Burt Mustin

Burt Mustin

Date of Birth: 08 Feb 1884

Country: USA

Biography: Burt Mustin was a salesman most of his life, but got his first taste of show business as the host of a weekly radio variety show on KDKA Pittsburgh in 1921. He appeared onstage in "Detective Story" at Sombrero Playhouse in Phoenix Arizona, and played the janitor in the movie version, (Detective Story (1951)), after moving to Hollywood. Hundreds of screen appearances later, he announced his retirement while filming an episode of Phyllis (1975). In the episode, his character married Mother Dexter,

Total Credits at Criticker: 42 (Actor)

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    The Lusty Men
    When he sustains a rodeo injury, star rider Jeff McCloud returns to his hometown after many years of absence. He signs on as a hired hand with a local ranch, where he befriends fellow ranch hand Wes and his wife Louise. Wes has big dreams of owning his own little farm, and rodeo winnings could help finance it... (imdb)
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    Mame
    The musical revolves around the antics of Mame Dennis, a fun-loving, wealthy eccentric with a flare for life and a razor sharp wit. Her life is suddenly changed when she becomes the guardian of her late brother's only child, Patrick Dennis. Her adventures take us from the speak-easies of the roaring 20's to the depression following the great Stock Market crash... (imdb)
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    A Time for Dying
    This unique western centers on an innocent farm boy with a talent for handling guns who decides to make it big. He begins as a bounty hunter. (All Movie Guide)
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    The Over-the-Hill Gang
    A retired Texas Ranger and his three aging pals are hired to clean up a lawless town. (imdb)
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    The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again
    Walter Brennan is back as the clever and funny over the hill Texas Ranger Nash Crawford. This time the gang must face corruption in their own home town. The gang put their heads together to clean up their town, take back the rule of law and rehabilitate the town lush (played by Fred Astaire) along with way. (imdb)
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    One Girl\
    Mary Adams works in a tawdry waterfront restaurant where the owner not only maltreats her, he also cheated her father out of a fortune years ago. The owner acquires $25,000 in an illegal transaction, which Mary promptly steals, hides, confesses her crime and serves a short sentence. Freed, she goes to work in a restaurant and when the owner gets into trouble over a gambling debt she offers to help him by telling him where the $25,000 is hidden and she will loan him the amount he needs. (imdb)
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    Edge of Hell
    A Russian beggar and his performing dog, Flip, struggle tomake ends meet living upon the cruel streets. (imdb)
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    Baker\
    Baker's Hawk is an old-style Western starring old-style Clint Walker. Burl Ives plays a recluse plagued by vigilantes. Ives is protected by Walker and his son, Lee H. Montgomery, on the basis of the lad's friendship with the old man. Baker's Hawk is based on a novel by Jack Bickham. (allrovi.com)
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    Just Across the Street
    Blue-collar gal Henrietta Smith (Anne Sheridan) is mistaken for a woman of wealth by plumber Fred Newcombe (John Lund). Henrietta goes along with Fred's error when the opportunity presents itself to bring in much-needed revenue for herself and her inebriate father (Cecil Kellaway). The comic situations pile up thick and fast, culminating in an imagined romantic quadrangle involving Henrietta, Fred, banker Walter Medford (Robert Keith) and Medford's dizzy wife Gertrude (Natalie Schafer). One woul (allmovie.com)
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    Miracle on 34th Street
    A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.
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    Ichabod and Me
    Ichabod and Me (1961) - TV Series
    Life in a small New England town, as seen through the eyes of the current and formers editors of the local newspaper.
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    Train Ride to Hollywood
    Harry Williams, member of the rhythm & blues band, Bloodstone, is about to go onstage for a concert when he is hit on the head. The rest that follows is his dream. The four band members become conductors on a train filled with characters and (impersonated) actors from the 1930s, such as W.C. Fields, Dracula, and Scarlett O'Hara. (imdb)
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    The Strongest Man in the World
    Dexter Riley and his friends accidentally discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength. (imdb)
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    Herbie Rides Again
    The living Volkswagen Beetle helps a old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer. (imdb)
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    Now You See Him, Now You Don\
    A chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself. (imdb)
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    Tiger by the Tail
    Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.
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    Hail, Hero!
    Hail, Hero! stars Michael Douglas in his screen debut as long-haired college student Carl Dixon. Reversing the usual procedure in late-1960s films, Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. (allrovi.com)
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    The Great Bank Robbery
    Three separate plans to rob a top-security bank in the western town of Friendly, Texas, circa 1880. (imdb)
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    Speedway
    Elvis Presley sings his way around the race circuit as successful speedway driver Steve Grayson. All... (imdb)
