Richard Dix

Richard Dix

Born: July 18, 1893
Died: September 20, 1949
in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Richard Dix was a major leading man at RKO Radio Pictures from 1929 through 1943. He was born Ernest Carlton Brimmer July 18, 1893, in St. Paul, Minnesota. There he was educated, and at the desires of his father, studied to be a surgeon. His obvious acting talent in his school dramatic club led him to leading roles in most of the school plays. At 6' 0" and 180 pounds, Dix excelled in sports, especially football and baseball. These skills would serve him well in the vigorous film roles he would go on to play. After a year at the University of Minnesota he took a position at a bank, spending his evenings training for the stage. His professional start was with a local stock company, and this led to similar work in New York. The death of his father left him with a mother and sister to support. He went to Los Angeles, became leading man for the Morosco Stock Company and his success there got him a contract with Paramount Pictures. His rugged good looks and dark features made him a popular player in westerns. His athletic ability led to his starring role in Paramount's Warming Up (1928), a baseball story and also the studio's first feature with synchronized score and sound effects. His deep voice and commanding presence were perfectly suited for the talkies, and he was signed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1929, scoring an early triumph in the all-talking mystery drama, Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929). In 1931 he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his masterful performance in Cimarron (1931), winner of the Best Picture Oscar that year. Throughout the 1930s Dix would be a big box-office draw at RKO, appearing in mystery thrillers, potboilers, westerns and programmers. He appeared in the "Whistler" series of mystery films at Columbia in the mid-40s. He retired from films in 1947. He first married Winifred Coe on October 20, 1931, had a daughter, Martha Mary Ellen, then divorced in 1933. He then married Virginia Webster on June 29, 1934. They had twin boys, Richard Jr. and Robert Dix and an adopted daughter, Sara Sue. Richard Dix the actor, died at age 56 on September 20, 1949.

Movies for Richard Dix...

The Thirteenth Hour
Title: The Thirteenth Hour
Character: Steve Reynolds
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.
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The Secret of the Whistler
Title: The Secret of the Whistler
Character: Ralph Harrison
Released: November 7, 1946
Type: Movie
A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
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Mysterious Intruder
Title: Mysterious Intruder
Character: Don Gale
Released: April 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
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Voice of the Whistler
Title: Voice of the Whistler
Character: John Sinclair / John Carter
Released: October 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.
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The Power of the Whistler
Title: The Power of the Whistler
Character: William Everest
Released: April 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
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The Mark of the Whistler
Title: The Mark of the Whistler
Character: Lee Selfridge Nugent
Released: October 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
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The Whistler
Title: The Whistler
Character: Earl C. Conrad
Released: March 30, 1944
Type: Movie
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
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The Ghost Ship
Title: The Ghost Ship
Character: Capt. Will Stone
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.
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Top Man
Title: Top Man
Character: Tom Warren
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.
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The Kansan
Title: The Kansan
Character: John Bonniwell
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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Buckskin Frontier
Title: Buckskin Frontier
Character: Stephen Brent
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
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American Empire
Title: American Empire
Character: Dan Taylor
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.
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Eyes of the Underworld
Title: Eyes of the Underworld
Character: Police Chief Richard Bryan
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Title: Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Character: Wyatt Earp
Released: June 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.
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Badlands Of Dakota
Title: Badlands Of Dakota
Character: James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok
Released: September 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford). While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane (Frances Farmer).
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The Roundup
Title: The Roundup
Character: Steve Payson
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty Arbuckle (no relation) in the lead. By the time the film was remade in 1941, Arbuckle's character, a roly-poly frontier sheriff named Slim (!), was refashioned as a supporting role, with Jack Benny's radio announcer Don Wilson essaying the part. The plot, however, remained fairly intact: Upon hearing that her fiance Greg (Preston Foster) has been killed, Janet (Patricia Morison) agrees to marry rancher Steve (Richard Dix) on the rebound. On the day of the wedding, who should show up but Greg, determined to raise as much Hell as humanly possible
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Cherokee Strip
Title: Cherokee Strip
Character: Marshal Dave Lovell
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
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Men Against the Sky
Title: Men Against the Sky
Character: Phil Mercedes
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
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The Marines Fly High
Title: The Marines Fly High
Character: Lt. Danny Darrick
Released: March 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: William Shayne
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: Duke Allen
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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Man of Conquest
Title: Man of Conquest
Character: Sam Houston
Released: May 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
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Twelve Crowded Hours
Title: Twelve Crowded Hours
Character: Nick Green
Released: February 23, 1939
Type: Movie
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
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Sky Giant
Title: Sky Giant
Character: Capt. W.R. 'Stag' Cahill
Released: July 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the military to be his aide at the academy. Complications arise when Stockton's son Kenneth arrives for training and Stockton, believing his son to be a slackard, looks for an excuse to drop him from the program. Rivalry develops between Stag and Ken as well, as they fall for the same girl.
