Biography
Often confused with the British-born comic actor J. Pat O'Malley, who is the better remembered, silent dramatic film star Pat O'Malley had an enduring career that stands on its own. He was of solid Irish-American stock, born in Forest City, Pennsylvania, in 1890. A one-time railroad switchman, he also had circus experience by the time he discovered an interest in movie making. He began with the Kalem Studio in 1913 and appeared in a few Irish films before signing on with Thomas Edison's c...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
2019
as Mr. Wilson (archive footage)
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom ...

Days of Wine and Roses
1963
as Tenant (uncredited)
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Blackjack Ketchum Desperado
1956
as Doc Blaine
A former gunslinger comes to the aid of ranchers battling a murderous land baron.

A Star Is Born
1954
as Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

The Wild One
1953
as Sawyer (uncredited)
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes ...

Small Town Girl
1953
as Doorman
Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's d...

The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
as Man Outside the Club (uncredited)
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of vari...

Everything I Have Is Yours
1952
as Conductor (Uncredited)
A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.

The Old West
1952
as Townsman (uncredited)
Doc Lockwood and his gang are trying to take away Autry's contract for supplying horses to the stagecoach line. Parson Brooks joins Autry in an effort...

The Killer That Stalked New York
1950
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the polic...

Mule Train
1950
as Charley Stewart (uncredited)
A prospector discovers natural cement and suggests it should be used for a new dam. But this is the last thing the badmen of Trail End want, as they h...

The Reckless Moment
1949
as Bank Guard (uncredited)
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

All the King's Men
1949
as Politician (uncredited)
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore clas...

The Big Steal
1949
as Purser (uncredited)
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's ex-girlf...
The Secret Of St. Ives
1949
as Sergeant (uncredited)
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Phil...

The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
as Deputy Marshal (uncredited)
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the lea...

Alias Nick Beal
1949
as Committee Man
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking ...

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
1949
as Officer Jim
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.

The Man from Colorado
1948
as Citizen (uncredited)
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to ...

Key Witness
1947
as Detective Norris (uncredited)
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.

The Missing Juror
1944
as Priest (Uncredited)
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

One Mysterious Night
1944
as Police Sergeant (Uncredited)
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Al...

The Whistler
1944
as Police Detective in Alley (Uncredited)
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at al...

Sailor's Holiday
1944
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, mor...

The Racket Man
1944
as Postman
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by p...

Double Up
1943
as Jim Bowers
Leon hires a lookalike to take his place at home every night while he goes out partying.

Destroyer
1943
as Postman
Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the c...

Batman
1943
as Cop
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American sc...

Redhead from Manhattan
1943
as Cop
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of ...

Mission to Moscow
1943
as Irish-American in Montage (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

Quiet Please, Murder
1943
as Guard Killed in Library
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

Duck Soup
1942
as Cop
Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.

Gentleman Jim
1942
as Detective (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the...

Deep in the Heart of Texas
1942
as Jonathan Taylor
Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas (clap!clap!clap!clap!) was the first John...

The Glass Key
1942
as Politician (uncredited)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Thru Different Eyes
1942
as Coroner
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.

This Gun for Hire
1942
as Conductor (uncredited)
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, ...

Murder in the Big House
1942
as Guard (uncredited)
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...

Gang Busters
1942
as Police Chemist Crandall
Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.

Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
as Lieutenant (uncredited)
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the arm...

Over My Dead Body
1942
as Petie Stuyvesant (as J. Patrick O'Malley)
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) a...

Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
as Police Sergeant
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly ...

Steel Against the Sky
1941
as Construction Worker (uncredited)
Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

The Great Man's Lady
1941
as Officer Murphy (uncredited)
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is...

Honky Tonk
1941
as Party Guest
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right...

Reg'lar Fellers
1941
as Mr. Dugan Sr.
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and go...

Cracked Nuts
1941
as Officer #1
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked att...

Law of the Range
1941
as Mr. Howard
The Wolverine Kid kills a man and it looks like Steve Howard did it. But Steve's father recognizes the bullet as coming from the gun owned by the Kid.

Pals of the Pecos
1941
as Dan Burke
Dan Burke is after a mail contract and Stevens through his henchman Keno is out to stop him. When Burke's son Larry brings the payroll he is murdered ...

The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
as Policeman
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.

Blonde Inspiration
1941
as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940
as Editor Gunnigan
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

The Bank Dick
1940
as Cop (uncredited)
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank gu...

Little Nellie Kelly
1940
as Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway...

East of the River
1940
as Policeman (uncredited)
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
as Laborer (uncredited)
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Lucky Cisco Kid
1940
as Minor Role
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture...

A Fugitive from Justice
1940
as Policeman (uncredited)
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a ...

Girl in 313
1940
as Bartender
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?

Rocky Mountain Rangers
1940
as Captain Taylor
Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Jo...

Tear Gas Squad
1940
as Patrolman
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

Shooting High
1940
as Lem Pritchard
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

The House Across the Bay
1940
as Prison Guard
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be s...

Castle on the Hudson
1940
as Guard (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

The Saint's Double Trouble
1940
as Express Man (uncredited)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.

Remember the Night
1940
as Jury Member (uncredited)
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone ...

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940
as Laboratory Technician
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The...

Emergency Squad
1940
as Fire Captain
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, ca...

Invisible Stripes
1939
as Jailhouse Lieutenant with Capt. Johnson (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

The Light That Failed
1939
as Bullock
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

The Night of Nights
1939
as Actor (uncredited)
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival o...

The Roaring Twenties
1939
as Jailer (uncredited)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartl...

The Housekeeper's Daughter
1939
as Policeman
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

Smashing the Money Ring
1939
as Second Convict Custodian on Train (uncredited)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

The Escape
1939
as Neighbor
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his ...

Dust Be My Destiny
1939
as Bailiff (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter l...

Frontier Marshal
1939
as Bar Patron
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1939
as Police Guard (uncredited)
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is tran...

Stunt Pilot
1939
as Sheehan
The second of a series of four features Monogram made based on the comic strip by Hal Forrest (Universal also used the strip characters in two serials...

Five Came Back
1939
as Mike Mulvaney (uncredited)
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off cour...

Wolf Call
1939
as RCMP Sergeant
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.

Women in the Wind
1939
as Cleveland Official (uncredited)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

They Made Her a Spy
1939
as Intelligence Service Man
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.

Dodge City
1939
as Conductor (uncredited)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

Let Us Live
1939
as Captain (uncredited)
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in...

Romance of the Redwoods
1939
as Yerkes
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on hi...

Sergeant Madden
1939
as Police Sergeant
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Secret Service of the Air
1939
as Guard Cooper
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal a...

Persons in Hiding
1939
as Deputy Driver (uncredited)
During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.

The Phantom Creeps
1939
as AMI Chief
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

Always Goodbye
1938
as Cop (uncredited)
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is ...

He Couldn't Say No
1938
as Policeman in Car
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which...

Love on a Budget
1938
as Townsman
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle wh...

Alcatraz Island
1937
as Prison Guard (uncredited)
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

Music for Madame
1937
as Policeman (Uncredited)
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party w...

Ever Since Eve
1937
as Police Officer (uncredited)
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Ma...

Parnell
1937
as Irishman
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ...

The Great Hospital Mystery
1937
as Detective
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.

Beloved Enemy
1936
as Patrick Callahan
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is no...

Wanted: Jane Turner
1936
as Joe - Lansing's Assistant (uncredited)
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.

Hollywood Boulevard
1936
as Pat O'Malley - Pago Pago Patron
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w...

Crash Donovan
1936
as Patrolman (uncredited)
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

36 Hours to Kill
1936
as G-Man
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 i...

High Tension
1936
as Ship's Mate
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

The Big Noise
1936
as Boyle, Policeman with Kerrigan (uncredited)
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half inte...

Trouble for Two
1936
as Purser (Uncredited)
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called Th...

Champagne Charlie
1936
as Ship's Officer
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

Exclusive Story
1936
as Third Officer (uncredited)
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

Paddy O'Day
1936
as Immigration Officer Tom Wilson
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in ...

We're Only Human
1935
as Police Officer Jordan
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.

Heir to Trouble
1935
as Mining Engineer
Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws ...

The Fighting Marines
1935
as Capt. Grayson [Ch. 1]
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt do...

His Family Tree
1935
as Seated Pub Sailor
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.

Special Agent
1935
as Roark (uncredited)
A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an infor...

Public Hero Number 1
1935
as Federal Agent (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailb...

The Drunkard
1935
as First Drunk
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.

The Perfect Clue
1935
as Police Officer
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 away,...

Girl in Danger
1934
as Police Sgt. Rollins (uncredited)
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

The Crime Doctor
1934
as Detective (uncredited)
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well th...
Love Past Thirty
1934
as Lon Burt
When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.

