Arthur Lake
Arthur Lake (April 17, 1905 – January 9, 1987) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of Blondie, to life in film, radio and television.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.54 |
| Birthday | 1905-04-16 |
| Place of Birth | Corbin, Kentucky, USA |
| Also Known As | Arthur William Silverlake, Arthur Silverlake Jr., |
1938
Blondie
7.1/8
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself in...
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Blondie
1939
Blondie Brings Up Baby
6.5/6
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically co...
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
Blondie Takes a Vacation
6.2/8
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life saving...
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Blondie Takes a Vacation
1940
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
7.2/5
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid....
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Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1941
Blondie in Society
7.4/5
Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show.
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Blondie in Society
1942
Blondie for Victory
7.3/3
Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in...
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Blondie for Victory
1940
Blondie Plays Cupid
6.7/6
The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.
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Blondie Plays Cupid
1940
Blondie on a Budget
6/8
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters w...
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Blondie on a Budget
1939
Blondie Meets the Boss
5.8/9
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring...
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Blondie Meets the Boss
1943
Footlight Glamour
7.7/3
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessma...
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Footlight Glamour
1942
Blondie's Blessed Event
7.3/3
Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby always creates is the appearance of Hans Conried a...
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Blondie's Blessed Event
1943
It's a Great Life
7.5/2
Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day...
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It's a Great Life
1941
Blondie Goes Latin
6.2/8
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleto...
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Blondie Goes Latin
1942
Blondie Goes to College
6.4/6
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
1945
Life with Blondie
6/1
Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she b...
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Life with Blondie
1946
Blondie's Lucky Day
6.4/5
Not only must Blondie put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood is fired for the umpteenth time by Mr. Dithers, but she must also tolerate the atte...
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Blondie's Lucky Day
1945
Leave It to Blondie
6/2
Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed sep...
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Leave It to Blondie
1947
Blondie's Anniversary
5.6/5
Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood ha...
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Blondie's Anniversary
1947
Blondie in the Dough
6.5/2
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer...
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Blondie in the Dough
1930
Peek-A-Boo
0/0
Arthur Lake plays a bellhop whose dream is to become the house-detective at the hotel. A robbery at the hotel gives him his opportunity. And the chanc...
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Peek-A-Boo
1946
Blondie Knows Best
6.4/5
Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray...
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Blondie Knows Best
1949
Blondie Hits the Jackpot
6.5/2
Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm while trying to get his old job back.
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Blondie Hits the Jackpot
1947
Blondie's Big Moment
4.8/4
Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood ha...
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Blondie's Big Moment
1948
Blondie's Secret
6.5/2
Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponement...
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Blondie's Secret
1948
Blondie's Reward
6.5/4
After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by his flustered boss Radcliffe (Jerome Cowan). Num...
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Blondie's Reward
1949
Blondie's Big Deal
6.2/4
Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off hi...
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Blondie's Big Deal
1947
Blondie's Holiday
6/2
Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to...
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Blondie's Holiday
1950
Beware of Blondie
5.3/3
Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to gum things up when he falls for a confidence scam...
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Beware of Blondie
1950
Blondie's Hero
6.3/3
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts.
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Blondie's Hero
1968
The Movie Orgy
6.2/9
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...
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The Movie Orgy
1937
Topper
6.714/119
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of thei...
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Topper
1937
True Confession
5.8/20
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she...
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True Confession
1929
Night Owls
0/0
The story is about a rebellious rich daughter who, instead of buckling down in school, is man-crazy for Horace (Arthur Lake of the "Blondie and Dagwoo...
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Night Owls
1931
Indiscreet
5.955/11
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
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Indiscreet
1948
16 Fathoms Deep
4.5/4
A bitterly jealous sponge fisherman tries to sabotage a fellow diver.
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16 Fathoms Deep
1929
On With the Show!
5/3
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the l...
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On With the Show!
1928
The Air Circus
0/0
Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.
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The Air Circus
1928
Hollywood or Bust
0/0
Hollywood or Bust is a silent comedy short.
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Hollywood or Bust
1935
Orchids to You
0/0
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.
