Jack Holt

Jack Holt

Born: May 31, 1888
Died: January 18, 1951
in New York City, New York, USA
Jack Holt (born Charles John Holt, Jr.) was an American film actor. He was a leading man of Silent and sound films and known for his many roles in Westerns.

Movies for Jack Holt...

Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Title: Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Character: Flophouse Bum (archive footage)
Released: September 30, 2003
Type: Movie
An overview of the making of John Huston's 1948 classic "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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Across the Wide Missouri
Title: Across the Wide Missouri
Character: Bear Ghost
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
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King of the Bullwhip
Title: King of the Bullwhip
Character: James Kerrigan
Released: December 20, 1950
Type: Movie
A whip-cracking federal marshal goes under cover as a masked bandit to ferret out a gold-bullion thief.
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Trail of Robin Hood
Title: Trail of Robin Hood
Character: Jack Holt
Released: December 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commercial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course.
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Return of the Frontiersman
Title: Return of the Frontiersman
Character: Sheriff Sam Barrett
Released: June 24, 1950
Type: Movie
A sheriff's son is falsely accused of murder, and a friend determines to clear his name and find the real killer.
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The Daltons' Women
Title: The Daltons' Women
Character: Clint Dalton
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: Movie
The Dalton gang has moved west taking new identities and Marshals Lash and Fuzzy are after them. They receive help from Pinkerton agent Joan Talbot as they try to sort out who the bad guys really are.
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Red Desert
Title: Red Desert
Character: Deacon Smith
Released: December 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a desolate desert region where the agent is forced to utilize his survival skills.
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Task Force
Title: Task Force
Character: Captain Reeves
Released: August 30, 1949
Type: Movie
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and his pals spend the next two decades promoting the superiority of naval air power. But military and political "red tape" continually frustrate their efforts, prompting Scott to even consider leaving the Navy for a more lucrative civilian job. Then the world enters a second World War and Scott finally gets the opportunity to prove to Washington the valuable role aircraft carriers could play in winning the conflict. But what will it cost him and his comrades personally?
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Brimstone
Title: Brimstone
Character: Marshal Walter Greenslide
Released: August 15, 1949
Type: Movie
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
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The Last Bandit
Title: The Last Bandit
Character: Mort Pemberton
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle.
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Loaded Pistols
Title: Loaded Pistols
Character: Dave Randall
Released: December 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.
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The Strawberry Roan
Title: The Strawberry Roan
Character: Walt Bailey
Released: August 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt, tries to shoot the horse but is stopped by his foreman, Gene Autry. The roan escapes and Autry, told to leave the ranch by Walt, finds and trains the horse, now named Champ, in hopes that by returning it to Joe it will provide him with the will to overcome his disability.
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The Gallant Legion
Title: The Gallant Legion
Character: Captain Banner
Released: May 24, 1948
Type: Movie
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
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The Arizona Ranger
Title: The Arizona Ranger
Character: Rawhide Morgan
Released: May 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Title: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Character: Flophouse Bum (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
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The Wild Frontier
Title: The Wild Frontier
Character: Saddles Barton
Released: September 30, 1947
Type: Movie
Outlaws are in control of the land so the town of Clayton City writes the governor for an honest marshal. That marshal is Frank Lane, who brings his son Rocky with him.
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Renegade Girl
Title: Renegade Girl
Character: Major Barker
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A special agent hunts a female outlaw out West.
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The Chase
Title: The Chase
Character: Cmdr. Davidson
Released: November 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
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Flight to Nowhere
Title: Flight to Nowhere
Character: Bob Donovan
Released: September 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
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My Pal Trigger
Title: My Pal Trigger
Character: Brett Scoville
Released: July 10, 1946
Type: Movie
Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, the Sovereign gets shot accidentally by Skoville but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville reveals he was present when the horse was shot, Roy sees an opportunity to clear his name.
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: General Martin
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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Holt of the Secret Service
Title: Holt of the Secret Service
Released: March 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1941 American serial film of the same name, made for export only, never shown in the USA in any medium, and evidently a lost film.
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The Articles of War
Title: The Articles of War
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The Articles of War film short
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Customs of the Service
Title: Customs of the Service
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Customs of the Service documentary short
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Cat People
Title: Cat People
Character: The Commodore
Released: December 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
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Thunder Birds
Title: Thunder Birds
Character: Colonel MacDonald
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
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Northwest Rangers
Title: Northwest Rangers
Character: Duncan Frazier
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
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Holt Of The Secret Service
Title: Holt Of The Secret Service
Character: Jack Holt / Nick Farrell
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service's toughest agent, Jack Holt, and a female reporter go after the gang.
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Polo with the Stars
Title: Polo with the Stars
Character: Self - Polo Player
Released: September 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies. Buddy Rogers buys one of the ponies in training, and later uses him in a match where Jack Holt and Joe E. Brown are among the players. Edward G. Robinson and Jack Oakie are among the spectators who see Joe. E. Brown knock in the winning score.
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The Great Swindle
Title: The Great Swindle
Character: Jack Regan
Released: April 10, 1941
Type: Movie
In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get some good photographs as evidence, but they are stolen from his apartment. He really isn't a great sleuth and winds up accusing everyone but the real culprit of the crime. As a result, he loses his job and must perform the investigation on his own.
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The Great Plane Robbery
Title: The Great Plane Robbery
Character: Mike Henderson
Released: December 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
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Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Title: Fugitive from a Prison Camp
Character: Sheriff Lawson
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.
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Passport to Alcatraz
Title: Passport to Alcatraz
Character: George Hollister
Released: June 6, 1940
Type: Movie
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail takes him to a customs inspector who is known to have honored fake passports provided by Leon Fenten, chief henchman of Drexel Stuyvesant who heads the sabotage ring. Aided by his partner Ray Nolan. Hollister arrests an agent named Reed and takes his place using the fake passport. As Reed, he is met by Karol Roy, an innocent assistant, who takes him to Fenten. Working undercover, Hollister is still unable to learn the name of the head man, not even from dumb gang-member Hank Kircher. Stuyvesant warns Fenten of his suspicions about "Reed" and the latter gives Hollister an assignment as a test.
