Forrest Stanley

Forrest Stanley

Born: August 20, 1889
Died: August 27, 1969
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Forrest Stanley...

Curse of the Undead
Title: Curse of the Undead
Character: Dan's Caretaker (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A mysterious epidemic has struck an Old West frontier town and young girls are falling deathly ill. Doc Carter, his lovely daughter Dolores, and preacher Dan Young have their hands full caring for the infirm. When one of the patients dies unexpectedly, Dan notices two puncture wounds on her neck. His investigation leads him to the strange gunslinger Drake Robey, who always seems to be slower on the draw than his opponents, but who—despite being outdrawn, and even shot—always manages to survive these deadly encounters. Dan soon discovers that Drake also has an aversion to crucifixes, sleeps in coffins, and cannot tolerate sunlight...
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Hubka
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Griffin
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Outlaws of the Desert
Title: Outlaws of the Desert
Character: Charles Grant
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy, Johnny and California go to Arabia to buy some horses. There they get involved with a sheik and a harem and a kidnapping plot.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: District Attorney
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
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The Rider of Death Valley
Title: The Rider of Death Valley
Character: Doc Larribee
Released: April 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The three plus Joyce's sister Helen head for the mine. An accident with a runaway horse carrying supplies leaves them stranded in the desert with very little water.
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Sin's Pay Day
Title: Sin's Pay Day
Character: James Markey
Released: March 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman married to a defense lawyer leaves him when he refuses to stop defending criminals she believes are guilty.
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Racing Youth
Title: Racing Youth
Character: Sanford
Released: January 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A young man is mistaken for his boss.
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Colonel Frank Bonham
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.
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The Drake Case
Title: The Drake Case
Character: District Attorney
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house
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Jazzland
Title: Jazzland
Character: Hamilton Pew
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Fighting the invasion of their small New England town by a big city--type nightclub, the Jazzland, a young newspaperman and his brother endeavor to learn the identity of the club's owner...
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The Virgin Queen
Title: The Virgin Queen
Character: Sir Walter Raleigh
Released: May 12, 1928
Type: Movie
The Virgin Queen is a 1928 MGM silent fictionalized film short in two-color Technicolor. It was the third short film produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.
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Bare Knees
Title: Bare Knees
Character: John Longworth
Released: February 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A young married woman in a small town is visited by her sister, a single "flapper" who causes a scandal in town with her bobbed hair and short skirts. She attracts the attentions of some of the local men, which causes an even greater scandal--which is made worse when her sister abruptly leaves her boorish husband for another man.
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The Wheel of Destiny
Title: The Wheel of Destiny
Released: September 30, 1927
Type: Movie
After suffering a blow on the head, brilliant scientist Forrest Stanley totally loses his memory. Wandering into a travelling carnival, Stanley manages to land a job as a fast-talking spieler. In this capacity, he meets and falls in love with fellow "carnie" Georgia Hale.
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The Cat and the Canary
Title: The Cat and the Canary
Character: Charles Wilder
Released: September 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
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Eve's Love Letters
Title: Eve's Love Letters
Character: Adam, her husband
Released: May 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short. She does well as the woman at the centre of the story, but it's pretty plain that it's actually the comic mind and performing talents of Stan Laurel, who plays her butler, that make this two-reel short shine.
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The Climbers
Title: The Climbers
Character: Duke Córdova / El Blanco
Released: May 3, 1927
Type: Movie
The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy, and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.
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Dancing Days
Title: Dancing Days
Character: Ralph Hedman
Released: September 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Despite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Loring discovers that Ralph Hedman is a pushover for her winsome wiles and ways. Ralph's wife, Alice, becomes suspicious when she sees them together at lunch one day. He asks for a divorce but Alice says she wants to keep the marriage going for at least a year, for appearances sake, and says she will agree to a divorce then if he still wants it. Alive stays home alone for three months while Ralph is living it up as a full member of the Jazz Age. He gets sick and Alice invites Lillian to come over and help get him well. Lillian decides that lots of saxophone playing and wild dancing is the best cure. Alice takes all she can stand, leaves a note for Ralph and departs the premises. Ralph also takes his own departure, after leaving a note for Alice. Lillian keeps on partying. Alice and Ralph, driving their respective cars into an intersection, have a collision.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: James Reynolds
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman is framed and sent to prison for a crime she didn't commit. When she is released, she sets out to take her revenge on those responsible. -from IMDB.com
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The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
Title: The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
Character: William Norworth
Released: August 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her fiancé, William Norworth, Mary takes off in Kent's car and she doesn't come home until the early hours. Her father is furious and slaps her, so she leaves home. Kent offers to let her stay in his apartment, while he sleeps at the club.
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The Unwritten Law
Title: The Unwritten Law
Character: Jack Wayne
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
The Unwritten Law is an extant 1925 silent film crime melodrama directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Elaine Hammerstein. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. In the UK distribution was handled by Film Booking Offices of America.
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Up the Ladder
Title: Up the Ladder
Character: James Van Clinton
Released: May 2, 1925
Type: Movie
An inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles.
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Wine
Title: Wine
Character: Carl Graham
Released: August 31, 1924
Type: Movie
John Warriner, facing financial ruin, accepts the proposal of a bootlegger, Benedict, to underwrite the business of illegal wine-selling. His daughter, Angela, takes up with the jazz set and is caught in a raid, at a cafe owned by Benedict. Her former sweetheart, Carl Graham, comes to the rescue and saves her from notoriety, while the family struggles back to its former respectability following Warriner's prison term.
