Jack Richardson
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1870-11-17
Locus Natus: New York City, New York, USA
Et ut: Jack Howard Richardson
The Mating Season
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her...
release : 1951.01.12popularis : 7.325
Mr. Celebrity
A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
release : 1941.10.10popularis : 3.637
A Dangerous Adventure
Grace Darmond, who had made quite a splash in the 1921 (and still extant) serial The Hope Diamond Mystery, returned to the Saturday matinees as...
release : 1922.11.01popularis : 0.451
The Silent Avenger
The Silent Avenger is an American silent action film
release : 1920.04.20popularis : 1.207
Fightin' Mad
Returning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud McGraw becomes restless, and his father decides to...
release : 1921.11.20popularis : 0.844
Her Honor, the Governor
The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house....
release : 1926.07.19popularis : 1.733
Giving Becky a Chance
Since she is an only child, Becky Knight (Vivian Martin) is a bit spoiled by her parents (P.H. Sosso and Alice Knowland), who run a general store....
release : 1917.06.17popularis : 1.561
The Rainmaker
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he...
release : 1926.05.10popularis : 4.483
The Dude Wrangler
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this...
release : 1930.07.01popularis : 1.634
Code of the Northwest
A Mountie and his dog must bring in his wanted brother.
release : 1926.07.24popularis : 0.962
Avenging Fangs
A dog and his dead master's brother track down murderers.
release : 1927.06.04popularis : 0.886
The Show Down
Cowboy Snappy Walton (Art Acord) trying to same a damsel in distress, hunting down the bad men that's troubling her in this 2-reel western.
release : 1921.02.26popularis : 0.508
Destinies Fulfilled
Back in '65 there was an old Southern fire eater, Pennington, and his daughter, Lucille, fell in love with Carr who was then a lieutenant in the...
release : 1914.01.12popularis : 1.05
The Invisible Man
Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden...
release : 1933.11.03popularis : 20.583
The Perfect Clue
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs...
release : 1935.03.13popularis : 0.775
The Silent Trailer
"Fearless" the dog saves the day in this silent short.
release : 1926.09.30popularis : 1.572
Borrowed Hero
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
release : 1941.12.05popularis : 6.478
Boobs and Bricks
A pretty female drummer charms the rural swains. She borrows money and makes away with it. The village belle then refuses to take back her old...
release : 1913.04.21popularis : 2.831
The Sheepman's Daughter
Richard Mead was a sheepherder who lived with his daughter in a hut in the mountains. He was hated by the cattlemen and was ordered to quit the...
release : 1911.06.01popularis : 2.106
The Story of the Olive
In Southern California lived Jose de Cabrillo on an estate which he had inherited from his ancestors, who obtained the land from the King of Spain....
release : 1914.05.06popularis : 2.104
The Mother of the Ranch
James Collins leaves his dear old mother and goes West, where he becomes connected with the Bar Diamond Outfit. He finds the life of a cowboy arduous...
release : 1911.09.14popularis : 0.652
Land O' Lizards
Eastern capitalists hire a stranger to head out to Arizona to investigate property near the Bar C Ranch, which contains gold. The Bar C is run by...
release : 1916.09.18popularis : 1.553
Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
'Calamity,' having fallen into money, receives a letter purporting to be from two long lost cousins, who were really Los Angeles confidence men. With...
release : 1913.06.26popularis : 1.67
Maid to Order
While trying to nab a gang of diamond smugglers, the police are notified by Scotland Yard that the gang's leader, a beautiful Englishwoman who was on...
release : 1931.08.28popularis : 1.184
Without Honors
Jack Marian isa gambler with an unsavory past. Suspected of being an outlaw, Jack plays along with this misconception, the better to infiltrate a...
release : 1932.01.02popularis : 1.911
Too Much Speed
Egotistical race-car driver Dusty Rhoades learns that humility pays off even better than acclaim.
release : 1921.06.05popularis : 2.01
The Old Maid's Baby
Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends most of her time with her lame dog and an elephant.
