Tom Santschi
Tom Santschi was an American leading man and character actor of the silent film era. Additionally, he directed numerous films during the mid 1910s.
3 Bad Men
as 'Bull' StanleyThree outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
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When a Man Loves
as Captain of Convict BoatA nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he...
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Old San Francisco
as Captain Stoner - in PrologueIn San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property...
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King of the Wild
as HarrisRichard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to...
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The Primrose Path
as Big Joe SneadAlcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more...
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River's End
as ShotwellSgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named...
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The Overland Stage
as Hawk LespardAt a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by...
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Land of the Silver Fox
as Butch NelsonRin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in...
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The Cruel Crown
as John BrucePandemonium follows the escape of the leopards, placed to guard the treasure-room in Umballah's...
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The Spoilers
as Alex McNamaraThe Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the...
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The Stronger Vow
as Pedro ToralDuring the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he...
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Ben's Kid
as uncreditedBuck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and...
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Paths to Paradise
as Chief of Detectives CallahanTwo thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are...
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The Third Degree
as Daredevil DaleyAlicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome...
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The Wagon Master
as Jake LynchBill Hollister (Jack Hanlon) organizes a wagon train to break the unfair monopoly held by Jake...
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Paradise Island
as Dutch Mike LutzeThe south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives...
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Tracked by the Police
as 'Sandy' SturgeonThe Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or...
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
as Tom Langley (as Thomas Santschi)A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth...
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Lost in the Jungle
as Undetermined RoleJan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John...
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In the Long Ago
as The Indian WarriorA picture which illustrates an Indian myth, a poetic love story of the long ago, in which a...
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Forlorn River
as Bill HallA wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die...
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Her Honor, the Governor
as Richard PalmerThe only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele...
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Back to the Primitive
as uncreditedJohn Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and...
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The Phantom of the West
as Bud LandersA young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a...
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My Own Pal
as August DeeringMy Own Pal takes Tom Mix out of his customary western surroundings and plunks him in the middle...
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The Leopard's Foundling
as Peter HermanThe scene opens on the road to Kingsley as Peter Herman and his wife, Anna, are trekking slowly...
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
as Bit role (voice)Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and...
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The Eyes of the Totem
as Philip La RueAfter selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma...
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The Law and the Man
as Dan CreedoonA silent film from the end of the silent era.
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Siberia
as Alexis VetkinOfficer in the Imperial Russian Army, Petroff, is in love with Sonia, a schoolteacher who casts...
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The Utah Kid
as ButchThe Utah Kid eludes a sheriff's posse and takes refuge in Robber's Roost, a hideout for outlaws...
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The Maid at the Helm
as Stone - First Mate of the DakotaStory about a girl at sea with rough sailors.
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The Garden of Allah
as Boris AndrovskyWhen her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden...
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Hills of Kentucky
as Ben HarleyAdapted from Dorothy Yost's story, "The Untamed Heart"
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The Cradle of Courage
as TierneyFormer crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of...
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Ten Nights in a Bar-room
as Simon SladeA man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his...
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Thundering Dawn
as Gordon Van BrockJack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to...
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Honor Bound
as Mr. MortimerWhen a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and...
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The Warrior Maid
as John BruceKathlyn and her sister, Winnie, have hardly disappeared through the trap leading from the big...
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The Two Ordeals
as John BruceKathlyn quickly recovers from the curious sensation of being forced to occupy an unwelcome...
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The Desert's Toll
as JasperFrank Darwin needs to convince Muriel he didn't kill her Father, as claimed by Jasper and Oneta.
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The Land Beyond the Law
as Bob CrewDeputy Marshal Jerry Steele (Ken Maynard) heads off to Oklahoma where a gang of nasty cattle...
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Kings of the Forest
as Fritz - Sona's HusbandA romantic drama that unfolds in part in British India. Sona, who leaves home with her child...
