Charles Byer

Charles Byer

Born: February 28, 1893
Died: November 28, 1953
in Newark, New Jersey, USA

Movies for Charles Byer...

Romance of the Rio Grande
Title: Romance of the Rio Grande
Character: Dick Rivers
Released: November 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico, specifically fabulously wealthy Don Fernando. Intending to bequeath his vast fortune and estate to his long-estranged grandson Pancho, Don Fernando must contend with his ne'er-do-well nephew Juan.
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The Delightful Rogue
Title: The Delightful Rogue
Character: Harry Beall
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
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Side Street
Title: Side Street
Character: Maxse Kimball
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
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Molly and Me
Title: Molly and Me
Released: March 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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Red Hot Speed
Title: Red Hot Speed
Character: George
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.
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Taxi 13
Title: Taxi 13
Character: Berger
Released: November 18, 1928
Type: Movie
A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.
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Clothes Make the Woman
Title: Clothes Make the Woman
Character: The Director
Released: June 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
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Red Riders of Canada
Title: Red Riders of Canada
Character: RCMP Sergeant Brian Scott
Released: April 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Mountie does battle with half-breed trappers.
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Horseman of the Plains
Title: Horseman of the Plains
Character: J. Rutherford Gates
Released: March 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Tom Mix plays a cowboy coming to the aid of a rancher who's on the verge of foreclosure. Falling in love with Sally Blane, the rancher's pretty daughter, our hero vows to win an important cross-country race.
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Dead Man's Curve
Title: Dead Man's Curve
Character: George Marshall
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our hero discovers this only after losing an important race, his boss chalks up the loss to Fairbanks' supposed cowardice.
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Shanghai Bound
Title: Shanghai Bound
Character: Payson
Released: October 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.
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Cabaret
Title: Cabaret
Character: Sam Roberts
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Gloria Trask, who has risen from a squalid East Side environment to stardom in Costigan's nightclub, is admired by Tom Westcott, detective, and Sam Roberts, a gangster with whom her brother is involved. Andy, threatened by the gang, is forced to pay off, and in a showdown in Gloria's dressing room, Andy shoots Roberts in self-defense. Gloria helps her brother to leave on a South American liner, while Tom forces Roberts' girlfriend Blanche to admit to witnessing the crime. Blanche insists that it was murder, but Tom forces her to admit that Roberts had a gun by accusing her of the killing.
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New York
Title: New York
Character: Jimmie Wharton
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart (and Regan's lifelong pal) Mike Cassidy is about to marry Marjorie Church, pays a visit to Mike to offer congratulations. Convinced that Angie is fooling around behind his back, Regan accidentally kills her.
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The Pace That Thrills
Title: The Pace That Thrills
Character: Duke
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him. He wrestles them away from her, then falls down the stairs and stabs himself. Due to the perjured testimony of the maid and butler, Paula is convicted of murder and sent to jail. Her son, Danny, grows up to be a movie star. There is a controversy surrounding him because he refuses to do his own stunts. The reason he won't take any chances is that he is using all his money to get his mother out of jail. Finally, to redeem himself, he agrees to participate in a charity auto race, but his mother's hearing is scheduled for the race day.
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The Shock Punch
Title: The Shock Punch
Character: Stanley Pierce
Released: February 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Dan Savage prepares his son, Randall to fight in the business world by having him trained as a pugilist. Randall shows a flare for fisticuffs, so he is taken to the Ironworkers Ball to try out his infamous "shock punch."
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A Man Must Live
Title: A Man Must Live
Character: Clive Ross-Fayne (as Charles Beyer)
Released: January 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company. Job Hardcastle, the hardened city editor of the paper, sends Jeff to get a story on "Mops" Collins, a society divorcée who has been reduced to dancing in a cabaret. Jeff takes pity on Mops, who is dying of consumption, and takes her into his apartment, telling Hardcastle that he could not find her. Afraid of losing his job, Jeff hunts for a big story, finding it when he discovers that Clive Ross-Fayne, a friend he thought lost in the war, has been arraigned on charges of narcotics peddling. (Pamela Short)
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The Trail of the Law
Title: The Trail of the Law
Released: January 25, 1924
Type: Movie
In Maine, a girl masquerades as a boy during the day after her mother is killed by an unknown assailant.
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Unseeing Eyes
Title: Unseeing Eyes
Character: Arkwright
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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How Women Love
Title: How Women Love
Character: Peasant Lover (as Charles Beyer)
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
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The Man Who Paid
Title: The Man Who Paid
Character: Guy Thornton
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
In her first leading role, a very young Norma Shearer played Jeanne, a wild girl of the Canadian Northwest who marries and has a child with a mystery man, Oliver Thornton
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Headin' Home
Title: Headin' Home
Character: David Talmadge (as Charles Burt)
Released: September 18, 1920
Type: Movie
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.