J. Gunnis Davis

J. Gunnis Davis

Born: December 21, 1873
Died: March 23, 1937
in Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK

Movies for J. Gunnis Davis...

We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Character: Waiter
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Title: Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Character: Attendant
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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A Feather in Her Hat
Title: A Feather in Her Hat
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
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Atlantic Adventure
Title: Atlantic Adventure
Character: Locksmith
Released: August 25, 1935
Type: Movie
When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
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Werewolf of London
Title: Werewolf of London
Released: May 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
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Bride of Frankenstein
Title: Bride of Frankenstein
Character: Uncle Glutz (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
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The Right to Live
Title: The Right to Live
Character: Harvey - Gardener
Released: January 26, 1935
Type: Movie
A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Title: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Character: Harsh Voice Man
Released: August 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Benjy
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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Charlie Chan Carries On
Title: Charlie Chan Carries On
Character: Eben
Released: April 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
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East Lynne
Title: East Lynne
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
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Headin' North
Title: Headin' North
Character: Claudius Smith - of Smith & Smith (as Gunnis Davis)
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Having helped his father escape the law, Jim Curtis heads north with the Marshal chasing him. He and his pal Snicker elude the Marshall by changing clothes with two actors. Now forced to do vaudeville skits, Jim finds the man responsible for his and his father's problem working in the same saloon.
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Lilac Time
Title: Lilac Time
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1928
Type: Movie
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.
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The Notorious Lady
Title: The Notorious Lady
Character: William
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
A man kills a man he finds alone with his wife. Although she is innocent of any wrong doing the wife claims to be guilty of having an affair to save her husband from a death sentence. Unfortunately, the husband also believes her guilt and so he runs off to Africa to forget and assumes a new identity.
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Lord Jim
Title: Lord Jim
Character: Scoggins
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a job at a trading post, and eventually works his way up to managing the business. He falls in love with the owner's daughter, and shares leadership of the local village with the son of the Rajah. One day, however, a band of pirates attacks the village, and the man is astonished to see that the pirates are none other than the tyrannical captain of his former ship and his crew.
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The Lucky Horseshoe
Title: The Lucky Horseshoe
Character: Denman's Valet
Released: August 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Based on a story by Robert Lord, the film is about a ranch foreman who assumes responsibility for the ranch following the owner's death. He also cares for the owner's daughter who is taken to Europe by an aunt. Two year later the woman returns from Europe with her new wealthy fiancée and plans to hold their wedding at the ranch, which the foreman has turned into a successful tourist destination. The foreman's feelings for the woman have not been diminished by the years, and after learning some damaging information about the fiancée, the foreman must find a way to stop the wedding. (Wiki)
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The Trouble Shooter
Title: The Trouble Shooter
Character: Pete Highley / Francis Earle
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Tom Mix, the most popular screen cowboy of his era, played a lineman for a power company in this action melodrama which was a Western in name only.
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Chastity
Title: Chastity
Character: Nat Mason
Released: December 31, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman trying to make it in Hollywood decides that the only way she can attain stardom is to go the "vamp" route, although in her private life she's nothing like her on-screen character. She gets the recognition she wants, but for the wrong reason--she finds herself in the middle of a notorious society scandal. - From IMDB
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The Midnight Alarm
Title: The Midnight Alarm
Character: Springer
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Shortly after being made the executor of a wealthy man's estate, a man murders his benefactor. He then makes a play for the widow, who rebuffs him. To escape his arduous pursuit, she takes her little daughter on a trip but dies in an auto accident. The daughter is rescued but disappears. Her grandparents spend years looking for her, as does the executor who killed her father--if she's found she'll inherit the estate and he won't get a penny. He aims to see that she's never found, and if she is he plans to see that she doesn't live long enough to make a claim to the estate.
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Bolshevism on Trial
Title: Bolshevism on Trial
Released: April 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Society melodrama about a wealthy father who purchases an island to prove to his son that communism won't work.
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The Road to France
Title: The Road to France
Character: Dennis O'Leary
Released: October 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Tom Whitney, well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink, is released from the draft because of an old football Injury, but a policeman persuades him that he can still do his bit in the shipyards. He takes a job in the yard owned by the man to whose daughter he was engaged in happier times. Three German propagandists seek to foment a strike to delay the work, and largely through Tom's efforts the plan goes amiss and the strike is called off. Rehabilitated by work, the launching of The Liberty is a forecast of his own rebirth.
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The Hazards of Helen Ep33: In Danger's Path
Title: The Hazards of Helen Ep33: In Danger's Path
Character: Chicago Jim - Yeggman
Released: June 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Helen is captured by two yeggmen who throw her into a refrigerator car; finding a meat hook, she chops her way into the ice chamber and reaches the top of the train in time to avert a collision of two trains.
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The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
Title: The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
Character: Pete, a Tramp
Released: February 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the freight yards, Helen sees the two bandits aboard an outgoing freight and drops onto the roof of the car from above as it crosses underneath. A chase along the roofs of the speeding cars ensues.
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Grey Eagle's Revenge
Title: Grey Eagle's Revenge
Character: Chaplain Scott
Released: August 8, 1914
Type: Movie
Shooting blindly, the redskin slays his best friend.
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The Tigers of the Hills
Title: The Tigers of the Hills
Character: Colonel Cameron - Ruth's Father
Released: February 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Miller conceives a bitter hatred for Howard, his successful rival for the hand of Ruth, daughter of Colonel Cameron, commandant of a western array post. A party of immigrants, ignorant of Indian customs, destroy some burial scaffolds. The desecration is witnessed by the red men and a desperate battle ensues.