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The New Superintendent
as Bill Rooney - a WorkmanJames Morley, superintendent of the Crown Hill oil refinery, is unable to cope with the rough...
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The Hell Cat
as Jim DykePancha O'Brien, the beautiful and spirited daughter of an Irish ranch owner, is loved by two...
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Little Orphant Annie
as Dave JohnsonAnnie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells...
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The Crisis
as Stephen BriceStephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel,...
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The Honor of Rameriz
as RamerizThe Honor of Rameriz is a 1921 American silent short Western film produced by Cyrus J. Williams...
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The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The 'Sea Lawyer'The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest...
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Alas! Poor Yorick!
as Deranged ActorA mentally deranged sanatorium patient imagines that he is the world's greatest actor.
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A Colonel in Chains
as John BruceWith Kathlyn's revelations of herself as a slave, Prince Umballah, her purchaser, has her...
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The Adventures of Kathlyn
as BruceFeature version of the thirteen episode serial, Adventures of Kathlyn, released three years earlier.
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Vultures of the Sea
as Grim Hawley - Sea CaptainWhen his father is falsely convicted and sentenced to die for a murder committed aboard ship,...
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The Heart of Doreon
as DoreonDoreon, a French-Canadian trapper, is in love with Babette, but she favors bad-boy Blake, who...
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Are You a Failure?
as Kildevil BrenonCoddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs...
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Three Bags of Silver
as John Bruce (as Thomas Santschi)The chance-shot fired by the villainous but keen-sighted Umballah, makes a bone-bruise upon the...
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Brass Commandments
as Campan"Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria...
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Alone in the Jungle
as Bob ArdenThe Brown family, which consists of Hon. John Brown, his wife, two sons, Harold and Billy, and a...
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The Blacksmith's Love
as Joe Saunders - the BlacksmithThe Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His...
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The Hidden Way
as BillThe film tells the tale of three ex-cons who finally go straight, through the redemptive power...
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Beware of Strangers
as John MentorBeware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
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In Old California When the Gringos Came
as uncreditedIn Old California When the Gringos Came is a 1911 silent film
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The King's Will
as John BruceFast following the death of the King of Allaha, Prince Umballah, dethroned by the revolution,...
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The Sergeant
as SoldierIn this Western, the sergeant takes his commander’s daughter on a horseback ride along the...
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Isle of Lost Men
as Captain Jan JodahlThe Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of...
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Little Robinson Crusoe
as Captain DynesLeft an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with...
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The Spellbound Multitude
as John BruceKathlyn's sister, Winnie, has been cowed and terrorized, is forcibly crowned Queen of Allaha, to...
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Hands Across the Border
as BreenCattle rancher John Drake sends his son, Ted, to the Mexican border to stop the smuggling that...
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The Adventures of Kathlyn
as John BruceThe serial detailed the experiences of Kathlyn Hare, the pretty daughter of an explorer. Kathlyn...
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The Forged Parchment
as John BruceThe captain of the guards, who was deposed by Umballah, observes Kathlyn in a perilous plight in...
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Who Shall Take My Life?
as Big Bill O'Shaughnessy (as Thomas Santschi)A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed....
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In Search of Arcady
as LaschoTo escape the title-hunting suitors with whom her mother and aunt have surrounded her, Barbara...
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Thor, Lord of the Jungles
as Jan KarlJohn Brant, his only daughter, Gene, and Jan Karl, a farmhand, live on a farm in Central Africa,...
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Shipwrecked
as Joe RunyonAnnie Jackson, living with her uncle, Horace Gregory, an old fisherman on Val Dez Island, is...
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Mike's Brainstorm
as Mike RosenbergMike Rosenberg, a ne'er-do-well, is broke, but still is undenied the pleasure of imagination. A...
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The Blood Seedling
as Allan GolyerFarmer Allen Golyer finds his romance with his naïve sweetheart Susie usurped by Bertie Leon, a...
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