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Si Jenks
Si Jenks (born Howard Hansell Jenkins; September 23, 1876 – January 6, 1970) was an American actor. He was involved in 224 films in a career spanning nearly two decades in vaudeville and films. His best known appearances includes ''The Village Blacksmith'', ''The Rider of the Law'', ''Oregon Trail'', '' The Cowboy Star'', ''Zorro's Black Whip'' and '' The Great Train Robbery''. Early life Jenks was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania on September 23, 1876, to parents John and Catherine Jenkins. As a young boy, Jenks would enjoy watching his local champion baseball team. On one occasion, he was summoned to act as umpire after the crowd grew dissatisfied with the person who had been appointed to adjudge the game. Jenks accepted the challenge "with boyish alacrity", surrendering his seat on a soapbox and ultimately was accepted by the audience with his decision making. From April 1898 to October 1898, he served in the National Guard of the United States as a reserve volunteer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rider Of The Law
''The Rider of the Law'' is a 1935 American Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury. Plot summary Cast * Bob Steele as Bob Marlow * Gertrude Messinger as Ann Carver * Si Jenks as Buffalo Brady * Lloyd Ingraham as Colonel Carver * John Elliott as Town Mayor * Earl Dwire as Razor Tolliver * Forrest Taylor as Gambler * Jack Kirk as Jake Tolliver See also * Bob Steele filmography American actor Bob Steele (Robert North Bradbury Jr. January 23, 1907December 21, 1988), and his twin brother Bill were the sons of film director Robert N. Bradbury. The twins began their acting career in the silent film ''The Adventures of Bill ... External links * * 1935 films 1935 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Robert N. Bradbury 1930s American films {{1930s-Western-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets. It became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s, but the idea of vaudeville's theatre changed radically from its French antecedent. In some ways analogous to music hall from Victorian Britain, a typical North American vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightning Range
''Lightning Range'' is a 1933 American Western film directed by Victor Adamson and starring Buddy Roosevelt, Patsy Bellamy and Lafe McKee.Pitts p.4 Plot Cast * Buddy Roosevelt as Deputy Marshal Buddy * Patsy Bellamy as Dorothy Horton * Lafe McKee as Judge Williams * Olin Francis as Black Pete * Si Jenks as Hezekiah Simmons * Anne Howard as Hester * Bartlett A. Carre as Jim * Ken Broeker as Sheriff * William Barrymore as Boob * Clyde McClary as Miner * Betty Butler as Eastern Girl * Jack Evans as Jack Knife * Jack Bronston as Deputy Sheriff * Victor Adamson Albert Victor Adamson (January 4, 1890 – November 9, 1972) was a New Zealand director, producer, screenwriter, and actor most famous for directing and starring in B and Z grade westerns in the early days of motion pictures. Adamson often ... as Bridegroom References Bibliography * Michael R. Pitts. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self Defense (1932 Film)
''Self Defense'' is a 1932 pre-Code American drama film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Pauline Frederick. It was produced and distributed by Monogram Pictures. It is preserved in the Library of Congress film collection. Cast *Pauline Frederick - Katy Devoux *Theodore von Eltz - Tim Reed *Barbara Kent - Nona Devoux *Claire Windsor - Alice * Robert Elliott - Dan Simmons *Henry B. Walthall - Doctor Borden *Jameson Thomas - Jeff Bowman *Willie Fung - Charlie *Lafe McKee - Sandy McKenzie *Si Jenks - Farmer *George "Gabby" Hayes George Francis "Gabby" Hayes (7 May 1885 – 9 February 1969) was an American actor. He began as something of a leading man and a character player, but he was best known for his numerous appearances in B-Western film series as the bewhiskered, c ... - Jury foreman References External links * * lobby poster 1932 films Films directed by Phil Rosen Monogram Pictures films 1932 drama films American black-and-white films American drama films 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picking Peaches
Picking or Pickings may refer to: Activities * Fruit picking * Guitar picking, various techniques for playing a guitar * Lock picking, the art of unlocking a lock without the original key * Nose-picking, the act of extracting mucus and/or foreign bodies from the nose * Skin picking, or Dermatillomania * Continental knitting, a style of knitting also known as picking * In computer graphics, the task of determining which screen-rendered object a user has clicked on * Order picking, in logistics the task of selecting an item for shipment People * Jake Picking (born 1991), American actor * Jonti Picking (born 1975), British web personality and flash animator * Sherwood Picking (1890–1941), United States Navy officer Other uses * Pickings, another word for plunder Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logansport Pharos-Tribune
