Doris HillFilmography

Via Pony Express

Actors: Lane Chandler, Marceline Day, Julian Rivero, Matthew Betz, Doris Hill

Synopsis: Former silent screen cowboy star Jack Hoxie played a Pony Express rider in this, the fourth of six low-budget oaters produced by Majestic. Delivering a valuable deed to El Rio Rancho, Buck Carson (Hoxie) is ambushed by Clem Porter (Matthew Betz) and his gang, who steal the deed. Meanwhile, at El Read More

Trailing North

Actors: Bob Steele, Doris Hill, Arthur Rankin, George "Gabby" Hayes, Fred Burns

Synopsis: Diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele, who that same year also played a circus acrobat, a would-be boxer, and a barn-storming pilot, takes on the wintry Northwest in this low-budget action melodrama from Monogram. Attacked by persons unknown, a dying Jim Powers (Fred Burns) warns his young friend Lee Read More

The Ranger's Code

Actors: Bob Steele, Doris Hill, Ernie S. Adams, George Nash, Ed Brady

Synopsis: Bob Steele has trouble sticking to The Ranger's Code in this western. As the sheriff, Steele must bring in a young man who's been consorting with crooks. Trouble is, the suspect is the brother of Steele's sweetheart. Fortunately, our hero is able to prove the boy's innocence by film's end, thereby Read More

Galloping Romeo

Actors: Bob Steele, Doris Hill, George "Gabby" Hayes, Ed Brady, Frank Ball

Synopsis: The Galloping Romeo is Bob Steele, a wandering cowboy who's had incredibly bad luck with women. After several romantic setbacks, Steele finally falls for a girl who he thinks is as pure as the driven snow. In actuality, the "heroine" and her father are in charge of a lucrative stage-holdup racket. Read More

Crashing Broadway

Synopsis: Cowboy star Rex Bell revives a favorite plot device of silent westerner William S. Hart in Crashin' Broadway. Bell temporarily leaves the Wide Open Spaces to conduct business in New York City. He runs afoul of gangsters, who prove no match forBell. Doris Hill is the leading lady whom Bell charms Read More

South of the Rio Grande

Actors: Mona Maris, Philo McCullough, Doris Hill, George Lewis, Paul Fix

Synopsis: A highly unusual Buck Jones Western, South of the Rio Grande featured the spectacle of Jones playing a Mexican Rurales officer named Carlos. Returning to the family hacienda, Carlos discovers that his weak-willed brother, Juan (Paul Fix), has lost everything to a scheming vixen, Consuella (Mona Read More

Tangled Destinies

Actors: Lloyd Whitlock, Doris Hill, Glenn Tryon, Vera Reynolds, Sidney Bracey

Synopsis: Produced at the little Tec Art studio by sound engineer Ralph M. Like, this film is one of those modest whodunits where the lights go out and someone inevitably gets hit over the head with a blunt instrument. This time, the crew and passengers from a Los Angeles-bound plane seek shelter from the Read More

Spirit of the West

Actors: Hoot Gibson, Doris Hill, Hooper Atchley, Al Bridge, Lafe [Lafayette] McKee

Synopsis: In his third Allied Pictures release of 1932, veteran screen cowboy Hoot Gibson played his favorite role, that of a happy-go-lucky rodeo rider. This time, Gibson plays Johnny Ringo, a former lawman turned rodeo champ who returns to the old homestead to find his brother Bud (longtime Gibson Read More

Battling Buckaroo

Synopsis: The third of Poverty Row producer Willis Kent's eight Lane Chandler Westerns, Battling Buckaroo was filmed on-location at the Hearst ranch in Lone Pine, CA. Chandler played Blackjack, a notorious outlaw who nevertheless helps Tonya Mendoza (Doris Hill) and her prospector father (Lafe McKee) escape Read More