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Orchids to You
1934
Girl o' My Dreams
4.5/2
A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the sch...
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Girl o' My Dreams
1929
Tanned Legs
4.3/3
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her waywar...
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Tanned Legs
1945
The Big Show-Off
4.5/2
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
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The Big Show-Off
1929
Dance Hall
3.8/4
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
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Dance Hall
1937
Annapolis Salute
6/2
The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the thi...
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Annapolis Salute
1937
23 1/2 Hours Leave
0/0
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unh...
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23 1/2 Hours Leave
1934
The Silver Streak
6.7/5
A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport an iron lung to a needy patient.
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The Silver Streak
1937
Exiled to Shanghai
4.9/4
A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.
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Exiled to Shanghai
1932
Running Hollywood
0/0
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
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Running Hollywood
1930
Cheer Up and Smile
0/0
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especiall...
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Cheer Up and Smile
1930
She's My Weakness
5/1
Tommy Mills and Marie Thurber, sweethearts, plan to marry when Tommy sells some land he has inherited. Marie's parents favor the match, as they prefer...
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She's My Weakness
1935
Women Must Dress
3/2
A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
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Women Must Dress
1936
I Cover Chinatown
0/0
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.
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I Cover Chinatown
1938
Everybody's Doing It
5/1
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
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Everybody's Doing It
1938
Double Danger
6.5/2
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Fo...
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Double Danger
1927
Cradle Snatchers
3.5/2
To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college b...
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Cradle Snatchers
1928
Harold Teen
7/1
Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus. He...
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Harold Teen
1938
There Goes My Heart
7.154/13
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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There Goes My Heart
1945
The Return of Mr. Hook
5.833/12
Seaman Hook has big plans for after the war, mostly involving rushing home and marrying his sweetie. So do his fellow seaman, but theirs involve buyin...
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The Return of Mr. Hook
1928
Lilac Time
6.2/4
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome new...
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Lilac Time
1945
Tokyo Woes
4.9/10
Created for the US Navy in World War II. The Mr. Hook character was created by Hank Ketcham while at Walter Lantz Studios, where the first- and only c...
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Tokyo Woes
1945
The Good Egg
5.727/11
Navy seaman Mr. Hook is convinced of the value of holding on to his war bonds.
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The Good Egg
1934
The Winnah!
0/0
State College is a coeducational school where the athletics are more important than academics. All there are preparing for a big multi-sport match wit...
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The Winnah!
1944
Sailor's Holiday
0/0
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, mor...
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Sailor's Holiday
1933
Midshipman Jack
6/1
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
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Midshipman Jack
1944
3 Is a Family
0/0
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his w...
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3 Is a Family
1944
The Ghost That Walks Alone
4/3
Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.
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The Ghost That Walks Alone
1925
A Free Ride
5.5/2
Arthur and Eddie make a bluff at buying a car and get the auto salesman to take their girls for a ride, pretending to the girls that he is a hired cha...
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A Free Ride
1939
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
3.5/2
Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected.
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Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1922
The Bride's Play
5.1/10
A sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which man will she choose?
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The Bride's Play
1929
Whose Baby?
7/1
A young man trying to win the attentions of a pretty lady gets lumbered with another woman's baby, beginning a cascade of misunderstandings, close sha...
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Whose Baby?
1936
New Shoes
6/1
A love affair blossoms between two pairs of shoes after a couple purchases the shoes.
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New Shoes
1925
Sporting Life
0/0
A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can sav...
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Sporting Life
1935
Starlit Days at the Lido
5/5
Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon wit...
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Starlit Days at the Lido
1927
Hop Along
0/0
Part of Universal's series of one-reel Bluebird Comedies, this one stars Arthur Lake as a student who's confined to his dorm room to study on the nigh...
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Hop Along
1946
Peeks at Hollywood
0/0
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
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Peeks at Hollywood
1976
It's Showtime
7/1
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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It's Showtime
1925
Where Was I?
0/0
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
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Where Was I?
1926
Skinner's Dress Suit
7/2
Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as th...
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Skinner's Dress Suit
1931
Hollywood Halfbacks
0/0
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