Bert Woodruff

Bert Woodruff

Born: April 28, 1856
Died: June 14, 1934
in Peoria, Illinois, USA

Movies for Bert Woodruff...

Laughing Sinners
Title: Laughing Sinners
Character: Tink
Released: May 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.
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The Texas Ranger
Title: The Texas Ranger
Character: Clayton - Helen's Father
Released: May 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Taylor has his men burning out the ranchers. When they kill Clayton, his daughter Helen and her men turn outlaw. The Rangers send Logan, and posing as a cowhand he joins her gang. But Nevada eventually remembers him as a Ranger and they set out to hang him.
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The River
Title: The River
Character: The Miller
Released: October 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Passion carried an innocent boy and a worldly woman beyond the barriers of conscience.
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Marked Money
Title: Marked Money
Character: Capt. Fairchild
Released: November 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left instructions that The Boy is to be delivered to the home of Captain Fairchild (Bert Woodruff) the father's old sailing master, along with $25,000 in cash to finance the boy's education. The villains aren't interested at all in The Boy, but they do dearly covet the 25 grand he carries with him in a box. (From the Rotten Tomatoes page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marked_money/)
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Speedy
Title: Speedy
Character: Pop Dillon
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
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Spring Fever
Title: Spring Fever
Character: Pop Kelly
Released: October 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at an exclusive country club.
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The Romantic Age
Title: The Romantic Age
Character: Butler
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Engaged to middle-aged Eugene O'Brien, Alberta Vaughn develops a yen for O'Brien's handsome younger brother Stanley Taylor. But when Taylor succumbs to her charms, she spurns him with a severe tongue-lashing. Understandably confused, the mild-mannered Taylor turns nasty, causing a rift between himself and O'Brien. The two brothers are reconciled when one saves the other from a burning building.
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The Eyes of the Totem
Title: The Eyes of the Totem
Character: Toby
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
After selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma with her husband and young daughter to start a new life. Things don't go as planned when her husband is murdered by a mysterious sinister eyed stranger, leaving Ms. Hardy a destitute widow. With the police unable to help find the murderer, Ms. Hardy is rescued by a kindly elderly beggar and taken in by a beggar's society. Miriam enrolls her daughter in a private seminary and lives a double life as a street beggar and a member of polite society, until a chance encounter one day leads her back to the sinister eyed stranger she has been seeking for years.
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The Fire Brigade
Title: The Fire Brigade
Character: Capt. O'Neil
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.
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Exit Smiling
Title: Exit Smiling
Character: 1st Theater Manager (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1926
Type: Movie
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.
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The Barrier
Title: The Barrier
Character: No Creek Lee
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-captain father, Bennett shows up seeking his daughter -- and revenge.
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Driftin' Thru
Title: Driftin' Thru
Character: Joshua Reynolds
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A drifter hobo is falsely accused of killing a saloon owner
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The Fighting Heart
Title: The Fighting Heart
Character: Grandfather
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New York City. Ambition has swept him to Broadway, but the search for love brings him back to the Main Street of his home town.
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Paths to Paradise
Title: Paths to Paradise
Character: Bride's Father
Released: June 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.
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The Mine with the Iron Door
Title: The Mine with the Iron Door
Character: Thad Grove
Released: October 2, 1924
Type: Movie
This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove and Bob Hill find an infant in the cabin belonging to Sonora Jack, a notorious bandit. The girl, Marta, grows to womanhood.
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The Siren Of Seville
Title: The Siren Of Seville
Character: Palomino
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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The Sea Hawk
Title: The Sea Hawk
Character: Nick
Released: June 14, 1924
Type: Movie
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Pa Briskow
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
The film deals with the Texas Oil Industry. A silent film, it was famously remade in 1940 with sound.
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Daddy
Title: Daddy
Character: Eben Holden
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Believing her husband to be unfaithful, Helene Savelli takes her son, Jackie, to the Holdens' farm and dies shortly afterward. The Holdens keep Jackie, but he eventually goes to the city when the elderly couple lose their farm and retire to the poorhouse. Jackie next is befriended by Cesare Gallo, a sidewalk musician who was also the teacher of Paul Savelli--now a famous violinist. A chance meeting with Savelli by Jackie reunites him with Gallo just before the old man dies. Savelli takes Jackie home with him, happily discovers the boy to be his son, and restores the farm to the Holdens.
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The Isle of Lost Ships
Title: The Isle of Lost Ships
Character: Patrick Joyce
Released: March 17, 1923
Type: Movie
A likely lost film, that tells the story of people and ships trapped in seaweed infested section of the southern Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.
