Houseley Stevenson
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Houseley Stevenson (July 30, 1879 – August 6, 1953) was an American character actor who was born in London on July 30, 1879, and died in Duarte, California on August 6, 1953. He began his movie career in 1936 and had a short career in early television productions. Stevenson performed in live stage productions in New York under the name Houseley Stevens. He was a resident teacher at the Pasadena Playhouse in California. He was the father of actors Houseley Stevenson Jr., Edward Stevenson and Onslow Stevens.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2916 |
| Birthday | 1879-07-30 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Housley Stevens Sr., Housely Stevens, Houseley Stevenson Sr., Housely Stevenson Sr., Housley Stevenson Sr., Housely Stevenson, Housley Stevenson, |
1949
Take One False Step
5.389/18
Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...
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Take One False Step
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
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
1949
The Lady Gambles
6.074/34
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the ca...
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The Lady Gambles
1950
Edge of Doom
6.125/20
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
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Edge of Doom
1949
The Gal Who Took the West
5.958/12
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
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The Gal Who Took the West
1950
The Sun Sets at Dawn
6.4/10
A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.
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The Sun Sets at Dawn
1947
Thunder in the Valley
8.25/2
The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in...
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Thunder in the Valley
1946
Without Reservations
6.2/20
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't...
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Without Reservations
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
1948
Casbah
5.941/17
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
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Casbah
1951
Hollywood Story
6.688/24
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
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Hollywood Story
1950
Sierra
5.441/17
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change...
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Sierra
1951
Cave of Outlaws
5.433/15
Having served a prison sentence for robbery, Pete Carver decides to go back for the hidden loot. But someone is on his trail.
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Cave of Outlaws
1949
Knock on Any Door
6.243/68
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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Knock on Any Door
1947
Secret Beyond the Door
6.481/162
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full...
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Secret Beyond the Door
1947
Easy Come, Easy Go
7/1
Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
1952
Oklahoma Annie
8.667/3
A spunky storekeeper is determined to clean up corruption in her small town, as well as win the heart of the new sheriff. Comedy.
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Oklahoma Annie
1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
7.538/354
In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947
Time Out of Mind
5.625/8
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
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Time Out of Mind
1936
Isle of Fury
5.538/13
An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
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Isle of Fury
1936
The White Angel
7.167/6
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable professio...
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The White Angel
1942
The Man Who Returned to Life
8/2
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
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The Man Who Returned to Life
1948
Kidnapped
6.667/3
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
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Kidnapped
1937
Midnight Court
5.1/5
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Midnight Court
1949
All the King's Men
7.006/242
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore clas...
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All the King's Men
1949
Bride of Vengeance
5.4/5
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murde...
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Bride of Vengeance
1948
Four Faces West
5.818/22
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him hi...
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Four Faces West
1937
Once a Doctor
6.5/4
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both inte...
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Once a Doctor
1950
The Gunfighter
7.351/208
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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The Gunfighter
1949
Masked Raiders
7/2
Texas Rangers Tim Holt and Richard Martin are dispatched to halt a gang of masked outlaws terrorizing the frontier. Infiltrating the gang, Holt and Ma...
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Masked Raiders
1943
Happy Land
7.125/4
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he h...
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Happy Land
1952
The Wild North
6.889/9
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mount...
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The Wild North
1943
Crime Doctor
6.357/14
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal...
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Crime Doctor
1947
Ramrod
6.547/53
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "...
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Ramrod
1949
The Walking Hills
6.119/21
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley.
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The Walking Hills
1948
Apartment for Peggy
8.222/9
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be...
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Apartment for Peggy
1949
Song of Surrender
7/1
In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer...
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Song of Surrender
1948
Smart Woman
5.5/6
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.
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Smart Woman
1951
All That I Have
6/2
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to...
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All That I Have
1937
The Adventurous Blonde
5.231/13
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fi...
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The Adventurous Blonde
1946
Rendezvous with Annie
7/2
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two...
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Rendezvous with Annie
1951
The Secret of Convict Lake
6.597/31
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an...
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The Secret of Convict Lake
1949
Leave It to Henry
7.5/2
Henry Latham and town Mayor Colton continue their misadventures in Smalltown, America. This time, twelve-year-old David Latham is testifying at the tr...
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Leave It to Henry
1949
Sorrowful Jones
6.6/10
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a...
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Sorrowful Jones
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
The Brasher Doubloon
5.947/38
Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlow...
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The Brasher Doubloon
1936
China Clipper
5.909/11
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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China Clipper
1948
You Gotta Stay Happy
6.765/17
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel...
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You Gotta Stay Happy
1951
Darling, How Could You!
7.2/5
Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
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Darling, How Could You!
1949
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
6.071/7
Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty storek...
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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1948
Joan of Arc
6.134/86
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of A...
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Joan of Arc
1942
Native Land
6.286/14
By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage produ...
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Native Land
1946
Little Miss Big
7/2
A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters
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Little Miss Big
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
1951
Joe Santa Claus
0/0
Disgusted that he's been moved from the hardware department to duties as a department store Santa Claus and angry that his wife wants to go to work an...
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