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Jack Richardson (actor)
Jack Howard Richardson (November 18, 1870 – June 12, 1960) was an American actor. Background Born in New York City, he was signed to a contract in silent films in 1911 by the American Company, working there for several years. Richardson appeared in more than 560 films before his death in Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning "Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Co .... His credits are often confused with his contemporary John J. Richardson (AKA Jack Richardson). Selected filmography External links * 1870 births 1957 deaths American male film actors American male silent film actors Male actors from New York City 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning "Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Santa Barbara's climate is often described as Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean, and the city has been dubbed "The American Riviera". According to the 2020 United States census, U.S. Census, the city's population was 88,665. In addition to being a popular tourist and resort destination, the city has a diverse economy that includes a large service sector, education, technology, health care, finance, agriculture, manufacturing, and local government. In 2004, the service sector accounted for 35% of local employment. Education in particular is well represented, with four institutions of higher learning nearby: the University of Calif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Hours
''Dangerous Hours'' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo. Prints of the film survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. It premiered in February 1920. The film was based on a short story "A Prodigal in Utopia" published in the '' Saturday Evening Post''. The film's working title was ''Americanism (Versus Bolshevism)'', which was the title of a pamphlet published by Ole Hanson, the mayor of Seattle who claimed to have broken the Seattle General Strike in 1919. Plot The film tells the story of an attempted Russian infiltration of American industry, and includes a depiction of the "nationalization of women" under Bolshevism, including "extras on horseback, rounding up women, throwing them into dungeons and beating them." College graduate John King (Hughes) is sympathetic to the left in a general way. Then he is seduced, both romantically and politically, by Sophia Guerni (Du Brey), a female agitator. Her superior is the Bolshevik Boris Blotchi (Richar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Watch (1926 Film)
''The Night Watch'' is a lost 1926 silent film directed by Fred Caldwell. It starred Mary Carr, Charles Delaney and Gloria Grey. Plot summary Cast * Mary Carr as Mrs. Blackwell * Charles Delaney Charles Delaney (August 9, 1892 – August 31, 1959) was an American actor. Biography Delaney was born in New York City in 1892. He was originally a motor mechanic and having learned to fly during World War I, he started doing flying vaud ... as George Blackwell * Gloria Grey as Nellie Powell * Jack Richardson as Mr. Powell * Muriel Reynolds - * Raymond Rousenville - * Ethel Schram - * Charles W. Mack - References External links IMDB profile* * * 1926 films American silent feature films Lost American films American black-and-white films 1926 drama films 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Winking Idol
''The Winking Idol'' is a 1926 American silent Western film serial, consisting of 10 chapters, starring William Desmond and Eileen Sedgwick. Directed by Francis Ford, the screenplay was written by Arthur Henry Gooden, George Morgan and Charles E. van Loan. This serial was released by Universal Pictures and is considered to be a lost film. Cast * William Desmond as Dave Ledbetter * Eileen Sedgwick as Jean Wilson * Jack Richardson as Crawford Lange * Grace Cunard as Thora Lange * Moravana as Komi * Herbert Sutch as Jim Wilson * Dorothy Gulliver * Artie Ortego * Helen Broneau * Vanna Carroll * Syd Saylor (as Les Sailor) Chapters #''The Eye Of Evil'' #''Buzzards' Roost'' #''Crashing Timbers'' #''Racing for Love'' #''The Vanishing Bride'' #''The Torrent of Terror'' #''Flames of Fear'' #''The Fight at the Falls'' #''In the Danger of Dynamite'' #''The Lost Lode'' See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio This is a list of film serials by studio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Texas Bearcat
''The Texas Bearcat'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Bob Custer. It was distributed by Film Booking Offices of America. Plot Cast * Bob Custer as Dave Sethman * Sally Rand as Jean Crawford * Harry von Meter as John Crawford * Jack Richardson as Watson * Carlton S. King as Sethman * Lee Shumway as Murdock Preservation With no copies of ''The Texas Bearcat'' 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 External links * * 1925 films Lost American Western (genre) films Film Booking Offices of America films 1925 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films 1925 lost films Silent American Western (genre) films Films directed by B. Reeves Easo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beyond The Border (1925 Film)
''Beyond the Border'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap, produced by Hunt Stromberg and starring Harry Carey. It was released by Producers Distributing Corporation. Plot As described in a film magazine review, while Sheriff Bob Smith is away from town going after the bandit Bob Moore, the villain has a new sheriff elected in his place. Captured, tried, and convicted, Moore confesses that he is also known as "Bob Smith" and that his sister, whom he has not seen in childhood, is coming to town. Moore proposes that Smith pose as him so that his long-lost sister will not know that her brother is actually an outlaw. Smith agrees, and upon meeting her falls in love with her. He rounds up the villain's gang, gets his sheriff's job back, and wins the young woman after saving her real brother. Cast * Harry Carey as Bob Smith * William Scott as Bob Moore * Mildred Harris as Molly Smith * Tom Santschi as Nick Perdue * Jack Richardson as Brick Dawson * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fire Patrol
