Josef Swickard

Born: 1866-06-24


See
Placeholder

You Can't Take It with You

as Professor
Released: 1938-09-01

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with...

Movie page

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

as Marcelo Desnoyers
Released: 1921-03-06

Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich...

Movie page

The Wizard of Oz

as Prime Minister Kruel
Released: 1925-02-12

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

Movie page

Laughing Gas

as Patient
Released: 1914-07-09

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much...

Movie page

Caught in a Cabaret

as Mabel's Father (uncredited)
Released: 1914-04-27

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He...

Movie page

Tillie's Punctured Romance

as Movie Spectator (uncredited)
Released: 1914-12-21

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large...

Movie page

Beloved

as Revolutionist
Released: 1934-01-22

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

Movie page

Caryl of the Mountains

as Jean Foray
Released: 1936-03-27

Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!

Movie page

The Face on the Barroom Floor

as Drinker (uncredited)
Released: 1914-08-10

A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy...

Movie page

Dick Tracy's G-Men

as Presidente Huenemo Mendoza
Released: 1939-09-02

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

Movie page

The Property Man

as Old Stagehand (uncredited)
Released: 1914-08-01

Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who...

Movie page

Twenty Minutes of Love

as Victim
Released: 1914-04-20

Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks...

Movie page

Cheated Hearts

as Colonel Fairfax Gordon
Released: 1921-12-12

Barry Gordon, the older son of a Virginia colonel, inherits a taste for alcohol--a habit that...

Movie page

Men

as Cleo's Father
Released: 1924-05-04

Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her...

Movie page

Perils of Pauline

as Haggins, Foreign Consul
Released: 1933-11-05

A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has...

Movie page

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

as The Photographer
Released: 1915-07-26

Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch...

Movie page

Don Juan

as Duke Della Varnese
Released: 1926-08-06

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that...

Movie page

Maytime

as Colonel Van Zandt
Released: 1923-11-17

Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the...

Movie page

$1,000 a Touchdown

as Hamilton McGlen Sr. (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-04

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for...

Movie page

Senor Daredevil

as Juan Estrada
Released: 1926-08-01

Don Luis O'Flagherty (Ken Maynard), a daredevil comes to the rescue of his long-lost father,...

Movie page

Lash of the Penitentes

as Dr. Andrew Robert Taylor
Released: 1936-04-13

Fact and fiction collide in this exploitation flick that employs documentary footage depicting...

Movie page

Narcotic

as Federal narcotics agent
Released: 1933-08-01

A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival...

Movie page

Desert Gold

as Sebastian Castaneda
Released: 1926-03-22

Desert Gold is a 1926 silent American Western film directed by George B. Seitz. According to...

Movie page

Serenade

as Domingo Maticas
Released: 1921-08-01

In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor....

Movie page

The Plumber

as Mr. Felix - Home Owner
Released: 1914-12-09

This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing...

Movie page

Custer's Last Stand

as Major Henry Trent MD
Released: 1936-01-02

Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous...

Movie page

The Return of Chandu

as Tyba, The White Magician [Chs. 8-12]
Released: 1934-10-01

Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is...

Movie page

Sharp Shooters

as Grandpère
Released: 1928-01-15

A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his...

Movie page

The Boss Rider of Gun Creek

as Lafe Turner
Released: 1936-12-01

A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.

Movie page

A Social Cub

as The Knight of Old
Released: 1916-07-16

A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring...

Movie page

Across the Dead-Line

as Abel
Released: 1922-01-09

Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical,...

Movie page

Say It in French

as Old Man
Released: 1938-11-25

An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are...

Movie page

Mexicali Rose

as Gonzales
Released: 1939-03-26

Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission...

Movie page

Sandflow

as Banker Porter
Released: 1937-02-14

Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day...

Movie page

Senorita

as Don Francisco Hernandez
Released: 1927-04-01

Movie page
as Jonesy
Released: 1937-09-18

Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He...

Movie page
See!

Bavu

as Prince Markoff
Released: 1923-05-07

An illiterate, uncouth brute rises to power during the Russian Revolution, plots to wreak...

