The Filmography of Ronald Reagan
This is a list of every movie starring future U.S. President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) from 1937 to 1964.
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- DirectorNick GrindeStarsRonald ReaganJune TravisEddie AcuffAndy McCaine is the ace crime reporter for a radio station. However, his exposés of corruption in high places gets him in trouble with the sponsor of his show, E.E. Nichols, who is in league with gangster Nicey Ferguson. Nichols pressures Andy's boss to demote him to a children's show, but Andy finds a way to use the kid show to bust open a murder case.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDick PowellRosemary LaneLola LaneRonny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use a double for her: Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as a singing waiter in a drive-in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for a leading actor in a musical. After the first screening Louella Parsons invites him to sing on her program, "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, not knowing that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again. So everybody starts to play his little game to solve his own problems.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsHumphrey BogartFrank McHughLouise FazendaPromoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsRonald ReaganSheila BromleyGloria BlondellAn insurance adjustor tangles with a big insurance-fraud gang.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsDick PowellPat O'BrienPriscilla LaneAn actor can only get a radio job if he can prove that he's an authentic cowboy.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsEdward G. RobinsonHumphrey BogartClaire TrevorA brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienMarie WilsonTwo screenwriters in a rut come up with a story idea starring a bankable cowboy and the baby of the studio's waitress.
- DirectorWilliam C. McGannStarsJane BryanRonald ReaganAnthony AverillA dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsPriscilla LaneWayne MorrisJohnnie DavisStory of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsDick PowellAnita LouiseAllen JenkinsA sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
- DirectorNoel M. SmithStarsRonald ReaganJohn LitelIla RhodesBrass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsBette DavisGeorge BrentHumphrey BogartA young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.
- DirectorNoel M. SmithStarsRonald ReaganRosella TowneEddie Foy Jr.Brass is assigned to uncovering a counterfeiting ring that has stolen bona fide treasury plates and is converting $1 bills to $100 bills through a Mexican casino.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsDick PowellAnn SheridanGale PageProfessor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt Martha, he is surrounded by swing and after a few drinks, he is photographed hanging on the chandelier. He finds that he can only sell his rhapsody to Eddie, and Linda McKay puts lyrics to it. It is a big swing sensation and the partnership of Hardwick and McKay crank out the hits until Zelda breaks up the team. Zelda wants to sing the hot songs and have Hudson, the home of the hits, publish the music.
- DirectorEwald André DupontLewis SeilerStarsThe Dead End KidsMargaret LindsayRonald ReaganA group of tough city kids have 'graduated' from reform school and are assigned to a "Boy's Town" type of inmate self-government city shelter. The shelter is run by Hiram Krispan (Grant Mitchell), a crooked superintendent, assisted by Buck Caesar (Stanley Fields), an ex-racketeer on probation. Buck enjoys trying to straighten out the kids and joins with them and social workers Beth Avery (Margaret Lindsay) and Jim Donahue (Ronald Reagan), in getting Krispan removed from his job.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsAnn SheridanBilly HalopBernard PunslyA young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life, but he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
- DirectorTerry O. MorseStarsRonald ReaganMargot StevensonEddie Foy Jr.T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
- StarsHoward HillRonald ReaganA group of men are on the sailboat the Scirocco heading down the Pacific coast to go fishing, but not just ordinary fishing. Among the group is archer Howard Hill who has used this skill in the past for big game hunting. Hill practices his archery skill by using a life preserver as a target, and by shooting flying fish gliding above the water. This practice is all in the preparation for the main target, the great blue marlin, which Hill plans on shooting with a specially rigged bow and arrow like harpoon, before the marlin is brought in by conventional rod and reel. After Hill gets to reel one in, he gives the turn to one of his less experienced crew. Regardless of if they get the fish, the act of marlin fishing is fraught with danger as the marlin tries to win the battle.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsPriscilla LaneWayne MorrisJane BryanThree comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsEddie AlbertRosemary LaneWayne MorrisStage struck Lydia Weston leaves her small Texas town for Broadway. Left behind is her steady beau Peter. Lydia sends letters and news clippings back home telling everyone she's now a big star. Peter soon heads to New York to surprise her, but instead he gets the surprise when he learns Lydia has no job and is broke. The pair soon get involved with a couple of phony producers who con Peter into backing their play with Lydia in the lead.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsRonald ReaganJohn LitelLya LysThe corpse of a hobo with a $50,000 money belt helps Brass and Gabby crack a cell of fifth columnists bent on sabotage.
