James O. Barrows

James O. Barrows

Movies for James O. Barrows...

The Sea Beast
Title: The Sea Beast
Character: Rev. Harper
Released: January 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
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The Tomboy
Title: The Tomboy
Character: Henry Smith
Released: December 26, 1924
Type: Movie
Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.
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Her Night of Romance
Title: Her Night of Romance
Character: Old Butler (as James Barrows)
Released: November 24, 1924
Type: Movie
An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
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The Signal Tower
Title: The Signal Tower
Character: Old Bill
Released: July 19, 1924
Type: Movie
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
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Young Ideas
Title: Young Ideas
Character: Uncle Eph
Released: July 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has virtually become a drudge in order to support her sponging relatives -- flapper sister Eloise (Lucille Ricksen), hypochondriac Aunt Minnie (Lydia Yeamans Titus), and storytelling Uncle Eph (James O. Barrows). Only Octavia's frail grandmother (Jennie Lee) really needs help. When Octavia's sweetheart, photographer Pritchett Spence (T. Roy Barnes), discovers the toll these bloodsuckers are exacting, he plots with the family doctor to rescue her.
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Stephen Steps Out
Title: Stephen Steps Out
Character: Prof. Gilman
Released: November 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Stephen Steps Out is a 1923 comedy short.
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Cause for Divorce
Title: Cause for Divorce
Character: Prof. Williams
Released: October 6, 1923
Type: Movie
David Butler and Fritzi Brunette star in this melodrama about an agricultural student whose wife longs for life in the city.
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Shadows of the North
Title: Shadows of the North
Character: Ezra 'Pancake' Darby
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Edison Marshall
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When Love Comes
Title: When Love Comes
Character: David Coleridge
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve to propose and asks her to run away with him. Unfortunately, around the time Jane's supposed to meet him at the station her father dies and she has to take care of her brothers and sisters. Jamison believes she loves someone else and disappears for several years. When he finally returns, he has a three-year-old child in tow. But he explains that his wife has been unfaithful and he and Jane renew their romance. Then wife shows up and causes trouble by claiming that Jamison left her for Jane.
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The Pride of Palomar
Title: The Pride of Palomar
Character: Father Dominic
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral land in the hands of strangers.
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Hurricane's Gal
Title: Hurricane's Gal
Character: Cap'n Danny
Released: July 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Allen Holubar silent seafaring pirate ship adventure thriller
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Unseen Forces
Title: Unseen Forces
Character: Joe Simmons
Released: November 29, 1920
Type: Movie
In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her psychic powers by locating children who went missing during the war. Her childhood love Clyde Brunton (Conrad Nagel) is unhappily married to a social climber, but Miriam’s ability to commune with the spirits of the dead (“those we love are always with us”) finds a way to resolve the problem.
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Down Home
Title: Down Home
Character: Dabney Todd
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
DOWN HOME is a rural drama set in New England and stars Leatrice Joy as Nancy Pelot, daughter of the town drunk. He was once a businessman and still owns a local farm, but Nancy now supports her father and herself with a mysterious job in a nearby town.
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The Untamed
Title: The Untamed
Character: Joe Cumberland
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
A cowpuncher by the name of Whistling Dan is adopted by a rancher, Joe Cumberland (James O. Barrows). His daughter, Kate is immediately attracted to Dan, but Cumberland discourages the union since he thinks the young man is too wild for her.
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When Dawn Came
Title: When Dawn Came
Character: Father Michael Farrel
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A doctor serving the slums questions his faith after transitioning to a position with more prestige and wealth.
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The Lord Loves the Irish
Title: The Lord Loves the Irish
Character: Timothy Lynch
Released: December 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Miles Machree (J. Warren Kerrigan) meets Irish-American Sheila Lynch (Fritzi Brunette) when she travels through Ireland with her father (James O. Barrows). Soon after the Lynch's return to the States, Miles follows, and through his uncle's connections, gets a job on the New York City police force.