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Matthew Betz
Born: 12th Sep 1881 Saint Louis, Missouri, USA - Died 26th Jan 1938
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 100
Film: 100 (100%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Family, Documentary, History
Filmography
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Self (archive footage)
1937
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest. ... view
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Inspector Starrett
1937
Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group. After more towns people are ki ... view
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Frago, lead henchman
1937
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir ... view
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Chieftain (Uncredited)
1937
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it ... view
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Hobo #1
1937
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide. ... view
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Don, a Townsman
1937
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer. ... view
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1936
Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. J ... view
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Dorsky
1936
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Ph ... view
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Tex O'Donnell
1936
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins. ... view
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Henry Jensen
1936
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels. ... view
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Herman Weil
1936
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house. ... view
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Bill, the Tough Hobo
1935
Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will ... view
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Doyle
1935
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal a ... view
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Horace Raymore
1935
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to bl ... view
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Henchman Smokey Preston
1935
Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they h ... view
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Hood with Toothache (uncredited)
1935
An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers discovers the hideout of a gang of murderous outlaws. ... view
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Hunt
1935
Edith Adams, burdened by her family’s financial struggles, faces pressure from her mother to marry well. ... view
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1935
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader. ... view
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Al Thompson
1935
A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich you ... view
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Dan
1935
Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The invento ... view
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Blackie Burke
1935
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, ac ... view
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Man at Bar (uncredited)
1935
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure. ... view
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Dixon
1934
"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Dav ... view
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Schmidt
1934
Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs apartment. Inside, he is hit on the head and whisk ... view
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Lewis Cantor
1934
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow ext ... view
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Romowski's Valet
1933
A young bank employee is sent to South America to bring some valuable bonds to a client there. Unfortunately for him, he tends to drink a bit too much ... view
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Senor Cevallos
1933
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? ... view
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"Lovely" Holmes
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Flash McQuaid
1933
Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of "the people of Zar, god of the Emerald Fingers." Tarzan helps Mary ... view
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Nick
1933
A girl with a shady past is picked by a playwright to be the star of his newest play. ... view
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Blackie
1933
Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wa ... view
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The Crook
1933
A young woman inherits a textile plant, and finds that she's expected to pay protection money to gangsters who have their own men among the plant's em ... view
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Racketeer
1933
After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sheriff Tate Hurley who was his chief accuser. The h ... view
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Tate Hurley
1933
In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He is after the Wilder brothers who he thinks are rust ... view
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Carl Lawler
1933
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both p ... view
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Hugo
1933
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Danc ... view
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Chet Watson (uncredited)
1933
Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chief of W. J. Brady's oil refinery. He is also roman ... view
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Jarvis
1933
The Government has approved Betty Castelar's Spanish land grant and notification is sent via pony express. Porter is after her ranch and waylay's ride ... view
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Clem Porter
1933
An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead. ... view
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Trusty Smith
1932
Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer f ... view
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Brick Dugan
1932
A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them. ... view
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Henchman Childress
1932
When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian ... view
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Warden
1932
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west. ... view
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Joe Carter
1932
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspect ... view
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The Engineer Jordan
1932
More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge o ... view
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Jessin
1932
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much. ... view
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Snowy Hoagland
1932
When a railroad engineer refuses to participate in a strike, the union drops him and he loses his job. ... view
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1931
Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison with his cellmate, Red Larkin (Matthew Betz, The Wedd ... view
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Red Larkin
1931
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for fram ... view
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Jim Blake
1931
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps. ... view
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Tom Whalen
1931
