Tom Santschi

Born: 1880-10-24

Tom Santschi was an American leading man and character actor of the silent film era. Additionally, he directed numerous films during the mid 1910s.


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When a Man Loves

as Captain of Convict Boat
Released: 1927-08-21

A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he...

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3 Bad Men

as 'Bull' Stanley
Released: 1926-08-28

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

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The Wagon Master

as Jake Lynch
Released: 1929-09-08

Bill Hollister (Jack Hanlon) organizes a wagon train to break the unfair monopoly held by Jake...

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King of the Wild

as Harris
Released: 1931-03-01

Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to...

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The Garden of Allah

as Boris Androvsky
Released: 1916-12-25

When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden...

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The Third Degree

as Daredevil Daley
Released: 1926-12-01

Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome...

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Paths to Paradise

as Chief of Detectives Callahan
Released: 1925-06-28

Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are...

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The Spoilers

as Alex McNamara
Released: 1914-04-10

The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the...

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River's End

as Shotwell
Released: 1930-11-01

Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named...

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Old San Francisco

as Captain Stoner - in Prologue
Released: 1927-09-04

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

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Paradise Island

as Dutch Mike Lutze
Released: 1930-07-15

The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives...

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In the Long Ago

as The Indian Warrior
Released: 1913-05-15

A picture which illustrates an Indian myth, a poetic love story of the long ago, in which a...

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The Heart of Doreon

as Doreon
Released: 1921-11-13

Doreon, a French-Canadian trapper, is in love with Babette, but she favors bad-boy Blake, who...

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Land of the Silver Fox

as Butch Nelson
Released: 1928-10-18

Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in...

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The Sergeant

as Soldier
Released: 1910-09-21

In this Western, the sergeant takes his commander’s daughter on a horseback ride along the...

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The Maid at the Helm

as Stone - First Mate of the Dakota
Released: 1911-12-07

Story about a girl at sea with rough sailors.

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Kings of the Forest

as Fritz - Sona's Husband
Released: 1912-11-11

A romantic drama that unfolds in part in British India. Sona, who leaves home with her ​​child...

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Her Kingdom of Dreams

as Tom Langley (as Thomas Santschi)
Released: 1919-09-21

A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth...

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The Overland Stage

as Hawk Lespard
Released: 1927-01-31

At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by...

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Du Barry, Woman of Passion

as Bit role (voice)
Released: 1930-10-10

Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and...

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The Phantom of the West

as Bud Landers
Released: 1930-11-10

A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a...

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Ten Nights in a Bar-room

as Simon Slade
Released: 1931-03-01

A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his...

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The Hidden Way

as Bill
Released: 1926-07-26

The film tells the tale of three ex-cons who finally go straight, through the redemptive power...

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The Primrose Path

as Big Joe Snead
Released: 1925-09-14

Alcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more...

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The Cruel Crown

as John Bruce
Released: 1914-04-06

Pandemonium follows the escape of the leopards, placed to guard the treasure-room in Umballah's...

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The Utah Kid

as Butch
Released: 1930-10-27

The Utah Kid eludes a sheriff's posse and takes refuge in Robber's Roost, a hideout for outlaws...

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The Crisis

as Stephen Brice
Released: 1916-12-21

Stephen 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 Rameriz
Released: 1921-10-16

The Honor of Rameriz is a 1921 American silent short Western film produced by Cyrus J. Williams...

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The Hell Cat

as Jim Dyke
Released: 1918-11-24

Pancha O'Brien, the beautiful and spirited daughter of an Irish ranch owner, is loved by two...

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The Law and the Man

as Dan Creedoon
Released: 1928-01-01

A silent film from the end of the silent era.

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Her Honor, the Governor

as Richard Palmer
Released: 1926-07-19

The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele...

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Forlorn River

as Bill Hall
Released: 1926-09-27

A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die...

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The North Wind's Malice

as Roger
Released: 1920-10-17

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The Eyes of the Totem

as Philip La Rue
Released: 1927-05-15

After selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma...

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The Cradle of Courage

as Tierney
Released: 1920-09-19

Former crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of...

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Thundering Dawn

as Gordon Van Brock
Released: 1923-11-05

Jack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to...

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The Mate of the Alden Bessie

as The 'Sea Lawyer'
Released: 1912-01-04

The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest...

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Alone in the Jungle

as Bob Arden
Released: 1913-06-14

The Brown family, which consists of Hon. John Brown, his wife, two sons, Harold and Billy, and a...

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Beware of Strangers

as John Mentor
Released: 1917-02-10

Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell

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Honor Bound

as Mr. Mortimer
Released: 1928-04-29

When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and...

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The Adventures of Kathlyn

as Bruce
Released: 1916-01-14

Feature version of the thirteen episode serial, Adventures of Kathlyn, released three years earlier.

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My Own Pal

as August Deering
Released: 1926-02-28

My Own Pal takes Tom Mix out of his customary western surroundings and plunks him in the middle...

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Little Robinson Crusoe

as Captain Dynes
Released: 1924-08-25

Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with...

