Otto Hoffman

Otto Hoffman

Born: May 1, 1879
Died: June 23, 1944
in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Movies for Otto Hoffman...

This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: Victor, Printer
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Sagebrush Law
Title: Sagebrush Law
Character: Doc Crandall
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Tom Weston arriving in town just as the Doctor announces his father's death a suicide, sees the gun is in the wrong hand. When the Bank Examiner announces the bank has no money and Tom's identity becomes known, the townsmen attempt to hang him. Escaping he finds the phony examiner and gets a a confession. Then he plans a trap for the murderer. -IMDB
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Red River Robin Hood
Title: Red River Robin Hood
Character: Editor Sam Sterling
Released: November 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An honest cowpoke (Tim Holt) comes to the rescue when the ranchers of Red River, AZ have their property seized by a greedy businessman (Eddie Dew). This 1942 B-western, directed by Lesley Selander, also stars Barbara Moffett, Cliff Edwards, Otto Hoffman and Russell Wade.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Retiring Cemetery Caretaker (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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The Mad Martindales
Title: The Mad Martindales
Character: Pawnbroker
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
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The Ghost of Frankenstein
Title: The Ghost of Frankenstein
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
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Ball of Fire
Title: Ball of Fire
Character: Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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Texas
Title: Texas
Character: Saddle Artisan
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: New York Globe Teletype Operator (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Title: Stranger on the Third Floor
Character: Charles Evans
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Lucky Partners
Title: Lucky Partners
Character: Court Clerk
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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Lucky Cisco Kid
Title: Lucky Cisco Kid
Character: Storekeeper Ed Stoke
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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My Little Chickadee
Title: My Little Chickadee
Character: Pete - Printer (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
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The Blue Bird
Title: The Blue Bird
Character: Crab Apple
Released: January 15, 1940
Type: Movie
An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of happiness, meeting friends and foes along the way.
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Title: Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Character: Station Agent
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
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Our Leading Citizen
Title: Our Leading Citizen
Character: Mr. Stoney
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Title: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character: Pawnbroker
Released: April 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Mayor
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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One Wild Night
Title: One Wild Night
Character: Tom - Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
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Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Title: Mr. Boggs Steps Out
Character: Jenkins
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Old Man
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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Living on Love
Title: Living on Love
Character: Alex
Released: November 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
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Hideaway
Title: Hideaway
Character: Hank
Released: August 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
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All Over Town
Title: All Over Town
Character: Peter Stuyvesant 'Pete' Phillips
Released: August 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Title: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Character: Miner Who Struck Gold (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
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Midnight Taxi
Title: Midnight Taxi
Character: Louie the Tailor
Released: April 4, 1937
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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Girl Loves Boy
Title: Girl Loves Boy
Character: Gus Wilkey
Released: March 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized.
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Career Woman
Title: Career Woman
Character: Frank Jackson
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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Show Them No Mercy!
Title: Show Them No Mercy!
Character: Hick (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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Hot Tip
Title: Hot Tip
Character: Old Man on Porch
Released: August 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
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Smart Girl
Title: Smart Girl
Character: Wilson (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Blind Man (Uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
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Fighting Shadows
Title: Fighting Shadows
Character: Hank Stalkey
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting a prisoner in the back and is then put in jail by a fellow Mountie.
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Big Calibre
Title: Big Calibre
Character: Man at Dance
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
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Captain Hurricane
Title: Captain Hurricane
Character: Silas Coffin
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.
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Kid Millions
Title: Kid Millions
Character: Khoot
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Kentucky Kernels
Title: Kentucky Kernels
Character: Henry - Banesville Station Agent
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
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My Grandfather's Clock
Title: My Grandfather's Clock
Character: Grandfather Willoughby (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1934
Type: Movie
At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. It seems as though there was a second will and changes have been made as to who will receive what. Philo is the ace detective, and he brings everyone from the nightclub to see him solve the case.
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Bachelor Bait
Title: Bachelor Bait
Character: Postal Clerk (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1934
Type: Movie
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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Back Page
Title: Back Page
Character: Lawyer
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
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Death Takes a Holiday
Title: Death Takes a Holiday
Character: Fedele
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
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Beloved
Title: Beloved
Character: Dietrich
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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Night Flight
Title: Night Flight
Character: Airport Office Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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A Man of Sentiment
Title: A Man of Sentiment
Character: Landlord
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.
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Fast Workers
Title: Fast Workers
Character: James Collins (Uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Title: Mystery of the Wax Museum
Character: Igor's Assistant (Uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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The Iron Master
Title: The Iron Master
Character: Grange
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
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The Cheyenne Kid
Title: The Cheyenne Kid
Character: Winters
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.
