Hugh Beaumont
Date of Birth: 16 Feb 1909
Country: USA
Biography: Beaumont began his career in show business by perfoming in theatres, nightclubs, and on the radio in 1931. He attended the University of Chattanooga, but left when his position on the football team was changed. He later attended the University of Southern California, and graduated with a Master of Theology degree in 1946. He was visiting his son Hunter, a Psychology Professor in Munich, at the time of his sudden death.
Total Credits at Criticker: 54 (Actor), 1 (Director)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (54) | Director (1)
- Beaver Gets 'Spelled' (1957) - S1 E1
- Captain Jack (1957) - S1 E2
- The Black Eye (1957) - S1 E3
- The Haircut (1957) - S1 E4
- New Neighbors (1957) - S1 E5
- Beaver's Poem (1958) - S2 E1
- Eddie's Girl (1958) - S2 E2
- Blind Date Committee (1959) - S3 E1
- Beaver Takes a Bath (1959) - S3 E2
- Beaver Won't Eat (1960) - S4 E1
- Beaver's House Guest (1960) - S4 E2
- Wally Goes Steady (1961) - S5 E1
- No Time for Babysitters (1961) - S5 E2
- Wally's Dinner Date (1962) - S6 E1
- Beaver's Football Award (1962) - S6 E2
- Ward's Problem (1958) - S2 E3
- Beaver's Autobiography (1962) - S6 E13
- Brotherly Love (1957) - S1 E6
- Beaver and Chuey (1958) - S2 E4
- School Bus (1959) - S3 E3
- Water Anyone? (1957) - S1 E7
- Beaver's Crush (1957) - S1 E8
- The Clubhouse (1957) - S1 E9
- Wally's Girl Trouble (1957) - S1 E10
- Beaver's Short Pants (1957) - S1 E11
- The Parking Attendants (1963) - S6 E17
- The Perfume Salesmen (1957) - S1 E12
- Voodoo Magic (1957) - S1 E13
- Part-Time Genius (1958) - S1 E14
- Party Invitation (1958) - S1 E15
- Lumpy Rutherford (1958) - S1 E16
When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He pulls a gun on her but decides she's not worth it. Later, Helen is found dead and Johnny is the prime suspect. (imdb)
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In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland. (imdb)
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Mary Gibson, a naive orphan, goes to Manhatten to find her missing sister Jacqueline. Her investigation leads her to Jacqueline's secret husband, and also to a strange cult of Diabolists who are also hunting Jacqueline. (imdb)
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A film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl, is going through an unhappy stage of her life, having been spurned by the neighborhood girls. She spends most of her time in the kitchen talking to her black maid, Bernice, and the younger next door boy, John Henry. Her brother Jarvis is about to marry Janice, and Frankie imagines that she will leave town with them. However she eventually begins to grow up into a young woman. (imdb)
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A Date with Your Family (1950) - Short Film
Educational short showing how you should never show any emotions at the dinner table. (imdb)
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An alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and creating a race of zombies resembling animated pottery in this low-budget sci-fi film... (imdb)
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Archaeologists stumble upon a race of albinos living under the earth. They are afraid of light of any kind and keep mutant humanoid mole men as their slave (imdb)
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Plane crash survivor visits the families of victims he befriended on his flight.
