Art Acord

Art Acord

Born: April 17, 1890
Died: January 4, 1931

Movies for Art Acord...

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
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Fighters of the Saddle
Title: Fighters of the Saddle
Character: Dick Weatherby
Released: August 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Henry Weatherby is buying up ranch land to sell as right of way for a new road. When he sends his son Dick and his nephew Pete to kick the Wayne's off their ranch, Dick rebels and joins the Wayne's in their fight against his father.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Bill 'The Arizona Kid' Strong
Released: March 31, 1929
Type: Movie
With help from his talented horse and dog, a marshal captures bandits.
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Bullets and Justice
Title: Bullets and Justice
Character: Jim Steel
Released: February 18, 1929
Type: Movie
A mining expert helps a girl and her kid brother defeat an evil claim jumper.
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The White Outlaw
Title: The White Outlaw
Character: Johnny 'The White Outlaw' Douglas
Released: January 7, 1929
Type: Movie
Known as the White Outlaw for the kerchief he wears, Johnny Douglas decides to go straight. Getting a job as a cowhand he gives the kerchief to his new friend Ted Williams. When the rancher's daughter, the girl friend of Ted, agrees to marry the man holding the note on the ranch so he won't foreclose, Ted uses the kerchief when he robs the stage. When Ted is spotted and jailed, Johnny has a plan to return the money and clear Ted.
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Spurs and Saddles
Title: Spurs and Saddles
Character: Jack Marley
Released: July 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Mildred is traveling West in search of her long-lost father when she catches the roving eye of wicked dance-hall proprietor "Hawk" Kent. She turns him down flat and Kent has his henchman Blaze frame her in a crime. To keep herself out of jail, Mildred is compelled to work in Kent's dive, until the gallant Jack comes to her rescue.
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The Western Rover
Title: The Western Rover
Character: Art Seaton / Art Hayes
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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Hard Fists
Title: Hard Fists
Character: Art Alvord
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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Set Free
Title: Set Free
Character: 'Side Show' Saunders
Released: March 6, 1927
Type: Movie
"Side Show" Saunders gains the respect of shopowner Holly Farrell and the townsfolk when he gives up entertaining with his trick horse and dog and goes to work in the general store.
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Loco Luck
Title: Loco Luck
Character: Bud Harris
Released: January 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Bud Harris, who is in love with Molly Vernon, leaves the Vernon ranch when there is an oil boom in the territory, then returns to find the property encumbered with debt. Bush, who holds the mortgage on the ranch, attempts to foreclose when he learns that there is oil on the land, and Bud enters a horserace to pay the debt.
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Lazy Lightning
Title: Lazy Lightning
Character: Lance Lighton
Released: December 12, 1926
Type: Movie
American silent western film directed by William Wyler
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The Man from the West
Title: The Man from the West
Character: Art Louden
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Art Louden, foreman of the Bar H Ranch, is contemptuous of the masculine city flappers and effeminate city sheiks who are vacationing on the ranch, and when reproached by the owner, Bill Hayes, for discourtesy to a guest, Art complains that there are no "she-women" left. Seeing a newspaper photo of Iris Millard, he is attracted by her apparent innocence; then she arrives with her father, and Art is disillusioned to find her as snobbish and as jazzily dressed as the others. His disdain, however, causes Iris to play up to his ideas.
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The Riding Rascal
Title: The Riding Rascal
Character: Larrabie Keller
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Larrabie Keller, a homesteader, is accused of being a cattle rustler, and when Keller refuses to fight Phil Sanderson, whose sister, Phyllis, has struck his fancy, he is insulted by Bill Healy, to whom he administers a severe drubbing. Phyllis, finding Keller beside a branding fire, believes him guilty; and when he is wounded by Healy, she takes Keller to Yeager, another homesteader, who cares for him and to whom he reveals that he is a Texas Ranger.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Art Downs
Released: July 25, 1926
Type: Movie
While Pop Morton, a rancher, is being sworn in as deputy sheriff, his daughter Molly, to escape the unwelcome attentions of usurer Blair Hatley (who holds the mortgage on their ranch), meets Art Downs. Art is mistaken by Steve Baird, one of Hatley's henchmen, for "The Terror," a notorious Arizona bandit, and uses this mistake as an excuse to invade their stronghold, where he finds Molly--kidnaped by the rustlers.
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The Scrappin' Kid
Title: The Scrappin' Kid
Character: Bill Bradley
Released: June 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Bill Bradley, who owns a small house and a one-horse corral in the hills, saves the lives of Betty Brent and her brother Mike from a forest fire in which their mother has perished. He decides to take care of them. When word spreads that Betty is actually 18, a committee of citizens, headed by Cliff Barrowes, whose father holds a mortgage on Bill's property, calls to protest; the sheriff's wife offers the children a home; and soon after, Cliff begins to woo the girl. Bill, meanwhile, is forcibly held by a trio of outlaws about to flee across the border.
