Matthew Betz

Born: 1881-09-12


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Mystery of the Wax Museum

as Hugo, deafmute sculptor
Released: 1933-02-18

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

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The Big House

as Gopher
Released: 1930-06-14

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where...

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The Unholy Three

as Detective Regan
Released: 1925-07-20

Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist,...

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The Wedding March

as Schani Eberle
Released: 1928-10-06

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.

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See America Thirst

as Insect McGann
Released: 1930-11-23

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.

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The Hurricane Express

as The Engineer Jordan
Released: 1932-08-01

The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father....

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The Man Who Found Himself

as Hobo #1
Released: 1937-04-02

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his...

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Her Man

as Red
Released: 1930-09-21

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

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The Terror

as Joe Connors
Released: 1928-09-06

Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".

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Tarzan the Fearless

as Nick
Released: 1933-08-11

Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of "the people...

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Let 'em Have It

as Al Thompson
Released: 1935-05-15

Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False...

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Child of Manhattan

as Chet Watson (uncredited)
Released: 1933-02-11

Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in...

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The Law Commands

as Frago, lead henchman
Released: 1937-05-07

Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from...

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The Girl Who Came Back

as Henchman Smokey Preston
Released: 1935-09-20

A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the...

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Trails of the Wild

as Hunt
Released: 1935-07-31

An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers...

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Outcast

as Don, a Townsman
Released: 1937-02-05

A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution...

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Jail Bait

as uncredited
Released: 1937-01-08

Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter,...

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The Countess of Monte Cristo

as Romowski's Valet
Released: 1934-03-18

A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her...

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It's Showtime

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1976-03-31

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

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Just My Luck

as Doyle
Released: 1935-12-30

Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his...

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The Single Sin

as Frank Bowman
Released: 1931-02-23

A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a...

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Mississippi

as Man at Bar
Released: 1935-03-22

A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished...

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Lights of Old Broadway

as 'Red' Hawkins
Released: 1925-10-31

Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of...

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The Western Code

as Warden
Released: 1932-09-15

When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly...

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The Honeymoon

as Schani
Released: 1929-12-31

Sequel to von Stroheim's The Wedding March released only in Europe. The only known copy was...

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A Self Made Wife

as Bob
Released: 1923-07-08

Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He...

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The Little Red Schoolhouse

as Bill, the Tough Hobo
Released: 1936-03-02

Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are...

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Curtain at Eight

as "Lovely" Holmes
Released: 1933-10-01

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife?...

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The Big Flash

as Brick Dugan
Released: 1932-11-05

Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent...

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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery

as Horace Raymore
Released: 1935-10-20

A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time...

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The Soldier and the Lady

as Chieftain (Uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-09

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles...

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My Lady's Lips

as Eddie Gault
Released: 1925-07-01

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A...

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On Your Guard

as Trusty Smith
Released: 1933-01-31

An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in...

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State Trooper

as Jarvis
Released: 1933-02-10

Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police...

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On Probation

as Dan
Released: 1935-04-01

A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love...

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The Crimson City

as 'Dagger' Foo
Released: 1928-04-07

Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit.

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Jungle Menace

as Inspector Starrett
Released: 1937-09-01

Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.

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The Lighthouse by the Sea

as Joe Dagget
Released: 1924-12-01

A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out...

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The Exquisite Sinner

as Gypsy Chief
Released: 1926-03-28

Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who...

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Alias Mary Smith

as Snowy Hoagland
Released: 1932-07-14

A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a...

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The Patent Leather Kid

as Jake Stuke
Released: 1927-09-01

The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at...

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Soul of the Slums

as Jim Blake
Released: 1931-11-15

A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving...

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The Only Woman

as Ole Hannson
Released: 1924-10-25

A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott.

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Luck

as Fighting Miner
Released: 1923-03-01

A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one...

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The Squealer

as Red Majors
Released: 1930-08-20

A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to...

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Speed Madness

as Jessin
Released: 1932-07-29

More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a...

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The Big Chance

as Flash McQuaid
Released: 1933-08-28

Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.

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Shooting Straight

as Ace Martin / Ed Winters
Released: 1930-07-20

A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.

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Telling the World

as The Killer
Released: 1928-06-30

The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it....

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The Stealers

as Bert Robinson
Released: 1920-10-03

Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness,...

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Burn 'Em Up Barnes

as Ed Scott
Released: 1921-08-01

Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in...

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The Tin Man

as Blackie Burke
Released: 1935-03-30

Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius...

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Sins of the Fathers

as Gus Newman
Released: 1928-12-28

A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When...

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Side Show

as Tom Whalen
Released: 1931-09-19

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

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Love's Whirlpool

as 'Pinky' Sellers
Released: 1924-03-02

Toughened criminal Jim Reagan tries to persuade his brother, Larry, to go straight, but Larry...

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Salvation Nell

as Mooney
Released: 1931-07-01

Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and...

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My Old Kentucky Home

as Steven McKenna
Released: 1922-04-09

After serving time in Sing Sing, for which he was unjustly sentenced, and encouraged by two...

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Gold

as Henchman Childress
Released: 1932-09-15

A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them.

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Shipwrecked

as Captain Klodel
Released: 1926-05-09

Larry O'Neil, a ship's cook, finds and befriends stowaway Lois Austin, who is a fugitive from a...

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The Fighting Marshal

as Red Larkin
Released: 1931-11-25

Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison...

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Florida Special

as Herman Weil
Released: 1936-04-21

A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers...

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The Black Coin

as Henry Jensen
Released: 1936-09-01

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

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Broadway to Cheyenne

as Joe Carter
Released: 1932-09-09

A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket...

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Racing Blood

as Tex O'Donnell
Released: 1936-11-14

Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes,...

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Mutiny Ahead

as Dixon
Released: 1935-03-01

A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.

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Fugitives

as Earl Rand
Released: 1929-01-27

Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead...

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Silent Men

as Carl Lawler
Released: 1933-03-03

In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector....

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I Have Lived

as Blackie
Released: 1933-06-15

A girl with a shady past is picked by a playwright to be the star of his newest play.

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Boomerang Bill

as Tony the Wop
Released: 1922-01-15

When New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a...

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The Girl in the Glass Cage

as 'Doc' Striker
Released: 1929-06-23

A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her...

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Men of the Night

as Schmidt
Released: 1934-11-18

"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he...

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The Fighting Rookie

as Lewis Cantor
Released: 1934-05-15

Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an...

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The Shepherd of the Hills

as Wash Gibbs
Released: 1928-01-01

David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by...

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The Whirlwind

as Tate Hurley
Released: 1933-04-13

After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find...

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The Siren Of Seville

as Pedro
Released: 1924-08-17

Young Gallito (Allan Forrest) wants very badly to become a matador. His sweetheart, Dolores...

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Those Who Dance

as Joe Anargas
Released: 1924-04-27

A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and...

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Knight Duty

as The Crook
Released: 1933-05-06

Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he...

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White Fang

as Frank Wilde
Released: 1925-05-24

Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.

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The Flame of the Yukon

as Black Jack Hovey
Released: 1926-08-30

George Fowler, a young man from the states, arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor,...

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Fury Below

as Dorsky
Released: 1936-11-22

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained...

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Oh! What a Nurse!

as Captain Ladye Kirby
Released: 1926-03-07

Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by...

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Let's Go

as 'Dip' McGurk
Released: 1923-10-31

The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.

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Putting One Over

as Giles
Released: 1919-06-22

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The Little Irish Girl

as Jerry Crawford
Released: 1926-03-06

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure...

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