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Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Title: Outside the Three-Mile Limit
Character: Treasury Agent Conway
Released: March 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a gambling ship, moored off-shore beyond the three-mile limit and operated by gangster Dave Reeves.
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Fugitive at Large
Title: Fugitive at Large
Character: Tom Farrow / George Storm
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow, is an exact-double for Storm.
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Hidden Power
Title: Hidden Power
Character: Dr. Garfield
Released: September 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife, Virginian, and their young son, Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes the son with her. Their paths cross again in a life-or-death situation.
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Trapped in the Sky
Title: Trapped in the Sky
Character: Major
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraft. The plane's inventor wants to sell his invention to other countries but his government will only allow it if the test flights fail. The prototype is sabotaged and crashes on the first test, killing the pilot. The commanding officer shoulders the blame and ends up court-martialed. He then goes to the enemy agents and wins their trust.
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Whispering Enemies
Title: Whispering Enemies
Character: Stephen Brewster
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Meet the man who stayed just inside the law with a brand new racket...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Character: Dr. Meade
Released: December 15, 1938
Type: Movie
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
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Crime Takes a Holiday
Title: Crime Takes a Holiday
Character: Walter Forbes
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A district attorney uses psychology to expose a criminal gang by publicizing the prosecution of an innocent man.
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Reformatory
Title: Reformatory
Character: Robert Dean
Released: June 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
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Flight Into Nowhere
Title: Flight Into Nowhere
Character: Jim Horne
Released: April 19, 1938
Type: Movie
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he ends up running out of gas and crashing. The members of a nearby tribal village save Bill from the wreckage, but arent willing to help him get home.
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Making the Headlines
Title: Making the Headlines
Character: Police Lt. Lewis Nagel
Released: March 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story.
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Under Suspicion
Title: Under Suspicion
Character: Robert Bailey
Released: November 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on their minds.
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Trapped by G-Men
Title: Trapped by G-Men
Character: G-Man Martin Galloway, posing as Bill Donovan
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.
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Outlaws of the Orient
Title: Outlaws of the Orient
Character: Chet Eaton
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls.
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Roaring Timber
Title: Roaring Timber
Character: Jim Sherwood
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
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Trouble in Morocco
Title: Trouble in Morocco
Character: Paul Cluett
Released: March 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns are being smuggled illegally.
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North of Nome
Title: North of Nome
Character: John Raglan
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner of the island, his daughter and her fiancée. The owner threatens to charge Ragland with poaching on private property, and then a gang of seal-skin thieves make an entrance.
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End of the Trail
Title: End of the Trail
Character: Dale Brittenham
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler until he can get back on his feet. Just as he is ready to go straight, his girlfriend's younger brother is shot.
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Crash Donovan
Title: Crash Donovan
Character: 'Crash' Donovan
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Jack Burley
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Dangerous Waters
Title: Dangerous Waters
Character: Jim Marlowe
Released: February 10, 1936
Type: Movie
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
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The Littlest Rebel
Title: The Littlest Rebel
Character: Col. Morrison
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
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Hollywood Hobbies
Title: Hollywood Hobbies
Character: Himself
Released: July 5, 1935
Type: Movie
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big names such as Boris Karloff, Buster Crabbe, and Clark Gable make appearances, enjoying games of golf, field hockey, swimming, and many other fun hobbies.
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The Awakening of Jim Burke
Title: The Awakening of Jim Burke
Character: Jim Burke
Released: May 18, 1935
Type: Movie
After his divorced wife dies, Jim Burke takes their son who she had been raising and he hasn't seen in many years. Jim Burke is a tough, hard-nosed construction boss on engineering projects, and he is looking forward to molding Little Jim into his own image. Jim Burke is more than a little bit dismayed and a whole lot disgusted when Little Jim arrives and it doesn't take Big Jim long to figure out that Little Jim...ain't nothing but a sissy. Little Jim is fond of practicing on his violin and reading and studying. What's a poor father to do?
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Unwelcome Stranger
Title: Unwelcome Stranger
Character: Howard W. Chamberlain
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around. This is bad news when 'Gimpy", an orphan, shows up at Chamberlain's horse-ranch in search of a place to stay. But Howard's soft-hearted wife, Madeline, allows the young boy to stay on and work in the barn with the horses. And "Gimpy" breaks Chamberlain's "orphan-jinx" in a big way.
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Storm Over the Andes
Title: Storm Over the Andes
Character: Bob Kent
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: Nick Roberts
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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I'll Fix It
Title: I'll Fix It
Character: Bill Grimes
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Matthew Mitchell
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Black Moon
Title: Black Moon
Character: Stephen Lane
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
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Whirlpool
Title: Whirlpool
Character: Buck Rankin
Released: April 10, 1934
Type: Movie
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
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Master of Men
Title: Master of Men
Character: Buck Garrett
Released: November 28, 1933
Type: Movie
One of ten films that Fay Wray made in 1993 (including King Kong), Master of Men casts her as Kay Walling, a woman who is being ignored by her husband, Buck (played by Jack Holt). Buck owns a prosperous steel mill and they make a very good living, but he is ambitious and wants more. To this end, he is devoting considerable amounts of time to expanding his finances -- and doing quite well. Not satisfied with his success, he journeys to New York, where his wrangling further increases his bank account. Unfortunately, his stock with his wife is dropping steadily. Jealous and unhappy, she fights back by giving one of Buck's business rivals details about what he is up to.
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The Wrecker
Title: The Wrecker
Character: Chuck Regan
Released: July 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.
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The Woman I Stole
Title: The Woman I Stole
Character: Jim Bradler
Released: June 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.
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When Strangers Marry
Title: When Strangers Marry
Character: Steve Rand
Released: May 25, 1933
Type: Movie
In this action-drama, a railroad worker plys his trade at the straits of Malay. He begins a steamy affair with a spoiled rich girl. His romantic rival tries to break them and keep the railroad from being completed.
