John Bowers

John Bowers

Born: December 25, 1885
Died: November 17, 1936
in Garrett, Indiana, USA

Movies for John Bowers...

Say It with Songs
Title: Say It with Songs
Character: Dr. Burnes, surgeon
Released: August 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.
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The Opening Night
Title: The Opening Night
Character: Jimmy Keane
Released: November 14, 1927
Type: Movie
When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress wife Carol Chandler (Claire Windsor), thought to be a widow, marrying her leading man Jimmy Keane (John Bowers). Rather than mar her new-found happiness, he takes a job washing cars. New York City is a small town. Will Carol need her car washed?
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Three Hours
Title: Three Hours
Character: James Finlay
Released: March 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a new wardrobe. One of her victims is a Mr. Finlay, who threatens to turn her over to the police -- until he hears Madeline's woeful tale of her cruel, possessive husband.
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Pals in Paradise
Title: Pals in Paradise
Character: Bill Harvey
Released: November 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Bill Harvey discovers a lost mine, rich with gold. Geraldine "Jerry" Howard has the claim to it left her by her father. Bill tells her that the death of the claimant, her father, makes a claim void. Infuriated, she goes to John Kenton, a crooked lawyer, for aid. Kenton sees an opportunity for wealth if he marries Geraldine, but Bill tells her that Kenton is only after her money. She gets more infuriated. While Bill and a posse are raiding an immoral cabaret, Kenton raids the Paradise freight depot to steal the money. The depot catches fire and Kenton shoots his henchman to save himself. The town and Geraldine think Kenton is a hero. It is up to Bill to prove otherwise.
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Laddie
Title: Laddie
Character: Laddie
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor but meets opposition from her stern military father who has recently immigrated from England.
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The Dice Woman
Title: The Dice Woman
Character: Hamlin
Released: June 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Anita Gray is the spoiled daughter of a millionaire. Returning home from a party, her car breaks down and she is picked up by a stranger, who sells her his car for a diamond bracelet. The car has been stolen and the police arrest her, but she escapes and takes refuge on a freighter bound for China. She has no money and has to work her way there. Her father learns of her destination and hires Hamlin to bring her safely home.
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Whispering Smith
Title: Whispering Smith
Character: McCloud
Released: March 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransacking wrecks. Sinclair along with his henchmen, retire to his ranch and forays against the railroad. "Whispering Smith," engaged by the railroad to restore order, is hesitant in dealing with Sinclair when he falls in love with Marion, Sinclair's wife, who is separated from her husband and operates a small shop in Medicine Bend. Dicksie, McCloud's sweetheart, overhears Sinclair threaten McCloud, and she rides through a storm to warn him; Smith, with the aid of Bill Dancing, tracks down Sinclair and his men, and Bill kills the villain. Dicksie and McCloud marry and take Marion under their protection.
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Rocking Moon
Title: Rocking Moon
Character: Gary Tynan
Released: January 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Sasha Larianoff lives on Rocking Moon Island where she runs a blue fox farm with the help of Gary Tynan. Nash, a trader, has a mortgage on the farm, and Sasha is hoping to pay it off with the season's receipts. But then Sasha's fox pelts disappear, as does Gary. Nash, who is in love with Sasha himself, suggests that Gary is not the fine, upstanding man he appeared to be. This, of course, is untrue -- Gary has been trapped and tied up.
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Daughters Who Pay
Title: Daughters Who Pay
Character: Dick Foster
Released: May 10, 1925
Type: Movie
Immediately after the October revolution, in Russia, stir unrest and propaganda against the Government of the United States. Serge Oumansky is a Communist agent trying to organize terrorist actions against the same United States.
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Confessions of a Queen
Title: Confessions of a Queen
Character: Prince Alexei
Released: March 30, 1925
Type: Movie
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Turmoil increases as a revolution demands the abdication of the King and the Queen opposes this decision.
