Biography: Ralph Byrd |
Though he only vaguely resembled Chester Gould's jut-jawed comic strip detective Dick Tracy, Ralph Byrd played the character with such assurance and authority that it is well-nigh impossible to envision anyone else in the role. In films from 1936... more
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Tags: Drama Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 61min
Superman and Dick Tracy star in Jungle Goddess--or rather, the actors who played Superman and Dick Tracy, George Reeves and Ralph Byrd. When pilots Mike Patton (Reeves) and Bob Simpson (Byrd) learn that the father of long-missing Greta Vanderhorn...
Cast: Ralph Byrd
Tags: Crime
Length: 71min
Though it is not so frankly identified in the film, an insidious white-slavery racket motivates the plotline of Monogram's Stage Struck. Double-dyed villain Nick Mantee (Kane Richmond) manages to make a good living by preying on young girls who've...
Cast: George Reeves Denise Darcel
Tags: Romantic Adventure Action Adventure Comedy
Length: 61min
Future "Superman" George Reeves and former "Dick Tracy" Ralph Byrd co-star in Thunder in the Pines. The stars play a pair of eternally bickering loggers in Tall Timber country. Both vie for the attentions of Gallic charmer Yvette (Denise Darcel), who...
Cast: John Rawlins Albert S. D'Agostino Lyle Latell
Tags: Superhero Film Detective Film Action Mystery
Length: 60min
Ralph Byrd returns to the character he had originated ten years earlier in the serial Dick Tracy. This time, Chester Gould's immortal comic strip hero is called in to handle a fur theft. The owner of Flawless Furs, Humphreys (Charles Marsh), has just...
Cast: John Banner
Length: 63min
Only faintly related to the old stage play -The Argyle Case, The Argyle Secrets is based on a half-hour radio program originally heard on CBS' Suspense. In the immediate postwar years, several above-suspicion Americans attempt to hide their past...
Cast: Virginia Vale
Length: 63min
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets...
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Cast: Boris Karloff
Tags: Superhero Film Action Mystery
Length: 66min
Befitting his status as a genre star, Boris Karloff earns top billing over leading man Ralph Byrd in RKO's final Dick Tracy caper. The former Frankenstein monster plays an escaped convict masterminding a daring bank robbery. To get in and out of the...
Careful, Soft Shoulders (1942)
Cast: Sheila Ryan James Ellison Virginia Bruce Emil Newman
Tags: War Action War Drama Spy Film
Length: 70min
In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American counter-espionage agent who offers her a chance to serve her country. The carefree son of a naval...
Cast: William Beaudine Veda Ann Borg
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 63min
Ralph Byrd, known far and wide for his movie interpretation of Dick Tracy, trades his civvies for Navy blues in PRC's Duke of the Navy. On furlough with his pal Cookie (played by swimming champion Stubby Kruger), Breezy Duke (Byrd) is mistaken for...
Cast: Lloyd Nolan
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 61min
Like most of 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne"detective series, Time to Kill was based on a source other than Brett Halliday's Shayne stories. In this case, the inspiration was The High Window, a "Philip Marlowe" mystery novel by Raymond Chandler....
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