Thomas Meighan

Thomas Meighan

Born: April 9, 1879
Died: July 8, 1936
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Thomas Meighan (April 9, 1879 - July 8, 1936) was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading man roles opposite popular actresses of the day including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he commanded $10,000 a week.

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Peck's Bad Boy
Title: Peck's Bad Boy
Character: Henry Peck
Released: October 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.
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Madison Square Garden
Title: Madison Square Garden
Character: Bill Carley
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
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Cheaters at Play
Title: Cheaters at Play
Character: Michael Lanyard
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.
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Skyline
Title: Skyline
Character: Gordon A. McClellan
Released: October 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.
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Young Sinners
Title: Young Sinners
Character: Tom McGuire
Released: May 17, 1931
Type: Movie
The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.
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The Argyle Case
Title: The Argyle Case
Character: Alexander Kayton
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
A multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and a homicide cop sets out to find out who was behind the man's death. Complications ensue.
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The Racket
Title: The Racket
Character: Police Captain James McQuigg
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
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The Mating Call
Title: The Mating Call
Character: Leslie Hatten
Released: July 21, 1928
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.
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The City Gone Wild
Title: The City Gone Wild
Character: John Phelan
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to avenge a friend's death.
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We're All Gamblers
Title: We're All Gamblers
Character: Lucky Sam McCarver
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between Meighan and director James Cruze. Based on Lucky Sam McCarver, a play by Sidney Howard, the story concerns a refugee of the Lower East Side who rises to the uppermost rungs of the nightclub world, all for the sake of a "dame." Boxer Sam McCarver (Meighan) falls in love with society girl Carlotta Asche (Mariette Mische).
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The Canadian
Title: The Canadian
Character: Frank Taylor
Released: November 27, 1926
Type: Movie
A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financial woes.
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Tin Gods
Title: Tin Gods
Character: Roger Drake
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Tin Gods is a lost 1926 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play Tin Gods by William Anthony McGuire. Allan Dwan directed and Thomas Meighan starred.
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Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: Thomas Meighan
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
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The New Klondike
Title: The New Klondike
Character: Tom Kelly
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of the Florida land boom (in which a lot of the land sold was under water), makes a fortune and buys into the team that cut him from its roster.
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Irish Luck
Title: Irish Luck
Character: Tom Donahue/Lord Fitzhugh
Released: December 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Tom Donahue, a New York traffic cop, wins a trip to Europe in a newspaper contest, and he decides to visit relatives in Ireland. Arriving in Dublin, he learns that he is an exact double for Lord Fitzhugh, a young Irish aristocrat with whom he becomes friends. The Earl of Killarney, Fitzhugh's uncle, who is on his deathbed, wishes to see his favorite nephew and wipe out past animosities. Fitzhugh, in the meantime, has disappeared, and his sister, Lady Gwendolyn, persuades Tom to take his place.
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The Man Who Found Himself
Title: The Man Who Found Himself
Character: Tom Macauley
Released: August 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama
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Coming Through
Title: Coming Through
Character: Tom Blackford
Released: February 17, 1925
Type: Movie
Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford marries Alice Rand, the daughter of his boss, John Rand. Rand is aware of Blackford's motivations and he sends him to take over as superintendent of one of the company's mines in the hopes that he will fail.
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Tongues of Flame
Title: Tongues of Flame
Character: Henry Harrington
Released: December 15, 1924
Type: Movie
The Native American Siwash people have been displaced from their land and live on a reservation. The wealthy Mr. Boland attempts to buy the reservation from the Siwash for dubious reasons.
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The Alaskan
Title: The Alaskan
Character: Alan Holt
Released: September 14, 1924
Type: Movie
An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.
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The Confidence Man
Title: The Confidence Man
Character: Dan Corvan
Released: April 20, 1924
Type: Movie
Wade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down to the small Florida town of Fairfield to make a sale to the miserly Godfrey Queritt (Charles Dow Clark). When Corvan discovers that Sunday school teacher Margaret Leland is friends with the old man, he romances her. He also helps out the local charities and endears himself to the local folk. Corvan is too good at his tricks -- all this hard-won trust is turning him into an honest man.