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The Set-Up
Title: The Set-Up
Character: Deputy Art Stratton
Released: May 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Cliff Barton, suspicious of the intentions of the local banker, Seth Tolliver, withdraws his money from the bank, hides it, and is later killed by two hirelings of the banker. Deputy Sheriff Art Stratton, who has trained Barton's horse and is in love with his daughter, Thora, is assigned to guard the ranch for the creditors; and Tolliver, who has designs on the property and wants his son to marry Thora, arranges to have the ranch auctioned.
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Rustlers' Ranch
Title: Rustlers' Ranch
Character: Lee Crush
Released: April 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Lee Crush, an out-of-work cowhand, gets into a fight with Bull Dozier and knocks him through a railing. Thinking he has killed the man, Lee takes to his heels and finds work on the Shawn ranch. Lee prevents Clem Allen from swindling the Widow Shawn and falls in love with her daughter, Mary.
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Sky High Corral
Title: Sky High Corral
Character: Jack McCabe
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
When the Government incorporates Bill Hayden's ranch into a Federal game preserve, Jack McCabe, a forest ranger, is sent to serve an eviction notice on Hayden and his daughter, Shasta. Hayden resists the order, and Jack falls in love with Shasta.
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The Call of Courage
Title: The Call of Courage
Character: Steve Caldwell
Released: December 22, 1925
Type: Movie
A man falsely accused of murder is helped by a dog and horse.
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Pals
Title: Pals
Character: Bruce Taylor
Released: December 11, 1925
Type: Movie
The dog, Rex, finds the baby abandoned in the mountains. Unfortunately, the nearest town has no orphanage and rough cowboy and wonder-dog owner Bruce is forced to care for the infant himself.
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The Silent Guardian
Title: The Silent Guardian
Character: Jim Sullivan
Released: November 21, 1925
Type: Movie
Lovely Jessie Stevens falls in love with Jim Sullivan, much to the dismay of Red Collins (L.J. O'Connor), who wants the girl for himself. Red blackmails Jessie's father, Job, into ordering his daughter to forget all about Jim, who takes to the bottle instead.
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The Wild Girl
Title: The Wild Girl
Character: Billy Woodruff
Released: October 10, 1925
Type: Movie
Wonder dog and horse belong to Pattie, the "wild girl" of the title, who rejects a proposal from uncouth mountaineer Lige Blew in favor of romancing handsome photographer Billy Woodruff. Taking umbrage to the girl's decision, Lige frames Pattie's granddad for murder.
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The Circus Cyclone
Title: The Circus Cyclone
Character: Jack Manning
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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Three in Exile
Title: Three in Exile
Character: Art Flanders
Released: August 21, 1925
Type: Movie
In order to save lovely Lorraine from a gang of claim jumpers Art teams with his wonder dog and horse.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Jean Brulet
Released: March 12, 1923
Type: Movie
The Oregon Trail 1923 Western
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In the Days of Buffalo Bill
Title: In the Days of Buffalo Bill
Character: Art Taylor
Released: September 11, 1922
Type: Movie
Western film serial featuring Buffalo Bill
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The Show Down
Title: The Show Down
Character: Snappy Walton
Released: February 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Cowboy Snappy Walton (Art Acord) trying to same a damsel in distress, hunting down the bad men that's troubling her in this 2-reel western.
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Headin' South
Title: Headin' South
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth in search of Spanish Joe (Campeau), a Mexican responsible for most of the treachery and outlawry along the U.S.-Mexican boarder. Headin' South gains quite a reputation as he goes along and finally believes himself worthy of joining Joe's band. in a whirlwind finish in which Joe is captured, Headin' South meets one of Joe's near victims (MacDonald) and falls in love with her."
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Kephren
Released: October 14, 1917
Type: Movie
The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony.
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Heart and Soul
Title: Heart and Soul
Character: Rough Rider (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Desperate to change her vixenish image, Theda Bara was called upon to play a sweet young thing (she was nearly 30) who sacrifices herself for the happiness of her sister (Claire Whitney).
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A Modern Knight
Title: A Modern Knight
Character: Percival Cadwallader 'Pin' Perkins
Released: June 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Percival Cadwallader Perkins was so bashful that whenever a woman would look at him he would blush like a beet, and this brought the "Happy Family," the cowboys of the Flying U, to calling him "Pink."
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The Extra Man and the Milk-Fed Lion
Title: The Extra Man and the Milk-Fed Lion
Character: Buck Parvin
Released: February 4, 1916
Type: Movie
When cowboy actor Buck Parvin gets his friends Ben and Tommy jobs on the set, all three run into trouble. Ben stealing a prop for the set, Tommy spoiling the seen with the heroine taming a lion, and Buck when he fights a kangaroo.