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Man Against Woman
Title: Man Against Woman
Character: Johnny McCloud
Released: November 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is much taken with a good-looking crook named George Perry. This does not bother McCloud, as he not only gets his man behind bars but takes the man's woman also.
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This Sporting Age
Title: This Sporting Age
Character: Capt. John Steele
Released: September 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.
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War Correspondent
Title: War Correspondent
Character: Jim Kenyon
Released: July 25, 1932
Type: Movie
In this war drama, a brave reporter tries to remain detached while covering the war in Shanghai. While there, he falls for an ex-streetwalker, but must compete with a mercenary pilot for her love. By the end, the correspondent loses his objectivity after he helps the pilot save the woman from the enemy. The rescue costs the pilot his life.
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Hollywood Speaks
Title: Hollywood Speaks
Character: Jack Holt
Released: June 25, 1932
Type: Movie
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.
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Behind the Mask
Title: Behind the Mask
Character: Jack Hart aka Quinn
Released: February 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.
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A Dangerous Affair
Title: A Dangerous Affair
Character: Lt. McHenry
Released: September 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.
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Fifty Fathoms Deep
Title: Fifty Fathoms Deep
Character: Tim Burke
Released: August 20, 1931
Type: Movie
In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older diver, and his younger protege. They become enemies when a gold-digger marries the latter. She soon leaves him in favor of a wealthy yachtsman. She is aboard his boat when an accident occurs. The two divers must salvage the costly boat before it sinks.
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Maker of Men
Title: Maker of Men
Character: Dudley
Released: August 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Character: Self
Released: June 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.
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White Shoulders
Title: White Shoulders
Character: Gordon Kent
Released: May 17, 1931
Type: Movie
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her with jewels and furs. When not attending to her every need, the business magnate works his mines so he can buy her some more. While he is gone, a gigolo makes advances upon her.
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Subway Express
Title: Subway Express
Character: Inspector Killian
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
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Dirigible
Title: Dirigible
Character: Jack Bradon
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Dirigible commander Jack Braden and Navy pilot 'Frisky' Pierce fight over the glory associated with a successful expedition to the South Pole and the love of beautiful Helen, Frisky's wife. After Braden's dirigible expedition fails, Frisky tries an expedition by plane. Unfortunately he crashes and strands his party at the South Pole. Braden must decide between a risky rescue attempt by dirigible and remaining safely at home with Helen.
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The Last Parade
Title: The Last Parade
Character: Cookie Leonard
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a racketeer.
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The Squealer
Title: The Squealer
Character: Charles Hart
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
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Hell's Island
Title: Hell's Island
Character: Mac
Released: July 16, 1930
Type: Movie
In this adventure, trouble ensues when two American French Legionnaires fall for the same girl and begin fighting over her when one of them announces that he plans to marry her. The argument is quite heated and in the ensuing scuffle one of them is shot and wounded.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Jack Kells
Released: June 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.
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Vengeance
Title: Vengeance
Character: John Meadham
Released: February 22, 1930
Type: Movie
John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a replacement to take over. The company sends a stiff upper-lipper, Charles Summers, accompanied by his wife, Margaret. An antagonism develops between the two men from the moment Summers arrives.
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Flight
Title: Flight
Character: Panama Williams
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Nicaragua. This early talkie from director Frank Capra, released in 1929, stars Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Lila Lee.
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Father and Son
Title: Father and Son
Character: Frank Fields
Released: May 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A phonograph recorder provides incriminating evidence in this mystery that centers upon a widower and his 10-year old child who receives it as a birthday present.
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The Donovan Affair
Title: The Donovan Affair
Character: Inspector Killian
Released: April 11, 1929
Type: Movie
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
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Sunset Pass
Title: Sunset Pass
Character: Jack Rock
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
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Avalanche
Title: Avalanche
Character: Jack Dunton
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.
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Submarine
Title: Submarine
Character: Jack Dorgan
Released: August 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.
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The Water Hole
Title: The Water Hole
Character: Philip Randolph
Released: August 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Judith Endicott, the daughter of a wealthy eastern banker, vamps Philip Randolph, an Arizonan, when he comes east to talk business with her father. Philip proposes and discovers that Judith has only been kidding him along. He returns angrily to Arizona, and the elder Endicott, accompanied by his daughter, follows him west. With her father's permission, Richard "kidnaps" Judith and takes her to a deserted Indian cliff dwelling, where she must cook and care for him. Bert Durland, Judith's fiancé, follows after her, and his Indian guide steals all of the horses. Judith and Bert and Philip start back to civilization across the desert, and Bert goes berserk from the heat. They are rescued by cowboys, and Judith returns east, "kidnaping" Philip and taking him with her.
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Court-Martial
Title: Court-Martial
Character: James Camden
Released: August 12, 1928
Type: Movie
During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri guerrilla band, dead or alive. However, he falls in love with her, does not bring her in, and is facing a court-martial.
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The Vanishing Pioneer
Title: The Vanishing Pioneer
Character: Anthony Ballard / John Ballard
Released: June 23, 1928
Type: Movie
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople.
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The Smart Set
Title: The Smart Set
Character: Nelson
Released: March 24, 1928
Type: Movie
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
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The Warning
Title: The Warning
Character: Tom Fellows / Col. Robert Wellsley
Released: November 26, 1927
Type: Movie
This story of the British Silent Service operating on the coast of China finds Tom Fellows, captain of an opium-smuggling ship, going into a notorious Chinese joint called "The House of a Thousand Delights," where he finds a beautiful girl, Mary Blake, bound and captive. He starts a brawl, rescues Mary in the mêlée that follows, and then loses her when she flees to a hotel. He follows her and finds she is mixed up in some mysterious activity. However, he knows more about her than she does him (because he isn't what he is supposed to be - and she isn't, either), he stays close by, even to the point of using a machine-gun to dispel a mob at a Chinese temple.