- DirectorLloyd BaconWilliam K. HowardStarsPat O'BrienGale PageRonald ReaganThe story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsMarjorie RambeauAlan HaleJane WymanNow-widowed Tugboat Annie, tugboat queen of the Northwest, struggles to save her job against the competition of rival Captain Bullwinkle.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsJoan LeslieNana BryantClara BlandickIn a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandRaymond MasseyIn 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWallace BeeryLionel BarrymoreLaraine DayLopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan. Saying that they are friends, Morgan wants to buy the ranch before Hardy forecloses, and Gil will sell, but Lopez shows up with all his men and holds them all captive. Lopez has his own law, carried out with a 44 - and he plans to settle everything according to his vision of life.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsPriscilla LaneJeffrey LynnRonald ReaganAn older woman discovers that her multimillion-dollar fortune was based on embezzlement, so she sets out to right the wrong. She goes to America to meet the young woman who is the one and only heir to the embezzled man. She works in a department store, in love with a struggling pianist. When the handsome young attorney tries to give the young woman a check for a million dollars, the heiress doesn't believe it. On the sly, the older woman befriends the younger woman.
- DirectorLothar MendesLewis SeilerStarsRonald ReaganOlympe BradnaJames StephensonIn 1941, an American flyer volunteers for the British RAF but must learn to be an obedient team player rather than a risky thrill-seeking individualist.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsRonald ReaganJoan PerryJames GleasonAn investigative crime reporter helps the cops solve the case of a missing tycoon who's later found dead in a cheap boarding house.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsArt GilmoreRonald ReaganHarvey StephensMilitary training film on the characteristics, capabilities, weaknesses, and recognition of the World War II Japanese fighter aircraft known as the Zero.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsAnn SheridanRobert CummingsRonald ReaganThe dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsAnn SheridanRonald ReaganRichard WhorfDanny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick. After the Tomato crop is destroyed by Madden, Steve takes Nick, Lola and the next crop to Atlanta where they sell it for big money. Danny is going up with Madden and thinks Steve is a sucker for working in the dirt. Lola stays in Atlanta while Nick and Steve go back to Cat Tail and the real trouble begins.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsRonald ReaganLaraine DayCharles WinningerDocumentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing recreational and morale-boosting services for American troops.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsErrol FlynnRonald ReaganNancy ColemanWhen the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsHewitt T. WhelessRonald ReaganFranklin D. RooseveltThis short film in support of the war effort dramatizes the training and missions of Army Air Forces Captain Hewett T. Wheless, a former Texas ranch hand who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in the early days of WWII.
- StarsRonald ReaganSelmer JacksonRobert KnappA WWII orientation short about the rigorous selection process for bombardiers, navigators, and pilots.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsBurgess MeredithRonald ReaganTom NealA young rural enlistee is initially disappointed with his job as an air mechanic, but his great marksmanship skills make him a tail gunner in a bomber.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsRonald ReaganHugh MarloweRichard WhorfThe story of the U. S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains, Father Michael O'Keefe, Arnold Miller, and Tom Manning.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsGeorge MurphyJoan LeslieGeorge TobiasA soldier wounded in the War (WWI) becomes a producer and stages a show for the forces.
- StarsRonald ReaganKenneth GibsonJohn Van TriggThe story of the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortress bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Crews are followed from their training staging at Grand Island, Nebraska to their bombing embarkation point on the island of Saipan. From there, the B-29 attack on the Nakajima aircraft plant outside Tokyo is depicted.
- StarsJimmy DolittleFrancis H. GriswoldReed HadleyDocumentary detailing the activities of American fighter escort pilots during bombing raids over Germany.
- StarsRonald ReaganHarold AlexanderJohn AllisonDocumentary about the construction of the Stilwell Road - originally called The Ledo Road - a 478-mile passage from Assam, India, to Ledo, Burma, during World War II.
