Jack Nelson

Jack Nelson

Born: October 15, 1882
Died: November 10, 1948
in Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Movies for Jack Nelson...

Love Madness
Title: Love Madness
Character: Pussyfoot Connor
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
When respectable Lloyd Norwood becomes infatuated with moll Goldie Lewis, he falls into a life of debasement, which results in his being accused of the murder of gangland henchman Joe the Swell. Norwood's wife Mary, convinced of her husband's innocence, determines to clear his name. Disguising herself as a vamp and infiltrating the underworld, Mary extracts a confession from the real murderer, Pussyfoot Connor, who is duped by Mary into believing that he sees the ghost of the murdered man. Later, in order to have witnesses to the story, Mary takes a midnight dinner with gang leader Jack Frost, arousing the jealousy of Connor, who enters and accuses Frost of instigating the murder. The police, alerted to the scheme, rush in and arrest the criminals.
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The Haunted Bedroom
Title: The Haunted Bedroom
Character: Daniel
Released: December 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Betsy Thorne (Bennett) travels to investigate a missing man where she overhears a conversation between the sheriff and an imported detective that reporters are barred from the house and grounds where the mystery has taken place. She comes across a maid sent to the house from Richmond, and so frightens her that she gains a chance to act in her place. During the first night at the house she is terrified when she sees a ghostly figure come from the grand organ. The house is roused by her screams as she flees the room, and she is forbidden from going back there by the sister of the missing man. During the following night she is locked in her room during a thunderstorm, and while escaping through a window sees the ghostly figure again in the family graveyard. She makes an investigation which starts from a particular chord played at the grand organ. They find that certain keys cause a secret door in the organ to open, revealing a secret passage to a family tomb.
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23 1/2 Hours' Leave
Title: 23 1/2 Hours' Leave
Character: General's Aide
Released: November 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Brash young Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can have breakfast with his commanding general. But a couple of enemy spies, intent on infiltrating the training camp, get in the way of Sgt. Gray's plans.
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Rough-Riding Romance
Title: Rough-Riding Romance
Character: Pietro, The Spy
Released: August 24, 1919
Type: Movie
Dreamer dairyman Phineas Dobbs of Cow Hollow suddenly acquires a fortune when oil is discovered on his ranch, and celebrates by throwing a party for the whole town. One day a young woman comes to town, delayed by train trouble. Dobbs rescues her from the town bully, and agrees to follow her to San Francisco.
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The Wilderness Trail
Title: The Wilderness Trail
Character: Half-Breed
Released: July 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Set in the Northwoods of Canada, Tom Mix stars as Donald MacTavish, the newly appointed head commissioner of the Hudson's Bay Company. This promotion infuriates MacTavish's rival Angus Fitzpatrick (Frank Clark) who wanted the job. Angus Fitzpatrick takes his anger and resentment out on MacTavish then sets out to get MacTavish fired.
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Fighting for Gold
Title: Fighting for Gold
Character: Curley Brandon
Released: March 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Tom Mix plays Jack Kilmeny, an Englishman who owns a gold claim in the U.S. Jack has two problems -- his worthless partner Curly (Jack Nelson), and the British company on the land next to his who hope to jump his claim.
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The Cabaret Girl
Title: The Cabaret Girl
Character: Percival Terwiller
Released: December 30, 1918
Type: Movie
A young woman moves to the city to become an opera singer, but ends up a cabaret singer.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Character: Cowboy
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Lassiter quits the Texas Rangers and spends his life in pursuit of a group of Mormons who kidnapped his married sister. In a town on the Utah border, he meets the Withersteens and falls in love with their daughter, Jane. He also befriends Venters, and helps him track down some bandits who have been rustling the Withersteens' cattle.
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Winner Takes All
Title: Winner Takes All
Character: Banjo Gibson
Released: July 20, 1918
Type: Movie
Saul Chadron, a brutal cattle baron, is distressed that homesteaders are intruding on his domain and hires outlaws to drive them away.
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The Flash of Fate
Title: The Flash of Fate
Character: Joe Freeman
Released: February 18, 1918
Type: Movie
When his father commits suicide after being ruined by dishonest stockbroker Abner Hinman, Randolph Shorb resolves to gain revenge and rebuild his fortune by whatever means necessary.
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The Lash of Power
Title: The Lash of Power
Character: Oliver Mullen
Released: November 5, 1917
Type: Movie
John Rand, having lived in a small town his entire life, dreams of possessing wealth and power in New York. Napoleon Bonaparte has long been his ideal, and one day he feels a message from the departed general urging him to take up the fight for world supremacy. He goes to the city ready to begin the battle, and there, aided by his Napoleonic visions, John amasses a great fortune, ruthlessly destroying everyone who presents an obstacle to his lust for power.
