Tom Ricketts
Tom Ricketts (January 15, 1853 – January 19, 1939) was an English stage, later a Hollywood screen, actor. He also directed numerous early Hollywood Silent films, and was the writer of several.
The Invisible Man
as Old Farmer with Barn (uncredited)After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive...
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After the Thin Man
as Henry the Butler (uncredited)Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is...
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Top Hat
as Nervous Thackeray Club Waiter (uncredited)Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his...
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A Star Is Born
as Ray (uncredited)Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies....
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Dead End
as Old Man (Uncredited)Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up,...
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Son of Frankenstein
as BurgherOne of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma...
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Cavalcade
as Waiter (uncredited)A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of...
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History Is Made at Night
as uncreditedAn American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from...
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Show Boat
as uncreditedDespite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into...
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I Am Suzanne!
as PuppeteerA dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. ...
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Forsaking All Others
as Wiff' Wiffens (Uncredited)A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
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If I Had a Million
as Mrs. Walker's Dancing Partner at Idylwood (uncredited)An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to...
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Children of Divorce
as The SecretaryA young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another...
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Cardinal Richelieu
as AgitatorThe cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
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Within the Law
as General HastingsWhen Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to...
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By Your Leave
as Old Man in ClubA bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
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Man of the World
as Mr. Bradkin (uncredited)A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she...
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The Cowboy and the Lady
as Old Man Sitting next to Mary at the Banquet Table (uncredited)Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
as Butler in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Parnell
as Elderly ManIrish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but...
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Maid of Salem
as Giles Cory (Uncredited)When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes...
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Merrily We Go to Hell
as Wedding Spectator (uncredited)A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan...
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The Young in Heart
as AndrewA family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named...
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Bulldog Drummond
as ColonelBulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the...
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The Great Impersonation
as Villager (uncredited)The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set...
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Stage Mother
as Fred's FatherKitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls...
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The Expert
as DietenhoferAn elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
as Old Man in HospitalThe "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is...
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Gordon of Ghost City
as Amos GrayA cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl...
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Blind Adventure
as uncreditedRichard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international...
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Four Men and a Prayer
as Stationmaster (uncredited)The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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Breakfast for Two
as Receivership Hearing Member (uncredited)After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has...
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The Life of the Party
as Elderly Fashion Show SpectatorTwo female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
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Daniel Boone
as Attorney General's AssociateIn 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
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No Greater Glory
as JanitorA frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
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Gateway
as Old ManIrish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she...
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Laughter in Hell
as JudgeIn the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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Secret Sinners
as Pop - the Stage DoormanA young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to...
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Trouble for Two
as Sir Frederick (Uncredited)A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London...
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Dry Martini
as JosephUpon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy...
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One More River
as Barrister (Uncredited)A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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The Common Law
as Elderly Party Guest (uncredited)When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent...
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Big Business Girl
as Old Man at Graduation Dance (uncredited)A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her...
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Venus of Venice
as Bride's FatherA slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.
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Ladies of Leisure
as uncreditedRich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie,...
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Berkeley Square
as Town Crier (uncredited)A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American...
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The Phantom President
as Old Man (uncredited)Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for...
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The Willow Tree
as PriestAfter Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old...
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Vanity Fair
as Sir Pitt's Butler ParkerAn ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of...
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Three Women
as ButlerA frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her...
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The Three Musketeers
as Pigeon ReceiverThe young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He...
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Interference
as Charles SmithParamount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose...
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Freedom of the Press
as WicksWhen a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician...
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Forgotten
as Mr. JohnsonPapa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and...
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Now or Never
as Robert, the ButlerA visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to...
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East Lynne
as Rev. HartleyThe refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of...
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The Belle of Broadway
as Maurice PenelliMadame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows...
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Women Won't Tell
as WilliamsA homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts...
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Young Fugitives
as Tom RigginsA young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
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The Curtain Falls
as Hotel ManagerIn this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and...
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Strangers of the Night
as LushA rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for...
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The Vagabond King
as The AstrologerThe story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King...
