Lawford Davidson

Lawford Davidson

Born: January 1, 1890
Died: January 1, 1964
in London, England, UK

Movies for Lawford Davidson...

Hell's Angels
Title: Hell's Angels
Character: British Officer Shot by Firing Squad (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
When World War I breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
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Ladies Love Brutes
Title: Ladies Love Brutes
Character: George Windham
Released: May 14, 1930
Type: Movie
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
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The Vagabond King
Title: The Vagabond King
Character: Tristan
Released: February 17, 1930
Type: Movie
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.
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Her Private Affair
Title: Her Private Affair
Character: Arnold Hartmann
Released: September 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a crisis of conscience when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.
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The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
Title: The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
Released: August 10, 1929
Type: Movie
A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.
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The Overland Telegraph
Title: The Overland Telegraph
Character: Briggs
Released: March 2, 1929
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen. In response, Major Hammond, who oversees the troops, requests that President Abraham Lincoln send twenty thousand more soldiers to come to his aid. Lincoln grants Hammond's request, and sends along Capt. Allen, who is knowledgeable about Indians. At his new post, Allen discovers that a Confederate spy has been fomenting trouble with the Indians. Allen eventually uncovers the spy, makes peace with the Indians and wins the love of Dorothy, a young woman who lives at the post.
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The Love Doctor
Title: The Love Doctor
Character: Preston DeWitt
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner diagnoses as "love sickness."
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3-Ring Marriage
Title: 3-Ring Marriage
Character: Souvane
Released: June 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Anna runs away from her wealthy father's ranch and becomes a trick rider in a circus to be with her sweetheart, Cal Coney, a circus cowboy, when her father disapproves the match. There she achieves fame as "Anna Montana," but she remains unhappy because Cal refuses to admit that he loves her. Meanwhile, Rawl Souvane, manager of the circus, plans to woo and marry Anna when he preceives that she is wealthy.
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Burning Daylight
Title: Burning Daylight
Character: Morton
Released: March 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.
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Daredevil's Reward
Title: Daredevil's Reward
Character: Foster
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Tom Mix portrayed a daredevil ranger on the trail of a gang of outlaws. To get close to the gang, Tom utilizes various cunning disguises, including donning the garb of a medicine man. Along the way, complications arise when Tom falls for the niece (Natalie Joyce) of the gang leader (William Welch).
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Blood Will Tell
Title: Blood Will Tell
Character: Jim Cowen
Released: November 13, 1927
Type: Movie
Rancher Buck Jones goes undercover as a ranch hand on his own spread
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The Patent Leather Kid
Title: The Patent Leather Kid
Character: Lieutenant Hugo Breen
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a heroic act, which results in his being severely wounded.
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One Increasing Purpose
Title: One Increasing Purpose
Character: Dr. Byrne
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.
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A Little Journey
Title: A Little Journey
Character: Alfred Demis
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A girl travelling by train to meet her boyfriend meets another young man and falls in love with him.
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The Country Beyond
Title: The Country Beyond
Character: Henry Harland
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
In the Canadian mountains an orphan girl, Valencia, is left in the care of the abusive Hawkins family. A fugitive outlaw, Roger McKay, stumbles onto the property and immediately falls in love with Valencia. When Mr. Hawkins is killed by his long-suffering spouse, Roger assumes that Valencia committed the murder and confesses to the crime to protect her.
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The Golden Web
Title: The Golden Web
Character: George Sisk
Released: September 1, 1926
Type: Movie
After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuable mine and is using it for blackmail purposes. The former owner of the mine is framed for a murder, and his daughter and the new owner work to save him from the gallows.
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Tony Runs Wild
Title: Tony Runs Wild
Character: Slade
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Grant saves Grace Percival from being tromped by a herd of stampeding horses,led by Tony, and they become friends. Grace tells Slade, a renegade who has been trying to capture Tony, the leader of the wild horses, that Tom has promised to capture Tony for her. Not if Slade has anything to say about he isn't.
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The Golden Strain
Title: The Golden Strain
Character: Maj. Gaynes
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Lt. Milt Mulford graduates from West Point and is assigned to a cavalry outpost in the West, near an Apache reservation. One day the Apaches, tired of being cheated by a crooked Indian agent, break the reservation and Mulford is sent after them with a patrol. Unfortunately, he cracks under the pressure of his first firefight, and is thrown out of the army. His fiancé, disgusted, ends their engagement. He sets out to prove that he is not a coward and regain his fiancé's love.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: Marty Loftus
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city. There he will show Patsy that he can be just what he thinks she wants: a city slicker. But Patsy yearns for the simple pleasure of her country boy, Tom, and is shocked at what shows up at her door.
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The Great Well
Title: The Great Well
Character: Major Dereth
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
In India a major tries to cash in on a dry oil well but shoots himself when the oil returns.
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The Passionate Friends
Title: The Passionate Friends
Released: January 15, 1923
Type: Movie
An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
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The Crimson Circle
Title: The Crimson Circle
Character: Raphael Willings
Released: September 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
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The Glorious Adventure
Title: The Glorious Adventure
Character: Lord Fitzroy
Released: April 23, 1922
Type: Movie
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
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The Abbey Grange
Title: The Abbey Grange
Character: Sir Eustace Brackenstall
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.
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Duke's Son
Title: Duke's Son
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie