Willard Mack

Willard Mack

1873-09-18 61 Credits

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The Drag-Net

The Drag-Net

1936

Theatre Play

4.7

A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

Together We Live

Together We Live

1935

as Hank

Acting

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

Together We Live

1935

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

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

Nana

1934

Dialogue, Screenplay

5.0
Writing

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

Broadway to Hollywood

1933

Director, Writer

4.6
Directing Writing

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!

Disgraced!

1933

as Martin - Defense Attorney

6.0
Acting

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?

What Price Innocence?

1933

as Dr. Dan Davidge

3.0
Acting

A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.

What Price Innocence?

What Price Innocence?

1933

Director, Writer

3.0
Directing Writing

A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.

Song of the Eagle

Song of the Eagle

1933

Writer

Writing

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

Night of Terror

1933

Story

5.5
Writing

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

Strictly Personal

1933

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

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

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

Girl of the Rio

1932

Theatre Play

5.1

A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.

Sidewalks of New York

Sidewalks of New York

1931

Dialogue

6.2

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

Sporting Blood

1931

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

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

A Free Soul

1931

Theatre Play

6.1

An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically invo...

Kick In

Kick In

1931

Original Story

6.0
Writing

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

Writing

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

Reducing

1931

Dialogue

4.3

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

6.0
Writing

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

Billy the Kid

1930

Writer

4.3
Writing

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

Olimpia

1930

Writer

Writing

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

Men of the North

1930

Story

5.0
Writing

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

Caught Short

1930

Story, Dialogue

Writing

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

Lord Byron of Broadway

1930

Writer

4.7
Writing

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

Tiger Rose

1929

Theatre Play

A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.

It's a Great Life

It's a Great Life

1929

Dialogue

4.0

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

Untamed

1929

Dialogue

5.8

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

His Glorious Night

1929

Writer

Writing

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

Madame X

1929

Dialogue

6.1

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

The Voice of the City

1929

as Biff Myers

5.8
Acting

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

The Voice of the City

1929

Story, Screenplay, Director

5.8
Writing Directing

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

Writing

The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.

Hangman's House

Hangman's House

1928

Writer

6.4
Writing

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

The Dove

1927

Theatre Play

6.4

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

Old Clothes

1925

Writer

3.0
Writing

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

The Monster

1925

Writer

5.7
Writing

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

The Rag Man

The Rag Man

1925

Story

6.5
Writing

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

Little Robinson Crusoe

1924

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

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

The Valley of Doubt

1924

Story

Writing

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

Tiger Rose

1923

Theatre Play

4.5

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

The Dangerous Maid

1923

as Sergeant Kick

Acting

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

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

The Common Sin

1920

Story

Writing

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

The Woman on the Index

1919

as Hugo Declasse

Acting

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

The Hell Cat

1918

Screenplay

Writing

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

The Witch Woman

1918

Story

Writing

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

The Wasp

1918

Story

Writing

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

Writing

Reformers pass a law to force prostitutes out of the Red Light District.

Yankee Pluck

Yankee Pluck

1917

Story

Writing

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

Writing
Kick In

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

A Woman Alone

1917

Story

Writing

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

A Child of Mystery

1916

Writer

Writing

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

Mixed Blood

1916

Story

Writing

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

All Man

1916

Story

Writing

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

A Gutter Magdalene

1916

Story

Writing

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

Her Maternal Right

1916

Scenario Writer

Writing
The Saleslady

The Saleslady

1916

Story

Writing

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

The Lost Bridegroom

1916

Writer

Writing

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

The Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg

1913

as Virginia's beau

1.0
Acting

A young woman's sweetheart fights for the Union Army, while her brother fights for the Confederates.