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Making a Man
Title: Making a Man
Character: Henry Cattermole
Released: December 17, 1922
Type: Movie
Jack Holt, as Horace Winsby, the lead character. Winsby is a millionaire beet sugar king who owns nearly all of California's San Geronimo Valley -- and he has mortgages on what's left over. But he's also a condescending snob who has no mercy for his debtors and that wins him no friends. He even patronizes Patricia Owens, the girl he loves (Eva Novak), and she turns down his marriage proposal.
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The Kentucky Derby
Title: The Kentucky Derby
Character: Rance Newcombe
Released: December 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon's Kentucky mansion, hoping to marry Helen to the colonel's son, Donald. The colonel agrees, but Donald balks at the suggestion, then reveals his secret marriage to Alice Brown. The colonel turns them out, and Ralph conspires with Bob Thurston to frame Donald for theft of Colonel Gordon's wager money and to shanghai him. After 3 years Donald discovers the source of his misfortune, returns, finds his wife, hears of a plot against his father's best racehorse, wrings a complete confession from Thurston, and saves the Derby for his repentant father.
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Watch Your Step
Title: Watch Your Step
Character: Russ Weaver
Released: February 16, 1922
Type: Movie
Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews.....
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The Rosary
Title: The Rosary
Character: Captain Caleb Mather
Released: January 16, 1922
Type: Movie
After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with only some marshland while his nephew, Bruce Wilton, inherits the bulk of the estate. Wright is further enraged by the engagement of Vera Mather, whom he loves, to Bruce. Wright joins forces with Donald MacTavish, a pirate captain, and wins the affections of Bruce's sister, Alice, who becomes his victim. Vera, in an attempt to save Alice, becomes involved in the scandal, and Bruce takes back the rosary he has given her to pledge his love.
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The Grim Comedian
Title: The Grim Comedian
Character: Old Dad
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her daughter, Dorothy (Gloria Hope) sequestered in a convent far, far away from her fast lifestyle. But when Dorothy leaves the convent to come live with her mother, Marie decides to reform. She gives up her fancy apartment and her latest lover, Harvey Martin (Jack Holt), to concentrate on her daughter and her career, in that order. But Martin has fallen for Dorothy, and Dorothy cares for him too, even though she is already promised to a young artist, Geoffrey Hutchins (John Harron).
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For Those We Love
Title: For Those We Love
Character: Dr. Bailee
Released: September 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 dollars that his father was responsible for. Berenice sets out to get the money back, but winds up causing a scandal because of her association with Trix Ulner, a gambler and thief.
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The Jailbird
Title: The Jailbird
Character: Grandpa Binney
Released: October 10, 1920
Type: Movie
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Homer Comes Home
Title: Homer Comes Home
Character: Farmer Higgins
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.
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Paris Green
Title: Paris Green
Released: June 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Bill Henry
Title: Bill Henry
Character: Uncle Chet Jenkins
Released: August 17, 1919
Type: Movie
Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, including losing his sales job when his bicycle is lost. A bigtime poker game turns out to be the key to Bill Henry's success.
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The Delicious Little Devil
Title: The Delicious Little Devil
Character: Musk
Released: May 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.
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Greased Lightning
Title: Greased Lightning
Character: Grandpa Piper
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.
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Vive la France!
Title: Vive la France!
Character: Pierre Le Gai
Released: September 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A couple's suffering finally comes to an end when Jean, having lost his memory through shell shock, sees the cross of shame on Jenevieve's breast, gets his memory back and the two pledge their troth.
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Six-Shooter Andy
Title: Six-Shooter Andy
Character: William Crawford
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
Susan Allenby's father is killed during a robbery staged by Bannack's corrupt sheriff, Tom Slade, and his men, leaving the girl to care for her eight brothers and sisters. Andy Crawford and his father William take the orphans in, but after Andy's father is killed, the young prospector vows to avenge his death and clean up the town.
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Men of the Desert
Title: Men of the Desert
Released: September 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Some of the most sanguinary feuds in America have been fought out, not in the mountains of the south, but on the deserts of the great west, where cattlemen and sheepmen often dealt out death to each other with the aid of their old friends, Winchester and Colt. Such a feud is in progress between the men of the desert when Jack, a nomadic cowboy, wanders into the scene. He is outspoken against the outlawry, and the sheriff, in jest, hands him his badge and asks him if he can do any better. Jack accepts the challenge and arrests one of the most recent slayers.
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Hands Up!
Title: Hands Up!
Character: Tim Farley
Released: April 28, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Tod Browning & Wilfred Lucas.
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A Love Sublime
Title: A Love Sublime
Character: The Little Red Doctor
Released: March 11, 1917
Type: Movie
A Greek man falls for an injured French woman. When he is informed of her death, he continues to sing under her hospital window every night.
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The She-Devil
Title: The She-Devil
Released: January 6, 1916
Type: Movie
The She-Devil is a 1916 short starring Constance Talmadge.