Billy Franey

Billy Franey

Born: June 23, 1889
Died: December 6, 1940
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Billy Franey...

The Fargo Kid
Title: The Fargo Kid
Character: Banjo player
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
The Fargo Kid is mistaken for a killer and is hired to kill another man...
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A Trailer Tragedy
Title: A Trailer Tragedy
Character: Vivien's Father
Released: October 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance company, who repossess the trailer for non-payment. Edgar discovers that Pop had failed to mail the money order he had given him for the payment. He also finds some other items Pop failed to take care of.
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Triple Justice
Title: Triple Justice
Character: Abernathy
Released: September 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real killers since the only one who can prove his innocence is his friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory, who has been shot and will not soon regain consciousness. Chasing down the robbers one by one, he eventually discovers the identity of the gang's ringleader.
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Sunk by the Census
Title: Sunk by the Census
Character: Vivien's Pop
Released: August 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to support him. All Pop wants to make him happy is a cow. When Edgar comes home with both a cow and a phony rich widow, the results are not what Edgar planned for.
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Stage to Chino
Title: Stage to Chino
Character: Soap Customer (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
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'Taint Legal
Title: 'Taint Legal
Character: Vivien's Father
Released: May 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wife Vivien who tell him about their engagement and elopement. Then Viviens father tells them that according to a law he has found in a law-book, they aren't legally married. After a series of misadventures, they learn that the law is a new one and that the Kennedy marriage is legal.
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Mutiny in the County
Title: Mutiny in the County
Character: Edgar's Father-in-Law
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.
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Bullet Code
Title: Bullet Code
Character: Old Bathing Gent (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.
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The Saint's Double Trouble
Title: The Saint's Double Trouble
Character: Street Shooting Witness (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
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Kennedy the Great
Title: Kennedy the Great
Character: Pop - Vivien's Father
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trunk full of magic tricks hoping to soon be the life of the party.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
Title: The Marshal Of Mesa City
Character: Dance Bartender (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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Maid to Order
Title: Maid to Order
Character: Pop - Vivien's father
Released: September 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When Minerva Urecal (sporting an Italian accent) shows up, wife Vivien Oakland resists attempts to get her out of the house so she can confront the interloper and her husband.
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Baby Daze
Title: Baby Daze
Character: Pop-Vivien's Father
Released: May 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he discovers that his wife is about to have a baby.
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Panama Lady
Title: Panama Lady
Character: Drunk (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1939
Type: Movie
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Title: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
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Clock Wise
Title: Clock Wise
Character: Vivien's Father
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.
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Next Time I Marry
Title: Next Time I Marry
Character: Hobo Witness at End
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
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A Clean Sweep
Title: A Clean Sweep
Character: Bill
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living off their savings, while Edgar pretends to go to work everyday. He answers a want-ad for a job selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door. He makes no sales, especially after he fills an apartment hallway with trash to demonstrate his cleaner and then finds there is no electricity to run the machine. He comes to a house where a bridal shower is being held, with his wife in attendance, and she thinks Edgar has brought the cleaner as gift for her friend. Edgar has to take the last of their money out of the bank to pay for the demo model he had. The bank manager shows up at Edgar's house to offer him his bank job back, but Edgar's wife won't let him go back, as she has found the prefect job for Edgar... selling vacuum cleaners.
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Beaux and Errors
Title: Beaux and Errors
Character: Pop, Vivien's Father
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
To make Edgar do something about his physical condition, his wife has invited her old boy friend, in tip-top shape, to spend the weekend with them. In addition to getting worn out playing golf, Edgar overhears a phone call that makes him think Vivien is arranging to run off with his hated rival.
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Ears of Experience
Title: Ears of Experience
Character: Florence's Father
Released: January 28, 1938
Type: Movie
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting on the ritz. A valet comes with the house and he spends a lot of time trying to soften Kennedy;s rough edges, but when he becomes to insistent about giving his master a bath, the always-irritable Kennedy throws the valet in the hot tub, clothes and all. Meanwhile, his father-in-law has been putting the squeeze on Edgar's boss, telling him that Edsgar has fallen heir to so much money he is going to buy out the business and fire his boss. So the boss comes to Edgars's home and fires him.
