Charles K. French

Born: 1860-01-16

From Wikipedia Charles K. French (born Charles Ekrauss French; January 17, 1860 – August 2, 1952) was an American film actor, screenwriter and director who appeared in more than 240 movies between 1909 and 1945.


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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

as Unemployed Farmer (uncredited)
Released: 1936-04-09

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies...

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Marked Woman

as Graham's Trial Assistant (uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-10

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful...

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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

as Jean's Father
Released: 1923-10-01

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to...

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Design for Living

as Theatre Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1933-12-29

An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.

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The Prisoner of Zenda

as Bishop (uncredited)
Released: 1937-09-03

An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue...

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Slightly Honorable

as Pallbearer (Uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-22

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

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Chickens Come Home

as Judge
Released: 1931-02-21

Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.

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The Shadow

as Joseph Rand
Released: 1940-01-05

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself...

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Where Trails Divide

as Reverend Evans
Released: 1937-10-13

Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes...

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Murder by Television

as Donald M. Jordan
Released: 1935-10-01

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously...

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Good Luck, Mr. Yates

as Leading Citizen
Released: 1943-06-29

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the...

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Wild Bill Hickok Rides

as Rancher
Released: 1942-01-31

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

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Hell's Hole

as The Sheriff
Released: 1923-09-23

Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a...

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The Brand of Hate

as Mr. Camp
Released: 1934-11-02

Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start...

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Diamond Jim

as uncredited
Released: 1935-09-01

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

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Western Courage

as Henry Hanley
Released: 1935-10-29

Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric...

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The Phantom Empire

as Mal
Released: 1935-02-22

When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in...

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Exit Smiling

as Mr. Tichnor (uncredited)
Released: 1926-11-06

The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams...

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Gun Play

as John Holt
Released: 1935-12-02

A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a...

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The Beautiful Spy

as Salazar
Released: 1928-05-10

A complete version of the film is held by Cineteca Del Friuli.

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Fast and Furious

as Hodge
Released: 1927-06-12

When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in...

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Civilization

as The Prime Minister
Released: 1916-06-02

Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless...

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The Daredevil

as Ralph Spencer
Released: 1920-03-07

When Timothy Atkinson arrives in a rough Western town to become the telegraph operator, the...

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The Untamed

as Tex Calder
Released: 1920-08-29

A cowpuncher by the name of Whistling Dan is adopted by a rancher, Joe Cumberland (James O....

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Last of the Warrens

as Bruce Warren (as Chas. French)
Released: 1936-05-09

Ted Warren returns from WWI to find that everyone thinks he was dead. The culprit is Kent who...

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The President Vanishes

as Legislator
Released: 1934-11-17

The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American...

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The Disciple

as Sheriff 'Birdshot' Bivens
Released: 1915-10-16

Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the...

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Dangerous Waters

as Old Skipper (uncredited)
Released: 1936-02-10

While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having...

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Green Eyes

as Rev. Dr. Gibson (as Charles French)
Released: 1918-08-26

Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings...

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Blinky

as Maj. Kileen
Released: 1923-08-17

Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen...

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Dick Tracy's G-Men

as Doctor
Released: 1939-09-02

A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in...

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Fast Work

as J. Addison Marlowe
Released: 1930-06-28

Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by...

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Desert Love

as Jack Remington
Released: 1920-04-20

Murderous bandits shoot up a town and kill the sheriff. But before he dies, the lawman leaves...

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The Bargain

as Bartender
Released: 1914-12-03

After the bandit Jim Stokes robs the stage he is wounded fleeing. Recuperating at a ranch, he...

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Little Annie Rooney

as Surgeon (uncredited)
Released: 1925-10-18

A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough...

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The Patriot

as Col. Bracken
Released: 1916-03-09

Family relationships of a New Mexico family are just one part of this silent cowboy western...

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The Rainmaker

as Hospital Doctor
Released: 1926-05-10

The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he...