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Pied Piper Malone
Title: Pied Piper Malone
Character: Jack Malone
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
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Woman-Proof
Title: Woman-Proof
Character: Tom Rockwood
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Thomas Meighan
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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Homeward Bound
Title: Homeward Bound
Character: Jim Bedford
Released: July 29, 1923
Type: Movie
A group of seven people find themselves on a ship in the middle of an endless ocean, with no recollection of how they got there. (lost film)
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The Ne'er-Do-Well
Title: The Ne'er-Do-Well
Character: Kirk Anthony
Released: April 29, 1923
Type: Movie
The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Daniel J. O'Bannon
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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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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A Prince There Was
Title: A Prince There Was
Character: Charles Edward Martin
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A wealthy socialite poses as a magazine editor living in a boardinghouse to learn more about an intriguing woman who wants to publish her stories.
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Cappy Ricks
Title: Cappy Ricks
Character: Matt Peasley
Released: August 21, 1921
Type: Movie
When seaman Matt Peasley and his friend, Murphy (Hugh Cameron), go ashore in San Francisco, they save Florrie Ricks (Agnes Ayers) from a couple of robbers. Matt falls in love with Florrie, whose father is ship owner Cappy Ricks (Charles S. Abbe).
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The Conquest of Canaan
Title: The Conquest of Canaan
Character: Joe Louden
Released: July 10, 1921
Type: Movie
Joe Louden is an outcast in the small town of Canaan, and is especially disliked by Judge Pike. There is one inhabitant, however, who is fond of Joe -- the pretty but poor Ariel Tabor. But she inherits some money and goes to Paris with her father.
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White and Unmarried
Title: White and Unmarried
Character: Billy Kane
Released: May 29, 1921
Type: Movie
When an underworld figure inherits a fortune, he goes straight and endeavors to become a respectable businessman. But on a trip to Paris, he encounters a few not-so-honest types who think he is ripe for picking.
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The Frontier of the Stars
Title: The Frontier of the Stars
Released: January 30, 1921
Type: Movie
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Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Title: Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Character: Conrad Warrener
Released: November 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he expected nor what he hoped for.
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Civilian Clothes
Title: Civilian Clothes
Character: Capt. Sam McGinnis
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has been killed, she returns home to her wealthy family without mentioning her brief marriage. But Sam turns up, alive but poorly dressed, and Florence is happy to see him but appalled at his clothing.
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Why Change Your Wife?
Title: Why Change Your Wife?
Character: Robert Gordon
Released: May 21, 1920
Type: Movie
Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
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Male and Female
Title: Male and Female
Character: William Crichton, the butler
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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The Miracle Man
Title: The Miracle Man
Character: Tom Burke
Released: August 26, 1919
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang. Lost film, only the most famous scene has survived.
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The Probation Wife
Title: The Probation Wife
Character: Harrison Wade
Released: May 24, 1919
Type: Movie
A 1919 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
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The Heart of Wetona
Title: The Heart of Wetona
Character: John Hardin
Released: January 5, 1919
Type: Movie
After the half-breed daughter of a Comanche chief falls for a young engineer who deserts her, she turns to a white Indian agent who marries her.
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The Forbidden City
Title: The Forbidden City
Character: John Worden
Released: October 6, 1918
Type: Movie
The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.
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Heart of the Wilds
Title: Heart of the Wilds
Character: Sergeant Tom Gellatly
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
In the Canadian Northwest, Jen Galbraith lives in a tavern with her brother Val and her father Peter, a bootlegger who sells whiskey to the Indians. Val's friend Pierre resolves to win Jen, even though she is in love with Sergeant Tom Gellatly of the Mounted Police. When Val tries to retrieve some liquor sold illegally by the elder Galbraith to an Indian named Grey Cloud, the Indian insults Jen and Val shoots him. Tom is assigned to track down the murderer, but after he arrives at the tavern, Galbraith and Pierre drug him. Jen delivers the papers he is carrying to police headquarters, but when she discovers that they contain orders to arrest her brother, she shoots Tom to prevent him from going after Val.
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In Pursuit of Polly
Title: In Pursuit of Polly
Character: Colby Mason
Released: August 19, 1918
Type: Movie
Pretty Polly Marsden is ardently pursued by three different Romeos, but she coyly refuses to choose between them. When they insist that she give them her answer, she arranges an impromptu automobile race: whichever one of the three can overtake her speeding roadster will be the man whom she will marry.
