Stills of Other Male Actors in Gambling Scenes

Yves Montand (second from the left) in "Goodbye Again" (1961) at roulette table.

Peter Lawford (at left) and Robert Wagner (center) in "Deadly Roulette" (1967 TV movie).  UK 8x11 Front (or House) card.  (The American title was "How I Spent My Summer Vacation.")

Charles Coburn (in center, with cigar) in "Has Anyone Seen My Gal"  (1952).

WARREN BEATTY at craps table in "KALEIDOSCOPE" (1966).	MATT DAMON at poker table in "ROUNDERS" (1998).

"The Lone Wolf in Mexico" (1947) roulette scene.  Movie stars Gerald Mohr (2nd on the left?) as the "Lone Wolf," and I  don't recognize anyone else in the still.  I own a lobby card of the same scene.

KEITH ANDES  destroying a roulette table in "DAMN CITIZEN" (1958).  I own the complete set of lobby cards.

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson handing dice to actor in unnamed movie.  Anderson developed a gravel voice early in life which would become his trademark to fame.  He acted in numerous movies, but is best remembered for this 23-year association with Jack Benny as a regular (playing his personal valet) on Benny's radio and TV shows.

Danny DeVito playing blackjack in "Mars Attacks!" (1996).

James Caan and Lauren Hutton at craps and baccarat tables in "The Gambler" (1974).

David McCallum at roulette table in "Three Bites of the Apple" (1967).  He is in both pictures.  At the left, he --in center-- is reaching for chips.  At the right, he's the blonde-haired man in the upper left of the still.

Michael Crawford (right), next to Elaine Taylor (?), at roulette table in "The Games" (1970).

Walter Matthau (right) playing poker in the comdey "Goodbye Charlie" (1964).  For sale, $15.00.

John Payne, with chips, in "Tennessee's Partner" (1955).  Ronald Reagan co-starred.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK looks at GIG YOUNG's poker hand. Probably a promotional still. For episode "A Piece of the Action " (20 September 1962; Season 1, Episode 1) of the TV series "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour." Other stars of the episode are Robert Redford, Gene Evans and Martha Hyer. Plot: "Professional gambler Duke Marsden (Gig Young) bitterly treads in his father's footsteps, which led to tragedy. Duke's wife is cold and aristocratic, fed up with his habits. Duke's appalled when his younger brother (Robert Redford) a law student, catches the fever too - does he have Duke's ability or their father's luck ?"
George Sanders in "Appointment in Berlin" (1943).

