Jack Pickford

Born: 1896-08-17

Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith) was an actor of some popularity in American Silent films. He was Silent screen star Mary Pickford's younger brother.


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The Musketeers of Pig Alley

as Rival Gang Member / At Dance
Released: 1912-10-31

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an...

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The Bat

as Brooks Bailey
Released: 1926-03-14

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a...

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The New York Hat

as Youth Outside Church
Released: 1912-12-05

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a...

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The Massacre

as The Young Boy
Released: 1912-12-19

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

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Ramona

as A Boy
Released: 1910-05-23

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love...

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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1942-01-01

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of...

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Fanchon, the Cricket

as Young Bully (uncredited)
Released: 1915-05-10

A young wild girl, Fanchon, lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by...

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Brown of Harvard

as Jim Doolittle
Released: 1926-05-02

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew,...

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The Painted Lady

as Beau at Ice Cream Festival
Released: 1912-10-24

A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an...

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Exit Smiling

as Jimmy Marsh
Released: 1926-11-06

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

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Tom Sawyer

as Tom Sawyer
Released: 1917-12-10

Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack...

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The Narrow Road

as uncredited
Released: 1912-08-01

Two men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go...

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The Goose Woman

as Gerald Holmes
Released: 1925-08-02

A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in...

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A Dash Through the Clouds

as Mexican Boy
Released: 1912-06-24

Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of...

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Hollywood

as Jack Pickford
Released: 1923-08-19

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa....

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Home, Sweet Home

as The Mother's Son
Released: 1914-05-16

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his...

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Home, Sweet Home

as The Mother's Half-Wit Son
Released: 1914-05-16

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his...

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A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

as A Brother
Released: 1912-10-03

The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together....

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What the Doctor Ordered

as Jenks' Son
Released: 1912-08-04

A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Mack Sennett, Kate Toncray & Mabel Normand.

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My Son

as Tony
Released: 1925-04-19

A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New...

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Seventeen

as William Sylvanus Baxter
Released: 1916-11-02

Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola...

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Poor Little Peppina

as Beppo
Released: 1916-03-02

Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia...

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A Temporary Truce

as An Indian (uncredited)
Released: 1912-06-10

A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps...

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Gang War

as Clyde Baxter
Released: 1928-09-02

Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers...

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The Oath and the Man

as The Messenger
Released: 1910-09-21

A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which...

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The Chief's Blanket

as An Indian
Released: 1912-10-10

When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred...

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To Save Her Soul

as Stagehand
Released: 1909-12-27

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her...

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Waking Up the Town

as Jack Joyce
Released: 1925-03-30

Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to...

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Waiter No. 5

as The Chief of Police's Son (as a boy)
Released: 1910-11-03

After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined...

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The Informer

as Negro Boy
Released: 1912-11-21

The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his...

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The Unwelcome Guest

as One of the Children
Released: 1913-03-15

Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly...

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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

as Chad
Released: 1920-02-01

An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from...

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Wildflower

as Bud Haskins
Released: 1914-10-15

Known as "Wildflower," Letty Roberts meets Arnold Boyd, a wealthy man who is weary of life in...

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Rose o' Salem Town

as uncredited
Released: 1910-09-25

A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by...

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Heredity

as The Son of the White Renegade Father and Indian Mother
Released: 1912-11-04

Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots...

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The Lesson

as uncredited
Released: 1910-12-19

Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".

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The Speed Demon

as The Speed Demon's Son
Released: 1912-07-14

An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.

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The Pretty Sister of Jose

as Jose
Released: 1915-05-31

Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother,...

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David Harum

as Stable boy
Released: 1915-02-22

The story of David Harum, a small-town banker, and how what he does and who he is affects the...

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A Pueblo Legend

as The Young Brave
Released: 1912-08-29

A love story set among Native Americans.

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The Modern Prodigal

as uncredited
Released: 1910-08-28

In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires,...

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Great Expectations

as Pip
Released: 1917-01-08

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A Girl of Yesterday

as John Stuart
Released: 1915-10-07

A lost film. A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.

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Pranks

as One of the Boys
Released: 1909-08-30

Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and...

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The Hill Billy

as Jed
Released: 1924-03-15

Jed is a hillbilly in love with pretty Emmy Lou who is forced into marriage with her dreadful...

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A Double-Dyed Deceiver

as The Llano Kid
Released: 1920-06-22

Most of the scenes are laid in a parrot-and-monkey country in South America, a land where "it is...

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Bill Apperson's Boy

as Buddy Apperson
Released: 1919-06-22

Jack Pickford got his own production company when his sister Mary signed a huge contract with...

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Freckles

as Freckles
Released: 1917-05-28

Freckles, a one-armed orphan tired of being tormented by others runs away eventually finding a...

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Garrison's Finish

as Billy Garrison
Released: 1923-01-15

Billy Garrison, a jockey, is framed and suspended for throwing a face. Depressed, he goes to a...

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Muggsy Becomes a Hero

as Mabel's Brother
Released: 1910-09-01

Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is...

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The School Teacher and the Waif

as Extra
Released: 1912-06-26

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends...

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Katchem Kate

as Money Thief at School
Released: 1912-06-12

Mabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention...

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The End of the World

as Jack Joyce
Released: 1925-04-01

Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had...

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The Man Who Had Everything

as Harry Bullway
Released: 1920-10-17

Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind...

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Sweet Memories

as Young Earl Jackson
Released: 1911-03-27

An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her...

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As a Boy Dreams

as uncredited
Released: 1911-08-13

A cabin-boy gets to take center stage during a riotous adventure story involving mutineers and...

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In Wrong

as Johnny Spivins
Released: 1919-10-31

Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he...

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His Last Dollar

as Jockey Jones
Released: 1914-10-28

Former newsboy and jockey Joe Braxton, becomes a millionaire rancher and decides to visit New...

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The Inner Circle

as The Messenger
Released: 1912-08-12

A lonely widower living in the Italian quarter of the city, whose only solace since the death of...

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Huck and Tom

as Tom Sawyer
Released: 1918-03-04

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.

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Brutality

as At Theatre
Released: 1912-12-02

An abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece...

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The Eagle's Mate

as A Young Clansman
Released: 1914-07-10

A young girl, Anemone, who lives with her Aunt is abducted by a crude family of Virginia...

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The Girl at Home

as Jimmie Dexter
Released: 1917-04-26

Jimmie Dexter is on his way to college when his mother discovers that her stocks have stopped...

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Mile-a-Minute Kendall

as Kendall
Released: 1918-05-13

Young Kendall struggles for acceptance in the eyes of his wealthy father, who sees him only as a...

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Life in Hollywood No. 6

as uncredited
Released: 1927-08-25

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

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The Spirit of '17

as Davy Glidden
Released: 1918-01-26

Davy Glidden is the son of the adjutant general in charge of an old soldier's home in a small...

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Burglar by Proxy

as Jack Robin
Released: 1919-08-23

A terrible toothache causes Jack Robin to stop his automobile in front of the home of Dorothy...

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American Experience

as Self
First aired: 1988-10-04

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform...

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