Jimmy Lydon

Jimmy Lydon

Total Credits at Criticker: 46 (Actor), 1 (Director)

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    Life with Father
    A financier from New York rules his numerous family, consisting of his wife and his four sons, with the meticulousity of a bookkeeper. (imdb)
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    When Willie Comes Marching Home
    A war comedy depicting Willie, a soldier frustrated by his lack of battle action, caught behind enemy lines and forced into heroism for his survival.
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    The Middleton Family at the New York World\
    The Middleton family pay a visit to the Westinghouse Pavilion and learn all about a bright new tomorrow. (Supergloo)
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    Strange Illusion
    Paul (James Lydon), a young man whose father was once lieutenant Governor of California before his untimely death, has a strange, recurring dream in which his mother (Sally Eilers) falls in love with a dangerous man, a dream which also contains the image of his father's death in an automobile accident under mysterious circumstances. (imdb)
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    Bad Boy
    Danny is a juvenile delinquent sentenced to Variety Club Ranch in lieu of jail. He charms the headmistress and goads everyone else. The marshal sets out to find source of Danny's rage, and learns he mistakenly believes he is responsible for his mother's death. After a final crime spree and escape attempt, Danny learns he's not to blame. Court return him to Ranch on the marshal's conviction that he's redeemed from life of crime. Danny goes on to graduate from Texas A&M's ROTC program. (imdb)
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    Tom Brown\
    Thomas Arnold is hired to be the new headmaster at Rugby, whose students have acquired a reputation for being wild, disruptive, and dishonest. He institutes strict disciplinary policies, and expels numerous boys as a result. Many of the teachers, trustees, and parents turn against him. Squire Brown, his most vocal supporter, decides to send his own son Tom to Rugby as a demonstration of confidence. Tom soon learns that the school is plagued by bullies, and he is frequently targeted by them. (imdb)
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    Aerial Gunner
    Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman. (imdb)
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    Little Men
    Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home. (imdb)
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    Hot Rod
    David Langham, the youngest son of a hot-rod hating father, Judge Langham, buys an old jalopy but, out of respect for his father, doesn't convert it. He changes his mind when Jack Blodgett, the local speed demon, impresses David's girl, Janie Pitts, and David makes his car the fastest in town. (imdb)
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    Chain of Evidence
    The wife of a rich businessman frames an ex-con for the murder of her husband.
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    Back Door to Heaven
    The life of a young slum kid, who starts out stealing small things in order to fit in with the "crowd", winds up in reform school, and eventually spends much of his life in prison. Upon his release, he finds that life on the outside can be just as hard as life on the inside. (1939)
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    The Desperado
    From 1870 to 1873, Texas suffered under the carpetbag administration of reconstructionist Governor E. J. Davis (the name and the stated conditions was about the last of anything authentic in this film) and his despotic state police commanded in John's City by Captain Jake Thornton. Two young men, Tall Cameron and Ray Novack flee to the Big Bend area to escape persecution. (imdb)
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    I Passed for White
    A young girl meets and marries the man of her dreams--only she hasn't told him that she is half-black, and he and his rich family and friends are white. (imdb)
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    Bowery Boy
    Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, because Sock blames hospitals for his mother's death. Sock helps racketeer J.R. Mason sell food to the clinic, unaware that Mason sells cheap and often tainted food. When a number of patients, including Sock's brother, become ill from food poisoning, Sock is kidnapped by Mason to keep him silent. (imdb)
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    Destination Big House
    School teacher Janet Brooks innocently involves herself in a scandal while spending the week-end alone in the mountain cabin of her fiancée, Dr. Walter Phillips. She gives first aid to a wounded racketeer, Joe Bruno, who is running out on his mob with eighty thousand dollars in cash. Unknown to Janet, Bruno hides the money in the cabin. (imdb)
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    Henry Aldrich for President
    Complications arise when Henry (James Lydon) runs for Centerville High School Student Body President. (imdb)
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    Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
    Henry Aldrich becomes the most sought after guy in town when he wins a date with a movie star. (imdb)
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    Henry Aldrich Haunts a House
    Henry Aldrich swallows a serum by accident and ends up in a "haunted" house. (imdb)
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    Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
    Henry Aldrich (James Lydon) tries to match his unfriendly teacher, Mr. Bradley (vaughan Glaser) with a wife. Henry hopes the teacher will become friendly enough to let him graduate with honors so he can use an inheritance for college. (imdb)
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    Henry Aldrich Swings It
    Complications arise when Henry, in love with the new music teacher, joins the band. He accidentally gets a Stradivarius that belongs to another man. (imdb)
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    Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
    As a boy scout leader, Henry (James Lydon), repeatedly takes the blame for problems caused by a scout in his patrol. (imdb)
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    Henry Aldrich, Editor
    Henry (James Lydon) gets into another jam when he becomes the editor of the Centerville Hish School newspaper. The Fire Chief suspects him when he covers fires. (imdb)
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    Henry Aldrich\
    Henry and Dizzy have a baby sitting service and get more than they bargain for when the mother of a 10 month old leaves town to clear her husband of a crime. (imdb)
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    Henry and Dizzy
