Billy Franey
Is eol do: Acting
Breithlá: 1889-06-23
Áit bhreithe: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ar a dtugtar: William Gerald Franey, William Franey, Wm. Franey, Bill Franey, Billie Franey
The White Panther
Australian star Rex "Snowy" Baker stars in this military melodrama. This was the first of a series of four films Baker made for producer Phil...
Scaoileadh : 1924.01.22Coitianta : 0.616
Anne Against the World
Shirley Mason plays the title-role, a glamorous musical star having a hard time escaping the clutches of her lecherous producer (Tom Curran). The...
Scaoileadh : 1929.05.01Coitianta : 0.479
She's a Prince
Starring comedienne Alice Ardell, whose persona included wearing traditionally masculine garb, who finds herself initiated into a secret flapper...
Scaoileadh : 1926.05.01Coitianta : 0.563
Code of the Northwest
A Mountie and his dog must bring in his wanted brother.
Scaoileadh : 1926.07.24Coitianta : 0.846
Red Signals
Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to...
Scaoileadh : 1927.03.01Coitianta : 0.185
War of the Range
Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range used by other ranchers. This pits father against...
Scaoileadh : 1933.09.21Coitianta : 0.433
The Dead Line
An old prospector, is found murdered and Sonora Slim is accused of the crime. The real killer is actually Silver Sam McGee.
Scaoileadh : 1926.06.27Coitianta : 0.88
King of the Saddle
A cowboy discovers that his stock is all but worthless due to the bankruptcy of a ranch owner. The supposedly worthless stock certificate bears the...
Scaoileadh : 1926.09.09Coitianta : 0.562
The Iceman's Ball
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner...
Scaoileadh : 1932.08.12Coitianta : 0.371
The Fargo Kid
The Fargo Kid is mistaken for a killer and is hired to kill another man...
Scaoileadh : 1940.12.06Coitianta : 0.97
Romance of a Rogue
A low-key silent drama of a man seeking vengeance on the villain whose lies sent him to prison on the night of his wedding.
Scaoileadh : 1928.10.01Coitianta : 0.59
Fangs of Vengeance
A short film starring "Fearless" the dog and directed by William Bertram.
Scaoileadh : 1926.08.31Coitianta : 0.564
Quincy Adams Sawyer
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
Scaoileadh : 1922.12.04Coitianta : 0.414
No More Women
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at...
Scaoileadh : 1934.03.03Coitianta : 0.718
Partners
A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.
Scaoileadh : 1932.01.08Coitianta : 0.563
The Royal Rider
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance....
Scaoileadh : 1929.02.17Coitianta : 0.826
Western Racketeers
Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher...
Scaoileadh : 1934.04.02Coitianta : 1.333
The King of the Turf
Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to...
Scaoileadh : 1926.02.28Coitianta : 0.564
The Shadow Gang
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Star Packer', complete with contemporary, pulse...
Scaoileadh : 1934.06.01Coitianta : 2.464
The Iron Mule
A train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays....
Scaoileadh : 1925.04.12Coitianta : 3.223
Dumb Dicks
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
Scaoileadh : 1932.02.08Coitianta : 0.205
Guests Wanted
Benny Rubin is a New York City vaudeville performer who inherits a hotel in California, and takes all of his ham-actor friends there, as chefs,...
Scaoileadh : 1932.01.11Coitianta : 0.573
The Cameraman
Billy is hired by the local newspaper as a cameraman. Billy gets involved in many messes and despite his efforts he cannot escape the presence of the...
Scaoileadh : 1920.12.08Coitianta : 0.536
Bullet Code
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has...
Scaoileadh : 1940.04.12Coitianta : 0.685
The Inspector's Double
It was all because John was the image of Frank, the health inspector. John lost his purse and Frank found it. Then he went to the former's house and...
Scaoileadh : 1916.09.30Coitianta : 0.23
Bashful Charley's Proposal
The widow lives in a houseboat near one of the beaches. Charley is her devoted lover, but his bashfulness prevents him from proposing. She has a...
Scaoileadh : 1916.07.01Coitianta : 0.368
When Damon Fell for Pythias
The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both...
Scaoileadh : 1917.01.11Coitianta : 1.165
The Masked Marvels
Cook Gale Henry and butler Milton Sims are arguing in the kitchen about who would make the best detective, until the lady of the house comes in to...
Scaoileadh : 1917.10.01Coitianta : 0.391
Tramp Trouble
Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. ...
Scaoileadh : 1937.08.07Coitianta : 1.711
The Water Plug
Billy is on the bum. He sees a copper writing a ticket to a driver parked in front of a fire hydrant. The driver slips the cop some money to tear up...
Scaoileadh : 1920.05.13Coitianta : 0.536
Beaux and Errors
To make Edgar do something about his physical condition, his wife has invited her old boy friend, in tip-top shape, to spend the weekend with them....