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Sexy beautician Clara Calhoun, who has a bookie operation in her back room, connives with her boyfriend, mob collector Duke Martin, to stage a robbery of the day's take. (imdb)
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A former Spanish Civil War prisoner, John McKittrick arrives in New York to find the truth behind the death of his friend Louie Lepetino. He finds himself being chased by Nazi agents who want an item he has brought back from Spain and cannot give up. When another of his friends is murdered, McKittrick realizes that he cannot trust anyone around him - not anyone. (imdb)
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Training of bombardiers in semi-documentary style, with personal stories and a battle climax. (imdb)
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The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II. (imdb)
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Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont) accepts an assignment to investigate a gang of pari-mutuel race tickets counterfeiters over the protests of his secretary, Phyllis Hamilton (Trudy Marshall), who wants him to join her on a vacation. (imdb)
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Two brothers who are not the best friends because they were fighting on different sides during the Civil War have to cooperate in order to defend themselves against an attack of indians. (imdb)
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Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building. (TCM.com)
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Forbidden Passage (1941) - Short Film
This entry in MGM's series of shorts, "Crime Does Not Pay", features the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means. (imdb)
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Old enemies stationed together at an Army post vie for the same woman. (TCM.com)
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Reporter Kenny Blake falls in love with scheming Toni Kirkland not knowing that she is married to a man years older than she. By the time he finds out, he is so under her spell that he murders her husband which is what Toni had planned all along. City editor McKee (Charles D. Brown), Kenny's boss and best friend, begins to pursue the tangled threads of the crime relentlessly and gradually closes the net on Kenny. The latter is mortally wounded by Toni, who has deserted him for another man. (imdb)
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Awaking one morning out of a drunken stupor, composer Richard Morton can't shake the feeling he has murdered a woman during the night. (imdb)
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War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour. After some amusing escapades, Bob and Ivy become romantically involved, agreeing it's "just fun up in the air." Then Ivy finds out the real reason why it shouldn't be anything more. (imdb)
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A freelance private eye takes on two jobs: he's hired by a woman to bid on a locked suitcase at an auction, and on the second he works with another private investigator on a divorce case--unaware that the PI is setting up him to take the fall for a murder. (imdb)
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Storekeeper Paul Manning is attempting to sabotage the completion of a telegraph line so he can have time to dispose of his stock before the near-by Army post is abandoned. He uses outlaw leader Roberts and his gang in this effort. Troubleshooter Tim Holt and his pal Chito Rafferty investigate, but quickly get onto the wrong side of Terry Muldoon, daughter of the telegraph line contractor. (imdb)
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Private detective finds himself framed for the murders of a wrestler and a crooked referee, then for the murder of a mystery man posing as a new parolee from Alcatraz. (imdb)
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A private detective is gets hired for two jobs: the first is to bet on a particular fighter during a fixed boxing match, and the second is to pose as a woman's husband for an evening. Both jobs turn out to be not quite as simple as they appeared to be at first. (imdb)
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Barbara Carlin (June Lockhart) attends her own funeral and returns home suspecting that her husband, Rod Carlin (Mark Daniels), had tried to do away with her, and is also (rightfully) curious as to just who was the woman buried under her name. (TCM)
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A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town, where he gets a job as a cab driver. He meets a young girl who is caring for her ill but wealthy aunt. He courts her and they eventually marry. She soon discovers exactly who he is, and finds herself enmeshed in a scheme involving murder and loot from a bank robbery. (imdb)
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Shortly before she is to be married, a young woman gets a visit from her fiance's wife, who had been missing for seven years and presumed dead. Soon both the girl and her fiance find themselves mixed up with a crooked nightclub owner, gangsters and murder. (imdb)
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Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to catch a gang of counterfeiters. (imdb)
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Set in 1952, at a point when the United States was bogged down in the "police action," Hell's Horizon focuses on one crew of a B-29, given the unenviable assignment of knocking out a bridge vital to the enemy over the Yalu River. To do this, and avoid violating Chinese airspace, they must make their run from a predetermined direction and, if forced down or unable to drop their bomb-load, must see to it that they don't do it over China. (allrovi.com)
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A newspaper reporter, "Dilly" Smith (Richard Fraser0 keeps writing articles attacking the police department for its failure to solve a chain of murders, and this nearly leads to the reporter's death. He calls in private-detective Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and Shayne turns up a blonde and a blackmailer. (imdb)
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The Blonde From Brooklyn is perky Susan Parker (Lynn Merrick), gainfully employed as a "jukebox singer", back in the days when jukebox patrons could request that their songs be performed live via telephone hookup. Teaming with showbiz-minded G.I. Dixon Harper (Robert Stanton), Susan passes herself off as a Southern belle in order to land a job singing radio commercials for a Dixiefied coffee company. (allmovie.com)
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Hubert Wilkins, a bookkeeper for Mr. Bates by day and an air raid warden by night, patrols the district where his boss' warehouse is located, and finds two employees removing raw silk stocks. They say they are working under Bates' orders and brush him off. Hubert wants to marry Emily Conway, company secretary, but can't see how he can afford it since he has loaned a salesman, Fuller, $400 with deeds to four lots as security. (imdb)
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Following World War II, three discharged U. S. Air Corps fighter-pilots decide to stay together and go into business for themselves. They form a company to operate a one-airplane freight line, and have many difficulties keeping their operation afloat...and in the air. (imdb)
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In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money. (imdb)
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Good Bad Boys (1940) - Short Film
Deciding that a life of crime suits them, the gang gets mixed up with a real burglar. (imdb)
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Leave It to Beaver (1957) - TV Series
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Young Dan Light (Orley Lindgren), an orphan, is taken in hand by Johnny Wintergreen (Edgar Buchanan),hunter of wild horses for selling to the U. S. cavalry. Dan's grief over the death of his parents in an Indian raid is partially eased by his belief that his pet colt, Top Kick, escaped. Wintergreen takes Dan to a army post, where Major Callan (Hayden Rorke)welcomes the boy into his home.
