Jimmy Lydon
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To help support his large family, American actor Jimmy Lydon was forced along with his eight siblings to seek out work at an early age. The boy began picking up acting jobs, appearing in such plays as Western Waters and The Happiest Days. Lydon's... more
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Corky of Gasoline Alley (1951)
Cast: Edward Bernds Jimmy Lydon Gordon Jones Scotty Beckett Don Beddoe   
Tags: Slapstick Comedy 
Length: 80min
Corky of Gasoline Alley was the second and last Columbia "B"-picture inspired by Frank King's popular comic strip -Gasoline Alley. As in the first film, the emphasis is on young gas jockey Corky (Scotty Beckett), who must put up with Elwood Martin...

Cast: Edward Bernds Scotty Beckett Don Beddoe Jimmy Lydon Mischa Bakaleinikoff   
Tags: Comedy 
Length: 76min
Gasoline Alley was based on Frank King's popular comic strip of the same name. The strip's central characters, service station owner Walt Wallet (Don Beddoe) and his adopted son Skeezix (James Lydon), take a back seat to newlyweds Corky (Scotty...

Cast: Thomas Carr Jimmy Lydon Beverly Garland Rayford Barnes Lee Van Cleef   
Length: 81min
The third of four Wayne Morris B-westerns for Allied Artists, Desperado casts Morris as fugitive gunman Sam Garrett. The early reels are devoted to Tall Cameron (James Lydon) and Ray Novac (Rayford Barnes), who run afoul of the post-Civil War Texas...

Cast: Robert Armstrong Jimmy Lydon George Blair Tony Martinelli Stanley Wilson   
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime 
Length: 60min
Destination Big House is a well directed Republic Programmer starring Dorothy Patrick as a vacationing schoolteacher. Gangster Richard Benedict bursts into Dorothy's mountain cabin, where he dies in a shootout with the Law. As he breathes his last,...

Cast: Lewis D. Collins Gil Stratton Jimmy Lydon Myron Healey Art Baker   
Length: 61min
The postwar hot-rod craze spawned a whole new movie subgenre. This Monogram entry, titled simply Hot Rod, stars Jimmy Lydon as David Langham, the son of a juvenile court judge (Art Baker) who'd like nothing better than to throw all hot-rodders in the...

Cast: Harry Keller Jimmy Lydon Gig Young Dorothy Patrick Arthur Franz   
Tags: Drama 
Length: 60min
Dorothy Patrick, Republic Pictures' all-purpose leading lady, heads the cast of Tarnished. Arthur Franz co-stars as Bud Dolliver, who returns to his hometown after a hitch in the Marines. Because of Bud's previous bad reputation, the townsfolk assume...

Cast: Richard Lane Glenn Tryon Jimmy Lydon Barbara Brown Grandon Rhodes   
Tags: Comedy 
Length: 69min
The "B"-picture unit at 20th Century-Fox was slowly being phased out when Miss Mink of 1949 was produced. Lois Collier heads the cast as Alice Forrester, an office clerk who wins a 10,000 mink coat in a radio contest. This windfall proves disastrous...

When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Cast: John Ford William Demarest Jimmy Lydon Corinne Calvet Mae Marsh   
Tags: War Adventure Adventure Comedy War 
Length: 90min
A rare comedy from director John Ford, this story about a WWII soldier trying to gain some respect is based on the published war memoirs of Sy Gomberg. Bill Kluggs (Dan Dailey) is the first man in his small West Virginia town to enlist, and his father...

Cast: Ingrid Bergman Cecil Kellaway Victor Fleming José Ferrer Ward Bond   
Tags: Biopic Religious Drama Historical Film Hagiography 
Length: 100min
Director Victor Fleming's final film features Ingrid Bergman as a vivid and luminous Joan of Arc, the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English, becoming a national hero. When she was captured,...

Cast: William F. Claxton Jimmy Lydon Penny Edwards Joe Sawyer Gil Stratton   
Tags: Drama 
Length: 64min
Former "Henry Aldrich" Jimmy Lydon had matured into a capable leading man by the time Tucson went before the cameras. Lydon plays Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccupation with an upcoming...

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