Henry A. Barrows

Henry A. Barrows

Born: April 29, 1875
Died: March 25, 1945
in Saco, Maine, USA

Movies for Henry A. Barrows...

Dangerous Waters
Title: Dangerous Waters
Character: Old Skipper (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1936
Type: Movie
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
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Guilty Hands
Title: Guilty Hands
Character: Harvey Scott (as Henry Barrows)
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
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The Kibitzer
Title: The Kibitzer
Character: Hanson
Released: January 11, 1930
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.
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Burning Bridges
Title: Burning Bridges
Character: Ed Wilson
Released: September 30, 1928
Type: Movie
Bob and Jim Whitely are twin brothers. Bob, an army veteran who suffered shell shock in the war, escapes from a sanitarium and holds up the Express train, for which Jim is mistakenly arrested. Jim soon escapes from jail in order to find his brother. However, his task is complicated by a crooked sheriff who pins a holdup and murder on him that the sheriff himself actually committed. To make matters worse, the murder victim was Tommy Wilkins, the brother of Jim's fiancee, who now thinks that Jim killed her brother.
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The Man Who Laughs
Title: The Man Who Laughs
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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Women Who Dare
Title: Women Who Dare
Character: Dr. Alden
Released: March 31, 1928
Type: Movie
Film directed by Burton L. King
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A Perfect Gentleman
Title: A Perfect Gentleman
Character: John Wayne
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.
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Three's a Crowd
Title: Three's a Crowd
Released: August 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his telescope and sends her by carrier pigeon a note that, alas, is received by the wrong party. The Girl marries and, poverty-striken, leaves her husband during a snowstorm. Harry takes her in, and minutes later her child is born. He works like a slave for the mother and child, pretending they are his own. Meanwhile, the husband finds her and comes to the shack on Christmas Eve as Harry is preparing to play Santa Claus. Not realizing the unhappiness she is causing him, The Girl thanks him profusely and leaves with her husband. Overcome, Harry sits overnight on the doorstep and the next morning is found frozen stiff except for his eyes--with amusing results.
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The Sunset Derby
Title: The Sunset Derby
Character: 'Lucky' Davis
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
After suffering a fall during a race, rider Jimmy Burke loses his nerve. But with the help of his girlfriend Molly Gibson, Jimmy regains his confidence just in time to achieve victory during the Big Race.
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Horse Shoes
Title: Horse Shoes
Character: Henry Bakers Sr
Released: April 17, 1927
Type: Movie
A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine
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Crack O' Dawn
Title: Crack O' Dawn
Released: October 16, 1926
Type: Movie
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Footloose Widows
Title: Footloose Widows
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: June 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
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The Little Irish Girl
Title: The Little Irish Girl
Character: Bankroll Charlie
Released: March 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, gets suckered into the game and loses all his money. He asks his newfound "friends" to come back to his hometown to buy the hotel. They accept but are actually planning to swindle Johnny's grandmother out of her hotel. It turns out that Granny isn't quite the easy mark they thought she would be.
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His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Title: His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Character: Reginald Larabee (as Henry Barrows)
Released: September 14, 1925
Type: Movie
His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
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The Lost Express
Title: The Lost Express
Character: John Morgan
Released: July 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train.
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Mistaken Orders
Title: Mistaken Orders
Character: Gen. Barton
Released: June 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent at Bynes. He fires one of Tony Sharkey's henchmen, scheming against the railroad, and, as a result, a fight takes place and a switching order is overlooked which nearly results in a major wreck. Realizing the situation at Hynes, Helen Barton, Vincent's sister, dashes to Hynes in her roadster and puts together a severed telegraph wire to put the station back in communications with headquarters. Meanwhile, Helen's sweetheart, Tom Lawson, is fighting with Sharkey in a run-away engine and it is headed for an open bridge over a river.
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Drusilla with a Million
Title: Drusilla with a Million
Character: Elias Arnold
Released: June 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. And someone else leaves another, and soon Drusilla, who always wanted a child of her, in now in charge of a large brood of children, and very happy about it. But there may be a problem; the real heir to the money shows up.
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Cobra
Title: Cobra
Character: Henry Madison
Released: January 2, 1925
Type: Movie
Rodrigo, an impoverished Italian nobleman takes a job with a New York antique dealer he met overseas. Swearing off women, Rodrigo focuses on his job. But complications arise when he falls in love with his friend's secretary-- and his friend's wife looks to make a date with him.
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: Lord Willoughby
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
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The Reckless Age
Title: The Reckless Age
Released: August 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.
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Sporting Youth
Title: Sporting Youth
Character: William Rockford
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Rockford, daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer.
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Long Live the King
Title: Long Live the King
Character: The Bishop (as Henry Barrows)
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
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The Shock
Title: The Shock
Character: John Cooper, Sr.
Released: June 10, 1923
Type: Movie
A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
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Mary of the Movies
Title: Mary of the Movies
Character: Secondary Role
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
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Jazzmania
Title: Jazzmania
Character: August Daimler (as Henry Barrows)
Released: February 12, 1923
Type: Movie
The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
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The Footlight Ranger
Title: The Footlight Ranger
Character: David Marsh
Released: January 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Cowboy Bill sells his prize dogs to pay Janet's way back to New York and, in love with the girl, follows her to Manhattan where he obtains a job as a construction worker.
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Yellow Men and Gold
Title: Yellow Men and Gold
Character: Carroll (as Henry Barrows)
Released: May 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Parrish, a young author, leaves his study during a storm to answer a call for help. He discovers a dying man and is rewarded with a treasure map, which he shows to Carroll, a retired sea captain. They plan a quest for the treasure; but before Carroll's ship sails, Parrish is drugged, relieved of the map, and thrown from the dock.
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The Man from Downing Street
Title: The Man from Downing Street
Character: Maj. Barnham
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
Someone in India is deciphering secret codes and passing information from London's Downing Street to the natives, so Captain Robert Kent comes down from London to investigate. He disguises himself as a Rajah, and Colonel Wentworth introduces him to the colony.
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Law and the Woman
Title: Law and the Woman
Character: Judge Thompson
Released: January 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Although Margaret and Julian Rolfe are deeply in love, Rolfe has a bit of a past. At one time he had befriended Clara Foster, a woman of the streets. When he discovers that his ward Phil Long is about to wed Clara, he tries to stop him. But he finds that Long and Clara have already married, so he heads back home. When Phil is found murdered, Rolfe is arrested and tried for the crime.
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Rent Free
Title: Rent Free
Character: Buell Arnister Sr.
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner.
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The Phantom Melody
Title: The Phantom Melody
Released: January 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Count Camello lives on his fine estate in Italy, near the home occupied by Sir James Drake and his family. Gregory Baldi, a parasitical cousin of the count, is courting Mary Drake, and although the count also loves the girl, he conceals his feelings out of respect for his cousin. When war breaks out, Camello enlists while Gregory convinces Mary's brother Oliver that Oliver has killed an opponent in a duel and that the only way to escape a murder charge is to disguise himself by going to war under Gregory's name. Wounded, Count Camello returns from the front and, after Gregory is reported dead, proposes to Mary. On the eve of their wedding, Gregory returns unexpectedly and, in dire need of money, buries his cousin alive in the family vault.
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The Right to Happiness
Title: The Right to Happiness
Character: Andrew Hardcastle (as Henry Barrows)
Released: August 30, 1919
Type: Movie
The story of twin sisters, one raised in Russia, the other in America, and how their lives diverge and re-entangle.
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The Amazing Impostor
Title: The Amazing Impostor
Character: Herbert Thornton (as Henry Barrows)
Released: February 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Rich young Joan Hope is ashamed of how her father made his money--as a chewing gum magnate. While taking a train trip, she meets the Countess of Crex, a member of the Russian nobility--who is, in reality, a jewel thief.
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The Temple Of Dusk
Title: The Temple Of Dusk
Character: Pembroke Wilson
Released: October 20, 1918
Type: Movie
Japanese poet Akira living in Tokyo, loves American Ruth Vale, who was placed in the care of Akira's father when her missionary parents died. Ruth returns Akira's affections until she meets Edward, but the American proves an unfaithful husband. Three years later, Ruth is gravely ill while Edward amuses himself with his new lover, Adrienne Chester, but Akira comforts the dying woman with the promise that he will protect her little daughter Blossom.
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For Husbands Only
Title: For Husbands Only
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A sheltered young woman began a romance with a playboy, under the mistaken assumption that they'd get married. When she finds this isn't the case, she starts a feud with him which continues even after her marriage to somebody else.
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The Claws of the Hun
Title: The Claws of the Hun
Released: July 8, 1918
Type: Movie
An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.
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The House of Silence
Title: The House of Silence
Character: Carter
Released: April 8, 1918
Type: Movie
A wealthy young criminologist Marcel Leviget is seen forcibly dragging his fellow clubman Dr. Rogers into a House of Ill Repute. In one of the back bedrooms of the bawdy house, an old friend of Marcel's, a prominent attorney, lies near death. Dr. Rogers is also acquainted with the dying attorney, and while Marcel's back is turned, Rogers discovers a distinctively designed hatpin embedded in the patient's heart.
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The Magic Eye
Title: The Magic Eye
Character: John Bowman
Released: April 1, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, John Bowman, the captain of a tramp steamer, refuses to allow his wife and daughter Shirley to accompany him on a long voyage because he fears that the ship may be torpedoed. Before his departure, he entrusts his life insurance policy to shipping agent Sam Bullard, who, unknown to John, once courted Mrs. Bowman. Shirley, a clairvoyant, has a vision in which her father's ship is torpedoed, and the next day, Sam reports that the ship has been sunk and John killed.
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Hungry Eyes
Title: Hungry Eyes
Character: Jack Nelda (as H.A. Barrows)
Released: March 11, 1918
Type: Movie
Ex-convict Dale Revenal arrives at Dudley Appleton's ranch bearing a letter of introduction from John Silver, Appleton's old friend. Appleton hires Dale, who, through his winning manner, soon wins the respect of the ranch hands and the love of the ranch owner's daughter Mary Jane. Believing himself unworthy of her, Dale tells Mary Jane that he has a wife and child in Arizona, and she reluctantly agrees to marry Jack Nelda, a local rancher. Nelda realizes that Mary Jane is still in love with Dale and plots with Bessie Dupont and her brother Pinto to kill him.
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The World Apart
Title: The World Apart
Character: Jack King
Released: June 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Bob Fulton is the superintendent of a mine in the West. He wins the enmity of dancehall owner Jack King when he saves one of the girls, Rose De Braisy, from his unwanted advances. Fulton also wins Rose's love, which he does not return. The mine's owner sends his troublesome son, Roland Holt, out West to work at the mine. Before Holt leaves the East he secretly marries Beth Hoover. Upon Holt's arrival, Fulton tries to befriend him, but Holt prefers the company of bad-guy King.
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Fires of Conscience
Title: Fires of Conscience
Character: Robert Baxter
Released: September 25, 1916
Type: Movie
George Baxter presents his new wife, Margery. Paul Sneed, Baxter's neighbor, knew Margery before the marriage. When Baxter returns home unexpectedly one night, he finds Sneed and his wife together. As Sneed runs away, Baxter shoots and kills him. Both Margery and Sneed's father, Judge Randolph Sneed, witness the shooting.
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The Ventures of Marguerite
Title: The Ventures of Marguerite
Character: Bolton - Head of a Band of Crooks [Ch. 8] (as H.E. Barrows)
Released: January 2, 1915
Type: Movie
As heiress to a large fortune, Marguerite is able to satisfy her love for beautiful clothes and a taste for adventure, while confronted by a multitude of schemers and gangsters bent on reducing her to poverty.