Richard Cummings

Richard Cummings

Born: August 20, 1858
Died: December 25, 1938
in New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Movies for Richard Cummings...

The Social Lion
Title: The Social Lion
Character: McGinnis
Released: June 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
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The Ol' Gray Hoss
Title: The Ol' Gray Hoss
Character: Chief Cummings
Released: October 19, 1928
Type: Movie
This story revolves around an old man who feels alone in the world aside from the gang who keeps him company and his old horse. He runs a horse and buggy business, but he has new competition: an auto taxi. The gang helps him to maintain his job by sabotaging the other man's.
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The Galloping Cowboy
Title: The Galloping Cowboy
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 16, 1926
Type: Movie
Bill Crane is a fun-loving cowboy who likes to play pranks with an Australian bull-whip, much to the dismay of his ranch-owning uncle, Pete Perry. Bill and his cousin, Jack Perry, compete for the affections of Mary Pinkleby. Jack, unknown to Bill, is also an outlaw gang-leader, known as Poncho. The latter frames Bill as being the gang leader, and now Bill has to elude the sheriff and also prove his own innocence.
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Thundergate
Title: Thundergate
Character: Jim Davis
Released: October 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Robert Wells is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother. Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams build bridges in China. Williams is in league with Chinese reactionaries and he discredits Wells by turning him into a drug addict. Wells eventually becomes an outcast and is in a stupor when he is found by his half-brother, Kong Sue, the son of the Lord of Thundergate, a powerful Mandarin reactionary.
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The Great Alone
Title: The Great Alone
Character: MacDonald
Released: May 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Monroe Salisbury plays a man of the Northwoods. This time he's Silent Duval, of mixed-blood origin, who distinguishes himself as a football player at Stanford University. But his Indian blood makes him an outcast and when he is injured, only one white girl is there to comfort him. So he decides to return home where he'll get some respect.
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The Bride's Play
Title: The Bride's Play
Character: John Barrett
Released: January 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which man will she choose?
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Red Courage
Title: Red Courage
Character: Judge Fay
Released: October 10, 1921
Type: Movie
Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is being urged to leave by a gang of thugs led by Joe Reedly. The pair give the editor $100 and get a bill of sale for the newspaper, only to find out later that Reedly holds a mortgage of $200 against it. This they pay off and start a campaign to clean up the town. They meet with considerable opposition until they enlist the services of Judge Fay.
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No Woman Knows
Title: No Woman Knows
Character: Father Ritzpatrick
Released: September 19, 1921
Type: Movie
In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two children, Fanny and Theodore, run a modest dry goods store.
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What Happened to Jones
Title: What Happened to Jones
Character: Green
Released: August 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Heeding the pleas of Bobbie Brown, Jimmie Jones packs his trunk full of liquor to present to his desperate friend and hops on a train. Upon his arrival, Jones discovers that his cargo has been purloined in transit, and while attempting to replenish his supplies by bargaining with the local bootlegger, is detected by the local sheriff.
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The Adorable Savage
Title: The Adorable Savage
Character: Jim Thurston (as Dick Cummings)
Released: August 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Norma Dawn silent tropical island Fiji rubber plantation romantic melodrama starring Edith Roberts, Jack Perrin, Richard Cummings, Noble Johnson, and Dr. Arthur Jervis. This is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Blind Husbands
Title: Blind Husbands
Character: The Village Physician
Released: October 21, 1919
Type: Movie
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: McTavish
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.
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The Delicious Little Devil
Title: The Delicious Little Devil
Character: Uncle Barney
Released: May 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.
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The Little White Savage
Title: The Little White Savage
Character: Mate
Released: February 24, 1919
Type: Movie
A reporter is related the tale of a girl from an isolated colony descended from the English survivors of a shipwreck.
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The Man of Bronze
Title: The Man of Bronze
Character: Mark Lawton
Released: December 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Mary Lawton bids farewell to her father, Mark Lawton, and his business partner, John Adams, to whom she is engaged, leaving Arizona to study art in New York. After a time, John visits Mary unexpectedly and discovers to his sorrow that she has forgotten him in the convivial whirl of her new life.
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Reaching for the Moon
Title: Reaching for the Moon
Character: Old Bingham the Boss
Released: November 16, 1917
Type: Movie
A button factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he is indeed the only heir to the throne of a small European kingdom. However, there are forces at work who don't want him to survive to take the throne.
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A Mormon Maid
Title: A Mormon Maid
Character: Lion of the Lord
Released: April 21, 1917
