John J. Richardson
John J. Richardson (born Harold Jack Joseph Richardson) was an English-born actor in American films, his screen career spanning the years 1917 to 1941.
The Roaring Twenties
as Sleeping Train Passenger (uncredited)After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George...
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The Ten Commandments
as Israelite Slave (uncredited)The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his...
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Kid Galahad
as (uncredited)Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the...
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Union Pacific
as Official (uncredited)One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad...
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Marked Woman
as Man in Line-Up (uncredited)In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful...
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The Dawn Patrol
as MechanicIn 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young...
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British Intelligence
as Cockney SoldierDuring WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with...
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The Oklahoma Kid
as Would-Be Settler (uncredited)McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious...
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Road Gang
as Smokey - Safecracking Convict (uncredited)A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed...
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Go Into Your Dance
as CabbieAn irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as Second ReporterA young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a...
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Stranded
as First Taxi Driver (uncredited)A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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They Made Me a Criminal
as Reporter (uncredited)A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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The Golden Age of Comedy
as archive footageA compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy,...
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Manpower
as Midnight Club Waiter (uncredited)Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident...
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Melody for Two
as Green Hill PatronA singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
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The Invisible Menace
as Pvt. Nelson - Hackett's OrderlyArmy Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding...
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Maybe It's Love
as Silent Diner (uncredited)Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple...
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Jailbreak
as Convict Under InspectionA reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
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Girls on Probation
as Escaping ConvictA dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Dinky
as Prison VisitorA mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a...
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Earthworm Tractors
as Accident SpectatorA salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
as Extra Watching FireWhen a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided...
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
as Reporter (uncredited)Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the...
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King of the Lumberjacks
as Lumberjack On Line for Cashier (uncredited)Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his...
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Satan Met a Lady
as Second Photographer (uncredited)In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying...
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Love Is on the Air
as Joe - First 7-11 Club WaiterA newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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Yukon Jake
as The Peruna Kid (as Jack Richardson)Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on...
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Going Places
as Man at TrackA sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he...
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Dust Be My Destiny
as Man Asking for a Match (uncredited)Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail,...
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Wall Street Blues
as Carl Kopeck - the Loan SharkA bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery.
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Indianapolis Speedway
as Fan at HomecomingA champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession...
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Beau Brummel
as Poodles ByngGeorge Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord...
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Bright Eyes
as The Fortune Hunter (as Jack Richardson)An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
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Castle on the Hudson
as Prisoner (uncredited)A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
as British SniperThree American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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I Married a Doctor
as Party GuestCity girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the...
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Garden of the Moon
as Jones - Waiter Who is Fired (uncredited)Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by...
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Missing Witnesses
as Trustee-Window Washer-Spy (uncredited)A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
as Joe, Taxi Driver (uncredited)While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to...
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The White Angel
as Cook Reporting to Jones (uncredited)In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of...
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Black Oxfords
as Charlie GreenbackIn this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage...
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The Great Mr. Nobody
as Man Knocked Down By DreamyA publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Draegerman Courage
as Jack - Pete's Co-Worker (uncredited)After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
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Water Wagons
as Captain DangerfieldA boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger.
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Don't Bet on Blondes
as Elevator Operator (Uncredited)Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His...
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Angels Wash Their Faces
as Dish Vendor (uncredited)A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister,...
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Smart Blonde
as Bert Richards (uncredited)Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot...
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Call It a Day
as Grocery Store Owner (uncredited)The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures...
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The Daredevil Drivers
as Chick Morgan's Mechanic (uncredited)To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for...
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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An Angel from Texas
as Stage DoormanA pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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Heart of the North
as Jack Richardson (uncredited)A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound...
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Women in the Wind
as Airport Man Getting Hose Out (uncredited)A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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Smashing the Money Ring
as Trial Spectator (uncredited)T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up...
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
as Party Guest (uncredited)Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of...
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He Couldn't Say No
as $45 BidderA lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for...
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Page Miss Glory
as Photographer (uncredited)A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant...
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Calling Philo Vance
as 4h Reporter (uncredited)Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft...
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Talent Scout
as Studio Worker Extra (uncredited)A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
as Second Taxi Driver (uncredited)A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of...
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It's a Great Life
as Italian vegetable cart vendorCasey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a...
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The Patient in Room 18
as Cabbie (uncredited)Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of...
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While the Patient Slept
as Reporter (uncredited)A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill...
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Secret Service of the Air
as Alien - First FlightBrass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go...
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Public Wedding
as CameramanThe operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a...
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A Fugitive from Justice
as Photographer at Train Station (uncredited)Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on...
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The Cowboy Quarterback
as Nightclub ExtraFootball scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field...
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
as Husband Leaving TrainEllen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two...
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She Loved a Fireman
as Waiter at DanceA young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
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Movie Crazy
as Drunk (Uncredited)After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test...
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Penrod's Double Trouble
as Man Warning Matt That the Balloon Was Up (uncredited)When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an...
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Sneezing Beezers
as Yellow MichaelSneezing Beezers is a silent comedy short.
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Espionage Agent
as Man in O'Grady CrowdWhen Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the...
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King of the Underworld
as Townsman Running (uncredited)Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove...
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A Child Is Born
as Intern Stopping Jed (uncredited)A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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Sons o' Guns
as Gate GuardBroadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He...
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The Three Must-Get-Theres
as WalrusIn this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel "The Three Musketeers".
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Call a Cop
as The Daughter's Fickle FianceCall a Cop is a 1921 comedy short.
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The Right to Live
as John - ChauffeurA man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
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Lizzies of the Field
as Ben DavisThere is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops...
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Galloping Bungalows
as Howson Lotts - the VillainAll the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man...
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The Dare-Devil
as The Leading ManThe movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The...
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Over the Wall
as Ring AttendantWhen a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his...
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Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
as T. Potter DoamAn eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without...
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Maids a la Mode
as Dignitary (uncredited)Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
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The Lion's Whiskers
as Brigham SmithBilly works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the...
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Oh, What a Man!
as The Bandit's PalA detective sets out to nab Notorious Nora, the tough female leader of a gang whose headquarters...
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A Sweet Pickle
as Bertie WardA Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
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When Summer Comes
as uncreditedRampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the...
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Ten Dollars or Ten Days
as The ProprietorIn this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred...
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Sign Them Papers
as Relentless RudolphBeautiful Belinda is kidnapped by terrible people who want her to sign over a gold mine.
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