Sam McDaniel

Known for Acting

1/28/1886

Wichita, Kansas, USA

Biography

Sam McDaniel was an American screen and television actor, as well as a jazz musician. He was the brother of actresses Hattie and Etta McDaniel.

Known For (133 credits)

5.8

Movie

Ice Palace

1960

Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy and rugged activist leader Thor Storm, two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.

6.1

Movie

A Hole in the Head

1959

An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.

6.8

Movie

Party Girl

1958

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.

4.7

Movie

Johnny Trouble

1957

An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never met.

6.4

Movie

A Man Called Peter

1955

Based on the true story of a young Scottish lad, Peter Marshall, who dreams of only going to sea but finds out there is a different future for him when he receives a "calling" from God to be a minister. He leaves Scotland and goes to America where after a few small congregations he lands the position of pastor of the Church of the Presidents in Washington, D.C. and eventually he becomes Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.

7.9

I Love Lucy

1951

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

7.5

Amos 'n' Andy

1951

A sitcom set in Manhattan's historic black community of Harlem.

6.6

Movie

The File on Thelma Jordon

1949

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

7.0

Movie

Flamingo Road

1949

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

5.8

Movie

Race Street

1948

A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.

7.2

Movie

Heavenly Daze

1948

Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.

7.0

Movie

Give My Regards to Broadway

1948

A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.