Ted Brooks

Ted Brooks

Born: January 9, 1896
Died: September 18, 1970
in Australia

Movies for Ted Brooks...

West Is West
Title: West Is West
Character: Kirby
Released: November 21, 1920
Type: Movie
Dick Rainboldt (Carey) signs up to work at a gold mine without realizing that he's being hired as a strikebreaker. He takes the job primarily because of a pretty girl who lives in the town. The superintendent and manager of the mine convince Rainboldt to blow up the mine and make it appear like the strikers did it. But Rainboldt turns the tables on the plotters and reveals their scheme. The mine owner rewards him with a big assignment and the girl promises to marry him.
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Sundown Slim
Title: Sundown Slim
Character: Billy Corliss
Released: October 31, 1920
Type: Movie
Hobo poet Sundown Slim meets his old friend Billy Corliss in a Western saloon. Billy, in poor health as a result of injuries sustained in a train wreck, now owns the Concho cattle ranch with his brother Jack who runs the ranch. Sundown obtains a job at the Concho and becomes embroiled in the Corliss' battle with their sheeprancher neighbors, the Fernandos. When Loring, one of Jack's employees, attacks Fernando's daughter Anita, Jack fires him but Fernando, not satisfied, vows revenge on Jack, then shoots Billy by mistake.
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Runnin' Straight
Title: Runnin' Straight
Released: March 13, 1920
Type: Movie
A young slum-reared fellow makes good with a man who befriends him and then sacrifices his good name to save the latter's son.
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Marked Men
Title: Marked Men
Character: Tony Garcia
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Three outlaws rescue a baby in the desert and with barely any water left try to return to the town in which they just robbed a bank. Lost film. A remake of 1916's "The Three Godfathers," which also starred Harry Carey.
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A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Title: A Gun Fightin' Gentleman
Character: The 'Youngster'
Released: November 29, 1919
Type: Movie
Cheyenne Harry, owner of the biggest cattle ranch in his corner of the west, is having trouble with John Merritt, a land-grabbing Chicago meat-packer. By some artifice of shrewd legal aid, Merritt manages to seize Harry's ranch under a bogus writ of foreclosure. Failing to get justice by his many letters to Merritt, Cheyenne Harry goes east and calls at the millionaire's mansion. At first, Merritt refuses to see him. Then, to cause amusement for his daughter, Helen, and her guests, he invites the "uncouth" westerner into his dining hall. He is sure that he will make some grave error in table deportment and afford them all a laugh. To the amazement of Merrit and the guests Harry's table manners are faultless. Then, to trick him into an embarrassing position, Merritt eats with his knife. Harry, realizing that it is proper for the guest to follow the example of the host, does likewise. He leaves the house chagrined but more determined than ever to get justice from Merritt.
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Rider of the Law
Title: Rider of the Law
Character: The kid
Released: November 3, 1919
Type: Movie
Jim Kyneton, once a member of an outlaw gang, joins the Texas Rangers and is forced to track down his former friends and his half brother Nick, who have been robbing a gold mine.
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Straight Shooting
Title: Straight Shooting
Character: Sim's Son
Released: August 27, 1917
Type: Movie
Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.
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Hair-Trigger Burke
Title: Hair-Trigger Burke
Character: The Boy
Released: April 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Before dying, a man's friend asks him to do his best to keep the truth that he was a robber from his son.
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Goin' Straight
Title: Goin' Straight
Character: Billy Carter
Released: March 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Billy Carter and two Mexicans, Cuteo and Estaban, are smugglers of opium which they bring across the border from Mexico into the United States. The authorities are unable to apprehend them, so "Pinnacle" Bill and "Cheyenne" Harry of the Arizona Ranger Service are sent to assist the sheriff, Dan Beckham, and the inspectors in their search.