Pirate Treasure
1934
as John Craig
An accomplished aviator sets out to locate treasure hidden by one of his ancestors. He encounters interference from various adversaries.

Perils of Pauline
1933
as Tim Sullivan
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil ...

A Man of Sentiment
1933
as Officer Ryan
A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.

Morning Glory
1933
as Actor (uncredited)
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a p...

Before Dawn
1933
as Detective Brady (uncredited)
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant...

Riot Squad
1933
as Det. Bob Larkin
The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad.

Laughing at Life
1933
as Detective Agency Official
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe ho...

I Love That Man
1933
as Prison Interne
Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a ...

The Whirlwind
1933
as Pat Patrick
After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sheriff Tate Hurley who was his chief accuser. The h...

Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933
as Plainclothesman (Uncredited)
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

Parachute Jumper
1933
as Pilot (uncredited)
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

Frisco Jenny
1933
as Policeman Pat O'Hoolihan
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the ...

Sundown Rider
1932
as Lafe Armstrong
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.

The Penal Code
1932
as Sergeant Detective W. J. Bender
A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.

Call Her Savage
1932
as Fireman (Uncredited)
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage...

The Fighting Gentleman
1932
as Dot Moran
A young mechanic loses an amateur fight at a carnival, and sets out to train hard to become a professional boxer.

Those We Love
1932
as Daley
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan ...

Klondike
1932
as Burke
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, h...

Exposure
1932
as Van Avery - City Editor
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to mak...

American Madness
1932
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank r...

Speed Madness
1932
as McCarey
More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge o...

Attorney for the Defense
1932
as Dr. Strong
A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.

High Speed
1932
as Paul Whipple
A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping t...

The Reckoning
1932
as Bob
Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.

The Shadow of the Eagle
1932
as Ames
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig Mc...

The Fighting Marshal
1931
as Deputy Ed Myers
Not knowing he has just been pardoned, Tim Benton (Tim McCoy, Texas Cyclone) escapes from prison with his cellmate, Red Larkin (Matthew Betz, The Wedd...

The Lightning Warrior
1931
as Sheriff A. W. Brown
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy ...

Night Life in Reno
1931
as District Attorney
A story of love, humor and drama against the background of America's "Biggest Little City." An (interrupted) indiscretion by John Wyatt with a floozy ...

Anybody's Blonde
1931
as Reporter
When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.

The Sky Spider
1931
as Jim Morgan
The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is shot down by Hugh Jeffries for the money it carries...

Homicide Squad
1931
as Man
The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
The Costume Falls
1931
This is the German-language version of 1930's "The Way of All Men", shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-speaking cast.

Mothers Cry
1930
as Frank Williams
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life o...

The Fall Guy
1930
as Charles Newton
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre,...

The Man I Love
1929
as D.J. McCarthy
Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress Olga Ba...

Alibi
1929
as Detective Sgt. Tommy Glennon
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls...
Perch of the Devil
1927
as Gregory Compton
Ida is married to small-time Montana prospector Gregory Compton. She's bored and lonely, so a friend, wealthy widow and woman of the world Ora Blake, ...

Spangles
1926
as Dick Hale
At a three-ring circus, 'Spangles' Delancy, a beautiful bareback horse rider, falls in love with a wanted man, Dick Radley, who uses the circus as a h...

My Old Dutch
1926
as Joe Brown
The story that inspired Albert Chevalier to write his immortal Costermonger song, 'My Old Dutch', is the story this picture tells of London's quaint a...

The Midnight Sun
1926
as Grand Duke Sergius of Russia

The Teaser
1925
as James McDonald
Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a village hotel, where she meets James McDonald, a breez...
The Fighting Cub
1925
A determined copy boy achieves his aspiration of becoming a journalist after unearthing the hideout of a criminal gang.

Proud Flesh
1925
as Patrick O'Malley
The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but ...

Let Women Alone
1925
as Tom Benham
A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore.

The Mine with the Iron Door
1924
as Hugh Edwards
This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove and Bob Hill find an infant in the c...

Bread
1924
as Roy Beardsley
To relieve the burden placed on their mother, Alice Sturgis (Wanda Hawley) marries and has several children, while her independent sister, Jeanette (M...

The Fighting American
1924
as Bill Pendleton
On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned g...
The Beauty Prize
1924
as George Brady
Sheer beauty is only way to describe these gorgeous creatures!

