Jack W. Johnston

Jack W. Johnston

Born: October 2, 1876
Died: July 29, 1946
in Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland

Movies for Jack W. Johnston...

The Lost Weekend
Title: The Lost Weekend
Character: Nightclub Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
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Lady on a Train
Title: Lady on a Train
Released: August 3, 1945
Type: Movie
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
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The Woman in the Window
Title: The Woman in the Window
Character: Man at Club (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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Borrowed Hero
Title: Borrowed Hero
Character: Juryman (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Arise, My Love
Title: Arise, My Love
Character: Man at Maxim's (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Magic Show Audience Volunteer
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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The Rage of Paris
Title: The Rage of Paris
Character: Relative at Wedding (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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The Sawdust Paradise
Title: The Sawdust Paradise
Character: District Attorney
Released: June 28, 1928
Type: Movie
She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then Regeneration. A Drama of Lights and Shadows.
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Obey Your Husband
Title: Obey Your Husband
Character: District Attorney
Released: May 15, 1928
Type: Movie
An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.
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Flying Luck
Title: Flying Luck
Character: The Colonel
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot.
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The Black Diamond Express
Title: The Black Diamond Express
Character: Sheldon Truesdell
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon, does not approve of the blue-collar, rough-at-the-edges Dan Foster as a suitable husband for Jeanne.
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Desert Valley
Title: Desert Valley
Character: Tim Dean (as F.W. Johnston)
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 New Klondike
Title: The New Klondike
Character: Joe Cooley
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of the Florida land boom (in which a lot of the land sold was under water), makes a fortune and buys into the team that cut him from its roster.
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Unseeing Eyes
Title: Unseeing Eyes
Character: Trapper
Released: November 18, 1923
Type: Movie
The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.
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Backbone
Title: Backbone
Character: Captain of the Guards
Released: April 30, 1923
Type: Movie
When Yvonne de Chausson comes home from a trip to France, she is told that her grandfather, lumber magnate Andre de Mersay, has been stricken with an undisclosed illness. He is sequestered in a room and his secretary refuses to allow Yvonne to see him. Her attempts to get to him are constantly thwarted and the plot thickens with the appearance of John Thorne, who purchases part of the family's land holdings without Yvonne's consent.
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The Valley of Silent Men
Title: The Valley of Silent Men
Released: September 10, 1922
Type: Movie
The hunter becomes the hunted, an officer of the Royal Mounted, fleeing, fighting for his life. Guided to a secret valley in the frozen North by a hot-blooded French-Canadian beauty, with a secret of her own...
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Channing of the Northwest
Title: Channing of the Northwest
Character: Buddy
Released: April 10, 1922
Type: Movie
A foppish Londoner joins the Royal Canadian Mounties and tries to break a smuggling ring.
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Partners Of The Sunset
Title: Partners Of The Sunset
Character: Jim Worth
Released: February 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Supposedly wealthy, Patricia and Vi Moreland find themselves penniless and dependent upon relatives when their father dies. They accept an uncle's offer to live on his Texas ranch, which is desired by an unscrupulous neighbor, Jim Worth. Young geologist David Brooks (who sells windmills) happens along and persuades the girls to refuse Worth's offer to buy the ranch. Worth has Vi kidnaped, and he gets the upper hand when Brooks rescues her. The geologist turns the tables, however, and Worth does not live to see either Brooks's windmill strike oil or happiness come to Brooks and Patricia.
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The Broken Melody
Title: The Broken Melody
Character: (as Jack Johnstone)
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Stewart, an art student in the "bohemian" Greenwich Village in New York City, lives next door to his girlfriend Hedda, who wants to be a singer. One night while they are dining at their favorite cafe, a wealthy woman, Mrs. Trask, comes up to them with a proposition: she knows he is an artist and wants to go to Paris in order to study and develop his talent, and she will pay all his expenses to allow him to do that. He refuses because he doesn't want to leave Hedda, but she eventually persuades him to agree. It turns out that she as an ulterior motive for what she's doing--as does Mrs. Trask.
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The Test of Honor
Title: The Test of Honor
Character: Mr. Curtis
Released: April 16, 1919
Type: Movie
After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.
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The Twin Pawns
Title: The Twin Pawns
Character: Harry White
Released: March 18, 1919
Type: Movie
A drama about twin sisters Daisy and Violet, who grow up unaware of each other's existence, one with their wealthy father and the other with their poor mother. The two sisters are manipulated by a criminal.
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The Woman the Germans Shot
Title: The Woman the Germans Shot
Character: U.S. Minister to Belgium
Released: October 27, 1918
Type: Movie
The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War.
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On the Quiet
Title: On the Quiet
Character: Horace Colt
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.
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The Land of Promise
Title: The Land of Promise
Character: Edward Marsh (as J.W. Johnson)
Released: December 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.
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The Eternal Mother
Title: The Eternal Mother
Character: Lynch
