Maurice Cass

Maurice Cass

From Wikipedia Maurice Cass was a character actor in numerous films and television shows. Born in Lithuania, he came to the US to pursue an acting career. His slight build, frizzy hair and pince-nez glasses cast him as the "absent minded professor" or eccentric scientist type in many of his films, such as the character who discovers the element kryptonite in Adventures of Superman. He is best remembered for his role as Professor Newton in the 1954 TV science fiction series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger.

  • Popularity : 1.325
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1884-10-12
  • Place of Birth : Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]
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Maurice Cass Movies

  • 1936
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    Charlie Chan at the Opera

    Charlie Chan at the Opera

    6.7 1936 HD

    A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years...

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  • 1932
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    The Skull Murder Mystery

    The Skull Murder Mystery

    4.7 1932 HD

    When a skeleton is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion. The team of Inspector...

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  • 1938
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    The Baroness and the Butler

    The Baroness and the Butler

    5.2 1938 HD

    A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

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  • 1956
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    Menace from Outer Space

    Menace from Outer Space

    3.3 1956 HD

    A nontheatrical (16mm) film comprise of three contiguous episodes of the TV series "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger".

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  • 1944
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    Mrs. Parkington

    Mrs. Parkington

    6 1944 HD

    In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by...

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  • 1946
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    The Catman of Paris

    The Catman of Paris

    5.5 1946 HD

    When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a...

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  • 1936
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    King of Burlesque

    King of Burlesque

    5.9 1936 HD

    Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who...

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  • 1937
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    Ali Baba Goes to Town

    Ali Baba Goes to Town

    6.1 1937 HD

    While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's...

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  • 1954
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    Crash of Moons

    Crash of Moons

    3.2 1954 HD

    A three-part episode from the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger edited together and released as a feature for 16mm rental only. Season 1 episodes...

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  • 1938
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    Gold Diggers in Paris

    Gold Diggers in Paris

    5 1938 HD

    When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for...

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  • 1937
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    Danger – Love at Work

    Danger – Love at Work

    7.3 1937 HD

    A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

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  • 1935
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    Professional Soldier

    Professional Soldier

    4.5 1935 HD

    Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to...

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  • 1949
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    Once More, My Darling

    Once More, My Darling

    5.7 1949 HD

    An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to...

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  • 1945
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    Federal Operator 99

    Federal Operator 99

    6 1945 HD

    Jerry Blake (aka Federal Operator 99) teams-up with Joyce Kingston to thwart the plans of escaped crime boss Jim Belmont.

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  • 1938
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    When Were You Born

    When Were You Born

    5.188 1938 HD

    A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.

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  • 1935
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    Two for Tonight

    Two for Tonight

    6.5 1935 HD

    A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.

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  • 1937
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    Life Begins in College

    Life Begins in College

    1 1937 HD

    When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be...

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  • 1938
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    Exposed

    Exposed

    5 1938 HD

    A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

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  • 1937
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    Exiled to Shanghai

    Exiled to Shanghai

    4.9 1937 HD

    A fired cameraman by way of a girl's mistaken identity wins back his job through pioneering work in television.

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  • 1946
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    Spook Busters

    Spook Busters

    4.7 1946 HD

    The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old...

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  • 1938
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    Gangs of New York

    Gangs of New York

    4.8 1938 HD

    An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

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  • 1936
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    Arbor Day

    Arbor Day

    6 1936 HD

    Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.

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  • 1954
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    Manhunt in Space

    Manhunt in Space

    2.6 1954 HD

    Rocky Jones, Space Ranger fights space pirates over an invisible spaceship.

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  • 1952
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    We're Not Married!

    We're Not Married!

    5.9 1952 HD

    A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally...

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  • 1942
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    Too Many Women

    Too Many Women

    4.8 1942 HD

    Thanks to a fib intended to ward off an annoying real estate developer, a young bachelor finds himself engaged to three different women and pursued...

