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Frank Sheridan (actor)
John Franklin Sheridan (June 11, 1869 – November 24, 1943) was an American actor of the silent and early sound film eras. Biography Born in Boston, he began acting later in life, at the age of 46, and had several leading roles. As time went on, he segued into the character actor role and continued working right into his 70s. Although mostly in smaller roles, he continued to enjoy featured roles occasionally throughout the 1930s, as in his role of Sam Stubener in the 1936 film ''Conflict'', which starred John Wayne. In 1926, Sheridan married Catherine T. McNulty, who died in 1943. Later that same year, he married Edna M Carroll and they had one child. Frank Sheridan died on November 24, 1943, in Hollywood, aged 74. Filmography (Per AFI database) An * denotes a featured or starring role. * ''At Bay'' (1915) as District Attorney Graham* * ''The Money Master'' (1915) as John Haggleton* * ''The Perils of Divorce'' (1916) as John Graham* * '' The Struggle'' (1916) as Majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Lord And Master
''Her Lord and Master'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Edward José and starring Alice Joyce, Holmes Herbert and Frank Sheridan. It is based on the 1902 play of the same title by Martha Morton.Goble p.795 Cast * Alice Joyce as Indiana Stillwater * Holmes Herbert as R. Honorable Thurston Ralph, Viscount Canning * Walter McEwen as Lord Nelson Stafford * Frank Sheridan as Fred Stillwater * Marie Shotwell as Mrs. Stillwater * Louise Beaudet as Mrs. Chazy Bunker * Eugene Acker as Glen Masters * John Sutherland as Jennings * Ida Waterman Ida Waterman (born Ida Shaw; March 10, 1852 – May 22, 1941) was a stage and screen actress. Waterman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She appeared some thirty or more Broadway productions between the late 1880s and early 1920s. She play ... as Lady Canning References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1921 films 1921 comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silence (1931 Film)
''Silence'' is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Max Marcin and written by Max Marcin, adapted from his play. The film stars Clive Brook, Marjorie Rambeau, Peggy Shannon, Charles Starrett, Willard Robertson, John Wray and Frank Sheridan. It was released on August 29, 1931, by Paramount Pictures. Plot A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. Cast *Clive Brook as Jim Warren *Marjorie Rambeau as Mollie Burke *Peggy Shannon as Norma Davis / Norma Powers *Charles Starrett as Arthur Lawrence *Willard Robertson as Phil Powers * John Wray as Harry Silvers * Frank Sheridan as Joel Clarke *Paul Nicholson as Walter Pritchard *John M. Sullivan as Father Ryan *Ben Taggart as Alderman Conners *Charles Trowbridge as Mallory *Wade Boteler as Detective *Robert Homans as Detective See also * ''The House That Shadows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flood (1931 Film)
''The Flood'' is a 1931 pre-Code American melodrama film directed by James Tinling from a story by John Thomas Neville. Sam Nelson was assistant director. Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures, the film was released in the US on 28 February 1931. Cast *Eleanor Boardman as Joan Marshall *Monte Blue as David Bruce * Frank Sheridan as David Bruce, Sr. *David Newell as Randolph Bannister *William V. Mong as Colonel Marshall * Violet Barlowe as Emily *Eddie Tamblyn as Willy *Arthur Hoyt as Uncle George *Ethel Wales as Aunt Constance * Buddy Ray as Ray Jeff Production Production for ''The Flood'' lasted from 10 December 1930 to 14 January 1931. The film's copyright A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, education ... was registered on 25 February 1931. References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Public Defender
''The Public Defender'' is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film directed by J. Walter Ruben, starring Richard Dix and featuring Boris Karloff. Rich playboy Pike Winslow dons the mantle of 'The Reckoner', a mysterious avenger, when he learns that his lady friend Barbara Gerry's father has been framed in a bank embezzlement scandal. Using meticulous planning and split-second timing, Pike, along with his associates, the erudite 'Professor' and tough-guy scrapper 'Doc', attempt to find proof that will clear Gerry and identify the real culprits. Cast * Richard Dix as Pike Winslow * Shirley Grey as Barbara Gerry * Purnell Pratt as John Kirk * Ruth Weston as Rose Harmer * Edmund Breese as Frank Wells * Frank Sheridan as Charles Harmer * Alan Roscoe as Inspector Malcolm O'Neil * Boris Karloff as 'Professor' * Nella Walker as Aunt Matilda * Paul Hurst as 'Doc' * Carl Gerard as Cyrus Pringle * Robert Emmett O'Connor as Detective Brady * Phillips Smalley as Thomas Drake (as Phillip Smalley) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies Of The Big House
''Ladies of the Big House'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Marion Gering and written by Ernest Booth, William Slavens McNutt and Grover Jones. The film stars Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, Wynne Gibson, Earle Foxe, Rockliffe Fellowes, Purnell Pratt and Frank Sheridan. The film was released on December 26, 1931, by Paramount Pictures. Plot Young florist Kathleen Storm ( Sylvia Sidney) is instantly the object of desire of a young man standing in front of the shopwindow, where she is arranging flowers. They have two wonderful weeks in their life together before they marry. The same day her criminal ex-boyfriend Kid Athens (Earle Foxe), who heard about her wedding, decides to frame her and her new husband. She and her husband Standish (Gene Raymond) end up in prison. He is sentenced to death penalty on a charge of murder and she to a life sentence. In prison she meets a woman, Susie Thompson (Wynne Gibson), who was Kid Athens' girlfriend before her, who after an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Tomorrow