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: Charles Gray
Released: May 5, 1918
Type: Movie
M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
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Eve's Daughter
Title: Eve's Daughter
Character: John Norton
Released: March 4, 1918
Type: Movie
Eve's Daughter was the fourth and final screen teaming of Billie Burke and Thomas Meighan. This time out, Burke is cast as Irene Simpson-Bates, who is disheartened to learn that her millionaire father has left her with a mere $15,000. She is subsequently courted by two men: Poor but respectable John Norton (Thomas Meighan), and rich but disreputable Courtenay Urquahrt (Lionel Atwill, in his American screen debut).
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The Land of Promise
Title: The Land of Promise
Character: Frank Taylor
Released: December 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.
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Arms and the Girl
Title: Arms and the Girl
Character: Wilfred Ferrers
Released: October 14, 1917
Type: Movie
Ziegfeld Follies headliner Billie Burke starred in a handful of silent films, of which Arms and the Girl was the second. Burke plays an American lass who journeys to Europe to be reunited with her fiance. Not only has her sweetheart been unfaithful, but she arrives on the continent just as World War I breaks out.
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The Mysterious Miss Terry
Title: The Mysterious Miss Terry
Character: Gordon True
Released: August 19, 1917
Type: Movie
In her first Paramount film, Billie Burke plays Helen Wentworth, an heiress who's bored with the high life and decides to enjoy a bit of the low life.
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Her Better Self
Title: Her Better Self
Character: Dr. Robert Keith
Released: May 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Even though society debutante Vivian Tyler (Pauline Frederick) is engaged to Count Belloto (Frank deRheim), she finds herself attracted to Dr. Robert Keith (Thomas Meighan). Keith works amongst the poor, and his wealthy benefactors include Vivian's father (Charles Wellesley). But when Vivian meets streetwalker Aggie May (Alice Hollister), she mistakenly believes that Keith is responsible for the woman's downfall.
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Sapho
Title: Sapho
Character: Jean Gaussin
Released: March 11, 1917
Type: Movie
The classic story of a flower girl from the slums who becomes Sapho.
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Common Ground
Title: Common Ground
Character: Judge David Evans
Released: July 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Crusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged to Mordant's daughter, Doris. Hearing of Evan's plan, Mordant devises a scheme of his own and `frames' Evans with five teenage girls and a prostitute.
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Character: Jack Hale
Released: February 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Jack Hale, a revenue agent, is sent into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to track down illegal alcohol producers.
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The Immigrant
Title: The Immigrant
Character: David Harding
Released: December 20, 1915
Type: Movie
Masha, a young Russian emigrant traveling to the U.S., is saved from an officer's advances by civil engineer David Harding. Upon landing in America, J. J. Walton, a self-made political boss and contractor, pursues Masha and hires her as his maid. She leaves after the first night, but becomes his mistress after Walton promises her an education and marriage.
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The Secret Sin
Title: The Secret Sin
Character: Jack Herron
Released: October 21, 1915
Type: Movie
Blanche Sweet has a dual role in this picture -- she plays twin sisters, Edith, a sweet, normal young girl, and Grace, who is a drug fiend. They live in poverty with their parents and their father (Hal Clements) finally finds work. Because he is faithful to his boss (Thomas Meighan), he is offered a partnership.
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Blackbirds
Title: Blackbirds
Character: Jack Doggins / Hon. Nevil Trask
Released: October 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Leonie Sobatsky (Laura Hope Crews) belongs to a ring of international thieves, headed by Bechel (George Gebhardt). She meets English crook Nevil Trask (Thomas Meighan), and they fall in love -- however, neither one knows of the other's criminal ways.
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Out of the Darkness
Title: Out of the Darkness
Character: Harvey Brooks
Released: September 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Drama in which Hélène, the owner of a large company goes to work in her own factory, to find out that its staff working in poor working conditions.
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Kindling
Title: Kindling
Character: 'Honest' Heine Schultz
Released: July 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Pregnant tenement dweller Maggie Schultz is being used by burglars....