Adrian Morris
Biography
Adrian Michael Morris (January 12, 1907 – November 30, 1941) was an American actor of stage and film, and a younger brother of Chester Morris. As a child, Morris performed with his family in a vaudeville act. In his short 10-year career as a Hollywood character actor, he appeared in over 70 films, including Dirigible (1931), Me and My Gal (1932), Bureau of Missing Persons (1933), The Big Shakedown (1934), The Fighting Marines (1935), The Petrified Forest (1936), There Goes the Groom (1937), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Gone With the Wind (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and Blood and Sand (1941).
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Movies (50)
Fly By Night
as Officer John Prescott
1942
Belle Starr
as Major Grail's Orderly (uncredited)
1941
Blood and Sand
as La Pulga
1941
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
as Al
1940
Christmas in July
as Tom
1940
Public Deb No. 1
as Guard
1940
The Return of Frank James
as Denver Detective (uncredited)
1940
Pier 13
as Al Higgins
1940
Lucky Cisco Kid
as Smoketree Charlie
1940
Florian
as Cpl. Ernst
1940
Girl in 313
as First Detective
1940
Tear Gas Squad
as Crusty
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
as Agent
1940
Castle on the Hudson
as Prisoner (uncredited)
1940
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
as Saloon Brawler
1939
Gone with the Wind
as Carpetbagger Orator (uncredited)
1939
$1,000 a Touchdown
as Two Ton Terry (uncredited)
1939
Chicken Wagon Family
as Tough Guy
1939
Wall Street Cowboy
as Big Joe Gillespie
1939
Coast Guard
as First Expressman (uncredited)
1939
6,000 Enemies
as Bull Snyder
1939
Union Pacific
as Railwayman (uncredited)
1939
Rose of Washington Square
as Jim
1939
The Return of the Cisco Kid
as Deputy Johnson
1939
Tail Spin
as Repo Man (Uncredited)
1939
Angels with Dirty Faces
as Blackie
1938
If I Were King
as Colin de Cayeulx
1938
You and Me
as Knucks
1938
Every Day's a Holiday
as Henchman
1937
There Goes the Groom
as Eddie - Interne
1937
Radio Patrol
as Officer Sam Maloney
1937
The Woman I Love
as Marbot
1937
Her Husband Lies
as Carwig
1937
Rose Bowl
as Doc
1936
My American Wife
as Vincent Cantillon
1936
Poppy
as Constable Bowman
1936
The Petrified Forest
as Ruby
1936
The Fighting Marines
as Sgt. Mack McGowan
1935
3 Kids and a Queen
as Federal Man
1935
Dr. Socrates
as Beanie - a Gangster
1935
Powdersmoke Range
as Deputy Brose Glascow
1935
Stranded
as Rivet Boss (uncredited)
1935
Age of Indiscretion
as Gus
1935
'G' Men
as Accomplice (uncredited)
1935
One Frightened Night
as Deputy Abner
1935
West Point of the Air
as Randolph Air Field Instructor
1935
The Pursuit of Happiness
as Thad Jennings
1934
Let’s Be Ritzy
as Henry Robert
1934
The Big Shakedown
as Trigger
1934
King for a Night
as Crap Shooter
1933