Happiness
1924
as Fermoy MacDonough
The adventures of a young shopgirl who learns that having money is not the key to happiness.

Fools Highway
1924
as Mike Kildare
Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand ...

The Man from Brodney's
1923
as Robert Browne
A drama of the India Seas that has Hollingsworth Chance, a young American, tangled in court intrigue to, is put to the supreme test to save the girl h...

The Eternal Struggle
1923
as Bucky O'Harra
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.

Cause for Divorce
1923
as Howard Metcliffe
David Butler and Fritzi Brunette star in this melodrama about an agricultural student whose wife longs for life in the city.

The Virginian
1923
as Steve
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he w...

Slippy McGee
1923
as Lawrence Mayne
The title is also the moniker of a renowned safe-cracker, Slippy McGee, who has always managed to evade capture until his latest job, when he is wound...

Brass
1923
as Harry Baldwin
With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.

The Last Hour
1923
as Philip Logan
Steve Cline returns to the U.S. after earning his fortune in South America. He reads in the paper that his brother Tom was arrested for safecracking. ...

My Wild Irish Rose
1922
as Conn, The Shaughraun
Based on the play The Shaughraun, this is the story of Robert Ffolliat, a young Irish lad, who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony ...

A Game Chicken
1922
as Rush Thompson
Living in Cuba with her parents and grandmother, Inez Hastings, does not care for Lavendera, her persistent suitor. Contrary to her father's wishes, s...

False Kisses
1921
Jennie Blake, a schoolteacher from the city, comes between Paul Whalen and Jim Payne, fishing partners in the seaport town of Rocky Point, and is unab...

Bob Hampton of Placer
1921
as Lt. Brant
Former U.S. Army Capt. Bob Hampton joins a party of settlers and saves the life of a girl known as "The Kid" from a siege.

Dinty
1920
as Jack North
Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers i...

The Breath of the Gods
1920
as T. Caraway Dodge
While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic ...

Go and Get It
1920
as Kirk Connelly
Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.

The Blooming Angel
1920
as Chester Framm
Floss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a struggling young student who aspires to be an orator. When Ches...

False Evidence
1919
as Richard MacTavish (as Patrick O'Malley)
Promised in marriage to wealthy Lot Gordon , Scottish lassie Madelon MacTavish prefers Lot's poor relation Burr Gordon. The wisdom of her choice is pr...

The Red Glove
1919
as Kern Thodes (early chapters)
On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.

The Heart of Humanity
1918
as Clancy
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers....

The Prussian Cur
1918
as Jimmie O'Grady
A German spy who is married to Lillian, the sister of Rosie O'Grady.

Hit-the-Trail Holliday
1918
as Kent B. Wurst
Bartender Billy Holliday loses his job for refusing to supply drinks to minors at the behest of his employer. In the little country town he wanders in...

Her Boy
1918
as Charlie Turner
When the United States enters World War I, the widowed Helen worries that she will lose her only son David, who has just turned 21. Although David pat...

The Love That Lives
1917
as Jimmy
When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children.

The Tell-Tale Step
1917
as Hugh Graham
Giovanni Pallazzi, a former member of the Black Hand, an Italian criminal organization, comes to America with his blind daughter Lucia and prospers. H...

The Law of the North
1917
as Cpl. John Emerson
When Edith Graham returns from school to live with her father, Lieutenant Graham, at a Northwest Mounted Police post in Hudson's Bay, she finds hersel...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1916
as Sybil Vane
Dorian Gray, a young man who makes a pact with his portrait, allowing it to age and bear the signs of his sins while he remains eternally youthful and...

Gladiola
1915

On Dangerous Paths
1915
as Roger Sterritt
Viola Dana plays Eleanor, a minister's daughter who comes to New York to visit her older sister, a successful businesswoman. Eleanor manages to get a ...

All for Old Ireland
1915
Eileen Donaghue loves Myles Murphy, a match which is approved by Mrs Donaghue. Colonel Reid of the British Army employs an informer, Fagin, who has de...

McQuade of the Traffic Squad
1915
as Pat McQuade
Policeman Patrick McQuade, of the traffic squad, has a sweetheart. Patrick has a rival in Policeman Flynn, who does not stop at anything to depreciate...

The Voice of the Violin
1915
The Voice of the Violin: A Drama (1915) is a half-hour tragic romance of Marjorie (Helen Fulton) & Jack (Pat O'Malley). Marjorie's at the piano. Jack'...