Dan Dailey in "Meet Me In Las Vegas" (1956) at blackjack table. (I have a color photo from this movie in the "Female Stars" stills web page.  Co-star Cyd Charisse is included in that photo.) ---------------------------------
Warren William and Dolores del Rio at a gambling casino -- William is holding a stack of poker chips, in "THE WIDOW FROM MONTE CARLO" (1935). "Lovely Dolores Del Rio, in the title role, plays a woman straining under the constraints of nearly a year's mourning for her noble husband. She is at her most vulnerable when she is swept up by sophisticated Warren William, who sees what he likes and goes after it. The two stars, with their very different personas, work well together and give a definite sparkle to the story.," per IMDb.
Warren Beatty gambling at a craps table, while Elizabeth Taylor anxiously looks on, in "The Only Game in Town" (1970). "While waiting in vain for her married lover to get a divorce, Fran Walker (Taylor), a lonely chorus girl approaching middle age, falls for Joe Grady (Beatty), a frustrated musician and compulsive gambler who dreams of escaping Las Vegas for fame and fortune in New York City," per IMDb.
STEVE BRODIE with SANDRA FRANCIS (standing, toward the left) watching a game of ROULETTE in "Spy in the Sky" (1958). Spy movie set in Vienna.
Walter Matthau, seated, portrays a compulsive gambler and Zachary Scott is seen as a card shark bent on a quick killing in this scene from "Big Deal in Laredo" (1962) episode shown on "The DuPont Show of the Week" TV series.  Other cast headliners in the play, which concerns the biggest poker game ever held in Texas, include Teresa Wright and John McGiver. . Photo is 7” x 9” in size.
Carleton Carpenter  (black hat) and Jan Sterling shooting dice in "Sky Full of Moon" (1952). "Some vintage Las Vegas location photography helps this slight romance of a green rodeo cowboy (Carleton Carpenter, in an understated bid for MGM stardom) and a conniving but warmhearted gambling-den floozy (the always underrated Jan Sterling). Vegas doesn't seem the big soulless megalopolis it grew to be, and Keenan Wynn helps out as the owner of an exceedingly modest casino," per IMDb.
Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley  at Hilton Casino blackjack table in "Kill Me Again" (1989)
"BOB EUBANKS NEWLYWED GAME  promo photo with LUCKY DICE," per dealer's description in eBay.  This is from an 8 x 10 glossy. Eubanks was the host of the TV show from 1966 to 1974.
Ryan O'Neal (right) playing faro in Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" (1975). I have the same scene in an 11" x 14" color lobby card.  Click here to see it, near the bottom of the page.
Emlyn Williams (left) plays poker in 1951's "Three Husbands." Also in the cast:  Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Karnes, Billie Burke, Louise Erickson, Jonathan Hale, Jane Darwell, Irvin Reis.
Joe Mantegna and Lindsay Crouse in "House of Games" (1987), a movie steeped in gambling and con games: "A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike, to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces her to help him in a game: her assignment is to look for "tells", or give-away body language. What seems easy to her becomes much more complex. "
Yves Montand (wearing tie) playing cards in "Cesar and Rosalie" (1972).
Ernest Borgnine (2nd from left) at roulette table in "McHale's Navy" (1964), later made into a TV series staring Borgnine. "The crew of PT-73 get into trouble when they back the wrong horse in a race. Now they have to come up with a way to raise the money to pay off the winners. ," per IMDb.
Ernest  Borgnine and Jean Willes from same movie as above in this candid publicity shot.
Akim Tamiroff in "King of Gamblers" (1937). "A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy. ... Akim Tamiroff, Paramount's resident crime lord, runs all the illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter Lloyd Nolan struggles to get the goods on Tamiroff, but runs up against a stone wall until he meets sexy but tough nightclub singer Claire Trevor (obviously dubbed). Trevor is anxious to avenge the death of her innocent sister (Helen Burgess), who was done in by Tamiroff's henchmen. ... Based on the FBIs J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding.," per IMDb.
"Seven Thieves" (1960). This is a candid Behind the Camera photograph (not signed) of full length shots of the casino and cocktail bar, with studio boom equipment and cast visible. A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job--the casino vault in Monte Carlo. Starring Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins, Eli Wallach and others.
Sidney Poitier (left) with Beau Bridges, who is holding dice, in "For love of Ivy" (1968). "A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine her, dine her, but who won't marry her thinking that this will turn her aside from her plans. The man he finds doesn't entirely cooperate.," per IMDb.
Jack Webb (left, w/ cigarette) watching poker game in "Dragnet" (1951). ""The story you are about to see is true", "Just the facts, ma'am", "We were working the day watch" - phrases which became so popular as to inspire much parody - set the realistic tone of this early police drama. The show emphasized careful police work and the interweaving of policemen's professional and personal lives.," per IMDb.

"Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo," the 1937 Eugene Forde Asian detective mystery crime gambling casino thriller ("Based on the character 'Charlie Chan' created by Earl Derr Biggers") starring Warner Oland [2nd right] (as Charlie Chan), Keye Luke [center] (one of the first Asian Americans to achieve success in mainstream American movies; as Lee Chan), Virginia Field, Sidney Blackmer [right], Harold Huber, Kay Linaker, and Robert Kent.
YUL BRYNNER  (bald) and CHARLES GRAY in  "The File Of The Golden Goose"  (1969). "Policemen Novak & Thompson go undercover to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters. Standard cross and double-cross crime story with plenty of London location work.," per IMDb.
Warren Beatty, fingering plaques, and Susannah York in "Kaleidoscope" (1966). "Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. ... A Scotland Yard Inspector  enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin'" per IMDb.
"By Candlelight" (1933). Actors unknown to me. "Josef is the valet for Count von Rommer and well trained in the philandering ways of his master. Mistaken for the Count by a maid, Marie, whom he thinks is an aristocrat, Josef shows her a merry time in the Count's Monte Carlo villa. Meanwhile, the Count escapes a situation with Countess von Rischenheim, when her husband Count von Rischenheim makes an unscheduled appearance, by posing as the butler., " per IMDb.
Raymond Hatton (center) is grabbing the poker pot in "Fashions For Women" (1927). Later in his career, Hatton became famous playing the sidekick in many Western movies. ----------------------------------
Jean Hersholt holds 4 Aces in the silent film "ALIAS THE DEACON" (1927). "Jean Hersholt gives a deft performance as a card-sharp nicknamed the Deacon, who wears clerical garb and affects a priestly manner. (The intertitles give him some very pious dialogue.) Annoyingly and implausibly, the Deacon is an embodiment of the 'good thief' stereotype that occurs so often in fiction and so seldom in reality. The Deacon only robs people who 'deserve' it, and he gives most of the money to unfortunates. This is an obvious ploy to make a dishonest protagonist sympathetic.," per IMDb.
Anthony Quinn (center) shaking dice in "The Long Wait" (1954).
Ryan O'Neal (center) and Catherine Hicks  at craps table in "Fever Pitch" (1985).  Giancarlo Giannini also co-starred (not in the still though). A lot of gambling talk and scenes in this anti-gambling picture about a writer (O'Neal) getting addicted to gambling as he writes a story about it. Ridiculous ending, which defeats the theme of the movie, when O'Neal recoups with a big winning streak!
Looks like the three on the left are Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland and Sally Kellerman.  In "Mash" (1970), the movie, which the TV series was based on. "Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits of military doctors and nurses at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. ," per IMDb.
Jon Voight throwing dice in "The Champ" (1979).  "Billy Flynn, an ex boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J. over which he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven years ago. T.J. worships The Champ who is now working on his come-back in order to give his boy a better future. But suddenly Annie shows up again. ... ...." per IMDb. See instead the more famous  1931 Wallace Beery-Jackie Cooper version of "The Champ." That one takes place, in part, at the Agua Caliente Hotel-Casino resort in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.  Some scenes at the gambling Mecca.
Poker game in Fritz Lang movie "Human Desire" (1954).
John Carroll (left),  Frank Fontaine, Grant Withers, Paul Cavanagh and others around a craps table, in a western gambling house, in "HIT PARADE OF 1951" (1950).
Don Castle (in checkered shirt, I believe) and others sitting at a roulette table in "THE INVISIBLE WALL" (1947).
Akim Tamiroff putting some chips down on a roulette table in "KING OF CHINATOWN" (1939).
Guy Stockwell (w/ string tie) and others playing poker in "THE PLAINSMAN" (1966).
Scott Brady and Peggy Dow at a craps table, cheering on their throw of the dice, in "UNDERTOW" (1949).
Jon Hall, Turhan Bey and Thomas Gomez (w/ cigar) in poker game in "White Savage" (1943)
Ben Gazzara (center) and Susan Blakely  at craps table in "Capone" (1975). "The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone (Gazzara) and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually, briefly covering the years after Capone was imprisoned.," per IMDb.