''The Other Tomorrow'' is a lost 1930 American pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. The love-triangle drama, from a story by Octavus Roy Cohen, stars Billie Dove, Kenneth Thomson, and Grant Withers. Plot The story takes place in a small town in Georgia. Edith (Dove) is a girl who has loved Jim Carter (Withers) since childhood. One day they get into a quarrel and an older and very wealthy man, Norton Larrison (Thomson), seizes the opportunity to court Edith. Larrison succeeds in making Edith forget Jim temporarily. Edith marries Larrison and then go to Europe on their honeymoon. Soon after they return to Georgia, Edith discovers that she is still in love with Jim. She is determined, however, to be a faithful wife and vows to hide her love for Jim. One day Larrison overhears a conversation to the effect that Jim can never forget his love for Edith. Harrison becomes increasingly suspicious of his wife. It final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danger Lights
''Danger Lights'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film, directed by George B. Seitz, from a screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman. It stars Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Arthur. The plot concerns railroading on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road), and the movie was largely filmed along that railroad's lines in Montana. The railway yard in Miles City, Montana, was a primary setting, while rural scenes were shot along the railway line through Sixteen Mile Canyon, Montana. Additional footage was shot in Chicago, Illinois (where the Milwaukee Road was headquartered until 1986, when it went out of business). The film was the first ever shot in the new Spoor-Berggren Natural Vision Process. In 1958, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. Plot Dan Thorn (Louis Wolheim) is a divisional boss on the Milwaukee Railroad, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Side Street (1929 Film)
''Side Street'' is a 1929 American Pre-Code film featuring the only screen teaming of all three Moore Brothers ( Tom, Owen, and Matt), each of them major silent film stars. George Raft also makes an uncredited appearance as a professional dancer — which Raft was at the time — dancing to the song "Take a Look at Her Now", sung by June Clyde. ''Side Street'' was directed by Malcolm St. Clair with a screenplay by George O'Hara and Jane Murfin, based on a story by St. Clair, which was adapted by John Russell.Everett Aaker, ''The Films of George Raft'', McFarland & Company, 2013 p 15 Plot The film chronicles the exploits of three Irish brothers. Jimmy is a cop, John is an emergency room doctor, and Dennis, as far as his family is aware of, is a very wealthy businessman, even having paid for John to go to medical school. Their parents, Nora and Tom, are very proud of all three sons. Jimmy is promoted on the police force, and begins the investigation of a murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Life (1929 Film)
''Fast Life'' is a 1929 American drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by John F. Goodrich. It is based on the 1928 play ''Fast Life'' by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer. The film stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, William Holden, Frank Sheridan, Chester Morris and Ray Hallor. The film was released by Warner Bros. on September 1, 1929. Plot A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician. Cast *Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Douglas Stratton *Loretta Young as Patricia Mason Stratton *William Holden as Governor * Frank Sheridan as Warden *Chester Morris as Paul Palmer *Ray Hallor as Rodney Hall *John St. Polis as Andrew Stratton *Purnell Pratt Purnell Pratt (October 20, 1885 – July 25, 1941) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1914 and 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Rivers (1925 Film)
''Lena Rivers'' is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by Whitman Bennett and starring Earle Williams and Gladys Hulette. It is based on the novel ''Lena Rivers'' by Mary Jane Holmes. Synopsis An unhappy woman falls for a man far above her station in life. To further exasperate her torment, she learns that her own father is the stepfather of the man she desires. Cast *Earle Williams as Henry Rivers Graham *Johnnie Walker as Durward Belmont (credited as Johnny Walker) *Gladys Hulette as Lena Rivers *Edna Murphy as Carrie Nichols *Marcia Harris as Granny Nichols *Doris Rankin as Mathilde Nichols *Irma Harrison as Anne Nichols * Frank Sheridan as Henry Rivers Graham Jr. *Herman Lieb as Captain Atherton *Harlan Knight Harlan Knight (1875–1940) was an American stage and film actor. During the early 1920s he featured in several Canadian silent films including ''Blue Water'' alongside the future star Norma Shearer.Morris p.259 Filmography * ''The Iron Trail'' ... as T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Shall Be Born
''Two Shall Be Born'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Whitman Bennett and starring Jane Novak, Kenneth Harlan, and Sigrid Holmquist. It was written by Marie Conway Oemler who was inspired by the short story "Two Shall Be Born" by Susan Marr Spalding. Synopsis A Polish countess on a mission to promote world peace, arrives in New York where she receives assistance from a traffic policeman who helps her thwart attempts to foil her mission. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''Two Shall Be Born'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o .... References Bibliography * Kris Van Heuckelom. ''Polish Migrants in European Film 1918–2017''. Springer, 2019. External links * * 1924 films 1924 drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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