Oliver Blake

Oliver Blake

April 4, 1905 · 121 years old

Character actor with a wildly distinctive face. Used real name Oliver Prickett for stage work, especially at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where he was a longtime fixture and teacher and where his brother was managing director. Used stage name Oliver Blake for scores of small film and televi…

Known For

19 titles
1
Out of the Past

Out of the Past

1947 · 1h 37m · Movie

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses, and duplicitous dames.

8.0
2
House of Wax

House of Wax

1953 · 1h 28m · Movie

An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

7.0
3
Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley

1947 · 1h 50m · Movie

The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.

7.7
4
The Long, Long Trailer

The Long, Long Trailer

1954 · 1h 36m · Movie

Nicky and Tacy are going to be married. Nicky wants to save up money for a house, but Tacy dreams of starting off with their own home on wheels--a trailer.

7.0
5
Conflict

Conflict

1945 · 1h 26m · Movie

An engineer kills his first Wife, then woos her sister.

7.1
6
Colorado Territory

Colorado Territory

1949 · 1h 34m · Movie

Outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.

7.2
7
Room for One More

Room for One More

1952 · 1h 38m · Movie

New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose become foster parents to several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into...

7.2
8
Son of Paleface

Son of Paleface

1952 · 1h 35m · Movie

Junior Potter returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found. "Mike" is the luscious head of a gang of thieves, and Roy Barton is the federal marshal hot on her trail.

6.8
9
Alias Jesse James

Alias Jesse James

1959 · 1h 32m · Movie

Outlaw T.J. "Jesse" James tries to kill insurance agent Milford Farnsworth, who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy.

6.4
10
Fancy Pants

Fancy Pants

1950 · 1h 32m · Movie

An American actor impersonating an English butler is hired by a woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes Arthur to be an Earl, and President Roosevelt d...

6.4
11
Giant from the Unknown

Giant from the Unknown

1958 · 1h 18m · Movie

A very large, degenerate, Spanish conquistador is freed from suspended animation by lightning and goes on a killing spree in a small town.

4.5
12
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

1951 · 1h 20m · Movie

The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygienically".

6.8
13
The Fearmakers

The Fearmakers

1958 · 1h 25m · Movie

A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth.

6.2
14
The Guilty

The Guilty

1947 · 1h 11m · Movie

Two guys sharing an apartment meet twin girls (both Bonita Granville). One's sweet, the other a major piece of bad news. The nice one is murdered and her boyfriend is accused of the crime. The wrong man/wrong victim plot strikes a...

6.3
15
Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

1954 · 1h 20m · Movie

Ma and Pa Kettle get the farm in order to help their son Elwin win a scholarship.

6.8
16
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

1952 · 1h 18m · Movie

Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.

6.7
17
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki

1955 · 1h 19m · Movie

Ma, Pa, and their daughter Rosie go off to Hawai'i to answer ailing Cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.

6.4
18
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

1952 · 1h 16m · Movie

The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez ...

6.6
19
So This Is Love

So This Is Love

1953 · 1h 41m · Movie

Biopic of opera star Grace Moore, who was killed in a plane crash in 1947.

5.9