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  • 1937
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    Wife, Doctor and Nurse

    Wife, Doctor and Nurse

    6 1937 HD

    Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.

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  • 1938
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    Josette

    Josette

    6.7 1938 HD

    Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they...

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  • 1939
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    Rose of Washington Square

    Rose of Washington Square

    5.7 1939 HD

    Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

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  • 1941
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    Blood and Sand

    Blood and Sand

    6.4 1941 HD

    Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face...

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  • 1941
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    Week-End in Havana

    Week-End in Havana

    6.6 1941 HD

    A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains...

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  • 1938
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    The Affairs of Annabel

    The Affairs of Annabel

    4 1938 HD

    Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for...

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  • 1935
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    We're Only Human

    We're Only Human

    6.5 1935 HD

    A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.

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  • 1936
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    Fatal Lady

    Fatal Lady

    1 1936 HD

    On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although...

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  • 1939
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    The Amazing Mr. Williams

    The Amazing Mr. Williams

    5.8 1939 HD

    Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For...

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  • 1939
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    Naughty But Nice

    Naughty But Nice

    6.2 1939 HD

    Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...

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  • 1945
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    Easy to Look At

    Easy to Look At

    1 1945 HD

    In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl, who is also a singer,...

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  • 1939
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    The Great Man Votes

    The Great Man Votes

    6.1 1939 HD

    In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...

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  • 1939
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    Second Fiddle

    Second Fiddle

    5 1939 HD

    Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

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  • 1937
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    The Lady Escapes

    The Lady Escapes

    1 1937 HD

    A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.

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  • 1939
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    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    7.9 1939 HD

    Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He...

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  • 1949
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    Follow Me Quietly

    Follow Me Quietly

    6.1 1949 HD

    When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at...

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  • 1939
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    Balalaika

    Balalaika

    4.2 1939 HD

    A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

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  • 1940
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    The Lone Wolf Strikes

    The Lone Wolf Strikes

    6.3 1940 HD

    Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.

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  • 1935
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    Whispering Smith Speaks

    Whispering Smith Speaks

    1 1935 HD

    O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is...

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  • 1939
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    Sunset Trail

    Sunset Trail

    1 1939 HD

    Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's...

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  • 1937
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    Women of Glamour

    Women of Glamour

    5 1937 HD

    A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.

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  • 1937
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    Big Town Girl

    Big Town Girl

    6 1937 HD

    When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a...

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  • 1938
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    A Desperate Adventure

    A Desperate Adventure

    1 1938 HD

    In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have stolen one of his...

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  • 1946
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    The Notorious Lone Wolf

    The Notorious Lone Wolf

    5.5 1946 HD

    Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.

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  • 1942
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    Syncopation

    Syncopation

    6.8 1942 HD

    A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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  • 1937
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    This Is My Affair

    This Is My Affair

    7.3 1937 HD

    President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint...

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  • 1944
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    Up in Arms

    Up in Arms

    5.9 1944 HD

    Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

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  • 1940
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    The Son of Monte Cristo

    The Son of Monte Cristo

    6.2 1940 HD

    Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons...

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  • 1940
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    Lady with Red Hair

    Lady with Red Hair

    6.5 1940 HD

    An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

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  • 1940
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    Florian

    Florian

    1 1940 HD

    Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

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  • 1940
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    Cross-Country Romance

    Cross-Country Romance

    6.4 1940 HD

    A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

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  • 1940
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    No, No, Nanette

    No, No, Nanette

    6 1940 HD

    Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations....

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  • 1938
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    Making the Headlines

    Making the Headlines

    1 1938 HD

    Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban...

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  • 1937
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    Champagne Waltz

    Champagne Waltz

    1 1937 HD

    In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss...

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  • 1937
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    Big Business

    Big Business

    5 1937 HD

    A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

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  • 1933
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    Nothing Ever Happens

    Nothing Ever Happens

    4.8 1933 HD

    In this parody of Grand Hotel, despite a dying man's efforts to enjoy his final days, a jewel thief trying to comfort a great dancer, and a big...

