Gilbert Holmes

Gilbert Holmes

Born: June 15, 1895
Died: August 17, 1936
in Saskatchewan, Canada

Movies for Gilbert Holmes...

Western Racketeers
Title: Western Racketeers
Character: Breed Morgan
Released: April 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher doesn't have enough money to pay the toll, he winds up dead. A local rancher, Bill Bowers, investigates the killing, but his neighbor and rival Molly Spellman decides to take her cattle around the pass instead of through it to avoid the toll. The gangsters kidnap her, and Bill gathers the other ranchers in the area for a final showdown with the gang.
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The Rustler's Roundup
Title: The Rustler's Roundup
Character: Husky (as Pee Wee Holmes)
Released: March 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Winters is after the Brand ranch, and his man Brett who is foreman there is rustling the Brand stock. But Tom is on to their game and breaks up their attempt to buy the ranch. When they plan to rustle their horses, Tom must not only rescue Danny Brand, who is their prisoner, but stop the rustlers.
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Robbers' Roost
Title: Robbers' Roost
Character: Henchman
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan is overheard he is made a prisoner.
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The Man from Hell's Edges
Title: The Man from Hell's Edges
Character: Half Pint
Released: May 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working as a deputy in a distant town, hoping to ultimately find the outlaw who killed his father during a robbery years ago.
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In Old Cheyenne
Title: In Old Cheyenne
Character: Donkey Handler
Released: May 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A remake of 1930's "Phantom of the Desert", in which a crooked foreman and the ranch hands are rustling horses, and laying the blame on a wild stallion that roams the surrounding hills.In this one the principals are Jim/Cheyenne(Rex Lease) as the cowhand that comes along and clears the horse,Starlight;the crooked foreman is Clyde Winslow(Harry Woods), while Helen Sutter(Dorothy Gulliver) is the daughter of ranch owner Frank Sutter(Jay Hunt.) This one was remade at least four more times by 1940.
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Spurs
Title: Spurs
Character: Shorty Clark (as Pewee Holmes)
Released: August 24, 1930
Type: Movie
Bob Merril, looking for the killer of Buddy's father, has found the secret entrance to Pecos' hideout. There he captures Indian Joe who confesses that Marsdan was the killer, But while Bob is off riding in the rodeo his witness escapes.
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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Rusty
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
In the Kentucky mountains, Ken McTavish comes to Kettle Creek looking for the killer of his father. When he learns that it was Abner Harland, he fakes the killing of his friend Rusty, puts Abner in a coffin, and takes off. Lem Harland, seeing Rusty alive, realizes what happened and the chase is on.
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Burning the Wind
Title: Burning the Wind
Character: Peewee (as Pee Wee Holmes)
Released: February 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Two ranchers get together to fight a common enemy and fall in love.
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Sunset Pass
Title: Sunset Pass
Character: Shorty (as Pee Wee Holmes)
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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The Sky Skidder
Title: The Sky Skidder
Character: Bert Beatle
Released: January 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Inventor Al Simpkins develops a new airplane fuel, "Economo," which he claims gets a thousand miles to the pint.
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The Ladies' Man
Title: The Ladies' Man
Released: December 28, 1928
Type: Movie
A 1928 comedy short
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The Cloud Dodger
Title: The Cloud Dodger
Character: Joe Merriman (as Gilbert 'Pee Wee' Holmes)
Released: September 30, 1928
Type: Movie
Speeding to his own wedding, Wilson is arrested by a sharp-eyed cop and thrown in the slammer for 30 days. This is ample time for the heroine's aunt to arrange a marriage between the girl and a wealthy snob.
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Thunder Riders
Title: Thunder Riders
Character: Pee Wee
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
As Betty arrives from the East Coast to take over the ranch and fortune left by her late father, the trip is interrupted by an Indian attack.
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The Fearless Rider
Title: The Fearless Rider
Character: Two-Spot Tommy (as Peewee Holmes)
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A fearless cowboy comes to the rescue of a beleaguered prospector.
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Galloping Fury
Title: Galloping Fury
Character: Pee Wee
Released: November 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Billy Haven, a young rancher, accidentally discovers that clay found on his ranch will, when mixed with water, become the most beautifying mud-pack cosmetic that any young girl, or old woman, could desire. Then the land-grabbers, clay-speculators, cosmetic companies and a show girl or two show up to get a piece of the action.
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A Made-To-Order Hero
Title: A Made-To-Order Hero
Character: Peewee (as Peewee Holmes)
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Bert Lane and Margery Murray are in love, but her aunt insists she marry either a society man or a hero, so his hands decide that he will be a made-to-order hero - but society man Fred Van Ralt keeps getting the credit.
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The Border Cavalier
Title: The Border Cavalier
Character: Pee Wee
Released: September 18, 1927
