
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing the...
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When the Daltons Rode
1942
The Night Before the Divorce
5.6/5
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
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The Night Before the Divorce
1940
The Captain is a Lady
7.5/2
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single...
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The Captain is a Lady
1940
The Howards of Virginia
6.808/13
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the...
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The Howards of Virginia
1942
Blondie Goes to College
6.625/8
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, B...
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Blondie Goes to College
1942
Sundown Jim
10/1
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local crim...
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Sundown Jim
1942
Lone Star Ranger
5.333/3
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, mak...
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Lone Star Ranger
1941
The Shepherd of the Hills
6.595/58
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His...
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The Shepherd of the Hills
1943
A Lady Takes a Chance
5.81/21
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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A Lady Takes a Chance
1945
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
7.167/3
In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this minor...
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The Royal Mounted Rides Again
1945
Trail to Vengeance
7/1
A cowboy investigating his brother's murder finds himself going up against a banker who holds the deed to the cowboy's family ranch.
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Trail to Vengeance
1942
The Remarkable Andrew
7.375/4
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he i...
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The Remarkable Andrew
1942
Fall In
6.5/4
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
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Fall In
1946
The Big Sleep
7.593/1150
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the comple...
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The Big Sleep
1947
Dragnet
7.333/3
Scotland Yard Inspector Geoffrey James comes to the United States looking for a band of international gem-thieves who have smuggled a rich load of jew...
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Dragnet
1948
The Inside Story
6.571/7
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hote...
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The Inside Story
1948
State of the Union
6.743/74
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
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State of the Union
1946
The Well Groomed Bride
5.667/3
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco--she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship...
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The Well Groomed Bride
1948
The Hunted
5.571/14
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed.
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The Hunted
1943
Edge of Darkness
6.23/37
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living...
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Edge of Darkness
1945
Murder, He Says
6.8/35
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visitin...
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Murder, He Says
1942
The Glass Key
6.638/130
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Glass Key
1947
Pursued
6.582/97
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely...
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Pursued
1938
Hard to Get
6.333/6
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making b...
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Hard to Get
1942
Pardon My Sarong
6.482/28
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat t...
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Pardon My Sarong
1944
In Society
5.875/24
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree i...
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In Society
1945
The Naughty Nineties
6.655/29
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gamblin...
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The Naughty Nineties
1940
Zanzibar
9/1
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
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Zanzibar
1960
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
6.288/26
Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee...
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Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1955
The Tall Men
6.403/77
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers,...
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The Tall Men
1951
Vengeance Valley
5.291/55
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, a...
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Vengeance Valley
1947
California
6.848/23
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Jo...
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California
1941
Come Live with Me
6.806/31
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
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Come Live with Me
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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