Delos Jewkes
From New York Times Obituary, July 19, 1984: J. Delos Jewkes, a singer and actor who supplied the voice of God for Cecil B. De Mille's "Ten Commandments," died of a heart attack here Tuesday. He was 89 years old. Mr. Jewkes appeared in about 300 films, with Shirley Temple, John Wayne and others. He was featured in all of Jeanette MacDonald's and Nelson Eddy's films. He also appeared with Hoot Gibson and on the Orpheum-Keith Vaudeville Circuit. Mr. Jewkes started his singing career in 1925 with traveling opera and light opera companies. He sang in the bass section of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and with the Salt Lake Philharmonic Orchestra.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2574 |
| Birthday | 1895-10-21 |
| Place of Birth | Orangeville, Utah, USA |
| Also Known As | Jesse Delos Jewkes, J. Delos Jewkes, J.D. Jewkes, |
1936
Bottles
8/3
A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips t...
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Bottles
1935
Pop Goes the Easel
7.133/15
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hun...
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Pop Goes the Easel
1942
White Cargo
6.188/8
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love...
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White Cargo
1938
Have You Got Any Castles
6.431/29
A night in a small library. The characters of famous books come to life, referring to movie versions of these books.
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Have You Got Any Castles
1971
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
7.031/1024
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when th...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1932
Santa's Workshop
6.565/176
Santa's little helpers must hurry to finish the toys before Christmas Day.
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Santa's Workshop
1933
Father Noah's Ark
6.121/33
Noah, his family (wife, 3 sons, their wives), and various animals all help build the ark. The rains come, and the skunks barely miss the boat (not tha...
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Father Noah's Ark
1939
Broadway Serenade
6.6/5
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...
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Broadway Serenade
1940
Bitter Sweet
6/8
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
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Bitter Sweet
1943
Coney Island
6.3/10
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spo...
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Coney Island
1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
6.5/18
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Loui...
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Du Barry Was a Lady
1942
Rio Rita
6.029/17
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
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Rio Rita
1944
Lost in a Harem
5.559/17
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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Lost in a Harem
1936
To Spring
6.929/14
Gnomes greet the coming of spring by manufacturing various bright colours.
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To Spring
1935
Naughty Marietta
5.435/23
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unli...
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Naughty Marietta
1941
One Foot in Heaven
6.886/22
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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One Foot in Heaven
1962
The Music Man
7.124/193
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he ca...
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The Music Man
1932
King Neptune
6.537/27
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King Neptune
1930
The Booze Hangs High
5.237/19
Bosko has a grand time on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin and getting drunk with three pigs.
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The Booze Hangs High
1946
Girl on the Spot
10/1
Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the pl...
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