Frank Brownlee

Frank Brownlee

1874-10-11 Dallas, Texas, USA 65 Credits

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Laurel & Hardy: Year One

Laurel & Hardy: Year One

2023

10.0
Acting

Laurel & Hardy: Year One, The Newly Restored 1927 Silents, as proudly presented by Flicker Alley and Blackhawk FilmsĀ®, offers fans new and old the rar...

Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys

Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys

1992

as (archive footage)

6.7
Acting

Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.

Sons of the Pioneers

Sons of the Pioneers

1942

as Hired Hand

Acting

A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.

In Old California

In Old California

1942

as Man on Street

5.1
Acting

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citi...

Romance on the Range

Romance on the Range

1942

as Lynch Mob Member

5.7
Acting

Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.

South of Santa Fe

South of Santa Fe

1942

as Movie-Watcher

4.5
Acting

To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to ...

Stagecoach Buckaroo

Stagecoach Buckaroo

1942

5.0
Acting

Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.

Man from Cheyenne

Man from Cheyenne

1942

as Man in Street with Packages

7.5
Acting

Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a wo...

Arizona Terrors

Arizona Terrors

1942

as Henry Adams

Acting

A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court validation of a counterfeit land grant, and proceeds ...

A Missouri Outlaw

A Missouri Outlaw

1941

as Dairyman Jensen

Acting

Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning the local merchants and far...

South of Tahiti

South of Tahiti

1941

as Harbor master

6.0
Acting

Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heir...

Gangs of Sonora

Gangs of Sonora

1941

Acting

Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who pub...

Riders of Death Valley

Riders of Death Valley

1941

as Slim

6.5
Acting

The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Fora...

The Apache Kid

The Apache Kid

1941

as Harry Castleman (uncredited)

Acting

Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes ...

Arizona

Arizona

1940

as Paul Weaver

6.2
Acting

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But P...

Mysterious Doctor Satan

Mysterious Doctor Satan

1940

as Panamint Pete

5.0
Acting

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer Ame...

Trail of the Vigilantes

Trail of the Vigilantes

1940

as Doctor

Acting

A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.

Three Faces West

Three Faces West

1940

as Bill--Farmer

5.4
Acting

Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threate...

Big Calibre

Big Calibre

1935

as Mr. Neal

Acting

Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arres...

Man's Best Friend

Man's Best Friend

1935

as John Strong the Father

Acting

Jed and his dog Lightning contend with the boy's abusive father.

The Midnight Patrol

The Midnight Patrol

1933

as Police Chief Ramsbottom

6.5
Acting

Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.

Terror Trail

Terror Trail

1933

as Sheriff Judell

Acting

A gang of horse thieves are able to operate because the crooked local sheriff is in cahoots with them. When Tom Mix's beloved horse Tony Jr. is stolen...

Tombstone Canyon

Tombstone Canyon

1932

as Alf Sykes

3.5
Acting

A range lawman (Ken Maynard) unmasks a black-cloaked phantom killer (Sheldon Lewis).

The Lightning Warrior

The Lightning Warrior

1931

as Angus MacDonald

5.0
Acting

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 ...

The Galloping Ghost

The Galloping Ghost

1931

as Tom

2.0
Acting

A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the ga...

The Vanishing Legion

The Vanishing Legion

1931

as Oil Co. Director Bishop

9.0
Acting

A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of ...

Rough Seas

Rough Seas

1931

as Ship's Captain (uncredited)

Acting

On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.

The River of Romance

The River of Romance

1929

as Card Player

Acting

Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just...

Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life

1928

as Farmer

7.1
Acting

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, qu...

The Sawdust Paradise

The Sawdust Paradise

1928

as Sheriff

Acting

She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then ...

Midnight Rose

Midnight Rose

1928

as Grogan

Acting

Midnight Rose, a dancer in the Gold Coast Cabaret, loves Tim Regan, an underworld gang leader who decides to go straight in spite of entreaties from o...

The Chaser

The Chaser

1928

as Amorous Repo Man

4.6
Acting

A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take...

Do Detectives Think?

Do Detectives Think?

1927

as Detective agency boss

6.2
Acting

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.

Call of the Cuckoo

Call of the Cuckoo

1927

as Prospective House Buyer

5.7
Acting

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

Sailors, Beware!

Sailors, Beware!

1927

as Captain Bull (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.

Bigger and Better Blondes

Bigger and Better Blondes

1927

Acting

Charley is mistakenly assumed to be a thief

Be Your Age

Be Your Age

1926

as Mr. Blaylock

5.1
Acting

Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, h...