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Through the Dark
Title: Through the Dark
Character: Boston Blackie
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Through the Dark is a 1924 silent mystery drama produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures. It is based on a short story "The Daughter of Mother McGinn" by Jack Boyle
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Tiger Rose
Title: Tiger Rose
Character: Michael Devlin
Released: December 9, 1923
Type: Movie
Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading post In the peaceful Loon River Valley, deep in the Canadian Northwest comes a story of love, vengeance and sacrifice. Having lived at the trading post following the death of her father, Rose will soon fall in love. But when her new love is in trouble, Rose will discover that she is capable of much more than she thought in order to keep him safe.
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Bavu
Title: Bavu
Character: Mischa Vleck
Released: May 7, 1923
Type: Movie
An illiterate, uncouth brute rises to power during the Russian Revolution, plots to wreak vengeance on all who cross him, and incites the peasantry to burn the city.
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Her Accidental Husband
Title: Her Accidental Husband
Released: April 16, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Pride of Palomar
Title: The Pride of Palomar
Character: Don Mike Farrell
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral land in the hands of strangers.
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
Title: When Knighthood Was in Flower
Character: Charles Brandon
Released: September 15, 1922
Type: Movie
Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.
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The Young Diana
Title: The Young Diana
Character: Commander Cleeve
Released: August 27, 1922
Type: Movie
Mr. May wants his daughter Diana to marry into society. The man he wishes her to wed is a scientist, Dr. Dimitrius, but Diana is in love with an officer, Commander Cleeve.
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Beauty's Worth
Title: Beauty's Worth
Character: Cheyne Rovein
Released: May 14, 1922
Type: Movie
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
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Enchantment
Title: Enchantment
Character: Ernest Eddison
Released: October 29, 1921
Type: Movie
The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' theme.
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Sacred and Profane Love
Title: Sacred and Profane Love
Character: Samson
Released: May 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz, a celebrated pianist, at a concert and spends the evening with him. Later, in London, she acquires fame as a novelist and is followed to France by married publisher Frank Ispenlove, who commits suicide when she spurns him. In Paris, Carlotta finds Diaz a physical wreck from drinking absinthe and devotes herself to his regeneration.
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The House That Jazz Built
Title: The House That Jazz Built
Character: Frank Rodham
Released: April 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Cora and Frank Rodham are happily married until Frank lands a lucrative position. He doesn't want to see his pretty wife slaving away at domestic chores so he hires servants to do the work for her. As a result, Cora becomes fat and lazy. Frank is very unhappy with his wife's change in attitude and appearance and starts to take an interest in her friend, Lila Drake, who is secretly just as lazy.
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Forbidden Fruit
Title: Forbidden Fruit
Character: Nelson Rogers
Released: January 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with a rich man by the name of Nelson Rogers. The deal does not seem to be on the table, as Mr. Rogers is leaving town shortly and does not have the time to work out the details of such a deal. In an order to entice him to stay, Mrs. Mallory - wife of Mr. Mallory who is proposing the business deal - convinces Mary to be her guest at a dinner party with the intent of making Mr. Rogers fall for her and thus stay long enough for Mr. Mallory to make him agree to a business deal.
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The Triflers
Title: The Triflers
Released: January 12, 1920
Type: Movie
Janet Randall, a department store clerk who longs for a fling at high society, ignores the love of the poor but honest Dan Cassidy. When vacation time comes, Janet goes to a fashionable hotel and there meets her idol, society favorite Monte Moreville. Upon requesting the bill at the end of four days, Janet discovers that the tariff is more than she can afford, and Monte comes to her rescue by offering to bail her out. In exchange, Janet must pose as his wife to fend off a woman who is threatening a breach of promise suit.
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What Every Woman Wants
Title: What Every Woman Wants
Character: Philip Belden
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Poor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as a result she incurs great debts.
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The Heart of Paula
Title: The Heart of Paula
Character: Bruce McLean
Released: April 3, 1916
Type: Movie
When mining engineer Stephen Pachmann (Jack Livingstone) is sent to Mexico to investigate a mine, his wife Paula (Velma Lefler) is so miserable that her brother, Bruce McLean (Forrest Stanley) offers to go in his place. While south of the border, Bruce gets involved with an aristocratic Spanish girl, Paula Figueroa (Leonore Ulrich).
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He Fell in Love with His Wife
Title: He Fell in Love with His Wife
Character: James Holcroft
Released: February 17, 1916
Type: Movie
A widowed farmer, failing in his efforts to find a woman capable of running his household, decides to marry a young woman he believes can fill the bill. Wat he doesn't know is that she is running away from a brutish and violent husband, whom she has discovered is also a bigamist, and that her angry and vengeful husband is looking for her.
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Madame la Presidente
Title: Madame la Presidente
Character: Cyprian Gaudet
Released: February 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Mademoiselle Gobette, a pretty young actress, visits the offices of the Minister of Justice, Cyprienne Gaudet. Simultaneously, Madame Galipaux arrives to speak to the Minister on behalf of her husband. Gaudet mistakes Madame Galipaux for the new cleaning woman, and Mademoiselle Gobette for Madame Galipaux, leading to farcical complications when Monsieur Galipaux arrives.
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The Reform Candidate
Title: The Reform Candidate
Released: December 16, 1915
Type: Movie
Realizing that his mayoral campaign is in serious trouble, reform candidate Frank Grandell sends his people out to dig up some dirt on Art Hoke, the boss of the city's political machine.
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The Rug Maker's Daughter
Title: The Rug Maker's Daughter
Character: Robert Van Buren
Released: July 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Bob Van Buren's rescue of an upper-class Turkish girl and her duenna in Constantinople when they are waylaid by robbers paves the way for a romance between them. The romance progresses rapidly despite the hullabaloo raised by Demetra's father and by the Turk fiancé he is trying to force upon her; but the very thought of a girl, so highly educated, so gifted with needle and loom, so famously graceful as a dancer ending up in a harem instead of a respectable home, drives Bob Van Buren to desperation.