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The Dummy Owner
Title: The Dummy Owner
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
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Quick Money
Title: Quick Money
Character: Walter
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to get some rest and relaxation, the leading citizens of the town welcome him back with some official gatherings. Mayor Jonas Tompkins, who never liked Bluford, holds no grudges against him and too welcomes him with open arms. Although Bluford had no intention of making the news public, the townsfolk learn that he has indeed come back to do business, specifically develop a summer resort in Glenwood to rival that of the best summer resorts worldwide.
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Edgar & Goliath
Title: Edgar & Goliath
Character: Pop, Florence's father
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Edgar is offered $150 by a nurseryman for a tree on his property, and he plans to remove it with the tractor he won at the county fair. But his neighbor demands some of the tree money as some leafs are hanging over his property. Edgar, on the tractor, ruins a warehouse, smashes a fire hydrant, wrecks a streetcar and tears up the concrete road pavement. Edgar is hauled to court and has to pay the damages. At home, when he yanks the tree out of the ground, it crashes down upon his car.
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Tramp Trouble
Title: Tramp Trouble
Released: August 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. At the train station Edgar intervenes, keeping another man from beating a young man named Frankie, and Edgar takes Frankie home with him, even though the stranger warns Edgar that the young man is nothing but trouble.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: News Vendor
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
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Dumb's the Word
Title: Dumb's the Word
Character: Painter
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Edgar finds some gold in his attic and the guy working on his roof tells him he could go to jail for having it!! This is because President Franklin Roosevelt has actually campaigned Congress to make gold ownership illegal in order to force people off the gold standard as well as to try to get more currency into circulation.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
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Dummy Ache
Title: Dummy Ache
Character: Man with Pitchfork
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
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Wholesailing Along
Title: Wholesailing Along
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Leon Errol buys a bathtub wholesale.
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Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Prisoner
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Title: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Character: Barbecue Cook
Released: January 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
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Border Brigands
Title: Border Brigands
Character: Man Outside Bank
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
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The Dancing Millionaire
Title: The Dancing Millionaire
Character: Joseph - Squared Circle Waiter
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
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'Neath the Arizona Skies
Title: 'Neath the Arizona Skies
Character: Old Prospector (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Jim Moore, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes
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The Fuller Gush Man
Title: The Fuller Gush Man
Character: Exterminator
Released: August 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.
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The Star Packer
Title: The Star Packer
Character: Henchman in the Stump
Released: July 30, 1934
Type: Movie
John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.
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The Shadow Gang
Title: The Shadow Gang
Character: Henchman in the Stump
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Star Packer', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'The Star Packer' down to a 22 minute short version. John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.
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Western Racketeers
Title: Western Racketeers
Character: The Informer
Released: April 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher doesn't have enough money to pay the toll, he winds up dead. A local rancher, Bill Bowers, investigates the killing, but his neighbor and rival Molly Spellman decides to take her cattle around the pass instead of through it to avoid the toll. The gangsters kidnap her, and Bill gathers the other ranchers in the area for a final showdown with the gang.
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No More Women
Title: No More Women
Character: Oscar
Released: March 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ocean. All day long they fight to salvage sunken gold at forty fathoms deep in the ocean, and all night long they fight over dames. This situation continues even when they both go to work for Helen Young, the owner of a tug-boat and a salvage business.
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War of the Range
Title: War of the Range
Character: Tony (as Billie Franey)
Released: September 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range used by other ranchers. This pits father against son when Tom Bradley sides with a newly arrived nester family. Then after stealing Duke Bradley's money, Warren frames Duke's son Tom for the theft.
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The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
Title: The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
Character: Postmaster Dan
Released: July 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' objects to Wolf's kidnapping of Ann, he is left in a burning building. Rescued by his horse Tarzan, he convinces Banty to help bring in the gang.