The Desert Flower

The Desert Flower

1925

as Mike Dyer

Acting

A mining camp girl attempts to reform a young derelict addicted to drink. Colleen Moore broke her neck in a fall from a moving handcar during the mak...

Straight Through

Straight Through

1925

as Bill Higgins

Acting

O'Day, the terror of Red Gulch, wins the entire stake of a gambler named Granger in a poker game but gives it all to Denver Nell, a dancehall girl, wh...

The Beloved Brute

The Beloved Brute

1924

as Phil Beason

Acting

A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.

Boston Blackie

Boston Blackie

1923

as Prison Warden Benton

6.0
Acting

Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross" torture. Benton, however, is successful in his a...

Romance Land

Romance Land

1923

as 'Scrub' Hazen

Acting

This silent action comedy features Tom Mix donning a suit of armor to battle an unscrupulous ranch foreman in a style that would appear familiar to Ki...

The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall

1921

as Limpy Jim

Acting

When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, t...

Love Never Dies

Love Never Dies

1921

as Ezekiel Whaley

5.6
Acting

John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law...

The Whistle

The Whistle

1921

as Henry Chapple

4.8
Acting

Robert must avenge his son who was killed in a workplace accident.

His Own Law

1920

Acting

An American marries the widow of one of his French army friends, who never got back from the front. They live their lives together and take care of th...

His Own Law

1920

Story

Writing

An American marries the widow of one of his French army friends, who never got back from the front. They live their lives together and take care of th...

Under Crimson Skies

Under Crimson Skies

1920

as Dead Sight Burke

Acting

The captain of a sailing ship has an affair with the wife of one of his passengers, and gets mixed up in a mutiny at sea and a revolution.

The Lincoln Highwayman

The Lincoln Highwayman

1919

as Captain Claver

Acting

Masked bandit The Lincoln Highwayman terrorizes motorists on California highways. His latest victims are a San Francisco banker and his family on thei...

Desert Gold

Desert Gold

1919

as Jonas Warren

Acting

In this adaptation of Zane Grey's novel, adventurer Dick Gale (E.K. Lincoln) is traveling through the Southwest. He helps rescue Mercedes Castanada (M...

Paid in Advance

Paid in Advance

1919

as Gold Dust Barker

Acting

In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.

Brass Buttons

Brass Buttons

1919

as Terence Callahan

Acting

Kingston Hollister admires Bernice Cleveland from afar. He asks Officer Callahan, the policeman on the beat, about her and mistakenly believes she is ...

Vanity Pool

Vanity Pool

1918

as Jarvis Flint

Acting

A candidate for governor, eager Gerald Harper persuades his equally ambitious wife Carol to enlist the aid of her friend Diana Casper, whose influence...

The Empty Cab

The Empty Cab

1918

as Big Ed

Acting

Henry Egbert Xerxes' big chance as a cub reporter comes when he is assigned to track down a gang of counterfeiters which gathers regularly at the Red ...

Her Moment

Her Moment

1918

as Victor Dravich

6.0
Acting

In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American univer...

$5,000 Reward

$5,000 Reward

1918

as Ackley

Acting

A wealthy old man is murdered after deciding to write his nephew out of his will. Fearing that he will be accused of the murder his nephew takes fligh...

The Mysterious Mr. Tiller

The Mysterious Mr. Tiller

1917

as Ramon Mordant

Acting

Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives a...

The Little Pirate

The Little Pirate

1917

as John Baird

4.0
Acting

In dire financial straits, businessman John Baird considers liquidating the bonds that are held in trust for his little daughter Margery. Failing to c...

The Double Standard

The Double Standard

1917

as Editor George Ferguson

Acting

Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting the dives and cabarets of the city, and promises ...

Mentioned in Confidence

1917

as Mr. Leigh

Acting

The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee

1917

as Batonyi, aka 'The Wolf'

Acting

Harry Larrabee, a young playwright, lives in the same studio apartment house with Carolyn Vaughn, a painter of miniatures, with whom he falls in love....

The Mysterious Mrs. M

The Mysterious Mrs. M

1917

as Dr. Woodman

Acting

A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire.

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

1916

as The Mountain Girl's Brother (uncredited)

7.1
Acting

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

The Half-Breed

The Half-Breed

1916

as Winslow Wynn

6.1
Acting

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama wr...

Sold for Marriage

Sold for Marriage

1916

as Nicholas

5.9
Acting

A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich...