List of the best Sig Ruman movies: The Saint in New York(1938), The Bold Caballero(1936), Ninotchka(1939), Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation(1953), Think Fast, Mr. Moto(1937), The World Moves On(1934), Thank You, Mr. Moto(1937), Nothing Sacred(1937), Houdini(1953), The Wagons Roll at Night(1941), Faithful in My Fashion(1946), Never Say Die(1939) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
72 Minutes
Hutch Rellin
Louis Hayward Kay Sutton Sig Ruman Jonathan Hale Jack Carson Paul Guilfoyle Frederick Burton Ben Welden
vigilante moll inspector crime boss criminal cool melodramatic gritty new york city south america office house car law enforcement deception impersonation theft murder quest pursuit
Simon Templar, the Saint, is brought to New York. His search for the identity of "the Big Fellow" takes him through many dangerous situations.
Western
USA
1936
60 Minutes
Commandante Sebastian Golle
zorro swashbuckler swordsman governor killer aristocrat melodramatic thrilling rousing california mission prairie prison justice poverty double life false accusations frame-up murder pursuit
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Comedy
USA
1939
110 Minutes
Michael Simonavich Iranoff
Greta Garbo Melvyn Douglas Ina Claire Sig Ruman Felix Bressart Alexander Granach Bela Lugosi Gregory Gaye Richard Carle Edwin Maxwell Rolfe Sedan
diplomat count duchess russian amusing charming paris eiffel tower hotel love forbidden love competition communism capitalism love discovery transformation 1930s
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Comedy
USA
1953
75 Minutes
Cyrus Kraft
Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride Ray Collins Sig Ruman Jack Kruschen Teddy Hart
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
66 Minutes
Nicolas Marloff
Peter Lorre Virginia Field Thomas Beck Sig Ruman Murray Kinnell Lotus Long J. Carrol Naish
On a freighter going from San Francisco to Shanghai Mr. Moto solves mysteries caused by a gang of smugglers.
Drama
USA
1934
90 Minutes
Baron von Gerhardt
Madeleine Carroll Franchot Tone Reginald Denny Sig Ruman Louise Dresser Raul Roulien Stepin Fetchit Lumsden Hare
Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
67 Minutes
Colonel Tchernov
Peter Lorre Thomas Beck Pauline Frederick Sidney Blackmer Sig Ruman John Carradine Nedda Harrigan Philip Ahn Jayne Regan John Bleifer Jimmy Leong
Seven maps, when found and put together, reveal the location of the treasures of Genghis Khan.
Comedy
USA
1937
75 Minutes
Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer
Carole Lombard Fredric March Charles Winninger Walter Connolly Sig Ruman Frank Fay Max Rosenbloom Margaret Hamilton
doctor reporter editor patient amusing endearing winsome vermont small town new york city hotel newsroom fraud romance deception illness celebrity newspapers adventure love
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Biography, Drama
USA
1953
106 Minutes
Schultz
Tony Curtis Janet Leigh Torin Thatcher Ian Wolfe Sig Ruman Angela Clarke
magician wife assistant mother tender suspenseful thrilling stage coney island detroit love entertainment magic ambition occult harry houdini love rise 1920s
From his beginnings as a "wildman" carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, the great Harry Houdini emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist.
Drama
USA
1941
84 Minutes
Hoffman the Great
Humphrey Bogart Sylvia Sidney Eddie Albert Joan Leslie Sig Ruman Cliff Clark Charles Foy Frank Wilcox Clara Blandick Aldrich Bowker Garry Owen
animal trainer circus performer carnival worker sister girlfriend emotional melodramatic carnival small town carnivals lion taming romance jealousy discovery love transformation 1940s
After local grocery clerk rescues a baby from an escaped lion, a circus owner builds him into an attraction but balks when he falls in love with his sister.
Romance
USA
1946
81 Minutes
Professor Boris Riminoffsky
Donna Reed Tom Drake Edward Everett Horton Spring Byington Sig Ruman Harry Davenport Wm. "Bill" Phillips Margaret Hamilton Hobart Cavanaugh Warner Anderson Connie Gilchrist
sailor fiancée employee charming endearing quirky new york city department store apartment secret military love triangle deception world war ii love metamorphosis discovery 1940s
A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
Comedy
USA
1939
80 Minutes
Poppa Ingleborg
Martha Raye Bob Hope Andy Devine Alan Mowbray Gale Sondergaard Sig Ruman Ernest Cossart
A wealthy hypochondriac and an heiress are both experiencing romantic complications, prompting them to marry each other.