Roland Young (center, wearing tan jacket) handling his plaques at the roulette table in "Topper Takes a Trip" (1938), co-starring Constance Bennett.  "Mrs Topper's (Billie Burke) friend Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo (Roland Young), due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby (Constance Bennett). Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behaviour of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs Parkhurst takes Mrs Topper on a trip to France, where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce, with help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel, to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy"-- per IMDb.
Mario Adorf (dark hair), Denholm Elliott and Peter Van Eyck (from left to center) in a poker game for high stakes sets the mood of tension in "Station Six Sahara" (1962). "A beautiful blonde (Carroll Baker) joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring," per IMDb.
"Juggernaut" (1936) -- starring Boris Karloff,  baccarat table, unknown (to me) actors. "Dr. Victor Sartorius, a dedicated but dying medical researcher working in Morocco, becomes frustrated when his funding is cut off and his experiments ended. He is approached by Lady Yvonne Clifford, the young and beautiful wife of wealthy but aging aristocrat Sir Charles Clifford. She has been carrying on an affair with a gold-digging army captain and offers Sartorius the 20,000 pounds he needs to continue his research if he will become her husband's personal physician and covertly murder him. When Sir Charles' son Roger enters the picture, it is clear that he is marked for death too. Only Sartorius' altruistic nurse Joan stands in the way. ," per IMDb.
Frankie Darrow at roulette table in "Destination Murder" (1950), per the eBay seller, though IMDb does not list him in the credits. He is at the far end of the table, has dark hair. Darrow played Frankie Baxter in the Gene Autry serial "The Phantom Empire (1935). ------------------------------------------
KERWIN MATHEWS (left) & ALVY MOORE (right) at Harold's Club , Reno, casino cage in the 1955 casino heist film noir "5 AGAINST THE HOUSE." What is the object at the lower right in this movie still? At the left there are stacks of chips, in the center I guess slot machine coin rolls. What is at the lower right? Essentially, four college age students—two Korean War veterans on the G.I. Bill and two roommates try to steal a million dollars from Harold's Club in Reno during a city-wide celebration.
Slot machines and sports book in "711 Ocean Drive" (1950), a crime-film noir where "A telephone repairman (Edmond O'Brien) in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. When the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action."
Frank Morgan (center; best known as playing the Wizard of Oz)) handling chips in "Lady Luck" (1946).  Also starred Robert Young and Barbara Hale (the secretary of TV's Perry Mason [Raymond Burr]).  I have some gambling lobby cards from this movie. IMDb: "Mary now runs a bookstore in L.A. with her grandfather [Morgan], whose past gambling excesses have left her hating everything about the pastime. Unfortunately she falls for Larry, who makes his living in this very line of work. He vows to change but going to Las Vegas to get married may not be the best choice for them. Indeed, Mary's forefathers all had gambling in their blood and if she does ever get to try the tables anything could happen."
Unknown movie, to me.  The seller on eBay called the movie "Crooked Dice" and shows the two stars as  Bob Armstrong on the left, and Ray Thomson on the right, but I can't corroborate any of this. Note the old-fashioned craps table.
Red Buttons (fingers spread and reaching out) and Richard Beymer (to right of Red, mouth open) playing craps aboard Allied naval ship waiting for the Normandy invasion to begin, in "The Longest Day" (1962). "The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, the US, Britain, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The longest day." , per IMDb.
Adolphe Menjou (w/ black bow tie) at roulette table in "Lost: A Wife" (1925), a silent film directed by William C. de Mille.
George Sanders (left, white jacket) and Virginia Bruce (I think; lady sigtting at baccarat table) in "Action in Arabia" (1944). "Michael Gordon [Geo. Sanders], a star reporter with a nose for trouble, is heading home after an assignment in Iraq. On a Damascus stopover he gives a tip for a story to a fellow American newsman who quickly ends up with a knife in his back in a local camel market. Everyone, including Matthew Reed of the American legation, seems to want Gordon to leave the country. However, he feels obliged to find his friend's murderer. Among the red herrings in the "World's Oldest City" are a card cheat and informer, a beautiful femme fatale, a mysterious hotel owner, a Frenchman with two aliases, and several sinister Arabs. In short order, Gordon foils a Nazi plot to unite the Arab tribes against the Allies designed to help the Germans seize the Suez Canal." per IMDb.
David Brian (center) in "Flamingo Road" (1949), also starring Joan Crawford and Zachary Scott. Note the odd poker chip racks, one for each player -- spindles and holed chips (usally made of plastic). "Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy (Crawford) finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple (Sydney Greenstreet). Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle (Scott), a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus. Seeing Lane as a liability to his own political ambitions, Titus mounts a campaign to get her driven out of town. She finds she can't get a job and even gets arrested on a trumped-up morals charge. Released from jail, Lane finds work as a "hostess" at Lutie-Mae's road house, where she meets Dan Reynolds (Brian), another member of the town's political machine. They marry and move to a home on Flamingo Road, the town's social pinnacle. Their marriage is soon marked by scandal when a drunken Carlisle visits Lane at home one evening and shoots himself. ," per IMDb
Henry Mollison, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Tala Birell, and  Thurston Hall (left to right) in "The Lone Wolf Returns" (1935). "Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard (Douglass) also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart (Patrick). The trouble (?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part in a big-time caper. Bad for them, Michael exposes them and hands them over to justice. Michael and Marcia will live happily ever after. Well, all things considered, once a thief...not always a thief!," per IMDb.
Jean Simmons (blonde) and James Garner (right of her) playing craps in "Mister Buddwing" (1966). "A well-dressed man wakes up on a bench in New York's Central Park, with no idea of who he is, or how he got there. All he can find in his pockets are a train schedule, a couple of drug capsules, and a piece of paper with a phone number on it. On his right hand: a ring with a cracked stone; engraved on the inside of the band is the inscription, "From G.V." Armed with these meager clues, the man, adopting the name "Buddwing" (inspired by a passing Budweiser beer truck and a plane flying overhead), sets out to learn his true identity. Along the way, he encounters a variety of people, including three different women who each reminds him in some way of someone named "Grace." ," per IMDb.

Dennis Morgan (right) in unnamed movie.  I include the 8x10 still on this page because you see a poker chip carousel on the table.

Barton MacLane (on far right) in "Fighting the Racketeers" (1951 release).  Originally it was called "Big Town Czar" (1939).

Robert Wilcox and Helen Mack in "Gambling Ship" (1938).  (Helen Mack appeared in my favorite film of all time, the Cary Grant-Rosalind Russell screwball comedy, "His Girl Friday" (1940).   Mack played Mollie Malloy, the girlfriend of the condemned prisoner.)

Edward Abeles in unnamed movie, circa 1915.  Roulette table dspute.

 

Sidney Blackman  grabbing plaques at roulette table.  Unnamed movie.

Eddie Dowling (dealer) and Noah Beery (standing 2nd from right) in "Honeymoon Lane" (1931).  Looks like a faro game with case keeper, etc.

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