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The Gallant Fool
Title: The Gallant Fool
Character: Leyton's Friend at Campfire
Released: May 28, 1933
Type: Movie
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.
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Somewhere in Sonora
Title: Somewhere in Sonora
Character: Shorty
Released: May 27, 1933
Type: Movie
John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
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The Night of June 13
Title: The Night of June 13
Character: Jimmy, trash collector (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
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Come On, Tarzan
Title: Come On, Tarzan
Character: Chuck Wagon Cook
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who gathers horses for slaughter, whose meat is sold to pet food manufacturers. The wild horse Tarzan frees the doomed horses from their corrals, and Frazer convinces the Sheriff that Tarzan is a threat and can be shot on sight. Local cowboy Ken Benson (Maynard) and rancher Pat Riley (Kennedy) work together to clear Tarzan's good name and put Frazier behind bars for his evil deeds.
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The Iceman's Ball
Title: The Iceman's Ball
Character: Long Shirt Charlie
Released: August 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner believes that they are real policemen and they get back the patrol car. Out on the beat, the duo chase women rather than criminals, just like real cops.
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The Miracle Man
Title: The Miracle Man
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
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Dumb Dicks
Title: Dumb Dicks
Character: Janitor
Released: February 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
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Guests Wanted
Title: Guests Wanted
Character: First Miner
Released: January 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Benny Rubin is a New York City vaudeville performer who inherits a hotel in California, and takes all of his ham-actor friends there, as chefs, bellhops, maids and waiters, to help him run it. BUsiness is bad so Benny plants a story that his late uncle hid his fortune in the hotel. The place is soon filled with guests who tear down the hotel looking for the non-existent fortune.
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Partners
Title: Partners
Character: Carry All Roach
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.
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Forgotten Women
Title: Forgotten Women
Character: Ice Man
Released: November 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
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Freighters of Destiny
Title: Freighters of Destiny
Character: 'Reddy'
Released: October 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
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The Avenger
Title: The Avenger
Character: Bartender
Released: March 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
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Love Among the Millionaires
Title: Love Among the Millionaires
Character: Railroad Man at Lunch Counter (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he and his family in Palm Springs.
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Loose Ankles
Title: Loose Ankles
Character: Circus Cafe Waiter
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
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The Broadway Hoofer
Title: The Broadway Hoofer
Character: Baggage Man
Released: December 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter Bobby Lewis (Egan) of the barnstorming Gay Girlies Burlesque Company arrives in town, he picks an incognito Adele among all the pretty village girls to star in his new show. On a lark, Adele introduces her maid Jane (Louise Fazenda) as her mother and accepts a contract. When Adele's identity is finally revealed, the slumming star apologizes for her deception by offering Bobby a Broadway job.
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Anne Against the World
Title: Anne Against the World
Released: May 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Shirley Mason plays the title-role, a glamorous musical star having a hard time escaping the clutches of her lecherous producer (Tom Curran). The producer, however, refuses to leave well enough alone, and Anne is tempted to return to her glamorous life.
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No Children
Title: No Children
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.
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The Royal Rider
Title: The Royal Rider
Character: Wild West Show Member
Released: February 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance. The king is greatly impressed with the American cowboys and makes them his palace guard. The prime minister starts a revolution, and Dick and the Americans put it down. The boy king sanctions a romance between Scott and Ruth Elliott, the royal governess.
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Cheyenne
Title: Cheyenne
Character: Judge Boggs
Released: February 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Cal Roberts can ride anything with four legs. He enters the contests held at big rodeo. He wins all honors and meets a girl who races horses to help her father clear pressing debts. Complications follow, but Cal wins the girl.
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The Glorious Trail
Title: The Glorious Trail
Character: Jimmy Bacon
Released: October 28, 1928
Type: Movie
After a work crew stringing telegraph wires across the Great Plains is slaughtered by Indians, Pat O'Leary, the company superintendent, must take out another supply train to make the dangerous trip across open country. The Indians attack and are driven off. On the day the wires are finally strung, the settlers gather to hear the first message from the East.
