Acting

Adrian Morris

Born 1907-01-12

Mount Vernon, New York, USA

Department: Acting

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).

1933

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (56 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Fly By Night	Officer John Prescott	Movie	1942
Belle Starr	Major Grail's Orderly (uncredited)	Movie	1941
Blood and Sand	La Pulga	Movie	1941
Michael Shayne: Private Detective	Al	Movie	1940
Christmas in July	Tom	Movie	1940
Public Deb No. 1	Guard	Movie	1940
The Return of Frank James	Denver Detective (uncredited)	Movie	1940
Pier 13	Al Higgins	Movie	1940
Lucky Cisco Kid	Smoketree Charlie	Movie	1940
Florian	Cpl. Ernst	Movie	1940
Girl in 313	First Detective	Movie	1940
Tear Gas Squad	Crusty	Movie	1940
The Grapes of Wrath	Agent	Movie	1940
Castle on the Hudson	Prisoner (uncredited)	Movie	1940
The Cisco Kid and the Lady	Saloon Brawler	Movie	1939
Gone with the Wind	Carpetbagger Orator (uncredited)	Movie	1939
$1,000 a Touchdown	Two Ton Terry (uncredited)	Movie	1939
Chicken Wagon Family	Tough Guy	Movie	1939
Wall Street Cowboy	Big Joe Gillespie	Movie	1939
Coast Guard	First Expressman (uncredited)	Movie	1939
6,000 Enemies	Bull Snyder	Movie	1939
Union Pacific	Railwayman (uncredited)	Movie	1939
Rose of Washington Square	Jim	Movie	1939
The Return of the Cisco Kid	Deputy Johnson	Movie	1939
Tail Spin	Repo Man (Uncredited)	Movie	1939
Angels with Dirty Faces	Blackie	Movie	1938
If I Were King	Colin de Cayeulx	Movie	1938
You and Me	Knucks	Movie	1938
Every Day's a Holiday	Henchman	Movie	1937
There Goes the Groom	Eddie - Interne	Movie	1937
Radio Patrol	Officer Sam Maloney	Movie	1937
The Woman I Love	Marbot	Movie	1937
Her Husband Lies	Carwig	Movie	1937
Rose Bowl	Doc	Movie	1936
My American Wife	Vincent Cantillon	Movie	1936
Poppy	Constable Bowman	Movie	1936
The Petrified Forest	Ruby	Movie	1936
The Fighting Marines	Sgt. Mack McGowan	Movie	1935
3 Kids and a Queen	Federal Man	Movie	1935
Dr. Socrates	Beanie - a Gangster	Movie	1935
Powdersmoke Range	Deputy Brose Glascow	Movie	1935
Stranded	Rivet Boss (uncredited)	Movie	1935
Age of Indiscretion	Gus	Movie	1935
'G' Men	Accomplice (uncredited)	Movie	1935
One Frightened Night	Deputy Abner	Movie	1935
West Point of the Air	Randolph Air Field Instructor	Movie	1935
The Pursuit of Happiness	Thad Jennings	Movie	1934
Let’s Be Ritzy	Henry Robert	Movie	1934
The Big Shakedown	Trigger	Movie	1934
King for a Night	Crap Shooter	Movie	1933
Wild Boys of the Road	Buggie Maylin (uncredited)	Movie	1933
Bureau of Missing Persons	Detective Irish Conlin	Movie	1933
The Mayor of Hell	Car Owner Refusing to Pay (uncredited)	Movie	1933
Me and My Gal	Al	Movie	1932
The Age for Love	Jeff Aldrich	Movie	1931
Dirigible	Dirigible 'Los Angeles' Crewman (uncredited)	Movie	1931