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The Tigress
Title: The Tigress
Character: Winston Graham, Earl of Eddington
Released: October 21, 1927
Type: Movie
In Spain, a band of gypsies poach the deer in a neighboring estate. The gypsy chief, Tser (Harold Truesdale), is murdered in cold blood, and the estate owner Winston Graham (Jack Holt) is blamed. The chief's daughter Mona (Dorothy Revier) is an expert knife-thrower and sets out to avenge her father.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Bent Wade
Released: March 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon).
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Man of the Forest
Title: Man of the Forest
Character: Milt Dale
Released: December 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland) and his gang are determined to kidnap her before she reaches him.
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Forlorn River
Title: Forlorn River
Character: Nevada
Released: September 27, 1926
Type: Movie
A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on the desert by his companion, Bill Hall. He is rescued by a young rancher, Ben Ide, who is in love with Ina Blaine, daughter of a neighboring rancher. While "Nevada" is recovering, he and Ina fall in love but, through his loyalty to Ben, he sends her away. Going home, Ina falls into the clutches of Bill Hall, now heading a gang of rustlers, but the real leader is Les Setter who is posing as an honest rancher, and he has designs on Ina himself.
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Born to the West
Title: Born to the West
Character: 'Colorado' Dare Rudd
Released: June 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Dare Rudd and Bate Fillmore have been enemies since early childhood, primarily over the affections of Nell Worstall. Dare, assuming the name of Holt, goes west to Colorado, as does most of his Kentucky friends and enemies. The feud between Dare and Bate is renewed, and Dare learns that Nell's father is in jail on a trumped-up charge made by Bate in order to force Nell to marry him.
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The Blind Goddess
Title: The Blind Goddess
Character: Hugh Dillon
Released: April 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife walked out on him 20 years before and his daughter, Moira, believes she is dead. Moira falls in love with Hugh Dillon, a handsome young attorney, and Devens gets him a job in the district attorney's office. One night, Devens' wife, now an old, decrepit woman known as Aileen Clayton, returns to ask forgiveness.
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North of 36
Title: North of 36
Character: Don McMasters
Released: March 20, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas, 1000 miles away. The crooked State Treasurer plans to attack the cattle drive and steal all of the stock so he can gain control of her ranch.
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Sea Horses
Title: Sea Horses
Character: George Glanville
Released: February 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Sea Horses is a 1926 American drama silent film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Becky Gardiner, James Shelley Hamilton and Francis Brett Young. The film stars Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, William Powell, George Bancroft, Mack Swain, Frank Campeau and Allan Simpson. The film was released on February 22, 1926, by Paramount Pictures. It is considered a lost film.
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The Enchanted Hill
Title: The Enchanted Hill
Character: Lee Purdy
Released: January 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on a Peter B. Kyne novel, The Enchanted Hill featureds a triangle romance between Jack Holt, rancher's daughter Mary Brian and jealous foreman Richard Arlen.
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The Ancient Highway
Title: The Ancient Highway
Character: Cliff Brant
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
When not cutting down trees and shouting "TIMMMM-BERRRRR!", Jack Holt has to deal with someone who's sabotaging the camp. The miscreant turns out to be the odious Montagu Love, whom Holt dispenses with in a climactic fisticuffs session. Billie Dove provides the toothsome romantic interest.
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Wild Horse Mesa
Title: Wild Horse Mesa
Character: Chane Weymer
Released: September 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.
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The Light of Western Stars
Title: The Light of Western Stars
Character: Gene Stewart
Released: June 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and Noah Beery Sr., who starred together in Wanderers of the Wasteland, appear together again. Madeline Hammond, the sister of ranchman Al Hammond, arrives from the East. Gene Stewart, a rough and rowdy cowboy, convinces Madeline to marry him while he is on a drunken spree. Madeline sets out to reform him, and he sets out to rid their little section of the West of a band of outlaws.
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Eve's Secret
Title: Eve's Secret
Character: Duke of Poltava
Released: May 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who's been "transformed," Pygmalion style, by European duke Poltava.
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The Thundering Herd
Title: The Thundering Herd
Character: Tom Doan
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
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Empty Hands
Title: Empty Hands
Character: Grimshaw
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Claire Endicott throws a wild party and her father walks in to find her flirting with the very married Milt Bisnet. In an attempt to straighten her out, Endicott sends Claire to the Canadian northwoods, where his field engineer, Grimshaw, is working. While fishing, Claire is swept over the rapids and Grimshaw tries to rescue her. Both of them wind up in a remote gorge, and Grimshaw goes about building a hut as a shelter.
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
Title: Wanderer of the Wasteland
Character: Adam Larey
Released: August 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 American color silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Jack Holt, Noah Beery, and Billie Dove.
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The Lone Wolf
Title: The Lone Wolf
Character: Michael Lanyard
Released: April 27, 1924
Type: Movie
A silent film Directed by Stanner E.V. Taylor.
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Don't Call It Love
Title: Don't Call It Love
Character: Richard Parrish
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Don't Call It Love (1923)
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The Marriage Maker
Title: The Marriage Maker
Character: Lord Stonbury
Released: September 30, 1923
Type: Movie
A matchmaker sets out to have a rich woman marry the not-so-rich boy she loves, and tries to persuade a poverty-stricken nobleman to marry the commoner he loves.
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Dudley Drake
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexual favors in return.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Jack Holt
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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A Gentleman of Leisure
Title: A Gentleman of Leisure
Character: Robert Pitt
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has just returned home to the States from London. While at a restaurant, he notices pretty Molly Creedon (Sigrid Holmquist). He sees that she has a photograph inscribed "with love" and as a joke, he makes a bet with his pals that he will obtain an autographed picture from the girl within 24 hours. But getting the photo is harder than it seemed at first, and he finally asks a burglar to help him out by stealing it.
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The Tiger's Claw
Title: The Tiger's Claw
Character: Sam Sandell
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a fiancée, Harriet Halehurst (Eva Novak), back home.