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  • 1946
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    I've Always Loved You

    I've Always Loved You

    6.4 1946 HD

    A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.

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  • 1942
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    Blondie Goes to College

    Blondie Goes to College

    6.4 1942 HD

    Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband,...

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  • 1937
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    Confession

    Confession

    6.1 1937 HD

    Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's...

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  • 1936
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    Give Us This Night

    Give Us This Night

    7 1936 HD

    After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip...

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  • 1952
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    Something to Live For

    Something to Live For

    6.8 1952 HD

    Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway...

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  • 1956
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    Forbidden Moon

    Forbidden Moon

    1 1956 HD

    Rocky Jones is dispatched to investigate an SOS received from a space station. He finds that the station is filled with deadly radiation brought by...

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  • 1938
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    Walking Down Broadway

    Walking Down Broadway

    5.7 1938 HD

    Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many...

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  • 1936
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    Swing Banditry

    Swing Banditry

    1 1936 HD

    A group of musicians is determined to appear on a radio program.

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  • 1938
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    The Magician's Daughter

    The Magician's Daughter

    5 1938 HD

    A magician's daughter falls in love with a reporter for a magazine. When the magazine publishes a story that exposes her father's methods, she dumps...

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  • 1936
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    A Girl's Best Years

    A Girl's Best Years

    5 1936 HD

    A woman reporter is hired by an author-songwriter to help him avoid additional breach-of-promise suits.

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  • 1940
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    High School

    High School

    5.5 1940 HD

    A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when...

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  • 1943
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    Mission to Moscow

    Mission to Moscow

    5.2 1943 HD

    Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

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  • 1948
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    Song of My Heart

    Song of My Heart

    5 1948 HD

    The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

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  • 1945
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    Her Lucky Night

    Her Lucky Night

    4.5 1945 HD

    In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.

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  • 1949
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    Sorrowful Jones

    Sorrowful Jones

    6.1 1949 HD

    A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of...

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  • 1946
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    Angel on My Shoulder

    Angel on My Shoulder

    6.419 1946 HD

    The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

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  • 1947
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    High Conquest

    High Conquest

    1 1947 HD

    Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.

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  • 1946
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    Two Sisters from Boston

    Two Sisters from Boston

    5.8 1946 HD

    Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house...

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  • 1945
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    Paris Underground

    Paris Underground

    5.4 1945 HD

    Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an...

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  • 1938
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    The Lone Wolf in Paris

    The Lone Wolf in Paris

    6 1938 HD

    Former jewel thief Michael Lanyard toys with a princess and a grand duke.

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  • 1945
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    She Gets Her Man

    She Gets Her Man

    3.7 1945 HD

    The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.

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  • 1937
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    She Had to Eat

    She Had to Eat

    5 1937 HD

    An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

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  • 1956
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    Beyond the Moon

    Beyond the Moon

    4 1956 HD

    This outer space adventure marked the debut of Rocky Jones and his Space Rangers. Two of Rocky's allies are captured by aliens and brain washed.

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  • 1954
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    Silver Needle in the Sky

    Silver Needle in the Sky

    4.5 1954 HD

    Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.

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  • 1954
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    The Gypsy Moon

    The Gypsy Moon

    2 1954 HD

    Rocky Jones and his buddies happen upon two strange moons orbiting each other. They soon discover that both are inhabited by civilizations at war...

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  • 1948
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    The Girl from Manhattan

    The Girl from Manhattan

    5 1948 HD

    A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his...

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  • 1941
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    Charley's Aunt

    Charley's Aunt

    5.8 1941 HD

    In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

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  • 1936
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    Pepper

    Pepper

    1 1936 HD

    Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter...

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  • 1952
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    Adventures of Superman

    Adventures of Superman

    6.657 1952 HD

    Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single...

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  • 1954
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    Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

    Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

    5.3 1954 HD

    Rocky Jones, Space Ranger was a syndicated science fiction television serial originally broadcast in 1954. The show lasted for only two seasons and,...

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