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Complete Filmography

The Drag-Net
1936
Theatre Play
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

Together We Live
1935
as Hank
A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement i...

Together We Live
1935
Writer, Director
A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement i...

Nana
1934
Dialogue, Screenplay
Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck th...

Broadway to Hollywood
1933
Director, Writer
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

Disgraced!
1933
as Martin - Defense Attorney
A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets...

What Price Innocence?
1933
as Dr. Dan Davidge
A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.

What Price Innocence?
1933
Director, Writer
A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.

Song of the Eagle
1933
Writer
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upo...

Night of Terror
1933
Story
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family ar...

Strictly Personal
1933
Screenplay
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these wer...

The Billion Dollar Scandal
1933
Dialogue
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.

Girl of the Rio
1932
Theatre Play
A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.

Sidewalks of New York
1931
Dialogue
A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a mor...

Sporting Blood
1931
Screenplay
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.

A Free Soul
1931
Theatre Play
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically invo...

Kick In
1931
Original Story
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for...
Monsieur Le Fox
1931
Writer
Louis le Roy a.k.a. Monsieur le Fox, a trapper, is accused of stealing from gold diggers. Alternate-language version of Men of the North (1930).

Reducing
1931
Dialogue
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Monsieur Le Fox
1930
Writer
Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant (Robert Elliott) suspects Louis LeBey (Gilbert Roland). When Louis is attracted to newly arri...

Billy the Kid
1930
Writer
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garr...

Olimpia
1930
Writer
Spanish version of the MGM romance, His Glorious Night: in the old Austro-Hungarian empire, a princess rejects her arranged marriage and loves, instea...

Men of the North
1930
Story
Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin, Woolie-Woolie be...

Caught Short
1930
Story, Dialogue
Landladies Polly Smith and Marie Jones, who operate boardinghouses on the same side of the street, are afflicted with numerous petty envies and jealou...

Lord Byron of Broadway
1930
Writer
A talented songwriter gets his inspiration for songs from others and not from within himself. He is oblivious that he may harm other people when he us...

Tiger Rose
1929
Theatre Play
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.

It's a Great Life
1929
Dialogue
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act u...

Untamed
1929
Dialogue
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man ...

His Glorious Night
1929
Writer
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry of...

Madame X
1929
Dialogue
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her...

The Voice of the City
1929
as Biff Myers
An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that fr...

The Voice of the City
1929
Story, Screenplay, Director
An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that fr...
Sharp Tools
1928
Writer
The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.

Hangman's House
1928
Writer
Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with he...

The Dove
1927
Theatre Play
Norma Talmadge plays a Mexican saloon singer, known as 'The Dove.' She is romanced by a young caballero and menaced by a Villa-like brute of a dictato...

Old Clothes
1925
Writer
Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love wit...

The Monster
1925
Writer
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

The Rag Man
1925
Story
Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York fre...

Little Robinson Crusoe
1924
Screenplay
Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, but he is shipwrecked and stranded on an island in...

The Valley of Doubt
1924
Story
Dissipated youth Tommy Hilgrade is sent to the lumber lands in the Northwest by his father who hopes that hard living will reform his son. Accompanyin...

Tiger Rose
1923
Theatre Play
Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading p...

The Dangerous Maid
1923
as Sergeant Kick
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has...

Kick In
1922
Theatre Play
After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool pigeon for the cops, they hound him mercilessly. H...

The Common Sin
1920
Story
Wall Street financier Frederick Searles goes bankrupt, prompting his mercenary wife to marry their eldest daughter Needa to the wealthy, disreputable ...

The Woman on the Index
1919
as Hugo Declasse
Sylvia Martin is a destitute young woman who is taken home by Louis Gordon. She doesn't realize he's the leader of a gang of crooks until after she ma...

The Hell Cat
1918
Screenplay
Pancha O'Brien, the beautiful and spirited daughter of an Irish ranch owner, is loved by two men, Sheriff Jack Webb, whom she loves, and outlaw Jim Dy...

The Witch Woman
1918
Story
Seduced and abandoned by the caddish Louis La Farge shepherdess Marie Beaupre is cast out of the village and forced to survive in the mountains alone....

The Wasp
1918
Story
Grace Culver's sharp tongue, has garnered her with the nicknamed "The Wasp." A spirited disagreement with her canning magnate father, John Culver, res...
Who's Your Neighbor?
1917
Story
Reformers pass a law to force prostitutes out of the Red Light District.

Yankee Pluck
1917
Story
Once a wealthy man, John Pollard now resides in reduced circumstances in Washington, D.C. with his pretty daughter Polly. Despite the poor conditions,...
The Grip of Love
1917
Story

Kick In
1917
Theatre Play
Kick In is a lost 1917 silent film crime melodrama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring William Courtenay. It is based on the 1914 Broadway pla...

A Woman Alone
1917
Story
Alice Brady plays a farm girl who marries the son of her next-door neighbor. Her dreams of a gay social whirl are shattered when her husband takes a j...

A Child of Mystery
1916
Writer
In New York's Little Italy, Carlotta's life is run by Black Hand leaders who will not let her see her sweetheart Tom. The Black Handers also control t...

Mixed Blood
1916
Story
For Nita Valyez, who is half-Spanish and half-Irish, Carlos represents potential violence and danger, two things to which she is both attracted and re...

All Man
1916
Story
Jim Blake, the playboy son of a New York millionaire, heads west to prove himself a man. He goes to work on his father's ranch in Wyoming, and eventua...

A Gutter Magdalene
1916
Story
Maida Carrington goes to the city with gambler Jack Morgan but flees after witnessing him stealing money from Steve Boyce. Joining the Salvation Army,...

Her Maternal Right
1916
Scenario Writer

The Saleslady
1916
Story
Poverty forces Helen Shirley, a country lass, into New York in search of a living. Shy and unsophisticated, Helen falls an easy victim of the notoriou...

The Lost Bridegroom
1916
Writer
Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.

The Battle of Gettysburg
1913
as Virginia's beau
A young woman's sweetheart fights for the Union Army, while her brother fights for the Confederates.