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Blind Alibi
Title: Blind Alibi
Character: Paul Dover
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Tim Bart
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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The Devil Is Driving
Title: The Devil Is Driving
Character: Paul Driscoll
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly melodramatic fashion. In his first true portrayal of a "little creep," Elisha Cook Jr. stars as Tony, the spoiled-rotten son of the wealthy and influential Mr. Stevens.
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Devil's Playground
Title: Devil's Playground
Character: Jack Dorgan
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
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Special Investigator
Title: Special Investigator
Character: Bill Fenwick
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
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Devil's Squadron
Title: Devil's Squadron
Character: Paul Redmond
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
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Yellow Dust
Title: Yellow Dust
Character: Bob Culpepper
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
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The Tunnel
Title: The Tunnel
Character: Richard 'Mack' McAllan
Released: October 27, 1935
Type: Movie
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
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The Arizonian
Title: The Arizonian
Character: Clay Tallant
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
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West of the Pecos
Title: West of the Pecos
Character: Pecos Smith
Released: December 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
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His Greatest Gamble
Title: His Greatest Gamble
Character: Phillip
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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Stingaree
Title: Stingaree
Character: Stingaree
Released: May 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
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Day of Reckoning
Title: Day of Reckoning
Character: John Day
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
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Ace of Aces
Title: Ace of Aces
Character: Rex 'Rocky' Thorne
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and undergoes a complete personality change.
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No Marriage Ties
Title: No Marriage Ties
Character: Bruce Foster
Released: August 11, 1933
Type: Movie
An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.
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The Great Jasper
Title: The Great Jasper
Character: Jasper Horn
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son. Drama.
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The Conquerors
Title: The Conquerors
Character: Roger Standish / Roger Lennox
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
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Hell's Highway
Title: Hell's Highway
Character: Frank 'Duke' Ellis
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.
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Roar of the Dragon
Title: Roar of the Dragon
Character: Carson
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.
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The Lost Squadron
Title: The Lost Squadron
Character: Capt. 'Gibby' Gibson
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: Lewis Dumont
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Character: Pike Winslow
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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Young Donovan's Kid
Title: Young Donovan's Kid
Character: Jim Donovan
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Richard Dix
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Cimarron
Title: Cimarron
Character: Yancey Cravat
Released: January 26, 1931
Type: Movie
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
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Shooting Straight
Title: Shooting Straight
Character: Larry Sheldon / Ted Walters
Released: July 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
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Lovin' the Ladies
Title: Lovin' the Ladies
Character: Peter
Released: April 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
Character: William Magee
Released: December 25, 1929
Type: Movie
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.
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Redskin
Title: Redskin
Character: Wing Foot
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Wing Foot is a Navajo educated in an otherwise all-white school. He experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navajos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin".
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The Wheel of Life
Title: The Wheel of Life
Character: Capt. Leslie Yeullet
Released: June 15, 1929
Type: Movie
British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat does the gentlemanly thing by suppressing his own emotions for the sake of the Regiment. He goes so far as to resign from his commission and returns to India as a civilian.
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A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic
Title: A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 1929
Type: Movie
A simple filmed performance featuring Cantor, done up in his stage minstrel makeup, allegedly at the Ziegfeld Theatre Roof Garden, but actually filmed on a soundstage at the Paramount Astoria studio.
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Nothing But the Truth
Title: Nothing But the Truth
Character: Robert Bennett
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.
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The Love Doctor
Title: The Love Doctor
Character: Dr. Gerald Summer
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her son, Bud Woodbridge, whose malady Sumner diagnoses as "love sickness."
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Moran of the Marines
Title: Moran of the Marines
Character: Michael Moran
Released: October 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Adventures of a marine in China.
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Warming Up
Title: Warming Up
Character: Bert Tulliver
Released: August 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the enmity of McRae, the league's leading home-run hitter. In addition, he falls for the team owner's daughter, who McRae has designs on.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Title: Easy Come, Easy Go
Character: Robert Parker
Released: April 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets slip a few (fortuitously unheard) profanities. Fired from his job, Parker enters into an amusing series of misadventures with veteran bank robber Jim Bailey (Charles Sellon).
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Sporting Goods
Title: Sporting Goods
Character: Richard Shelby
Released: February 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets Alice Elliott, who mistakes Shelby for millionaire sportsman Timothy Stanfield (Claude King). Forced to go through with the masquerade, Shelby ends up spending what little money he has, and then some.
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The Gay Defender
Title: The Gay Defender
Character: Joaquin Murrieta
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt politicians out of Spanish California.
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Shanghai Bound
Title: Shanghai Bound
Character: Jim Bucklin
Released: October 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.
