Matthew Betz

Matthew Betz

Born: September 12, 1881
Died: January 26, 1938
in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Movies for Matthew Betz...

It's Showtime
Title: It's Showtime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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Jungle Menace
Title: Jungle Menace
Character: Inspector Starrett
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
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The Law Commands
Title: The Law Commands
Character: Frago, lead henchman
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group. After more towns people are killed, however, the rest of the town makes the doctor the town sheriff and tells him to clean up the gang.
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The Soldier and the Lady
Title: The Soldier and the Lady
Character: Chieftain (Uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
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The Man Who Found Himself
Title: The Man Who Found Himself
Character: Hobo #1
Released: April 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
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Outcast
Title: Outcast
Character: Don, a Townsman
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
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Jail Bait
Title: Jail Bait
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
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Fury Below
Title: Fury Below
Character: Dorsky
Released: November 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if production doesn't increase and the sabotage continues. Mary Norsen, office-secretary, accidentally learns of a plot by Fred Johnson to wreck the mine and force Cole to sell his coal-mine. She and her brother, Joe, join Cole in his fight to stop Johnson.
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Racing Blood
Title: Racing Blood
Character: Tex O'Donnell
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country.
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The Black Coin
Title: The Black Coin
Character: Henry Jensen
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.
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Florida Special
Title: Florida Special
Character: Herman Weil
Released: April 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.
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The Little Red Schoolhouse
Title: The Little Red Schoolhouse
Character: Bill, the Tough Hobo
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
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Just My Luck
Title: Just My Luck
Character: Doyle
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will be a success. Others are also, and Honer endures many obstacles, prat-falls and staged accidents while striving to protect his inventions.
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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
Title: Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
Character: Horace Raymore
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.
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The Girl Who Came Back
Title: The Girl Who Came Back
Character: Henchman Smokey Preston
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
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Trails of the Wild
Title: Trails of the Wild
Character: Hunt
Released: July 31, 1935
Type: Movie
An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers discovers the hideout of a gang of murderous outlaws.
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Let 'em Have It
Title: Let 'em Have It
Character: Al Thompson
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
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On Probation
Title: On Probation
Character: Dan
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich young bachelor.
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The Tin Man
Title: The Tin Man
Character: Blackie Burke
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and has made a robot who does everything. The inventor manipulates the robot's control board from a hidden room. The girls are soon in a panic. Patsy gets into an argument with the robot and loses the match of wits. Blackie Burke, an escaped convict, is using the house as a hideout, and this adds to the problems the girls already have.
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Mississippi
Title: Mississippi
Character: Man at Bar
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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Mutiny Ahead
Title: Mutiny Ahead
Character: Dixon
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
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Men of the Night
Title: Men of the Night
Character: Schmidt
Released: November 18, 1934
Type: Movie
"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Davis, head of a ring of jewel thieves. His suspicions are confirmed when Mary warns him that Davis is outside - waiting for him. Kelly sets a trap and, in the ensuing battle, one of the gangsters is killed. Davis is interested in rubbing out Kelly as Kelly and Baker are the only two witnesses against Smitty, a Davis henchman. Baker is in the hospital and the plan is bring Smitty there for identification. Kelly accidentally slips the secret to Mary, who in turn innocently informs Packey. A trap is laid.
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The Fighting Rookie
Title: The Fighting Rookie
Character: Lewis Cantor
Released: May 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs apartment. Inside, he is hit on the head and whiskey poured on his uniform. Gangster Louis Cantor (Mathew Betz) and his henchmen have used this ruse to get him off his beat in order to rob a warehouse. The Police Commissioner (DeWitt Jennings), knowing Trent is innocent, suggests he be dismissed from the force and get a job with the gang. At Cantor's swank gambling establishment Trent finds his girlfriend, Molly Malone (Ada Ince), who has been searching for him. With the evidence he has gathered, Trent captures Cantor and calls for the police.
