Art Rowlands

Art Rowlands

Born: August 26, 1897
Died: May 25, 1944
in Oakland, California, USA

Movies for Art Rowlands...

The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Telephone Man (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Men with Wings
Title: Men with Wings
Character: Reporter
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Townsman
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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True Confession
Title: True Confession
Character: First Photographer (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Pop Goes the Easel
Title: Pop Goes the Easel
Character: Art Student (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
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Done in Oil
Title: Done in Oil
Character: Artist Across the Hall (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Thelma tries to pass herself off as a famous French painter.
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Punch Drunks
Title: Punch Drunks
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
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Night of Goblins
Title: Night of Goblins
Character: Relative
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Title: The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Character: Theater-goer Relative (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1930
Type: Movie
The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.
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Clunked on the Corner
Title: Clunked on the Corner
Character: Paper Customer
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Johnny Burke stumbles into a beautiful crook, played by Carmelita Geraghty, who used him to steal a pearl necklace.
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The Black Pearl
Title: The Black Pearl
Character: Claude Lathrop
Released: December 18, 1928
Type: Movie
A pearl stolen from an Indian idol results in nothing but trouble for its owner. After he receives death threats by note pinned to a dagger, he decides to gather his relatives in his old mansion for a reading of his will. Unfortunately, the family members are being mysteriously bumped off one by one. The butler and an heiress set out to discover what's going on.
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The Bargain Hunt
Title: The Bargain Hunt
Character: Shirt Salesman
Released: October 14, 1928
Type: Movie
The Smith Family goes for bargain hunt at a warehouse sale.
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Taxi for Two
Title: Taxi for Two
Character: Taxi Customer
Released: September 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Dan Doolittle is a poor schmuck whose big talk usually gets him into trouble. After he is fired from his plumbing job, he saves Dolly Davis, who, grateful, promises to get him a job at the company where she works, Owl Taxi, which is owned by her father. That job is as the jack-of-all-trades in the garage, under the supervision of the garage foreman, whose job he expects to have within the week. But Dan becomes the bane of the foreman's existence, in part because Dan would rather spend his time with Dolly to who he is attracted. But after Dan is asked by the boss to drive Dolly to the taxi depot, Dan believes he can make his millions instead by buying a cab and starting his own taxi company. Interactions with Dolly's visiting brother - a hosiery salesman - who Dan mistakenly believes is Dolly's boyfriend, a pair of inflatable legs, and an angry foreman who was fired because of Dan's mistakes in the garage lead to one misadventure after another for Dan.
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His Unlucky Night
Title: His Unlucky Night
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: August 12, 1928
Type: Movie
Friends Billy Trotter and Homer Brown are both traveling salesmen who meet up at a hotel on their travels. Since they last saw each other, Billy has gotten married. Homer is lamenting still being single and thinks that he will never find a woman who will want to be Mrs. Brown. Billy gets one of his old girlfriends, Peggy, a telephone operator, reluctantly to set Homer up with one of her friends. She chooses Jennie, a homebody of a woman who generally spends her evenings playing checkers with her father. Billy and Peggy accompany Homer and Jennie on their date, acting as their chaperons. Billy is able to maneuver Homer and Jennie into getting married that evening. Back at the hotel, a combination of changed hotel rooms, Jennie's angry father, Billy's jealous wife, and a confused hotel detective leads to misunderstandings and complications for all concerned.
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Love at First Flight
Title: Love at First Flight
Character: Radio Announcer
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Love at First Flight is a 1928 comedy short.
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Any Old Count
Title: Any Old Count
Character: Count Boloney (photo)
Released: January 23, 1928
Type: Movie
The Gumps spend time at a hotel
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Run, Girl, Run
Title: Run, Girl, Run
Character: Trustee
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A women's track team is preparing for a big meet against a rival college, but the coach is having trouble getting her team ready. Norma, the team's star, is more interested in slipping out to meet her boyfriend than she is with getting ready for the meet, so Norma and the coach engage in a clash of wills.
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Masked Mamas
Title: Masked Mamas
Character: Beauty Parlor Manager
Released: October 30, 1926
Type: Movie
A Billy Bevan slapstick comedy short.
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Should Husbands Marry?
Title: Should Husbands Marry?
Character: Cafe Patron
Released: October 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Should Husbands Marry? is a 1926 comedy
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When a Man's a Prince
Title: When a Man's a Prince
Character: Guardsman
Released: August 15, 1926
Type: Movie
The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by J.J.Balaber, called Grand International Pictures, acquired 1,300,000 feet of Mack Sennet films with the intentions of editing 26 short comedies from them. The first of these was a 13 minute short edited from "When a Man's A Prince" and released on June 18,1947 as the first of the "Americana Comedy Film Classic Series."
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The Dixie Flyer
Title: The Dixie Flyer
Character: Tom Bedford (as A. Richard Rowlands)
Released: July 29, 1926
Type: Movie
The railroad is building a new line, but the workers are unhappy. That's because one of the board members, hoping to oust the man in charge of the project (Rapley), has a saboteur on site. Rapley's daughter, Rose, sneaks out to the project to become their telegraph operator and, with the help of the supervisor, "Sunrise" Smith, eventually discovers the plot and helps catch the bad guys amid several thrilling train chases.
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Musclebound Music
Title: Musclebound Music
Character: Percy Wimple - The Referee
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However, she is in love with Horace, a wrestler, and Bill gets a world's championship match with him in hopes of securing the needed-boardinghouse bill, and the hand of the daughter of the house.
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A Sweet Pickle
Title: A Sweet Pickle
Character: Guest
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
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His Marriage Wow
Title: His Marriage Wow
Character: The Traffic Cop
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
In Highland Park, it's Agnes Fisher and Harold Hope's wedding day. Mishaps almost keep them from getting hitched: he goes to the wrong church, then, one of the guests, Professor McGlumm, convinces him that the bride only wants him to collect his life insurance. Finally they marry and her family moves in with them. Harold is now convinced that he'll be poisoned at dinner. When further mishaps give him stomach problems, McGlumm rushes him toward the hospital. On the trip, all is revealed.
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The Dare-Devil
Title: The Dare-Devil
Character: The Assistant Cameraman
Released: November 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Joe Magee ends up doing the stunt perfectly. He ends up doing dangerous stunt after stunt, all by accident, that fit the movie so perfectly that the movie's leading lady wants him in the picture. The exasperated director finds that getting Joe to do the stunts on command is an entirely different story.