Dick La Reno

Dick La Reno

Born: October 29, 1863
Died: July 26, 1945
in Ireland

Movies for Dick La Reno...

Thunder Riders
Title: Thunder Riders
Character: Dave Lawton
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
As Betty arrives from the East Coast to take over the ranch and fortune left by her late father, the trip is interrupted by an Indian attack.
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The Border Cavalier
Title: The Border Cavalier
Character: Dave Lawton
Released: September 18, 1927
Type: Movie
American Western film directed by William Wyler and written by Basil Dickey and Gardner Bradford.
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The Silent Rider
Title: The Silent Rider
Character: Baldy
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jerry Alton is content with life on the Bar Z Ranch until Mrs. Randall hires pretty Marian Faer to assist in cooking. Marian explains that she is looking for a redheaded husband. All the men are smitten with her, and several, including Jerry, try to dye their hair red.
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General Custer at the Little Big Horn
Title: General Custer at the Little Big Horn
Character: Charles Renton - Indian Agent
Released: September 16, 1926
Type: Movie
One of the bloodiest battles in American history is brought to life in this rarely-seen silent blockbuster. Over 3,000 extras were employed to recreate General George Custer's last stand against the Indian forces led by Crazy Horse.
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With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Title: With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Character: William Rose
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
When Buffalo Bill Cody learns that the Union Pacific railroad is making its way through Kansas, he and other heroes of the Wild West join forces to build a town along the route.
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Sea Horses
Title: Sea Horses
Character: Henry
Released: February 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Sea Horses is a 1926 American drama silent film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Becky Gardiner, James Shelley Hamilton and Francis Brett Young. The film stars Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, William Powell, George Bancroft, Mack Swain, Frank Campeau and Allan Simpson. The film was released on February 22, 1926, by Paramount Pictures. It is considered a lost film.
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Lash of the Law
Title: Lash of the Law
Released: February 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Drug Store Cowboy
Title: The Drug Store Cowboy
Character: Sheriff
Released: June 1, 1925
Type: Movie
This comedy-melodrama focuses on Marmaduke Grandon (Franklin Farnum), who's a drug store clerk with aspirations to be a movie star.
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Oh, You Tony!
Title: Oh, You Tony!
Character: Mark Langdon
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
This silent Western features Tom Mix as a rancher who goes to Washington to affect better conditions for the anonymous man of the soil. Having lost his money to some scheming lobbyists, Mix, unaware that oil has been found on his property, stakes his possessions on wonder horse Tony winning the big race.
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Waterfront Wolves
Title: Waterfront Wolves
Character: Joe Hampton
Released: January 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Some valuable pearls are stolen in China and transported to San Francisco. Jane Hampton learns that her father is the smuggler, and that police are on his trail. Under pressure, she takes the pearls to a Chinese man named Woo Fong.
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Single Handed
Title: Single Handed
Character: Sheriff Simpel
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Hector MacKnight, known to the townspeople as "Goofy" and an irritatingly terrible fiddler, is innocently drawn into a rigged poker game. A general fight brings the sheriff, and a chase ensues. Before the confusion is ended and Hector cleared, he meets Ruth Randolph and becomes involved in a circus while trying to recover the other half of her treasure map.
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Trimmed
Title: Trimmed
Character: Judge William Dandridge
Released: July 3, 1922
Type: Movie
Returning from service in the A. E. F., Dale Garland is given a rousing reception by his townsmen. County political boss Nebo Slayter persuades the community to nominate Dale for sheriff--thinking he can be easily manipulated--against John Millard, the incumbent, who refuses political compromises. Dale easily wins and pledges to give the citizens an honest deal. Millard's daughter, Alice, who is Dale's childhood sweetheart, learns of Slayter's dishonest schemes and sees his men murder a moonshiner for whom they had been furnishing protection.
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A Daughter of the Law
Title: A Daughter of the Law
Character: Pat Marlowe
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
When Eddie, the son of a police officer, gets involved with a criminal gang, his sister tries to steer him away from crime.
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Isobel or the Trail's End
Title: Isobel or the Trail's End
Character: Jim Blake
Released: December 19, 1920
Type: Movie
In retaliation for an attack upon his wife Isobel, Scottie Dean, a passenger on a whaling ship, throws Captain Jim Blake overboard and, believing that he is responsible for the captain's death, flees to the Northwoods for safety.
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The Land of Jazz
Title: The Land of Jazz
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an island, are friends. When the doctor catches Nancy kissing the captain, known for kisses with a "heavenly kick," he breaks the engagement. In an effort to win back the doctor for Nancy, Nina pretends to be a bit "off" and becomes an inmate of the sanitarium.
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Under Crimson Skies
Title: Under Crimson Skies
Character: Second Mate
Released: July 5, 1920
Type: Movie
The captain of a sailing ship has an affair with the wife of one of his passengers, and gets mixed up in a mutiny at sea and a revolution.
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The Spirit of Good
Title: The Spirit of Good
Character: Chuck Lang
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
When chorus girl Nell Gordon (Madlaine Traverse) is betrayed by a married man, she becomes hard and bitter. Eventually, she drifts from New York to the decadent Western town of Gehenna where she's the star of the cabaret.
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A Man's Fight
Title: A Man's Fight
Character: Logan
Released: August 10, 1919
Type: Movie
An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when Evans assaulted her.
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Go-Get-Em Garringer
Title: Go-Get-Em Garringer
Character: 'Red' McCarty
Released: March 23, 1919
Type: Movie
The Parsons Land Reclamation Company hires "Drive" Garringer to rid the Arizona-Mexican border area of the Triple Arrow gang, who have been attacking their workmen. In Puma City, he discovers that the sheriff and leading citizens protect the outlaws. Meanwhile, Wilma Wharton, the daughter of an aged prospector, hoping to put an end to the advances of the gang leader, agrees to go through a fake marriage ceremony with another gang member, but later discovers that the marriage was performed by a authentic minister.
