Milton Ross

Milton Ross

Born: December 1, 1876
Died: September 5, 1941
in Santa Clara, California, USA

Movies for Milton Ross...

Street Corner
Title: Street Corner
Character: Tom Brennan
Released: December 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Naive small-town girl gets pregnant on her prom night, and winds up in the clutches of the local abortionist. Depending on the release presentation, the movie includes an animation of conception, filmed vaginal and caesarian section births, and a filmed presentation on how syphilis and gonorrhea present themselves.
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Heads Up
Title: Heads Up
Character: Losada
Released: August 2, 1925
Type: Movie
1925 silent comedy.
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The Cowboy and the Flapper
Title: The Cowboy and the Flapper
Released: August 25, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Judge Henry
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend, Steve, falls in with bad guys led by Trampas. The Virginian catches them cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his friend. Trampas gets away and shoots the Virginian in the back. Molly nurses him to health, and falls in love with him. They plan to marry, but on their wedding day Trampas returns, looking for trouble.
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The Boss of Camp 4
Title: The Boss of Camp 4
Character: Andrew Paxton
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
To fulfill a contract entered into by his boss, Chet Fanning agrees to finish the construction within a certain amount of time. However, Andrew Paxton has an enemy in the camp's boss, Dave Miller, who is determined to see the job fail.
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Gay and Devilish
Title: Gay and Devilish
Character: Third Detective
Released: May 14, 1922
Type: Movie
Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.
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Western Speed
Title: Western Speed
Character: Kansas Casey
Released: April 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Lorimer is wanted for a crime he didn't commit, and "Red" has his hands full keeping the old man safe from the sheriff and his posse.
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The Girl from Rocky Point
Title: The Girl from Rocky Point
Character: Samuel Hayden
Released: February 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Betty falls in love with Samuel Hayden, who was washed ashore after having survived a shipwreck. The self-acclaimed most religious man in town accuses a kindly man, whom he calls "The Devil," of robbing Samuel. Soon becoming bored with this slander, he attempts to break up the romance between Betty and Samuel, contriving to have her turned out by her stern father. Samuel is later discovered to be an escaped convict. This disclosure results in a series of escapades during which the true character of the village hypocrite and "The Devil" are revealed, showing the former to be vicious and the latter to be generous and benevolent.
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Voices of the City
Title: Voices of the City
Character: Courey
Released: December 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Voices of the City is a 1921 American silent crime drama film starring Leatrice Joy and Lon Chaney that was directed by Wallace Worsley. It is considered to be a lost film.
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Boys Will Be Boys
Title: Boys Will Be Boys
Character: Bagby
Released: May 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Peep O'Day, an orphan in a small Kentucky town, falls heir to a small fortune and begins to make up for all the lost pleasure of childhood, but Sublette, a crooked attorney, arranges for an eastern belle to show up as Peep's "niece" to steal his fortune.
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The Killer
Title: The Killer
Character: Buck Johnson
Released: January 30, 1921
Type: Movie
Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Conway) rescues them.
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813
Title: 813
Character: Gourel
Released: November 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling force in Europe. Master crook Arsene Lupin becomes aware of Castleback's bid for power and, in the interests of France, begins a search for the plans.
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The Penalty
Title: The Penalty
Character: Lichtenstein
Released: August 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
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Dangerous Days
Title: Dangerous Days
Character: Dunbar
Released: March 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodrama.
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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Title: The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Character: Nathan (as H. Milton Ross)
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morgan's raiders. He learns his real identity when he returns after the war.
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A Woman of Pleasure
Title: A Woman of Pleasure
Character: Jim Dench
Released: November 9, 1919
Type: Movie
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Flame of the Desert
Title: Flame of the Desert
Character: Sheik
Released: October 26, 1919
Type: Movie
An Englishman goes undercover posing as an Egyptian sheik in order to infiltrate a conspiracy to throw off British rule. An English woman complicates things by falling in love with the sheik, unaware of his true identity.
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The Exquisite Thief
Title: The Exquisite Thief
Character: Det. Wood
Released: April 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high society world with the help of her pal Shaver Michael (De Grasse). Billie gains admission to the Vanderhoof dinner at which the engagement of their daughter to Lord Chesterton (Hall) will be announced. While the dinner is in progress, Billie gags and handcuffs special officer Detective Wood (Ross), and proceeds to make a wholesale robbery of the guests. She flees in an automobile and none succeed in tracking her save Lord Chesterton. She makes a prisoner of him, but a police raid follows and she must flee. Once more Lord Chesterton succeeds in following her and again she makes him her prisoner, but she learns to trust and love him. The special agent and Shaver Michael arrive at the scene with resulting complications, but a happy end results for all.
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The End of the Game
Title: The End of the Game
Character: Faro Ed
Released: March 24, 1919
Type: Movie
A love story that takes place at the time of the gold rush. Prospector Allister Burke is in love with Mary, but he believe the slanderous lies that are spread by Burke, his competitor.
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The False Faces
Title: The False Faces
