James Burke
Biography
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James Burke (September 24, 1886 – May 23, 1968) was an American film and television actor born in New York City. He made his stage debut in New York around 1912 and went to Hollywood in 1933. He made over 200 film appearances during his career, which ranged from 1932 to 1964; he was more often than not cast as a cop, usually a none-too-bright one, most notably as Sgt. Velie in Columbia's Ellery Queen mysteries in the early 1940s. He appeared in The Maltese Falcon, At the Circus, Lone Star, and many others. One of his best roles was as Charles Ruggles' rowdy rancher pal in Ruggles of Red Gap.
In the early 1950s, Burke appeared with Tom Conway in the ABC detective drama series then called Inspector Mark Saber -- Homicide Detective, later renamed, reformatted, and switched to NBC under the title Saber of London. From 1960-1961, Burke appeared in the role of Zeke Bonner in seven episodes of the ABC western television series Stagecoach West, starring Wayne Rogers, Robert Bray, and Richard Eyer.
Burke suffered from a heart condition, which took his life at the age of eighty-one.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1886-09-23
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
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Cast
The Maltese Falcon
1941
7.71
The Big Clock
1948
7.26
Public Pigeon No. 1
1957
6.00
We're Not Married!
1952
5.80
At the Circus
1939
6.40
Bombshell
1933
6.47
Lucky Me
1954
6.70
Welcome Home
1935
0.00
Lady Killer
1933
6.94
Dead End
1937
7.00
Beau Geste
1939
6.93
All Through the Night
1942
6.76
36 Hours to Kill
1936
5.30
Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
0.00
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
1940
6.87
The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945
5.65
Great Guy
1936
6.20
Bowery Bombshell
1946
6.00
Body and Soul
1947
6.66
The Dawn Patrol
1938
6.80
Such Women Are Dangerous
1934
0.00
The Saint Strikes Back
1939
5.56
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
1942
5.20
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941
5.70
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
1942
5.50
Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940
5.50
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
1941
5.30
Philo Vance's Gamble
1947
5.70
Love Time
1934
0.00
The Saint Takes Over
1940
6.40
Little Miss Marker
1934
6.40
Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935
6.00
A Night to Remember
1942
6.60
Million Dollar Baby
1941
6.00
My Favorite Blonde
1942
6.40
Six of a Kind
1934
5.80
Warpath
1951
5.80
The Last Outpost
1951
5.50
The Golden Fleecing
1940
5.30
College Humor
1933
5.30
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1939
4.90
Raton Pass
1951
4.60
The Scarlet Empress
1934
6.80
Here Comes Cookie
1935
7.29
Ticket to a Crime
1934
4.00
Dinky
1935
6.70
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
0.00
Men with Wings
1938
5.00
You Can't Take It with You
1938
7.50
So Red the Rose
1935
6.50
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948
5.30
Let's Dance
1950
5.60
Casanova Brown
1944
6.40
On Borrowed Time
1939
7.50
The Perfect Specimen
1937
5.70
Anchors Aweigh
1945
6.80
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
6.06
Joy of Living
1938
5.71
To the Last Man
1933
5.70
June Bride
1948
7.20
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
6.30
Call of the Wild
1935
6.20
Shamrock Hill
1949
1.00
Hot Money
1935
0.00
The Affair of Susan
1935
0.00
Treasure Island
1934
6.50
High, Wide and Handsome
1937
6.30
The Mystery Man
1935
5.40
Lone Star
1952
5.60
Lady by Choice
1934
6.30
Down to Earth
1947
5.90
Army Surgeon
1942
5.80
The Affairs of Annabel
1938
4.00
A Very Honorable Guy
1934
2.00
Dixie
1943
3.00
After the Dance
1935
6.00
Broadway Gondolier
1935
5.40
The Family Next Door
1939
5.20
City Limits
1934
4.00
Music Is Magic
1935
4.00
Dancing Feet
1936
5.20
I Love a Bandleader
1945
0.00
Laughing at Trouble
1936
6.00
Face in the Sky
1933
4.70
The Unholy Wife
1957
4.42
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934
6.00
Within the Law
1939
6.00
Dodge City
1939
6.90
Fast and Furious
1939
4.70
It Happened One Night
1934
7.83
Song and Dance Man
1936
0.00
Make a Million
1935
5.70
Klondike Annie
1936
6.40
The Timber Trail
1948
0.00
The Virginian
1946
6.05
3 Men in White
1944
6.00
Beyond Glory
1948
7.30
Denver and Rio Grande
1952
5.50
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
4.80
The Leathernecks Have Landed
1936
5.00
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940
0.00
Shady Lady
1945
5.80
The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
1947
6.00
Queen Christina
1934
6.80
A Lady's Profession
1933
0.00
Coronado
1935
3.00
Flight Into Nowhere
1938
4.00
Little Nellie Kelly
1940
6.70
No Time for Comedy
1940
5.00
Red, Hot and Blue
1949
5.80
The Way of All Flesh
1940
4.10
Champagne Waltz
1937
0.00
California
1947
6.70
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
6.00
Gambling Lady
1934
6.20
Rhythm on the Range
1936
4.00
The Girl in 419
1933
3.50
All of Me
1934
6.00
Copper Canyon
1950
5.30
How DOooo You Do
1945
0.00
Ruggles of Red Gap
1935
7.10
Little Orphan Annie
1938
0.00
Double Alibi
1940
4.00
Frisco Waterfront
1935
0.00
Sudden Money
1939
5.00
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
6.10
Life Begins with Love
1937
5.00
Song of the Thin Man
1947
6.80
Night Wind
1948
0.00
Alias Nick Beal
1949
6.68
Twentieth Century
1934
6.80
No Place for a Lady
1943
6.00
Reaching for the Sun
1941
6.00
Torch Singer
1933
5.22
Wharf Angel
1934
3.50
The Kennel Murder Case
1933
6.00
Alias Jesse James
1959
5.80
The Merry Frinks
1934
3.70
Riding High
1943
4.50
Pot o' Gold
1941
5.50
Opened by Mistake
1940
0.00
Young Widow
1946
4.56
Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950
6.00
Case of the Missing Man
1935
0.00
Nightmare Alley
1947
7.16
Can This Be Dixie?
1936
0.00
Sadie McKee
1934
6.90
Forgotten Faces
1936
1.00
Mississippi
1935
6.70
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
6.10
His Kind of Woman
1951
6.60
Here Comes the Groom
1951
5.20
The Hollywood Handicap
1932
0.00
I'm from Missouri
1939
0.00
The Bowery
1933
5.00
Sisters Under the Skin
1934
0.00