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Actor Facts
Death:
May 27, 1960
Biography:
Edward J. Brophy was born on February 27, 1895 in New York City and educated at the University of Virginia. He became a bit and small-part in the movies starting in 1919, but switched to behind-the-scenes work for job security, though he continued appearing in small parts. ...more about Edward Brophy
Edward Brophy
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.1678
54
1940s
2.3462
30
1950s
1.1454
4
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards for each movie.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.3542
2.3542Edward Brophy Movie Rankings
1
3.3228An ostracized circus elephant learns he can fly thanks to his unusually large ears. Soon he becomes the highlight of the show. ...more about Dumbo
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
2
3.2333Young Dorothy Wynant approaches amateur sleuth Nick Charles when her inventor father appears to be a major suspect in a murder case. In fact, Dorothy is so worried about her father's guilt that she tries to convince Nick that she did it. ...more about Thin Man
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
3
3.0980Dynamic Alan Gaskell captains a ship bound from Hong Kong to Singapore. Gaskell tries to turn over a new leaf from his hard-drinking lifestyle after becoming attached to a refined high class English lady, Sybil Barclay. ...more about China Seas
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
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4
3.0689A carnival barker displays a sideshow freak called the Feathered Hen and tells her story. Cleopatra, a trapeze artist with the carnival, is adored by a midget named Hans. ...more about Freaks
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
5
2.8635In Paris, the great surgeon Dr. Gogol falls madly in love with stage actress Yvonne Orlac, and his ardor disturbs her quite a bit when he discovers to his horror that she is married to concert pianist Stephen Orlac. ...more about Mad Love
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
6
2.7609An ambitious newspaper reporter (Dick Powell), eager to scoop the competition, wishes he could know the news before it happens. A mysterious old man (John Philliber) grants the reporter that power, even as he cautions against using it. ...more about It Happened Tomorrow
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
7
2.6863Remy Marco announces he's going legit with the end of Prohibition. His fortune declines because the beer he makes tastes terrible. His daughter falls in love with a rich man's son who gets a job as a cop. ...more about Slight Case of Murder
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
8
2.5501Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy "Champ" Purcell, despite his frequent binges, his frequent gambling and their squalid living conditions. And there's nothing Andy wouldn't do for Dink. ...more about Champ
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
9
2.5376Nick and Nora Charles return home to spend time with Nick's family. But Daddy isn't pround of Nick for being a detective instead of becoming a doctor like him. Nora thinks Nick solving a case will get him respect from his Dad. ...more about Thin Man Goes Home
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
10
2.4688An aging politician (Spencer Tracy) tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. ...more about Last Hurrah
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
11
2.4565Naive, bookish Professor Post (of Potts College) inherits a huge amount of money and decides that now he can afford to go out and enjoy life. ...more about Speak Easily
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
12
2.3835Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. ...more about Death on the Diamond
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.3561Three bumbling crooks buy a store so that they can rob the bank next door. When they soon discover the money they can make as legitimate businessmen, they abandon their plan. Trouble is, one of their cohorts, who's escaped from jail, won't let them. ...more about Larceny
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.3250Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. ...more about Dance
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.3104Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. ...more about Doughboys
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.3035Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. ...more about Wonder Man
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.1552Oil heiress Joan is going to elope with bandleader Allen whom she's known four days. Out-of-money pilot Steve is going to fly them to Nevada but makes a deal with her father to deliver her home unmarried. ...more about Bride Came C.O.D.
- DVD Best Pricing:
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21
2.1072Broadway gambler Gloves Donahue wants to find who killed the baker of his favorite cheesecake. He sees nightclub singer Leda Hamilton leaving the bakery. When her boss Marty's partner Joe is murdered, Leda and her accompanist Pepi disappear. ...more about All Through the Night
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
22
2.0608Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine and advertises for a guinea pig. What he gets is Kitty Carroll, an attractive, adventurous model, who thinks being invisible would help her settle a few scores. ...more about Invisible Woman
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
23
2.0227Princess Marie de Namours de la Bonfain is a beautiful, young, sophisticated French princess of 23, who finds more worth in true love than a title. ...more about Naughty Marietta
- Not Available on DVD
24
1.8903Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus which is perpetually in debt. His performers give him nothing but trouble, especially Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Meanwhile, Whipsnade's son and daughter, Phineas and Vicky, attend a posh college. ...more about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
25
1.8858Jeff wants to get married to Virginia, but Virginia won't marry until her older, hard-to-please sister Angelica gets married off first. ...more about Parlor
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
26
