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Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (1881–1928). Blackie, a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's stories, became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television—an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend." Actor Chester Morris played the character in 14 Columbia ...
John Chester Brooks Morris (February 16, 1901 – September 11, 1970) was an American stage, film, television, and radio actor. He had some prestigious film roles early in his career, and received an Academy Award nomination for Alibi (1929). Morris is remembered for portraying Boston Blackie, a criminal-turned-detective, in the Boston Blackie ...
Occupation. Actor. Years active. 1934–1968. Francis Thomas Sullivan[citation needed] (June 17, 1908 [citation needed] – December 17, 1975), known professionally as Frank Sully, was an American film actor. He appeared in over 240 films between 1934 and 1968. Today's audiences know him best as the dumb detective in the Boston Blackie features ...
Actor Charles Wagenheim filled in for him, and Stone joined the series in the second entry, Confessions of Boston Blackie. Stone's performances in the Blackies were well received, and he enthusiastically played scenes for laughs, doing dialects, disguising in women's clothes, posing as a child, or reacting in wide-eyed amazement or frustration ...
November 5, 1942. ( 1942-11-05) Running time. 68 min. Country. United States. Language. English. Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood is a 1942 American crime film, fourth of the fourteen Boston Blackie films of the 1940s Columbia 's series of B pictures based on Jack Boyle 's pulp-fiction character.
Running time. 67 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Trapped by Boston Blackie is a 1948 American crime drama directed by Seymour Friedman. It is the thirteenth of fourteen Columbia Pictures films starring Chester Morris as reformed crook Boston Blackie, and the final film with George E. Stone as his sidekick, "The Runt".
Plot. Ignoring Inspector Farraday's friendly advice to stop helping women, Boston Blackie goes to the rescue of a female being attacked by two men. She is Geraldine "Gerry" Peyton, an old flame of his. She begs him to help protect her baby from her husband John, who has just been paroled. When John finds them together, he assumes that the child ...
She played Mary, the hero's girlfriend and sidekick, in 58 episodes of the television series Boston Blackie, [10] which ran from 1951 to 1954. She retired from acting after 1957. She retired from acting after 1957.