Irving Cummings

Irving Cummings

Born: October 8, 1888
Died: April 18, 1959
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Irving Cummings...

As Man Desires
Title: As Man Desires
Character: Major Singh
Released: January 11, 1925
Type: Movie
The story of a man who was robbed of his greatest love and the South Seas wildflower who found it for him, in the land of pawn trees where men of all nations gather; some seeking vengeance and some forgiveness.
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Rupert of Hentzau
Title: Rupert of Hentzau
Character: Von Bernenstein
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania, to play the King once more. Lost Adaptation of the eponymous Anthony Hope nove, the sequel of the Prisoner of Zenda.
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The Eternal Flame
Title: The Eternal Flame
Character: Count de Marsay
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
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The Man from Hell's River
Title: The Man from Hell's River
Character: Pierre de Barre
Released: May 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Adventure of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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Campbell of the Mounted
Title: Campbell of the Mounted
Released: April 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Irving Cummings stars and directs himself as a Mountie trying to solve a crime.
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Cameron of the Royal Mounted
Title: Cameron of the Royal Mounted
Character: Dick Raven
Released: December 25, 1921
Type: Movie
A young Scottish immigrant to Canada becomes a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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The Blasphemer
Title: The Blasphemer
Character: Chinese Opium Den Operator
Released: October 14, 1921
Type: Movie
This rarely seen, silent religious feature was produced by the Catholic Art Association. After making it big on Wall Street, John Harden boasts that he is the master of his own fate and believes in neither God nor the Devil. Needless to say, he pays mightily for this hubris. His family is reduced to poverty, his friends desert him, and things turn from bad to worse until his childhood faith is restored.
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Patsy's Jim
Title: Patsy's Jim
Character: Cpl. Jim Campbell, N.W.M.P.
Released: August 15, 1921
Type: Movie
Irving Cummings stars in this tale of a Royal Canadian Mountie who is nursed back to health by a beautiful young girl after being attacked by thugs. One of the few surviving films starring Cummings, who would later become a successful director of films such as In Old Arizona (1928), Curly Top (1940) and That Night in Rio (1941).
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Beautifully Trimmed
Title: Beautifully Trimmed
Character: Count Bonzi
Released: December 31, 1920
Type: Movie
Norine Lawton is a young woman living by her wits in New York City. When she becomes friendly with Count Bonzi, a swindler, he enlists her aid in his scheme to sell worthless Mercer oil company stock to wealthy Christopher Gibbons, a retired war hero.
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The Round-Up
Title: The Round-Up
Character: Dick Lane
Released: October 10, 1920
Type: Movie
A lovesick sheriff protects his town, embroiled in a feud between a crafty bandit leader and the family of the prospector he stole from.
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The Saphead
Title: The Saphead
Character: Mark Turner
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich. His son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making him take the blame for Mark's illegitimate daughter. Mark also nearly ruins the family business by selling off Henrietta stock at too low a price. Bertie, of all people, must come to the rescue on the trading floor.
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Sex
Title: Sex
Character: Dave Wallace
Released: March 29, 1920
Type: Movie
A Broadway actress uses her sex appeal to ruin a marriage only to dump her lover for a richer prospect.
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The 13th Commandment
Title: The 13th Commandment
Released: January 17, 1920
Type: Movie
Disillusioned by the transience of wealth when her father's bank balance can no longer support his family's posh lifestyle, and when her fiancé Clay Wimborn admits that he has gone into debt to shower her with presents, Daphne Kip determines to become financially independent.
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Everywoman
Title: Everywoman
Character: Passion
Released: December 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: Benton Arrelsford
Released: June 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is planned. But Dumont falls in love with a Southern girl and when she proves useful to his plan, his conscience begins to tear at him.
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Her Code of Honor
Title: Her Code of Honor
Character: Jacques
Released: April 6, 1919
Type: Movie
A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French man the daughter, now grown up, attracted to a descendant of that same Parisian as well?
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Ravished Armenia
Title: Ravished Armenia
Released: January 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.
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Toys of Fate
Title: Toys of Fate
Character: Greggo
Released: May 12, 1918
Type: Movie
A gypsy girl whose mother committed suicide after being seduced and abandoned by a rich man finds herself twenty years later being wooed by the same man.
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An American Widow
Title: An American Widow
Character: Jasper Mallory