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Mother o' Dreams

as Tom
Released: 1921-09-18

Mother o' Dreams

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In Old California When the Gringos Came

as uncredited
Released: 1911-05-04

In Old California When the Gringos Came is a 1911 silent film

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The Land Beyond the Law

as Bob Crew
Released: 1927-06-05

Deputy Marshal Jerry Steele (Ken Maynard) heads off to Oklahoma where a gang of nasty cattle...

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Lost in the Jungle

as Undetermined Role
Released: 1911-10-25

Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John...

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Ben's Kid

as uncredited
Released: 1909-07-01

Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and...

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Back to the Primitive

as uncredited
Released: 1911-05-10

John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and...

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The Desert's Toll

as Jasper
Released: 1926-11-14

Frank Darwin needs to convince Muriel he didn't kill her Father, as claimed by Jasper and Oneta.

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Siberia

as Alexis Vetkin
Released: 1926-03-28

Officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Petroff, is in love with Sonia, a schoolteacher who casts...

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A Colonel in Chains

as John Bruce
Released: 1914-02-23

With Kathlyn's revelations of herself as a slave, Prince Umballah, her purchaser, has her...

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Isle of Lost Men

as Captain Jan Jodahl
Released: 1928-10-02

The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of...

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Tracked by the Police

as 'Sandy' Sturgeon
Released: 1927-05-07

The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or...

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The Adventures of Kathlyn

as John Bruce
Released: 1913-12-29

The serial detailed the experiences of Kathlyn Hare, the pretty daughter of an explorer. Kathlyn...

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Little Orphant Annie

as Dave Johnson
Released: 1918-12-31

Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells...

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The Warrior Maid

as John Bruce
Released: 1914-05-14

Kathlyn and her sister, Winnie, have hardly disappeared through the trap leading from the big...

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Alas! Poor Yorick!

as Deranged Actor
Released: 1913-04-21

A mentally deranged sanatorium patient imagines that he is the world's greatest actor.

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The Stronger Vow

as Pedro Toral
Released: 1919-04-27

During the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he...

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Vultures of the Sea

as Grim Hawley - Sea Captain
Released: 1928-03-01

When his father is falsely convicted and sentenced to die for a murder committed aboard ship,...

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Brass Commandments

as Campan
Released: 1923-01-28

"Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria...

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Who Shall Take My Life?

as Big Bill O'Shaughnessy (as Thomas Santschi)
Released: 1917-12-01

A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed....

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The Leopard's Foundling

as Peter Herman
Released: 1914-06-29

The scene opens on the road to Kingsley as Peter Herman and his wife, Anna, are trekking slowly...

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The Two Ordeals

as John Bruce
Released: 1914-01-12

Kathlyn quickly recovers from the curious sensation of being forced to occupy an unwelcome...

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In Search of Arcady

as Lascho
Released: 1919-06-01

To escape the title-hunting suitors with whom her mother and aunt have surrounded her, Barbara...

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Shipwrecked

as Joe Runyon
Released: 1911-09-21

Annie Jackson, living with her uncle, Horace Gregory, an old fisherman on Val Dez Island, is...

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Hands Across the Border

as Breen
Released: 1926-05-01

Cattle rancher John Drake sends his son, Ted, to the Mexican border to stop the smuggling that...

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Three Bags of Silver

as John Bruce (as Thomas Santschi)
Released: 1914-03-09

The chance-shot fired by the villainous but keen-sighted Umballah, makes a bone-bruise upon the...

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The New Superintendent

as Bill Rooney - a Workman
Released: 1911-11-16

James Morley, superintendent of the Crown Hill oil refinery, is unable to cope with the rough...

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Are You a Failure?

as Kildevil Brenon
Released: 1923-03-15

Coddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs...

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The Blood Seedling

as Allan Golyer
Released: 1915-09-23

Farmer Allen Golyer finds his romance with his naïve sweetheart Susie usurped by Bertie Leon, a...

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Hills of Kentucky

as Ben Harley
Released: 1927-02-26

Adapted from Dorothy Yost's story, "The Untamed Heart"

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Thor, Lord of the Jungles

as Jan Karl
Released: 1913-11-01

John Brant, his only daughter, Gene, and Jan Karl, a farmhand, live on a farm in Central Africa,...

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The Spellbound Multitude

as John Bruce
Released: 1914-04-20

Kathlyn's sister, Winnie, has been cowed and terrorized, is forcibly crowned Queen of Allaha, to...

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The King's Will

as John Bruce
Released: 1914-06-01

Fast following the death of the King of Allaha, Prince Umballah, dethroned by the revolution,...

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The Forged Parchment

as John Bruce
Released: 1914-05-18

The captain of the guards, who was deposed by Umballah, observes Kathlyn in a perilous plight in...

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The Haunted Ship

as Glenister
Released: 1927-12-01

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Mike's Brainstorm

as Mike Rosenberg
Released: 1912-11-22

Mike Rosenberg, a ne'er-do-well, is broke, but still is undenied the pleasure of imagination. A...

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The Blacksmith's Love

as Joe Saunders - the Blacksmith
Released: 1911-08-16

The Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His...

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