Ben Alexander
Nicholas Benton "Ben" Alexander III (June 27, 1911 – July 5, 1969) was an American motion picture actor, who started out as a child actor in 1916. He is best remembered for his role as Officer Frank Smith in the Dragnet franchise.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.064 |
| Birthday | 1911-05-27 |
| Place of Birth | Goldfield, Nevada, USA |
| Also Known As | Nicholas Benton "Ben" Alexander III, Nicholas Benton Alexander III, |
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
7.8/818
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is dest...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1920
The Family Honor
0/0
Beverly Tucker, the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic Southern family, has scraped together her last pennies to put her brother Dal through col...
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The Family Honor
1937
Shall We Dance
7.2/109
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time th...
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Shall We Dance
1917
A Wife on Trial
0/0
Phyllis Narcissa, an underpaid children's librarian, eagerly accepts a dinner invitation from Horace de Guenther, one of her patrons, and happily ente...
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A Wife on Trial
1933
The Vanishing Frontier
0/0
Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captur...
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The Vanishing Frontier
1919
The Hushed Hour
0/0
Judge Robert Appleton (Winter Hall) has led an exemplary life. His four children, however, fell short once they grew up and had to fend for themselves...
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The Hushed Hour
1918
The Heart of Rachael
0/0
Rachael (Bessie Barriscale) marries Clarence Breckenridge (Hershel Mayall) a widower much older than herself. Although she tries to be a good wife, he...
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The Heart of Rachael
1919
Josselyn's Wife
0/0
Bessie Barriscale and Nigel Barrie play Ellen and Gibbs Josselyn, a young married couple who have spent several years in Europe while Gibbs, an artist...
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Josselyn's Wife
1927
Two to One
0/0
A two-reel version of 1925's Pampered Youth. Included on Criterion's Blu-ray release of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons.
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Two to One
1954
Dragnet
6.2/23
Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster's brutal murder.
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Dragnet
1920
Blue Streak McCoy
0/0
Ranger Job "Blue Streak" McCoy helps a miner and his pretty young daughter who are trying to protect their valuable mine from a gang leader who wants...
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Blue Streak McCoy
1937
Western Gold
0/0
President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood frie...
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Western Gold
1932
High Pressure
6/7
Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is...
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High Pressure
2004
Los Angeles Plays Itself
7.7/52
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
1939
Convict's Code
6.5/2
On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.
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Convict's Code
1933
This Day and Age
1/1
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-...
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This Day and Age
1918
The Lady of the Dugout
5.889/9
Real life outlaw Al Jennings tells a "real" story about how he came to the aid of a woman who was abused by her alcoholic husband.
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The Lady of the Dugout
1934
The Life of Vergie Winters
5.9/7
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues t...
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The Life of Vergie Winters
1935
Grand Old Girl
6.5/2
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
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Grand Old Girl
1933
Stage Mother
5/2
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even bla...
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Stage Mother
1919
The White Heather
0/0
Lord Angus Cameron's marriage to a woman of his titled Scottish class is thwarted by his secret marriage years before to Marion Hume, the housekeeper...
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The White Heather
1931
Suicide Fleet
4.3/7
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
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Suicide Fleet
1936
Red Lights Ahead
5.2/4
A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield. Former slapstick comedian An...
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Red Lights Ahead
1935
The Fire-Trap
5/1
An insurance investigator falls in love with a society girl, unaware that her uncle and his boss are conspiring to commit insurance fraud by overvalui...
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The Fire-Trap
1934
Flirtation
4.4/4
A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.
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Flirtation
1941
Criminals Within
6.5/2
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
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Criminals Within
1931
Are These Our Children?
6/4
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding...
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Are These Our Children?
1938
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
9/1
A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the...
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Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
1933
Roadhouse Queen
0/1
Walter Catlett learns his son Ben Alexander has thrown over fiancee Joyce Compton for acrobat Nora Lane. He takes lawyer Arthur Housman to the road ho...
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Roadhouse Queen
1937
The Legion of Missing Men
5/2
Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legi...
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The Legion of Missing Men
1937
The Outer Gate
5/2
Bob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and becau...
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The Outer Gate
1934
Most Precious Thing in Life
5.2/5
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald...
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Most Precious Thing in Life
1937
The Life of the Party
5.2/4
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
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The Life of the Party
1928
The Divine Lady
5.3/22
Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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The Divine Lady
1957
Man in the Shadow
6.8/44
In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He...
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Man in the Shadow
1939
Buried Alive
4.7/6
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, an...
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Buried Alive
1940
American Portrait
0/0
This movie's preamble explains the importance of salesmanship after the great depression The industrial revolution has created a life of modern conven...
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American Portrait
1932
Tom Brown of Culver
5.2/2
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
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Tom Brown of Culver
1934
Once to Every Woman
5.8/6
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
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Once to Every Woman
1938
The Spy Ring
5/3
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the...
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The Spy Ring
1923
The Yankee Spirit
0/0
Very first of the Juvenile Comedies series.
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The Yankee Spirit
1917
The Little American
6.3/17
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality fir...
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The Little American
1918
Little Orphant Annie
5.3/3
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The...
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Little Orphant Annie
1931
It's a Wise Child
0/1
In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
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It's a Wise Child
1933
What Price Innocence?
3/1
A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.
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What Price Innocence?
1935
Annapolis Farewell
0/0
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his da...
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Annapolis Farewell
1918
Hearts of the World
6/21
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies vil...
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Hearts of the World
1926
The Highbinders
0/0
Author David Marshall is sandbagged by holdup men and loses his memory. He finds his way to a bookshop run by his friend Ladd, who takes him in with t...
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The Highbinders
1923
Penrod and Sam
6.5/1
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Penrod and Sam
1920
The Triflers
0/0
Janet Randall, a department store clerk who longs for a fling at high society, ignores the love of the poor but honest Dan Cassidy. When vacation time...
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The Triflers
1923
Boy of Mine
0/0
A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any mor...
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Boy of Mine
1932
The Wet Parade
5.8/4
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton fami...
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The Wet Parade
1935
Born to Gamble
4.8/4
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
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Born to Gamble
1931
Many a Slip
0/0
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
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Many a Slip
1940
The Leather Pushers
0/0
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle pr...
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The Leather Pushers
1916
Each Pearl a Tear
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Each Pearl a Tear
1918
The One Woman
0/0
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The One Woman
1919
The Better Wife
1/1
Charmian Page has developed a great affection for the child of Sir Richard. When the child is seriously hurt in a car crash that has killed his mother...
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The Better Wife
1919
The Mayor of Filbert
0/0
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The Mayor of Filbert
1920
Through Eyes of Men
0/0
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