Released: December 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Wealthy American widow Elizabeth Carter plans to marry the Earl of Dettminster when lawyer Augustus Tucker informs her of a codicil in her late husband's will. The Carter fortune will go to nephew Pitney Carter, who is in love with Elizabeth, if her second husband is not an American. Elizabeth therefore pays penniless playwright Jasper Mallory $50,000 to marry her and schemes with actress Mme. Albani to provide grounds for divorce so that she may then make the earl her third husband.
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Rasputin, the Black Monk
Title: Rasputin, the Black Monk
Character: Prince Felix
Released: October 5, 1917
Type: Movie
The story of the rise and fall of Rasputin, the so-called "mad monk" who dominated the court of the Russian czar in the period prior to the Russian revolution.
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A Royal Romance
Title: A Royal Romance
Character: Emperor Maximilian
Released: April 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Princess Sylvia refuses to marry the Emperor Maximilian of Rhaetia because his proposal has been offered for diplomatic rather than romantic reasons. Learning that Maximilian is traveling to a hunting lodge in a small village, Sylvia follows him, disguised as an untitled English girl, and the emperor immediately falls in love with her.
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The Whip
Title: The Whip
Character: Herbert Brancaster
Released: March 25, 1917
Type: Movie
The story of the training of a racehorse, the Whip, of the amnesiac nobleman who loves the horse, and of the villains who attempt to keep it from racing.
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The Hidden Scar
Title: The Hidden Scar
Character: Dale Overton
Released: October 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Janet Hall (Ethel Clayton) is "wronged" by Henry Dalton (Montagu Love) and becomes pregnant. She has the child and begs Dalton to marry her but he refuses. However, when he comes to a sudden end, he leaves her with a cottage and a small income. Then she meets and falls in love with Dale Overton (Irving Cummings), a minister who's fond of preaching the virtues of charity and forgiveness.
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The Gilded Cage
Title: The Gilded Cage
Character: Prince Boris
Released: October 9, 1916
Type: Movie
In The Gilded Cage, Alice Brady plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who doesn't know her true identity (nor does she know his).
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The Saleslady
Title: The Saleslady
Character: Bruce
Released: March 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Poverty forces Helen Shirley, a country lass, into New York in search of a living. Shy and unsophisticated, Helen falls an easy victim of the notorious band which preys upon young girls and she is easily induced to go to a boarding house which is in reality the headquarters of the gang.
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The Diamond from the Sky
Title: The Diamond from the Sky
Released: May 3, 1915
Type: Movie
This serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.
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The Last Volunteer
Title: The Last Volunteer
Character: Prince Ludwig
Released: August 21, 1914
Type: Movie
While traveling incognito through his kingdom, Prince Ludwig of Saxe-Tholberg becomes infatuated with Katrina, the daughter of innkeeper Hermann Ardelheim, but their idyll is interrupted by the arrival of a courier bearing the news that Austrania has threatened war. Katrina is heartbroken to discover the identity of her sweetheart whom she can never hope to marry. After Ludwig's departure, Katrina overhears the plotting of two spies and with the help of her brother Roalf, she confronts them. In the ensuing struggle, Katrina kills one of them, who turns out to be the Austranian ambassador. Although Katrina admits her crime, Marshal von Trump plans to execute Roalf in order to pacify the Austranians. Katrina appeals to Ludwig, who pardons Roalf over the advice of his counselors causing Austrania to declare war. A crucial battle is fought near the Ardelheim inn, during which Katrina becomes a heroine by signaling the advance of Ludwig's troops.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Character: George Harris
Released: August 10, 1914
Type: Movie
The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.
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Pamela Congreve
Title: Pamela Congreve
Released: May 25, 1914
Type: Movie
A sileny film drama directed by Eugene Moore.
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The Grey Sentinel
Title: The Grey Sentinel
Released: April 9, 1913
Type: Movie
Tom Carson, a southerner, with his daughter, Grace, is the keeper of the Grey Sentinel Lighthouse. John Adams, the sweetheart of Grace, returns from West Point and joins the southern cause; he, however, spying for the Union Army. A fierce battle takes place between the Confederate and Union forces in which the former are victorious. Hal Peters, a southern officer and an admirer of Grace, is surprised to find among his captives. John Adams.
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The Bells
Title: The Bells
Released: February 19, 1913
Type: Movie
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Marked Cards
Title: Marked Cards
Character: Harry Wade
Released: January 27, 1913
Type: Movie
When a young man loses at cards and steals money to pay his debts, James Wade tells his beautiful sister that he will replace the money if she marries him. Otherwise, it's off to prison for the foolish young man.
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Revolution in a Bachelors' Club
Title: Revolution in a Bachelors' Club
Released: October 25, 1911
Type: Movie
Paul Panzer returns home from a night out with the boys at his bachelor's club. He wanders into the wrong apartment, where, of course, a young woman resides and panic ensues.