William Gargan

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William Gargan, born William Dennis Gargan July 17, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA and died February 17, 1979 aged 73 on a flight between New York and San Diego. He was an American motion picture, television and radio actor. Gargan played character roles in many Hollywood productions, including two appearances as detective Ellery Queen, but was best known for his role as Detective Martin Kane in the 1949-51 radio-television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye, sponsored by U.S. Tobacco. He also appeared as a private detective in the NBC radio show Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, which ran from 1951 to 1955. Born : 17th-Jul-1905

Movie Credits

I Wake Up Screaming

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
Released : 31st-Oct-1941

Strange Impersonation

A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car.
Released : 16th-Mar-1946

Reported Missing

A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
Released : 15th-Aug-1937

Midnight Manhunt

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
Released : 27th-Jul-1945

The Bells of St. Mary's

Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
Released : 27th-Dec-1945

Night Editor

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Released : 29th-Mar-1946

Sealed Lips

There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
Released : 2nd-Jan-1942

The Story of Temple Drake

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
Released : 6th-May-1933

Within the Law

A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
Released : 17th-Mar-1939

The Milky Way

Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
Released : 7th-Feb-1936

Rain

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sadie Thompson, a prostitute, and Alfred Davidson, a fanatic missionary who will try to redeem her.
Released : 12th-Oct-1932

Broadway Gondolier

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Released : 27th-Jul-1935

Behind Green Lights

An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a mayoral candidate. With the election just weeks away, shady and ruthless individuals muscle the medical officer into switching the corpse with another body. Lieutenant Sam Carson, one of the few good apples in the bunch must find a way to get to the bottom of it all.
Released : 15th-Feb-1946

Four Frightened People

Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave the ship in a tiny boat and make it to a desert island, where many adventures ensue and, of course, the two men fight over the beautiful young schoolteacher who is with them.
Released : 26th-Jan-1934

Who Done It?

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
Released : 30th-Oct-1942

A Close Call for Ellery Queen

Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
Released : 29th-Jan-1942

A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
Released : 7th-May-1942

The Canterville Ghost

The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
Released : 20th-Jul-1944

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
Released : 30th-Jul-1942

Star Dust

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
Released : 6th-Apr-1940

Lucky Devils

Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
Released : 3rd-Feb-1933

You Only Live Once

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Released : 23rd-Jan-1937

Double Alibi

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Released : 1st-Mar-1940

Don't Bet on Blondes

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Released : 13th-Jul-1935

Black Fury

A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
Released : 18th-May-1935

Night Flight

Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Released : 6th-Oct-1933

They Knew What They Wanted

While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.
Released : 19th-Oct-1940

Miracle in the Rain

Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
Released : 31st-Mar-1956

Till the End of Time

Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with bad debts. And Cliff can't decide what he wants to do with his life, although he gets encouragement from war widow Pat Ruscomb.
Released : 23rd-Jul-1946

Emergency Call

A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
Released : 24th-Jun-1933

Murder in the Music Hall

An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
Released : 10th-Apr-1946

The Animal Kingdom

Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.
Released : 28th-Dec-1932

Waterfront at Midnight

Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny has joined Barstow's gang. Things get worse after a bloody shootout, in which Mike apparently guns down his own brother.
Released : 25th-Jun-1948

Turnabout

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
Released : 17th-May-1940

Bright Lights

Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
Released : 27th-Jul-1935

Broadway Serenade

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 only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Released : 7th-Apr-1939

British Agent

An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.
Released : 15th-Sep-1934

The House of Fear

A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
Released : 30th-Jun-1939

Destination Unknown

Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
Released : 9th-Oct-1942

Three Sons

A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
Released : 13th-Oct-1939

Miss Annie Rooney

A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
Released : 29th-May-1942

Headline Shooter

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Released : 28th-Jul-1933

Sweepings

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
Released : 14th-Apr-1933

Women in the Wind

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Released : 15th-Apr-1939

Harrigan's Kid

A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.
Released : 1st-Mar-1943

Traveling Saleslady

A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
Released : 28th-Mar-1935

Strictly Dynamite

A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Released : 11th-May-1934

The Argyle Secrets

A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Released : 7th-May-1948

Swing Fever

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Released : 1st-Nov-1943

The Housekeeper's Daughter

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Released : 26th-Oct-1939

A Night at the Ritz

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Released : 23rd-Mar-1935

TV Credits

Studio One

Con McTaggart - An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
Released : 7th-Nov-1948

Martin Kane, Private Eye

- Martin Kane, Private Eye was an early radio series and television crime series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company.
Released : 1st-Sep-1949

The 20th Century Fox Hour

- The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
Released : 5th-Oct-1955

The George Gobel Show

Self - The George Gobel Show is an American television series hosted George Gobel that aired on NBC from 1954 to 1960.
Released : 2nd-Oct-1954

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