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
Title: The Countess of Monte Cristo
Character: Romowski's Valet
Released: March 18, 1934
Type: Movie
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
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Under Secret Orders
Title: Under Secret Orders
Character: Senor Cevallos
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A young bank employee is sent to South America to bring some valuable bonds to a client there. Unfortunately for him, he tends to drink a bit too much and winds up getting involved with a gang that's planning on stealing the bonds to start a revolution.
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Curtain at Eight
Title: Curtain at Eight
Character: "Lovely" Holmes
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
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The Big Chance
Title: The Big Chance
Character: Flash McQuaid
Released: August 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
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Tarzan the Fearless
Title: Tarzan the Fearless
Character: Nick
Released: August 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of "the people of Zar, god of the Emerald Fingers." Tarzan helps Mary locate her father, rescues everyone from the High Priest of Zar, and takes Mary to his cave.
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I Have Lived
Title: I Have Lived
Character: Blackie
Released: June 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A girl with a shady past is picked by a playwright to be the star of his newest play.
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Knight Duty
Title: Knight Duty
Character: The Crook
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Harry is a hobo, one step ahead of the law. After accidentally foiling a purse snatcher, he cadges a ride on a flatbed truck, is knocked out when a wax figure falls on him during the ride, and is carried into a museum by someone thinking he's another manikin. Inside, it takes him a while to figure out that he's among dummies. Then, two enterprising jewel thieves arrive to steal the museum director's priceless ruby. Cops are on hand as well: when the ruby goes missing, Harry may be the perfect fall guy. Can Harry stay away from the cops, foil the theft, and behave heroically in front of the museum director's daughter, the same woman whose purse he saved that morning?
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The Whirlwind
Title: The Whirlwind
Character: Tate Hurley
Released: April 13, 1933
Type: Movie
After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sheriff Tate Hurley who was his chief accuser. The hatred between the two men was not extinguished, and they first compete in a wrestling match.
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Silent Men
Title: Silent Men
Character: Carl Lawler
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He is after the Wilder brothers who he thinks are rustling cattle.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Title: Mystery of the Wax Museum
Character: Hugo, deafmute sculptor
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Child of Manhattan
Title: Child of Manhattan
Character: Chet Watson (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
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State Trooper
Title: State Trooper
Character: Jarvis
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chief of W. J. Brady's oil refinery. He is also romantically involved with Brady's daughter, June. It appears that some highly-placed employee has sold out to the opposition refinery people, and much sabotage and havoc is being caused.
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On Your Guard
Title: On Your Guard
Character: Trusty Smith
Released: January 31, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
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The Big Flash
Title: The Big Flash
Character: Brick Dugan
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer first visit the gangster's girl, and then wait at the scene of an expected robbery. But before they can get the pictures they want, they must first distract a policeman whose presence would otherwise deter the gangster from appearing.
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The Western Code
Title: The Western Code
Character: Warden
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch foreman Nick Grindel shortly before her death, and left everything to him in her will. Nick has proposed marriage to his stepdaughter, and she fears violence if her hot-blooded brother Dick finds out. When a body is found at the Bow Knot, Tim barely rescues Dick from a necktie party and is deputized to investigate when Dick confesses to a crime he didn't commit.
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Gold
Title: Gold
Character: Henchman Childress
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them.
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Broadway to Cheyenne
Title: Broadway to Cheyenne
Character: Joe Carter
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.
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The Hurricane Express
Title: The Hurricane Express
Character: The Engineer Jordan
Released: August 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
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Speed Madness
Title: Speed Madness
Character: Jessin
Released: July 29, 1932
Type: Movie
More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge of the company's development of a new speedboat - unaware that gangsters and saboteurs want to thwart them and won't stop at murder. Filled with gymnastic action-packed fights, Speed Madness is "a knockout for fans who cheer the hero and hiss the villain.
