Actor: Lee Prather

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Birthday: 1888-05-05

Known for

This Gun for Hire

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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This Gun for Hire

1942

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Alibi for Murder

A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
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Alibi for Murder

1936

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Let Us Live

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Let Us Live

1939

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Missing Witnesses

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Missing Witnesses

1937

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Homicide Bureau

After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
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Homicide Bureau

1939

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Little Big Shot

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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Little Big Shot

1935

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Diamond Jim

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Diamond Jim

1935

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Road Gang

A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Dr. Broadway

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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Dr. Broadway

1942

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Juvenile Court

Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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Juvenile Court

1938

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Island of Doomed Men

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Island of Doomed Men

1940

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