John Tansey (8 October 1901 – 28 April 1971), was an American actor. He appeared in 21 films from 1908 to 1932. His first appearance was in ''

The Red Man and the Child ''The Red Man and the Child'' is a 1908 American black-and-white short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith for the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. It stars Charles Inslee and six-year old John Tansey. Cast * Charles Inslee a ...

'' (1908). He wrote and directed the films ''Wild and Wooly'' in 1924 and ''Romance of the West'' in 1930. He was born in New York City and died in Hollywood, California. His mother was actress Emma Tansey and his brothers were Robert Emmett "Bob" Tansey and James Sheridan Tansey.Robert Emmett Tansey; b-westerns website
Retrieved August 15, 2017 He had a cousin also named John Tansey who was born in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

Selected filmography

* ''

And a Little Child Shall Lead Them ''And a Little Child Shall Lead Them'' is a 1909 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film exists in the film archive of the Library of Congress. Cast * Marion Leonard as The Mother * Arthur V. Johnson ...

'' (1909) * ''

A Trap for Santa ''A Trap for Santa Claus'' is a 1909 one-reel American silent drama film. A Biograph Company production, it was directed by D. W. Griffith and stars Henry B. Walthall, Marion Leonard, and Gladys Egan. Plot Arthur Rogers (Walthall) is an unempl ...

'' (1909) * ''

Barnaby Lee John Bennett (May 14, 1865 – December 28, 1956) was an American author who is best known for the children's books that he wrote and illustrated. Some of them are anthologies of stories based on black folk tales, especially those drawn from the ...

'' (1917) * ''

Little Miss Hoover ''Little Miss Hoover'' is a 1918 American silent film, silent romantic drama film directed by John S. Robertson and stars Marguerite Clark. The film is based on the novel ''The Golden Bird'', by Maria Thompson Daviess. A 35mm print of the film is ...

'' (1918)(*uncredited) * ''

The Heart of a Girl ''The Heart of a Girl'' is a lost 1918 American silent drama film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Barbara Castleton, Irving Cummings and Charles Wellesley.Spehr p.187 Cast * Barbara Castleton as Betty Lansing * Irving Cummings as Br ...

'' (1918) * ''

Trouping with Ellen ''Trouping with Ellen'' is a 1924 American silent comedy film starring Basil Rathbone, Gaston Glass, Helene Chadwick, and Mary Thurman. Based on a short story by Earl Derr Biggers that appeared in ''The Saturday Evening Post'', this was Rathbon ...

'' (1924) * ''

The Sky Rider ''The Sky Rider'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Alan James and starring Gareth Hughes and Josephine Hill.Pitts, p. 85 Cast * Champion the Dog as Champion * Gareth Hughes as Dick * Josephine Hill as Alice Allan * J.P. Lockney ...

'' (1928) * '' Romance of the West'' (1930) * ''

Riders of the Rio ''Riders of the Rio'' is a 1931 American western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey and starring Lane Chandler, Sheldon Lewis and Ben Corbett.Pitts p.280 It is an independent film, independently-produced second feature, shot partly location sho ...

'' (1931)

Bibliography

*John Holmstrom, ''The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995'', Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 19–20.

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* * 1901 births 1971 deaths American male child actors American male film actors American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1900s-stub