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The Down Grade

as Mr. Lanning
Released: 1927-07-25

The Down Grade is a 1927 Action film.

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The Coward

as A Confederate Commander
Released: 1915-11-14

Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his...

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Abysmal Brute

as Pat Glendon, Sr
Released: 1923-04-15

A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great...

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The Typhoon

as uncredited
Released: 1914-10-10

Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus...

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Beyond

as Samuel Ackroyd (as Charles French)
Released: 1921-09-04

Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after...

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Big Boy Rides Again

as John Duncan
Released: 1935-01-05

A man comes to town to claim the estate of his father, who was shot by a masked killer. He sets...

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The Extra Girl

as Studio Manager
Released: 1923-10-28

Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when...

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The Unfoldment

as James Osbourne
Released: 1922-01-01

Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne...

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The Red Rider

as Robert Maxwell
Released: 1934-07-16

"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save...

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The Throwback

as Ted Smalley
Released: 1935-10-01

When Buck is young his cattle stealing father is killed. Now grown Buck returns home still...

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Strange Glory

as uncredited
Released: 1938-07-01

During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which...

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The Last Warning

as Doctor
Released: 1928-12-25

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of...

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The Despoiler

as Col. Damien
Released: 1915-12-15

Movie mogul Thomas H. Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the...

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Rustlers of Red Dog

as Tom Lee [Chs. 1, 7-12]
Released: 1935-01-01

A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band...

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War Paint

as Maj. Hopkins
Released: 1926-10-09

An Indian chief of the Arapahoe escapes the reservation where he has been living and takes along...

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The Speed Maniac

as John B. Prescott
Released: 1919-10-10

Billy Porter sells his ranch and travels to San Francisco to try his hand in the business world....

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Headin' for the Rio Grande

as Pop Hart (Laura's father)
Released: 1936-01-01

Western - Singing cowboy Tex Saunders (Tex Ritter) finds himself in a heap of trouble when he...

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Stronger Than Death

as Col. Boucicault
Released: 1920-01-11

Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance...

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The Honor of the Press

as Dodson, Editorial Writer
Released: 1932-07-13

Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and...

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The Aryan

as 'Ivory' Wells
Released: 1916-04-09

Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his...

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Caught

as Bradford (uncredited)
Released: 1931-08-08

Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint...

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The Flaming Frontier

as U.S. Senator Hargess
Released: 1926-09-11

Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to...

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War of the Range

as Duke Bradley
Released: 1933-09-21

Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the...

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Alias French Gertie

as Appelgetzer
Released: 1930-04-20

A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a...

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Cross Fire

as Johnny Wheeler
Released: 1933-05-28

Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to...

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Saturday's Millions

as Old Grad
Released: 1933-09-30

Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's...

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The Red Kimona

as Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Released: 1925-11-16

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

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On the Night Stage

as Bartender (uncredited)
Released: 1915-04-15

A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who...

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Tracy Rides

as John Hampton
Released: 1935-02-26

Sheriff Tom Tracy is summoned to the sheep camp where he finds Old Man Jenkins fatally wounded...

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Men with Steel Faces

as Mal
Released: 1940-05-02

Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a...

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Shell 43

as German Commander
Released: 1916-08-13

William Berner is an English spy who is doing his job behind German lines. While working for the...

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Prairie Trails

as Stephen McWhorter
Released: 1920-12-25

Tex Benton (cowboy star Tom Mix) wants to marry Janet McWhorter (Kathleen O'Connor), but her...

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Square Shooter

as Zeke Hampton
Released: 1920-08-08

Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and,...

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Being Respectable

as Mr. Beasley
Released: 1924-07-01

Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is...

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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

as Isom Enlow, Neighbor
Released: 1924-02-02

A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the...

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The Marriage Ring

as Koske
Released: 1918-08-26

Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous...

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The Runaway Express

as Jim Reed
Released: 1926-10-10

Joe Foley, charged to deliver a trainload of cattle to his employer, is forced to commandeer the...