- StarsRonald ReaganA tribute to the pioneering achievements of the Negro combat pilots trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
- DirectorJames V. KernRaoul WalshStarsRonald ReaganAlexis SmithZachary ScottA veterinarian and rancher (Ronald Reagan) and a novelist (Zachary Scott) compete for the affections of a horse breeder (Alexis Smith) during an outbreak of anthrax.
- DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsRonald ReaganShirley TempleRory CalhounMary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there have been whispers, rumors and gossip about who her real parents are. After Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him following his death. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsRonald ReaganEleanor ParkerEve ArdenA soldier spends the weekend with an actress after being stood up by her friend. Will he be able to change her cynical attitude towards love?
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsRonald ReaganJack CarsonWayne MorrisA GI marries the English girlfriend of his best friend to get her into the U.S. for his friend who lost track of her in the war only to find on returning home that he is stuck with the girl because the friend has married someone else.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsRonald ReaganViveca LindforsBroderick CrawfordA scientist afflicted with the incurable illness epilepsy, meets a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband.
- DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsRonald ReaganVirginia MayoEddie BrackenA pinup artist (Ronald Reagan) in search of the perfect woman poses as a Czech immigrant to win over a shapely schoolteacher (Virginia Mayo) who’s more into facts than figures.
- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsRonald ReaganPatricia NealRichard ToddIn the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a seriously wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsDoris DayDennis MorganJack CarsonA waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when two actors agree to help her.
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsRonald ReaganCharles CoburnRuth HusseyTo her family's discomfiture, grandmother Louisa starts dating two men...a grocer and her son's boss.
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsPeter BroccoLucius D. ClayRonald ReaganShows how the money collected from the first Crusade for Freedom in 1950 led to the establishment of Radio Free Europe the following year. Scenes recreated by Hollywood actors portray a Cold War version of communist tyranny.
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsGinger RogersRonald ReaganDoris DayMarsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha witnesses the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey bring the criminals to justice.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsRonald ReaganRhonda FlemingBruce BennettDespite their fighting on opposite sides during the Civil War, brothers Vance and Jeb Britton have to set their differences aside in order to survive an Indian attack.
- DirectorFrederick De CordovaStarsRonald ReaganDiana LynnWalter SlezakA college professor attempts to salvage his personal and professional reputation by using a laboratory chimpanzee to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsRonald ReaganRhonda FlemingNigel BruceThe theft of a jeweled treasure is within an adventurer's grasp when he is restrained by his love for a good woman. Now he must help her and the kid he was hired to rob escape as the Chinese Civil War nears Hong Kong.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsDoris DayRonald ReaganFrank LovejoyNebraska farmboy Grover Cleveland Alexander achieves baseball stardom before war injuries and alcoholism derail his career, but through his wife's faithful efforts he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsVirginia MayoRonald ReaganGene NelsonA burlesque dancer goes to college, where she romances a professor and helps put on a musical show.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsRonald ReaganRhonda FlemingEstelita RodriguezRonald Reagan saves Rhonda Fleming's banana plantation and roughs up some bad guys as expatriate freedom-fighter Dan McCloud.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsRonald ReaganDorothy MalonePreston FosterFrame Johnson already cleaned up Tombstone and hopes to settle down near Cottonwood. But a marshal's work is never done...
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsRonald ReaganSteve ForrestDewey MartinDuring the Korean War, an American officer is tasked with infiltrating a Communist-run POW camp in order to investigate the treatment of American prisoners by the enemy.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsBarbara StanwyckRonald ReaganGene EvansSierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsJohn PayneRonald ReaganRhonda FlemingIn a California mining town, a gold miner, a saloon gambler and a cat-house madam strike an odd alliance revolving around a gold mine claim.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsRonald ReaganNancy ReaganArthur FranzThe daring exploits of a submarine commander whose mission is to chart the minefields in the waters of Japan during World War II.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonStarsFredric MarchBen GazzaraDick ClarkMedical drama set at one of New York City's hospitals during the early 1960s.
- StarsRonald Reagan
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsLee MarvinAngie DickinsonJohn CassavetesSurprised that their contract victim didn't try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.