Albert J. Smith

Albert J. Smith

Born: February 15, 1894
Died: April 11, 1939
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Albert J. Smith...

The White Gorilla
Title: The White Gorilla
Character: Lou "Brute" Hanley
Released: July 12, 1945
Type: Movie
A white gorilla causes trouble in the deepest heart of Africa. The film uses footage from the silent 1927 serial Perils Of The Jungle.
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Prairie Thunder
Title: Prairie Thunder
Character: Lynch
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.
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The Gold Racket
Title: The Gold Racket
Character: Fraser
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.
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Alibi for Murder
Title: Alibi for Murder
Character: Mike (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Cop
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Man
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Prescott Kid
Title: Prescott Kid
Character: Frazier
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Cowboy Tim Hamlin arrives in a town plagued by a gang of cattle rustlers.
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Honor of the Range
Title: Honor of the Range
Character: Henchman Smoky
Released: April 15, 1934
Type: Movie
After Sheriff Ken puts money in the safe, his brother Clem gives Rawhide the combination. With the money gone the disgruntled townsmen make Boots Sheriff and lock up Ken. Clem, now a prisoner of Rawhide, has a change of heart and sends Ken a message with the outlaw's location. Ken escapes by impersonating the saloon entertainer and rides for the hangout.
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The Thrill Hunter
Title: The Thrill Hunter
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
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The Telegraph Trail
Title: The Telegraph Trail
Character: Gus Lynch
Released: March 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.
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Forbidden Trail
Title: Forbidden Trail
Character: Burke
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Karger is behind all the cattle rustling. After Tom Devlin catches his man Burke in the act, Burke hides evidence against Karger in his jail cell. Later when Tom is jailed he accidentally finds the evidence, but the Karger encited mob has jailed the Sheriff and is already on the loose.
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Between Fighting Men
Title: Between Fighting Men
Character: Butch Martin
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Ken not only has to fight with his brother Wally over the girls, he has to try and stop the conflict between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. It gets worse when Butch kills Judy's father.
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The Last Mile
Title: The Last Mile
Character: Drake, Guard
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
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Hello Trouble
Title: Hello Trouble
Character: Jim Vaughn
Released: July 15, 1932
Type: Movie
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.
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Dynamite Ranch
Title: Dynamite Ranch
Character: Henchman Red
Released: July 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Howell breaks up a train robbery only to find that it's a fake. However the money is missing and he is blamed. He escapes and sets out to find the real thieves. He must also avoid being caught visiting the Collins ranch to see Doris.
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Border Devils
Title: Border Devils
Character: Inspector Bell
Released: April 3, 1932
Type: Movie
Jim Gray is looking for the gang leader known as the General. When Neil Denham is murdered, Jim assumes his identity. He and his pal Squint Saunders then try to join the gang. But they get captured and Jim is told he can join up only if he kills his friend.
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Branded
Title: Branded
Character: Joe Moore
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowboy looking to sell an inherited ranch changes his mind after a female neighbour arrives on the scene.
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Shadow Ranch
Title: Shadow Ranch
Character: Dan Blake
Released: September 27, 1930
Type: Movie
Summoned to Shadow Ranch by his friend Ranny Williams, Sim Baldwin arrives to find Ranny has been ambushed and murdered. Sim learns ranch owner Ruth Cameron is under pressure to sell out to Dan Blake, as the dam on the ranch controls the town's water supply. Vowing to avenge his old friend's death, Sim takes up Ruth's fight and incurs Blake's hostility.
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The Drifter
Title: The Drifter
Character: Pete Lawson (as Al Smith)
Released: March 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Silent cowboy western starring Tom Mix, Bernard Bolden, Dorothy Dwan, Barney Furey, Albert J. Smith, and Ernest Wilson. Also, note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Outlawed
Title: Outlawed
Character: Dervish (as Al Smith)
Released: January 21, 1929
Type: Movie
In this his third film for FBO (Film Booking Office), Mix plays Tom Manning, a cowboy framed for murder and bank robbery by bandit leader Ethan Laidlaw. As always, justice prevails, but Mix has to make a daring escape from jail to right the wrongs done to him.
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Perils of the Jungle
Title: Perils of the Jungle
Character: Brute Hanley
Released: July 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A young woman and her father search for hidden treasure in the African jungle.
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The Western Rover
Title: The Western Rover
Character: Bud Barstry
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Returning to the family ranch after a spell as a circus performer, Art Hayes finds that a crooked ranch foreman has forced his father into bankruptcy.
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Hills of Peril
Title: Hills of Peril
Character: Rand
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Sheriff is aided by Laramie who pretends to be an outlaw to infiltrate a gang of bootleggers. Laramie is attracted to Ellen, who is trying to activate an old mine. He helps her with the mine and captures the bootleggers.
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Hard Fists
Title: Hard Fists
Character: Charles Crane
Released: April 24, 1927
Type: Movie
The story is about a fake army colonel who blackmails Alvord into doing his bidding, including smearing a rancher and his pretty daughter .