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Romance of a Rogue
Title: Romance of a Rogue
Released: October 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A low-key silent drama of a man seeking vengeance on the villain whose lies sent him to prison on the night of his wedding.
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The Canyon of Adventure
Title: The Canyon of Adventure
Character: Buzzard Koke
Released: April 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Steven Bancroft, a young officer in the U. S. Calvary, is given the assignment of ensuring that dirty-work by agents of Spain, Mexico or Russian aren't going to keep statehood-for-California from becoming a reality. Bancroft uses his guns to settle any debates regarding international laws.
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Under the Tonto Rim
Title: Under the Tonto Rim
Character: 'One Punch' (as William Franey)
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who after a poker game was shot by a gambler "who shuffles with one hand." The real murderer, Sam Spralls, has convinced Watson that he killed Denmeade and threatens to expose him unless Watson assigns him all the gold claims. Spralls assembles a band of killers to jump the claims when Watson complies. Eventually, Denmeade learns the identity of the killer when he sees Spralls shuffle a deck of cards. He forms a vigilante party and rids the community of Spralls and his gang.
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She's a Sheik
Title: She's a Sheik
Character: Joe
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.
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Out All Night
Title: Out All Night
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: September 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.
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Custard's Last Stand
Title: Custard's Last Stand
Character: A Strange Stranger
Released: August 20, 1927
Type: Movie
A black man walks into a bar. Or at least a white man with blackface on, and hilarity occurs.
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The Royal American
Title: The Royal American
Character: Mike
Released: July 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Story of a young shanghaied sailor. Forced to work as a deckhand on a rough-and-tumble transport vessel, the sailor ends up in South America, where his brutish captain intends to sell guns and ammo to a band of revolutionaries. Besting the villains, Jack gets into the thick of things himself, ultimately rescuing the heroine -- likewise "shanghaied" by the captain -- from Certain Doom.
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Red Signals
Title: Red Signals
Character: One-Round Hogan
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to earthquake damage.
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King of the Saddle
Title: King of the Saddle
Character: Nick
Released: September 9, 1926
Type: Movie
A cowboy discovers that his stock is all but worthless due to the bankruptcy of a ranch owner. The supposedly worthless stock certificate bears the name of waitress Joan Meredith's long-lost father, who suddenly reappears to save Cody from ruin.
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Fangs of Vengeance
Title: Fangs of Vengeance
Character: Goofy Bill
Released: August 31, 1926
Type: Movie
A short film starring "Fearless" the dog and directed by William Bertram.
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Code of the Northwest
Title: Code of the Northwest
Character: Posty McShanigan
Released: July 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A Mountie and his dog must bring in his wanted brother.
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The Dead Line
Title: The Dead Line
Character: 'Extra' Long
Released: June 27, 1926
Type: Movie
An old prospector, is found murdered and Sonora Slim is accused of the crime. The real killer is actually Silver Sam McGee.
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She's a Prince
Title: She's a Prince
Character: Cameraman
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Starring comedienne Alice Ardell, whose persona included wearing traditionally masculine garb, who finds herself initiated into a secret flapper society full of bizarre rituals. This zany film again features cross-dressing, including men wearing girdles and donning lipstick.
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The King of the Turf
Title: The King of the Turf
Character: Soup Conley
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to jail.
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S.O.S. Perils of the Sea
Title: S.O.S. Perils of the Sea
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
S.O.S. Perils of the Sea is a 1925 American silent film featuring Elaine Hammerstein, directed by James P. Hogan and released through Columbia Pictures.
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Salute
Title: Salute
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Slapstick comedians doing what they can with various uniforms on.
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The Great Sensation
Title: The Great Sensation
Character: Harry Ruby (as William Franey)
Released: October 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Jack Ruby (William Fairbanks), the son of a wealthy family, pretends to be a chauffeur and goes to work for Peggy Howell (Pauline Garon), a beautiful flapper.
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Kit Carson Over the Great Divide
Title: Kit Carson Over the Great Divide
Character: Oswald Bliffing
Released: September 2, 1925
Type: Movie
When the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the heroism of the foremost Indian scout of the day...Kit Carson!
