Frederick Burton
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.367 |
Birthday | 1871-10-20 |
Place of Birth | Indianapolis, Indiana, USA |
Also Known As | Frederick Wishard Burton, Fred Burton, |
1932
Two Seconds
6.1/19
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flash...
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Two Seconds
1932
One Way Passage
7.304/51
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's se...
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One Way Passage
1930
The Big Trail
6.703/106
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Camer...
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The Big Trail
1938
The Saint in New York
6.2/14
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox...
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The Saint in New York
1934
Flirtation Walk
5.273/11
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years...
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Flirtation Walk
1933
The Working Man
6.6/6
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor;...
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The Working Man
1934
Bedside
5.6/7
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
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Bedside
1932
The Wet Parade
5.8/4
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton fami...
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The Wet Parade
1937
The Duke Comes Back
5/2
After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his bu...
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The Duke Comes Back
1931
Sweepstakes
4.5/2
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
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Sweepstakes
1933
No Other Woman
5.2/6
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
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No Other Woman
1931
Secret Service
6/2
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
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Secret Service
1932
Fireman, Save My Child
6/2
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for hi...
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Fireman, Save My Child
1932
The Woman from Monte Carlo
5/2
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to c...
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
1938
Air Devils
3/2
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
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Air Devils
1933
Counsellor at Law
6.6/25
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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Counsellor at Law
1932
State's Attorney
6.7/6
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster...
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State's Attorney
1933
Broadway Bad
5/4
Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
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Broadway Bad
1931
Freighters of Destiny
0/0
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
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Freighters of Destiny
1921
If Women Only Knew
0/0
Remotely derived from Balzac, the plot centers on Maurice Travers, who, through the self-sacrificing efforts of his mother, is able to attend college,...
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If Women Only Knew
1932
Too Busy to Work
4/1
A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him...
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Too Busy to Work
1918
Arizona
0/0
A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not love her, so she contrives to marry his commanding of...
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Arizona
1933
Whistling in the Dark
5.2/4
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
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Whistling in the Dark
1939
Hollywood Cavalcade
5.1/4
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...
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Hollywood Cavalcade
1935
Transient Lady
5.5/2
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
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Transient Lady
1936
Mummy's Boys
4.2/6
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient...
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Mummy's Boys
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.884/1011
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1933
King for a Night
6.2/2
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
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King for a Night
1939
Silver on the Sage
0/0
Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown rustlers. Brennan/Talbot are twin brothers (one a casino own...
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Silver on the Sage
1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
6/27
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
The Old Maid
7.1/47
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
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The Old Maid
1938
Kentucky
5.2/8
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...
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Kentucky
1936
Fury
7.49/209
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wr...
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Fury
1942
Man With Two Lives
5.3/8
A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the elec...
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Man With Two Lives
1932
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
7.8/198
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s false...
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1940
Brigham Young
4.4/15
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settl...
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Brigham Young
1940
Go West
6.5/79
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and R...
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Go West
1942
Junior G-Men of the Air
6/1
A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
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Junior G-Men of the Air
1937
Love Is News
6/9
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are e...
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Love Is News
1919
Getting Mary Married
3.7/5
Early feature from American cinema pioneer Allan Dwan, starring Marion Davies
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Getting Mary Married
1938
Jezebel
7.073/185
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Jezebel
1940
Before I Hang
6.2/32
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a...
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Before I Hang
1940
Third Finger, Left Hand
6.8/12
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jef...
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Third Finger, Left Hand
1935
The Calling of Dan Matthews
3/1
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a...
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
1942
Silver Queen
5.6/5
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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Silver Queen
1920
Yes or No
5.5/2
Two wives, one rich, one poor, each find themselves tempted by romantic seducers, and each faces the dilemma of remaining true to the husband who negl...
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Yes or No
1933
Golden Harvest
5/1
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market...
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Golden Harvest
1927
Running Wild
5.7/3
Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fi...
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Running Wild
1923
The Fighting Blade
0/0
In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hi...
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The Fighting Blade
1920
The Fear Market
0/0
A woman struggles to overcome a cabal of blackmailers, but learns that the boss of the blackmailers is none other than her own father. -from IMDB
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The Fear Market
1932
The Night of June 13
7/2
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudi...
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The Night of June 13
1935
Shipmates Forever
6.5/4
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no...
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Shipmates Forever
1934
Love Birds
6/1
ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crow...
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Love Birds
1936
The Accusing Finger
4.7/3
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sente...
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The Accusing Finger
1939
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
2/1
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their...
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1936
The Voice of Bugle Ann
5.8/4
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
1941
Babes on Broadway
6.4/20
Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up th...
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Babes on Broadway
1938
Flight to Fame
5/1
An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
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Flight to Fame
1920
Heliotrope
0/0
A prison inmate obtains his release from prison in order to rescue his daughter from the clutches of her unscrupulous mother's plot to implicate the g...
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Heliotrope
1931
An American Tragedy
6.1/15
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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An American Tragedy
1932
Okay, America!
8/1
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Okay, America!
1932
The All-American
5/1
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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The All-American
1919
Anne of Green Gables
6/1
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows from an adventuresome young lass into a charming and m...
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Anne of Green Gables
1934
Smarty
4/5
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips...
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Smarty
1936
Theodora Goes Wild
6.5/40
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Th...
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Theodora Goes Wild
1919
Cheating Cheaters
0/0
Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other.
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Cheating Cheaters
1921
The Education of Elizabeth
0/0
Billie Burke, the real-life wife of Flo Ziegfeld, plays Ziegfeld Follies dancer Elizabeth Banks who falls for a wealthy young man. His parents are sho...
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The Education of Elizabeth
1923
Broadway Broke
0/0
Nellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a vaudeville act and is the sole support of the family.
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Broadway Broke
1940
The Man from Dakota
5.3/3
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
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The Man from Dakota
1941
Washington Melodrama
5/4
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved...
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Washington Melodrama
1939
Inside Information
0/0
A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.
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Inside Information
1918
Ruggles of Red Gap
0/0
Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-re...
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Ruggles of Red Gap
1924
The Rejected Woman
5/1
Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped by a blizzard, her father thinks wrong of her...
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The Rejected Woman
1919
The Teeth of the Tiger
0/0
Living quietly under the assumed name Paul Sernine, reformed gentleman crook Arsene Lupin is summoned to protect his invalid, wealthy friend Henry For...
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The Teeth of the Tiger
1934
One Night of Love
5.3/13
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working...
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One Night of Love
1940
Gangs of Chicago
5.3/3
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
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Gangs of Chicago
1935
McFadden´s Flats
0/0
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats." At the same time, Dan and hi...
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McFadden´s Flats
1922
Anna Ascends
0/0
While working in Siad Coury’s coffeehouse in a Syrian neighborhood of New York City, Syrian immigrant Anna Ayyob falls in love with reporter, Howard F...
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