Movie page

The Narrow Corner

as Dutch Constable
Released: 1933-07-08

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

Movie page

Love, Loot and Crash

as Mary's Father, a Banker
Released: 1915-04-23

A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of...

Movie page

A Submarine Pirate

as Surplus Store Owner (uncredited)
Released: 1915-12-26

A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.

Movie page

Custer's Last Stand

as Maj. Henry Trent MD
Released: 1936-04-02

The feature length version of the serial by the same name. A mystical medicine arrow, the key to...

Movie page

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

as Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Released: 1915-02-10

When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid...

Movie page

Sowing the Wind

as Petworth
Released: 1921-04-01

When Rosamond, a convent girl, discovers that her mother is Baby Brabant, a notorious queen of...

Movie page

Get Your Man

as Duke of Albin
Released: 1927-12-06

A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in...

Movie page

Song of the Caballero

as Manuel
Released: 1930-06-29

After El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves...

Movie page

Fifth Avenue Models

as Josef Ludant
Released: 1925-04-26

A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is...

Movie page

Old San Francisco

as Don Hernandez de Vasquez
Released: 1927-09-04

In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property...

Movie page

One Increasing Purpose

as Old Gand
Released: 1927-01-02

Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris...

Movie page

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

as Mabel's Father
Released: 1915-01-17

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to...

Movie page

A Tale of Two Cities

as Dr. Alexandre Manette
Released: 1917-03-10

At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned...

Movie page

Under Your Spell

as Amigo (uncredited)
Released: 1936-11-06

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to...

Movie page

The Eternal Woman

as Ovaldo
Released: 1929-03-18

Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her...

Movie page

Playing with Souls

as Monsieur Jomier
Released: 1925-04-30

Amy and Matthew Dale separate and they place their young son, Matthew Jr., in a London boarding...

Movie page

Hogan's Romance Upset

as The Rival
Released: 1915-02-13

Charles Murray out romancing in the park.

Movie page

Turn Back the Hours

as Colonel Torreon
Released: 1928-03-01

Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and...

Movie page

Frozen River

as Hazy
Released: 1929-04-20

Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen...

Movie page

The Noise of Bombs

as Desk Sergeant
Released: 1914-11-19

Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.

Movie page

Cross Streets

as Dean Todd
Released: 1934-07-05

A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an...

Movie page

The Veiled Woman

as Col. De Selincourt
Released: 1929-04-14

A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her...

Movie page

Ambrose's First Falsehood

as Funeral Director
Released: 1914-12-12

After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's...

Movie page

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

as uncredited
Released: 1922-03-27

An 18-part silent American adventure film serial now considered to be lost. Chapter Titles: 1....

Movie page

Mamba

as uncredited
Released: 1930-03-09

August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World...

Movie page

Three Pals

as Col. Girard
Released: 1926-01-05

The daughter of a Kentucky colonel returns from her European finishing school to help prove his...

Movie page

Opened Shutters

as uncredited
Released: 1921-08-12

When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and...

Movie page

The Young Rajah

as Narada - the Mystic
Released: 1922-11-11

A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken...

Movie page

Those Country Kids

as Grandfather
Released: 1914-08-19

Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and...

Movie page

The Golden Stallion

as John Forsythe
Released: 1927-01-15

The search for a lost gold mine hinges on a secret branded onto the neck of a great horse, White...

Movie page

Love, Speed and Thrills

as Police Chief
Released: 1915-01-18

After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting...

Movie page

The Millionaire Kid

as The Tutor
Released: 1936-03-13

The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are...

Movie page

Ambrose's Nasty Temper

as Police Chief
Released: 1915-04-16

Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive...

Movie page

The Lost City

as Dr. Manyus
Released: 1935-03-06

An evil scientist invents a earthquake machine and plots to take over the world from his base in...

Movie page

Lover's Luck

as The Girl's Father
Released: 1914-09-15

A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.

Movie page

When a Woman Sins

as Mortimer
Released: 1918-09-28

Lilian is engaged to an older man in poor health when she meets his son Michael, whom she falls...

Movie page

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

as Desk Sergeant
Released: 1915-01-18

When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of...

Movie page

Dante's Inferno

as Eugene Craig
Released: 1924-09-07

The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to...

