Freeman Wood

Freeman Wood

Born: July 1, 1896
Died: February 15, 1956
in Denver, Colorado, USA

Movies for Freeman Wood...

The House Across the Bay
Title: The House Across the Bay
Character: Mr. Hanson
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Minor Role
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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I Live My Life
Title: I Live My Life
Character: Mr. Waterbury, Jr. (Uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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Go Into Your Dance
Title: Go Into Your Dance
Character: Headwaiter
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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Desirable
Title: Desirable
Character: Helen's Second Admirer at Party
Released: September 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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Golden Harvest
Title: Golden Harvest
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
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Lady with a Past
Title: Lady with a Past
Character: Patterson (Uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
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Kept Husbands
Title: Kept Husbands
Character: Llewllyn Post
Released: February 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner's wealthy, very spoiled daughter.
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Ladies in Love
Title: Ladies in Love
Character: Ward Hampton
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A small town Vermont fellow falls in love with a New York City radio singing star, but she is about to be married to the radio station owner.
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Swellhead
Title: Swellhead
Character: Clive Warren
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And then he loses his friends, loses his girl-friend, loses his confidence and is all set-up to lose his title.
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Young Eagles
Title: Young Eagles
Character: Lieutenant Mason
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by his return to the front. In an air battle, Robert brings down and captures the Grey Eagle, Baden, and takes him to American Intelligence in Paris. Mary, ostensibly a spy for the Germans, drugs Robert, who awakens to find that his uniform has been stolen by Baden. Later, in an exciting air conflict, Baden is wounded but shoots down Robert's plane. The German rescues him, however, and takes him to an Allied hospital, assuring him of Mary's love; his faith in her is restored when he learns that she is actually a spy for U. S. Intelligence.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Lewis Conroy
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
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Why Bring That Up?
Title: Why Bring That Up?
Character: Powell
Released: October 3, 1929
Type: Movie
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
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Chinatown Nights
Title: Chinatown Nights
Character: Gerald
Released: March 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he isl in love with her, and he determines to lift her up again. "Boston" Charley, the rival gang-leader, has other plans.
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Half a Bride
Title: Half a Bride
Character: Jed Sessions
Released: June 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new husband, Patience is marooned on a desert island with handsome Captain Edmunds. Her head full of notions that she's gleaned from radio dramas and pulp novels, Patience demands that she and Edmunds enter into an in-name-only marriage, observing the responsibilities and proprieties of matrimony without the sexual entanglements. Complications naturally arise.
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The Legion of the Condemned
Title: The Legion of the Condemned
Character: Richard De Witt
Released: March 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Finding his sweetheart, Christine, in the arms of a German officer, Price joins the French Air Legion. Christine is later revealed to be the spy whom Price has been ordered to drop behind enemy lines. They are reconciled, are captured by the Germans, and are rescued by his unit.
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The Coward
Title: The Coward
Character: Leigh Morlock
Released: August 21, 1927
Type: Movie
After losing a fistfight to his romantic rival, wastrelly Clinton Philbrook skulks off to the North Woods. Hoping to redeem himself in the eyes of his sweetheart Alicia Van Orden, Clinton signs on as an apprentice to trapper Pierre Bechard.
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Josselyn's Wife
Title: Josselyn's Wife
Character: Mr. Arthur
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Only six months of marital bliss and Lillian Josselyn is filled with dread at the return of Pierre Marchand, her former lover, who left her to marry Ellen Latimer.
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The Lone Wolf Returns
Title: The Lone Wolf Returns
Character: Mallison
Released: August 15, 1926
Type: Movie
The Lone Wolf Returns
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A Social Celebrity
Title: A Social Celebrity
Character: Gifford Jones
Released: March 29, 1926
Type: Movie
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but is ambitious to be a dancer, so she heads for New York, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things. Mrs. Jackson-Greer, a New York society matron, has occasion to note Max styling the hair of a town girl and induces him to come to New York and pose as a French count. There he meets April, Mrs. King's niece, and loses his heart to her, as well as to Kitty, now a showgirl.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Terry Allen
Released: January 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Adapted from the Fannie Hurst story of the same name, Mannequin is the story of Joan Herrick, kidnapped in infancy from her wealthy parents and raised by a slatternly slum woman. The film is still extant.
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Hearts and Spurs
Title: Hearts and Spurs
Character: Oscar Estabrook
Released: June 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Oscar has been sent to the plains to make a man of himself, is soon visited by his sister Sybil Estabrook, who travels west along with her maid in tow. Oscar, who has been losing at cards to Victor Dufresne, is forced by him to rob a stagecoach in order to pay off his gambling debts.
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Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
Title: Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
Character: Bunny Manners
Released: May 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman." While sailing from India to England accompanied by his friend, Bunny Manners, it is rumored that the infamous cracksman is aboard ship. Raffles warns a lady passenger to keep an eye on her necklace, which is stolen soon afterward. Although a search reveals no evidence, the necklace is returned upon reaching London.
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The Dancers
Title: The Dancers
Character: Evan Caruthers
Released: January 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in search of his fortune. He soon becomes the owner of a saloon and dance hall. One of the dancers in his place, Maxine, falls in love with him, but Tony is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Una, although Una is now a "party girl" back in London and has forgotten about Tony. However, Tony comes into an unexpected inheritance, along with a title, and returns to London for Una. Although disappointed with Una's current lifestyle, he asks her to marry him despite her "indiscretions". However, the night before they are to be married Una confesses a deep, dark secret to Tony that could change their lives forever.
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One Glorious Night
Title: One Glorious Night
Character: Chester James
Released: December 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 silent drama.
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Butterfly
Title: Butterfly
Character: Cecil Atherton
Released: October 11, 1924
Type: Movie
Silent Feature Film by Clarence Brown
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The Female
Title: The Female
Character: Clon Biron
Released: August 31, 1924
Type: Movie
A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love triangle melodrama, from the Cynthia Stocklet Story. Dalla (Betty Compson) is a pretty orphan who is adopted by a wealthy man. When she matures, he invites her to England (leaving her beau behind),and eventually marries her. After her husband is murdered, she is accused of the crime, because she has still been seeing her old beau Col. Valentia (Warner Baxter). After eventually being cleared of the crime Della maries her first love...Valentia.
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Out of Luck
Title: Out of Luck
Character: Cyril La Mount
Released: July 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Believing he has committed murder, Sam Pertune, a simple westerner, enlists in the Navy, then cannot get released when he learns that his "victim" is alive.
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Broken Hearts of Broadway
Title: Broken Hearts of Broadway
Character: Frank Huntleigh
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.
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The Frozen North
Title: The Frozen North
Character: Her Husband
Released: August 28, 1922
Type: Movie
This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he thinks he spies his wife making love to another man he shoots them both only to learn it isn't his cabin after all.
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The Rage of Paris
Title: The Rage of Paris
Character: Jimmy Allen
Released: September 25, 1921
Type: Movie
Forced into a loveless marriage by her mother, Joan Coolidge, a beautiful American girl, finds her husband a brute. She runs away to Paris and studies dancing and becomes The Rage of Paris.
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Made in Heaven
Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Davidge
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
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The Adventure Shop
Title: The Adventure Shop
Released: January 6, 1919
Type: Movie
A society girl looking for thrills, poses as a tough "underworld" character. She is rescued by her wealthy husband as Josephus Potts, Jr, who proves he's not the tea-and-crumpets type she'd assumed him to be.