1.8173Haworth is a show biz producer who has a number of ex-girlfriends that he has beaten over the years. He is now engaged to two girls- Lisa and Trenna. After drinking and starting a fight with Sim, Haworth is found dead in his apartment. ...more about Shadow of Doubt
- Not Available on DVD
27
1.8173Rough-hewn Rocky Evans has two great loves--his job building bridges and beautiful Helen Powers, his boss' daughter. But it's Rocky's shiftless brother Chuck who wins Helen's affections. ...more about Steel Against the Sky
- Not Available on DVD
29
A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid hours. If he can do it, he gets $10,000. ...more about 1
- Not Available on DVD
36
With the gang business washed up, Ricky Dean (Lloyd Nolan), suave first lieutenant to racketeer Chink Moran (Sheldon Leonard), and Louie Lanzer (Albert Dekker), a has-been fighter with itchy fingers, decide to take a peaceful vacation in the country. ...more about Buy Me That Town
- Not Available on DVD
37
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. ...more about Calling Philo Vance
- Not Available on DVD
38
A girl (Jewell) accused of killing her father is defended unsuccessfully by a flashy lawyer (Whalen) and successfully by a new, straightforward one (Trevor). ...more about Career Woman
- Not Available on DVD
41
A freelance private eye takes on two jobs: he's hired by a woman to bid on a locked suitcase at an auction, and on the second he works with another private investigator on a divorce case--unaware that the PI is setting up him to take the fall for a ...more about Danger Zone
- Not Available on DVD
44
Ted Frazier (Robert Kent) and Sleeper (Edward Brophy) work for a gambler, Foster (Richard Lane), who takes racetrack bets over the telephone. A mysterious millionaire, J.C. ...more about For Love or Money
- Not Available on DVD
49
It's the New York Department of Weights and Measures vs. a systematic effort to cheat the public by giving them less product than they pay for...organized by crooked city alderman Marty Cavanaugh, who put the last chief deputy inspector in the hospital. ...more about Great Guy
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
50
Barrymore lampoons himself. A famous actor, given to drink, nearly destroys the show, but his leading lady (Hughes) returns to save it. Meanwhile a young girl (Baxter) tries to reform him. ...more about Great Profile
- Not Available on DVD
53
Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. ...more about Hit Parade of 1937
- Not Available on DVD
57
A.C.Baker (Anne Shirley), advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore (Eddie Albert) with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a paid-for-a-year $1000 policy. ...more about Lady Bodyguard
- Not Available on DVD
60
Boy crusader Matt works for the Daily News and always breaks the big story. The only trouble is that he usually has the wrong information and the paper must print a retraction. But this time he thinks that he is on the right track. ...more about Nine Lives Are Not Enough
- Not Available on DVD
62
Fellow shopgirls and roommates Jerry, Connie and Franky take different paths in the big city. Connie has an affair with David, son of the department store owner, and when he dumps her she kills herself. ...more about Our Blushing Brides
- Not Available on DVD
63
City girls (Bari, Lang) have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter (Williams) into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career. ...more about Pardon Our Nerve
- Not Available on DVD
69
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. ...more about Remember Last Night?
- Not Available on DVD
71
Jean Shelby, a member of a family of Confederate sympathizers in Missouri during the Civil War, has been providing information about the Union Army to Confederate Raiders. ...more about Renegade Girl
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
72
Dennis O'Brien (Hugh Beaumont) is hired by Barton (Stanley Price) to bet on Harper, an old fighter, against Lundy (Greg McClure), placing the bets in the name of Steve Belzig. Lundy dies of a blood clot during the bout. ...more about Roaring City
- Not Available on DVD
75
Toni lives with her father, writer Matthew Martin, in the Sequoia forests of California. While walking, she finds and brings home, a small puma which she calls 'Gato' and a young fawn, called 'Malibu'. ...more about Sequoia
- Not Available on DVD
76
The title refers to the government's plan at the time for putting an end to a lucrative racket, kidnapping. When Hudson and Norris enter a country house to get out of the rain it turns out to be a kidnapper hideout. ...more about Show Them No Mercy!
- Not Available on DVD
77
Detective Shayne is on a train headed for San Francisco with a surprise witness (Hughes) whom many on board would like to keep from testifying at a murder trial. ...more about Sleepers West
- Not Available on DVD
80
After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. There he wards off a variety of con artists and other miscreants while he pursues a nightclub singer. ...more about Strike Me Pink
- Not Available on DVD
81
The always-welcome Elyse Knox and her All-American footballer turned broadcaster husband Tom Harmon appear together in this film but are not romantically involved, as she is the co-ed "sweetheart" of the title and he coaches the Varsity rowing crew. ...more about Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
- Not Available on DVD
82
Carol Lawrence (Gale Storm), an aspiring singer, goes to a new night club owned by Danny Warren (Phil Regan), whose father Daniel Warren (Russell Hicks) doesn't approve of the club and wants Danny to join him in the family business. ...more about Swing Parade of 1946
- DVD Best Pricing:
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83
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. ...more about Thieves Fall Out
- Not Available on DVD
85
"River of Missing Men" is the story-source title and, briefly, the working title of this film while in production, but it is not an "alternate" title since "Trapped By G-Men" was never shown anywhere under this "supposed and incorrectly-tagged" alternate ...more about Trapped by G-Men
- Not Available on DVD
88
Although he has never met her, Elmer Butts loves Hortense secretly and from afar. He dreams of making a million dollars so he can buy her a Rolls automobile and marry her. ...more about What! No Beer?
- Not Available on DVD
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