Movie page

The Unknown Cavalier

as Lingo
Released: 1926-11-14

Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further...

Movie page

The Eternal Struggle

as Pierre Grange
Released: 1923-10-08

Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North...

Movie page

The Storm

as uncredited
Released: 1922-09-04

Movie page

Pal o' Mine

as Verdugo Montford
Released: 1924-03-15

Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford...

Movie page

No Woman Knows

as The Great Schabelitz
Released: 1921-09-19

In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two...

Movie page

Shot in the Excitement

as The Father
Released: 1914-10-26

Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a...

Movie page

Chandu on the Magic Island

as Tyba, the White Magician
Released: 1935-01-01

On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to...

Movie page

His Mother's Boy

as Tom Glenny (as Joseph Swickard)
Released: 1917-12-24

After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to...

Movie page

The Lone Defender

as Juan Valdez
Released: 1930-03-04

A prospector is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang, who hope to find the murdered man's...

Movie page

Time to Love

as Elvire's father
Released: 1927-06-18

Alfred Sava-Goiu, who, after being dumped by his sweetheart, philosophically decides to end it...

Movie page

Willful Ambrose

as O. Schmidt - Stein Dealer
Released: 1915-03-01

Marksman Ambrose accidentally shoots a beer stein his wife has bought for him as a gift, so he...

Movie page

The Black Coin

as Don Pedro Navarro
Released: 1936-09-01

Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden...

Movie page

A Versatile Villain

as The Sheriff
Released: 1915-05-29

After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his...

Movie page

The Pal from Texas

as Texas Malden
Released: 1939-11-01

The Pal From Texas features the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to prevent old prospector...

Movie page

A Lover's Lost Control

as Customer
Released: 1915-08-02

Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.

Movie page

My American Wife

as Don Fernando DeContas
Released: 1922-12-31

A 1922 film.

Movie page

The Light of Western Stars

as Padre Marcos
Released: 1918-11-01

A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who...

Movie page

The Danger Girl

as Old Man in Lobby (uncredited)
Released: 1916-08-24

Madcap Gloria disguises herself as a man, in order to lure a "dangerous" vamp away from her...

Movie page

The Devil's Chaplain

as The King
Released: 1929-03-02

Escaping from a revolution, the King of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States....

Movie page

The Shadow of the East

as John Locke
Released: 1924-01-27

Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father....

Movie page

The Age of Desire

as Marcio
Released: 1923-09-01

Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but...

Movie page

Trumpet Island

as Jacques de Merincourt
Released: 1920-09-01

Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry...

Movie page

Phantom of the Desert

as Colonel Van Horn
Released: 1930-11-01

Horses are being stolen by a white stallion known as "The Phantom of the Desert." A cowboy sets...

Movie page

The Rent Jumpers

as Restaurant Manager
Released: 1915-04-07

The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One...

Movie page

Mr. Billings Spends His Dime

as Estaban Juárez
Released: 1923-03-19

Mr. Billings Spends His Dime is a silent comedy film.

Movie page

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

as Minta's Father
Released: 1914-12-20

Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles...

Movie page

Eagle of the Night

as uncredited
Released: 1928-10-20

1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action...

Movie page

North of Nevada

as Mark Ridgeway
Released: 1924-02-24

When old rancher Mark Ridgeway passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead...

Movie page

The Keeper of the Bees

as Bee Master
Released: 1925-09-06

A bee keeper does his best to help the army.

Movie page

The Border Whirlwind

as Señor Jose Cordova
Released: 1926-11-15

A film directed by John P. McCarthy

Movie page

Zip, the Dodger

as Ball Toss Operator
Released: 1914-10-17

Zip, the Dodger

Movie page

The Golden Gift

as Leonati
Released: 1922-02-06

Movie page

The Toy Shop

as The toymaker (as Joseph Swickard)
Released: 1928-12-22

Cinematographer Ray Rennahan utilized the two-strip Technicolor process for this film, but...

Movie page

Haystacks and Steeples

as The Minister
Released: 1916-10-01

A farm boy falls for a glamorous society girl who is engaged to another man.

Movie page