George Hackathorne

George Hackathorne

Born: February 12, 1896
Died: June 25, 1940
in Pendleton, Oregon, USA
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George Hackathorne (February 13, 1896 – June 25, 1940) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 59 films between 1916 and 1939. His interment was located in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Movies for George Hackathorne...

Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Wounded Soldier in Pain (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: Detective
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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Strange Wives
Title: Strange Wives
Character: Guggin's Secretary
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
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Self Defense
Title: Self Defense
Character: Paul
Released: December 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Katy Devoux runs a gambling-drinking joint in British Columbia. She is a fair-playing business woman, but is ashamed of the source of her income, so she has had her daughter Nona raised in the states. Jeff Bowman, an unprincipled scoundrel and business rival, arranges for her daughter to come to town in hope of bringing shame to the mother. He overplays his hand and is killed by Tim Reed, a faithful retainer of Katy's and in love with Nona. The plea is self defense.
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Riders of the North
Title: Riders of the North
Character: Henchman Canuck Joe
Released: April 5, 1931
Type: Movie
In a trapper's cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assignment of locating the killer.
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Hide-Out
Title: Hide-Out
Character: Atlas
Released: March 30, 1930
Type: Movie
A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and the most popular man on campus.
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Captain of the Guard
Title: Captain of the Guard
Character: Robespierre
Released: March 28, 1930
Type: Movie
A captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.
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The Squall
Title: The Squall
Character: Niki
Released: May 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
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Paying the Price
Title: Paying the Price
Character: Basil Payson
Released: April 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Michael Donovan, a heavy loser at a gambling casino, confronts its owner with evidence of cheating and finds himself accused of murder, on circumstantial evidence, of the owner's murder.
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The Cabaret Kid
Title: The Cabaret Kid
Released: November 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.
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The Highbinders
Title: The Highbinders
Character: Humpty Dugan
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
The Highbinders
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His Master's Voice
Title: His Master's Voice
Character: Bob Henley
Released: September 1, 1925
Type: Movie
A loyal dog follows his master to the front in World War One.
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Night Life of New York
Title: Night Life of New York
Character: Jimmy
Released: August 2, 1925
Type: Movie
John Bentley hates New York City, because of an unhappy romance as a young man, but his son, Ronald, tired of living in Iowa, is determined to take up residence in Manhattan. The elder Bentley therefore conspires with his New York manager, William Workman, to involve Ronald in so much trouble that he will gladly return to the sedate life of an Iowa burgher. Arriving in Manhattan, Ronald strikes up an acquaintance with Meg, a telephone operator, whose brother, Jimmy, has come under the evil influence of Jerry. Jerry and Jimmy rob a wealthy woman, and Ronald is charged with the crime on circumstantial evidence, keeping quiet in order to protect Jimmy.
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The Lady
Title: The Lady
Character: Leonard Cairns
Released: February 8, 1925
Type: Movie
A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, leaving her penniless and with an infant son. When her former father-in-law tries to get custody of the child, she leaves him with a couple she trusts, but when she later goes to reclaim her son, she can't find the people she left him with.
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Capital Punishment
Title: Capital Punishment
Character: Dan OConnor
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates a fairly serious melodrama to a timeless and profound social statement. Opening the film on death row where the handsome youth awaits the chair, a stirring test of the legal system evolves after two elite types conspire to expose its inadequacies. Elite, jaded society lawyer Gordon Harrington fabricates a murder, implicating an entirely "hired" fall-guy, one Dan O'Connor, while the bored playboy-type hides away on a yacht until the points are proven and the legal system has been disgraced. Naturally, something goes wrong, the playboy really turns up murdered, and O'Connor is now the accused, imprisoned murderer scheduled to be hanged.
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The Turmoil
Title: The Turmoil
Character: Bibbs Sheridan
Released: September 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Industrialist James Sheridan, Sr., once a laborer, insists on moulding the careers of his three sons; however, he loses James, Jr., in a flood disaster, and Roscoe suffers a mental breakdown. Realizing his mistake, he begins to insure the happiness of the third son, Bibbs, by bringing him together with Mary, the girl he loves.
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Judgment of the Storm
Title: Judgment of the Storm
Character: Bob Heath
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
famed for being written by an amateur
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Merry-Go-Round
Title: Merry-Go-Round
Character: Bartholomew Gruber
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
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Human Wreckage
Title: Human Wreckage
Character: Jimmy Brown
Released: June 17, 1923
Type: Movie
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
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The Village Blacksmith
Title: The Village Blacksmith
Character: Johnnie Hammond
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom the blacksmith marries. This angers the squire. Years later, the squire's son Anson (Yearsley) dares the blacksmith's son Johnnie (Hackathorne) to climb a tree, from which he falls and is crippled. As adults, Anson and the blacksmith's daughter Alice (Valli) fall in love, which angers the blacksmith, who chastises his daughter. The blacksmith's other son Bill (Butler) returns from college and is injured in a train accident. Anson steals $480 from a church fund which is currently in Alice's possession. Alice is struck by lightning. The blacksmith take Anson and the squire to church where they both repent.
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Human Hearts
Title: Human Hearts
