Frank Shannon

Frank Shannon

Frank Shannon was an Irish-born stage and screen performer. He had his film debut in The Prisoner of Zenda (1913). He is most fondly remembered as the brilliant Dr. Zarkov in the three Flash Gordon serials.

  • Title: Frank Shannon
  • Popularity: 0.962
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1874-07-27
  • Place of Birth: Ireland
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  • Also Known As: Frank Connolly Shannon, Francis Shannon
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Frank Shannon Movies

  • 1936
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    Flash Gordon

    Flash Gordon

    6.3 1936 HD

    Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to...

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  • 1938
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    Mannequin

    Mannequin

    6.1 1938 HD

    Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left...

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  • 1936
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    End of the Trail

    End of the Trail

    8 1936 HD

    In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler until he can get back on...

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  • 1940
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    Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

    Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

    5.6 1940 HD

    A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the...

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  • 1936
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    The Texas Rangers

    The Texas Rangers

    6.4 1936 HD

    Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

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  • 1936
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    The Prisoner of Shark Island

    The Prisoner of Shark Island

    6.9 1936 HD

    After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14,...

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  • 1943
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    The Phantom

    The Phantom

    6.2 1943 HD

    Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological...

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  • 1939
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    The Night of Nights

    The Night of Nights

    1 1939 HD

    A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival...

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  • 1938
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    Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

    Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

    5.9 1938 HD

    When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.

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  • 1966
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    Purple Death from Outer Space

    Purple Death from Outer Space

    5.2 1966 HD

    Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.

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  • 1938
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    Blondes at Work

    Blondes at Work

    6.1 1938 HD

    When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals...

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  • 1922
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    Boomerang Bill

    Boomerang Bill

    2 1922 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite

    Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite

    6 1939 HD

    Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

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  • 1939
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    Torchy Runs for Mayor

    Torchy Runs for Mayor

    5.8 1939 HD

    Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

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  • 1940
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    Wildcat Bus

    Wildcat Bus

    4.6 1940 HD

    A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.

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  • 1936
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    Black Gold

    Black Gold

    5 1936 HD

    Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on...

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  • 1934
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    Woman in the Dark

    Woman in the Dark

    6.1 1934 HD

    A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is...

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  • 1941
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    Federal Fugitives

    Federal Fugitives

    5.4 1941 HD

    A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.

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  • 1931
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    A Burglar to the Rescue

    A Burglar to the Rescue

    8 1931 HD

    He is working on the books to cover his crimes, when a visitor arrives with a gun. In the conversation that ensues, it is revealed that the visitor...

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  • 1941
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    Rawhide Rangers

    Rawhide Rangers

    5 1941 HD

    A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers.

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  • 1937
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    Ever Since Eve

    Ever Since Eve

    5.8 1937 HD

    Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer,...

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  • 1938
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    Next Time I Marry

    Next Time I Marry

    6.8 1938 HD

    Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would...

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  • 1936
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    The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

    The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

    5.6 1936 HD

    A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.

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  • 1935
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    Men Without Names

    Men Without Names

    6 1935 HD

    A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

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  • 1939
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    Union Pacific

    Union Pacific

    6.5 1939 HD

    One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

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  • 1938
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    The Ship That Died

    The Ship That Died

    5.8 1938 HD

    This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no...

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  • 1938
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    Rocket Ship

    Rocket Ship

    4.8 1938 HD

    A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo...

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    You Can't Take It with You

    You Can't Take It with You

    7.482 1938 HD

    Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...

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  • 1938
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    Torchy Blane in Panama

    Torchy Blane in Panama

    5.3 1938 HD

    Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

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  • 1935
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    The Eagle's Brood

    The Eagle's Brood

    5 1935 HD

    When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.

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  • 1939
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    Torchy Blane in Chinatown

    Torchy Blane in Chinatown

    6 1939 HD

    Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector...

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  • 1940
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    Emergency Squad

    Emergency Squad

    5 1940 HD

    Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots,...

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  • 1940
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    Brigham Young

    Brigham Young

    4.4 1940 HD

    Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to...

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  • 1940
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    The Return of Frank James

    The Return of Frank James

    6.3 1940 HD

    Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

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  • 1943
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    The Phantom

    The Phantom

    6.2 1943 HD

    Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological...

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  • 1940
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    A Dispatch from Reuters

    A Dispatch from Reuters

    5.7 1940 HD

    German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

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  • 1913
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    The Prisoner of Zenda

    The Prisoner of Zenda

    3.5 1913 HD

    King Rudolf of Ruritania is saved from a coup attempt by the help of his lookalike cousin, who falls in love with the king's fiancee.

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  • 1936
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    Road Gang

    Road Gang

    6.5 1936 HD

    A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a...

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  • 1938
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    Over the Wall

    Over the Wall

    5 1938 HD

    When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

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  • 1922
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    The Bride's Play

    The Bride's Play

    5.1 1922 HD

    A sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which man will she choose?

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  • 1938
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    Mars Attacks the World

    Mars Attacks the World

    6 1938 HD

    Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS. Flash Gordon fights Ming the Merciless once again to ensure the survival of the...

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  • 1942
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    Ten Gentlemen from West Point

    Ten Gentlemen from West Point

    5.8 1942 HD

    This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century,...

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  • 1942
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    The Secret Code

    The Secret Code

    4.8 1942 HD

    A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.

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  • 1924
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    Icebound

    Icebound

    1 1924 HD

    Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she...

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  • 1936
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    The Perfect Set-Up

    The Perfect Set-Up

    1 1936 HD

    In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.

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  • 1937
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    The Adventurous Blonde

    The Adventurous Blonde

    5.4 1937 HD

    The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his...

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  • 1938
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    Torchy Gets Her Man

    Torchy Gets Her Man

    5.9 1938 HD

    A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens...

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  • 1943
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    Batman

    Batman

    6.427 1943 HD

    Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American...

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  • 1939
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    Rulers of the Sea

    Rulers of the Sea

    6.5 1939 HD

    The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...

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  • 1935
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    'G' Men

    'G' Men

    6.469 1935 HD

    James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld....

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  • 1966
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    Spaceship to the Unknown

    Spaceship to the Unknown

    6 1966 HD

    A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent...

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  • 1935
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    The Pace That Kills

    The Pace That Kills

    2.6 1935 HD

    A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends”.

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  • 1949
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    A Dangerous Profession

    A Dangerous Profession

    5.6 1949 HD

    A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation.

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  • 1924
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    Monsieur Beaucaire

    Monsieur Beaucaire

    5.9 1924 HD

    The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and...

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  • 1946
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    Crack-Up

    Crack-Up

    5.6 1946 HD

    Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

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