Charles Brinley

Charles Brinley

Born: November 15, 1880
Died: February 17, 1946
in Yuma, Arizona, USA

Movies for Charles Brinley...

Heritage of the Desert
Title: Heritage of the Desert
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
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The Frontiersmen
Title: The Frontiersmen
Character: Townsman
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.
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Adventure in Sahara
Title: Adventure in Sahara
Character: Soldier
Released: November 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Six Shootin' Sheriff
Title: Six Shootin' Sheriff
Character: Barfly
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Cowboy star Ken Maynard is Jim "Trigger" Morton, in town undercover while pursuing the man who framed him for robbery. But a well-placed shot tames a band of scofflaws and gains Morton the sheriff's badge. Now, he's riding on both sides of the law. The line is further blurred when old buddy Chuck offers evidence of Morton's innocence in exchange for a blind eye to Chuck's impending postal heist in this classic Western.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Gambler
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Pappy
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Title: Two-Fisted Sheriff
Character: Blake
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
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Phantom of Santa Fe
Title: Phantom of Santa Fe
Character: Pedro
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A band of renegades attacks and loots a mission, stealing some priceless treasures. Local citizens blame an outlaw known as "The Hawk," who is also called "The Phantom of Santa Fe."
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Song of the Saddle
Title: Song of the Saddle
Character: Murdered Settler (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
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Riding Wild
Title: Riding Wild
Character: Panchito - Ortega Vaquero (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
It's roundup time and Stevens is out to start a range war between the big ranchers and the nesters. Tim Malloy is elected to head the roundup but is unable to stop the war and joins the nesters. With the nesters now well organized, Stevens finds a Malloy look-alike and makes a plan to use him to trap the nesters and wipe them out.
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Stone of Silver Creek
Title: Stone of Silver Creek
Character: Barfly
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
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The Crimson Trail
Title: The Crimson Trail
Character: Tom - Bellair Ranch Hand
Released: March 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.
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In Spite of Danger
Title: In Spite of Danger
Character: Cummings' Helper
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: Dealer
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 Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Bartender
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Title: The Crime of Helen Stanley
Character: Electrician (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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Fargo Express
Title: Fargo Express
Character: Posse Rider
Released: November 20, 1933
Type: Movie
When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.
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Unknown Valley
Title: Unknown Valley
Character: Gong-Ringer
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village find him unconscious. Attracted to Sheilla O'Neill, the two plan an escape from the village where no one is allowed to leave. But then he learns his father is being held prisoner and finding him, he is also made a prisoner.
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The Thrill Hunter
Title: The Thrill Hunter
Character: Hobo on Train
Released: April 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
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Treason
Title: Treason
Character: Man Who Rides for help
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
It's just after the Civil War in Kansas and Joan Randall and her troops are continuing the struggle. Jeff Conners is sent to bring her in and when he does she is found guilt and sentenced to hang. Earlier Jeff learned that her assistant Colonel Jedcott is the real culprit and rides to the Governor for a pardon only to be waylaid by Jedcott on the return trip.
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Young Blood
Title: Young Blood
Character: Townsman
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
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The Boiling Point
Title: The Boiling Point
Character: Gonzales
Released: July 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Jimmy's uncle gives him 30 days probation on Kirk's ranch to control his temper or lose his inheritance. There he gets tangled up with a gang of robbers whose boss is his rival for Kirk's daughter. With one day left in his probation, they goad him into a fight.
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Heroes of the West
Title: Heroes of the West
Character: Townsman
Released: June 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
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The Spirit of the West
Title: The Spirit of the West
Character: Ramon (as Charles Brindley)
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
To bring in the bad guys, a rodeo champ poses as an inept cowhand.
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Cavalier of the West
Title: Cavalier of the West
Character: Orderly
Released: November 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Burgess and Greeley are rustling horses and shooting Indians. When they kill Manual they frame Lieutenant Allister. His older brother John now attempts to defend him at his murder trial.
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The Mad Genius
Title: The Mad Genius
Character: Poster Hanger (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
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Beau Bandit
Title: Beau Bandit
Character: Slim - Posse Member (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse. Montero has intentions of robbing the bank owned by skinflint Lucius Perkins, but is sidetracked by the attractions of singing-teacher Helen Wardell. He learns that Perkins has marital designs on Helen and holds the mortgage on her ranch. But Helen is in love with Bill Howard. Perkins offers Montero money to kill his rival.
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Covered Wagon Trails
Title: Covered Wagon Trails
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Deputy Sheriff "Smoke" Sanderson (Bob Custer) is after a gang of smugglers, led by Brad Vogel (J.P. McGowan) operating along the Texas/Mexico border but he does not know that Chet Clayton (Perry Murdock), the brother of his sweetheart, Wanda Clayton (Phyllis Bainbridge), is one of the gang members.
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Love In The Desert
Title: Love In The Desert
Character: Arab Tribesman