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Haunted Gold
Title: Haunted Gold
Character: Simon - Benedict's Servant
Released: December 17, 1932
Type: Movie
John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan and his gang are also there to get the gold. A mysterious Phantom is also present. Mason's plan to expose Ryan as an outlaw and to force him to turn his share to Janet works. But when distracted by the Phantom, John is made a prisoner by the gang.
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Downstairs
Title: Downstairs
Character: Otto
Released: August 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
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Hello Trouble
Title: Hello Trouble
Character: Calvin Sharp
Released: July 15, 1932
Type: Movie
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.
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The County Fair
Title: The County Fair
Character: Specs Matthews
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
A Kentucky horse owner hires an ex-jockey, who is now working as a waiter, to train his thoroughbred race horse for an upcoming race. However, a gambling ring that doesn't want the horse entering the race has other plans.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Station Agent Investigating Screams (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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Under Eighteen
Title: Under Eighteen
Character: Penthouse Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
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Side Show
Title: Side Show
Character: Otto - Seated on Sheriff's Left
Released: September 19, 1931
Type: Movie
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
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Young as You Feel
Title: Young as You Feel
Character: Secretary
Released: August 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
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Son of India
Title: Son of India
Character: Jeweler (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
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The Avenger
Title: The Avenger
Character: Black Kelly
Released: March 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
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Captain Applejack
Title: Captain Applejack
Character: Horace Pengard
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
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Cimarron
Title: Cimarron
Character: Murch Rankin (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1931
Type: Movie
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
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The Criminal Code
Title: The Criminal Code
Character: Jim Fales
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
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Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Character: Offut
Released: November 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: Azaf
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
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Sinners' Holiday
Title: Sinners' Holiday
Character: George
Released: October 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Shanghai Lady Seller
Released: September 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
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The Other Tomorrow
Title: The Other Tomorrow
Character: Ted Journet
Released: February 9, 1930
Type: Movie
The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
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Acquitted
Title: Acquitted
Character: Smith
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
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Is Everybody Happy?
Title: Is Everybody Happy?
Character: Landlord
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.
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On With the Show!
Title: On With the Show!
Character: Bart
Released: July 13, 1929
Type: Movie
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
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Madonna of Avenue A
Title: Madonna of Avenue A
Character: Monk
Released: June 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A young woman is shocked to discover that her mother, who she always believed was a stylish and successful member of upper-crust society, is actually a dance-hall "hostess" at a low-class nightclub. Wanting revenge on her mother, she marries a brutal bootlegger, which causes her mother to do something that turns out to have dire consequences for everybody. This is reportedly a lost film.
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The Desert Song
Title: The Desert Song
Character: Hasse
Released: April 8, 1929
Type: Movie
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.
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Hardboiled Rose
Title: Hardboiled Rose
Character: Apyton Hale
Released: March 30, 1929
Type: Movie
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away from it all.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: Investor with Gun / Trader
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
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The Power of the Press
Title: The Power of the Press
Character: Blake's Aide
Released: October 30, 1928
Type: Movie
The naive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem, she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Soapy Marks
Released: September 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
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Rinty of the Desert
Title: Rinty of the Desert
Character: Pop Marlow
Released: April 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Rinty rescues heroine June and hero Pat from all manner of desert dangers, both natural and man-made. The film's high point of tension finds the canine star rescuing Nye from a deep pit.
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The Fourflusher
Title: The Fourflusher
Character: Mr. Riggs
Released: January 8, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Councilman
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
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Painted Ponies
Title: Painted Ponies
Character: Jim
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A rodeo rider arrives in Toptown to compete in the local rodeo. He meets a pretty young girl who, with her crippled father, runs a merry-go-round for the town's children. The town bully, who has designs on the young girl, tries to drive off the cowboy but is beaten senseless in the resulting fight. Soon afterwards, however, the girl's father is found shot, and the cowboy is arrested for the crime.
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The Stolen Bride
Title: The Stolen Bride
Character: Papa Pless
Released: August 10, 1927
Type: Movie
The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
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Beware of Widows
Title: Beware of Widows
Character: Mr. Warren
Released: May 23, 1927
Type: Movie
The handsome Dr. John Waller specializes in the ailments of women, or more specifically, wealthy widows.
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Millionaires
Title: Millionaires
Character: Detective
Released: October 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.
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More Pay - Less Work
Title: More Pay - Less Work
Character: Henry Tweedle
Released: July 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.
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The Boy Friend
Title: The Boy Friend
Character: Mr. Harper
Released: January 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man uses tips from an absurd book to woo a woman he fancies.