Romance
USA
1940
90 Minutes
Emil Von Hofer
Clark Gable Hedy Lamarr Oscar Homolka Felix Bressart Eve Arden Sig Ruman Natasha Lytess Vladimir Sokoloff Edgar Barrier John Piccori Mikhail Rasumny
journalist streetcar driver valet lighthearted playful patriotic moscow father/daughter relationship communism censorship love marriage love escape transformation 1940s
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Adventure
USA
1935
72 Minutes
Doctor
Edmund Lowe Victor McLaglen Florence Rice Charles Bickford Marjorie Rambeau Sig Ruman Roger Imhof Warner Richmond Jack Wallace James Donlan
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1948
106 Minutes
Dr. Zwieback
Bing Crosby Joan Fontaine Roland Culver Richard Haydn Lucile Watson Sig Ruman Julia Dean Harold Vermilyea Roberta Jonay John Goldsworthy
salesman emperor franz josef countess baron guard veterinarian amusing charming vienna palace royalty class distinctions true love dogs deception gramophone love sacrifice 1900s
A brash American gramophone salesman tries to get Emperor Franz Joseph's endorsement in turn-of-the-century Austria.
Comedy
1954
103 Minutes
Colonel Fritz Schlitz
Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Joanne Dru Zsa Zsa Gabor Wallace Ford Sig Ruman Gene Sheldon Nick Cravat Elsa Lanchester Douglas Fowley Sue Casey
Two ex-GIs (Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis) join a woman's (Joanne Dru) circus as assistants to a trapeze artist and lion tamer.
Comedy
USA
1942
99 Minutes
Col. Ehrhardt
Carole Lombard Jack Benny Robert Stack Felix Bressart Lionel Atwill Stanley Ridges Sig Ruman Tom Dugan Charles Halton Peter Caldwell Helmut Dantine
actor actress lieutenant spy nazi madcap hilarious suspenseful poland warsaw love triangle adolf hitler impersonation resistance world war ii adventure 1940s
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
War
USA
1942
107 Minutes
Preuss
Errol Flynn Ronald Reagan Raymond Massey Nancy Coleman Alan Hale Arthur Kennedy Sig Ruman Patrick O'Moore Ronald Sinclair Louis Arco Charles Irwin
lieutenant enemy sergeant australian officer resistance fighter powerful patriotic suspenseful airplane germany prison camp factory small town world war ii escape air force impersonation sabotage bombing
When the crew of a downed British bomber escape from their Nazi captors with Top Secret intelligence, they make a desperate journey to get out of Germany alive.
Drama
USA
1944
105 Minutes
Kuzma
George Sanders Linda Darnell Anna Lee Edward Everett Horton Hugo Haas Lori Lahner Sig Ruman John Philliber
In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
75 Minutes
Joe Flugelman
Betty Grable Robert Young Adolphe Menjou Reginald Gardiner Virginia Grey Phil Regan Sig Ruman Alan Dinehart
burlesque performer music hall singer newspaper reporter duke fiancé fiancée spirited engaging amusing playful london music hall newsroom secret past musical performance love new identity marriage love triangle transformation
Music-hall star Madeleine Marlowe leaves London engaged to the Duke of Trippingham only to find back home that Police Gazette hack Samuel A. McGee has exposed her as former burlesque queen ... See full summary »
Musical, Romance
USA
1946
114 Minutes
Ignatz Tsimmis
Betty Grable John Payne June Haver Reginald Gardiner Frank Latimore Gene Sheldon Sig Ruman Trudy Marshall
dancer uncle duke sister singer cheery charming new york city broadway theater paris new york state train show business immigration success sister relationship career vs. love rags to riches love rise
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
Biography
1940
103 Minutes
Dr. Hans Wolfert
Edward G. Robinson Ruth Gordon Otto Kruger Donald Crisp Maria Ouspenskaya Montagu Love Sig Ruman Donald Meek Henry O'Neill Albert Basserman Edward Norris
doctor scientist colleague wife fascinating inspiring powerful egypt germany laboratory medicine syphilis tuberculosis scientific experiments diptheria discovery rise rescue sacrifice 1880s
The story of the renowned bacteriologist whose years of research yielded such medical triumphs as a cure for syphilis.
Comedy
USA
1935
93 Minutes
Herbert Gottlieb
Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Kitty Carlisle Hart Chico Marx Margaret Dumont Allan Jones Walter Woolf King Sig Ruman
singer comedian pretty woman socialite cheeky frenetic madcap playful italy opera house new york city love opera love quest underdog rivalry 1930s
A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Comedy
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg
Groucho Marx Chico Marx Harpo Marx Allan Jones Maureen O'Sullivan Margaret Dumont Douglas Dumbrille Sig Ruman
veterinarian jockey patient hilarious madcap lighthearted farm spa america mistaken identity competition horse racing health adventure love rescue 1930s
A veterinarian posing as a doctor and a race-horse owner and his friends struggle to help keep a sanitarium open with the help of a misfit race-horse.