After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicag ... view
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Tayo
1931
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out.... ... view
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Mooney
1931
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject ... view
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1931
A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with ... view
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Frank Bowman
1930
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals. ... view
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Insect McGann
1930
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld. ... view
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Red
1930
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husban ... view
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Red Majors
1930
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman. ... view
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Ace Martin / Ed Winters
1930
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning ... view
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Gopher
1929
The honeymoon of Prince Nicki in the Alps, and the wedding of Mitzi and Schani. Mitzi still loves Nicki, and jealous Schani decides once again to kil ... view
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Schani
1929
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her ... view
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'Doc' Striker
1929
In his last film, silent star William Russell plays the motorcycle policeman father of one of the restless and reckless new generation of late 1920s y ... view
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Augie Sten
1929
Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening to ... view
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Earl Rand
1928
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs ... view
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Gus Newman
1928
Against the backdrop of Vienna's hidebound caste system, aristocrat and army officer Nicki is attracted to peasant Mitzi, although he knows it cannot ... view
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Schani Eberle
1928
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror". ... view
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Joe Connors
1928
The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrive ... view
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The Killer
1928
Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit. ... view
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'Dagger' Foo
1928
David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because ... view
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Wash Gibbs
1927
To protect her brother, a nightclub entertainer Queenie Morgan marries a gangster. She bears a resemblance to a society girl who has gotten involved w ... view
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Quill Burke
1927
The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United S ... view
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Jake Stuke
1926
George Fowler, a young man from the states, arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "Th ... view
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Black Jack Hovey
1926
Larry O'Neil, a ship's cook, finds and befriends stowaway Lois Austin, who is a fugitive from a murder charge. The ship's captain, Klodel, also finds ... view
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Captain Klodel
1926
Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life ... view
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Gypsy Chief
1926
Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy Rut ... view
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Captain Ladye Kirby
1926
Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny ... view
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Jerry Crawford
1925
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives ... view
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'Red' Hawkins
1925
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series o ... view
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Detective Regan
1925
A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story f ... view
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Eddie Gault
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Frank Wilde
1925
To spite her fiancé, who claims to know how to handle women, Rosamond engages in reckless behavior, including racing cars and getting arrested.
Clim ... view
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Matt
1924
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of l ... view
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Joe Dagget
1924
Young Gallito (Allan Forrest) wants very badly to become a matador. His sweetheart, Dolores (Priscilla Dean), does everything she can to help him and ... view
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Pedro
1924
A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to brea ... view
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Joe Anargas
1924
Toughened criminal Jim Reagan tries to persuade his brother, Larry, to go straight, but Larry attempts to rob a banker, Richard Milton, and is arreste ... view
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'Pinky' Sellers
1924
A kindly old woman named Mrs. Rand takes in wayward girl and petty crook Molly O'Hara, known as "Angel Face" to her gang. Mrs. Rand eventually gets Mo ... view
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Monk Hinman
1923
The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal. ... view
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'Dip' McGurk
1923
Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but C ... view
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Bob
1923
Nita Moore, a circus performer, is mistreated by the ringmaster and runs away to join an old couple who are persuaded that Nita is their longlost daug ... view
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Runner Bayne
1923
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceed ... view
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Fighting Miner
1922
After serving time in Sing Sing, for which he was unjustly sentenced, and encouraged by two "sharpers," Richard Goodloe returns to the home of his wea ... view
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Steven McKenna
1922
When New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a life of crime by taking part in a robbery, he takes the b ... view
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Tony the Wop
1921
A damsel-in-distress Western melodrama and a stirring picture of railroad construction and the mining country, with a Snidely Whiplash villain perform ... view
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Jim Mallison
1921
Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes join ... view
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Ed Scott
1920
Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pic ... view
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Bert Robinson
1920
Billy Brice has been disqualified from the race track. He becomes sweetheart to a car manufacturer's daughter. Billy helps deal with the man's disgrun ... view
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Kelly
1919
When a train crash kills Horace Barney, the heir to a fortune that his doctors and guardians were planning to extort the unscrupulous trio quickly sub ... view
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Giles
1914
Dan Ryan and Fritz Noodle, two would-be politicians, succumb to the charming mannerisms of the Widow Guggenheimer. The widow is undecided which one sh ... view
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Guggenheimer - the 'Widow's' Husband