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Zarah, a beautiful Arabian played by Olive Borden, saves irrigation engineer Bob Winslow (Hugh Trevor) from being abducted by bandit leader Abdullah (Noah Beery).
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The Man Who Laughs
Title: The Man Who Laughs
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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Desert Valley
Title: Desert Valley
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Seeing cattle dying of thirst, a stranger shoots a hole in Hoades water pipeline. Hoades is hoarding water trying to drive the ranchers away. Hounded by the law for stealing a pie, the stranger sees a chance to redeem himself by forcing Hoades to sell his pipeline and leave the area.
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The White Outlaw
Title: The White Outlaw
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Jack Lupton loves three things in the world, Buck his dog, Scout his horse and the lovely rancher's daughter Mary Gale. But his beloved horse Scout was driven off by man's cruelty and finding freedom, now leads a big herd of horses to run wild! And Jack has his own problems with the cruelty of his fellow man, in the form of James Hill his brutal and jealous rival for Mary's affections!
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The Pony Express
Title: The Pony Express
Character: Man in top hat
Released: September 3, 1925
Type: Movie
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife Betty Compson along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.
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The Fighting Smile
Title: The Fighting Smile
Released: August 4, 1925
Type: Movie
A cowboy who has been away from home for a long time returns, only to find that the area he grew up in has been taken over by a vicious gang of cattle rustlers--and that his closest friend from boyhood is one of them.
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Idaho!
Title: Idaho!
Character: Yarrow
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Frank Leon Smith's well-written story told of Carter's Creek, a bustling mining camp, and of how Beth Cameron (Rich) seeks to avenge the murder of her father (Frederick Vroom) by donning men's clothing and raiding the vicinity.
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California in '49
Title: California in '49
Character: John Sutter
Released: November 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Feature version of Days of '49 (1924), a 15-chapter serial.
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Riders of the Plains
Title: Riders of the Plains
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
B-Western regulars Jack Perrin and Marilyn Mills starred in this obscure, low-budget Western serial released in 15 chapters.
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Lawless Men
Title: Lawless Men
Character: Ruth's father
Released: March 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Steve McKay, a cowboy, is falsely accused of murdering the father of his girlfriend.
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In the Days of Daniel Boone
Title: In the Days of Daniel Boone
Character: Daniel Boone
Released: June 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Presumed lost. 15-episode serialized Western directed by William James Craft. A trailer is included in the DVD More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films.
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Hills of Missing Men
Title: Hills of Missing Men
Character: Bandini
Released: February 26, 1922
Type: Movie
A US Army officer is sent undercover into the hills of Mexico's Baja California region to find and bring down the madman Crando and his group of crazed followers, who are setting up their own criminal empire spreading from Mexico into the United States.
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Moran of the Lady Letty
Title: Moran of the Lady Letty
Character: Captain Eilert Sternersen
Released: February 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-too-scrupulous smuggler. When the ship encounters the foundering "Lady Letty," some of the Letty's crew is brought aboard, including Letty 'Moran' Sternerson, feisty daughter of the Letty's captain. Moran and Ramon have little use for each other, but when trouble erupts and the smuggler Captain Kitchell turns his evil eye on Moran, it is Ramon who comes to her rescue.
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The Sheik
Title: The Sheik
Character: Mustapha Ali - Diana's Guide (as Charles Brindley)
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
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Go Straight
Title: Go Straight
Character: Buck Stevens
Released: October 17, 1921
Type: Movie
Young minister Keith Rollins comes to a backwoods community in Kentucky and finds that lawless and political elements are against him and threaten his position with the congregation.
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The Beautiful Gambler
Title: The Beautiful Gambler
Released: June 1, 1921
Type: Movie
After Mark Hanlon gambles away his fortune and his equity in his house, his daughter Molly marries Kirk, proprietor of the gambling hall; and as mistress of the gaming tables, she meets young Miles Rand, exiled to the West for his reckless behavior.
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'If Only' Jim
Title: 'If Only' Jim
Character: Parky
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Gold miner Jim Golden is in love with Miss Dot, the local postmistress, but he has a reputation for being somewhat lazy and shiftless. One day he finds a baby that had been abandoned by local Indians, adopts it, and begins to work his claim again. Parky, a local thief and swindler, finds out that Jim has finally struck gold, and schemes to trick Jim out of his claim and kidnap Miss Dot while he's at it.
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The White Squaw
Title: The White Squaw
Character: The Arch Evil-Doer (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1920
Type: Movie
A stranger (Leo Willis) turns out to be a revenue agent and Texas' brother, Tom, turns him out. But when a gang of moonshiners captures the stranger, Texas takes matters into her own hands. There is a climactic shootout between the moonshiners and the "revenoo" agents, during which Texas is wounded. When the smoke settles, the agent proposes to his guardian angel and she accepts.
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The Double Hold-Up
Title: The Double Hold-Up
Character: The Sheriff
Released: December 20, 1919
Type: Movie
The hero impersonates a "spook" bandit and aids in bringing the band to justice.
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The Lone Hand
Title: The Lone Hand
Character: Sheriff Hatch
Released: December 13, 1919
Type: Movie
A government detective poses as a holdup, on the trail of masked riders.
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Patria
Title: Patria
Released: January 14, 1917
Type: Movie
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S. Secret Service agent Donald Parr.
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Liberty
Title: Liberty
Character: Alvarez
Released: August 20, 1916
Type: Movie
A 20 part 2-reel Western film serial.