D'entre a suya ampla filmografía, se puet destacar as suyas interpretacions en bellas cintas como Little Caesar (1931, Mervyn LeRoy), Tiger Shark (1932, Howard Hawks), Barbary Coast (1935, Howard Hawks), Kid Galahad (1937, Michael Curtiz), The Sea Wolf (1941, Michael Curtiz), Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder), Key Largo (1948, John Huston), The Violent Men (1955, Rudolph Maté), The Ten Commandments (1956, Cecil B. DeMille), Cheyenne Autumn (1964, John Ford), The Cincinnati Kid (1965, Norman Jewison), u Mackenna's Gold (1969, J. Lee Thompson).