Scaoileadh : 1938.10.05Coitianta : 0.925
The Dummy Owner
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of...
Scaoileadh : 1938.01.08Coitianta : 1.348
Dumb's the Word
Edgar finds some gold in his attic and the guy working on his roof tells him he could go to jail for having it!! This is because President Franklin...
Scaoileadh : 1937.06.11Coitianta : 0.587
The Fuller Gush Man
Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.
Scaoileadh : 1934.08.16Coitianta : 0.286
She Wrote a Play and Played It
Gale Henry, at that time famous as big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick. Here as a prominent villager too interested...
Scaoileadh : 1916.08.13Coitianta : 0.395
Ride 'Em Cowboy
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
Scaoileadh : 1936.09.20Coitianta : 0.856
The Plumber
A delivery man is mistaken for a plumber; violence ensues!
Scaoileadh : 1921.06.21Coitianta : 0.6
The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' objects to Wolf's kidnapping of Ann, he is left in a...
Scaoileadh : 1933.07.20Coitianta : 0.487
The Canyon of Adventure
Steven Bancroft, a young officer in the U. S. Calvary, is given the assignment of ensuring that dirty-work by agents of Spain, Mexico or Russian...
Scaoileadh : 1928.04.21Coitianta : 0.589
The Glorious Trail
After a work crew stringing telegraph wires across the Great Plains is slaughtered by Indians, Pat O'Leary, the company superintendent, must take out...
Scaoileadh : 1928.10.28Coitianta : 0.417
Cheyenne
Cal Roberts can ride anything with four legs. He enters the contests held at big rodeo. He wins all honors and meets a girl who races horses to help...
Scaoileadh : 1929.02.03Coitianta : 0.884
The Royal American
Story of a young shanghaied sailor. Forced to work as a deckhand on a rough-and-tumble transport vessel, the sailor ends up in South America, where...
Scaoileadh : 1927.07.01Coitianta : 0.742
No Children
Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.
Scaoileadh : 1929.03.10Coitianta : 0.174
The Miracle Man
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and...
Scaoileadh : 1932.04.01Coitianta : 0.565
Love Among the Millionaires
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he...
Scaoileadh : 1930.07.05Coitianta : 1.54
'Neath the Arizona Skies
Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil...
Scaoileadh : 1934.12.05Coitianta : 5.684
Baby Daze
Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he...
Scaoileadh : 1939.05.18Coitianta : 0.592
Trouble
A slapstick comedy starring Al St. John.
Scaoileadh : 1920.03.08Coitianta : 0.491
Next Time I Marry
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would...
Scaoileadh : 1938.12.09Coitianta : 1.681
Exclusive
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government...
Scaoileadh : 1937.08.06Coitianta : 1.751
The New Member
After getting involved in a series of fist fights, Billy Franey scrawls into a reunion from the Order of Wriggle Fingers.
Scaoileadh : 1921.02.18Coitianta : 0.883
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to...
Scaoileadh : 1939.03.29Coitianta : 8.443
Stage to Chino
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
Scaoileadh : 1940.07.26Coitianta : 1.154
The Marshal Of Mesa City
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
Scaoileadh : 1939.11.03Coitianta : 0.924
The Yellow Dog Catcher
The misadventures of a dog catcher
Scaoileadh : 1919.10.19Coitianta : 0.405
Mutiny in the County
53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.
Scaoileadh : 1940.05.03Coitianta : 0.636
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a...
Scaoileadh : 1936.01.13Coitianta : 1.67
Forgotten Women
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article...
Scaoileadh : 1931.11.25Coitianta : 1.185
The Saint's Double Trouble
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Scaoileadh : 1940.01.26Coitianta : 3.603
The Dancing Millionaire
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
Scaoileadh : 1934.12.14Coitianta : 1.245
Triple Justice
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad...
Scaoileadh : 1940.09.22Coitianta : 1.265
Kit Carson Over the Great Divide
When the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the heroism of the foremost Indian scout of the day...Kit...
Scaoileadh : 1925.09.02Coitianta : 0.511
The Paper Hangers
Even the story is pretty much a retread of something out of a lesser Keystone from 1915. They eat paste. They make a general mess and they get...
Scaoileadh : 1920.05.19Coitianta : 0.494
Border Brigands
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
Scaoileadh : 1935.05.31Coitianta : 0.92
The Star Packer
John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.
Scaoileadh : 1934.07.30Coitianta : 5.126
Give Us This Night
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip...
Scaoileadh : 1936.03.06Coitianta : 2.09
The Avenger
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three,...
Scaoileadh : 1931.03.06Coitianta : 0.76
Come On, Tarzan
Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who...
Scaoileadh : 1932.09.10Coitianta : 1.186
The Gallant Fool
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the...
Scaoileadh : 1933.05.28Coitianta : 1.232
She's a Sheik
The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.
