Joseph Burke

Joseph Burke

Born: August 8, 1870
Died: March 7, 1933
in England, UK

Movies for Joseph Burke...

The Royal Rider
Title: The Royal Rider
Character: Kings Tutor
Released: February 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance. The king is greatly impressed with the American cowboys and makes them his palace guard. The prime minister starts a revolution, and Dick and the Americans put it down. The boy king sanctions a romance between Scott and Ruth Elliott, the royal governess.
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South Of Panama
Title: South Of Panama
Character: Garcia
Released: November 14, 1928
Type: Movie
South of Panama is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Charles J. Hunt and starring Carmelita Geraghty, Edward Raquello and Lewis Sargent
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Obey Your Husband
Title: Obey Your Husband
Character: Jim
Released: May 15, 1928
Type: Movie
An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.
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Hangman's House
Title: Hangman's House
Character: Neddy Joe - Dermot's Servant
Released: May 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
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'Morning, Judge
Title: 'Morning, Judge
Character: The Judge
Released: September 1, 1926
Type: Movie
After Uplift Society-champion Crabbine Hicks has the musical revue shut down, her son Buster hides the out-of-work chorus girls in their home, while Crabbine is out of town. While cooking sausage, Buster starts a fire...
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Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: Ward's Secretary
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
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The Pinch Hitter
Title: The Pinch Hitter
Character: Charlie
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Joel Parker is sent to college by his crabby farmer father only because it was his mother's dying wish that he get an education. At college, he's immediately pegged as a chump and is constantly victimized by the other students, headed by Jimmie Slater. Only Abbie Nettleton, who works at the campus bakery, has any sympathy for him.
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The Lucky Devil
Title: The Lucky Devil
Character: The Professor
Released: July 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner's son, a soul seemingly always in trouble with cops and women. Well, suddenly Dix begins to have the same problem, only he also gets mixed up in the life of Esther Ralston and her Aunt Edna May Oliver. Hilarious misunderstandings and undertakings become the fodder for the day!
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The Adventurous Sex
Title: The Adventurous Sex
Released: June 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A young man spends so much time at work on his airplane that he neglects his girl. She goes out on her own to live the high life, but her reputation is soiled by an adventurer. The young woman resolves to kill herself, and throws herself into the water rushing towards Niagara Falls, but is saved at the last minute by her former sweetheart.
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Too Many Kisses
Title: Too Many Kisses
Character: Mr. Simmons
Released: January 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral. When the son gets to Spain, he runs afoul of the local police chief - who has a secret that he tries to keep the young man from discovering.
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Pied Piper Malone
Title: Pied Piper Malone
Character: Mr. Thomas (as Joseph Burke)
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
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His Children's Children
Title: His Children's Children
Character: Uncle Billy McGaw
Released: November 4, 1923
Type: Movie
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.
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The White Rose
Title: The White Rose
Character: The Landlord
Released: May 21, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.
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The Perfect Woman
Title: The Perfect Woman
Character: J.J. Simmons
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mary Blake can charm any man, young or old, with her winning ways -- except for the one she really wants. James Stanhope is a misogynist who won't give her the time of day.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: The Father
Released: August 10, 1919
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises her hand in marriage to a rich prospector, but instead she marries his no-good brother. After her husband disappears and is reported dead, she marries a rich New York stockbroker, but doesn't tell him about her first marriage. Soon she is contacted by someone who threatens to tell her new husband all about her past if she doesn't pay up.
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Through the Toils
Title: Through the Toils
Character: Benson
Released: June 8, 1919
Type: Movie
Author Noel Graham goes to the little village of Mondon, where his ancestors lived, for solitude to write. While searching for a lost puppy, Noel meets Rhona Allerton, who is visiting her guardian, Lewis Moffat, a writer in his declining years. Realizing that he needs inspiration to write a passionate romance, Moffat, with the help of old Benson, a former derelict now in his service, encourages the blossoming love affair between Rhona and Noel, while planning to destroy it later and analyze their suffering.
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Help! Help! Police!
Title: Help! Help! Police!
Character: The Judge
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
While vacationing with his father Edward at a Palm Beach hotel, George Welston becomes smitten with Eve Pendleton, the daughter of Edward's business rival Judson. After George prevents Pendleton from getting an option on a deal by racing in his car with his father's $100,000 deposit, Pendleton favors Eve's other suitor, Arthur Trask, whose gentlemanly manner conceals his intent to rob Eve and her wealthy friends.
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Independence, B'Gosh
Title: Independence, B'Gosh
Character: Sam Jenkins
Released: December 8, 1918
Type: Movie
A middle-aged couple find their rural lives in disarray when they inherit eighty-nine million dollars.
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Come on In
Title: Come on In
Character: Professor G. Wottan Orphul-Schmell
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough for him to pass the height requirement. Meanwhile, his lady friend decides to become a Secret Service agent, though she is unable to keep the fact a secret, even from the German spies she hopes to apprehend.
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Cecilia of the Pink Roses
Title: Cecilia of the Pink Roses
Character: Dr. McNeil
Released: June 2, 1918
Type: Movie
Cecilia is a spunky Irish girl from a struggling family, faced with the imminent death of her mother.
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De Luxe Annie
Title: De Luxe Annie
Character: Cyrus Monroe
Released: May 19, 1918
Type: Movie
A 1918 film directed by Roland West.
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Life or Honor?
Title: Life or Honor?
Character: J.T. Manly
Released: March 1, 1918
Type: Movie
When retired merchant J. T. Manly is murdered, his son James, with whom he had quarreled, is arrested and finally convicted through the testimony of Manly's valet Aguinaldo. Shortly before James's execution, Sidney Holmes reveals to retired criminologist Martin Cross that on the night of the murder, he saw Aguinaldo commit the crime
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The Awakening of Ruth
Title: The Awakening of Ruth
Character: Reuben Hoagland
Released: September 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop and Ruth fall in love, but Winthrop returns to New York, and after a year, has forgotten Ruth. After finding two chests in a cave, Ruth locates her father unconscious from a fall. She goes to the mainland for help, but returns with the Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot and Dr. William Strong, to find her father dead. Strong, out of kindness, offers to marry her, but Ruth declines, sure that Winthrop will return.
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Chris and His Wonderful Lamp
Title: Chris and His Wonderful Lamp
Character: Professor Cipher
Released: July 14, 1917
Type: Movie
A young man buys an Aladdin’s lamp at an auction and employs the genie to help him see his love.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Ebenezer Balfour
Released: May 7, 1917
Type: Movie
In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
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The Immortal Flame
Title: The Immortal Flame
Character: James Forbes
Released: February 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Silent drama directed by Ivan Abramson.
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The City of Illusion
Title: The City of Illusion
Released: January 1, 1916
Type: Movie