    In order to impress Phyllis Michael, Henry Aldrich takes a sales job. Soon he is involved with vacuum cleaners, motor boats and a father-son race at a picnic in which he hires a tramp to play his father. Don't ask. He also has to pay for a motor boat which he accidentally destroyed by accident. Henry has some problems to be solved, and his friend Dizzy Stevens isn't likely to be of any help. (imdb)
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    The Mad Martindales
    In 1900, the Martindale family is in dire straits, due to eccentric Hugo's spendthrift ways. His daughter Evelyn Martindale is proposed to by rich Peter Varney, but she loves the poor Julio. But younger sister Kathy plots to save the day, not realizing that father Hugo has plans of his own underway. (imdb)
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    The Town Went Wild
    Feuding fathers deal with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother. (imdb)
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    Affairs of Geraldine
    Brothers Henry and Wayne Cooper (Grant Withers and William Haade) have a mission to help their younger, shyer sister, Geraldine Jane Withers, who has just received a large inheritance from their mother. It was their dying mother's request that the brother's find a suitable suitor for their younger sister. Geraldine, however, rejects all the men they bring courting, including her current beau Willy Briggs Jimmy Lydon. (allmovie.com)
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    Corky of Gasoline Alley
    Elwood Martin (Gordon Jones), a brash extrovert with an aversion to work come to live with Walt Wallet (Don Beddoe) and his wife, Phyllis (Madelon Baker). He blunders about their house, and the diner owned by Corky Wallet (Scotty Beckett) and the fix-it shop belonging to Skeezix Wallet (Jimmy Lydon), creating havoc at every stop. (imdb)
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    Gasoline Alley
    Gasoline Alley was based on Frank King's popular comic strip of the same name. The strip's central characters, service station owner Walt Wallet (Don Beddoe) and his adopted son Skeezix (James Lydon), take a back seat to newlyweds Corky (Scotty Beckett) and Hope (Susan Morrow). Hoping to establish his independence from his family, Corky opens up his own restaurant, which results in nothing but headaches. (imdb)
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    Out of the Storm
    A young man with financial problems works in the payroll office of a factory. One payday the payroll office is held up by an armed gang, but they miss a sizable amount of money, and only the struggling payroll clerk knows it. He's torn between keeping the much-needed money for himself or doing the right thing and turning it in. (imdb)
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    Two Thoroughbreds
    Group of gangsters steal the valuable brood-mare "Larkspur" from the Conway Ranch in Arizona. The mare's three-month-old colt tries to follow its dam, but is outdistanced. The lost colt finds its way to the Carey farm, where David Carey, a 16-year-old orphan, lives with his miserly uncle Thad Carey and his aunt Hildy Carey. David adopts the colt and names it Sunset. When the colt isn't filling out as David thinks it should be, he goes to the Conway Ranch to consult the head groom, Jack Lenihan. (imdb)
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    A Letter from Bataan
    Wartime propaganda film intended to encourage more active participation in the U.S. war effort.
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    The Shining Future
    Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
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    Cadets on Parade
    A young cadet accused of cowardice sets out to prove his valour with the help of a friend.
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    My Best Gal
    Kitty O'Hara (Jane Withers)has a good singing voice but will have nothing to do with trying to use it in the theatre or on the radio. She and her grandfather, Danny O'Hara (Frank Craven), and ex-vaudeville hoofer, work in a Broadway drug store, rendezvous of young aspiring actors and performers, Danny and his friend Johnny McCloud (Jimmy Lydon), embryo writer of musicals, conspire to have Kitty's voice auditioned by a radio man.
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    The Road to Victory
    Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1954 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
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    Twice Blessed
    Stephanie and Terry are two identical twins who have been split up since their parents divorced seven years before. Each envies the life style of the other so they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder than just looking like someone to be able to do what that person is expected to do. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together they agree to continue it.
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    Naval Academy
    Tommy Blake, a tough student at the Garfield Reform School, is given a chance to straighten his life when a friend of his father's, John Frazier, offers to enroll him at the State Naval Academy. Tommy accepts the offer and soon befriends new recruits Steve Kendall, the son of a high-ranking naval officer, and Dick Brewster, a spoiled snob who complains about the academy's paltry two-dollar-a-week allowance.
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    Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
    A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.
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    Home Early
    Home Early (1939) - Short Film
    A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
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    Cynthia
    Sickly girl finds an outlet in music. (imdb)
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    An Old-Fashioned Girl
    A young woman leaves home to earn money for the family, which is not the norm for her sex and social standing.
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    Sweet Genevieve
    The biggest town problem is worrying whether the high school basketball team will win the championship...until racketeers move into town and the kids begin to bet on horses, become overly fond of stripped-down racing cars, and Genevieve Rogers (Jean Porter) suspects her father of being too fond of the school principal's secretary. Town nerd Bill Kennedy (Jimmy Lydon) invents a new fuel amidst rumors that - horrors - the basketball game might be fixed.
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    Tarnished
    Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation. He manages to get a job at Kelsey's Boat Yard because an accident caused by Kelsey Bunker's no-good son, Junior, endangered Bud's life and revealed his excellent war record.
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    The Twilight Zone
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    Oh! Susanna
    A cavalry unit defends settlers against rampaging Sioux Indians.
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