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    Sex and the Single Girl
    Using Helen Gurley Brown's book as a jump off point, we follow the adventures of a supermarket tabloid editor as he tries to parlay an interview with the author of the book into headlines and sales. Of course, a romantic entanglement ensues. (imdb)
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    The Killers
    Supposedly based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. In this film noir, two hitmen want to find out why their latest victim (a race car driver!) "just stood there and took it" when they came to shoot him (imdb)
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    The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
    Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law. (imdb)
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    The Thrill of It All
    At a dinner party, Beverly Boyer, wife of an obstetrician and mother of two, tells the manufacturer of Happy soap about her experiences with his product. Charmed by her spontanious appearance he offers her a chance to tell her story in his commercials. After some hesitations, Beverly accepts and she quickly turns from a housewife into a famous television personality, much to the disliking of her husband Gerald. (imdb)
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    Son of Flubber
    Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of flubber hasn't quite brought him - or his college - the riches he thought. The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret and the IRS has slapped him with a huge tax bill, even if he has yet to receive a cent. He thinks he may have found the solution in the form of flubbergas, which can change the weather. It also helps Medfield College's football team to win a game. At home, his wife Betsy is jealous of the attention lavished on him by an old high school girlfriend. (imdb)
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    All Fall Down
    Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with an older woman named Echo O'Brien, he really gets his parents at each others' throats. (imdb)
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    Leave It to Beaver
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    Snow White and the Three Stooges
    Based on the classic fairy tale, Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe (the Three Stooges) substitute for the Seven Dwarfs while the princess Snow White (Olympic figure skating champion Carol Heiss) is forced to flee from her jealous stepmother, the queen (Patricia Medina), who takes drastic steps to insure that Snow White never gains the throne. (imdb)
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    Home from the Hill
    Captain Wade Hunnicutt is the wealthiest and most powerful citizen in his Texan town; he is also a notorious womanizer, which has turned his wife Hannah against him... (imdb)
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    Rally \
    All about the citizens of Putnam's landing and their reactions to an army missile base in their back yard. (imdb)
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    Raintree County
    Idealist John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint) and enters into a passionate, but loveless, marriage with Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) a wealthy New Orleans belle... (imdb)
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    These Wilder Years
    Middle-aged man tries to find a son that was given to an orphanage many years ago. (imdb)
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    Great Day in the Morning
    After a card game Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women - one who came with the hotel, and one newly arrived from the East to open a dress shop - he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a small minority in a strongly Unionist town. (imdb)
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    The Return of Jack Slade
    Jack Slade, son of the famed lawman and man-hunter, is hired by a Pinkerton detective, Joseph Ryan, to help wipe out a gang of outlaws and train robbers, Billy Wilcox, Hary Sutton and Little Blue Raven, and their women, Texas Rose, Polly Logan and Laughing Sam. Slades gets off to a slow beginning when his gun is taken away from him by Texas Rose during a train robbery.
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    The Desperate Hours
    Glen, Hal and Sam are three escaped convicts who move in on and terrorize a suburban household. (imdb)
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    Prince of Players
    A tragic and sentimental story that depicts the early career of the 19th century American actor, Edwin Booth (Richard Burton) with some mention of the events leading to the assassination of President Lincoln by Edwin's brother, John Wilkes Booth (John Derek). In the film, Edwin's days in the spotlight dwindle shortly after his brother is caught and killed for assassinating Lincoln. (imdb)
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    Cavalry Charge
    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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    Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    Peter Schermann is angry at the world after his children move him into a nursing home. Still physically and mentally strong, he searches for a meaning to his life in a new and uncompromising world.
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    Date with the Angels
    New bride Vickie and her insurance salesman husband Gus involve their friends and neighbors in a variety of comic episodes.
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    The Andy Griffith Show
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    The Twilight Zone
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    Alcoa Premiere
    Alcoa Premiere (1961) - TV Series
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    The Fugitive
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