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Alias Mary Smith
Title: Alias Mary Smith
Character: Snowy Hoagland
Released: July 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
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The Fighting Marshal
Title: The Fighting Marshal
Character: Red Larkin
Released: November 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison with his cellmate, Red Larkin (Matthew Betz, The Wedding March), a dangerous killer. Disguised as the town's lawman, Tim sets off for Silver City to take back money that's rightfully his and hopefully clear his name. But Red has plans of his own and wants the money for himself. Newly remastered.
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Soul of the Slums
Title: Soul of the Slums
Character: Jim Blake
Released: November 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
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Side Show
Title: Side Show
Character: Tom Whalen
Released: September 19, 1931
Type: Movie
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
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Julius Sizzer
Title: Julius Sizzer
Character: Tayo
Released: September 6, 1931
Type: Movie
After the success of "Little Caesar," "Public Enemy" and "Scarface," here is the inevitable parody, in which Liddle Sizzer engages in a vicious Chicago gang war. He's aided by his innocent twin brother, Julius, a greenhorn from the Old Country. Both are played by Benny Rubin.
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Salvation Nell
Title: Salvation Nell
Character: Mooney
Released: July 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out....
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Title: Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Released: June 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
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The Single Sin
Title: The Single Sin
Character: Frank Bowman
Released: February 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with his new secretary and they marry. Unfortunately, she has not revealed her shady past to him, and when friends from her smuggling days suddenly show up as employees, mayhem ensues.
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See America Thirst
Title: See America Thirst
Character: Insect McGann
Released: November 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
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Her Man
Title: Her Man
Character: Red
Released: September 21, 1930
Type: Movie
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
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The Squealer
Title: The Squealer
Character: Red Majors
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
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Shooting Straight
Title: Shooting Straight
Character: Ace Martin / Ed Winters
Released: July 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
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The Big House
Title: The Big House
Character: Gopher
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
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The Girl in the Glass Cage
Title: The Girl in the Glass Cage
Character: 'Doc' Striker
Released: June 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
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Fugitives
Title: Fugitives
Character: Earl Rand
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening to kill Barrow rather than give in to his advances. She protests her innocence, but the District Attorney doesn't believe her and charges her with Barrow's murder. However, things aren't quite as cut-and-dried as the D.A. believes them to be.
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Sins of the Fathers
Title: Sins of the Fathers
Character: Gus Newman
Released: December 28, 1928
Type: Movie
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.
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The Wedding March
Title: The Wedding March
Character: Schani Eberle
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Joe Connors
Released: September 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
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Telling the World
Title: Telling the World
Character: The Killer
Released: June 30, 1928
Type: Movie
The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrives in China, Davis has to save her from an execution.
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The Crimson City
Title: The Crimson City
Character: 'Dagger' Foo
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit.
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The Shepherd of the Hills
Title: The Shepherd of the Hills
Character: Wash Gibbs
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because of his gentle and kindly ways. Years earlier, his son betrayed a mountaineer's daughter, and The Shepherd hopes to atone for his error. When a continued drought threatens the people with starvation and ruin, they lose faith in the "miracle man" and mock him, though he begs them to keep the faith.
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The Patent Leather Kid
Title: The Patent Leather Kid
Character: Jake Stuke
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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The Flame of the Yukon
Title: The Flame of the Yukon
Character: Black Jack Hovey
Released: August 30, 1926
Type: Movie
George Fowler, a young man from the states, arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "The Flame," to fleece him. When she learns he doesn't have any money she gets him a job at a café. News of a gold strike in the Ophir area comes, and George sets out, with a dog team supplied by Flame. Meanwhile a woman comes to town, says she is Mrs. Fowler and is looking for her husband.
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Shipwrecked
Title: Shipwrecked
Character: Captain Klodel
Released: May 9, 1926
Type: Movie
Larry O'Neil, a ship's cook, finds and befriends stowaway Lois Austin, who is a fugitive from a murder charge. The ship's captain, Klodel, also finds her and forces her to do his will as he has received a cablegram and knows she is hunted.
