John Harrington

John Harrington

Born: July 22, 1882
Died: September 9, 1945
in Riverside County, California, USA

Movies for John Harrington...

Checkers
Title: Checkers
Character: Mr. Green
Released: December 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
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Dangerously Yours
Title: Dangerously Yours
Character: Louis Davis
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
Title: Step Lively, Jeeves!
Character: Barney Ross
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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Counterfeit Lady
Title: Counterfeit Lady
Character: Swanson
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.
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The Big Game
Title: The Big Game
Character: Blackie Dawson
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
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The President's Mystery
Title: The President's Mystery
Character: Thug (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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Women Are Trouble
Title: Women Are Trouble
Character: Tim Gleason
Released: July 31, 1936
Type: Movie
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Title: Mutiny on the Bounty
Character: Mr. Purcell
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
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Local Boy Makes Good
Title: Local Boy Makes Good
Character: Coach Jackson
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
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Rubber Heels
Title: Rubber Heels
Character: Grogan
Released: June 11, 1927
Type: Movie
A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.
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Tin Gods
Title: Tin Gods
Character: Dougherty
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Tin Gods is a lost 1926 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play Tin Gods by William Anthony McGuire. Allan Dwan directed and Thomas Meighan starred.
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The Man Who Found Himself
Title: The Man Who Found Himself
Character: Warden
Released: August 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama
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The Street of Forgotten Men
Title: The Street of Forgotten Men
Character: Bridgeport White-Eye
Released: July 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Easy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart. But his fellow crooks and dissemblers mock him for sentimentality, and he disowns the child in order to bring her up secretly in the safety of a distant suburb. He brings her up as a young lady in ignorance of her true history or of his; but when he discovers that her affections have taken an unexpected slant, it brings about an end to their tranquil life, a crisis of conscience, and an opportunity for the sinister 'White-Eye' to take a hand...