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So Big
Title: So Big
Character: Pervus DeJong
Released: December 28, 1924
Type: Movie
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
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Those Who Dare
Title: Those Who Dare
Character: Captain Manning
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with it. The captain, who lives alone, visits the Mariner's Home and relates the story of how he came into possession of the schooner. Manning was the first mate on the yacht of a wealthy man when it encountered the Swallow at sea. He went on board, accompanied by the drug-addicted son of his employer, and discovered a mutinous crew and a disabled captain fighting for control of the ship. Manning took charge and brought the ship safely to port, after successfully putting down the mutineers by humiliating their leader, who had kept them in fear by practicing voodoo in the ship's hold. Manning later married the captain's daughter. Now he controls the ship.
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Empty Hearts
Title: Empty Hearts
Character: Milt Kimberlin
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Milt Kimberlin is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and engaging Clara Bow), doesn't care -- she turns down the fancy jewelry offered by oily Frank Gorman for a wedding ring from Kimberlin. Even though his finances never improve, Rosalie sticks by her husband only to sicken and die in a garret. Kimberlin's luck changes almost overnight and he becomes incredibly wealthy.
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The White Sin
Title: The White Sin
Character: Grant Van Gore
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an act so heinous as to defy belief, has the captain of his yacht perform a fake marriage ceremony. He ruins poor Hattie Lou, and then abandons her ashore the very next morning. A year later, the destitute girl and her starving baby are wandering the streets. When she sees a newspaper headline announcing that Grant has drowned at sea, Hattie Lou hatches a desperate plan for survival. She will present herself to the wealthy Van Gore's, who cannot fail to provide for their late son's widow and child!
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Richard the Lion-Hearted
Title: Richard the Lion-Hearted
Character: Sir Kenneth, Knight of the Leopard
Released: October 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the previous year.
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Crinoline and Romance
Title: Crinoline and Romance
Character: Davis Jordan
Released: February 5, 1923
Type: Movie
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What a Wife Learned
Title: What a Wife Learned
Character: Jim Russell
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Title: Quincy Adams Sawyer
Character: Quincy Adams Sawyer
Released: December 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: John Ridd
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
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Affinities
Title: Affinities
Character: Day Illington
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
A Colleen Moore film directed by Ward Lascelle which is now considered lost.
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The Bonded Woman
Title: The Bonded Woman
Character: John Somers
Released: August 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. Her task takes her from San Francisco bondage-servitude to a dance-hall in Honolulu to a remote South Seas island. She survives a shipwreck along the way.
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The Golden Gift
Title: The Golden Gift
Character: James Llewelyn
Released: February 6, 1922
Type: Movie
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Voices of the City
Title: Voices of the City
Character: Graham
Released: December 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Voices of the City is a 1921 American silent crime drama film starring Leatrice Joy and Lon Chaney that was directed by Wallace Worsley. It is considered to be a lost film.
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The Silent Call
Title: The Silent Call
Character: Clark Moran
Released: November 7, 1921
Type: Movie
A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts.
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The Poverty of Riches
Title: The Poverty of Riches
Character: Tom Donaldson
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson, decide to start a family right away. While John works his way up to a position of power at a steel firm, Katherine begins to question the wisdom of their decision.
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Bits of Life
Title: Bits of Life
Character: Dentist's Patient
Released: September 26, 1921
Type: Movie
This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine in which the son of a Chinese father and a white mother is sold into slavery by his father. The boy becomes a criminal and a cunning but cruel thief. The one time he stops to help a lady in distress he is thrown in jail. Wesley Barry is the young boy and Lon Chaney the grown-up criminal.
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The Ace of Hearts
Title: The Ace of Hearts
Character: Forrest
Released: September 17, 1921
Type: Movie
A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even more tense when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.
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The Sky Pilot
Title: The Sky Pilot
Character: The Sky Pilot
Released: April 16, 1921
Type: Movie
Arthur Moore, a missionary preacher, attempts to fit into the cowboy community so he can set up a church in the local saloon. Gwen, daughter of the "Old Timer," is injured in a stampede and loses her ability to walk. Though rejected by the townsfolk, the preacher's wisdom and love are needed if the young girl is to be healed. Shot in 'Vidor Village', Vidor's ill-fated studio property in California's High Sierra.