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Buyer Beware (1940) - Short Film
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise. (imdb)
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Jan Martin, sister of government chemist Paul Martin, realizes she is being followed by enemy agents after her brother. She ignores him at the Panama airport and embraces a stranger, Mile Lawrence, instead. Enemy agents Lake and Wilton are convinced that Mike is her brother and attempt to trap the pair. They get away but Jan disappears. Disguised with a black wig and new makeup, Jan becomes Dolores and gets a job singing at a cafe. (imdb)
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A gangster is drafted into the Army. He soon realizes how wrong his previous life was, and decides to help break up a black market ring he has discovered.
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The Officer Candidate School of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Command at Camp Davis, North Carolina is the setting that follows the fortunes of five cadets, but the focus is on a know-it-all-candidate Wally Willaims (Tom Neal) who, though the counseling of Carol Harkness (Evelyn Keyes) and a North African campaign veteran, Frank Malloy (Bruce Bennett), finally turns into a decent human being and Officer.
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Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star is in demand. Unfortunately no one can find him. When a lookalike sends in a photo, the marketing team hires him to impersonate Callaway. Things get sticky when the real Callaway eventually shows up. (imdb)
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Prunes and Politics (1944) - Short Film
Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics, such as turning mice loose at a ladies' meeting and even pulling a disappearing act to hype his bid but, as usual, everything backfires on him.
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Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens. (imdb)
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Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin works in the "Herald" newspaper office. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views. (imdb)
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I'm a Civilian Here Myself (1945) - Short Film
A comic training film designed to help sailors readjust to civilain life after World War II.
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A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. Now, he has about fifty minutes left of the running time to find the crooks, bring them to justice and return the money to the rightful owners. And needs all of it.
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A small island kingdom located off the South China coast has the USA offer a pact of economic aid and military assistance if needed. But there is this Asiatic Communist nation - not identified - that does not want this treaty to be signed. But Sabu has a guy from Texas and another one from Brooklyn helping him, so that evens the odds in his favor. (Les Adams, truncated to fit)
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Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America. They help bring his 5-year-old daughter to the United States, and the congregation makes a home for him and his daughter.
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Racket Squad (1950) - TV Series
This series dramatizes confidence games which fall under the jurisdiction of Captain John Braddock.
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An American returns to Tokyo try to pick up threads of his pre-WW2 life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities. (imdb)
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Trader Thorne (1950) - Short Film
Joe Wilding is the hotshot car salesman at the local Ford dealer. The year is 1950 and the new Fords have just come out. He's assigned to teach the new salesman how to sell cars. The movie follows Joe thru a typical day of calling leads, dropping off business cards, fishing for new prospects, talking to potential buyers in the showroom and working a deal. The new guy starts to get the idea and by the end is sufficiently confident and motivated he proposes to his girlfriend. She accepts.
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A bank president and his wife, facing a crisis in their life and both nearing the age of fifty, look back on what has happened to them over the years of their marriage; they were young people who got married in the average way, lived average lives, raised two sons and realize that most of the incidents in their lives were counterpoint to most people---hard times, salary raises, promotions, loss of a son in war, discharge of social and economic obligations.
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