James Durkin

James Durkin

Born: May 21, 1876
Died: March 12, 1934
in Quebec, Canada
James Durkin (May 21, 1876 – March 12, 1934) was a Canadian-American actor of the stage and screen and director.

Movies for James Durkin...

The Vanishing Shadow
Title: The Vanishing Shadow
Character: Prof. Carl Van Dorn
Released: April 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
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Heat Lightning
Title: Heat Lightning
Character: The Sheriff
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
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This Side of Heaven
Title: This Side of Heaven
Character: Raymond - Company Man (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
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Perils of Pauline
Title: Perils of Pauline
Character: Prof. Hargrave
Released: November 5, 1933
Type: Movie
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
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The Devil's Mate
Title: The Devil's Mate
Character: Warden
Released: August 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
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Secret of the Blue Room
Title: Secret of the Blue Room
Character: Kruger, Commissioner's Assistant
Released: July 20, 1933
Type: Movie
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
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The Big Cage
Title: The Big Cage
Character: Silas Warner
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Glidden Associate (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Wild Girl
Title: Wild Girl
Character: Madison Clay (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
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Scarface
Title: Scarface
Character: Newspaper Man (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1932
Type: Movie
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio "Tony" Camonte, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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Shopworn
Title: Shopworn
Character: District Attorney
Released: March 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
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South of the Rio Grande
Title: South of the Rio Grande
Character: Señor Ruiz
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Sergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-wreaking bandits, and the femme fatale who ruined his brother.
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House of Mystery
Title: House of Mystery
Character: John Craig
Released: December 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Two hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has killed his unfaithful wife, but the wife's lover and the family butler are acting suspiciously enough to be followed.
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The Secret Witness
Title: The Secret Witness
Character: Detective
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
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Nice Women
Title: Nice Women
Character: Mr. Girard
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
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Flying High
Title: Flying High
Character: Mr. Rankin - Detective (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
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Alexander Hamilton
Title: Alexander Hamilton
Character: Second Ex-Soldier
Released: September 12, 1931
Type: Movie
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
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An American Tragedy
Title: An American Tragedy
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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The Vice Squad
Title: The Vice Squad
Character: Second Magistrate
Released: May 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
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Gun Smoke
Title: Gun Smoke
Character: J.K. Horton
Released: April 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
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The Conquering Horde
Title: The Conquering Horde
Character: Amos Corley
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and in order to do that he has to pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Prison Warden
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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The Chasm
Title: The Chasm
Character: The Burglar
Released: November 13, 1914
Type: Movie
Dr. Mureaux, a widower, has an only daughter, Ruth. One night when her father is away, a burglar breaks into the house. Ruth displays great courage, winning the admiration of the intruder. She questions him about his mode of living and finally induces the man to promise that he will return in a few days when she will do all in her power to get him an honest job.