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An Unwilling Hero
Title: An Unwilling Hero
Character: Hunter
Released: January 8, 1921
Type: Movie
As a man travels down to New Orleans for the winter, he finds out a robbery will be taken place on Christmas night in a plantation. he helps a girl by making it available for her to marry her boyfriend.
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Godless Men
Title: Godless Men
Character: Dan Darrin
Released: November 6, 1920
Type: Movie
On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and reflects only his dark side.
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The Woman in Room 13
Title: The Woman in Room 13
Character: Paul Ramsey
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Laura Bruce is married to John Bruce, police commissioner. She discovers her husband is enjoying a drunken revel with another woman, and vows she will obtain a divorce. After doing so she weds Paul Ramsey. His employer, Dick Turner, a libertine, offers his a responsible position in the west, and she faces a long separation. Ramsey later learns that Turner is interested in his wife and engages a man to protect her, who happens to be her former husband.
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Through the Wrong Door
Title: Through the Wrong Door
Character: Burt Radcliffe
Released: July 20, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman goes to visit friends but mistakenly rings at the wrong address. She is greeted and taken in out of the storm by a handsome young man to whom she is immediately attracted. What she does not know, however, is that this young man has been fleeced by her father and has sworn vengeance against him.
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The Pest
Title: The Pest
Character: Gene Giles
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady John Harland is courting the judge's daughter Blanche because of her father's money and position. To amuse herself, Blanche invites Jigs to a party with her "sophiscated" friends, intending to humiliate and embarrass Jigs. Things don't quite go the way Blanche planned.
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Sis Hopkins
Title: Sis Hopkins
Character: Ridy Scarboro
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Sis is an eccentric young girl in a small rural village. While most around Sis view her as a joke, she is loved by Ridy Scarboro, the clerk at the general store. One day Sis's dog knocks an oil can into the Hopkins well and when wealthy old Vibert tastes the water, he believes the Hopkins have an oil strike.....
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The Sea Waif
Title: The Sea Waif
Character: Harry Caton
Released: December 30, 1918
Type: Movie
Harry Caton, a popular New York musical-comedy star, loses his voice on stage and then journeys to a small town on the New England coast to recuperate. Here Harry meets the beautiful Nancy Potter when he defends her against the drunken advances of Silas Jones, her father's friend. Although his daughter believes that he is a fisherman, Cail Potter is actually a thief, robbing houses along the coast with Silas as his accomplice. When Cail robs the wealthy Col. Brett's home, he finds an old miniature of a woman who exactly resembles Nancy, whom Cail rescued from a wrecked boat when she was just a year old. Soon after the robbery, Harry learns that the police are about to raid Cail's house, but Silas knocks him unconscious when he attempts to warn Nancy.
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A Woman of Redemption
Title: A Woman of Redemption
Character: Tim Stanton
Released: June 24, 1918
Type: Movie
Gene Romaine lives in the solitude of Tall Pine Mountain with her father, fire warden for the Stanton Lumber Company. They live alone, but her mother's grave is in the little clearing and the father has promised never to leave it. To them comes McDaniels, the logging boss, who is attracted by Jean and offers her father to discard his Indian wife for the young girl. Romaine indignantly refuses and is threatened with dismissal. Gene, knowing he cannot bear to leave his wife's grave, assents to the marriage in spite of her father's protests. Stanton, chief owner of the lumber company, maroons his worthless son in the woods, in the hope of reforming him. Gene takes care of him when he sprains his ankle, and he protects her from McDaniels and is blamed for the murder of the boss when his vengeful Indian wife stabs him in the back.
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The Cabaret
Title: The Cabaret
Character: Dick Turner
Released: June 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Helene, who dances in a Greenwich Village cabaret accompanied on the violin by her grandfather, loses her job after his death. She then is hired as a portrait model by four artists--Jaffrey Darrel, Ned Lorrimer, Dick Turner and Stanley Sargent--all of whom become fascinated with her. Helene leaves the Village when Ned's jealousy disrupts the camaraderie of the quartet and becomes a stage star. Meanwhile, all of the artists have attained success except Jaffrey, who refuses to taint his art with commercialism.
