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Richard Gaines

Highest Rated:
98% Double Indemnity (1944)
Lowest Rated:
60% Humoresque (1946)
Birthday:
Jul 23, 1904
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Broadway actor Richard Gaines made his initial film appearance as Patrick Henry in The Howards of Virginia (1940). Gaines is best-known to modern audiences as Jean Arthur's stuffy suitor C. J. Pendergast in George Stevens' The More the Merrier (1942). Less pompous but no less dignified were his…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 60% - 98%
Number of Movies: 29
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
1957 Five Steps to Danger
  • Dean Brant
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1956 Francis in the Haunted House
  • D.A. Reynolds
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1956 Ransom!
  • Langly
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1955 67% Love Me Or Leave Me
  • Paul Hunter
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1955 Trial
  • Dr. Schacter
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1954 Drum Beat
  • Dr. Thomas
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1951 86% Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival)
  • Nagel
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1951 Flight to Mars
  • Prof. Jackson
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1950 Key to the City
  • Speaker
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1949 Strange Bargain
  • Malcolm Jarvis
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1949 Almost a Bride (A Kiss for Corliss)
  • Taylor
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1948 Every Girl Should Be Married
  • Sam McNutt
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1948 That Wonderful Urge
  • Mr. Whitson
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1947 Ride the Pink Horse
  • Jonathan
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1947 91% Brute Force
  • McCollum
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1947 Unconquered
  • Col. George Washington
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1947 The Hucksters
  • Cooke
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1947 The Invisible Wall
  • Actor
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1947 Cass Timberlane
  • Dennis Thane
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1946 The Bride Wore Boots
  • Jeff's attorney
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1946 60% Humoresque
  • Bauer
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1946 Nobody Lives Forever
  • Charles Manning
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1945 83% The Enchanted Cottage
  • Frederick Price
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1944 Mr. Winkle Goes to War
  • Ralph Westcott
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1944 98% Double Indemnity
  • Mr. Norton
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1943 93% The More the Merrier
  • Charles J. Pendergast
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1943 Tender Comrade
  • Waldo
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1942 A Night to Remember
  • Lingle
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1940 The Howards of Virginia (The Tree of Liberty)
  • Patrick Henry
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