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Man Power
Title: Man Power
Character: Tom Roberts
Released: July 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts' mission is to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be denoted for the purposes of redirecting an anticipated flood.
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Knockout Reilly
Title: Knockout Reilly
Character: Dundee 'Knockout' Reilly
Released: April 16, 1927
Type: Movie
A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!
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Paradise for Two
Title: Paradise for Two
Character: Steve Porter
Released: January 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Steve Porter, a young American bachelor and fully intending to remain as such, inherits a fortune but must get married in order to claim it.
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The Quarterback
Title: The Quarterback
Character: Jack Stone
Released: October 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twenty-seven years later, Elmer is still in school and is a classmate of his son, Jack. Other than driving a milk wagon in his spare time, Jack is also the quarterback of the football team. A matter of his eligibility comes up but he is cleared and goes out to do-or-die for Colton against State University. Maybe they will win The Big Game, and Jack's father can get a life...and a job.
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Say It Again
Title: Say It Again
Character: Bob Howard
Released: May 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Bob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess Elena. When the Armistice is signed, he is quickly shipped back home to America. Returning to Europe, he is mistaken as a Crown Prince traveling to be married to a Princess from another country. The Princess-bride, intended for another man, is his Elena.
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Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: Richard Dix
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
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Let's Get Married
Title: Let's Get Married
Character: Billy Dexter
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout old woman who deals in hymnals. She turns out to be devoutly drunk and a saloon brawler, leading to Billy's imprisonment. He tells his fiancée he's doing missionary work on a pacific island. He escapes and persuades her to marry him, all the while dodging the police who pursue him.
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Womanhandled
Title: Womanhandled
Character: Bill Dana
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
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The Vanishing American
Title: The Vanishing American
Character: Nophaie
Released: October 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A tribe of Navajo live on a reservation overseen by an Indian-hating agent.
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The Lucky Devil
Title: The Lucky Devil
Character: Randy Farnum
Released: July 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner's son, a soul seemingly always in trouble with cops and women. Well, suddenly Dix begins to have the same problem, only he also gets mixed up in the life of Esther Ralston and her Aunt Edna May Oliver. Hilarious misunderstandings and undertakings become the fodder for the day!
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Men and Women
Title: Men and Women
Character: Will Prescott
Released: March 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock market. With his newfound riches, Seabury proceeds to woo Prescott's wife, Agnes (Claire Adams), by buying her luxurious items that her husband can not afford. Seabury makes no secret of his aim, and Prescott desperately steals some of the bank's bonds, hoping to make enough money to keep Agnes by his side.
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The Shock Punch
Title: The Shock Punch
Character: Randall Lee Savage
Released: February 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Dan Savage prepares his son, Randall to fight in the business world by having him trained as a pugilist. Randall shows a flare for fisticuffs, so he is taken to the Ironworkers Ball to try out his infamous "shock punch."
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A Man Must Live
Title: A Man Must Live
Character: Geoffrey Farnell
Released: January 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company. Job Hardcastle, the hardened city editor of the paper, sends Jeff to get a story on "Mops" Collins, a society divorcée who has been reduced to dancing in a cabaret. Jeff takes pity on Mops, who is dying of consumption, and takes her into his apartment, telling Hardcastle that he could not find her. Afraid of losing his job, Jeff hunts for a big story, finding it when he discovers that Clive Ross-Fayne, a friend he thought lost in the war, has been arraigned on charges of narcotics peddling. (Pamela Short)
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Too Many Kisses
Title: Too Many Kisses
Character: Richard Gaylord, Jr.
Released: January 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral. When the son gets to Spain, he runs afoul of the local police chief - who has a secret that he tries to keep the young man from discovering.
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Manhattan
Title: Manhattan
Character: Peter Minuit
Released: October 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A wealthy New Yorker falls in love with a burglar's sister.
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Sinners in Heaven
Title: Sinners in Heaven
Character: Alan Croft
Released: September 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal island when their plane crashes on the way to Australia. The natives worship them, believing them to be gods, until a native girl discovers that the pilot is mortal. Giving up hope of rescue, they marry in the sight of God, but when they are found by a search plane Alan is wounded and left for dead. Barbara is spurned by her friends and family as having sinned, but Alan returns to claim her legally.
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Unguarded Women
Title: Unguarded Women
Character: Douglas Albright
Released: June 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Unguarded Women is a lost 1924 silent film drama. In a battle during the World War, Douglas Albright has a moment of cowardice which causes the death of his friend, Captain Banning. When Albright comes back from the war, his fiancée, Helen Castle and her father, George, can see that something is bothering him. So Castle sends him to take care of business in China -- and to pull himself together. While in China, Albright runs across Bannings' widow, Breta, who has buried her sorrows behind a mask of revelry and fast living. Because he feels responsible for what she has become, Albright attempts to regenerate her and proposes marriage.