The One Way Trail

Actors: Tim McCoy, Doris Hill, Carroll Nye, Polly Ann Young, Al Ferguson

Synopsis: In his first Western for Columbia, Tim McCoy played one of his favorite characters, the reformed professional gambler. Returning home to visit with brother Terry (Carroll Nye), Tim Allen (McCoy) finds Terry mortally wounded by a man he identifies as the supposedly honest gambler George Beck Read More

The Montana Kid

Actors: Bill Cody, Andy Shuford, Paul Panzer

Synopsis: White-Stetsoned Bill Cody stars in the rugged "B"-western The Montana Kid. While waiting for the arrival of his son Andy Shuford on the afternoon stage, Cody's friend John Elliot gets drunk at the local saloon, where he is easily swindled out of his ranch. When Elliot sobers up, he tries to set Read More

Sons of the Saddle

Actors: Doris Hill, Francis Ford, Joseph W. Girard, Carroll Nye, Harry Todd

Synopsis: The dashing Ken Maynard, who always warned that he sang loudly rather than well, finished his 1929-1930 stay at Universal with this average early sound western. Maynard sang several heart-felt prairie ballads in the film and even cut a record for Columbia. One of his songs, Down the Home Trail Read More

Code of Honor

Actors: Mahlon Hamilton, Doris Hill, Robert Graves, William J. Dyer

Synopsis: Poverty row company Syndicate released this early sound western starring silent-screen refugee Mahlon Hamilton as a reformed gambler who saves Doris Hill's ranch from a gang of crooks by using a few of his otherwise retired tricks. The principal actors in this film, Hamilton, Hill and Robert Graves Read More

Men Are Like That

Actors: Hal Skelly, Charles Sellon, Clara Blandick, Morgan Farley

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1926, the George Kelly stage comedy The Show-Off was remade in 1930 as Men Are Like That. Broadway star Hal Skelly steps into the role of chronic braggart Aubrey Piper, incapable of either telling the truth or shutting up. Insinuating himself into the home of his wife Amy's (Doris Hill Read More

Song of the Caballero

Actors: Ken Maynard, Doris Hill, Francis Ford, Gino Corrado

Synopsis: This early sound western was cowboy-star Ken Maynard's second to last under his 1929-1930 contract with Universal. The studio's emphasis on bringing music to the western genre despite Maynard's rather limited vocal capabilities was not paying off at the box-office. Sound in general was increasing Read More

The Studio Murder Mystery

Actors: Neil Hamilton, Chester Conklin, Warner Oland, Florence Eldridge, Guy Oliver

Synopsis: The newly constructed Paramount sound stages were used as a backdrop for the Pirandellian thriller The Studio Murder Mystery. Fredric March stars as Richard Hardell, a silent-screen idol whose transition to talkies is threatened by his inability to remember his lines. Driven to distraction Read More

His Glorious Night

Actors: John Gilbert, Catherine Dale Owen, Nance O'Neil, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: Based on Olympia, a 1928 Ferenc Molnar stage soufflé, His Glorious Night has gone down in history as having more or less single-handedly caused the downfall of silent-screen matinee idol John Gilbert, whose ardent declarations of "I love you, I love you" to an overly inert Catherine Dale Owen Read More

Darkened Rooms

Actors: Evelyn Brent, Neil Hamilton, Doris Hill, David Newell, Gale Henry

Synopsis: Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film's main purpose was to emulate the methods of Read More

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Actors: W.C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Mack Swain, Louise Fazenda

Court-Martial

Actors: Betty Compson, Doris Hill, Pat Harmon, Jack Holt

Synopsis: Based on a story by Elmer Harris, the above-average Columbia production Court Martial was set during the Civil War. Carrying secret orders from President Abraham Lincoln, Northern secret agent Jack Holt heads below the Mason-Dixon line in hopes of capturing gorgeous Confederate spy Betty Compson. Read More

Avalanche

Actors: Jack Holt, Doris Hill, John Darrow

Synopsis: An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova. Read More

Take Me Home

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman, Doris Hill, Joe E. Brown