release : 1919.02.23popularis : 1.153
Blood Money
The sheriff, Dan Beckham, and his deputy, Bud Cameron, are posting signs offering a reward for the capture of Cheyenne Harry, accused of holding up a...
release : 1917.01.06popularis : 0.677
The Chinatown Mystery
Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought...
release : 1928.09.01popularis : 0.882
The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Sheriff Crane's wife and child are preparing for a little journey with their wagon and team. On arriving at the store, the wife, on attempting to get...
release : 1917.01.13popularis : 0.631
The Outlaw and the Lady
Major Carter, owner of the Sunset mines, reads of a reward offered for Cheyenne Harry if captured. The butler gives him a telegram telling of the...
release : 1917.02.10popularis : 0.612
Tiger Thompson
Tiger Thompson promises a dying train robber to mind his innocent daughter and return the stolen loot. Along the way, Thompson is attacked by the...
release : 1924.07.13popularis : 0.647
Lightnin' Jack
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Lightnin' Jack travels to Arizona where he gets a job on the Manning ranch. Two men are out to get the Manning...
release : 1924.12.22popularis : 1.684
Trigger Tricks
Out to avenge his brother's death at the hands of cattleman Kingston, Tim gets hired at Dawley's sheep ranch. The sheep men are greatly outnumbered...
release : 1930.06.01popularis : 1.882
The Wanderer
A ranchman is best by a bully whose unwelcome attentions are resented by the ranchman's daughter. Everything seems to be in favor of the bully until...
release : 1912.10.31popularis : 2.048
The Strange Boarder
Honest Arizona rancher Sam Gardner, goes with his motherless son Billy to the city, where he is cheated out of ten thousand dollars by a band of...
release : 1920.04.01popularis : 2.411
The Unknown Man
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
release : 1951.11.09popularis : 3.928
The Pilgrim
Short western by Frank Borzage about a man called The Pilgrim who comes into a new town, establishes himself and falls in love with a woman.
release : 1916.06.09popularis : 2.9
The Pitch o' Chance
One of the earliest surviving short films by Franke Borzage. A simple western about a man who enjoys boozing, gambling and women.
release : 1915.12.24popularis : 2.026
Dynamite Dan
Dan (Kenneth MacDonald) knocks out the foreman (Boris Karloff) at his workplace so the foreman accuses him of stealing money from the company safe....
release : 1924.10.02popularis : 1.688
Golden Rule Kate
The setting is the Old West town of Paradise, Nevada, where a young woman, Mercedes Murphy (played by Louise Glaum), co-owns and operates a...
release : 1917.08.12popularis : 0.872
Unwritten Law of the West
A Mexican girl stabs a man who has wronged her. The hero is arrested for the crime and though the crime cannot be fastened upon him, is advised by...
release : 1913.06.19popularis : 0.647
Danger on the Air
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the...
release : 1938.06.30popularis : 2.407
They Never Come Back
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to...
release : 1932.05.10popularis : 4.586
Long Lost Father
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
release : 1934.01.19popularis : 4.205
Gun Justice
Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the imposter,...
release : 1933.12.11popularis : 2.932
The Reckoning Day
During World War I, Jane Whiting, a bright young lawyer who is engaged to Senator Wheeler, is assigned by the district attorney to expose a gang of...
release : 1918.10.20popularis : 0.93
The Son of Kong
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
release : 1933.12.22popularis : 8.155
Partners in Crime
After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is...
release : 1928.03.01popularis : 1.375
Scandal for Sale
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
release : 1932.04.01popularis : 3.798
Sailor's Holiday
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a...
release : 1929.09.14popularis : 1.749
Souls for Sale
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
release : 1923.04.22popularis : 3.64
History Is Made at Night
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep...
release : 1937.03.05popularis : 4.229
The Sunrise Trail
Working under cover, Tex goes south of the border and joins Rand's gang where he befriends gang member Kansas. He plans to lead the gang into the...
release : 1931.02.07popularis : 2.024
Scandal Sheet
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
release : 1931.01.31popularis : 2.442
The Ballyhoo Buster
Bob Warner sells some cattle to two men who later drug him and rob him of the sale money. He takes a job with a medicine show as a barker, offering a...
release : 1928.01.08popularis : 1.988
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...
release : 1939.03.29popularis : 7.75
News Is Made at Night
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...
release : 1939.07.20popularis : 1.791
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He...
release : 1939.10.19popularis : 10.586
The Housekeeper's Daughter
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
release : 1939.10.26popularis : 3.434
Chiselers of Hollywood
Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
release : 1930.12.29popularis : 1.216
The Toll Gate
Outlaw Black Deering leads a band of desperadoes, but decides to give up the bandit life. Agreeing to go on one last job with his gang, he is...
release : 1920.04.15popularis : 2.016
Rangers of Fortune
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small...
release : 1940.09.27popularis : 3.152
The Daring Young Man
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...
release : 1935.07.17popularis : 3.707
The Lady Eve
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean...
release : 1941.02.25popularis : 6.882
Fog Bound
Silent film directed by Irvin Willat
release : 1923.05.27popularis : 1.967
The Distant Relative
The distant relative is a scheming woman who installs herself as the guardian of the two orphan girls and then tries to gain possession of their...
release : 1912.04.14popularis : 0.924
A Summer Place
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic...
release : 1959.11.18popularis : 10.041
Walloping Kid
A handsome boxer is sent out to manage his father's ranch. This is no easy task, as the ranch foreman's a no-good louse!
release : 1926.01.05popularis : 1.666
Across the Plains
Helen Williams, lured to a wild cattle-town on the promise of a job learns that the job she has is not the kind she thought she had, and finds...
release : 1928.06.26popularis : 1.274
Dangerous Hours
Idealistic young American falls under the influence of Communist agitators.
release : 1919.12.17popularis : 0.968
I Sell Anything
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
release : 1934.10.20popularis : 4.896
Eagle of the Night
1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action serial from Pathe was one of the studio's last. Some...
release : 1928.10.20popularis : 0.739
Marked Money
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left instructions that The Boy is to be delivered to...
release : 1928.11.11popularis : 2.19
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and...
release : 1940.12.19popularis : 4.583
The Sea Hawk
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
release : 1940.08.10popularis : 7.385
A Chump at Oxford
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and...
release : 1940.01.25popularis : 6.32
The End of the Game
A love story that takes place at the time of the gold rush. Prospector Allister Burke is in love with Mary, but he believe the slanderous lies that...
release : 1919.03.24popularis : 1.404
Stage Door
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a...
release : 1937.10.08popularis : 10.216
Trapped in a Forest Fire
Robert, a young businessman, has a house party at his shooting lodge in the Adirondack Mountains. Among the guests are Vera, with whom Robert is in...
release : 1913.12.08popularis : 1.312
Afraid to Talk
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
release : 1932.11.17popularis : 2.357
Dangerous Love
A love quadrangle in a Western mining town leads to fisticuffs and reconciliation before the fade out.
release : 1920.12.01popularis : 1.247
Our Leading Citizen
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to...
release : 1939.08.23popularis : 2.087
Gun Code
This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. Don't be...
release : 1940.08.03popularis : 3.079
Gun Smoke
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in...
release : 1931.04.10popularis : 2.204
The Poisoned Flume
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Kendall found the management of the ranch, with its attendant responsibilities, a source of worry. Her daughter,...
release : 1911.08.13popularis : 1.602
Calamity Anne's Ward
During the raid on an emigrant train the girl and her brother, the only survivors, are attacked by the villain who kidnaps the girl and takes her to...
release : 1912.09.29popularis : 2.071
Obliging Young Lady
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
release : 1942.04.01popularis : 4.385
The Costello Case
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
release : 1930.10.14popularis : 1.096
The Midnight Express
Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad...