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Icebound
Title: Icebound
Character: Ben Jordan
Released: March 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Character: Larry Darrant
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
"The Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering through hard times. She finds romance with Larry Darrant and her life begins to improve. They make plans to wed and leave England, but when a convict assaults Peggy, Larry gets involved and accidentally kills him. The Stranger is arrested for the murder, but he refuses to declare his innocence because he doesn't want to destroy Peggy's happiness.
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The Call of the Canyon
Title: The Call of the Canyon
Character: Glenn Kilbourne
Released: December 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When Flo is badly hurt in an accident, Glenn decides to repay her for her help in bringing him back to health by proposing marriage.
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The Ten Commandments
Title: The Ten Commandments
Character: John McTavish
Released: November 23, 1923
Type: Movie
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.
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To the Last Man
Title: To the Last Man
Character: Jean Isbel
Released: September 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.
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Racing Hearts
Title: Racing Hearts
Character: Robby Smith
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.
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The Woman with Four Faces
Title: The Woman with Four Faces
Character: Richard Templar
Released: June 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The woman with four faces is a movie about a woman who happens to be both a thief and a con artist and who cannot be arrested because she is faceless.
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Frank Claymore
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Quicksands
Title: Quicksands
Character: Lt. Bill
Released: February 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina suspected of being the headquarters of the dope ring.
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The Christian
Title: The Christian
Character: John Storm
Released: January 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory's friend, Polly Love, incites the London populace against John....
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The Sin Flood
Title: The Sin Flood
Character: Bill Bear
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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The Bonded Woman
Title: The Bonded Woman
Character: Lee Marvin
Released: August 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. Her task takes her from San Francisco bondage-servitude to a dance-hall in Honolulu to a remote South Seas island. She survives a shipwreck along the way.
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Fools First
Title: Fools First
Character: Tommy Frazer
Released: May 27, 1922
Type: Movie
Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he gets out of prison, he finds his girl, Ann Whittaker, waiting for him -- and she's got a scheme. She is working in a bank and wants to pull an inside heist.
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Yellow Men and Gold
Title: Yellow Men and Gold
Character: Parrish
Released: May 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Parrish, a young author, leaves his study during a storm to answer a call for help. He discovers a dying man and is rewarded with a treasure map, which he shows to Carroll, a retired sea captain. They plan a quest for the treasure; but before Carroll's ship sails, Parrish is drugged, relieved of the map, and thrown from the dock.
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The Wall Flower
Title: The Wall Flower
Character: Walt Breen
Released: May 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Idalene Nobbin attends a village dance but, due to the constant nagging of her mother, she believes herself to be a constitutional wallflower. By great luck she gets a dance with college football star Roy Duncan, although Roy has eyes for the village belle Prue Nickerson.
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The Glorious Fool
Title: The Glorious Fool
Character: Billy Grant
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.
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The Poverty of Riches
Title: The Poverty of Riches
Character: John Colby
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson, decide to start a family right away. While John works his way up to a position of power at a steel firm, Katherine begins to question the wisdom of their decision.
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Dangerous Curve Ahead
Title: Dangerous Curve Ahead
Character: Harley Jones
Released: October 2, 1921
Type: Movie
Engaged to Harley Jones, fickle Phoebe Mabee flirts with Anson Newton. She and Harley, as a result, break their engagement, but within six months they are reconciled and married. Phoebe becomes a mother, and when Harley is sent abroad by his business firm she and her two children go to a summer resort where she renews her romance with Newton.
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All's Fair in Love
Title: All's Fair in Love
Character: Bobby Cameron
Released: September 1, 1921
Type: Movie
While golfing, Natalie Marshall meets and falls in love with Bobby Cameron, and after a brief courtship they are married. Just as they are about to embark on their honeymoon, Vera, a young vamp with designs on Bobby, presents Natalie with a bracelet and an accompanying note and inscription that arouse the wife's jealousy and cause an immediate break between the couple.
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Not Guilty
Title: Not Guilty
Character: Paul / Arthur Ellison (twins)
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A drama of a fugitive from justice and a fugitive from love.
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One of Many
Title: One of Many
Character: James Lowery - Butler
Released: February 12, 1917
Type: Movie
The home of Mrs. Bryson and her two daughters is happy except for the poverty that prevents the girls from sending their sick mother away to the mountains. Both help to support the household, but it is Shirley who feels the responsibility of her mother's approaching death and her worry is evident to all about her. She is employed in a manicure shop frequented by wealthy men and meets Wilfred Templeton, who invites her to dine with him. He questions her about her dejected air and she tells him of her mother's illness. This is Templeton's opportunity, and he asks her to make a bargain with him. He will give her all the money she needs and in return she is to live with him in an apartment which he will establish for her.