''The Fire Patrol'' is surviving American 1924 silent melodrama film directed by Hunt Stromberg and starring Anna Q. Nilsson that was based upon the 1891 play of the same name by James W. Harkins and Edwin Barbour. Stromberg also produced the film and released it through Chadwick Pictures. Cast Preservation A copy of ''The Fire Patrol'' is preserved at La Corse Et Le Cinema, Porto Vecchio Porto-Vecchio (, ; it, Porto Vecchio or ; co, Portivechju or ) is a commune in the French department of Corse-du-Sud, on the island of Corsica. Porto-Vecchio is a medium-sized port city placed on a good harbor, the southernmost of the mar .... References External links * * 1924 films American silent feature films American films based on plays American black-and-white films Surviving American silent films 1924 drama films Silent American drama films Melodrama films Films directed by Hunt Stromberg Films with screenplays by Garrett Fort 1920s American films {{192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dynamite Dan (film)
''Dynamite Dan'' is a 1924 American drama film directed by Bruce M. Mitchell and featuring Kenneth MacDonald and Boris Karloff. The film is about a young dockworker who is framed for a robbery he did not commit by his foreman, gangster Tony Garcia. Prints of this film survive and are available on DVD. Boris Karloff, who plays the gangster, only appears in the beginning and end of the film. Plot A young dockworker named Dan McLeod (Kenneth MacDonald) is accused of a robbery at his job on the loading dock that was actually committed by his foreman Tony Garcia (Boris Karloff). Dan escapes from the police and a comical detective named Sherlock Jones (Eddie Harris) sets out to track him down and recapture him. Dan gets a job as a gym teacher at his girlfriend Helen's school, but gets fired soon after. Next he becomes a professional boxer and calls himself Dynamite Dan. Dan asks his girlfriend to spy for him at his old job and learn who it was that framed him for the robbery. In the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiger Thompson
''Tiger Thompson'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by B. Reeves Eason featuring Harry Carey. Cast * Harry Carey as Tiger Thompson * Marguerite Clayton as Ethel Brannon * John Webb Dillion as Jim Morley (credited as John Dillon) * Jack Richardson as Bull Dorgan * George Ring as Charlie Wong See also * Harry Carey filmography This is a list of films featuring Harry Carey. 1910 * ''Bill Sharkey's Last Game'' * ''Gentleman Joe'' 1912 * ''An Unseen Enemy'' as The Thief * ''Two Daughters of Eve'' as In Audience * ''Friends'' as Bob Kyne - the Prospector * '' So Near ... External links * * 1924 films 1924 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Films directed by B. Reeves Eason Films distributed by W. W. Hodkinson Corporation Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films {{silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daring Years
''The Daring Years'' is 1923 American silent melodrama film directed by Kenneth Webb and produced by Daniel Carson Goodman. The film starred Mildred Harris, Clara Bow, Charles Emmett Mack, and Tyrone Power, Sr. Plot A university student named John Browning (Charles Emmett Mack) goes against his mother's wishes and becomes involved in a torrid love-affair with a fickle young cabaret singer named Susie LaMotte (Mildred Harris). LaMotte toys with the youth's affections and does not tell him that she is already romantically involved with a boxer named Jim Moran ( Joe King). One evening John Browning discovers that Susie and Moran are having a relationship when he accidentally walks in on them. Outraged, Browning and Moran become embroiled in an argument. Moran pulls out a pistol, but during the ensuing struggle accidentally mortally wounds himself. Overcome with rage, Susie blames John Browning for Moran's death and Browning is subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced to death. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Toll Gate
''The Toll Gate'' is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer, written by Lambert Hillyer and William S. Hart, and starring William S. Hart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Joseph Singleton, Jack Richardson, and Richard Headrick. It was released on April 15, 1920, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine, bandit leader Black Deering (Hart) leads his band on what he declares to be their last raid only to be captured when Tom Jordan (Singleton), one of the members, betrays him to the authorities. Deering escapes and attempts to reach the Mexican border. However, hunger forces him to enter a western town. Here he meets Jordan, whose opposition results in a burning of the town and Deering's escape and pursuit by a posse. He takes shelter in the home of Mary Brown (Nilsson), a widow who lives in a lonely cabin with her little son (Headrick). She willingly poses as Deering's wife, but the Sheriff (Richardson) is not convinced and asks permission to house h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duds (film)
''Duds'' is a 1920 American silent mystery film directed by Thomas R. Mills, and starring Tom Moore, Naomi Childers, Christine Mayo, Edwin Stevens, Lionel Belmore, and Edwin Wallock. It is based on the ''Saturday Evening Post'' story of the same name by Henry C. Rowland, which became a novel shortly before the film was released. The film was released by Goldwyn Pictures on February 22, 1920. Cast * Tom Moore as Phoebe Plunkett *Naomi Childers as Olga Karakoff *Christine Mayo as Patricia Melton * Edwin Stevens as Karakoff *Lionel Belmore as Rosenthal *Edwin Wallock as Durand * Clarence Wilson as Jues *Milton Ross as Slater (as H. Milton Ross) *Betty Lindley as Helen Crosby *Florence Deshon as Marquise * Jack Richardson as Pat's Pal Preservation ''Duds'' is now considered to be 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 20t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
