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Preston Foster
Born: 22nd Aug 1900 Pitman, New Jersey, USA - Died 14th Jul 1970
Dept: Acting
Preston Foster (August 24, 1900 – July 14, 1970) was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley. Some of his notable films include: Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Annie Oakley (1935), The Last Days of Pompeii (also 1935), The Informer (1935) (as the head of the organization), and My Friend Flicka (1943).
He starred on the television drama, Waterfront (1954–1955), playing the role of Captain John Herrick. Foster has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was sometimes credited in movies as Preston S. Foster. His first wife was stage actress Gertrude Warren (1926–1945; divorced). He had one daughter, Stephanie. He was married to his second wife, actress Sheila Darcy, from 1946 until his death.
During World War II while serving with the United States Coast Guard, he rose to the rank of Captain, Temporary Reserve. He eventually held the honorary rank of Commodore in the U.S. Coast Guard.
After the war and before his productive movie career, Foster became a singer of some note. In 1948 Foster created a trio with himself, Gene Leis and Foster’s wife, actress Sheila Darcy. Gene arranged the songs, and they played on radio and in clubs, appearing with Orrin Tucker, Peggy Ann Garner and Rita Hayworth.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 118
Film: 107 (91%)
Television: 11 (9%)
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Filmography
2022
Explore the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in entertainment history. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz r ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
1997
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellen ... view
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Self (archive footage)
1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression. ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
1967
A slick conman finds a singing teenage preacher in a small town in Arkansas and brings him to Los Angeles, where he sets him up with his own show and ... view
Character:
D. O. Griggs
1964
Research scientists experimenting with time warps are accidentally propelled forward into an unbearable future. ... view
Character:
Dr. Erik von Steiner
1964
As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbur ... view
Character:
Gen. Bateman (uncredited)
1963
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her s ... view
Character:
Judge Homer Black
Oct 1962 (first aired)
Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1961 (first aired)
Target: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired on ABC from September 29, 1961 to June 8, 1962. The ser ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Feb 1961 (first aired)
Gunslinger was a Western television series starring Tony Young that aired on the CBS television network from February 9 until May 18, 1961 on Thursday ... view
Character:
Captain Zachary Scott (12 ep.)
Sep 1960 (first aired)
Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank Caine, who operated in a lawless section of Oklahoma Territ ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1958 (first aired)
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office locate ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 1957 (first aired)
Harbor Command is an American action series that aired in syndicated from October 11, 1957, to July 4, 1958. The series stars Wendell Corey as Captain ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 1957 (first aired)
The O. Henry Playhouse was an early American anthology television series which featured television adaptations of short stories written by 19th-centur ... view
Character:
John McCaskey (1 ep.)
Aug 1954 (first aired)
Waterfront is an 1954-1955 American series following the adventures of tugboat captain John Herrick, played by Preston Foster. ... view
Character:
Cap'n John Herrick (81 ep.)
Sep 1953 (first aired)
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1953
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a lim ... view
Character:
Capt. Pat Chambers
1953
To fully appreciate the western comedy The Marshal's Daughter, one must be aware that its star, a zaftig, wide-eyed lass named Laurie Anders, was in 1 ... view
Character:
Preston Foster - Poker-Game Player
1953
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice. ... view
Character:
Kurt Durling
Feb 1953 (first aired)
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponso ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1952
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery. ... view
Character:
Tim Foster
1952
John Malvin , prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner and his son. He eludes the outlaws by hiding near a st ... view
Character:
Sheriff Henry Plummer
1951
A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father. ... view
Character:
Andy La Main
Oct 1951 (first aired)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was spon ... view
Character:
Bob Hood (1 ep.)
1951
Advance man Brass McGannon is nearly arrested for passing counterfeit money while promoting his circus' next stop. Returning to the circus, he learns ... view
Character:
Brass McGannon
1951
Hoping to strike it rich, four people--two best buddies, a blonde waitress and a cheerful oldtimer--pool their resources so they can drill for oil. A ... view
Character:
Henry 'Hank' Mason
1951
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the ... view
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Col. Carrington
1951
When they learn that their brother Matt Denton is awaiting trial in California, charged with train robbery, deputies Tom Denton and Fred Denton leave ... view
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Tom Denton
1950
Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long time, he has been courting ... view
Character:
Joe MacKinley
1949
A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar. ... view
Character:
Tom Eggers
1949
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford so ... view
Character:
John Kelley
1948
Two men, one woman and one horse get into trouble. ... view
Character:
Scotty Mason
1948
A cop investigating a jewel robbery finds that all trails lead to his girlfriend - but she claims she's being framed. ... view
Character:
Johnny Saxon
1947
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, " ... view
Character:
Frank Ivey
1947
The deep unbreakable bond between a wild stallion and the boy he rescues is chronicled in this children's adventure. ... view
Character:
Dave Taggert
1946
This short--long rumored to have been directed by John Ford--was produced by the US government specifically for veterans returning home from World War ... view
Character:
Army Surgeon (uncredited)
1946
A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unles ... view
Character:
Bart Madden
1946
In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smugg ... view
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Col. Jose Artiego
1946
In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive tas ... view
Character:
Sam Crane
1946
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaur ... view
Character:
Judge Sam Purvis
1945
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role. ... view
Character:
Self (uncredited)
1945
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of ... view
Character:
Jeff Turner
1945
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the we ... view
Character:
Jim Brennan
1945
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse. ... view
Character:
Rob McLaughlin
1944