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The Man Trap
Title: The Man Trap
Character: Burton Grange
Released: October 29, 1917
Type: Movie
Framed by police inspector Finch and his managing editor, R. H. Steadman, to cover up their own crooked work, reporter John Mull languishes in prison until he escapes, determined to wreak vengeance.
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The Spotted Lily
Title: The Spotted Lily
Character: Pere Anatole
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Wracked with illness and discarded by a wealthy and unscrupulous aristocrat, Yvonne Lamour seeks out her former sweetheart Anatole in order to beg him to care for her infant daughter Yvonne. She finds him in a monastery, now Pere Anatole, having joined to ease the pain of her leaving him. Soon after, Yvonne dies and little Yvonne grows to adulthood and falls in love with Jean Duval, a young violinist. When the war devastates the land, Anatole flees to America, taking Jean and Yvonne with him. There, beset by poverty, Jean endeavors to earn a living by playing the violin, but fails. In desperation, he pawns his violin to buy food and falls victim to the charms of Sonia Maroff, a wealthy woman whose fancy he has captured.
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A Jewel in Pawn
Title: A Jewel in Pawn
Character: Percival Van Dyke
Released: April 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Widow Martin struggles to rear her little daughter Nora amid the squalor of the slums yet imbue her with the refinement to which she had been accustomed in her girlhood.
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The Better Man
Title: The Better Man
Character: Jerry Henley
Released: October 28, 1916
Type: Movie
The Better Man
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If My Country Should Call
Title: If My Country Should Call
Character: Donald
Released: September 25, 1916
Type: Movie
A doctor is called to the home of a young man who wants to enlist in the Army.
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The Long Chance
Title: The Long Chance
Character: Bob McGraw
Released: November 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Harley Hennage, a gambler, loves Marie but remains silent when he realizes that she is in love with Oliver Corblay, a prospector. After Corblay and Marie marry, Harley moves to the distant town of San Pasqual and does not see his old sweetheart until her husband is killed while staking a claim in the desert.
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The Secret of Lost River
Title: The Secret of Lost River
Character: Ramon Valdez
Released: June 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Pierre Vignol, an artist wintering in Arizona, is bitten by a snake. He is taken by his friend, Tom Hornby, to Padre Francisco, who prescribes for the bite. Pierre, at the request of Tom, returns to his cabin and Tom takes care of him. Later Tom discovers a tube in Lost River. This proves to be a painting and Pierre takes it to Padre Francisco. The Padre reads him an interesting history of Fr. Bartolomeo. founder of the Mission, and of how the painting came to be discovered in Lost River, for it had been thrown there by a monk when the Mission was attacked by the Indians, owing to the abduction of the Chief's daughter by a villainous Spaniard. Tom takes the painting to New York where he sells it and gives the money to the wife of Tom, who has been too poor to bring her and the baby to Arizona.
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A Case of Poison
Title: A Case of Poison
Character: Mr. Barr
Released: March 7, 1915
Type: Movie
Mr. Barr is a young husband who is inclined to neglect his wife for the other woman. He refuses to accompany her shopping one afternoon and leaves, meeting another girl, whom he takes to the theater. Mrs. Barr is all broken up. She is visited by a friend who suggests that they go to a matinee. They do so and Mrs. Barr discovers Mr. Barr in a box with the other woman. She leaves very much broken up. She attempts suicide on a railroad track, but is frightened by the rumbling of the train. She next visits a drug store where her nervous manner gives away her intention to the druggist. Instead of giving her cyanide of potassium as she requests he gives her a bottle of plain water, marking it cyanide of potassium.
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The Sheriff's Streak of Yellow
Title: The Sheriff's Streak of Yellow
Character: Bill Todd
Released: February 26, 1915
Type: Movie
One of the earliest westerns directed by William S. Hart. In this film Sferiff Hale (Hart) lets a villain escape to pay his 'debt' to him, at the risk of designation.
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The Finger Print
Title: The Finger Print
Character: Dan Wood
Released: October 20, 1913
Type: Movie
Two boys, Dan Woods, son of a poor widow, and Bert Ainslie, the scion of a rich one, are introduced in college. The scene opens at the tennis court on the college campus, then comes the girl, Nellie Wilson, beloved of both, but favoring the poor youth, Dan.
