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Frank Marion Thomas (July 13, 1889 – November 25, 1989), was an American character actor of stage, screen and television fame.
He and his wife, actress Mona Bruns, both lived to 100 years old.
He died the day before her 90th birthday; she died 11 years later.
Their son was Frankie Thomas
Thomas' parents were Jesse and Virginia Thomas.
He first appeared on Broadway in 1914.
Thomas also played many supporting roles in films from the 1930s through the 1970s.
His best-known films were We Who Are About To Die (1937), A Man to Remember (1938), A Shot In the Dark (1941), Desert Trail (1942), and No Place for a Lady (1943).
His last screen appearance was in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976).
He performed frequently on television from the 1950s to the 1970s.
He was president (Shepherd) of The Lambs (1962-63).
His film appearances were so prolific at one point in his career that, in 1937 alone, he appeared in no fewer than 21 films.
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
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Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
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When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.