The ''Pharos-Tribune'' is a Monday through Saturday (Weekend Edition) morning newspaper based in Logansport, Indiana, covering Cass County, Indiana. The newspaper and its commercial printing facility in Logansport's Industrial Park are owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. History Early ''Pharos'' The forerunner of the newspaper presently serving the six-county area was a four-page publication printed on a crude hand press brought to Logansport on a riverboat from Ohio by Samuel A. Hall in 1844. The journeyman printer christened his paper the ''Democratic Pharos'' and the first issue of the six-column paper appeared July 24 of that year. The competition among newspapers in Cass County was exceptionally fierce. Some publications lasted only a few months; some lived for a few years. The list of discontinued newspapers undoubtedly offered 20-year-old Hall little encouragement that his publication would continue through the years, but it has. Hall's staunch Democratic Party bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motion Picture & Television Fund
The Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) is a charitable organization that offers assistance and care to those in the motion picture and television industries and their families with limited or no resources, including services such as temporary financial assistance, case management, and residential living. Origin During the 1930s, the untimely deaths of several former Hollywood stars who ended up destitute shook the community. These included Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, John Bowers, Karl Dane, Florence Lawrence, Marie Prevost and Lou Tellegen. In 1940, Jean Hersholt, then president of the Motion Picture Relief Fund, found of walnut and orange groves in the southwest end of the San Fernando Valley which were selling for US$850 an acre ($0.21/m2) ($40,800). The fund's board purchased the parcel that same year to build the Motion Picture Country House. To offset the costs for the first buildings, which were designed by architect William Pereira, were sold. Mary Pickford an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bury, Greater Manchester
Bury ( ) is a market town on the River Irwell in Greater Manchester, England. Metropolitan Borough of Bury is administered from the town, which had an estimated population of 78,723 in 2015. The town is within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire. It emerged in the Industrial Revolution as a mill town manufacturing textiles. The town is known for the open-air Bury Market and black pudding, the traditional local dish. Sir Robert Peel was born in the town. Peel was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who founded the Metropolitan Police and the Conservative Party. A memorial and monument for Peel, the former stands outside Bury parish church and the latter overlooks the borough on Holcombe Hill. The town is east of Bolton and southwest of Rochdale. It is northwest of Manchester, having a Manchester Metrolink tram terminus. History Toponymy The name ''Bury'' (also earlier known as ''Buri'' and ''Byri'') comes from an Old English word, meaning ''castle'', ''str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by Delaware Bay and the state of Delaware. At , New Jersey is the fifth-smallest state in land area; but with close to 9.3 million residents, it ranks 11th in population and first in population density. The state capital is Trenton, and the most populous city is Newark. With the exception of Warren County, all of the state's 21 counties lie within the combined statistical areas of New York City or Philadelphia. New Jersey was first inhabited by Native Americans for at least 2,800 years, with the Lenape being the dominant group when Europeans arrived in the early 17th century. Dutch and Swedish colonists founded the first European settlements in the state. The British later seized control o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighting Shadows
''Fighting Shadows'' is a 1935 American Western film directed by David Selman from a screenplay by Ford Beebe, which stars Tim McCoy, Robert Allen, Geneva Mitchell, and Ward Bond. Cast List * Tim McCoy as Tim O'Hara * Robert Allen as Bob Rutledge * Geneva Mitchell as Martha Harrison * Ward Bond as Brad Harrison * Si Jenks as Hank Bascom * Otto Hoffman as Stalkey * James Mason as Horn * Bud Osborne as Randall * Edward LeSaint as Duncan (as Edward Le Saint) * Richard Alexander as Maddigan * Allan Sears as Gavin * Walter Shumway as Jones * Jess Caven as Hawkins * Fred Malatesta as Dusquesne * Ethan Laidlaw as Brannon * Howard C. Hickman as Inspector Rutledge * George C. Pearce as Father O'Donovan * Charles E. Brinley as Lakue * Jack Mower as Orderly * Rhody Hathaway as Woodsman * Steve Clark as Woodsman * Monte Carter as Trapper * Robert Wilber as Trapper (Cast list as per AFI AFI may refer to: * ''Address-family identifier'', a 16 bit field of the Routing Informat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