Type: Movie
This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.
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Her Official Fathers
Title: Her Official Fathers
Character: Anthony White
Released: April 7, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Elmer Clifton, Joseph Henabery, and Dorothy Gish.
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The Bad Boy
Title: The Bad Boy
Character: Mr. Bates
Released: February 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Small town youth Jimmie Bates is a well-intentioned, but troubled youth. Jimmie is a rowdy boy who is always getting into trouble and playing pranks on his friends and neighbors. Although deeply in love with young Mary, he eventually spurns Mary's affection for the more outgoing and worldly young Ruth.
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Daphne and the Pirate
Title: Daphne and the Pirate
Character: Francois La Tour
Released: March 4, 1916
Type: Movie
Philip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing that her family would never approve of their marriage, he takes her and hides her in a brothel, but is soon captured by pirates. Soldiers looking for women to bring with them to a settlement across the ocean in Louisiana raid the brothel and take the girls, including Daphne. Later on the trip to the new world their ship is attacked by pirates--and she discovers that her lover Philip is on board the pirate ship.
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Double Trouble
Title: Double Trouble
Character: Judge Blodgett
Released: December 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Double Trouble is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film written and directed by Christy Cabanne and stars Douglas Fairbanks in his third motion picture. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Herbert Quick. A print of the film is held by the Cohen Media Group.
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Bred in the Bone
Title: Bred in the Bone
Character: Mr. Lake
Released: October 7, 1915
Type: Movie
Harvy, the heavy, and Bella, the ingenue, of a cheap theatrical company are encumbered with an infant girl. The husband, a worthless, dissipated character, annoyed by the presence of the child and the care the wife is compelled to give it. deserts them both. The show then "busts" and the mother and the infant are left stranded in a small California town.
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The Wolf-Man
Title: The Wolf-Man
Character: Benjamin Lord
Released: September 9, 1915
Type: Movie
Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula.
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Out of Bondage
Title: Out of Bondage
Character: John Hildreth - Henry's Father
Released: May 30, 1915
Type: Movie
Jim McRae and his pal, Clancy, two crooks, perform many robberies and divide the loot equally. Clancy wants to marry McRae's daughter, Mary. She does not want to marry him, but is forced to do so by her father. After the marriage, Clancy and McRae have a quarrel over the division of some loot. Clancy refuses to give McRae his share.
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Her Grandparents
Title: Her Grandparents
Character: The Drummer
Released: May 4, 1915
Type: Movie
Dorothy, the girl who presides over the notion counter of the Emporium, the general store in a country town, is the sole support of her aged grandparents, with whom she lives. Her sweetheart, Bob, is the boy-of-all-work in the same store. To the Emporium comes a flashy drummer from the city to sell the merchant a bill of goods.
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How Hazel Got Even
Title: How Hazel Got Even
Released: February 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Hazel, a cashier in a restaurant, is engaged to Patsy, a bus driver. Patsy earns some extra money by going in on preliminary bouts at the Athletic Club pugilistic exhibitions, and gains a local reputation as a boxer. When a big fighter is suddenly taken ill on the eve of a public contest, Patsy substitutes, wins the match, and suddenly finds himself in line for a bout with the champion of the world. On receipt of an offer for a long tour, he gets a swelled head and repudiates Hazel, who is forced to go back to work in the restaurant. She plans to get even with Patsy.
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The Joke on Yellentown
Title: The Joke on Yellentown
Released: December 16, 1914
Type: Movie
The new minister en route to a new western town to preach loses one of his suitcases containing his clerical robes. It is found on the road by Pete and Ike, cowboys of the Bar X Ranch, who decide to play a huge joke on the boys of their town.
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The Saving Grace
Title: The Saving Grace
Released: November 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Molly Kite, the neglected child of a drunken father, rouses the sympathy of the minister, Mr. Shipton, who also teaches the school at Dead Tree. The minister-school-master persuades some of his parishioners to give the girl decent clothes, and he coaxes her into attending school. At first unruly and sullen, she gradually comes to feel that the minister is her best friend. One day she happens to see him meet a strange girl on the street. Apparently overjoyed, he kisses the stranger. Molly rushes into the house, tears off her new clothes, and vows she will never go to school again.
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The Mystery of the Hindu Image
Title: The Mystery of the Hindu Image
Character: The Victim
Released: July 25, 1914
Type: Movie
John Stafford is unjustly arrested on the eve of his marriage for the murder of an old gentleman whose body was found in his guardian's library. The young man is taken to the penitentiary, but eludes his guards and escapes. His sweetheart engages a noted detective who finds a small Hindu image in the hand of the dead man.
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Cigar Butts
Title: Cigar Butts
Released: April 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Short film telling the story of diamond smuggling.