Character: Jimmy Logan
Released: August 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Innocent country boy Tom Logan is taken in by the scheming Barbara Kay, a city woman who knows Tom is set to inherit his fathers farm which sits on a rich coal field. Toms father sees through her plot and disinherits him when her marries Barbara. When Barbara tires of farm life, the ensuing events lead to death and misplaced guilt.
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The Worldly Madonna
Title: The Worldly Madonna
Character: Ramez
Released: May 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Ms. Young portrays two roles. As Janet, a convent novitiate, she agrees to exchange places with her sister, Lucy, a cabaret dancer, who believes she has killed a man.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Gavin
Released: December 25, 1921
Type: Movie
In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by increasing industrialization. When Lord Rintoul attempts to rout the rebellious weavers, Babbie always manages to send word in time to prevent their being taken by surprise. Gavin, new minister to the town, falls in love with Babbie, and his relationship with the young gypsy almost costs him his position. But what Gavin and his parishioners do not know is that Babbie is actually Lady Babbie, ward of Lord Rintoul.
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What Do Men Want?
Title: What Do Men Want?
Character: Arthur
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor. Then he wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, Hallie (the lovely Claire Windsor). Then he wants children. Then, when his inventions bring him financial success, he becomes restless, so he takes up with another woman. Eventually he figures out that the woman's reputation is less than squeaky clean, so he wants his wife back.
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To Please One Woman
Title: To Please One Woman
Character: Freddy
Released: December 19, 1920
Type: Movie
A woman, having lost interest in her soon to be bankrupt husband, decides to seduce a doctor.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Capt. Randolph
Released: November 21, 1920
Type: Movie
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.
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Too Much Johnson
Title: Too Much Johnson
Character: Henry McIntosh
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he takes a trip, claiming that he is going off to check on Mexican oil investments. But he's really going on a cruise with Mrs. Dathis, who has purchased his yacht. To throw everyone off track, he uses the name Mr. Johnson. When he decides to repeat the trip, however, all hell breaks loose -- the jealous Mr. Dathis is out to get his hands on this Johnson character, while a real Mr. Johnson shows up in Mexico, and Mrs. Billings shows up with her mother, and the confusion continues from there.
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The Speed Maniac
Title: The Speed Maniac
Character: Tom Matthews
Released: October 10, 1919
Type: Movie
Billy Porter sells his ranch and travels to San Francisco to try his hand in the business world. But he's barely off the ferryboat before he gets waylaid by a little newsboy and the boy's pugilist father, "Knockout" McClusky.
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The Splendid Sin
Title: The Splendid Sin
Character: The Honorable George Granville
Released: September 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Although they have a happy marriage, Sir Charles Chatham, an explorer, and his American wife, Lady Marion, have been unable to have children. After Charles goes to Egypt, his sister Gertrude and her sweetheart Stephen Hartley, an American consulate attaché, take refuge from a storm in a deserted tower. Frightened, Gertrude yields to Stephen's advances. Although he intends to marry Gertrude, Stephen suddenly is called to deliver supplies to starving women and children in Russia. Marion takes the pregnant Gertrude away to have her child, and notifies Stephen, who, because he is shot during Bolshevik rioting, returns too late to marry Gertrude, who dies after childbirth. To honor Gertrude's dying request, and to provide Charles with a much desired child, Marion telegraphs Charles that the baby is theirs.
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Better Times
Title: Better Times
Character: Tony
Released: July 13, 1919
Type: Movie
Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
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Josselyn's Wife
Title: Josselyn's Wife
Character: Joe Latimer (as George Hacakthorn)
Released: May 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Bessie Barriscale and Nigel Barrie play Ellen and Gibbs Josselyn, a young married couple who have spent several years in Europe while Gibbs, an artist, developed his talent. When they return to the States, they stay with Gibbs' father (Tom Guise) and stepmother (Kathleen Kirkham). Gibbs had never cared much for his stepmother, Lillian, but now he warms up to her -- a lot. Lillian is much younger than her husband and begins spending a suspicious amount of time with her stepson.
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Sue of the South
Title: Sue of the South
Character: Shad Peters
Released: February 3, 1919
Type: Movie
Sue Gordon, a mountain girl on the Tennessee side of the Cumberlands, lives with her grandmother. When "Granny" dies, Sue--fulfilling Granny's dying wish--goes to Chicago to live with John Peyton, an industrialist who was at one time Sue's mother's fiancé. She finds that Peyton's employees are on strike, and one of the strike's leaders is Peyton's son, Donald, to whom she is becoming increasingly attracted. Complications ensue.
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The Heart of Humanity
Title: The Heart of Humanity
Character: Louis Patricia
Released: December 21, 1918
Type: Movie
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers. The war interrupts their romantic idyll, as everyone goes overseas to Belgium and France. Nanette becomes a Red Cross nurse and is terrorized by the evil Prussian Lt. von Eberhard.
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A Law Unto Herself
Title: A Law Unto Herself
Character: Bertrand Von Klassner at age 20
Released: August 19, 1918
Type: Movie
The daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat Kurt Von Klassner, even though her heart belongs to Bertrand Duroc, the humble overseer of her father's estate. His pride wounded, Von Klassner murders Duroc and shifts the blame to marauding poachers.
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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Title: Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Character: Amarilly's Brother (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.
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Huck and Tom
Title: Huck and Tom
Character: Sid Sawyer
Released: March 4, 1918
Type: Movie
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
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Tom Sawyer
Title: Tom Sawyer
Character: Sid Sawyer
Released: December 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Huck Finn (Robert Gordon).