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by ... view
Character:
Roger Touhy
1944
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week. ... view
Character:
Steve Carramond
1943
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalca ... view
Character:
Father Donnelly
1943
Ken McLaughlin is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch. When Ken returns home from school with failing grades, ... view
Character:
Rob McLaughlin
1942
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men dec ... view
Character:
Paxton Bryce
1942
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Sta ... view
Character:
Steve Britt
1942
War Department documentary short focusing on four inductees into the US Army. ... view
Character:
Narrator
1942
Filmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is 63 minutes' worth of speculation about prewar Japanese ... view
Character:
Michael Steele
1942
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation. ... view
Character:
Police Lt. Steve Abbott
1942
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises ... view
Character:
Tom Gaynor
1942
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari. ... view
Character:
Roy Bonnell
1941
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film ch ... view
Character:
Steve Duncan
1941
A woman's believed-dead cowhand beau shows up on her wedding day to cause trouble. ... view
Character:
Greg Lane
1940
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Cor ... view
Character:
Sergeant Jim Brett
1940
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon. ... view
Character:
Bill Gordon
1940
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave. ... view
Character:
Dan Walters
1939
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have ... view
Character:
Bill Collins
1939
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud betwee ... view
Character:
Capt. Bill Starrett
1939
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it ... view
Character:
Jim Howell
1939
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal o ... view
Character:
Steve Drum
1939
When American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting deser ... view
Character:
Steve Mitchell
1939
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds. ... view
Character:
Sully
1938
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently ... view
Character:
'Chipper' Morgan
1938
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.' ... view
Character:
Bill Crane
1938
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew. ... view
Character:
Lt. (j.g.) John C. Drake
1938
“Sparks” Roberts and Captain Cogswell are brothers whose relationship is fractured by a long-standing feud involving rivalries over boats and wome ... view
Character:
Jack Stacey
1938
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to m ... view
Character:
Capt. Dike Conger
1938
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue. ... view
Character:
Det. Bill Crane
1938
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Fo ... view
Character:
Robert Crane
1938
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze. ... view
Character:
Bruce Keene
1937
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President. ... view
Character:
Stephen Wayne
1937
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside. ... view
Character:
Bill Crane - Private Detective
1937
The film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a tux in order to win a bet. Apparently, this guy will ... view
Character:
James Ellsworth 'Jimmy' Hughes
1937
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster. ... view
Character:
John Oakhurst
1937
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, ... view
Character:
Michael 'Mike' O'Shea
1937
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspic ... view
Character:
Steven Mathews
1936
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion. ... view
Character:
Jack Clitheroe
1936
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues K ... view
Character:
Scott Miller
1936
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attrac ... view
Character:
Tip O'Neil
1935
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster. ... view
Character:
Det. Sgt. Pete 'Mac' McCaffrey
1935
Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. ... view
Character:
Toby Walker
1935
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by ... view
Character:
Marcus
1935
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore ... view
Character:
Tex Randolph
1935
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles. ... view
Character:
Preston Foster
1935
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over i ... view
Character:
Dan Gallagher
1935
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became ri ... view
Character:
Vince M. Falcone
1935
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children. ... view
Character:
Murray Carter
1934
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars. ... view
Character:
Howdy Hardy
1934
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides ... view
Character:
Como Murphy
1934
Olga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discontented younger sister Myra. When two escaped crimi ... view
Character:
George
1934
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor ... view
Character:
Jason Everett
1933
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager. ... view
Character:
Nifty Miller
1933
Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of ... view
Character:
Tom baylor
1933
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does ... view
Character:
Insp. O'Brien
1933
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Fra ... view
Character:
Jan Novak
1933
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's ... view
Character:
Tim Butler
1933
A railroad detective is having a difficult time stopping or even slowing down a gang that is robbing the merchandise carried on the freight trains, wi ... view
Character:
Hinton
1933
Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, where his naivete and arrogance soon put his relati ... view
Character:
Walker
1933
As part of a publicity campaign for the film 42nd Street (1933), Warner Bros. Pictures, with the assistance of the General Electric Corporation, assem ... view
Character:
Self (uncredited)
1933
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot. ... view
Character:
David Slade
1933
Promotional short produced by General Electric for release through Warner Bros. to advertise GE's home appliances. ... view
Character:
Tim - Office Worker (uncredited)
1932
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the cler ... view
Character:
Ed Dover
1932
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s f ... view
Character:
Pete
1932
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player. ... view
Character:
Steve Kelly
1932
A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situati ... view
Character:
Dr. Brett
1932
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the othe ... view
Character:
John 'Killer' Mears, Cell 4
1932
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer. ... view
Character:
Dr. Wells
1932
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flash ... view
Character:
Bud Clark
1931
Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on bo ... view
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Crewman
1930
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her ... view
Character:
Two-Gun Terry
1930
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting ... view
Character:
Blake (uncredited)
1929
A young man bets $10,000 that he can go for 24 hours without lying. ... view
Character:
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)