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The Exquisite Sinner
Title: The Exquisite Sinner
Character: Gypsy Chief
Released: March 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen.
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Oh! What a Nurse!
Title: Oh! What a Nurse!
Released: March 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy Ruth Miller, Gayne Whitman, Matthew Betz, Edith Yorke, and David Torrence. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 7, 1926.
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The Little Irish Girl
Title: The Little Irish Girl
Character: Jerry Crawford
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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Lights of Old Broadway
Title: Lights of Old Broadway
Character: 'Red' Hawkins
Released: October 31, 1925
Type: Movie
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
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The Unholy Three
Title: The Unholy Three
Character: Detective Regan
Released: July 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
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My Lady's Lips
Title: My Lady's Lips
Character: Eddie Gault
Released: July 1, 1925
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Frank Wilde
Released: May 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.
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The Lighthouse by the Sea
Title: The Lighthouse by the Sea
Character: Joe Dagget
Released: December 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
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The Only Woman
Title: The Only Woman
Character: Ole Hannson
Released: October 25, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott.
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The Siren Of Seville
Title: The Siren Of Seville
Character: Pedro
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Young Gallito (Allan Forrest) wants very badly to become a matador. His sweetheart, Dolores (Priscilla Dean), does everything she can to help him and she wheedles Pedro, a renowned bullfighter (Matthew Betz), into helping him, too. Gallito becomes a success, but he is vamped by Ardita (Claire Delorez) after Pedro is killed in the ring.
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Those Who Dance
Title: Those Who Dance
Character: Joe Anargas
Released: April 27, 1924
Type: Movie
A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
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Love's Whirlpool
Title: Love's Whirlpool
Character: 'Pinky' Sellers
Released: March 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Toughened criminal Jim Reagan tries to persuade his brother, Larry, to go straight, but Larry attempts to rob a banker, Richard Milton, and is arrested. Milton refuses to be lenient, and when Larry is killed trying to escape from prison, Jim and his wife, Molly, resolve to have vengeance.
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Let's Go
Title: Let's Go
Character: 'Dip' McGurk
Released: October 31, 1923
Type: Movie
The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.
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A Self Made Wife
Title: A Self Made Wife
Character: Bob
Released: July 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.
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Luck
Title: Luck
Character: Fighting Miner
Released: March 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
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My Old Kentucky Home
Title: My Old Kentucky Home
Character: Steven McKenna
Released: April 9, 1922
Type: Movie
After serving time in Sing Sing, for which he was unjustly sentenced, and encouraged by two "sharpers," Richard Goodloe returns to the home of his wealthy southern mother in dread fear that she and Virginia Sanders should learn of his prison record--a fear which is constantly nurtured by his rival, Con Arnold.
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Boomerang Bill
Title: Boomerang Bill
Character: Tony the Wop
Released: January 15, 1922
Type: Movie
When New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a life of crime by taking part in a robbery, he takes the boy aside and tells him the story of Boomerang Bill, another wanna-be gangster who wanted to be a big shot in the New York crime scene. It seems that Bill fell for a pretty young dance-hall girl, and went up against local gang boss Tony the Wop when he insulted her. Tony, who never forgot a slight, found a way to make things very, very tough for Boomerang Bill, in a way that he never saw coming.
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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Title: Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Character: Ed Scott
Released: August 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him the carefree life.
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The Stealers
Title: The Stealers
Character: Bert Robinson
Released: October 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pickpockets masquerading as religious workers who ply their trade in the wake of a traveling carnival company. He tries to keep the true nature of his work secret from his daughter Julie, but she learns the truth while traveling with his band for a week.
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The Winner
Title: The Winner
Character: Guggenheimer - the 'Widow's' Husband
Released: April 17, 1914
Type: Movie
Dan Ryan and Fritz Noodle, two would-be politicians, succumb to the charming mannerisms of the Widow Guggenheimer. The widow is undecided which one she shall select for a husband, but finally tells them she will marry the one who wins the election, the office to be that of Chicken Coop Inspector.