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The Eagle
Title: The Eagle
Character: Man Whose Purse is Stolen (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
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Bobbed Hair
Title: Bobbed Hair
Character: McTish
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
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Satan in Sables
Title: Satan in Sables
Character: Sergius
Released: October 14, 1925
Type: Movie
A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
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The Circle
Title: The Circle
Character: Dorker
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must decide whether to give everything up to follow her heart and run off with Ted.
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Confessions of a Queen
Title: Confessions of a Queen
Character: King's Valet
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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The Dixie Handicap
Title: The Dixie Handicap
Character: The Major
Released: December 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Tale of a man and his horse.
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Secrets of the Night
Title: Secrets of the Night
Character: Coroner
Released: November 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
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This Woman
Title: This Woman
Character: Judson
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
This Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and starring Irene Rich, Ricardo Cortez, Louise Fazenda, Frank Elliott, Creighton Hale, and Marc McDermott. Based on the 1924 novel This Woman by Howard Rockey, it was released by Warner Bros. on November 2, 1924.
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The Arizona Express
Title: The Arizona Express
Character: Desk Clerk
Released: March 23, 1924
Type: Movie
A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who's helping her discover information that may clear him, but they have to get to the governor in time to present their new evidence and get a stay of execution.
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Daddies
Title: Daddies
Character: Parker
Released: February 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for adopted orphans when six orphaned children are suddenly foisted on them.
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Lucretia Lombard
Title: Lucretia Lombard
Character: Sandy
Released: December 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.
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Strangers of the Night
Title: Strangers of the Night
Character: Horace Pengard
Released: September 10, 1923
Type: Movie
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when two Russian thieves, Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.
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Human Wreckage
Title: Human Wreckage
Character: Harris
Released: June 17, 1923
Type: Movie
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
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Double Dealing
Title: Double Dealing
Character: Uriah Jobson
Released: May 21, 1923
Type: Movie
The servant girl of a wealthy young man helps him fend off criminals who are trying to steal his property.
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One Stolen Night
Title: One Stolen Night
Character: Horace Ebberly
Released: January 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Diantha Ebberly travels with her parents to the edge of the Sahara to meet her longtime betrothed, Herbert Medford, whom she has never seen. She is rescued from a swarm of beggars by an "Arab," then meets him again when she slips out at night in native dress. They fall in love, but Diantha is abducted by Sheik Amud, then returned safely home by the "Arab." The next morning Diantha discovers her fiancé and lover to be one and the same.
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A Dangerous Game
Title: A Dangerous Game
Released: December 17, 1922
Type: Movie
Gretchen Ann runs away from her foster parents but is sheltered first by Bill Kelley, a train brakeman, then by elderly oilman Pete Sebastian. After Gretchen keeps Sebastian from being duped by a medium, he sends her to a fashionable school, asking that she agree to marry him when she returns.
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Ridin' Wild
Title: Ridin' Wild
Character: Andrew McBride
Released: November 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeople when he tries to act tough to impress Grace Nolan, who is allowing Art Jordan, the town bully, to occupy her time so as to pique Cyril. The murder of Andrew McBride, who holds the mortgage on the Henderson's property, is blamed on the elder Henderson, and Cyril unsuccessfully tries to take the blame.
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The Sin Flood
Title: The Sin Flood
Character: Higgins
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof doors as a safeguard against an overflow of the river; when a flood comes, it appears that the entire town will be submerged. Trapped in Stratton's cafe, amongst others, are Billy Bear, a young broker, and Poppy, a chorus girl with whom he has been in love.
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The New Teacher
Title: The New Teacher
Released: August 20, 1922
Type: Movie
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Trimmed
Title: Trimmed
Character: Nebo Slayter
Released: July 3, 1922
Type: Movie
Returning from service in the A. E. F., Dale Garland is given a rousing reception by his townsmen. County political boss Nebo Slayter persuades the community to nominate Dale for sheriff--thinking he can be easily manipulated--against John Millard, the incumbent, who refuses political compromises. Dale easily wins and pledges to give the citizens an honest deal. Millard's daughter, Alice, who is Dale's childhood sweetheart, learns of Slayter's dishonest schemes and sees his men murder a moonshiner for whom they had been furnishing protection.
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Mr. Barnes of New York
Title: Mr. Barnes of New York
Character: Tomasso
Released: May 22, 1922
Type: Movie
An English naval officer and a Corsican youth have a duel, and the Corsican is killed. The young man's sister, Marina Paoli, swears vengeance on the killer. Mr. Barnes of New York, who happened to see the duel, finds the name Gerard Anstruther engraved on the pistols.....
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Pardon My Nerve!
Title: Pardon My Nerve!
Character: Luke Tweezy
Released: March 5, 1922
Type: Movie
A drifter falls for the daughter of a rancher, an alcoholic old coot whose ranch is on some very valuable land. When the old man is found murdered, the drifter is accused of the crime. He didn't do it, but he has to find who the real killer is and clear his name.
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Gas, Oil and Water
Title: Gas, Oil and Water
Character: Henry Jones
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
George Watson may seem like a harmless gas-station attendant, but in reality he is a secret government agent, intent on ferreting out a gang of smugglers on the Mexican border.
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The Glorious Fool
Title: The Glorious Fool
Character: Dummy
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.
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The Bronze Bell
Title: The Bronze Bell
Character: La Bertouche
Released: June 19, 1921
Type: Movie
In the 1850s, a young prince in India promises his dying father he will lead a revolt against the English colonial masters of India. However, since he is half-European himself, he can't bring himself to do it and flees to America, to live in obscurity. He finds, however, that he can't outrun his obligations
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Bunty Pulls the Strings
Title: Bunty Pulls the Strings
Character: Beadle
Released: January 2, 1921
Type: Movie
A woman named Bunty Bigger struggles to keep her family in line in a small Scottish village. For one, her brother Jeemy faces jail time for robbing a bank. Meanwhile, her father, Tammas, pays back the stolen money with funds given him by Susie Simpson, a woman who hopes to marry him. Susie gets angry, so Bunty borrows money to pay her back. Things turn out well when Bunty gets married in a double-wedding ceremony—during which her father not only gives her away but gets married himself. The movie is based on a play by Graham Moffat. The film is lost.
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The Jailbird
Title: The Jailbird
Character: Elkemah Pardee
Released: October 10, 1920
Type: Movie
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It's a Great Life
Title: It's a Great Life
Character: Professor Mozier
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.
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Homer Comes Home
Title: Homer Comes Home
Character: Silas Prouty
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.
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Behind the Door
Title: Behind the Door
Character: Mark Arnold
Released: December 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is drawn into the war with Germany, he enlists and travels the seas with his wife, Alice Morse. During a submarine attack Alice is snatched from Krug's side by a German officer. Krug now lives to have his revenge, and when the opportunity presents itself, he will have it.
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The Egg Crate Wallop
Title: The Egg Crate Wallop
Character: 'Spider' Blake
Released: September 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Assistant to freight express agent Dave Haskell in the town of Pitt's Junction, Jim Kelly develops strong biceps lifting egg crates onto the daily train. Jim soon falls in love with Dave's lovely daughter Kitty, who, he worries, is interested in city slicker Perry Woods. When Woods steals $2,000 from the station safe, Jim, thinking that Dave took the money, confesses the crime and leaves for Chicago.
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The Busher
Title: The Busher
Character: Deacon Nasby
Released: May 17, 1919
Type: Movie
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.
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Greased Lightning
Title: Greased Lightning
Character: Rufus Shadd
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.
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The Sheriff's Son
Title: The Sheriff's Son
Character: Jess Tighe
Released: March 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Sheriff's son Royal Beaudry is thought a coward, even by the young woman he has his heart set on. But he disproves cowardice when he rescues his father's friend from kidnappers.
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The Kaiser's Shadow
Title: The Kaiser's Shadow
Character: Frederick Fischr
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
French scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray and ultra violet rays, called a "Ray Rifle." Miss Dalton played the girl that would protect it from German spies.
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His Own Home Town
Title: His Own Home Town
Character: Tivotson
Released: May 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manager. He takes on the criminal element in town with great vigor, until he realizes that his own father is in league with those devils. - From IMDB
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The Family Skeleton
Title: The Family Skeleton
Character: Billy's Valet
Released: March 31, 1918
Type: Movie
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The Son of His Father
Title: The Son of His Father
Character: Harker
Released: October 22, 1917
Type: Movie
A young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means of financial support from his father. But the young man becomes involved in a shady railroad deal which threatens to destroy his own father.
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The White Terror
Title: The White Terror
Character: Mayor Alrich
Released: June 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Self-made man Emerson Boyd of Every-town owns the Boyd Mills, which uses child labor and disregards health regulations, and the Boyd Chemical Company, which manufactures harmful patent medicines. Crooked politician David Duncan, the mills's general manager, misinforms Boyd about factory conditions. After Boyd's beloved daughter postpones accepting the proposal of Matthew Brand, an unambitious rich young man, until he does something for humanity, Matthew reads an exposé of the mills by editor Clifford Cole. He buys Cole's newspaper when Boyd attempts to stifle it and supports the National Tuberculosis Society's proposal to build a sanitarium in Every-town to combat the rise of tuberculosis.