
Kenneth Thomson
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Charles Kenneth Thomson (January 7, 1899 – January 26, 1967) was an American character actor active during the silent and early sound film eras. Born in Pittsburgh, Thomson along with his wife Alden Gay were founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. The group was founded after meetings held at the Thomsons' home during 1933. During his brief twelve-year career in front of the camera, he appeared in over 60 films. After appearing in several Broadway plays during the early and mid-1920s, Thomson would make his film debut with a starring role in 1926's Risky Business. Over the next four years, he would appear in over a dozen films, in either starring or featured roles. In 1930 alone he would appear in ten films, half of which were in starring roles, such as Lawful Larceny, which also starred Bebe Daniels and Lowell Sherman (who also directed), and Reno, whose other stars were Ruth Roland and Montagu Love; the other half would see him in featured roles as in A Notorious Affair, starring Billie Dove, Basil Rathbone, and Kay Francis. During the rest of the 1930s, he would appear in numerous films, mostly in either supporting or featured roles, such as The Little Giant (1933), starring Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor, and Hop-Along Cassidy (1935), starring William Boyd; although he occasionally would have a starring role, as in opposite Harold Lloyd in 1932's Movie Crazy.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.227 |
Birthday | 1899-01-06 |
Place of Birth | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Kenneth Thompson, Charles Kenneth Thomson, |

1932

Thirteen Women
6.3/31
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
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Thirteen Women

1930

The Doorway to Hell
6.3/21
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and...
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The Doorway to Hell

1933

The Little Giant
6.8/18
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as soc...
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The Little Giant

1931

The Bride's Mistake
0/0
A Marjorie Beebe short comedy where she ends up next to lunatic driver Vernon Dent among other weird situations.
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The Bride's Mistake

1932

Movie Crazy
6.2/23
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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Movie Crazy

1929

The Veiled Woman
0/0
A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own life, one of whom she had to kill to protect hers...
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The Veiled Woman

1932

The Famous Ferguson Case
6/4
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft...
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The Famous Ferguson Case

1935

Behind the Green Lights
0/0
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).
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Behind the Green Lights

1932

By Whose Hand?
6/4
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped kill...
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By Whose Hand?

1932

Her Mad Night
1/1
A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter.
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Her Mad Night

1936

Blackmailer
5/1
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
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Blackmailer

1933

Jungle Bride
5.1/11
Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she believes is responsible for the murder which her b...
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Jungle Bride

1934

In Old Santa Fe
5/5
Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and ha...
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In Old Santa Fe

1934

Cross Streets
5.8/4
A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.
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Cross Streets

1930

A Notorious Affair
4.4/7
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
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A Notorious Affair

1933

From Headquarters
5.8/6
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
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From Headquarters

1929

Say It with Songs
5.3/3
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine....
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Say It with Songs

1937

Jim Hanvey, Detective
5.9/4
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Jim Hanvey, Detective

1933

Daring Daughters
0/0
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
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Daring Daughters

1930

He Trumped Her Ace
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He Trumped Her Ace

1930

Children of Pleasure
4.7/3
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
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Children of Pleasure

1934

Change of Heart
6.2/5
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
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Change of Heart

1932

Fast Life
8.3/3
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor...
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Fast Life

1927

White Gold
5.944/9
A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.
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White Gold

1930

Sweethearts on Parade
1/2
Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsi...
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Sweethearts on Parade

1926

Risky Business
6/1
A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived...
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Risky Business

1931

Murder at Midnight
5.4/12
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis...
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Murder at Midnight

1927

Almost Human
8/2
John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a c...
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Almost Human

1930

Wild Company
5/1
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
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Wild Company

1930

Lawful Larceny
5.7/3
When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
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Lawful Larceny

1935

Hop-a-long Cassidy
6/2
An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while helping a gang to rustle the cattle. Each cattlem...
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Hop-a-long Cassidy

1933

Son of a Sailor
5/1
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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Son of a Sailor

1929

The Bellamy Trial
1/1
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.
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The Bellamy Trial

1934

Behold My Wife!
7/2
After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the...
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Behold My Wife!

1927

Man Bait
0/0
Madge Dreyer is a sales girl in a large department store whose street-wise past long ago taught her how to handle any situation. A small adventure wit...
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Man Bait

1929

The Girl from Havana
0/0
Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a musical comedy troupe to capture a gang of jewel thi...
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The Girl from Havana

1935

Whispering Smith Speaks
0/0
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determin...
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Whispering Smith Speaks

1933

Female
6.3/28
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engin...
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Female

1932

Man Wanted
5.5/9
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
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Man Wanted

1928

The Secret Hour
0/0
An Elderly fruit grower sends a photo of his foreman, not himself, to a waitress he wishes to marry. She falls in love with the foreman.
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The Secret Hour

1930

Sweet Mama
0/0
A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she love...
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Sweet Mama

1926

Corporal Kate
0/0
Frequently cited as one of the first war films to feature the female angle, “Corporate Kate” is the story of a pair of Brooklyn manicurists who go to...
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Corporal Kate

1929

The Broadway Melody
5.2/142
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfie...
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The Broadway Melody

1934

The Hollywood Gad-About
5/2
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
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The Hollywood Gad-About

1980

Rivals of the Dragon
7/1
Master Chan (Jeffrey Chan) is a widely respected martial arts teacher who has several skilled understudies in the Los Angeles area. When one of his st...
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Rivals of the Dragon

1943

Show-Business at War
7/3
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Show-Business at War

1929

The Careless Age
0/0
Directed by John Griffith Wray. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thomson.
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The Careless Age

1930

Reno
0/0
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Reno

1930

The Other Tomorrow
0/0
The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a subsid...
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The Other Tomorrow

1932

Lawyer Man
5.8/10
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown att...
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Lawyer Man

1931

Woman Hungry
0/0
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Di...
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Woman Hungry

1932

70,000 Witnesses
4.8/4
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and...
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70,000 Witnesses

1927

The King of Kings
6.5/54
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywoo...
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The King of Kings

1934

Many Happy Returns
5.3/3
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual...
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Many Happy Returns

1933

Hold Me Tight
0/0
Newly married sweethearts Chuck Evans and Molly Roberts work at Blair's Department Store and Molly plans to quit to be a stay-at-home wife and mother....
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