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The Cowboy's Sweetheart
Title: The Cowboy's Sweetheart
Character: Jim Lawson
Released: April 3, 1915
Type: Movie
A cowboy meets the girl of his dream and his luck turns around.
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Buckshot John
Title: Buckshot John
Character: Hairtrigger Jordan
Released: February 4, 1915
Type: Movie
A sheriff and his posse shoot it out with a gang of robbers headed by Bad Jake Kennedy. The surviving robber, Buckshot John, won't tell where the gang's loot is hidden and gets 30 years in prison. Halfway through his sentence he "gets religion" and in order to save his soul, decides to tell where the gang has hidden its stash of gold. However, a phony clairvoyant, The Great Gilmore, finds out about John's intentions and tricks him into revealing where the gold is. When John finds out what happened, he decides to break out of prison and take care of matters himself.
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A Four-Footed Hero
Title: A Four-Footed Hero
Character: Broncho Rider
Released: December 10, 1912
Type: Movie
Jack, Alice and Dandy are a well assorted trio. Jack is handsome, Alice sweet and Dandy is the best horse and friend a man ever had. Dandy takes the honors and a blue ribbon at the rodeo. Old Bill, the foreman, retires and Jack is given his position. Everyone is satisfied but Pedro, who treasures a grudge against the handsome Jack. His dislike turns into hate when Jack chastises the Mexican for ill-treating a horse. He seeks out the Indians and incites them to help him steal some of the Bar "B" horses.
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The Invaders
Title: The Invaders
Character: Telegrapher
Released: November 29, 1912
Type: Movie
The U.S. Army and the Indians sign a peace treaty. However, a group of surveyors trespass on the Indians' land and violate the treaty. The army refuses to listen to the Indians' complaints, and the surveyors are killed by the Indians. A vicious Indian war ensues, culminating in an Indian attack on an army fort.
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Custer's Last Fight
Title: Custer's Last Fight
Character: Trooper
Released: October 3, 1912
Type: Movie
Custer's Last Fight chronicles George Armstrong Custer's final battle against the forces of Sitting Bull at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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The Outcast
Title: The Outcast
Character: Indian Brave
Released: June 8, 1912
Type: Movie
The prologue shows the life of a trapper, living in the solitude of the forest. He digs a bear trap, which is covered with boughs and grass. An Indian girl, armed with a bow and arrow, creeps close to a wild turkey, which she brings down. As she runs forward to gather up her prey she falls into the trap. Evans, the trapper, finds her there and on lifting her from the pit, finds that she has sprained her ankle, and takes her to his cabin, and makes her as comfortable as possible. As the shades of evening fall and the pain subsides, the girl drops into a slumber, and loath to awaken her, Evans leaves her in possession of his cabin and, wrapped in a blanket, sleeps outside. In the morning, the girl having recovered sufficiently, he lifts her to his horse, and mounting behind her, proceeds to the Indian camp. On the way he is attacked by a trio of Indians, who fire at him from behind a tree, and the trapper brings down one of his assailants.
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The Lieutenant's Last Fight
Title: The Lieutenant's Last Fight
Character: Big Buffalo
Released: May 31, 1912
Type: Movie
American Indian Buffalo Big falls in love with the daughter of Colonel Sherry.
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The Heart of an Indian
Title: The Heart of an Indian
Character: A Settler / An Indian
Released: March 1, 1912
Type: Movie
When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby. The white mother goes to the Indian camp to look for her child and is captured by the Indians who plan to torture her. The settlers attack the Indian camp, destroying it completely and killing the braves, while the Indian wife returns the baby to the white woman and allows her to escape. The Indian wife mourns her baby at its grave, unaware of the destruction of the Indian camp.
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War on the Plains
Title: War on the Plains
Character: A Frontiersman
Released: February 23, 1912
Type: Movie
The emigrants are seen fighting the hordes of redskins. The hero rides to the settlement for help and engages in a thrilling duel with pursuing Indians. The settlers swoop down on the unprotected Indian village and burn it up. The savages seeing the flames, hurry back and fall into an ambush. They are attacked from the rear by the emigrants and from the front by the settlers. In a wild scene of carnage the surprised Indians are mowed down by the hail of bullets, horses and riders falling in tangled masses.
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The Sergeant
Title: The Sergeant
Character: Indian Scout
Released: September 21, 1910
Type: Movie
In this Western, the sergeant takes his commander’s daughter on a horseback ride along the Merced River (which actually might be Oregon's Clackamas River). When their horses are stolen by a renegade, they are forced to travel back to headquarters by foot and lose the trail. In the first clip, mounted troops search for the lost couple. The two are found the next day and the sergeant is disgraced. However, the sergeant proves his mettle when he escapes during an Indian attack and leads reinforcements to the rescue.