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name: "Glen Boles"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/glen-boles"
roles: []
born: "14 September 1913"
died: "24 July 2009"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T22:30:39.054751+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Glen Boles

Actor. Born 14 September 1913 in Hollywood, California, USA. Died 24 July 2009.

## Details

- **Born:** 14 September 1913, Hollywood, California, USA
- **Died:** 24 July 2009
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104696642, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092897/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/984875

## Biography

Glen Boles (1913–2009) was an American actor. He began in uncredited extra roles and progressed to supporting parts in Hollywood films of the early 1930s.

His credits include the uncredited role of a young soldier in *All Quiet on the Western Front* (1930) and the part of Eight Ball in *Flirtation Walk* (1934). He also appeared in *Babbitt* (1934), *$10 Raise* (1935) and *What Becomes of the Children?* (1936). After leaving a Warner Bros. contract he moved to New York, where he took leading roles in Broadway productions, including the original cast of *You Can't Take It With You*.

During the Second World War he worked as a codebreaker in South America. He later studied at Columbia University, obtained a PhD in psychology and practised as a psychotherapist.

*Sources: imdb.com, watch.plex.tv, rottentomatoes.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Flirtation Walk* (1934), Fi1m 57, as Eight Ball — [page](https://film.one/film/flirtation-walk.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Clipped Wings* (1937), as Cecil Dunbar, Mickey's Pal
- *What Becomes of the Children?* (1936), as Fred Worthington
- *Love in September* (1936), Actor
- *Page Miss Glory* (1935), as Bellboy (uncredited)
- *$10 Raise* (1935), as Don Bates
- *Babbitt* (1934), as Ted Babbitt
- *Flirtation Walk* (1934), as Eight Ball — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/flirtation-walk.md)
- *The Road to Ruin* (1934), as Tommy
- *Guilty Parents* (1934), as Jimmy
- *The Quitter* (1934), as Eddie Tilford
- *Rainbow Over Broadway* (1933), as Mickey Chibbins
- *All Quiet on the Western Front* (1930), as Young Soldier (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Glen Boles](https://film.one/media/person/1227073/gallery-c6866f1078d7.jpg) Glen Boles — Willis Kent Productions, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/The_Road_to_Ruin_%281934%29_-_Glen_Boles.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Low resolution screenshot of Helen Foster as Ann Dixon and Glen Boles as Tommy from the American public domain exploitation film The Road to Ruin (1934).](https://film.one/media/person/1227073/gallery-43cfcc5b640c.jpg) Low resolution screenshot of Helen Foster as Ann Dixon and Glen Boles as Tommy from the American public domain exploitation film The Road to Ruin (1934). — Willis Kent Productions, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/The_Road_to_Ruin_%281934%29_-_Helen_Foster_%26_Glen_Boles.jpg/1280px-The_Road_to_Ruin_%281934%29_-_Helen_Foster_%26_Glen_Boles.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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