Joseph J. Dowling
Alimony
as William JacksonBernice Bristol Flint, an attractive grass widow (a woman divorced or separated from her...
Movie pageThe Iced Bullet
as The ButlerA "scientific detective" story about the attempted murder of a wealthy New Yorker in his...
Movie pageLittle Lord Fauntleroy
as William HavishamAn American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with...
Movie pageQuincy Adams Sawyer
as Nathaniel SawyerQuincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately...
Movie pageThe Devil to Pay
as George RoanSmall town politician and banker Brent Warren is responsible for a murder, but only George Roan...
Movie pageThose Who Dare
as David RollinsCaptain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the...
Movie pageThe Half Breed
as Judge HuntingtonDelmar Spavinaw, an educated "half-breed," loves Evelyn Huntington, daughter of a racist judge....
Movie pageThe Rainmaker
as Father Murphy (as Joseph Dowling)The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he...
Movie pageThe Miracle Man
as The patriarchA gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's...
Movie pageThe Bargain
as Rev. Joshua WilkesAfter the bandit Jim Stokes robs the stage he is wounded fleeing. Recuperating at a ranch, he...
Movie pageTiger Rose
as Father ThibaultOriginally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and...
Movie pageRiders of the Dawn
as Tom AndersonA young soldier returns from the war to find his western homeland despoiled by conflict between...
Movie pageThe U.P. Trail
as "Place" HoughCivil engineer Warren Neale rescues a badly wounded Allie Lee after her family is killed in an...
Movie pageThe Thoroughbred
as Doc Witherspoon (as J.J. Dowling)The Colonel is at a financial low ebb, and his only recourse is to get his horse safely to the...
Movie pageThe Pride of Palomar
as Don MiguelA soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in...
Movie pageOne Clear Call
as Colonel Garnett (as Joseph Dowling)An outcast who runs a road house of ill repute leads his mother to believe him dead. His only...
Movie pageWomen Who Give
as Captain Bijonah Keeler (as Joseph Dowling)Jonathan Swift, stern Cape Cod businessman, has ambitions for his children, Emily and Noah,...
Movie pageThe Girl Who Ran Wild
as Calaveras JohnM'liss, raised in the mountains as an unruly tomboy, is orphaned and is offered "protection" by...
Movie pageWhy Girls Go Back Home
as Joe DowneyTrusting country girl Marie Downey falls in love with touring stage-actor Clifford Dudley. As he...
Movie pageThe Yankee Way
as Colonel MasonDick Mason is arrested for defending a girl's honor in a Chicago restaurant brawl, and his...
Movie pageThe Infidel
as Reverend Mead (as Joseph Dowling)Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of...
Movie pageA Man's Country
as Marshal LelandDance-hall queen Kate Carewe is the toast of the gold-mining camp of Huxley's Gulch. One day a...
Movie pageA Splendid Hazard
as French emigréKarl Breitman, obsessed with the notion that he is a descendant of Napoleon, is driven to...
Movie pageThe Iron Strain
as Justice of the PeaceThe story is set in Alaska, where spoiled and pampered heiress Octavia Van Ness has come for her...
Movie pageUnseen Hands
as George Le QuintrecA wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward...
Movie pageTess of the D'Urbervilles
as The ParsonA young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After...
Movie pageMadam Who
as 'Parson' John KennedyDuring the Civil War, Jeanne Beaufort becomes a secret service agent for the South....
Movie pageThe Reward
as The DoctorA poor young boy falls for a chorus girl after he finds out that she is not like the "loose...
Movie pageAn Alien Enemy
as Baron von MecklinNeysa von Igel, who is living with her supposed grandfather, Adolph Schmidt, loves America,...
Movie pageThe Square Deal Man
as Two Spot HargisA gambler decides to play one last game before he turns over a new leaf. However, during the...
Movie pageThe Gun Fighter
as 'Ace High' LarkinsCliff Hudspeth, the leader of a band of outlaws in Arizona, has won his place by the killing of...