Comedy
USA
1941
84 Minutes
Kafka
Merle Oberon Melvyn Douglas Burgess Meredith Alan Mowbray Olive Blakeney Harry Davenport Eve Arden Sig Ruman Richard Carle Mary Currier Jean Fenwick
psychologist wife husband butler love interest pianist amusing airy cheeky doctor's office art gallery new york city hotel apartment marriage love triangle psychoanalysis divorce love love
A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1942
95 Minutes
Norma Shearer Lee Bowman Melvyn Douglas Gail Patrick Marjorie Main Reginald Owen Connie Gilchrist Sig Ruman
Two titled aristocrats support themselves by being professional house guests in the homes of star-struck American nouveau riche.
War
USA
1953
120 Minutes
Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz
William Holden Otto Preminger Robert Strauss Don Taylor Harvey Lembeck Richard Erdman Peter Graves Neville Brand Sig Ruman Michael Moore Peter Baldwin
prisoner of war spy guard pilot sergeant nazi engaging gripping suspenseful tense germany prison camp world war ii prisoners of war loyalty imprisonment escape mystery quest 1940s
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Romance
USA
1941
97 Minutes
Dr. Wuthering
William Powell Myrna Loy Gail Patrick Jack Carson Florence Bates Sidney Blackmer Vladimir Sokoloff Kathleen Lockhart Sig Ruman Donald MacBride Sara Haden
architect wife mother-in-law artist lawyer wild playful apartment insane asylum love triangle misunderstanding divorce jealousy feigned insanity love 1940s
A wife suspecting infidelity starts divorce proceedings, so the husband pretends to be insane in order to delay the divorce and clear up the misunderstanding.
Comedy
USA
1946
85 Minutes
Count Pfefferman
Groucho Marx Harpo Marx Chico Marx Lisette Verea Archie Mayo Charles Drake Lois Collier Dan Seymour Sig Ruman
hotel desk clerk nazi count lieutenant governor police chief campy madcap witty casablanca hotel world war ii hospitality theft murder treasure quest pursuit 1940s
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
102 Minutes
Dr. Julius Gustav Krogmann
Edward G. Robinson Francis Lederer George Sanders Paul Lukas Henry O'Neill Lya Lys Grace Stafford James Stephenson Sig Ruman Frederic Tozere Dorothy Tree
fbi agent nazi spy doctor melodramatic patriotic chilling united states europe germany new york state fbi espionage nazism confession pursuit wretched excess 1930s
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1954
95 Minutes
Dr. Emile Egelhofer
Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Janet Leigh Edward Arnold Fred Clark Sheree North Sammy White Sid Tomack Sig Ruman Richard Loo Raymond Greenleaf
railroad worker doctor reporter editor love interest charming unrestrained los alamos, n.m. railroad tracks small town doctor's office new york city hotel love triangle deception fame radiation newspapers mistaken diagnosis quest
An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.
Drama
USA
1935
91 Minutes
Blacksmith
Janet Gaynor Henry Fonda Charles Bickford Slim Summerville Andy Devine Roger Imhof Jane Withers Margaret Hamilton Sig Ruman John Qualen Kitty Kelly
farmer cook bully boat captain dentist love interest amusing spirited new york state fair boat love triangle fighting marriage cowardice money rural life love underdog transformation
Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1937
132 Minutes
Fanchon
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy John Barrymore Herman Bing Tom Brown Lynne Carver Rafaela Ottiano Charles Judels Paul Porcasi Sig Ruman Walter Kingsford
opera singer teacher husband love interest melodramatic emotional passionate paris opera house new york city love triangle jealousy opera marriage infidelity forbidden love rivalry revenge 1930s
An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.
Romance
USA
1937
102 Minutes
Durand
Simone Simon James Stewart Jean Hersholt Gale Sondergaard Gregory Ratoff J. Edward Bromberg John Qualen Victor Kilian Thomas Beck Sig Ruman
sewer cleaner girl priest sister neighbor friend engaging moving uplifting paris café apartment hospital trenches church faith love devotion family violence
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to ... See full summary »
Adventure
USA
1952
104 Minutes
General Ivan Vorashilov
Gregory Peck Ann Blyth Anthony Quinn John McIntire Carl Esmond Andrea King Eugenie Leontovich Hans Conried Rhys Williams Sig Ruman Gregory Gaye
captain first mate pilot countess merchant prince gripping spirited melodramatic san francisco ship alaska sea island fur trade impersonation forced marriage romance wager seduction
In San Francisco in 1850, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska.