release : 1924.06.01popularis : 1.058
The Rainmakers
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous...
release : 1935.10.25popularis : 3.174
A Life for a Kiss
Jim Richeson was a haunted man, but he smiled carelessly as he handled the sign offering a reward for his capture, dead or alive. He smiled again as...
release : 1912.08.01popularis : 2.845
Melody of Love
Historically significant as Universal's first 100% all-talkie, the production suffered from having a tight shooting schedule. Carl Laemmle was only...
release : 1928.10.10popularis : 2.281
Ridin' Wild
Like many Easterners who suffer from consumption, "The White Plague," Jim Warren goes to Arizona for the curative powers of its dry climate. When he...
release : 1925.09.16popularis : 0.892
Border Vengeance
After Wes Channing's partner, the feckless Buck Littleton, loses his half-interest in their ranch to gambler Flash Denby, Wes stands up against the...
release : 1925.08.12popularis : 0.651
Maid of Salem
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem,...
release : 1937.02.12popularis : 2.583
Ashes of Hope
Set in the Great White North, the film stars Bennett as the object of affections for several rugged northerners, including a couple of disreputable...
release : 1917.10.06popularis : 1.416
3 Kids and a Queen
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in...
release : 1935.10.21popularis : 1.502
I Shot Jesse James
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford...
release : 1949.02.26popularis : 4.965
The Devil to Pay!
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into...
release : 1930.12.18popularis : 7.055
Dishonored Lady
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly...
release : 1947.05.16popularis : 5.983
The Merry Frinks
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
release : 1934.05.26popularis : 4.916
Black Market Babies
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get...
release : 1945.12.15popularis : 3.554
South o' Santa Fe
A ranch owner hires a young woman (Texas Guinan) to serve as foreman over a rambunctious group of cowboys.
release : 1919.05.24popularis : 0.724
One Splendid Hour
While on a "slumming" excursion, debutante Bobbie Walsh (Viola Dana) falls in love with tenement-district doctor Thornton (Allan Simpson). Not...
release : 1929.05.01popularis : 1.773
American Born
The dying mother, tells her only child, an orphan, of the wealth and power of her family and of her royal blood.
release : 1913.12.01popularis : 1.257
Beware of Strangers
Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
release : 1917.02.10popularis : 2.004
The Climax
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad...
release : 1944.10.20popularis : 6.114
The Sawdust Ring
Janet sets out to find her circus ringleader father, who her mother abandoned believing him to be unfaithful. Along the way, Janet and her friend...
release : 1917.07.15popularis : 1.859
Love or Justice
Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal world. He passes his idle hours in the slums where...
release : 1917.06.10popularis : 0.619
You Can't Believe Everything
Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy...
release : 1918.06.23popularis : 1.254
Wife or Country
Sylvia Hamilton rehabilitates an alcoholic attorney and marries him. When World War I breaks out, she is persuaded to help the German cause and later...
release : 1918.12.29popularis : 1.214
The Daring Years
Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning. Moran and John get into a fight in...
release : 1923.09.15popularis : 2.045
Geronimo’s Last Raid
Lieutenant Parker reports for duty to Major Wilkins, commanding Ft. Sill, where Geronimo is a prisoner. Parker quickly wins the love of Pauline, the...
release : 1912.11.09popularis : 1.13
The Leatherneck
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three...
release : 1929.02.24popularis : 3.158
Police Court
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
release : 1932.02.19popularis : 2.975
The Cowboy and the Artist
Two guys and a girl in the wild west.
release : 1911.09.04popularis : 2.59
Land of Wanted Men
A cowboy takes a job as sheriff in a small town and finds that one of his first jobs is trying to stop trouble between newly arrived sheepmen and...
release : 1931.10.30popularis : 1.809
The Man from New Mexico
The cattle on the Langton Ranch are mysteriously dying and cowhands are disappearing or being shot. Two Langton riders bring a wounded rider they...
release : 1932.04.01popularis : 0.709