Tom McGuire (1 September 1873 – 6 May 1954) was an English stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1919 and 1949. He was born in
Lancashire
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California
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Selected filmography
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The Woman Under Oath
''The Woman Under Oath'' is a 1919 American silent mystery film directed by John M. Stahl and starring stage star Florence Reed. As with the previous Stahl and Reed film, ''Her Code of Honor'', it was produced by Tribune Productions and released ...
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The Road of Ambition
''The Road of Ambition'' is a 1920 American silent film, silent drama film directed by William P.S. Earle and starring Conway Tearle, Florence Dixon and Gladden James.Katchmer p.934
Cast
* Conway Tearle as Bill Matthews
* Florence Dixon as Daphne ...
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The Romance Promoters
''The Romance Promoters'' is a 1920 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Chester Bennett and starring Earle Williams, Helen Ferguson and Charles Wingate.Rainey p.141
Cast
* Earle Williams as Captain Todd, D.S.O. / Todfield King
* Hele ...
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The Girl in the Taxi
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Cinderella of the Hills
''Cinderella of the Hills'' is a lost film, lost 1921 silent film, silent drama film directed by Howard M. Mitchell and starring Barbara Bedford (actress), Barbara Bedford and Barbara La Marr. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporati ...
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See My Lawyer
''See My Lawyer'' is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and written by Edmund Hartmann and Stanley Davis. It is based on the 1939 musical ''See My Lawyer'' by Richard Maibaum and Harry Clork. The film stars Ole Olsen, Chi ...
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A Front Page Story
''A Front Page Story'' is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Jess Robbins and starring Edward Everett Horton, Lloyd Ingraham, and James Corrigan.Monaco p. 263.
Cast
* Edward Everett Horton as Rodney Marvin
* Lloyd Ingraham as Mayor ...
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The Ladder Jinx
''The Ladder Jinx'' is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Jess Robbins and starring Edward Everett Horton, Margaret Landis and Tully Marshall.Munden p.411
Cast
* Edward Everett Horton as Arthur Barnes
* Margaret Landis as Helen ...
The Self-Made Wife
''The Self-Made Wife'' is a 1923 American silent melodrama film, directed by John Francis Dillon. It stars Ethel Grey Terry, Crauford Kent, and Virginia Ainsworth, and was released on July 8, 1923. It was written by Albert G. Kenyon based upon ...
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Why Women Remarry
''Why Women Remarry'' is a 1923 American silent crime drama film directed by John Gorman and starring Milton Sills, Ethel Grey Terry and William Lowery.Munden p.899
Synopsis
Martin Talbot, a heavy gambler who mistreats his family is murdered ...
The Reckless Age
''The Reckless Age'' is a 1924 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Reginald Denny. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is based on the novel ''Love Insurance'' by Earl Derr Biggers a ...
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Dark Stairways
''Dark Stairways'' is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Herbert Rawlinson, Ruth Dwyer, and Hayden Stevenson.
Cast
Preservation
With no prints of ''Dark Stairways'' located in any film archives, it is ...
Fighting Fate
''Fighting Fate'' is a 1925 American silent sports film directed by Albert S. Rogell
Albert S. Rogell (August 21, 1901 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - April 7, 1988 Los Angeles, California) was an American film director.
Rogell directed more than a ...
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Flaming Waters
''Flaming Waters'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Malcolm McGregor, Pauline Garon, and Mary Carr
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You'd Be Surprised
"You'd Be Surprised" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1919 which Eddie Cantor interpolated it into Ziegfeld's ''Follies of 1919''. Cantor soon recorded it and it became a major hit. Other popular versions in 1920 were by the All-Star Trio a ...
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Pleasure Before Business
''Pleasure Before Business'' is a 1927 silent film comedy directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Max Davidson and Virginia Brown Faire. The film was produced and distributed by then upstart studio Columbia Pictures.
Preserved at the Library o ...
Voice of the City
''The Voice of the City'' is a 1929 American Pre-Code film by Willard Mack and starring Robert Ames. Modeled on a stage play, it is not related to the story of the same name by O. Henry.City Girl'' (1930)
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Politics
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Breach of Promise
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From at least the Middle ...
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
''Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round'' is a 1934 American drama film with musical and comedic elements, directed by Benjamin Stoloff.
Plot
Gangster Lee Lother ( Sidney Blackmer) is shot and killed during an ocean liner cruise, and we're introduced in ...