J. Herbert Frank

J. Herbert Frank

Born: May 12, 1885
Died: March 7, 1926
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for J. Herbert Frank...

Jazzmania
Title: Jazzmania
Character: Colonel Kerr
Released: February 12, 1923
Type: Movie
The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
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In the Days of Buffalo Bill
Title: In the Days of Buffalo Bill
Character: Gen. Hancock
Released: September 11, 1922
Type: Movie
Western film serial featuring Buffalo Bill
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April Folly
Title: April Folly
Character: Ronald Kenna
Released: March 20, 1920
Type: Movie
April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr. Sarle and his partner Ronald Kenna (Frank) and reads her latest story to them. She has made Sarle the hero, Kenna the villain, and herself the heroine. In the story, April changes places with Lady Diana Mannister (Marshall), who is being sent to South Africa to separate her from her lover, a young artist. A famous diamond that Lady Diana is to deliver at the end of her journey is given to April. Thieves trail her during her journey. With efforts by Kenna to steal the diamond prevented by the intervention of Sarle, the story comes to a close.
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The Sheriff's Oath
Title: The Sheriff's Oath
Released: February 28, 1920
Type: Movie
The Sheriff's Oath is a 1920 silent western.
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Dodging a Million
Title: Dodging a Million
Character: Signor Rodrigues
Released: January 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Mabel plays Arabella Flynn, a shop girl who mistakenly thinks she is an heiress. She gets in a jam on a spending spree only to discover that she actually is an heiress and can marry the heir of a corset manufacturer.
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Scandal
Title: Scandal
Character: Sutherland Yorke
Released: November 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Harmlessly flirting with a worldly artist, Beatrix is outraged when he tries to put the moves on her, and she storms indignantly out of his Greenwich Village studio. Alas, her visits to the lecherous artist have already stirred up gossip, so to allay suspicions Beatrix claims that she has come to New York to visit a family friend, Pelham Franklin.
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The Secret of the Storm Country
Title: The Secret of the Storm Country
Character: Ebenezer Walderstricker
Released: November 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Charles Miller.
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The Brand of Satan
Title: The Brand of Satan
Character: Jacques Despard
Released: July 9, 1917
Type: Movie
A man discovers that he has two personalities--and one of them is a notorious strangler.
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The End of the Tour
Title: The End of the Tour
Character: Percy Pennington
Released: January 29, 1917
Type: Movie
A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind. The boy, Byron Bennett, grows up, and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe. To make enough money to get out of town, they teach the local fire department how to put on a play. While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act, one of the troupe tries to seduce her. Byron, knowing what the lecher is up to, even if Grace doesn't, follows the pair and chokes the man senseless.
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The Crucial Test
Title: The Crucial Test
Character: Grand Duke Alexander Bagroff
Released: July 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vance Holden. When Thanya's revolutionary brother Boris tells her that he plans to kill Bagroff, she agrees to help. The plan fails and Boris and Thanya are captured, but they soon escape to Paris where Thanya rejoins the struggling Vance. Bagroff finds Thanya and tells her that he will make Vance famous if she consents to be his mistress. Thanya agrees and Vance becomes an overnight success. Then, as Bagroff and Thanya prepare to spend their first night together, Boris appears and kills the duke, thereby allowing Thanya and Vance to spend a peaceful, successful life together.
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Who Killed Joe Merrion?
Title: Who Killed Joe Merrion?
Character: William Rufford
Released: January 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Sir Philip Randall, a prominent judge, is fed up with the antics of James, his scapegrace son, and tosses him out of the house. The conflict between father and son leaves Mrs. Randall heartbroken, and when she dies, she makes her husband swear to help James if he ever needs it. When Joe Merrion, a bookmaker, is found dead, circumstantial evidence points to Squire William Rufford. Although Randall can't believe he committed the crime, he is forced to convict him and sentence him to prison. But later, when James, whose wild ways have left him penniless, comes to his father for help, Randall discovers that he was the killer.
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Destruction
Title: Destruction
Character: Dave Walker
Released: December 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies before he can change his will. She next tries to kill the son who inherits, but he outfoxes her.
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Mortmain
Title: Mortmain
Character: Dr. Pennison Crisp
Released: September 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-grafting, and shows proofs. Among those deeply interested is Mortmain, a musician and a friend of the surgeon.
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Four Grains of Rice
Title: Four Grains of Rice
Released: June 12, 1915
Type: Movie
The leader of "The Sons of the Brazen Joss," one of the Tongs, or Chinese social organizations, is murdered by Moy Wong, cunning leader of The Four Grains of Rice," a Tong of higher class and bitter enemies of the "Sons." Sworn to vengeance, the "Sons" await an opportunity to get even.
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The Breath of Araby
Title: The Breath of Araby
Character: M De Launay
Released: May 8, 1915
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to attract a man by using a thousand-year-old love potion.
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A Wireless Rescue
Title: A Wireless Rescue
Released: March 23, 1915
Type: Movie
A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a disaster to an express train.
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Twice Rescued
Title: Twice Rescued
Character: Dr. Wells
Released: February 20, 1915
Type: Movie
Saved from a terrible shipwreck by Stephan Royston, son of a farmer. Nana, orphaned by the catastrophe, is adopted by the family and the two sons, Stephan and Godfrey, fall in love with her. Stephan's artistic tendency for painting, etc., is classed as foolishness by his stern father, while Godfrey, realizing that the girl favors his brother, determines to get rid of him.
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The Greater Love
Title: The Greater Love
Released: December 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Shortly after the engagement of John Brown and Hope Avery is announced, he receives an offer of a fine position in South America. She demurs at his going, but he overcomes her objections and after a tender farewell, leaves her with the promise to return within a year and make her his wife. Philip Lane is injured in an auto accident near the Avery home, and Hope discovers him. She has him taken to her home and during his convalescence, he falls deeply in love with her.
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Saved from a Life of Crime
Title: Saved from a Life of Crime
Released: December 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Becoming imbued with a lawless spirit, Tom, a street waif of twelve, holds up an old woman with a toy pistol, robs her of a dollar and gets away. Exhibiting the money to some of his companions, the boy proceeds to give them all an ice cream treat. The feast is interrupted by the police, who nab Tom.
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Hearts and Diamonds
Title: Hearts and Diamonds
Released: September 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.
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The Littlest Rebel
Title: The Littlest Rebel
Character: Jim Dudley
Released: September 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A Civil War melodrama from 1914.
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The Wheat and the Tares
Title: The Wheat and the Tares
Character: Black Bart
Released: August 15, 1914
Type: Movie
In a game of cards, Stillwell, a young Southerner, incurs the hatred of Collins, an unscrupulous scoundrel. Seeing a chance for a double revenge, Collins goes to LaVinge, father of Edith, with whom Stillwell is in love, and demands payment of an old gambling debt.
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The Apple
Title: The Apple
Character: Louis Kaplan
Released: July 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Promising to send for his sweetheart Roza, when he gets settled, Hugo Hunfalvy leaves Hungary for America. In New York he meets Louis Kaplan, an old friend, who owns a fruit store. Louis' sister, Marie, is pretty and flirtatious, and is much impressed by Hugo. He soon falls under the influence of her wiles and buys part interest in Louis' store.