Synopsis: Broadway chorus girl Peggy Lane (Bebe Daniels) is in love with stage-door-johnnie David North (Neil Hamilton). Vampish Derelys Devore (Lilyan Tashman), the obnoxious star of the show in which Peggy is appearing, tries to come between the adoring couple. When all else fails, Peggy is forced to put Read More

Thief in the Dark

Actors: George Meeker, Marjorie Beebe, Gwen Lee, Noah Young

Synopsis: The protagonists of Thief in the Dark are the members of a travelling spiritualist troupe, criminals all. When one of their seances goes awry at the home of a wealthy gentleman, the head crook bumps off the host and escapes with the loot. This leaves the boss' young assistant George Meeker holding Read More

Casey at the Bat

Actors: Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, ZaSu Pitts, Sterling Holloway, Spec O'Donnell

Synopsis: Because of its heavy reliance on slapstick (a no-no for features in the late '20s), this picture, very loosely based on the Ernest Thayer poem, got mixed reviews. But with comedians like Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, ZaSu Pitts, and Sterling Holloway in the cast, it's a surprise that anyone Read More

Beauty Shoppers

Actors: Mae Busch, James Marcus, Doris Hill, Ward Crane

Synopsis: Louis J. Gasnier, whose directorial technique hadn't progressed much since his 1914 effort The Perils of Pauline, did rather better than expected in 1927's Beauty Shoppers. Young Peggy Raymond (Doris Hill) aspires to become a model, while art-gallery proprietor Maddox (Ward Crane) aspires to get Read More

Rough House Rosie

Actors: Clara Bow, Reed Howes, Arthur Houseman, Doris Hill, Douglas Gilmore

Synopsis: "Rough House Rosie" Reilly (Clara Bow) just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Hoping to become a Broadway actress, Rosie gets mixed up with rowdies and ends up in jail. Much the same thing happens when she tries to crash High Society. Eventually, Rosie finds her true niche in life when she falls Read More

Tell It to Sweeney

Actors: Chester Conklin, George Bancroft, Jack Luden, Doris Hill

Synopsis: Played by William H. Tooker, railroad superintendent Old Man Sweeney is but a peripheral character in this film, despite its title. George Bancroft is cast as burly railroad engineer Cannonball Casey, who falls in love with Dorie (Doris Hill), the daughter of rival engineer Luke Beamish (Chester Conklin Read More

Tom and His Pals

Actors: Frankie Darro, Tom Tyler, Helen Lynch, Dick Brandon

Synopsis: Poverty-row studio Film Booking Office (the later RKO) had a winning combination in the strapping Tom Tyler and freckle-faced boy actor Frankie Darro (later Darrow), whose pleasant westerns were favorites with the small fry. This time around, a movie company arrives at Tyler's ranch. Tyler's naive Read More

Timid Terror

Actors: George O'Hara, Edith Yorke, Doris Hill, Rex Lease, George Nichols

Synopsis: Bashful bond salesman Talbot Trent (George O'Hara) constantly finds himself in trouble thanks to his brash, practical-joking buddy Howard Graham (Rex Lease). Both men fall in love with pretty secretary Dorothy (Doris Hill), and both are candidates for a general-manager post at their company's Read More

The Better 'ole

Actors: Sidney Chaplin, Doris Hill, Harold Goodwin, Theodore Lorch

Synopsis: The Better 'Ole was based on a play by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot, which was itself inspired by a cartoon character created by Bairnsfather during WWI. Decked out in a lavish paintbrush mustache, Sydney Chaplin is cast as Bairnsfather's immortal British army sergeant Old Bill, whose Read More

Is That Nice?

Actors: George O'Hara, Doris Hill, Stanton Heck

Synopsis: Cup reporter Ralph Tanner (George O'Hara) hopes to make a name for himself by writing a searing exposé of a local political boss. Unfortunately, Ralph loses his exclusive story before he's able to submit it to his editor. Fearing a libel suit, Ralph spends the rest of the picture trying to track Read More