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Nobody's Money
Title: Nobody's Money
Character: John Webster
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person when the book is a huge success. Ailing literary agent Jack Holt takes the job while his safe cracking friend tags along for the ride. Jack falls in love with the Governor's daughter just as the Governor is about to be blackmailed by the evil Drisco, who has planted $20,000 in the Governor's safe. -Written by PetersMoviePosters, from IMDB.com
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Making a Man
Title: Making a Man
Character: Horace Winsby
Released: December 17, 1922
Type: Movie
Jack Holt, as Horace Winsby, the lead character. Winsby is a millionaire beet sugar king who owns nearly all of California's San Geronimo Valley -- and he has mortgages on what's left over. But he's also a condescending snob who has no mercy for his debtors and that wins him no friends. He even patronizes Patricia Owens, the girl he loves (Eva Novak), and she turns down his marriage proposal.
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On the High Seas
Title: On the High Seas
Character: Jim Dorn
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
Three castaways all from differing levels of society reach and board a deserted schooner in mid-ocean.
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A Trip to Paramountown
Title: A Trip to Paramountown
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
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The Man Unconquerable
Title: The Man Unconquerable
Character: Robert Kendall
Released: July 2, 1922
Type: Movie
A conservative young man inherits his uncle's pearl fishery concession in the South Pacific. Upon his arrival there, he becomes involved with a woman and a mystery.
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While Satan Sleeps
Title: While Satan Sleeps
Character: Phil
Released: June 25, 1922
Type: Movie
With the help of Red Barton (Wade Boteler), Phil (Jack Holt) makes a spectacular escape from jail. He obtains a parson's outfit from a pawnshop and shortly thereafter winds up in a barroom brawl. One of the other brawlers is Chuckwalla Bill (J.P. Lockney), the newly elected mayor of the town of Panamint.
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North of the Rio Grande
Title: North of the Rio Grande
Character: Bob Haddington
Released: May 14, 1922
Type: Movie
Son of Colonel Haddington, Bob leads a posse against raiders in a settlement. During his absence, one of the prize horses is stolen and his father is killed. Bob swears revenge and becomes known as Velantrie, leader of a band of semi-outlaws, and befriends a priest, Father Hillaire. At a mission, he meets Val, daughter of John Hannon, a wealthy ranch-owner.
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Bought and Paid For
Title: Bought and Paid For
Character: Robert Stafford
Released: April 16, 1922
Type: Movie
Jimmy Gilley is engaged to Fanny Blaine. Jimmy would like to live in a more luxurious style, so he and Fanny urge her sister Virginia to marry the wealthy Robert Stafford despite her lack of love for him. She does so and the couple is happy for a time. But Robert begins drinking and eventually mistreats Virginia until she is forced to leave him.
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The Call of the North
Title: The Call of the North
Character: Ned Trent
Released: November 27, 1921
Type: Movie
Galen Albret (Noah Beery) is the factor, or manager, of an important trading post of the Hudson Bay Company. He's also a jealous and vindictive man, and because he believes that Graham Stewart (Edward Martindel) has slept with his wife, he sends him into the Northwoods to die. Stewart's son, who grows up with the name Ned Trent (Jack Holt), swears revenge.
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The Grim Comedian
Title: The Grim Comedian
Character: Harvey Martin
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her daughter, Dorothy (Gloria Hope) sequestered in a convent far, far away from her fast lifestyle. But when Dorothy leaves the convent to come live with her mother, Marie decides to reform. She gives up her fancy apartment and her latest lover, Harvey Martin (Jack Holt), to concentrate on her daughter and her career, in that order. But Martin has fallen for Dorothy, and Dorothy cares for him too, even though she is already promised to a young artist, Geoffrey Hutchins (John Harron).
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After the Show
Title: After the Show
Character: Larry Taylor
Released: October 30, 1921
Type: Movie
After the Show was adapted from Rita Weiman's story "The Stage Door." Lila Lee plays Eileen, a starry-eyed young girl employed as a chorus dancer in New York. Eileen can never be certain if the men in her life are sincere, or if they perceive her as mere temporary plaything. Among the "stage door johnnies," "tired businessmen" and "sugar daddies" surrounding Eileen are Jack Holt and Carlton S. King.
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The Mask
Title: The Mask
Character: Kenneth Traynor / Handsome Jack
Released: June 17, 1921
Type: Movie
The Mask 1921 film
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The Lost Romance
Title: The Lost Romance
Character: Mark Sheridan
Released: May 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
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All Souls' Eve
Title: All Souls' Eve
Character: Roger Heath
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
The wife of sculptor Roger Heath is killed by a maniac because of Roger's madly jealous admirer Olivia Larkin. To care for his home and son Peter, Roger hires Irish immigrant Nora O'Hallahan as a nursemaid whom he realizes is possessed by the soul of his departed wife.
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Ducks and Drakes
Title: Ducks and Drakes
Character: Rob Winslow
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A spoiled rich young woman overspends from her parents' savings and ruthlessly vamps on young men that she calls up randomly on the telephone. When her fiancée and his friends get word of this, they hatch a plan to teach her a valuable lesson.
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Midsummer Madness
Title: Midsummer Madness
Character: Bob Meredith
Released: January 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. One night, while Meredith is at the office, family friend Julian Osborn (Conrad Nagel) -- whose own spouse (Lila Lee) is out of town -takes Margaret to a dance. They wind up at a hunting lodge and begin to get carried away, but stop before things get out of hand. The pair agree to keep their encounter a secret, but unfortunately, they've been seen and word gets back to their spouses.
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The Sins of Rosanne
Title: The Sins of Rosanne
Character: Sir Dennis Harlenden
Released: November 7, 1920
Type: Movie
Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse, Rachel Bangat (Fontaine La Rue) promised to cure her. That she did, but she also worked some voodoo on the child, who, as a grown up now displays a powerful desire for diamonds and the ability to throw evil curses on those who displease her.
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Held by the Enemy
Title: Held by the Enemy
Character: Col. Charles Prescott
Released: October 24, 1920
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.