Character: Ralph Crane
Released: February 15, 1919
Type: Movie
During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German lines and bring it to Allied intelligence headquarters. However, German agents set out to stop him, headed by the man who was responsible for the death of the thief's sister.
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Riddle Gawne
Title: Riddle Gawne
Character: Reb Butler
Released: August 3, 1918
Type: Movie
When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's wife, he swears revenge.
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His Own Home Town
Title: His Own Home Town
Character: Justice Jameson
Released: May 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manager. He takes on the criminal element in town with great vigor, until he realizes that his own father is in league with those devils. - From IMDB
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The Tiger Man
Title: The Tiger Man
Character: Connor Moore
Released: April 30, 1918
Type: Movie
Outlaw Hawk Parsons, notoriously successful in his pursuits, has been caught by the local sherif of a New Mexico town in the 1850s. The overly prideful sherif and his lawmen are outsmarted and Parsons escapes. In the desert, he falls in with a reverend, his wife, and their group of missionaries, who hope to establish a church. After coming under attack by a tribe of Native Americans, Parsons strikes a deal: in exchange for the safe keeping of the missionaries, he takes the reverend's wife for himself. Ultimately a parable of Christian values, the film's narrative establishes and overcomes obstacles that test the virtue of men in the American West.
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The Narrow Trail
Title: The Narrow Trail
Character: 'Admiral' Bates
Released: December 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Ice Harding, outlaw, tames a wild horse and names it King. Ice and his gang hold up a stagecoach and encounter San Francisco vice king Bates and his innocent niece Betty Werdin. Ice is taken with the young woman, but at first she sees nothing in him. But she begins to come around when her uncle tries to swindle Ice, and the outlaw himself undergoes a change of course under the influence of the girl.
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The Silent Man
Title: The Silent Man
Character: Ames Mitchell
Released: November 26, 1917
Type: Movie
A hard-working prospector enters the town of Bakeoven to stake his claim, only to have his rights stolen and his face on "Wanted" posters. He plans reprisal.
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Idolators
Title: Idolators
Character: Oscar Brent
Released: September 9, 1917
Type: Movie
When playwright Curtis de Forest Ralston becomes enamored of actress Viola Strathmore, who is to appear in his play Vanity, Viola induces him to change certain parts and give her more lines. Curtis, who is not as talented as he believes himself to be, fails at his job but is saved by his wife Anita, a former actress, who has forsaken her career for marriage. Anita and her old manager, Bruce Winthrope, fashion the play to suit Viola, and Vanity becomes a huge success. The play's triumph enlarges Curtis's ego even further, and he deserts Anita for Viola.
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The Square Deal Man
Title: The Square Deal Man
Character: Preaching Dan
Released: May 25, 1917
Type: Movie
A gambler decides to play one last game before he turns over a new leaf. However, during the game one of the players accuses him of cheating. Suddenly the lights go out, shots are fired and when the lights come back on, one of the players is dead. The gambler is accused of the killing. He didn't do it, but has to find out who did, and why he was framed for it.
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The Desert Man
Title: The Desert Man
Character: Tacoma Jake
Released: April 22, 1917
Type: Movie
William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants. Jim meets and falls in love with Jennie (Margery Wilson), whose father (Walt Whitman) is gravely ill. Jim rounds up a reluctant doctor from another town to tend to the old man, but he dies anyway. The doctor, however, gains Jennie's trust and she runs off with him. Only then does he tell her he's already married. She leaves immediately, but is too proud to go home so she finds work as a dance hall girl at Tacoma Jake's saloon. Jim, meanwhile, finds gold near Broken Hope, which raises its inhabitants' attitudes considerably. But the bad element is still there, and Jim is chasing after a group of kidnappers when he enters Tacoma Jake's saloon and sees Jennie. Jim not only overcomes the bad guys, he gets the girl, too.
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The Gun Fighter
Title: The Gun Fighter
Character: 'Cactus' Fuller
Released: February 11, 1917
Type: Movie
Cliff Hudspeth, the leader of a band of outlaws in Arizona, has won his place by the killing of notorious gun-bullies. At their headquarters, in the Gila Mountains, in consultation with "Ace High," his lieutenant, he plans depredations on the neighboring settlements. Although Hudspeth is powerful, their rule is disputed by El Salvador, a half-breed, and his following of desperadoes. Desert Pass is the scene of many conflicts between the contending bands. Rumors of the arrival of miners with gold causes El Salvador to send "Cactus" Fuller, his henchman, to levy tribute by a hold-up, which is successful. Flushed with triumph, he boasts in the "Golden Fleece" saloon of the ignominies to which he would treat Cliff Hudspeth if he ever met him.
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Truthful Tulliver
Title: Truthful Tulliver
Character: Deacon Doyle
Released: January 7, 1917
Type: Movie
Truthful Tulliver, a Westerner and a journeying newspaperman, followed by Silver Lode Thompson, printer and compositor, arrives in Glory Hole to start a newspaper.
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The Patriot
Title: The Patriot
Character: Denman Hammond
Released: March 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Family relationships of a New Mexico family are just one part of this silent cowboy western about a war veteran who finds a goldmine. He wants to earn enough money to take care of his young son, but crooked officials swindle him out of the mine, and then his son is killed. He swears vengeance and joins up with Mexican bandit, "Pancho Zapilla", who intends to destroy his whole town.
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The Darkening Trail
Title: The Darkening Trail
Character: Mr. Wells
Released: May 31, 1915
Type: Movie
Yukon Ed has asked saloon owner Ruby McGraw to marry him several times, and has been turned down each time. However, she falls for Jack Sturgess, a no-account who has seduced and abandoned a poor young girl and is escaping from his father's anger. She takes up with Jack to Ed's dismay, and soon the thing that Ed feared would happen does happen.