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The Iron Mule
Title: The Iron Mule
Released: April 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays. The engineer is prepared for most of them, but the real challenges come when the train is ambushed by Indians.
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Let Him Buck
Title: Let Him Buck
Released: October 1, 1924
Type: Movie
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Circus Lure
Title: Circus Lure
Released: June 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Joe Henry, head of a one-ring circus, plays a small town and after the departure of the troupe a young girl, fascinated by the prospects of being a star, follows. She is engaged and her presence causes jealousy on the part of Joe's sweetheart.
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The White Panther
Title: The White Panther
Character: The Private
Released: January 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Australian star Rex "Snowy" Baker stars in this military melodrama. This was the first of a series of four films Baker made for producer Phil Goldstone, and they were offered on a States' Rights basis. Irene Falliday (Gertrude McConnell) is the daughter of the British governor (William Bainbridge) who rules over an Indian province. She finds Yasmini (Lois Scott) wearing the shawl she believes she has lost and asks Tommy Farrell (Phil Burke) to get it back. Farrell is in love with Irene, but Yasmini loves him, and when he finally gets the shawl from her, the circumstances shame her in the eyes of her father Shere Ali, Sirdar of the Afghans (Frank Whitson), and his subjects.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Title: Quincy Adams Sawyer
Character: Bob Wood
Released: December 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
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A Western Demon
Title: A Western Demon
Character: The Cook
Released: May 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Janitor
Title: The Janitor
Character: The Janitor
Released: December 16, 1921
Type: Movie
Billy Franey does home brew. "The Janitor" was made during Prohibition, when ANY gags about alcohol (especially the home-brewed variety) would get loud laughs from American cinema audiences.
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The Plumber
Title: The Plumber
Character: Delivery Man
Released: June 21, 1921
Type: Movie
A delivery man is mistaken for a plumber; violence ensues!
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Why Worry
Title: Why Worry
Released: June 11, 1921
Type: Movie
George Bunny's career as a screen comedian was an attempt to cash in on his brother, John's reputation, but George is no comedian. Here he plays a young man -- he is supposed to have been in his mid-fifties when this movie was made, but if so, he could have passed for 30 -- who heads over to a sanitarium filled with the usual crazy types, falls in love and runs off with the leading lady, all without doing anything that might be called in the least funny.
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The New Member
Title: The New Member
Character: Lead
Released: February 18, 1921
Type: Movie
After getting involved in a series of fist fights, Billy Franey scrawls into a reunion from the Order of Wriggle Fingers.
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The Chef
Title: The Chef
Released: January 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Billy and his pal are bank robbers who decide to lay low by taking jobs in a diner as a chef and waiter.
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The Bath Dub
Title: The Bath Dub
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Billy Franey comedy
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The Cameraman
Title: The Cameraman
Released: December 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Billy is hired by the local newspaper as a cameraman. Billy gets involved in many messes and despite his efforts he cannot escape the presence of the Whitling Man.
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The Moonshiner
Title: The Moonshiner
Released: August 11, 1920
Type: Movie
A slapstick comedy about a hobo and his moonshine.
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The Paper Hangers
Title: The Paper Hangers
Released: May 19, 1920
Type: Movie
Even the story is pretty much a retread of something out of a lesser Keystone from 1915. They eat paste. They make a general mess and they get involved with a mad anarchist named D.E. Stroy (get it?) who was to blow up everything -- his motive seems to be to produce more gags for the movie.
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The Water Plug
Title: The Water Plug
Released: May 13, 1920
Type: Movie
Billy is on the bum. He sees a copper writing a ticket to a driver parked in front of a fire hydrant. The driver slips the cop some money to tear up the ticket. Billy acquires a fake fire plug and a policeman's badge, and sets out to make some money.
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Trouble
Title: Trouble
Released: March 8, 1920
Type: Movie
A slapstick comedy starring Al St. John.