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Crooked Streets
Title: Crooked Streets
Character: Rupert O'Dare
Released: August 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Gail Ellis, a secretary, accompanies Professor Silas Griswold and his wife to China on an expedition to acquire antique vases. Curiosity draws her to the Shanghai slums where, unknown to Gail, her driver is participating in a scheme to abduct her. Gail escapes, but in the process is accosted by drunken sailors. Luckily, Rupert O'Dare, a young Englishman, is nearby and rescues Gail. He escorts her back to the hotel where he discloses his identity as a British secret service agent and proceeds to arrest the Griswolds for smuggling opium in antique vases. Gail then reveals herself as a member of the United States Secret Service and the two agents fall in love.
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The Best of Luck
Title: The Best of Luck
Character: Kenneth, Lord Glenayr
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Leslie MacLeod (Kathryn Adams) comes to England from the U.S. so that she can settle financial affairs with Lord Glenayr (Jack Holt), whom she has never met. She encounters Duke Lanzana (Fred Malatesta), who sees her as a way to pay off his mounting debts. He captures her and then heads to a nearby cape to steal a buried treasure that actually should belong to the MacLeods.
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Victory
Title: Victory
Character: Axel Heyst
Released: December 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
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Kitty Kelly, M.D.
Title: Kitty Kelly, M.D.
Character: Bob Lang
Released: October 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Kitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up business in a Western mining camp. Because she is pretty, all the miners come up with various ailments just so they have a chance to spend time with her. The one that wins her heart is ranch foreman Bob Lang (Jack Holt), but a wrench is thrown into the romance when Kitty comes to the conclusion that he drinks too much.
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The Life Line
Title: The Life Line
Character: Jack Hearne, the Romany Rye
Released: October 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Jack Hearne, known as the Romany Rye, prefers living with the gypsies rather than claiming the right to his part of his half brother Phillip Royston's country estate, Cragsnest. When he saves Ruth Heckett, the daughter of his friend Joe, a London bird shop owner and burglar, from a theater fire, however, he changes his mind and marries her. As Ruth and Jack board a steamer for America to find witnesses to his parents' wedding for proof of his inheritance, Joe's partner Bos gives Ruth a Bible that he stole from Cragsnest, as a present.
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The Woman Michael Married
Title: The Woman Michael Married
Character: Michael Ordsway
Released: July 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Mira Sacky (Bessie Barriscale) will inherit a fortune if she is able to come up with ten thousand dollars for lawyers' fees. Since she has no money of her own, the only way she can think of raising the funds is to marry someone wealthy. When she gets the attention of Michael Ordsay (Jack Holt), she quickly asks him to marry her. It seems to be a mismatch, so Mira obtains the needed money from his kindly father (Tom Guise), and heads for Rome, where she undergoes voice training and becomes an operatic star.
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A Sporting Chance
Title: A Sporting Chance
Character: Paul Sayre
Released: July 13, 1919
Type: Movie
A young lady takes on a convict as her chauffeur, believing him to be a burglar. In reality, however, he is an innocent broker.
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The Woman Thou Gavest Me
Title: The Woman Thou Gavest Me
Character: Lord Raa
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (Jack Holt) in order to satisfy an old grudge. But Mary wants nothing to do with the dissolute Lord and tells him so on their wedding night. So he takes his mistress, Alma Lier (Fritzi Brunette), to India and passes her off as Lady Raa, while Mary disappears to a French village, where she spends time with the man she loved all along, explorer Martin Conrad (Milton Sills).
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For Better, for Worse
Title: For Better, for Worse
Character: Crusader
Released: April 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
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A Midnight Romance
Title: A Midnight Romance
Character: Roger Sloan
Released: March 10, 1919
Type: Movie
Marie, a hotel maid, falls in love with millionaire's son Roger, but Roger cannot marry her because of her inferior station and his unwillingness to make his family unhappy thereby. They separate. When next they meet, Roger discovers that Marie is actually a princess. Now their renewed romance cannot continue because Roger is a mere commoner. But the Bolshevik revolution provides complication and at last resolution to their dilemma.
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Cheating Cheaters
Title: Cheating Cheaters
Character: Tom Palmer
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other.
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Cash Hawkins
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
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The Road Through the Dark
Title: The Road Through the Dark
Character: Duke Karl
Released: November 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent away from Paris to a small village, where her aunt lives with her sister and brother. The war comes and the Germans enter the town. She becomes the mistress of a German Kommandant.
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Green Eyes
Title: Green Eyes
Character: Pearson Hunter
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her down to his home. There, she finds an acquaintance, Alexander Chapman (Robert McKim), and the fact that she knows him rouses her new husband's jealousy. This is fanned even further when Pearson's younger brother, Morgan (Emory Johnson) returns from college. His fiancee, Margery (Doris Lee), believes there is something going on between Shirley and Morgan and complains to Pearson.
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The Marriage Ring
Title: The Marriage Ring
Character: Rodney Heathe
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brute. When the two struggle over a gun, Hugo is shot. Anne, thinking he is dead, flees to Hawaii, where she falls in love with Rodney Heathe (Jack Holt), who owns a sugar plantation.
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A Desert Wooing
Title: A Desert Wooing
Character: Barton Masters
Released: June 23, 1918
Type: Movie
When wealthy cattleman Bart Masters (Jack Holt) comes East, he falls in love with social butterfly Avice Bereton (Enid Bennett). She marries Bart for his money, all the while promising to continue her romance with society doctor Van Fleet (Donald MacDonald). Bart knows what's going on behind his back, but he insists that Avice return with him to his ranch and at least make an effort to be a dutiful wife.
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The Claw
Title: The Claw
Character: Maurice Stair
Released: June 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Clara Kimball Young stars as Mary Saurin, a British gentlewoman who journeys to South Africa to visit her district-commissioner brother Dick (Henry Woodward). Upon arriving, she is introduced to Major Anthony "Kim" Kinsella (Milton Sills), the most important and influential Army officer in the region. Falling in love with Kinsella, Mary agrees to marry him, but he is apparently killed in a native uprising.
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The White Man's Law
Title: The White Man's Law
Character: Sir Harry Falkland
Released: May 6, 1918
Type: Movie
Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab chieftain. Entering into a business partnership with Sir Harry Falkland (Jack Holt), a notorious roue, Ghengle relocates to Sierra Leone, where he falls in love with French-Sudanese girl Maida Verne (Florence Vidor.) Upon proposing marriage, Ghengle is turned down and hotly demands to know why.