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Music Is Magic
as Elderly Dancer in Music is Magic Number (uncredited)An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from...
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Wages for Wives
as Judge McLeanNell Bailey, taking a lesson from the married lives of her sister, Luella Logan, and her mother,...
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Sea Legs
as CommanderSearchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the...
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Too Many Crooks
as ButlerToo Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written...
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The Dangerous Maid
as John Standish LaneBarbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising...
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Sham
as Uncle James (as Thomas Ricketts)Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an...
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The Red Rider
as Judge"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save...
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Side Show
as Tom AllisonA circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
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Get Your Man
as Old Man in Wax MuseumA young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in...
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Oh, Doctor!
as Mr. PeckRufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he...
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Black Oxen
as Charles DinwiddieA Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double...
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Hi, Gaucho!
as Don Salvador de AragonThe son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
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Secrets of the Night
as Jerry HammondRobert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred...
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Bobbed Hair
as Mr. BrewsterMystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
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Stranded in Paris
as Herr RedersonAmerican shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van...
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Mama Loves Papa
as Mr. PierrepontA woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a...
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To Mary - with Love
as WaiterMary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes...
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Prince of Diamonds
as WilliamsEve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order...
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Doomsday
as Percival's ButlerA woman must choose between a life on the farm and a life of luxury.
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Casey at the Bat
as Laughing Spectator (uncredited)Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable...
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Never the Twain Shall Meet
as Andrew J. Casson (as Thomas Ricketts)Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
as King's AideJeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and...
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Love's Blindness
as Marquis of HurlshireA British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in...
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Human Cargo
as ReporterBonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an...
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My Friend from India
as Judge Elmer Elderberry Egbert BelmoreWealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara...
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Manhattan Love Song
as Rich ManAfter having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly...
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Vagabond Lady
as Spear Department Head (uncredited)Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department...
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Pleasure Cruise
as The Man from Manchester (Uncredited)Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a...
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The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
as Hotel Waiter (uncredited)Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially...
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The Desperate Hero
as ButlerHenry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off...
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Beating the Game
as Jules FanchetteProfessional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a...
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Alice Adams
as J.A. LambAlice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to...
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The Law and the Man
as Quintus NewtoonA silent film from the end of the silent era.
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
as Rheumatic Old ManKitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts...
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The Lady Escapes
as Uncle GeorgeA young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a...
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Bonnie May
as uncreditedYoung actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she...
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Poker Faces
as Henry CurlewIn order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a...
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Glad Rag Doll
as AdmiralShe sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the...
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The Great Lover
as PotterEthel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera...
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He Learned About Women
as AugusHe Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and...
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Red Hot Speed
as Colonel Long (as Thomas Ricketts)A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her...
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A Tailor-Made Man
as Anton HuberA tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
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Just Married
as Makepeace WitterAfter many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
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The Killer
as Tim WestmoreClaire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses,...
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The Eternal Flame
as Vidame de Pameir (as Thomas Ricketts)A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
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The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
as The Rounder (as Thomas Ricketts)Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she...
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Ambassador Bill
as LittletonAn American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue...
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Skirt Shy
as Edgar, the old beauHarry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.
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The Old Soak
as RoueTo the distress of his family, Clem Hawley, retired from his garage business, spends his time...
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Thrill of Youth
as Grandpa Zachary ThayerChet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. ...
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Circe the Enchantress
as Archibald CrummMae Murray as a Jazz Age baby who treats men like swine until she falls for the upright doctor...
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Shattered Idols
as Rev. Dr. RomneyThis exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at...
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A Sailor's Sweetheart
as Professor MeekhamCynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who has left a fortune on the condition...
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Light Fingers
as Edward Madison"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper...
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My Wife and I
as ValetIn a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son...
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Ladies at Play
as Deacon Ezra BoodyAnn Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve...
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Five and Ten Cent Annie
as Adam PeckStreet cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom...
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Cheap Kisses
as The Old ManRefusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes...
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The Lavender Bath Lady
as Simon GregoryYoung shop-girl Mamie Conroy and wealthy Jeanette Gregory become close friends. When Mamie foils...
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