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The Yellow Dog Catcher
Title: The Yellow Dog Catcher
Released: October 19, 1919
Type: Movie
The misadventures of a dog catcher
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The Masked Marvels
Title: The Masked Marvels
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Cook Gale Henry and butler Milton Sims are arguing in the kitchen about who would make the best detective, until the lady of the house comes in to see about the delay in dinner and fires them both. Freed from their domestic duties, they are at liberty to become detectives.
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When Damon Fell for Pythias
Title: When Damon Fell for Pythias
Character: Damon
Released: January 11, 1917
Type: Movie
The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both are spared.
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A Shadowed Shadow
Title: A Shadowed Shadow
Released: November 4, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 Joker Comedy starring Lillian Peacock
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The Inspector's Double
Title: The Inspector's Double
Character: John
Released: September 30, 1916
Type: Movie
It was all because John was the image of Frank, the health inspector. John lost his purse and Frank found it. Then he went to the former's house and Matilda thought her hubby was crazy because he did not recognize her. Frank had forgotten his badge, and so could not prove his identity, and was taken to the insane asylum. But Bess discovered that Frank left his badge and went to the first house on his list to give it to him. At the corner she met John looking for the wallet. He liked her and said that he would take her to lunch. When he arrived home he thought that Matilda was crazy, and sent to the asylum for help.
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She Wrote a Play and Played It
Title: She Wrote a Play and Played It
Character: Bill Bones - the Village Undertaker
Released: August 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Gale Henry, at that time famous as big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick. Here as a prominent villager too interested writing a play to be bothered with lovers. When a wandering director arrives in town, learns of her play and agrees to produce it for her, with the author in the leading role, she is delighted. But the play proves a frost.
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Bashful Charley's Proposal
Title: Bashful Charley's Proposal
Character: Charley
Released: July 1, 1916
Type: Movie
The widow lives in a houseboat near one of the beaches. Charley is her devoted lover, but his bashfulness prevents him from proposing. She has a daughter, Lilly, who is visiting in a nearby town. She accepts Heinie subject to her mother's approval. The mother cannot see it and wires her daughter that she cannot marry the young man unless he shows her $5,000. She orders the girl home. Heinie says that he has a brother living near the widow's houseboat and that he will accompany Lilly home so as to be on the ground. Heinie and Charley are very much alike, in fact, the only difference between the brothers is in the way in which they wear their mustaches.
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A Millionaire for a Minute
Title: A Millionaire for a Minute
Character: Her Uncle, an Egyptologist
Released: October 16, 1915
Type: Movie
Gale, the Village Schoolmarm, wants to marry Ezekial Brown, but her Uncle objects to the match.
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
Title: Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
Character: Chief of Police
Released: October 14, 1915
Type: Movie
This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On the refusal of the Governor to sign a bill in favor of the liquor interest, the political boss tries to force the executive to his will. The Governor, after a series of thrilling experiences, thwarts the efforts of the politicians. The latter calls on Lady Baffles, who impersonates the Governor's wife and secures the executive's signature to the bill. Detective Duck, however, captures the politicians in a clever manner and beats Lady Baffles at her own game. (Moving Picture World Synopsis)
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery
Title: Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery
Character: The Chief of Police
Released: May 27, 1915
Type: Movie
First episode in the Lady Baffles and Detective Duck one-reel comedy series. The city is being terrorized by a mysterious female Raffles. At last, in desperation, the chief of police sends for his friend, the famous sleuth, Detective Duck. While these two are sitting in conference, Raffles, in her search for loot, enters the home of Mrs. Gotta Millun. Raffles' eyes sparkle as she takes in with delight the rich Oriental knick-knacks and furnishings. Mrs. Millun is a connoisseur. Raffles hides under a table when Mrs. Millun comes in. Mrs. Millun has just received a gift from her brother in far-off India. It is a jewel case containing eight beautiful and rare pearls as large as hen eggs. In a note accompanying them her brother explains that the jewels were part of the loot of the Britishers when they raided Oski Wow Wow, and that they were taken from a famous Indian Princess who had sworn eternal vengeance on all who thereafter possessed them.