Released: November 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Maris, having married Lynch, a worthless man who deserts her, taking their daughter Felice with him, marries mill owner Dwight Alden after receiving notification that her husband and child are dead. Discovering that Alden employs child labor, Maris, assisted by the village minister, tries to persuade him that this is wrong, but he will tolerate no interference in his business.
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The Cost of Hatred
Title: The Cost of Hatred
Character: Robert Amory
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he returns home from a business trip, he finds his wife Elsie (Kathlyn Williams) in the arms of another man (J.W. Johnston). Graves shoots and wounds the man, then hides with his little daughter in Mexico.
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Fifty-Fifty
Title: Fifty-Fifty
Character: Frederic Harmon (as J.W. Johnston)
Released: October 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Naomi is a young aspiring artist known to her Bohemian friends as "The Nut." Naomi's alleged nuttiness does not in any way impede the efforts by wealthy Frederick Harmon to make the unworldly heroine his bride. When their first baby is born, Naomi becomes so obsessed with motherhood that she completely ignores poor Harmon, who, to offset his loneliness, begins squiring the vampish Helen Carew. Helen manages to convince Harmon that Naomi has been unfaithful, leading inevitably to divorce-court litigation.
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God's Half Acre
Title: God's Half Acre
Character: Henry Norman (as J.W. Johnston)
Released: August 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Leaving his wife Rose for a few weeks and eager to do research for his new novel about the elderly, Henry Norman goes to live in a home for the aged, where Blossom, the home's young maid, falls in love with him. When she lets him know how she feels, however, Henry tells her that he has a wife, and then, his research over, he returns to her. He discovers, however, that Rose has eloped with his friend, Perry Westley, and that they both have been killed by a lightning bolt that struck Perry's car.
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Destiny's Toy
Title: Destiny's Toy
Character: Thomas Carter
Released: June 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Young Nan was rescued from a shipwreck by a man who becomes her foster father. Years later, when he dies, she moves to a nearby city and unknowingly gets involved with a criminal gang. When the gang attempts and fails to rob wealthy Thomas Carter's home, Nan finally discovers what they are and tells the police all she knows, resulting in the imprisonment of Bad Riley, the gang's leader. Grateful, the Carter family takes Nan into their home, to replace a young daughter who had drowned years before, and the young son, Rev. Robert Carter, begins a romance with her. However, the jailed Riley soon escapes and comes after Nan.
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The Moment Before
Title: The Moment Before
Released: April 27, 1916
Type: Movie
The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following day, the duke falls off his horse and is mortally injured. Mourning the loss of her great love, the duchess collapses in church, and in the “moment before death” she reviews her own life. “It was in her youth that she had fractured practically all the Biblical commandments,” says the intertitle. In fact, when she was young, Madge the duchess was a seductive gypsy, engaged to the fiery gypsy John, but fascinated by Harold, the idle aristocratic son of the Maldons, who was prone to the family vice of excessive drinking. In love with the gypsy, Harold brings her home as a servant, scandalizing his older brother. A fight between the brothers and John’s jealousy lead to a fatal accident that forces both Harold and the gypsy couple to flee to Australia.
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Runaway June
Title: Runaway June
Released: January 13, 1915
Type: Movie
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The Ghost Breaker
Title: The Ghost Breaker
Character: Markam the Man
Released: December 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
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The Rose of the Rancho
Title: The Rose of the Rancho
Character: Kearney, Government Agent
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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Where the Trail Divides
Title: Where the Trail Divides
Character: Clayton Craig (as J.W. Johnston)
Released: October 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an Indian uprising. When the children are grown, How proposes to Bess, whom he has loved since his childhood. She accepts his proposal, thus angering Clayton Craig, Lander's nephew who also wants to marry her. After Lander's death, How is exiled from the ranch, so he and Bess buy new land. One day, after he has been away, How returns to his cabin to see Bess and Craig embracing. How grants Bess her freedom after which she marries Craig and moves to New York. Some time later, How discovers oil on the land that he gave Bess, so he follows them to New York. There he finds that Craig has been unfaithful to Bess. In the end, Bess rejects Craig so that she and How can remarry and find "a trail to happiness together." -From TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Steve
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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The Caballero's Way
Title: The Caballero's Way
Character: Lieutenant Sandridge
Released: August 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A Cisco Kid story.
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The Trail of the Silver Fox
Title: The Trail of the Silver Fox
Character: Sergeant Jack Daniels of the R.N.W.M.P.
Released: February 12, 1913
Type: Movie
A real life drama enacted in the Yukon region where the rigors of battle for existence reduced it's human characters to it's primitive. The girl's perilous trip to the frozen north to save a life will grip you tight....
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The Lass of Gloucester
Title: The Lass of Gloucester
Character: The Stranger - a Wealthy Sailor
Released: October 16, 1912
Type: Movie
With a parting kiss, Betty Lane, a fisherman's daughter, and John Monroe, promise to meet later in the day at their trysting place on the seashore. Betty returns to keep the appointment and is waiting but a moment when a wealthy young yachtsman comes ashore for provisions. He flits with Betty and Betty's heart is lost. John arrives to find his sweetheart in the stranger's arms. Betty ignores John's protests and agrees to the newcomer's proposal that she pack her things, meet him in half an hour and elope. John hides and awaits their return. The yachtsman is the first to arrive. He has his provisions and has not forgotten a bottle of stimulant, most of which he has already consumed. John thrashes him for stealing his girl, throws him into his rowboat, and orders him to get aboard his yacht and not to return. On board the yacht the intoxicated yachtsman drops a match near the oil tank.