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The Oldest Law
Title: The Oldest Law
Character: Billy West
Released: May 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Following the death of her father, a Maine trapper, Jennie Cox moves to New York to earn her living.
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The Spurs of Sybil
Title: The Spurs of Sybil
Released: March 4, 1918
Type: Movie
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Stolen Hours
Title: Stolen Hours
Character: Hugh Carton
Released: January 7, 1918
Type: Movie
During a raid on a gambling establishment run by her father, Cosmo Lester, Diana Lester rescues Hugh Carton, a member of the English Parliament and a candidate for the Cabinet. Hugh gratefully offers Diana a position as his sister's companion, and soon, the two fall desperately in love.
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The Strong Way
Title: The Strong Way
Character: Don Chadwick
Released: December 31, 1917
Type: Movie
Eunice Torrence (June Elvidge) has wed the elderly Geoffrey Farrow (Joe Herbert) only because her mother (Isabelle Berwin) wanted her to marry money. But Farrow is a rotten character and Eunice, who really loves Don Chadwick (John Bowers), immediately regrets her decision.
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Betsy Ross
Title: Betsy Ross
Character: Joseph Ashburn
Released: September 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.
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A Self-Made Widow
Title: A Self-Made Widow
Character: Fitzhugh Castleton
Released: July 23, 1917
Type: Movie
On the promise of marriage, Sylvia Smith, a simple girl from Lone Meadows, follows her lover to the city only to discover that he already has a wife.
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The Bondage of Fear
Title: The Bondage of Fear
Character: Dick Mortimer
Released: January 23, 1917
Type: Movie
Vesta Wheatley is the daughter of a Virginia physician; John Randolph is a New Yorker who buys a tract of land from her father. Vesta and John fall in love, get married, and move to New York. They are followed, however, by a persistent old flame of Vesta's, Dick Mortimer. He tracks her down to a mountain cabin, where she is alone. A burglar breaks in on the two, and Dick is killed trying to protect Vesta. The burglar blackmails Vesta until she finally becomes desperate and shoots him in her own home.
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Hulda from Holland
Title: Hulda from Holland
Character: Allan Walton
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
Hulda, a plucky Dutch girl, brings her three little brothers from Holland to America to live with their rich Uncle Peter. Hulda finds love with a poor artist.
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Destiny's Toy
Title: Destiny's Toy
Character: Rev. Robert Carter
Released: June 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Young Nan was rescued from a shipwreck by a man who becomes her foster father. Years later, when he dies, she moves to a nearby city and unknowingly gets involved with a criminal gang. When the gang attempts and fails to rob wealthy Thomas Carter's home, Nan finally discovers what they are and tells the police all she knows, resulting in the imprisonment of Bad Riley, the gang's leader. Grateful, the Carter family takes Nan into their home, to replace a young daughter who had drowned years before, and the young son, Rev. Robert Carter, begins a romance with her. However, the jailed Riley soon escapes and comes after Nan.
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The Eternal Grind
Title: The Eternal Grind
Character: Owen Wharton
Released: April 17, 1916
Type: Movie
Louise (Pickford) is a sewing-machine girl in a sweatshop in New York City. She lives together with her sisters Amy (Loretta Blake) and Jane (Dorothy West) and are all deprived by bad conditions at work and sickness. Louise tries for the three of them to survive and regards herself as the keeper of her sisters. Meanwhile, she stands up to her bosses and complains about the dreadful circumstances they work in. When Amy is seduced by the son of the shop-owner, Louise butts in and stops the romance. He eventually abandons Amy and becomes seriously injured in a cave-in. Louise has a secret crush on the son herself and tries to rescue him, hoping he will admit he loves her. The film is inspired by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which took place in 1911. The only version of the film is a nitrate print in the Cinematheque Francaise, but only the first half remains.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Monsieur Floriot
Released: January 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Title: In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Character: Dick Madison
Released: November 30, 1914
Type: Movie
Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Starlight aids in their escape and they join a group of hunters. But there is more trouble when the tribe attacks again.