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Hands Off!

as Clint Wadley
Released: 1921-04-03

Tex Robert rescues beautiful Ramona Wadley from the gang-leader of cattle rustlers. Later, he...

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Under Western Skies

as Sam Parkhurst
Released: 1926-02-07

Bob Erskine, the son of a wealthy New York banker, falls in love with Ella Parkhurst, the...

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The Cord of Life

as uncredited
Released: 1909-01-28

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an...

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The Man from Hell

as Blacksmith Sandy
Released: 1934-08-28

A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough...

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Everything’s Rosie

as uncredited
Released: 1931-05-22

A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her...

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The Clodhopper

as Isaac Nelson, Everett's Father
Released: 1917-06-24

Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to...

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The Texan

as Wolf River Mayor
Released: 1920-10-21

Tex Benton, riding across the country, sees a turtle, catches a jack rabbit and tests out the...

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The Live Wire

as Captain King
Released: 1935-11-01

A sailor (Richard Talmadge) journeys to a remote island in search of a rare urn. The film also...

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The Crimson Trail

as Frank Carter
Released: 1935-03-11

A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.

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Washington Merry-Go-Round

as Party Guest
Released: 1932-10-15

Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He...

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Hands Up!

as Brigham Young
Released: 1926-01-11

Jack, a southern spy during the Civil War, must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is...

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The Last Trail

as Sheriff Nelson
Released: 1921-11-01

The successful operations of a lone bandit known as "The Night Hawk" terrorize a frontier town,...

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Mile-a-Minute Romeo

as Sheriff
Released: 1923-11-18

Three men, Lucky Bill ( Tom Mix ), Landry ( J. Gordon Russell ), and Morgan ( Jim Mason ) are in...

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Mixed Faces

as Mr. Sayre
Released: 1922-10-21

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The Son of His Father

as James Carbhoy
Released: 1917-10-22

A young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means...

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The Deserter

as uncredited
Released: 1916-07-09

Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of...

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Her Own Money

as Thomas Hazelton
Released: 1922-01-01

After five years of marriage, Mildred comes to the realization that her husband, Lew, is going...

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Rio Grande Ranger

as Banker (uncredited)
Released: 1936-12-11

Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the...

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What Every Woman Wants

as Attorney for the Defense
Released: 1919-02-23

Poor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as...

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Six Feet Four

as Henry Pollard
Released: 1919-09-13

A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4". When a...

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Hearts and Swords

as General Salza
Released: 1915-06-24

Donna Gonzales has a daughter, Rosa, and a son, Maxim. Maxim is fighting in the Rebel cause, his...

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No Man's Range

as Ed Oliver
Released: 1935-09-04

Summoned by Ed Oliver, Jim Hale and sidekick Fuzz arrive at Oliver's ranch to find a range war...

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Custer's Last Fight

as uncredited
Released: 1912-10-03

Custer's Last Fight chronicles George Armstrong Custer's final battle against the forces of...

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A Lady of Chance

as Prison warden
Released: 1928-12-01

A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.

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West of Chicago

as Judson Malone (as Charles French)
Released: 1922-09-03

West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring...

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Riding for Fame

as Dad Barton
Released: 1929-08-19

A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from...

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Let 'er Buck

as Col. Jeff McCall
Released: 1925-03-22

A young cowboy falls in love with the daughter of a rich rancher, and they plan to marry....

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The Bugler of Algiers

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: 1916-11-27

Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French...

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King of the Rodeo

as Chip Sr.
Released: 1929-01-06

A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.

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The Hater of Men

as Phillips Hartley
Released: 1917-07-01

Convinced that her impending marriage to fellow reporter Billy Williams will result in a loss of...

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A Gamble in Souls

as uncredited
Released: 1916-12-09

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The Flyin' Buckaroo

as Banker Brown
Released: 1928-11-25

A stirring story of western love and action! 

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The Night Horsemen

as Marshal
Released: 1921-10-01

Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale)...