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The Suwanee River
Title: The Suwanee River
Character: Bob Lucas - the Colonel's Son
Released: June 5, 1913
Type: Movie
The poetic and sentimental theme of the old Southland song is the moving crux investing an interesting story of love and comedy daring the reconstruction period, south of Mason and Dixon's Line.
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The Post-Impressionists
Title: The Post-Impressionists
Character: Dick Carew
Released: May 12, 1913
Type: Movie
Dick Carew, the son of a soap-maker, and Dorothy Wilton, the daughter of a lawyer, meet in Paris, where they have gone from America to imbibe an atmosphere sicklied with artistic buncomb by the Cubists. The young man, visiting a cabaret, the meeting place of frowsy post-impressionists, is impressed with their windy theories, mainly denunciations of everything that common sense and decency understand. Dick is just ignorant enough about art to be impressed with this buncomb, and takes Dorothy to the Cubist.
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Roses of Yesterday
Title: Roses of Yesterday
Character: Jack - John Ralston's Nephew
Released: April 28, 1913
Type: Movie
John Ralston and his nephew, John Ralston, Jr., familiarly known as "Jack" live in a New York suburb, but have their business in the city. One day Jack finds a pretty fan on the seat of a street car. Upon looking, he discovers the owner's name, "Cyrilla Drew, Glenridge, N.Y.," written upon the stick. Imagining Cyrilla to be a pretty young girl, he writes her a note suggesting that he return the fan in person.
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Dixieland
Title: Dixieland
Character: Farley - Emily's Brother
Released: April 16, 1913
Type: Movie
A minstrel troupe is embarking for a tour of the South. Henry Clay appears on the scene wearing the frayed coat of a Confederate General. He borrows a guitar from one of the minstrel men and begins singing "Way down South in Dixie," and the story unfolds.
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Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy
Title: Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy
Character: Watershine
Released: March 24, 1913
Type: Movie
Pauline Cushman leaves the theater to become a Federal spy. Working with Henry Holmes of the Secret Service, she escapes execution twice and helps Gen. Rosencrans in battle against Confederate generals Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan.
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The Ex-Convict
Title: The Ex-Convict
Character: Frank Fink - the Degenerate Convict
Released: March 20, 1913
Type: Movie
Wilbur Stone is falsely accused of a crime, convicted on circumstantial evidence and "railroaded" to the penitentiary. As an odd coincidence. Frank Fink, a hardened degenerate, is sent up at the same time and he becomes a prison parasite on Stone. Both men are released about the same time.
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The Ferrets
Title: The Ferrets
Character: Jim Stone of the Green Gang
Released: March 11, 1913
Type: Movie
A crime film in which a detective goes after a gang of counterfeiters.
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A Husband Won by Election
Title: A Husband Won by Election
Released: March 7, 1913
Type: Movie
Edna Dusenberry, the charming twenty-year old daughter of Senator Dusenberry, is in love with handsome young Walter Force. John Cartwright, a corrupt politician and candidate for mayor, makes a deal with the Senator whereby he is to receive the hand of Edna in marriage.
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The Lesson
Title: The Lesson
Character: Jerry Brooks - Rosie's Sweetheart
Released: January 30, 1913
Type: Movie
Rosie Lee, the shabby, wan-faced daughter of "Daddy" Lee, a humble laboring man, becomes engaged to Jerry Brooks. Shortly afterwards, "Daddy" meets with a serious accident, and Rosie is forced to seek work as a ribbon clerk in a large department store in an effort to keep the wolf from the door and provide food and medicine for her aged father
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A Loyal Deserter
Title: A Loyal Deserter
Character: Paul Worthington
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Paul Worthington, a Federal private, receives a letter from their family physician apprising him of the dangerous illness of his mother. He takes the letter to the commanding officer with a request for a "leave of absence," but Col. Colfax refuses emphatically. Paul determines to visit his mother at any cost, however, realizing the gravity of his offense at the time of war. He leaves the camp, does his filial duty, and while at home General Buchner and his aides from the Confederate side use the lower part of the house for a consultation as it is in the war zone. Paul manages to overhear an important plan to trap General Grant. He memorizes, gets through the lines, warns the great Commander in time, and is pardoned for his loyal desertion.
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Geronimo’s Last Raid
Title: Geronimo’s Last Raid
Character: James Random
Released: November 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Parker reports for duty to Major Wilkins, commanding Ft. Sill, where Geronimo is a prisoner. Parker quickly wins the love of Pauline, the major's daughter, and the undying hatred of Captain Gray. The captain plans to release Geronimo in the dead of the night, throwing the blame on Parker.