Movie pageConfessions of a Queen
as Duke of RosenThe King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora....
Movie pageHis Nibs
as The Girl's Father (as Joseph Dowling)Shenanigans at a small town movie theater.
Movie pageThe Goddess of Lost Lake
as Marshall ThorneMary Thorne is the quarter-breed daughter of prospector Marshall Thorne. She has just returned...
Movie pageHer Night of Romance
as Professor Gregg (as Joseph Dowling)An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing...
Movie pageCarmen of the Klondike
as Saleratus JoeDorothy Harlan, a vaudeville artist, joins her fiancé, Cameron Stewart, in the Klondike during...
Movie pageSomewhere in France
as General AndresWicked Frenchwoman Marie Chaumontel is the mistress of Captain Henry Ravignac. She steals some...
Movie pageAdele
as Dr. BleneauAdele Bleneau is a young nurse who assists her father, a renowned surgeon/. While in Washington,...
Movie pageThe Christian
as Father LampleighGlory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory...
Movie pageThe Midnight Stage
as 'Twisted' TuttleIn this Western, Frank Keenan has a dual role -- kind-hearted gambler John Lynch and evil bandit...
Movie pageKitty Kelly, M.D.
as SheriffKitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up...
Movie pageThe Lord Loves the Irish
as Dr. Leon Wilson / Hugo StraussMiles Machree (J. Warren Kerrigan) meets Irish-American Sheila Lynch (Fritzi Brunette) when she...
Movie pageThe Dream Cheater
as Shib MizahAn adaptation of Balzac's novel set in the roaring twenties, it tells the story of a young man...
Movie pageLorraine of the Lions
as Livingston SrA ship carrying a touring circus troupe sinks at sea, and Lorraine, a young girl, is washed up...
Movie pageThe Deserter
as Colonel TaylorParker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of...
Movie pageThe House of Whispers
as Rufus GastonSpaulding Nelson moves into an apartment after his uncle has been driven from it by the sounds...
Movie pageA Man in the Open
as James BrownSailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler....
Movie pageThe Pinch Hitter
as Obediah ParkerShy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her...
Movie pageJosselyn's Wife
as Grandpa Latimer (as Joseph Dowling)Bessie Barriscale and Nigel Barrie play Ellen and Gibbs Josselyn, a young married couple who...
Movie pageNew Lives for Old
as Senator WarrenOlympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She...
Movie pageEverybody's Sweetheart
as General Phillip BinghamWhen the benign headmistress of the county poor farm is discharged and replaced with a tyrant,...
Movie pageA Law Unto Herself
as LeSieur Juste DeLarmeThe daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat...
Movie pageCollege Days
as John SaundersNell Saunders is the daughter of an innkeeper in a college town. She is loved by Glen Dale, the...
Movie pageMaster of His Home
as Bill BoggsUnhappy with her daughter's choice to marry a miner instead of her choice, a man of wealth, a...
Movie pageThe Courtship of Miles Standish
as Elder BrewsterA dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is...
Movie pageWedlock
as Philip MerrillUnknown to his proud and wealthy family, Granger Hollister marries Margery Harding, a telephone...
Movie pagePatriotism
as Sir Angus CameronDuring World War I, Robin Cameron transforms her home on the Scottish seacoast into a hospital...
Movie pageHome
as Count d'OrrBessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find her nouveau riche family has adopted and magnified...
Movie pageThe Little Irish Girl
as Capt. DuganBeautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure...
Movie pageThe Apostle of Vengeance
as Tom McCoy1916 American silent drama film directed by Clifford Smith and starring William S. Hart, Nona...
Movie pageFightin' Mad
as James McGrawReturning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud...
Movie pageA Little Sister of Everybody
as Nicholas MarinoffYoung Celeste Janvier ( Bessie Love ) lives in an East Side tenement with her immigrant...
Movie pageMaid o' the Storm
as Andy MacTavishScottish fisherman Andy MacTavish rescues a baby whom he discovers washed up on the shore during...
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