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The Honor of His House
Title: The Honor of His House
Character: Robert Farlow
Released: April 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Marooned on a desert island, Dr. Robert Farlow and wealthy toxicologist Count Ito Onato both fall in love with Lora, a beautiful Japanese-American girl. Lora prefers Robert but decides to reject him because of his excessive fondness for drinking. After their rescue, Lora marries Count Ito, but Robert, still in love and resolving to win her, stops drinking, and soon attains a reputation in medicine matched only by the count's.
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Love Me
Title: Love Me
Character: Gordon Appleby
Released: March 18, 1918
Type: Movie
In a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and proposes. The two marry and return to Philadelphia, where they are coldly received by Gordon's snobbish family. Gordon's elder brother Mortimer's highbrow sensibilities are particularly offended by Maida's breezy manner, and he determines to break up the marriage.
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One More American
Title: One More American
Character: Sam Potts
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New York political boss Regan (H.B. Carpenter). Fed up with Riccardo's interference in his graft-grabbing, Regan pulls a few strings and arranges for Riccardo and his family to be shipped back to Europe. But our hero's cause is championed by muckraking newspaper reporter Bump Rundle (Raymond Hatton), who takes on and exposes the Regan political machine.
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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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Hidden Pearls
Title: Hidden Pearls
Character: Robert Garvin
Released: February 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in love with Enid Benton (Florence Vidor).
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The Secret Game
Title: The Secret Game
Character: Maj. John Northfield
Released: December 3, 1917
Type: Movie
In the office of Major Northfield, the quartermaster of the Pacific Coast, a leak has been discovered which may endanger the safety of American transports that are secretly carrying troops across the Pacific. Nara-Nara, a Japanese detective, is assigned to the case because his country has guaranteed safety to these transport ships. Nara-Nara believes that Northfield is guilty, although in reality it is Northfield's secretary Kitty Little, a girl of German ancestry, who is passing information to Dr. Ebell Smith, a German agent. Nara-Nara falls in love with Kitty, but soon after discovers that she is the leak in the quartermaster's office.
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The Call of the East
Title: The Call of the East
Character: Alan Hepburn
Released: October 15, 1917
Type: Movie
While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing a Japanese kimono. There she meets the wealthy Arai Takada, who is taken by the mysterious woman. Alan has dishonored and betrayed O'Mitsu, and her brother Arai plans a terrible revenge.
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The Little American
Title: The Little American
Character: Karl von Austreim
Released: July 12, 1917
Type: Movie
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
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Giving Becky a Chance
Title: Giving Becky a Chance
Character: Tom Fielding
Released: June 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Since she is an only child, Becky Knight (Vivian Martin) is a bit spoiled by her parents (P.H. Sosso and Alice Knowland), who run a general store. They somehow manage to save up enough money to send Becky away to boarding school. The other girls come from very wealthy families and Becky allows them to believe that she comes from a rich family, too. One of her classmates invites her to her home, where she meets Tom Fielding (Jack Holt), a young doctor. He falls in love with Becky, and she never gets the opportunity to tell him the truth about her background.
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The Inner Shrine
Title: The Inner Shrine
Character: Viscount D'Arcourt
Released: June 14, 1917
Type: Movie
Bad woman turns good, but as a recent widow finds her past a roadblock in terms of accepting remarriage.
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The Cost of Hatred
Title: The Cost of Hatred
Character: Huertez
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he returns home from a business trip, he finds his wife Elsie (Kathlyn Williams) in the arms of another man (J.W. Johnston). Graves shoots and wounds the man, then hides with his little daughter in Mexico.
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The Sacrifice
Title: The Sacrifice
Character: Paul Ekald
Released: March 3, 1917
Type: Movie
Stephen Stephani leaves Nordhoff with his daughter Mary to visit Zandria, an enemy country, where he tries to steal the war plans of the hostile nation. There, Mary meets Paul Ekald, a Zandrian captain, falling in love with him at first sight. While Mary remains in Zandria for the moment, Stephani returns to Nordhoff. Meanwhile, Vesta, Mary's illegitimate half-sister, has managed to get hold of important war plans stolen from Count Wenzel. But, to get them, she had to kill the count.
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Patria
Title: Patria
Released: January 14, 1917
Type: Movie
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S. Secret Service agent Donald Parr.
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Joan the Woman
Title: Joan the Woman
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
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Mister Vampire
Title: Mister Vampire
Character: Mr. Brooks
Released: December 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Edna's husband is unfaithful to her and has been accustomed to going out with the other woman. She is about to become a mother and broods over her loneliness. She finds a woman's card in her husband's pocket and becomes suspicious. She watches his office, sees a woman enter, and follows her in. The husband is caught in a compromising position with the woman
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The Better Man
Title: The Better Man
Character: Joe Cullison
Released: October 28, 1916
Type: Movie
The Better Man
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The Black Sheep of the Family
Title: The Black Sheep of the Family
Character: Kenneth Carmont
Released: October 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Although Kenneth Carmont and Esther Saunders, criminal Bert Saunders' sister, love each other, Esther marries detective Elwood Collins, who agrees to stop pursuing Bert if she accepts his proposal. One night, Kenneth and Esther hide Bert, who has escaped from the police. The same night, Kenneth's father is murdered. The evidence implicates Kenneth, who cannot supply his whereabouts at the time of the crime, as that would give away Bert. Esther cannot clear Kenneth for the same reason, and because it would let her husband know that she was with her former sweetheart.
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The Chalice of Sorrow
Title: The Chalice of Sorrow
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Isabel Clifford sits to be painted. Her artist is Marion Leslie, a man distracted by matters of the flesh. Not Isabel’s flesh but Lorelei’s, the same Lorelei who wows the corrupt police chief, Sarpina, with her virtuoso vocal performances. She is Mexico’s most celebrated opera diva, Marion’s fiancé, and Sarpina’s passion, yet she boils with petty suspicion over Marion’s friendship with Isabel.