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Whispering Sage
Title: Whispering Sage
Character: Ed Fallows
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
This silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized by a greedy land baron (Joseph W. Girard). Jones played Buck Kildare, who, after falling for Basque beauty Natalie Joyce, comes to the aid of the settlers. On his sterling horse Silver, Kildare goes after the villain, who, it turns out, is the very same man who murdered his brother Tom (William A. Steele).
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The Call of the Wilderness
Title: The Call of the Wilderness
Character: Red Morgan (as Al Smith)
Released: December 5, 1926
Type: Movie
In a small western town, a man meets a girl whose father is a land agent. To please her, he buys a plot of land from her father. Next thing he knows, he's mixed up in a plot to drive him off his land.
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The Saddle Tramp
Title: The Saddle Tramp
Released: October 2, 1926
Type: Movie
The Saddle Tramp is a silent Western
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The Strings of Steel
Title: The Strings of Steel
Character: Peter Allen
Released: June 28, 1926
Type: Movie
The Strings of Steel is a silent Action serial.
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The Scarlet Streak
Title: The Scarlet Streak
Character: Count 'K' (as Al Smith)
Released: December 20, 1925
Type: Movie
A group steals a death ray in order to terrorise the world into peace. The inventor and his daughter try to retrieve the death ray with the aid of a government agent.
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The Circus Cyclone
Title: The Circus Cyclone
Character: Steve Brant
Released: October 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Steve Brant, an ex-pugilist who owns a small circus, makes crude advances toward Doraldina, a lovely equestrienne; and when she resists him, he angrily beats her horse.
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The Meddler
Title: The Meddler
Character: Bud Meyers
Released: June 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Richard Gilmore, a staid Wall Street broker, is jilted by Dot Parkhurst when he fails to provide her with the romance and adventure that she wants out of life. Richard then goes west in an effort to prove himself a man and becomes a highwayman known as "The Meddler," robbing people only to return to them all that he stole, keeping only a valueless memento for himself.
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The Burning Trail
Title: The Burning Trail
Character: Texas
Released: May 10, 1925
Type: Movie
A professional boxer known as "Smiling Bill Flannigan" accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. He gives up the sport and heads west. He gets a job on a ranch as a cook, and before he knows it he finds himself involved in a war between ranchers and sheepherders.
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Straight Through
Title: Straight Through
Character: Granger
Released: April 5, 1925
Type: Movie
O'Day, the terror of Red Gulch, wins the entire stake of a gambler named Granger in a poker game but gives it all to Denver Nell, a dancehall girl, when she tells him her sad story. O'Day later discovers that she has returned the money to Granger, and he decides to reform. He goes to another town, where (now known as Good Deed O'Day) he meets an old friend, a wealthy rancher with whose sister, Mary, he is in love. Snowden takes a trip to Denver and returns with Nell, whom he has married.
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Barriers of the Law
Title: Barriers of the Law
Character: Aide to Redding
Released: March 26, 1925
Type: Movie
When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, they refuse. She quits the gang, but the gang's leader locks her up in a brothel. She escapes and hides in the apartment of a man who turns out to be the chief of the government agents pursuing her gang. Complications ensue.
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Taming the West
Title: Taming the West
Character: Lafe Conners
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
John Carleton is living a carefree jazz lifestyle, much to the annoyance of his father. When he can take it no longer, Carleton senior sends John to his ranch in the West, hoping that the experience will make a man of him. John's ability to ride a bucking bronco wins the friendship of the cowhands, but trouble's a-brewin' when he falls in love with Beryl King.
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The Sunset Trail
Title: The Sunset Trail
Character: Dick Fenlow
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
On a passenger train passing through the desert, Louise offers to pay the fares of Happy Hobo and Collie. The boy Collie accepts, but Happy continues on foot and finds on a dying man a map to a gold mine and a photograph of his daughter, who is none other than Louise.
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Blue Wing's Revenge
Title: Blue Wing's Revenge
Character: The Post Commandant
Released: June 21, 1924
Type: Movie
A short melodrama. A girl is held hostage in an Indian village, but is rescued by Tom, after which they are chased by Indians. The Indian girl Blue Wing is also in love with Tom, but she puts a stop to the chase when she sees how strong the love between Tom and the girl actually is.
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In the Days of Daniel Boone
Title: In the Days of Daniel Boone
Character: Captain Charles Redmond
Released: June 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Presumed lost. 15-episode serialized Western directed by William James Craft. A trailer is included in the DVD More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films.
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Wolf Tracks
Title: Wolf Tracks
Character: 'Wolf' Santell
Released: April 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Poverty-row Western story of two young strangers -- Jack Hastings and Jean Meredith -- inheriting one-half of a map to a hidden gold mine. A villain, Wolf Santell, steals Jack's half of the map, which is enclosed in a locket, only to lose it again in the river.
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Man Trackers
Title: Man Trackers
Character: Hanley
Released: July 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Molly Killbride, daughter of the inspector in the Royal Mounties, is in love with trooper Jimmy Hearn, but her father prefers that she marry Harry Morgan, a wealthy young civilian. Morgan, however, is allied with a gang of outlaws headed by Hanley, and when Morgan taunts Jimmy into a fistfight the gang causes him to be railroaded to prison for felonious assault.