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Arthur Lake

Arthur Lake

Arthur Lake (April 17, 1905 – January 9, 1987) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of Blondie, to life in film, radio and television.

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Movies Starring Arthur Lake (59)

It's Showtime (1976)

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors. ...

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The Movie Orgy (1968)

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and ...

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Beware of Blondie (1950)

Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages to gum things up when he falls for a confidence scam engineered by the duplicitous Toby Clifton. He even finds himself in a compromising position that serious ...

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Blondie's Hero (1950)

Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts. ...

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Blondie Hits the Jackpot (1949)

Fired for messing up an important contract, Dagwood takes a job as a manual laborer for a construction firm while trying to get his old job back. ...

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Blondie's Big Deal (1949)

Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, Dagwood paints Radcliffe's house with it and is disgraced when the house burns down! ...

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Blondie's Secret (1948)

Dagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has promised the Bumsteads that there'll be no more postponements for their holiday. But when something comes up that requires Dagwood's presence, Radcliffe hires a coup ...

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16 Fathoms Deep (1948)

A bitterly jealous sponge fisherman tries to sabotage a fellow diver. ...

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Blondie's Reward (1948)

After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by his flustered boss Radcliffe (Jerome Cowan). Number 23 in the long-running Blondie series. ...

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Blondie's Anniversary (1947)

Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a surprise wedding gift, but the truth is that Dagwood has been guarding the watch on behalf of a client who bought the gift for his own wife, which soon leads to ...

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Blondie in the Dough (1947)

BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads. ...

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Blondie's Holiday (1947)

Dagwood gets a raise due to a new contract with a bank manager. Blondie misunderstanding the amount of the raise pledges more than they can afford to Dagwood's high school reunion organizer who was also Dagwood's high school sweetheart. To make matters w ...

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Blondie's Big Moment (1947)

Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry in the long-running domestic comedy series. Dagwood has mixed emotions about his wife's theatrical aspirations and eventually he decides to get her to quit. As ...

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Blondie Knows Best (1946)

Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescu ...

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Blondie's Lucky Day (1946)

Not only must Blondie put on a brave face when her husband Dagwood is fired for the umpteenth time by Mr. Dithers, but she must also tolerate the attention paid to Dagwood by pretty WAC Mary Jane McDermott. A whiz in business matters, Mary Jane sets up Da ...

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Peeks at Hollywood (1946)

Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood. ...

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Life with Blondie (1945)

Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she becomes the favorite calendar gal. All the attention to the dog, makes Dagwood feel that his position as m ...

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The Return of Mr. Hook (1945)

Seaman Hook has big plans for after the war, mostly involving rushing home and marrying his sweetie. So do his fellow seaman, but theirs involve buying bonds. ...

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The Good Egg (1945)

Navy seaman Mr. Hook is convinced of the value of holding on to his war bonds. ...

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Tokyo Woes (1945)

Created for the US Navy in World War II. The Mr. Hook character was created by Hank Ketcham while at Walter Lantz Studios, where the first- and only color- Mr. Hook cartoon was produced. A wartime propaganda film about Japan and war bonds. The loudspeaker ...

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Leave It to Blondie (1945)

Older but no wiser, Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead enter a songwriting contest. It's all part of a plan to cover charity checks that they've signed separately but can't cover. Along the way, Blondie's blood boils when Dagwood gets innocently mixed up with ...

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The Big Show-Off (1945)

A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans). ...

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3 Is a Family (1944)

Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin ...

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Sailor's Holiday (1944)

In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women. ...

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The Ghost That Walks Alone (1944)

Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite. ...

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Footlight Glamour (1943)

Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production. ...

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It's a Great Life (1943)

Dagwood Bumstead, intending to buy a house, buys a horse instead. However, Dagwood quickly gets mixed up in a fox hunt, and Blondie must save the day. ...

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Blondie for Victory (1942)

Blondie organizes Housewives of America to perform home-front wartime duties, including guarding the local dam... Blondie for Victory was twelfth in Columbia's series of comedy films based on Chic Young's popular comic strip Blondie. Anxious to do her bi ...

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Blondie's Blessed Event (1942)

Cookie is born, producing unmitigated joy in the Bumstead household. Adding to the chaos a new baby always creates is the appearance of Hans Conried as a cynical author who becomes caught up in the Bumstead lifestyle. ...

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Blondie Goes to College (1942)

Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blo ...

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Blondie in Society (1941)

Dagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show. ...

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Blondie Goes Latin (1941)

Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers. ...

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Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)

The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help. ...

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Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsalea ...

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Blondie on a Budget (1940)

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat. ...

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Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl ...

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Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga (1939)

Two starstruck visitors to Hollywood sneak into the famous nightclub and end up in a Conga contest and get more than they expected. ...

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Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939)

Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens. ...

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Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)

Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put ...

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Blondie (1938)

Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family. ...

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There Goes My Heart (1938)

An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk. ...

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Double Danger (1938)

A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June J ...

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Everybody's Doing It (1938)

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze. ...

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True Confession (1937)

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not. ...

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Exiled to Shanghai (1937)

A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television. ...

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Annapolis Salute (1937)

The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy--one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted--and their struggles with the rigors of the academy, women, and each ot ...

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Topper (1937)

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his ...

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23 1/2 Hours Leave (1937)

Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet i ...

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I Cover Chinatown (1936)

A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder. ...

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New Shoes (1936)

A love affair blossoms between two pairs of shoes after a couple purchases the shoes. ...

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Starlit Days at the Lido (1935)

Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon with an orchestra playing, all sorts of stars and would-be stars sitting at tables near the pool alongside pa ...

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Orchids to You (1935)

An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney. ...

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Women Must Dress (1935)

A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer. ...

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The Silver Streak (1934)

A high-speed train becomes the star of the film as it rushes from Chicago to Hoover Dam to transport an iron lung to a needy patient. ...

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Girl o' My Dreams (1934)

A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an election to see who is the most popular man in the school. ...

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The Winnah! (1934)

State College is a coeducational school where the athletics are more important than academics. All there are preparing for a big multi-sport match with arch rival Dale College. Students Arthur and Florence are brother and sister, each with love troubles. T ...

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Midshipman Jack (1933)

Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. ...

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Running Hollywood (1932)

Running Hollywood is a comedy short. ...

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Indiscreet (1931)

A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up. ...

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Movies Made By Arthur Lake (2)

16 Fathoms Deep (1948)

A bitterly jealous sponge fisherman tries to sabotage a fellow diver. ...

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It's a Great Life (1935)

Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps. On the way he meets cynical young hobo Roscoe "Rockie" Johnson, and, although Rockie believes that hopping freight trains is a great life, Johnn ...

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