Gordon Harker

Gordon Harker

Born: August 6, 1885
Died: March 2, 1967
in London, England, UK
Gordon Harker (born William Gordon Harker) was an English stage, screen, radio, and television actor.

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Left Right and Centre
Title: Left Right and Centre
Character: Hardy
Released: June 23, 1959
Type: Movie
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
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Small Hotel
Title: Small Hotel
Character: Albert
Released: October 14, 1957
Type: Movie
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.
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A Touch of the Sun
Title: A Touch of the Sun
Character: Sid
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
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Out of the Clouds
Title: Out of the Clouds
Character: Joe Harvey, the Taxi Driver
Released: February 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A day following workers at an airport
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Bang! You're Dead
Title: Bang! You're Dead
Character: Mr. Hare
Released: March 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist. Both boys are unaware of the tragic consequences of their game. The body and the gun are found by Bob Carter, who had recently quarreled with the victim in the presence of their workmates, and both men had uttered threats. The evidence is strong, and Bob is arrested for murder...
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Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Character: Joe Jenkins
Released: June 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
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Her Favourite Husband
Title: Her Favourite Husband
Character: Godfrey Dotherington
Released: May 11, 1950
Type: Movie
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
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The Poltergeist
Title: The Poltergeist
Character: Joe Harris
Released: April 1, 1950
Type: Movie
British television horror movie from 1950.
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The Second Mate
Title: The Second Mate
Character: Bill Tomkins
Released: February 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Murderous smugglers kidnap a troublesome Bargemans son in this British crime drama, filmed on the Thames.
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Things Happen at Night
Title: Things Happen at Night
Character: Joe Harris
Released: November 3, 1948
Type: Movie
A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Alfred Doolittle
Released: February 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?
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29 Acacia Avenue
Title: 29 Acacia Avenue
Character: Charles Robinson
Released: May 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
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Warn That Man
Title: Warn That Man
Character: Geoge Hawkins
Released: July 13, 1943
Type: Movie
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
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Once a Crook
Title: Once a Crook
Character: Charlie Hopkins
Released: August 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Raymond Huntley.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Character: Inspector Hornleigh
Released: May 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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Saloon Bar
Title: Saloon Bar
Character: Joe Harris
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
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Channel Incident
Title: Channel Incident
Character: Ferris
Released: April 28, 1940
Type: Movie
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops waiting to be rescued.
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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
Title: Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
Character: Inspector Hornleigh
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
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Inspector Hornleigh
Title: Inspector Hornleigh
Character: Inspector Hornleigh
Released: March 7, 1939
Type: Movie
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
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The Return of the Frog
Title: The Return of the Frog
Character: Inspector Elk
Released: November 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
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Millions
Title: Millions
Character: Otto Forbes
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
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The Frog
Title: The Frog
Character: Sgt. Elk
Released: March 23, 1937
Type: Movie
In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious network responsible for a litany of sensational crimes. Wallace was one of the first British authors to capitalise on the potential of cinema to increase his already considerable celebrity. His luridly titled thrillers depicting shady underworlds remained popular film sources long after his death in 1932. This lavish production boasts a distinguished cast and delivers on all fronts: from romance and exotic cabaret acts, to heaps of tension and a dramatic reveal.
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Beauty and the Barge
Title: Beauty and the Barge
Character: Capt. Barley
Released: February 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.
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The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
Title: The Story of Papworth, the Village of Hope
Character: Henry Hawkins, a working man
Released: April 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A educational drama about Tuberculosis.
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The Amateur Gentleman
Title: The Amateur Gentleman
Character: Natty Bell
Released: April 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
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The Phantom Light
Title: The Phantom Light
Character: Sam Higgins
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the rock along with Alice Bright. When the light is later smashed, Jim reveals that his brother’s ship is the wreckers’ latest target, while Alice is a detective sent to investigate.
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Boys Will Be Boys
Title: Boys Will Be Boys
Character: Faker Brown
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
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Squibs
Title: Squibs
Character: Sam Hopkins
Released: June 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Squibs, a cockney flowerseller with a father overwhelmed by gambling debts wins through with the help of assorted friends and a romantically inclined policeman.