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Saving the Family Name
Title: Saving the Family Name
Character: Jansen Winthrop
Released: September 11, 1916
Type: Movie
A chorus girl gains infamy after the suicide of her beau.
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The Princely Bandit
Title: The Princely Bandit
Character: Count Michael
Released: September 9, 1916
Type: Movie
The Princely Bandit
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Brennon o' the Moor
Title: Brennon o' the Moor
Character: The Mayor's Son
Released: August 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Brennon o' the Moor
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Liberty
Title: Liberty
Character: Captain Bob Rutledge
Released: August 20, 1916
Type: Movie
A 20 part 2-reel Western film serial.
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The Phone Message
Title: The Phone Message
Character: Laurelton
Released: July 21, 1916
Type: Movie
The Phone Message
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Mutiny
Title: Mutiny
Character: Warren Gilcrest
Released: June 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Captain Gant is a hard man. The closest he had ever come to having a friend was in the person of his mate, Warren Gillcrest. The captain was hated by his men.
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The False Part
Title: The False Part
Character: J. Kenneth Simpson
Released: June 20, 1916
Type: Movie
The False Part
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The Wire Pullers
Title: The Wire Pullers
Character: Mr. Page
Released: June 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The Wire Pullers
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Naked Hearts
Title: Naked Hearts
Character: Howard
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Maud's domineering brother, disapproves of a marriage between them. Instead, he has chosen English nobleman Lord Lovelace as the ideal fiancé for Maud. On the night that the engagement is to be announced, however, she elopes with Cecil. The runaways are caught, though, after which, because of her loyalty to her brother, Maud sends Cecil away. When the Civil War begins, Howard, Lovelace and Cecil all volunteer, and are all soon reported killed in action. Heartbroken, Maud decides to become a nun, and takes her vows just moments before Cecil, whose death was mistakenly reported, returns from the battlefield and comes to the convent to ask her to marry him.
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The Unexpected
Title: The Unexpected
Character: Betty's Sweetheart
Released: April 26, 1916
Type: Movie
Betty starts out for a walk and is warned by her sweetheart and his friends to be careful as there are likely to be bandits about. She laughingly tells them she is not afraid, as she has her dog with her, who will be ample protection. During her stroll Betty finds a shack and decides to investigate.
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Behind the Mask
Title: Behind the Mask
Character: Count Charles
Released: April 8, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Desperado
Title: The Desperado
Character: The Sheriff
Released: March 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The Desperado
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The Madcap Queen of Crona
Title: The Madcap Queen of Crona
Character: Count Michael
Released: March 21, 1916
Type: Movie
The Madcap Queen of Crona
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The Cry of Erin
Title: The Cry of Erin
Character: The Squire's Son
Released: March 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The Cry of Erin
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Born of the People
Title: Born of the People
Character: Mr. Jeffries
Released: March 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Born of the People
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His Majesty Dick Turpin
Title: His Majesty Dick Turpin
Character: Count Charles
Released: February 12, 1916
Type: Movie
His Majesty Dick Turpin
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
Title: The Dumb Girl of Portici
Character: Conde
Released: January 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
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Her Better Self
Title: Her Better Self
Character: Jack Trevor
Released: January 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Yvette, known as a society woman, but in reality a leader of a gang of crooks, sits at the telephone, laughing at the impulsive young man at the other end. Yvette still laughs when Ralph threatens to kill himself if she does not promise to marry him.
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The Power of Fascination
Title: The Power of Fascination
Character: Rafael
Released: December 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A dramatic one-act film that takes place in Mexico. Juanita, who lives on a dilapidated ranch, has to marry a wealthy landowner, but changes her mind at the last moment when a young American comes along; he offers her money to travel through her country. She falls in love with him. When the Mexican finds out about this, he tries to kill both of them, but a friend comes to the rescue.
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As the Twig Is Bent
Title: As the Twig Is Bent
Character: Colonel Vail
Released: November 25, 1915
Type: Movie
L.C. Shumway has a dual role in this action-packed three-reeler. When the Booths divorce, their twin children (both played as adults by Shumway) are separated -- George goes with his mother and becomes a fine, upstanding young man, while Herbert takes after his father's dissolute ways. Both of them wind up serving in the Army and going to the Philippines -- George as an officer and West Point graduate, and Herbert as a lowly enlisted man who soon deserts to becomes the drunken love slave of a native girl.
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What the River Foretold
Title: What the River Foretold
Character: Bill Ward
Released: November 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Having struck it rich, two prospectors return to town, where one of them is to be married while the other will serve as best man. But on the eve of the wedding, the best man turns out to be the worst of the two, and elopes with the bride-to-be. Though heartbroken, the jilted bridegroom shrugs philosophically and returns to gold-mining. Several years later, the wife dies, and her husband becomes a high-rolling gambler.
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Jewel
Title: Jewel
Character: Nat Bonnell
Released: August 30, 1915
Type: Movie
When her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Mrs. Lawrence Evringham moves in with her wealthy but grim father-in-law and schemes to marry Eloise, her daughter, to the rich Dr. Ballard.
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A Cigarette - That's All
Title: A Cigarette - That's All
Character: Stanley Ivans (as Frank Holt)
Released: August 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A Cigarette - That's All
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The Broken Coin
Title: The Broken Coin
Character: Captain Williams
Released: June 21, 1915
Type: Movie
A movie serial directed by Francis Ford.
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The Flash
Title: The Flash
Character: Frank Hoag
Released: February 7, 1915
Type: Movie
1915 film with Jack Holt
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The Master Key
Title: The Master Key
Character: Donald Faversham
Released: November 16, 1914
Type: Movie
A movie serial from 1914
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Salomy Jane
Title: Salomy Jane
Character: Solitaire-Playing Cowboy in Saloon
Released: November 2, 1914
Type: Movie
When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangling with the man. Jack fights the ruffian and kills him. He escapes with the law on his trail, for it is (wrongly) presumed that he is also the man who held up the stagecoach. Salomy Jane comes to his rescue when he is captured and about to be lynched.