J. Frank Glendon

J. Frank Glendon

Born: October 23, 1886
Died: March 17, 1937
in Choteau, Montana, USA
From Wikipedia

J. Frank Glendon (October 25, 1886 – March 17, 1937) was an

American film actor. He appeared in 79 films between 1915 and 1936. He was born

in Choteau, Montana, and died in Hollywood, California.

Movies for J. Frank Glendon...

Men with Steel Faces
Title: Men with Steel Faces
Character: Prof. Beetson (archive footage)
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
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The Traitor
Title: The Traitor
Character: Big George
Released: August 29, 1936
Type: Movie
To prevent a lynching, Ranger Tim lets two outlaws go saying he will get them later. This gets him kicked out of the Rangers and he goes across the border and joins Big George's gang who are running contraband. But the outlaw Jimmy overhears Tim tell his sister that the dismissal was a fake. Big George and his gang then go after Tim and trap him in a cabin.
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The Lion's Den
Title: The Lion's Den
Character: Nate Welsh
Released: July 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Merwin hires Barton to fight Welsh, but when Barton arrives in town, Welsh mistakes him for the hired killer Single-Shot Smith. Figuring he can help Merwin by being part of Welsh's gang he hires on as Single-Shot. But soon the real Single-Shot appears.
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Aces and Eights
Title: Aces and Eights
Character: Amos Harden (as Frank Glendon)
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.
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King of the Pecos
Title: King of the Pecos
Character: Brewster
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Profiteer Alexander Stiles lays claim to a million acres of range in the Pecos River country, but a rancher named Claybor stands in his way as he has already claimed the water-rich location of Sweetwater as his own.
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Border Caballero
Title: Border Caballero
Character: Wiley Taggart
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Tex Weaver is working under cover to bring in a gang of bank robbers. When he is killed, Tim Ross, a marksman with Doc Shaw's traveling show, takes over. Posing as a Mexican he lays a trap for the gang.
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The Sagebrush Troubadour
Title: The Sagebrush Troubadour
Character: John Martin
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Before he was murdered Grandpa Martin found a gold mine. He failed to record it and now everyone is looking for Martin's old horse that can lead them to it. When under-cover Texas Ranger Autry arrives to investigate, he is accused of the murder and finds the Sheriff after him.
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The Fighting Marines
Title: The Fighting Marines
Character: M.J. Buchanan
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt down "The Tiger Shark," a mad, scientific wizard who is holding Sergeant William Schiller, Frances' brother, a prisoner on a wild, jungle island in the Pacific.
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Border Brigands
Title: Border Brigands
Character: Mountie at Jail
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
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The Call of the Savage
Title: The Call of the Savage
Character: Speaker at Conference
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
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Cyclone of the Saddle
Title: Cyclone of the Saddle
Character: Wagon Train Gambler
Released: April 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon trains.
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The Phantom Empire
Title: The Phantom Empire
Character: Prof. Beetson (as Frank Glendon)
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: Attorney
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
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The Vanishing Shadow
Title: The Vanishing Shadow
Character: John Cadwell
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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Her Splendid Folly
Title: Her Splendid Folly
Character: Charles Hemingway
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Solomon Ginsberg is the President of International Pictures Corporation and hires Joan McAllister, an unemployed stenographer, to double for his star, Laura Girard. While on a location trip, Laura is killed in an automobile accident, and in order to save the money already invested in the film Ginsberg, aided by the film's leading-man, Wallace Morely, with whom Joan is more than a little infatuated, persuades Joan to assume the identity of the dead actress, whose death is being concealed.
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Strange People
Title: Strange People
Character: Robert Crandall - the Butler
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
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Sucker Money
Title: Sucker Money
Character: Meehan - Newspaper Editor
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money. A reporter investigating the swami discovers the plot, determines to expose it.
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The Racing Strain
Title: The Racing Strain
Character: Gambler
Released: December 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that.
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Law and Lawless
Title: Law and Lawless
Character: 'Cash' Hopton
Released: November 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Montana and sidekick Pancho hire on at the Lopez rancho to fight Daggett and his outlaw gang. But Lopez's foreman Barnes is one of Daggett's men and he frames Montana for murder.
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The Lost Special
Title: The Lost Special
Character: Sam Slater
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Arresting Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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The Reckless Rider
Title: The Reckless Rider
Character: Parson Jones
Released: July 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Disguising himself as an outlaw, a marshal comes to the aid of a man and his daughter who are being terrorized by a criminal gang.
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The Silver Lining
Title: The Silver Lining
Character: Judge
Released: April 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
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Texas Tornado
Title: Texas Tornado
Character: Three Star Henley
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Tex Robbins, a Texas Ranger, posing as "Wolf" Cassidy, a notorious Chicago gangster, works his way into the rustling gang and hideout of "Three-Star" Henley, but his plans go wrong and he has to fight his way to victory.
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Border Romance
Title: Border Romance
Character: Buck
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
In a cantina across the border, Bob Hamlin shoots a man that threatens his friend. He and his pals escape but return that night for the dance as Bob is attracted to Conchita. Running once more from the Rurales, Bob takes Conchita. They escape again only to find themselves pinned down when Buck and his gang of horse thieves attack.
