DeWitt Jennings
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1906 and 1920, and in 153 films between 1915 and 1937. In 1935, Jennings played Sailing Master Fryer in Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He died in Hollywood, California at the age of 65.
Mutiny on the Bounty
as FryerFletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS...
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Arrowsmith
as B.W. Tozer (uncredited)A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use...
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
as Police Captain, 12th PrecinctThe disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Ladies They Talk About
as Detective TracyA moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
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The Big House
as WallaceConvicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where...
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Slave Ship
as SnodgrassAction-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced...
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Police Car 17
as Captain T. J. HartMotor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan,...
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Village Tale
as Sheriff RamseyThe insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love...
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Strictly Personal
as Captain ReardonSoapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a...
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Me, Gangster
as Police ChiefTold in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
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Alibi
as Officer O'BrienChick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison....
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Front Page Woman
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes...
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Central Park
as Police Desk Sergeant Monahan (uncredited)Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get...
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The Accusing Finger
as Prison WardenA proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself...
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Sherlock Brown
as uncreditedThe secret formula for the world's most powerful explosive has been stolen from the U.S....
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I Loved a Woman
as Banker (uncredited)The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and...
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Dancers in the Dark
as Police Sergeant McGroodyA bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town....
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Exclusive Story
as Captain (uncredited)A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious...
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The Criminal Code
as Yard Captain GleasonAfter young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is...
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The Secret Six
as Chief of Police DonlinBootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang,...
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Golden Harvest
as Sheriff (uncredited)A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest....
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I Dream Too Much
as Man Yelling for Food (uncredited)Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled...
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Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
as Jay DarrellLila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in...
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Sing, Baby, Sing
as Mr. Lee, the LandlordThe "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is...
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A Dangerous Affair
as City EditorHolt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally...
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Exit Smiling
as Orlando WainwrightThe travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams...
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Blinky
as Col. 'Raw Meat' IslipBlinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen...
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Two Arabian Knights
as American ConsulDuring World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a...
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The Daring Young Man
as Mayor's Committee OfficialThe Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl...
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A Wicked Woman
as The SheriffA woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's...
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Alias Ladyfingers
as Lt. AmbroseWhen Rachel Stetherill's daughter marries a man of whom she disapproves, Rachel disowns her....
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Silver Dollar
as George, the Mine ForemanA farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
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Reform Girl
as Capt. BalfourA young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to...
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Massacre
as Sheriff JenningsUpon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the...
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Charlie Chan's Courage
as Constable Brackett (as DeWitt C. Jennings)Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder...
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The Bat Whispers
as Police CaptainInfamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon...
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One Year Later
as Deputy RussellA man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On...
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Little Man, What Now?
as Emil KleninholzA young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the...
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The Enemy Sex
as Harrigan BloodA well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up...
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The Splendid Road
as Capt. BashfordYoung Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush....
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Death on the Diamond
as PattersonPop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off...
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Murder on a Honeymoon
as Captain BeegleA schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets...
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The President Vanishes
as CullenThe President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American...
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The Squaw Man
as Sheriff Bud HardyJim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for...
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While London Sleeps
as Inspector BurkeRinty is a police-dog assigned to a young Scotland Yard police-officer who covers the Limehouse...
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Hit and Run
as Joe BurnsBig league baseball scout Red McCarthy signs up "Swat," a bush leaguer from a desert town, and...
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The Valiant
as Warden HoltA man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother,...
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We Who Are About to Die
as Mike BranniganJohn Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and...
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On Your Guard
as Joshua PerkinsAn ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in...
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The Golden Snare
as 'Fighting' FitzgeraldSgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture...
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Night Court
as Court Policeman (uncredited)A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a...
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A Dog of Flanders
as Carl CogezAdaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose...
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Take the Stand
as Police CommissionerA radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective...
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The Mystic
as Director of PoliceZara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man...
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Flesh and Blood
as Detective DoyleA convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who...
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Thru Different Eyes
as PaducahHarvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose...
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This Is My Affair
as Bradley WallacePresident McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
as Jim CarganA writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six...
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Movie Crazy
as Mr. HallAfter a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test...
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Circus Days
as Daly10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
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The Meanest Gal in Town
as Police Chief (uncredited)A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
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The Primrose Path
as Joe MaloneA naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the...
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Thru Different Eyes
as PaducahA celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous...
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The Match King
as Bodensky (uncredited)Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of...
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Chip of the Flying U
as J.G. WhitmoreA remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based...
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A Man's Game
as Chief JordanDuring one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer...
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That I May Live
as Chief of PoliceCrooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three...
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Red Hot Speed
as Judge O'BrienA newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her...
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Mary Jane's Pa
as SheriffSam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family,...
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The Fire Brigade
as Fire Chief WallaceTerry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen...
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The Night Flyer
as BucksJimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the...
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By Whose Hand?
as City Editor (uncredited)On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry...
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Sins of Man
as TwicheleskoAustrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche)...
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The Great Mail Robbery
as Captain DavisVeteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail...
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Trapped
as Police ChiefThe Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from...
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Out of Luck
as Capt. BristolBelieving he has committed murder, Sam Pertune, a simple westerner, enlists in the Navy, then...
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Salvation Nell
as McGovernYoung Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and...
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Within the Law
as Inspector BurkeWhen Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to...
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McFadden's Flats
as Patrick HalloranIrish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son...
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Caught Plastered
as Police Chief H.A. MortonSet in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local...
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Midnight Morals
as Dan McKennanA rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to...
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Merton of the Movies
as Jeff BairdA wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
as Inspector HuntA woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama...
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The Little American
as English BarristerA young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral...
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Seven Footprints to Satan
as Uncle JoeA young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help...
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Kelly the Second
as Judge (as DeWitt C. Jennings)A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
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Fifty Roads to Town
as Captain GallowayA man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on...
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There Are No Villains
as Detective FlintIn San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence...
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The Hillcrest Mystery
as Tom CameronDuring a party held in honor of his daughter Marion, Thomas Sterling announces that he will turn...
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Min and Bill
as GrootMin, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of...
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A Lady's Profession
as Mr. StephensA couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
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The Fighting Rookie
as Police CommissionerPatrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an...
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The Deadwood Coach
as Jim ShieldsA man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
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The Deadwood Coach
as Jim Shields - in playA man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
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as Capt. O'DonnellJust after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank...
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Those Who Dance
as Captain O'BrienA policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
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The Desert Outlaw
as Doc McChesneyA prospector is falsely accused of murder.
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Secret of the Chateau
as Louis BardouMurder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a...
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Go Straight!
as The HunterGilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to...
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Captain of the Guard
as PriestA captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.
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Beating the Game
as G.B. LawsonProfessional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a...
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The Poverty of Riches
as LyonsJohn and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their...
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The Air Mail Pilot
as uncreditedA high-flying action film involving a pilot battling air mail robberies.
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