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The Midnight Stage
Title: The Midnight Stage
Character: Boggs (as Richard La Reno)
Released: January 12, 1919
Type: Movie
In this Western, Frank Keenan has a dual role -- kind-hearted gambler John Lynch and evil bandit Big Rivers. The only person who realizes there is a resemblance between the two is dance hall girl Nita (Maude George), who was abused by the outlaw and cared for by Lynch.
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Mr. Logan, U.S.A.
Title: Mr. Logan, U.S.A.
Character: Uncle Billy Morton
Released: September 8, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, German spies were even capable of infiltrating a Tom Mix Western!
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The Spindle of Life
Title: The Spindle of Life
Character: Hooky (as Richard La Reno)
Released: September 17, 1917
Type: Movie
When Mrs. Harrison arrives in Harborsport for her vacation, she announces her plan to marry Gladsome, her daughter, to Vincent Bradshaw, the son of her financial advisor James Bradshaw. To keep Gladsome from socializing with the local fishermen, James drives them from his property, but they organize under her and force their way back. Arrested for rabble-rousing, Gladsome is bailed out of jail by James and later meets "Alphabet" Carter, a vacationing financial wizard, for whom she has an immediate attraction.
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Fires of Rebellion
Title: Fires of Rebellion
Character: Joe Garvey (as Richard La Reno)
Released: July 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works in a shoe factory. Her father Joe (Richard de la Reno) is a drunk who beats his wife (Alice May Youss), and her sister Helen (Belle Bennett) has repeated the pattern by marrying Dan Mallory (Edward Brady). The new foreman, John Blake (William Stowell), fires Mallory. Mallory attacks him, but because of his alcohol abuse, his heart gives out and he dies. Blake asks Joe for Madge's hand, and he accepts for her. Madge longs for something better, when Cora, a former stenographer from the company (Golda Madden), writes her from the big city.
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The Little Orphan
Title: The Little Orphan
Character: Dick Porter
Released: June 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Three bachelor buddies, David Clark (Jack Conway), Dick Porter (Richard LeReno), and Jerry Mathers (George Webb) adopt three Belgian children who have been orphaned by the war. David winds up with Rene Lescere (Ella Hall), who -- much to his dismay -- comes with a pet goat and chicken. But Rene comes to love her foster father and vice versa. In fact, she's determined to find him a wife who will also serve as a foster mom for her.
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Bringing Home Father
Title: Bringing Home Father
Character: Mike Clancey
Released: June 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Peter Drake meets and falls in love with Jackie Swazey, the daughter of a feisty suffragette and incipient politician. In order to impress her, he agrees to help Mrs Swazey in her campaign to become elected.
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The Reward of the Faithless
Title: The Reward of the Faithless
Character: Prince Paul Ragusin (as Richard Le Reno)
Released: February 12, 1917
Type: Movie
A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.
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Black Orchids
Title: Black Orchids
Character: Emile de Severac
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive. The movie was Rex Ingram’s directorial debut, and he later remade the film as Trifling Women in 1922. Black Orchids is considered to be a lost film.
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Nugget Jim's Pardner
Title: Nugget Jim's Pardner
Character: Nugget Jim Keith
Released: July 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Nugget Jim's pardner (Borzage), is an easy-come-easy-go character, an heirling who has worn through the last of pater's patience, eaten through his allowance of allowances. Off he pops, after one last drunken hurrah, to makes his living way out west. He teams up with a prospector and his daughter and they develop a happy family situation.
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The Pilgrim
Title: The Pilgrim
Character: Niles, Jim
Released: June 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Short western by Frank Borzage about a man called The Pilgrim who comes into a new town, establishes himself and falls in love with a woman.
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The Target
Title: The Target
Character: George Harris
Released: March 6, 1916
Type: Movie
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The White Rosette
Title: The White Rosette
Released: February 5, 1916
Type: Movie
In the romantic days of the Eleventh Century the prologue of this picture shows us, Sir Errol, a victorious knight, returns to the castle of his liege lord, the Baron Edward, where he renews his vows with Lady Maud, his betrothed mistress. During Sir Errol's absence from the realm, the Baron has married Lady Elfrieda, daughter of an impecunious nobleman. Edward loves Elfrieda, but for her the marriage was solely one of expediency. She loses her heart to the handsome young knight.
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1915
Type: Movie
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.
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The Warrens of Virginia
Title: The Warrens of Virginia
Character: General Griffin
Released: February 14, 1915
Type: Movie
As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.
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The Rose of the Rancho
Title: The Rose of the Rancho
Character: Esra Kincaid, Land-Jumper
Released: November 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”
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The Man From Home
Title: The Man From Home
Character: Old Man Simpson
Released: November 9, 1914
Type: Movie
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Ready Money
Title: Ready Money
Character: Captain West
Released: November 5, 1914
Type: Movie
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Balaam (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.
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Bill's Sweetheart
Title: Bill's Sweetheart
Character: Joe Black
Released: July 31, 1913
Type: Movie
Bill, who is with a bunch of cowboys on their way to town, picks up from the wreckage of a prairie schooner a little baby girl. Five years later the little girl, while running after butterflies, gets lost. Bill, waking up from his siesta, goes in search of her, but she cannot be found. The little girl, in the meantime, has climbed into a freighter's wagon. For twelve years she lives with him. One evening, while gambling with Mexican Pete, the freighter loses his money, and the girl, whom he had staked against the Mexican's winnings. But before the Mexican can take the girl away, Bill wins her from the Mexican, places her in the care of a woman neighbor and eventually marries her.