Ramsay AmesFilmography

Born:: March 30, 1921 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Despite being one of the great exotic screen beauties of the early '40s, Ramsay Ames never broke out of leading roles in B-movies and supporting parts in A-films. She was born Ramsay Phillips in New York (her reported year of birth varies from 1921 to 1924, depending on the source), and was a...Read More

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Sombra, the Spider Woman

Synopsis: Sombra, the Spider Woman is the feature-film abridgement of the 1947 Republic serial The Black Widow (which explains why a number of the listed actors had died by this film's listed year of release). The formidable Carol Forman stars as Sombra, whose fortune-telling establishment serves as a front Read More

1966
The Running Man

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Felix Aylmer, Eleanor Summerfield

Synopsis: Based upon a novel by Shelley Smith, The Running Man opens at the memorial service for Rex Black (Laurence Harvey), the owner of a small air transport company who is believed to have drowned in a recent glider accident. It soon turns out, however, that Black is very much alive; he faked his death Read More

1963
Alexander the Great

Actors: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While Read More

1956
Vicki

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid, Richard Boone, Casey Adams

Synopsis: Although a few character names and minor details are different, Vicki is a fairly faithful remake of the 1941 murder melodrama I Wake Up Screaming. The title character, Vicki Lynn, played by Jean Peters, is a waitress who is transformed into a top fashion model by press agent Steve Christopher (Elliot Reid Read More

1953
G-Men Never Forget [Serial]

Synopsis: The popular G-Men of the 1930s made a comeback in this action serial produced by Republic Pictures, starring television's future Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore. The serial, however, was not so much a showcase for the pleasant if lightweight Moore, but rather a welcome opportunity for the studio's most Read More

1948
Philo Vance Returns

Actors: Will Wright, Terry Austin, Leon Belasco, Clara Blandick, Ramsay Ames

Synopsis: Philo Vance, the infuriatingly brilliant amateur detective created by S. S. Van Dine, hadn't been seen on screen for seven years when PRC decided to launch a new "Philo Vance" series in 1947. William Wright plays the title role in the first entry, Philo Vance Returns, while Alan Curtis would take Read More

1947
Green Dolphin Street

Actors: Patrick Aherne, Lana Turner, Linda Christian, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Gladys Cooper, Bernie Gozier, Richard Hart, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: The 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least, the MGM backlot facsimile of same). Boiled down to essentials, it's the story of two sisters, blonde Marguerite Patourel (Donna Reed) and brunette
Marianne Patourel Read More

1947
The Black Widow [Serial]

Synopsis: The Black Widow is a low-budget, surprisingly entertaining adventure, science-fiction serial produced by Republic Pictures. Steve Colt (Bruce Edwards) and Joyce Winters (Virginia Lindley) battle to save the world from the evil powers of Sombra (Carol Forman), a wicked woman who intends to rule Read More

1947
The Gay Cavalier

Actors: Gilbert Roland, Martin Garralaga, Helen Gerald, Ramsay Ames, Nacho Galindo

Synopsis: There'd already been a "Cisco Kid" B-picture titled The Gay Caballero, so this Monogram "Cisco" entry was released as The Gay Cavalier. No matter: it means the same thing, and the film is the mixture as before. Gilbert Roland stars as Cisco, while Martin Garralaga, usually cast as Pancho, is here Read More

1946
Beauty and the Bandit

Synopsis: Gilbert Roland dominates the action in a colorful performance as the bandit hero the Cisco Kid, this time up against a surprisingly vicious plot by a local doctor to steal land from the local peasants and small ranchers by poisoning them to drive them off, and then reselling the property to Read More

1946
Below the Deadline

Actors: Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames, Jan Wiley, Paul Maxey, Philip Van Zandt

Synopsis: Joe Hilton (Warren Douglas), long on looks and ambition but short on ethics, takes immediate advantage when his gambler brother is killed by a rival. Hilton takes over his late brother's operation, quickly and illegally building up a fortune. His friends plead with Hilton to quit the rackets Read More

1946
Mildred Pierce

Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth

Synopsis: Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her bravura portrayal of the titular heroine in Mildred Pierce. The original James M. Cain novel concerned a tawdry waitress who slept her way to financial security so as to provide a rosy future for her beloved daughter, only to be rewarded by having her Read More

1945
Too Young to Know

Actors: Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dolores Moran, Harry Davenport, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: In this wartime romance, two young newlyweds must reluctantly part when the young man is called to war. He spends the next three years fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific. While there, he learns that his wife has left him and has given away his son--he didn't even know she was pregnant. Read More

1945
A Wave, a Wac and a Marine

Actors: Elyse Knox, Ramsay Ames, Ann Gillis, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Released by Monogram, A WAVE, a WAC and a Marine was packaged by Biltmore Productions, a partnership consisting of Abbott and Costello's agent Eddie Sherman and Lou Costello's father Sebastian Cristillo. Though Elyse Knox, Sally Eilers and Ann Gillis head the cast, the film is a showcase for Read More

1944
The Mummy's Ghost

Actors: Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, Ramsay Ames, Robert Lowery, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: The still very undead mummy experiences insane jealousy in this the third of Universal's Kharis thrillers. Although he was thought to have perished in a fire in The Mummy's Tomb (1942), Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) is once again wreaking havoc in the town of Mapleton, MA. Sent by the High Priest Read More

1944
Follow the Boys

Actors: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Charles Grapewin, George Macready, Charles Butterworth, Regis Toomey, Grace McDonald

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars making cameo appearances. Tony West (George Raft), his sister Kitty (Grace McDonald), and their father Nick (Charles Grapewin) tour together as The Three Wests, a failing act Read More

1944
Hat Check Honey

Actors: Grace McDonald, Richard Davies, Leon Errol, Walter Catlett, Ramsay Ames

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a vaudevillian father, wanting a better life for his son, fires the youth from their act. The deeply angry young man's devoted and creative gal, a hat-check girl, helps him land a job with a big band. But despite his resulting success, he remains estranged from his Read More

1944
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Actors: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine, Kurt Katch

Synopsis: The general perception of the Technicolor costume adventure movies that Maria Montez and Jon Hall made for Universal in the early 1940's is that they were pure escapist entertainment, intended to make people forget for an hour or so about the Second World War and the general world situation. And Read More

1943
Two Senoritas from Chicago

Actors: Joan Davis, Jinx Falkenburg, Ann Savage, Leslie Brooks, Ramsay Ames

Synopsis: The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria (Jinx Falkenburg) and Maria (Ann Savage). When their goofy pal Daisy Baker (Joan Davis) passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon (Emory Parnell) agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes Read More

1943
Calling Dr. Death

Synopsis: In this first of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" mysteries, Lon Chaney Jr. plays a neurologist plagued by a faithless wife. He suffers a bout of insanity, blacks out, and loses all track of time. Upon returning to his home, he discovers that his wife has been murdered. Investigating detective J. Carroll Naish Read More

1943