Wheeler Oakman

Highest Rated: 40% Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Lowest Rated: 40% Bowery at Midnight (1942)

Birthday: Feb 21, 1890

Birthplace: Not Available

In films from 1912, Wheeler Oakman was one of the silent era's sturdiest leading men. Oakman's co-stars ranged from Mabel Normand (Mickey, 1918) to Jackie Coogan (Peck's Bad Boy, 1921) to his one-time spouse Priscilla Dean. He made an auspicious sound-film debut in the first all-talking feature film, 1928's The Lights of New York; as gangster Hawk Miller, it was Oakman who coined the immortal crime-flick catchphrase "Take him for a ride" (each word carefully articulated into the primitive "mike" hidden in the candlestick telephone on Hawk Miller's desk). In films until his death in 1949, Wheeler Oakman essayed dozens of character roles in the 1930s and 1940s, usually as slightly seedy criminal masterminds; he was prominently featured in several East Side Kids films, as well as such serials as The Lost Jungle (1934), Darkest Africa (1936), Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), Buck Rogers (1939), Brenda Starr (1945), Jack Armstrong (1947), Brick Bradford (1947), and Superman (1948).

Highest Rated Movies

Bowery at Midnight
40%

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Shakedown	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	Men with Steel Faces	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	Planet Outlaws	Actor	—	1953
No Score Yet	Jack Armstrong: The All-American Boy	Prof. Zorn	—	1947
No Score Yet	Brenda Starr, Reporter	Joe Heller/Lew Heller	—	1945
No Score Yet	Teen Age	Jim Murray	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Girl from Monterey	Announcer	—	1943
No Score Yet	Ghosts on the Loose	Tony	—	1943
No Score Yet	The Ape Man	Brady	—	1943
No Score Yet	Kid Dynamite	Tony	—	1943
No Score Yet	Saddles and Sagebrush	Actor	—	1943
40%	Bowery at Midnight	Stratton	—	1942
No Score Yet	Meet the Mob	Blackie	—	1942
No Score Yet	Escort Girl	Gregory Stone	—	1941
No Score Yet	Torture Ship	Ritter	—	1939
No Score Yet	Mutiny in the Big House	Benson	—	1939
No Score Yet	In Old Montana	Jim Dawson	—	1939
No Score Yet	Wolf Call	Carson	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Texans	US Captain	—	1938
No Score Yet	Red Barry	Weaver	—	1938
No Score Yet	Slaves in Bondage	Jim Murray	—	1937
No Score Yet	Bank Alarm	Karlotti	—	1937
No Score Yet	Pilot X	Lt. Douglas Thompson	—	1937
No Score Yet	Aces and Eights	Ace Morgan	—	1936
No Score Yet	Ghost Patrol	Kincaid	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Man from Gun Town	De Long	—	1936
No Score Yet	Song of the Trail	Arnold	—	1936
No Score Yet	Gambling with Souls	'Lucky' Wilder	—	1936
No Score Yet	Death from a Distance	Langsdale	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Headline Woman	Fielding	—	1935
No Score Yet	G-Men	Henchman at Lodge	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Phantom Empire	Argo	—	1935
No Score Yet	Undercover Men	Actor	—	1935
No Score Yet	Motive for Revenge	Doane	—	1935
No Score Yet	Square Shooter	Actor	—	1935
No Score Yet	Code of the Mounted	Duval	—	1935
No Score Yet	Murder in the Clouds	Joe - Accomplice	—	1934
No Score Yet	In Old Santa Fe	Tracy	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Lost Jungle	Kirby	—	1934
No Score Yet	Frontier Days	Actor	—	1934
No Score Yet	Operator 13	Scout	—	1934
No Score Yet	Man of Action	Actor	—	1933
No Score Yet	The Sundown Rider	Laughing Maxey	—	1933
No Score Yet	The Western Code	Nick Grindell	—	1932
No Score Yet	Two-Fisted Law	Bob Russell	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Riding Tornado	Hatch Engle	—	1932
No Score Yet	Texas Cyclone	Utah Becker	—	1932
No Score Yet	Two Fisted Law	Actor	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Boiling Point	Holt Narbrough	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Good Bad Girl	Moreland	—	1931
No Score Yet	Roaring Ranch	Ramsey Kane	—	1930
No Score Yet	Lights of New York	Hawk	—	1928
No Score Yet	Snarl of Hate	Actor	—	1927
No Score Yet	Peck's Bad Boy	Man in the Case	—	1921
No Score Yet	Outside the Law	Dapper Bill Ballard	—	1920
No Score Yet	Back to God's Country	Peter Burke	—	1919
No Score Yet	Mickey	Herbert Thomhill	—	1918
No Score Yet	The Spoilers	Broncho Kid	—	1914
No Score Yet	In the Days of the Thundering Herd	Actor	—	1914
No Score Yet	The Virgin Of Stamboul	Actor	—

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