Sidney Franklin

Sidney Franklin

Born: May 20, 1870
Died: March 18, 1931
in New York City, New York, USA
Sidney Franklin (not to be confused with the director-producer-writer, and occasional actor, Sidney Franklin born 1893, died 1972) was an American stage and screen character actor, in films from 1919 to 1930.

Movies for Sidney Franklin...

Puttin' on the Ritz
Title: Puttin' on the Ritz
Character: Schmidt
Released: February 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
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Lummox
Title: Lummox
Character: Mr. Meyerbogen
Released: January 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Lummox is a 1930 American Pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon, released through United Artists, and based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst. The story of Bertha, a young immigrant woman who cleans the homes of the rich and is largely ignored by them, except for a young poet who considers her a muse.
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The King of Kings
Title: The King of Kings
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1927
Type: Movie
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
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The Fighting Failure
Title: The Fighting Failure
Released: December 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Cullen Landis starred in this silent Western melodrama about a prizefighter accused of cowardice who toughens up on a Western ranch.
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The Block Signal
Title: The Block Signal
Character: 'Roadhouse' Rosen
Released: September 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Joe Ryan, a veteran train engineer, is demoted to a flagman position after a disastrous crash-- one caused by his cowardly and opportunistic partner. Though Ryan's failing eyesight is named as the cause of the crash, he's undeterred as he designs an automatic braking invention.
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The Texas Trail
Title: The Texas Trail
Character: Ike Collander
Released: June 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Rangy Pete Grainger is a cowboy who saves a rancher and his daughter from being kicked off their property by the ubiquitous evil landlord.
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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Title: In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Character: Film Buyer
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.
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The Red Lily
Title: The Red Lily
Character: Madame Charpied's Husband
Released: September 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
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A Boy of Flanders
Title: A Boy of Flanders
Character: Herr Brinker
Released: April 6, 1924
Type: Movie
An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.
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The Guttersnipe
Title: The Guttersnipe
Released: January 30, 1922
Type: Movie
Mazie, a shop-girl of New York City's Little Ireland, goes to the aid of a young man in formal attire involved in a street fight. Though badly beaten, he bears a strong resemblance to Lord Lytton, the hero of a magazine story Mazie is reading in installments. Although he is, in reality, a soda clerk, Mazie permits his attentions, and together they read the "Sloppy Stories" yarn about English nobility.
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Playing with Fire
Title: Playing with Fire
Character: Pat Isaacs
Released: December 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Bonacieux
Released: August 28, 1921
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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The Sleeping Lion
Title: The Sleeping Lion
Character: Her Father
Released: June 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Italian potter Tony adopts an Italian waif, little Tony, and takes him from New York to the West to realize a long-held dream of owning a ranch.