John Steppling

John Steppling

Born: August 8, 1870
Died: April 5, 1932
in Essen, Germany

Movies for John Steppling...

American dream
Title: American dream
Character: głos
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Broken Lullaby
Title: Broken Lullaby
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
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Behind the Counter
Title: Behind the Counter
Character: Her Father
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
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The Better Man
Title: The Better Man
Character: Phineas Ward
Released: June 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American Nancy Burton from a brutal peddler. Interested in Nancy, Lord Hugh obtains passage as valet to her nouveau riche uncle, Phineas Ward.
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High Steppers
Title: High Steppers
Character: John Steppling
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a responsible job on a newspaper. She helps Perryam get hired as a reporter.
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Memory Lane
Title: Memory Lane
Character: Mary's Father
Released: February 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.
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California Straight Ahead
Title: California Straight Ahead
Character: Jeffrey Browne
Released: September 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.
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Eve's Lover
Title: Eve's Lover
Character: Burton Gregg
Released: July 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.
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Soft Shoes
Title: Soft Shoes
Character: Markham
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and flashlight breaks into his hotel room and demands that Halahan cough up his dough. Halahan sees her threat and raises her a one-dollar bet that he can return a brooch she stole earlier the same evening before its loss is discovered. Pulling off his boots to slip on his own “soft shoes,” Halahan sets off to do a little second-story work, not realizing the trouble he’s in for.
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A Cafe in Cairo
Title: A Cafe in Cairo
Character: Tom Hays
Released: December 7, 1924
Type: Movie
When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought up as an Arab known as Nadia. The bandit who killed Nadia's parents wishes to marry her. She is ordered to steal some documents from a British secret service agent. Lost film.
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The Fast Worker
Title: The Fast Worker
Character: Mr. Rodney
Released: October 25, 1924
Type: Movie
Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and their daughter. When Terry falls in love with Edith's sister, a scandal erupts at the resort.
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The Reckless Age
Title: The Reckless Age
Character: Spencer Meyrick
Released: August 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Title: The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Character: Chairman of delegation
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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Let's Go
Title: Let's Go
Character: Andrew J. Macklin
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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Going Up
Title: Going Up
Character: William Douglas
Released: September 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Going Up (1923)
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The Man Next Door
Title: The Man Next Door
Character: David Wisner
Released: May 28, 1923
Type: Movie
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon had recently been made into a hit film. Ranchman Colonel Wright sends his daughter Bonnie to an Eastern college to receive an education. She decides to stay in the city and sends for her father, who arrives with his foreman Curly. Even though they live in the midst of society, they are snubbed by the Easterners as uncouth.
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Bell Boy 13
Title: Bell Boy 13
Released: January 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde. He causes so much confusion that Uncle Elrod buys the hotel so that he may fire Harry. But Harry induces the other employees to strike until Uncle Elrod consents to Harry's marriage to Kitty.
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The Sin Flood
Title: The Sin Flood
Character: Swift
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof doors as a safeguard against an overflow of the river; when a flood comes, it appears that the entire town will be submerged. Trapped in Stratton's cafe, amongst others, are Billy Bear, a young broker, and Poppy, a chorus girl with whom he has been in love.
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Glass Houses
Title: Glass Houses
Character: The Lawyer
Released: March 6, 1922
Type: Movie
Glass Houses is a 1922 film.
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Nobody's Kid
Title: Nobody's Kid
Released: April 17, 1921
Type: Movie
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Squire Gordon
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventures of the humans who surround the horse.
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Billions
Title: Billions
Character: Isaac Colben
Released: December 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses of impoverished poet Owen Carey and becomes his anonymous benefactor. When Owen inherits a fortune from his rich Uncle Krakerfeller, he assumes his uncle's identity and confers his own upon an impoverished friend, Frank Manners. At a resort, Owen meets the princess and falls in love with her, but is chagrined to discover that she is enamored with Manners. The princess finally discovers Owen's real identity and the two fall in love.
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Madame Peacock
Title: Madame Peacock
Character: Rudolph Cleeberg
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. Returning home from a performance one night, Jane is disgusted to find her husband Robert McNaughton victimized by a tubercular cough and so banishes him and her young daughter to a sanitarium in Colorado. Years pass, finding Jane still estranged from her family. On the opening night of her new play, Jane finds herself upstaged and outperformed by Gloria Cromwell, a rising young actress, who, unknown to Jane, is her abandoned daughter. Returning home, Jane is haunted by visions of her husband and child and begins to sob. Looking up from her pillow, she is startled to see her husband with Gloria.
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The County Fair
Title: The County Fair
Character: Otis Tucker
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man's son. While she's dead set against it, the niece is a sweet thing and would do anything to help her aunt--even marry the rich jerk. However, a possible way out is presented. When a poor young man is taken in and fed, he turns out (naturally) to be a jockey and thinks he can win the $3000 prize at the fair and save the farm.