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The Lad
Title: The Lad
Character: Bill Shane (The Lad)
Released: February 27, 1935
Type: Movie
An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.
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Hyde Park Corner
Title: Hyde Park Corner
Character: Constable Cheatle
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.
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Admirals All
Title: Admirals All
Character: Petty Officer Dingle
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer
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Dirty Work
Title: Dirty Work
Character: Nettle
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
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Road House
Title: Road House
Character: Sam Pritchard
Released: November 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
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My Old Dutch
Title: My Old Dutch
Character: Ernie
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: Hamilton Briggs
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
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This Is the Life
Title: This Is the Life
Character: Albert Tuttle
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios by British Lion.
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The Lucky Number
Title: The Lucky Number
Character: Bert, the pub bartender
Released: June 17, 1933
Type: Movie
A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.
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Britannia of Billingsgate
Title: Britannia of Billingsgate
Character: Bert Bolton
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
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Rome Express
Title: Rome Express
Character: Tom Bishop
Released: October 31, 1932
Type: Movie
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
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Love on Wheels
Title: Love on Wheels
Character: Briggs
Released: July 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
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White Face
Title: White Face
Character: Sam Hackett
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
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The Frightened Lady
Title: The Frightened Lady
Character: Sergeant Totty
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
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Condemned to Death
Title: Condemned to Death
Character: Sam Knudge
Released: January 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
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The Calendar
Title: The Calendar
Character: Sam Hillcott
Released: October 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
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The Man They Couldn't Arrest
Title: The Man They Couldn't Arrest
Character: Tansey
Released: July 24, 1931
Type: Movie
An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.
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Shadows
Title: Shadows
Character: Earole
Released: March 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
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The Ringer
Title: The Ringer
Character: Samuel Hackett
Released: March 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
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Third Time Lucky
Title: Third Time Lucky
Character: Bill Meggitt
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
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The Stronger Sex
Title: The Stronger Sex
Character: Parker
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A man rescues his wife's lover during a disaster at a coal mine
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The Sport of Kings
Title: The Sport of Kings
Character: Bert Bates / Bert Briggs
Released: February 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
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Escape!
Title: Escape!
Character: Convict 272
Released: August 28, 1930
Type: Movie
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
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The Squeaker
Title: The Squeaker
Character: Bill Annerley
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
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The Crooked Billet
Title: The Crooked Billet
Character: Slick
Released: March 21, 1930
Type: Movie
'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Elstree Calling
Title: Elstree Calling
Character: George
Released: February 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
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All Riot on the Western Front
Title: All Riot on the Western Front
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,
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Taxi for Two
Title: Taxi for Two
Character: Albert
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Wrecker
Title: The Wrecker
Character: William
Released: July 16, 1929
Type: Movie
The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
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The Flying Scotsman
Title: The Flying Scotsman
Released: May 30, 1929
Type: Movie
The Flying Scotsman is a 1929 black and white film set on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh. Engine driver Bob is due to retire from his job after years of distinguished service. On his second to last day he reports Crow, a disgruntled fireman for drinking at work, leading to his dismissal. The sacked man decides to get his revenge, vowing to kill Bob on his final run. Meanwhile, Crow's young replacement has fallen in love with a beautiful girl, whose father, unbeknown to him, happens to be Bob (and who has also boarded the train in an attempt to stop the villain).
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The Return of the Rat
Title: The Return of the Rat
Released: May 30, 1929
Type: Movie
The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....
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Champagne
Title: Champagne
Character: Mark
Released: August 19, 1928
Type: Movie
Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father's will—and runs away to France and lives a life of luxury on the profits from her father's business. Pretending his business is crashing, her father finally puts a stop to her behavior, which forces Betty to support herself by getting a job in a night club.
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The Farmer's Wife
Title: The Farmer's Wife
Character: Churdles 'Ash' Ash
Released: March 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
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The Ring
Title: The Ring
Character: Jack's Trainer
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.