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Upstage
Title: Upstage
Character: Mr. Weston
Released: November 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, thinking she is the reason, meets a handsome leading man and joins up with him but, before long, he discovers 'she ain't a trouper' and she is soon performing with 4th-class acts in Tank Town America
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Smashed Back
Title: Smashed Back
Character: Johnny Martin
Released: April 26, 1926
Type: Movie
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Tricks
Title: Tricks
Character: New Foreman
Released: November 16, 1925
Type: Movie
Collegian Angelica "Trix" Varden, willful daughter of William Varden, after a midnight spread of lobster and ice cream, has a dream about an adventure on her father's ranch involving her horse Beverly, one Jack Norton, and Buck Barlow's gang of rustlers. She is expelled from school and returns home to find a handsome new foreman, who is none other than Jack Norton. Trix's curiosity is aroused by her dream, and she finds evidence of rustlers. Barlow shows up, and she locks herself in a cabin and sends Jack's horse, Star, for help. Jack finally defeats Barlow in a fight, and the two horses "realize" that they now have both a master and a mistress.
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Lights of Old Broadway
Title: Lights of Old Broadway
Character: Thomas A. Edison
Released: October 31, 1925
Type: Movie
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
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Night Life in Hollywood
Title: Night Life in Hollywood
Character: Joe Powell
Released: November 15, 1922
Type: Movie
A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the intimate home life of some of the screen's greatest stars.
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Kissed
Title: Kissed
Released: May 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Constance Keener, who is betrothed to young millionaire Merton Torrey, confesses to him her desire for romance such as he does not give her. On the occasion of a masquerade ball, Torrey is unable to escort her; and while she is alone on the balcony, someone suddenly seizes and kisses her, then disappears. She attempts to discover her assailant's identity.
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Roman Candles
Title: Roman Candles
Released: April 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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What Do Men Want?
Title: What Do Men Want?
Character: Frank
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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A Tale of Two Worlds
Title: A Tale of Two Worlds
Character: Newcombe
Released: March 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
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Hush
Title: Hush
Character: Jack Stanford
Released: March 5, 1921
Type: Movie
A woman finds her marriage on the rocks after she reveals to her husband some but not all the details of her one-time relationship with a current associate of his.
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Mid-Channel
Title: Mid-Channel
Character: Theodore Blundell
Released: September 26, 1920
Type: Movie
The story has been adapted from the Sir Arthur Wing Pinero play. The title means nothing more than the mid-channel of married life, through a character in the feature likening the roughness of the English channel in the center of the trip across from London to Paris to the woes married folks meet in their wedded life.
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For the Soul of Rafael
Title: For the Soul of Rafael
Released: May 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Wishing Ring Man
Title: The Wishing Ring Man
Character: Dr. John Hewitt
Released: March 10, 1919
Type: Movie
Forced to wear quaint short dresses and pigtails so that she will inspire her grandfather's sentimental poetry, nineteen-year-old Joy Havenith longs for companions of her own age.
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The Enchanted Barn
Title: The Enchanted Barn
Character: Sidney Graham
Released: January 27, 1919
Type: Movie
The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low price, transforming it into a house. The owner of the barn is not an ordinary landlord, as you will see, for he is a young man with fine ideals, and he is not content with establishing Shirley and her family in the quaintly beautiful old place, but makes the world a much happier place to live in for all of them.
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The Dawn of Understanding
Title: The Dawn of Understanding
Character: Jim Wynd
Released: December 2, 1918
Type: Movie
The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph.
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The Woman in the Web
Title: The Woman in the Web
Character: Jack Lawford
Released: April 8, 1918
Type: Movie
An adventure serial released in 1918
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The Venturers
Title: The Venturers
Character: John Forster
Released: August 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The one was a venturer - the other an adventurer - the one a man who wanted to see adventure, but who had never been beyond the city limits - the other a man who had seen adventure in all parts of the world, and who assured the venturer that things were just as monotonous every place in the world as in the city. So they met, each seeking for the unconventional, on a New York street, and dined together as men out of luck, with two cents between them - and still nothing happened. They both had credit at the hotel. Then into their lives came the feminine influence - a sweet girl who lived in a house which was irrevocably a household. The adventurer hesitated - he had yet to satisfy his longing for the incalculable. Suddenly love changed the venturer into an adventurer, and settled the adventurer into a venturer.
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The Light in Darkness
Title: The Light in Darkness
Character: J. Arthur Converse
Released: July 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Bank cashier Ramsey Latham is sentenced to prison for violation of the banking laws. On his way to the penitentiary, he encounters Hilary Kenyon, a young girl who speaks encouragingly to him. Later he is surprised to discover that Hilary is also a prisoner, having been found guilty of manslaughter for killing a man who attacked her.
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The Price of Malice
Title: The Price of Malice
Character: Carson
Released: February 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Captain Mills is jealous of Jim Clifford, his fellow officer at the British War Department, so he steals an important document in an attempt to make Clifford look bad. Clifford has to undergo quite a bit to get the papers back, and his adventures take him to several fancy weekend parties, including one on a yacht, which wrecks. He discovers that Mills gave the document to Grace Weston, who doesn't realize what she's got.
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The Salamander
Title: The Salamander
Released: January 23, 1916
Type: Movie