Scaoileadh : 1927.11.12Coitianta : 0.942
The Broadway Hoofer
Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter...
Scaoileadh : 1929.12.15Coitianta : 0.59
'Taint Legal
Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his...
Scaoileadh : 1940.05.25Coitianta : 0.773
Freighters of Destiny
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
Scaoileadh : 1931.10.29Coitianta : 0.671
The Night of June 13
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that...
Scaoileadh : 1932.09.17Coitianta : 1.747
Dummy Ache
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day....
Scaoileadh : 1936.07.10Coitianta : 1.314
Sunk by the Census
Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to...
Scaoileadh : 1940.08.06Coitianta : 0.398
Ears of Experience
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting...
Scaoileadh : 1938.01.28Coitianta : 0.566
Clock Wise
Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.
Scaoileadh : 1939.03.24Coitianta : 0.525
A Millionaire for a Minute
Gale, the Village Schoolmarm, wants to marry Ezekial Brown, but her Uncle objects to the match.
Scaoileadh : 1915.10.16Coitianta : 0.574
A Clean Sweep
Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living off their savings, while Edgar pretends to go to...
Scaoileadh : 1938.12.02Coitianta : 0.529
A Trailer Tragedy
Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance...
Scaoileadh : 1940.10.17Coitianta : 0.303
Wholesailing Along
Leon Errol buys a bathtub wholesale.
Scaoileadh : 1936.05.29Coitianta : 0.177
The Moonshiner
A slapstick comedy about a hobo and his moonshine.
Scaoileadh : 1920.08.11Coitianta : 0.023
The Chef
Billy and his pal are bank robbers who decide to lay low by taking jobs in a diner as a chef and waiter.
Scaoileadh : 1921.01.11Coitianta : 0.456
Why Worry
George Bunny's career as a screen comedian was an attempt to cash in on his brother, John's reputation, but George is no comedian. Here he plays a...
Scaoileadh : 1921.06.11Coitianta : 0.076
Salute
Slapstick comedians doing what they can with various uniforms on.
Scaoileadh : 1925.10.18Coitianta : 0.109
Somewhere in Sonora
John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
Scaoileadh : 1933.05.27Coitianta : 1.779
Custard's Last Stand
A black man walks into a bar. Or at least a white man with blackface on, and hilarity occurs.
Scaoileadh : 1927.08.20Coitianta : 0.57
Panama Lady
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to...
Scaoileadh : 1939.05.12Coitianta : 1.12
Loose Ankles
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the...
Scaoileadh : 1930.02.02Coitianta : 1.194
Circus Lure
Joe Henry, head of a one-ring circus, plays a small town and after the departure of the troupe a young girl, fascinated by the prospects of being a...
Scaoileadh : 1924.06.15Coitianta : 0.72
The Great Sensation
Jack Ruby (William Fairbanks), the son of a wealthy family, pretends to be a chauffeur and goes to work for Peggy Howell (Pauline Garon), a beautiful...
Scaoileadh : 1925.10.01Coitianta : 0.484
Edgar & Goliath
Edgar is offered $150 by a nurseryman for a tree on his property, and he plans to remove it with the tractor he won at the county fair. But his...
Scaoileadh : 1937.11.19Coitianta : 0.295
Maid to Order
Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When...
Scaoileadh : 1939.09.27Coitianta : 0.594
Kennedy the Great
A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trunk full of magic tricks hoping to soon be the life...
Scaoileadh : 1939.12.08Coitianta : 0.189
S.O.S. Perils of the Sea
S.O.S. Perils of the Sea is a 1925 American silent film featuring Elaine Hammerstein, directed by James P. Hogan and released through Columbia...
Scaoileadh : 1925.11.01Coitianta : 0.332
Out All Night
A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.
Scaoileadh : 1927.09.04Coitianta : 0.672
Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery
First episode in the Lady Baffles and Detective Duck one-reel comedy series. The city is being terrorized by a mysterious female Raffles. At last, in...
Scaoileadh : 1915.05.27Coitianta : 0.107
The Janitor
Billy Franey does home brew. "The Janitor" was made during Prohibition, when ANY gags about alcohol (especially the home-brewed variety) would get...
Scaoileadh : 1921.12.16Coitianta : 0.721
A Shadowed Shadow
A 1916 Joker Comedy starring Lillian Peacock
Scaoileadh : 1916.11.04Coitianta : 0.524
Under the Tonto Rim
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who...
Scaoileadh : 1928.02.04Coitianta : 1.424
Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On...
Scaoileadh : 1915.10.14Coitianta : 0.482
Quick Money
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years....
Scaoileadh : 1937.12.10Coitianta : 1.784
The Blacksmith
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers...
Scaoileadh : 1922.07.21Coitianta : 8.446
Vagabond Lady
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony...
Scaoileadh : 1935.05.03Coitianta : 1.845