Biography
USA
1957
110 Minutes
Manager
John Wayne Maureen O'Hara Dan Dailey Ward Bond Ken Curtis Edmund Lowe Kenneth Tobey James Todd Barry Kelley Sig Ruman Henry O'Neill
pilot mechanic wife rival director powerful patriotic confident florida military base hospital hollywood, calif. injury navy aviation filmmaking world war ii family transformation sacrifice
A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.
Musical, Comedy, Other
USA
1954
120 Minutes
Bing Crosby Danny Kaye Rosemary Clooney Vera-Ellen Dean Jagger Mary Wickes John Brascia Anne Whitfield Richard Shannon Grady Sutton Sig Ruman
singer sister general innkeeper veteran lighthearted amusing charming touching vermont inn battlefield new york city christmas financial crisis singing concert friendship rescue love
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1964
115 Minutes
James Garner Eva Marie Saint Rod Taylor Werner Peters Alan Napier Celia Lovsky John Banner Ed Gilbert Russ Thorson Oscar Beregi Sig Ruman
military officer psychiatrist nurse enemy spy thrilling intricate germany hospital military base england amnesia world war ii deception espionage escape pursuit mystery 1940s
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
Comedy
USA
1961
92 Minutes
Jerry Lewis Brian Donlevy Howard McNear Dick Wesson Felicia Atkins Kathleen Freeman Isobel Elsom Fritz Feld Iris Adrian Renee Taylor Sig Ruman
A goofy paperhanger is hired to root out a financial inefficiency on a Hollywood studio lot, wreaking havoc as he goes.
Horror
USA
1945
71 Minutes
Boris Karloff Lon Chaney J. Carrol Naish John Carradine Anne Gwynne Peter Coe Lionel Atwill George Zucco Elena Verdugo Glenn Strange Sig Ruman
mad scientist hunchback frankenstein's monster werewolf count dracula dark creepy suspenseful europe castle laboratory vengeance scientific experiments evil monsters revenge quest 19th century
The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.
Comedy
USA
1966
92 Minutes
Marty Allen Steve Rossi Nancy Sinatra John Williams Lou Jacobi Theo Marcuse Connie Sawyer Ben Lessy Remo Pisani Harvey Korman Sig Ruman
Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the stolen treasures is the Statue Of Liberty.
Musical
1940
94 Minutes
Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy George Sanders Ian Hunter Felix Bressart Edward Ashley Lynne Carver Diana Lewis Curt Bois Fay Holden Sig Ruman
singer music teacher baron benefactor lord melodramatic tender emotional vienna café opera performance romance arranged marriage love triangle forbidden love sacrifice rivalry 1890s
Songs by Noel Coward highlight this tale of the difficult times faced by a Victorian belle and her husband in Vienna.
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
92 Minutes
Ricardo Montalban George Murphy Howard da Silva James Mitchell Arnold Moss Alfonso Bedoya Teresa Celli Charles McGraw Jose Torvay John Ridgely Arthur Hunnicutt
fbi agent migrant worker farmer gang member undercover agent dark suspenseful california farm illegal immigration murder farming investigation discovery escape 1950s
Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.
Biography
USA
1953
116 Minutes
James Stewart June Allyson Charles Drake George Tobias Harry Morgan Katharine Warren Marion Ross Irving Bacon Barton MacLane Sig Ruman Phil Garris
musician band leader wife soldier uplifting melodramatic moving new york city europe english channel stage music world war ii glenn miller success rise love 1940s
Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
83 Minutes
Eleanor Powell Robert Young George Burns Gracie Allen Rita Johnson Clarence Kolb Jo Ann Sayers Ann Morriss Willie Fung Cliff Clark Ed Gargan
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
1966
125 Minutes
Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau Ron Rich Cliff Osmond Judi West Lurene Tuttle Harry Holcombe Les Tremayne Marge Redmond Noam Pitlik Harry Davis
lawyer cameraman doctor athlete ex-wife investigator witty suspenseful cleveland stadium hospital household bar insurance friendly fire parallel universe food industry inventions great depression quest
A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.
Musical
USA
1938
102 Minutes
Luise Rainer Fernand Gravey Miliza Korjus Hugh Herbert Lionel Atwill Curt Bois Leonid Kinskey Al Shean Minna Gombell George Houston Bert Roach
composer wife opera singer father count publisher airy creative melodramatic vienna café theater street palace ambition romance music infidelity devotion rise
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. ... See full summary »