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Sick Abed
Title: Sick Abed
Character: John Weems
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
When showing a woman customer some ranch property, real estate agent John Weems's car is disabled by a terrible storm, and he and his client are forced to take refuge in a roadhouse. Weems's wife Constance finds out about her husband's adventure and, bored with her marriage, determines to file for divorce. Constance calls upon Reginald Jay to testify about the roadhouse incident, and Jay, reluctant to testify, feigns illness and is hospitalized, promptly falling in love with one of his nurses.
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The Heart of a Child
Title: The Heart of a Child
Character: Joe Mosenstein
Released: April 11, 1920
Type: Movie
A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.
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The Husband Hunter
Title: The Husband Hunter
Character: Kelly
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Luck in Pawn
Title: Luck in Pawn
Character: Abraham Armsberg
Released: November 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her to go to the city so she can study. Annabel works hard, but she sells only one painting. She discovers that a renowned artist is spending the summer at a nearby resort, so she sends him her best work for a critique. A friend recommends that she see him in person, so Annabel pawns a piece of jewelry and heads for the resort. The artist informs her that she doesn't have enough talent to achieve much.
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Lombardi, Ltd.
Title: Lombardi, Ltd.
Character: Max Strohan
Released: October 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max Strohm, the manager of a musical review, has promised payment for his girls' lavish costumes as soon as the show makes money. To the dismay of Norah Blake, Lombardi's faithful assistant, who loves him, Lombardi proposes to Phyllis Manning, one of the showgirls, and presents her with his finest creations, while not even attempting to kiss her, as she puts off setting a wedding date and also accepts the attentions of wealthy bachelor Bob Tarrant.
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A Lady's Name
Title: A Lady's Name
Character: Bird
Released: December 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less desirable suitors, while the writer responds to the more interesting letters, and soon becomes embroiled in a number of adventures.
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The Road Through the Dark
Title: The Road Through the Dark
Character: Antoine Jardee
Released: November 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent away from Paris to a small village, where her aunt lives with her sister and brother. The war comes and the Germans enter the town. She becomes the mistress of a German Kommandant.
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Johanna Enlists
Title: Johanna Enlists
Character: Maj. Wappington
Released: September 14, 1918
Type: Movie
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
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Good Night, Paul
Title: Good Night, Paul
Character: Batiste Boudeaux
Released: June 20, 1918
Type: Movie
Mrs. Richard is happily married, but still agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman to hoodwink the businessman's rich uncle. Unfortunately, uncle plans to extend his visit, forcing the two schemers to keep up the pretense.
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A Bathtub Bandit
Title: A Bathtub Bandit
Released: November 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Bathtub movers on the job.
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The Promise
Title: The Promise
Character: Fallon
Released: February 19, 1917
Type: Movie
After an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home. His girlfriend Ethel is mad at him because of his carousing. So he heads out West, but he gets in a railroad accident and saves the life of Appleton, who owns a lumber mill. To reward Bill, Appleton gives him a job, and it doesn't take him long to discern that Buck Moncrossen, the camp boss, is crooked.
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Miss Jackie of the Navy
Title: Miss Jackie of the Navy
Character: Undetermined role
Released: November 30, 1916
Type: Movie
All of the navy men in a California port town have fallen in love with Jackie Holbrook, except for Captain Robert Crowne. As a result, roused by the challenge, Jackie decides that she must add Robert to her list of conquests. Disguising herself as a sailor, she leaves port on Robert's ship, which is headed for the island of Vergania to quell a native uprising. On the island, Robert is taken captive by the natives, and just as they prepare to sacrifice him, Jackie leads a successful rescue mission. Then, Jackie reveals herself to be a woman, and Robert, impressed with her beauty and bravery, instantly falls in love, and makes plans with her for an immediate marriage.
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The Comet's Come-Back
Title: The Comet's Come-Back
Released: May 31, 1916
Type: Movie
The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the planet lazy and lethargic, and actually stops time.
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Pretenses
Title: Pretenses
Character: Mike Guffy
Released: December 7, 1915
Type: Movie
Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.
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Jim
Title: Jim
Character: William Bent - the Publisher
Released: June 15, 1914
Type: Movie
At the palatial home of a merchant the latter's wife entertains her husband's friends. The guests have all departed save one, the husband's most intimate and trusted friend. That this man should abuse the confidence of his friend and attempt to force his attentions upon the wife was a thing the merchant deemed little call to fortify against.
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Caprice
Title: Caprice
Character: Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1913
Type: Movie
A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears incognito as a tutored and sophisticated woman.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Title: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Character: John Durbeyfield
Released: September 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced and left with child by its current owner.
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Billy McGrath on Broadway
Title: Billy McGrath on Broadway
Character: Billy McGrath
Released: March 4, 1913
Type: Movie
John Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which this is the only existing example. Billy wants to be a Broadway producer but finds is isn't so easy.