O.P. Heggie, Anne Shirley, and Helen Westley in Anne of Green Gables (1934)

Ernie Adams, Dorothy Dwan, Ken Maynard, Frank Rice, Harry Todd, and Tarzan in The Fighting Legion (1930)

This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1940–1949, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is the main motion picture production and distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of the NBCUniversal division of Comcast.

Year titles: 1940 (64) 1941 (61) 1942 (66) 1943 (59) 1944 (58) 1945 (54) 1946 (51) 1947 (28) 1948 (26) 1949 (23)

<AND MORE INFORMATION> Universal Pictures (1930s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls595681217/ Universal Pictures (1920s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls595631251/ Warner Bros. (1940s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls540813009/ Paramount Pictures (1940s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls540816078/

Gordon Jones and Keye Luke in The Green Hornet (1940)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Universal_Pictures_films_(1940%E2%80%931949)

List of Universal Pictures films (1940–1949)

Movies Dad mentioned in his diary that he saw

Will Rogers, Kent Taylor, and Evelyn Venable in The County Chairman (1935)

Includes Music films, but not singing Westerns. Starting with 1998, added requirement for 500+ votes and 4+ rating. Expanded to include TV movies and specials.

The search (excludes what's already on my lists):  [https://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1927,&genres=musical&title_type=feature&runtime=45,&countries=us&sort=release_date,asc&count=100&view=simple&user_rating=4.0,&num_votes=500,&lists=!ls021062047,!ls021564702] and again for genre Music, and for title_types Video, tv_movie, tv_special (8 searches total).

Companion list: American omitted Musical Feature Films (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls021564702/) 

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls021062047/?release_date=1974&mode=simple&sort=release_date,asc

God smiled on this date in 1887 when John was born in Shippenburg, PA.  He got his start in broadway and made his film debut in 1930.

He is a major character actor was appeared in 284 films over a period of 28 years.  That is an average of 10 movies per year.

Major movie genres: drama (162), romance (84), comedy (77), crime (76) and westerns (44).

During the 40s, Hamilton appeared in 166 movies, 58% of his total.

IMDb summary:  mean - 6.2,  median - 6.2, and mode - 6.1 (21 films)

Best known for his role as Perry White, editor of the Daily Planet, in the Superman television series.  It ran for six years (1952 - 1958) = 102 episodes.  He also appeared in 26 other television series.

Perry died at the age of 71 in October of 1958 from a heart attack.

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