Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Born: May 1, 1903
Died: April 16, 1978
in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ralph Everly Bushman (May 1, 1903 – April 16, 1978), was an American actor. He appeared in fifty-five films between 1920 and 1943. In his early film career, he was often credited as Francis X. Bushman Jr.

The son of notable silent film star Francis X. Bushman and Josephine Fladung Duval, he was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in Los Angeles, California at age 74.

He was a maternal uncle of Pat Conway (1931–1981), star of the ABC western television series Tombstone Territory (1957–1960). He and his wife Beatrice were married for 54 years at the time of his death.

Movies for Francis X. Bushman Jr....

Desert Command
Title: Desert Command
Character: Schmidt (archive footage)
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
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Assignment in Brittany
Title: Assignment in Brittany
Character: German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
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Crossroads
Title: Crossroads
Character: Giant Policeman (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Frank - Dealer #1
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Uniformed Sanitarium Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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Boom Town
Title: Boom Town
Character: Man with Nitroglycerine (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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Let Freedom Ring
Title: Let Freedom Ring
Character: Gagan's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
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The Shining Hour
Title: The Shining Hour
Character: Club Sirocco Doorman (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
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Think It Over
Title: Think It Over
Released: July 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
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Three Comrades
Title: Three Comrades
Character: Second comic (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
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The Ship That Died
Title: The Ship That Died
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1938
Type: Movie
This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no discernible reason - of crew, passengers and captain. At "the famed nautical court of Gibraltar", investigators propose three hypotheses.
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A Night at the Movies
Title: A Night at the Movies
Character: Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
Title: My Dear Miss Aldrich
Character: Reporter Larry Hauser (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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Big City
Title: Big City
Character: Banquet Doorman (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
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Master Will Shakespeare
Title: Master Will Shakespeare
Character: Knight (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater.
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Hollywood - The Second Step
Title: Hollywood - The Second Step
Character: Billy Grady (as Ralph Bushman)
Released: June 2, 1936
Type: Movie
This short follows the early career of actress Jane Barnes. She starts by doing extra work. After several months she is offered a studio contract (the "first step"). However, her work consists mostly of fashion shoots and bit parts that end up on the cutting room floor. She is even used as a stand-in for Maureen O'Sullivan on the set of a Tarzan movie when camera angles and lighting must be set up.
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Caryl of the Mountains
Title: Caryl of the Mountains
Character: Brad Sheridan
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Martin (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Title: Don't Bet on Blondes
Character: Man Insuring Collar Size 15 (Uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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The Murder Man
Title: The Murder Man
Character: Pendleton
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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When Lightning Strikes
Title: When Lightning Strikes
Character: Matt Caldwell
Released: December 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: Mirabelle's Pickup (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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The Spectacle Maker
Title: The Spectacle Maker
Character: The Soldier
Released: September 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
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Chained
Title: Chained
Character: Gun Salesman (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
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The Girl from Missouri
Title: The Girl from Missouri
Character: Paige's Palm Springs Doorman (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
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Viva Villa!
Title: Viva Villa!
Character: Wallace Calloway
Released: April 27, 1934
Type: Movie
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Dutch Schmidt
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
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The Last Frontier
Title: The Last Frontier
Character: Jeff Maitland
Released: September 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold deposit as his own. With the help of General Custer, right wins out. Presented in serial form in 12 episodes.
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Tangled Fortunes
Title: Tangled Fortunes
Character: Jim Collins
Released: March 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks kills a gold miner while trying to find out the location of the mine. They then terrorize the miner's son to get him to reveal the mine's location.
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Spell of the Circus
Title: Spell of the Circus
Character: Jack Grant
Released: November 13, 1930
Type: Movie
The manager of The Big Circus plots to marry the owner's daughter and gain control of the outfit.
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Way Out West
Title: Way Out West
Character: Steve
Released: August 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner of the ranch, but runs afoul of foreman Steve, who also loves Molly.
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The Sins of the Children
Title: The Sins of the Children
Character: Ludwig
Released: June 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
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The Girl Said No
Title: The Girl Said No
Character: McAndrews
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
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They Learned About Women
Title: They Learned About Women
Character: Haskins
Released: January 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
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Four Sons
Title: Four Sons
Character: Franz - Her Son
Released: February 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
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The Understanding Heart
Title: The Understanding Heart
Character: Tony Garland
Released: February 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Two men in love with the same girl are trapped with her in a forest fire.
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Dangerous Traffic
Title: Dangerous Traffic
Character: Ned Charters
Released: June 7, 1926
Type: Movie
A young newspaper reporter is assigned to investigate mysterious goings-on in a coastal resort town. He discovers the existence of a gang of vicious liquor hijackers. He sets out to expose the ring and help federal agents break it up.
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Brown of Harvard
Title: Brown of Harvard
Character: Bob McAndrew
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
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Midnight Faces
Title: Midnight Faces
Character: Lynn Claymore
Released: March 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied. As the house staff begins to arrive they sense a strange presence in the house, and when a young woman no one knows runs into the house to escape a knife-wielding psycho, the occupants realize they may be in danger from both outside and inside the house.
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Little Annie Rooney
Title: Little Annie Rooney
Character: Young Hospital Intern (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.
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The Pride of the Force
Title: The Pride of the Force
Character: Jack Griffen
Released: September 11, 1925
Type: Movie
The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film
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The Man Life Passed By
Title: The Man Life Passed By
Character: Jerry (as Ralph Bushman)
Released: December 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The Man Life Passed By (1923)
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Our Hospitality
Title: Our Hospitality
Character: Clayton Canfield
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
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It's a Great Life
Title: It's a Great Life
Character: Big Graham (as Ralph Bushman)
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.
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The Virtue of Rags
Title: The Virtue of Rags
Character: The Grouch
Released: December 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself is experiencing the sordid experiences of being destitute, the old man sees the error of his ways and becomes suddenly charitable.