David Kirby

David Kirby

Born: July 16, 1880
Died: April 4, 1954
in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Movies for David Kirby...

Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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Burning Bridges
Title: Burning Bridges
Character: Crabs
Released: September 30, 1928
Type: Movie
Bob and Jim Whitely are twin brothers. Bob, an army veteran who suffered shell shock in the war, escapes from a sanitarium and holds up the Express train, for which Jim is mistakenly arrested. Jim soon escapes from jail in order to find his brother. However, his task is complicated by a crooked sheriff who pins a holdup and murder on him that the sheriff himself actually committed. To make matters worse, the murder victim was Tommy Wilkins, the brother of Jim's fiancee, who now thinks that Jim killed her brother.
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The Shield of Honor
Title: The Shield of Honor
Character: Red
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
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The Royal American
Title: The Royal American
Character: Pat
Released: July 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Story of a young shanghaied sailor. Forced to work as a deckhand on a rough-and-tumble transport vessel, the sailor ends up in South America, where his brutish captain intends to sell guns and ammo to a band of revolutionaries. Besting the villains, Jack gets into the thick of things himself, ultimately rescuing the heroine -- likewise "shanghaied" by the captain -- from Certain Doom.
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The Sunset Derby
Title: The Sunset Derby
Character: Mike Donovan
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
After suffering a fall during a race, rider Jimmy Burke loses his nerve. But with the help of his girlfriend Molly Gibson, Jimmy regains his confidence just in time to achieve victory during the Big Race.
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The King of the Turf
Title: The King of the Turf
Character: Red Kelly
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to jail.
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The Fighting Edge
Title: The Fighting Edge
Released: January 8, 1926
Type: Movie
Juan de Dios O'Rourke, an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, who have been driving large herds north-to-south from Texas into Mexico, and smuggling illegal, no-passport Chinese aliens south-to-north from Mexico into Texas, operating from a rambling mansion on the Texas side of the border, aided by his sweetheart, a rancher's daughter, Phoebe Joyce.
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The Last Edition
Title: The Last Edition
Character: Red Morgan
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promotion at the same time his son is accused of graft and involved in scandal. The historical landmarks of old San Francisco are present: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, City Hall and the Pickwick Hotel-- but they don't distract from the dramatic and emotional perforamces at the film's center.
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Ridin' the Wind
Title: Ridin' the Wind
Character: Sheriff Lacy
Released: August 9, 1925
Type: Movie
1920's cowboy superstar Fred Thomson stars in this western comedy adventure.
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The Lawful Cheater
Title: The Lawful Cheater
Character: Rooney
Released: July 17, 1925
Type: Movie
Disguised as a boy, a young woman gets an inner-city street gang back on the straight and narrow path.
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The Bandit's Baby
Title: The Bandit's Baby
Character: Bill Henry
Released: May 17, 1925
Type: Movie
An American silent Western
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The Man Who Played Square
Title: The Man Who Played Square
Character: Piggy
Released: November 23, 1924
Type: Movie
Rancher Matt Black is willed half of a Nevada gold mine. Arriving there, he learns that the heir of the other half is a young girl named "Bertie." Realizing that there may be some dirty work and theft going on at the mine, he conceals his identity and gets a job as a miner.
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Lightning Romance
Title: Lightning Romance
Character: Red Tayor
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Jack Wade is the son of a wealthy father who runs a successful ship-building company. He uses his athletic prowess to defeat the villainous competitors who are out to financially ruin his father.
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The Man Who Came Back
Title: The Man Who Came Back
Character: Gibson
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father sends him to San Francisco to work in the family shipyards and, to make a man out of him, he is told he will have to start at the bottom and work his way up. Henry decides this is not a good idea and resents it to the point he will indeed start at the bottom but will work his way down from there, and disgrace the family name in San Francisco.
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Danger Ahead
Title: Danger Ahead
Character: Mahoney
Released: September 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Produced by low-budget entrepreneur Phil Goldstone, this silent action melodrama starred Richard Talmadge, a German-born former stunt double for Douglas Fairbanks.Talmadge played Bruce Randall, a wealthy young man supposedly killed during a robbery in his home. But Bruce has survived and is instead wandering about in a state of amnesia.
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The Greatest Menace
Title: The Greatest Menace
Character: Riley Hogan
Released: May 19, 1923
Type: Movie
A DA's son gets involved in a drug-related murder, and it's up to his father and sister to get him out.
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The West~Bound Limited
Title: The West~Bound Limited
Character: Jack Smith
Released: April 14, 1923
Type: Movie
The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more importantly, to tie all the thrillingly on-the-spot railroad footage together. Railroad buffs will enjoy all the atmospheric detail director Johnson has obtained by filming in real freight yards and inside and alongside real steam engines and rolling stock.
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Shame
Title: Shame
Character: 'Once-over' Jake (as 'Red' Kirby)
Released: July 31, 1921
Type: Movie
William Fielding, a young widower, is living in Shanghai with his little boy, David. A young Chinese woman looks after the child, and Foo Chang, a trader, lusts after her. Because he believes she is David's mother, he kills Fielding. Fielding's faithful secretary, Li Clung, takes the boy to San Francisco to be raised by his grandfather. As an adult, David (also played by Gilbert) fights against opium trafficking with Li Clung's help.
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Marked Men
Title: Marked Men
Character: Warden Bruiser Kelly
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Three outlaws rescue a baby in the desert and with barely any water left try to return to the town in which they just robbed a bank. Lost film. A remake of 1916's "The Three Godfathers," which also starred Harry Carey.
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The Poppy Girl's Husband
Title: The Poppy Girl's Husband
Character: The Montana Kid
Released: March 16, 1919
Type: Movie
A silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama about a man who gets out of prison after ten years and discovers that his wife has divorced him and married the man who sent him to prison. Worse yet, she fears he will want to exact revenge, so she sets up her new husband to frame her first husband, so he will be sent back to prison!
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The White Lie
Title: The White Lie
Character: Red Mike
Released: September 2, 1918
Type: Movie
Gordon Kingsley lives happily with his wife Dorothy and little daughter Mary Jane. On visiting the home of San Francisco architect Frank Mason, he is shocked to discover a portrait of his own wife and daughter. Suspecting the worst of Dorothy, he hires a private detective....
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The Girl in the Checkered Coat
Title: The Girl in the Checkered Coat
Character: Jim
Released: April 23, 1917
Type: Movie
When Mary and Fannie Graham, daughters of a good mother but a father with criminal instincts, are left motherless, Mary flees from her unhappy surroundings while Fannie, inheriting her father's disposition, remains and is raised as a thief.