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The Bear Cat

as Sheriff Bill Garfield
Released: 1922-04-03

The Bearcat, alias The Singin' Kid, crosses the Rio Grande into Three Pines, singing...

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Wings of Adventure

as Army Major
Released: 1930-08-01

Dave Kent, a commercial aviator, and his mechanic, Skeets Smith, are forced to make an emergency...

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The Sawdust Trail

as Square Deal McKenzie
Released: 1924-08-10

Clarence, an eastern college youth masquerading as a mild, inoffensive dandy, joins a Wild West...

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The Big Hop

as Buck Bronson's Father
Released: 1928-08-31

Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.

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Oh, You Tony!

as Blakely
Released: 1924-09-21

This silent Western features Tom Mix as a rancher who goes to Washington to affect better...

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The Vamp

as James Walsham
Released: 1918-07-14

Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the...

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Man, Woman and Sin

as The City Editor
Released: 1927-11-19

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his...

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An Even Break

as David Harding
Released: 1917-08-05

Claire Curtis, Jimmie Strong and Mary have spent their childhood together in the country. Upon...

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The Terror

as Sheriff Jim Canby
Released: 1920-05-29

Bat "No Limit" Carson, U.S. deputy marshal has to battle all types of varmints, including...

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The Iron Strain

as Ezra Whitney
Released: 1915-11-07

The story is set in Alaska, where spoiled and pampered heiress Octavia Van Ness has come for her...

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Trail of Terror

as Sheriff Baxter
Released: 1935-12-20

Manning breaks out of prison and joins Blake's gang of outlaws. Later a paroled Muggs arrives to...

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Moran of the Lady Letty

as Tavern Owner
Released: 1922-02-05

Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a...

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The Sheriff's Son

as Hal Rutherford
Released: 1919-03-30

Sheriff's son Royal Beaudry is thought a coward, even by the young woman he has his heart set...

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The Tiger Man

as Sheriff Sandy Martin
Released: 1918-04-30

Outlaw Hawk Parsons, notoriously successful in his pursuits, has been caught by the local sherif...

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State Street Sadie

as Police Chief
Released: 1928-08-25

Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent...

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The Texas Trail

as Ring 'Em Foster
Released: 1925-06-01

Rangy Pete Grainger is a cowboy who saves a rancher and his daughter from being kicked off their...

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The Devil Bear

as Judge Douglas Wilmot
Released: 1929-02-19

An early Canadian horror/drama film.

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Jubilo

as Jim Handy
Released: 1919-12-07

Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful...

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The Heart of an Indian

as Settler
Released: 1912-03-01

When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a...

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Good as Gold

as Sheriff John Gray
Released: 1927-06-12

Buck Brady is the son of a prospector whose valuable claim was stolen when Buck was a child....

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The Girl of Gold

as Lucius Merrimore
Released: 1925-02-16

Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his...

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The Saddle Hawk

as Jim Newhall
Released: 1925-03-08

Ben Johnson, a sheepherder who hates sheep, is instructed by his employer, Vasquez, to escort...

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The Ramblin' Kid

as Joshua Heck
Released: 1923-10-14

The Ramblin' Kid, a cowboy, falls in love with Carolyn June, a beautiful easterner, and wins her...

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The Road Demon

as uncredited
Released: 1921-02-01

Tom Mix trades horses for cars. Tom Higgins meets Patricia O'Malley whose father is a car...

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What Would You Do

as Robert Brainerd
Released: 1920-01-01

Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who...

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The Kaiser's Shadow

as William Kremlin
Released: 1918-07-01

French scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray...

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Love or Justice

as Judge Geary
Released: 1917-06-10

Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal...

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The Perfect Crime

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: 1928-08-04

A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.

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The Meddlin' Stranger

as Mr. Crawford
Released: 1927-06-12

Popular B-Western hero Wally Wales (later known as Hal Taliaferro) went up against none other...

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The Weaker Sex

as John Harding
Released: 1917-01-07

Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is...

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