Type: Movie
American Western film directed by William Wyler and written by Basil Dickey and Gardner Bradford.
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Hard Fists
Title: Hard Fists
Character: Jed Leach (as Lee Holmes)
Released: April 24, 1927
Type: Movie
The story is about a fake army colonel who blackmails Alvord into doing his bidding, including smearing a rancher and his pretty daughter .
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The Denver Dude
Title: The Denver Dude
Character: Shorty Dan (as Pee Wee Holmes)
Released: February 13, 1927
Type: Movie
A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress a pretty young girl. He sees that a citified "dandy" is also after the girl, and the dude seems to be scoring some points with his "civilized" demeanor.
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A Man's Size Pet
Title: A Man's Size Pet
Character: Magpie Simpkins
Released: October 23, 1926
Type: Movie
This one is about two buckaroos who dump flour on each other and roll each other around in barrels, their girlfriends -- one pretty, the other fat -- and the pretty one's bear, Danger.
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The Phantom Bullet
Title: The Phantom Bullet
Character: Short cowhand
Released: May 9, 1926
Type: Movie
When Click's father is killed by a phantom bullet, he returns home to find the killer. To put the killer off guard he poses as a dude with a camera. Unknown to Click, the camera will reveal the killer's identity.
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Fade Away Foster
Title: Fade Away Foster
Character: Magpie Simpkins
Released: April 24, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Border Sheriff
Title: The Border Sheriff
Character: Tate 'Tater-bug' Cooper
Released: April 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Carter Brace is out to murder Belden. Collins who was sent to bring in the border gang led by Brace, saves Belden's life in San Francisco. When they all reach the border, Brace tries again.
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One Wild Time
Title: One Wild Time
Character: Magpie Simpkins (as Pee Wee Holmes)
Released: March 20, 1926
Type: Movie
One Wild Time is a silent comic Western.
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Chip of the Flying U
Title: Chip of the Flying U
Character: Shorty
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Kyne. Chip Bennett, a Flying U ranch hand-turned-cartoonist, despite being a confirmed misogynist falls in love with Della Whitmore, a lady doctor and sister of his employer.
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Breakin' Loose
Title: Breakin' Loose
Character: Magpie Simpkins
Released: December 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Lucy and her monkey arrives out west and cause disruption on the ranch.
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Code of the West
Title: Code of the West
Released: April 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Code of the West (1925)
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The Tenth Woman
Title: The Tenth Woman
Character: Shorty
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
A ranch owner saves a pretty young woman from committing suicide, and later marries her. They are very happy together until a former girlfriend visits him. Then the trouble begins.
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Ladies to Board
Title: Ladies to Board
Character: Bunk McGinnis (as Pee Wee Holmes)
Released: February 3, 1924
Type: Movie
While traveling through the prarie, an elderly and cantankerous lady loses control of her car. One of the locals, Tom Faxton (Mix), comes to her rescue. He receives the full impact of the woman's gratitude a few years later when she dies and bequeaths him a rest home for elderly ladies.
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The Man Who Won
Title: The Man Who Won
Character: Toby Jenks
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Bill is a gambler, whose friend Scipio goes in search of his wife Jessie. Jessie, fed up with her life of poverty, has run off with the wealthy and villainous James. She has left behind her two children on James' promise that she can send for them later. Scipio leaves the tots with Bill when he goes on his search..
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The Buster
Title: The Buster
Character: Light Laurie
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
In an attempt to try and tame young city girl Charlotte Rowland, Bill Coryell, a young rancher, plans a fake kidnapping party from which he is to rescue her. However, a bully interferes and incites her against Bill, but Charlotte discovers the ruse in time to save herself and Coryell.
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Big Town Round-Up
Title: Big Town Round-Up
Character: Pee Wee (The Runt)
Released: July 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Tom Mix played Larry McBride, a cowboy who, "goes to city, dresses up to date and gets into thrilling and humorous adventures."
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Jesse James as the Outlaw
Title: Jesse James as the Outlaw
Character: Pee Wee Holmes - Rodeo Bulldogger
Released: March 29, 1921
Type: Movie
Depicts Jesse James' return home to Missouri after the Civil War hoping to live a life of peace, but is falsely accused of robbing a bank. He is forced to take up a life of crime by being branded an outlaw. Crimes are commited and blamed on him, his family is maimed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, but all the while James is able to perform charitable acts to citizens. James is finally assasinated by Bob Ford. All told in a flashback style by Jesse James Jr. to a eastern baeu asking for his daughters' hand in marrage.
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Ruth of the Rockies
Title: Ruth of the Rockies
Character: Shorty
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
A young woman finds a trunk full of stolen diamonds, takes them and heads westward, pursued by the thief.