Biography
Paul Hurst (October 15, 1888 - February 27, 1953) was an American character actor of prodigious output who also directed and wrote silent films. Much of his early work was in low budget western films. A native of central California, Hurst had a first-hand knowledge of Western lore, growing up surrounded by the multi-million acre Lux & Miller ranches which ran cattle throughout the state. Visiting San Francisco as a young man, Hurst became involved in amateur theatricals and thereafter traveled t...
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Complete Filmography
The Sun Shines Bright
1953
as Jimmy Bagby
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a yo...
Toughest Man in Arizona
1952
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring ...
Big Jim McLain
1952
as Mr. Lexiter
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though...
Million Dollar Pursuit
1951
as Ray Harvey
A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.
The Missourians
1950
as John X. Finn
In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-born Steve Kovacs is fighting a two-edged sword of...
The Old Frontier
1950
as Skipper Horton
Monte Hale is cast as town marshal Barney Regan. It is Barney's formidable task to round up a gang of bank robbers and expose the "Mr. Big" behind all...
The Vanishing Westerner
1950
as Waldorf Worthington
Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the Sheriff but puts blanks in their guns. When they arrive some...
Pioneer Marshal
1949
as Huck Homer
Monte Hale is cast as Ted Post, a Texas marshal who's on the trail of embezzler Larry Forester (Myron Healey). His search takes him to a remote fronti...
Ranger of Cherokee Strip
1949
as Sheriff Jug Mason
Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and Ranger Steve Howard (Monte Hale) goes after him. H...
San Antone Ambush
1949
as Happy Daniels
Just after the Civil War a Texan and his men are fighting a ruthless Commissioner and his excessive taxes. After a Lieutenant is falsely accused of a ...
South of Rio
1949
as Andy Weems
The town of Rio Blanco is the center of a fight over the statehood issue and is a perfect setup for Lon Bryson and Chuck Bowers, who organize a couple...
Outcasts of the Trail
1949
as Doc Meadowlark
Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia Whit...
Law of the Golden West
1949
as Otis Ellis
Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.
Prince of the Plains
1949
as Sheriff Hank Hartley
Banker Ned Owens refuses to call in the many unpaid loans made to the local ranchers as he knows they are being terrorized by a gang of crooks and una...
Gun Smugglers
1948
as Sergeant Hasty Jones
A young boy threatens to follow in his outlaw brother's footsteps.
Yellow Sky
1948
as Drunk (uncredited)
In 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a ho...
Son of God’s Country
1948
as Eli Walker
Bill Sanger has his men out raiding and killing to obtain the ranches along the route that he knows the new railroad will use. He then kills the edito...
The Arizona Ranger
1948
as Ben Riddle
A disgraced veteran wanders the West alone until he decides to help a battered woman.
Heart of Virginia
1948
as Whit Galtry
Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, howeve...
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948
as Jailer
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
California Firebrand
1948
as Chuck Waggoner
Directed by Philip Ford in 1948. When cowboy Monte Hale (Monte Hale) returns home to investigate his uncle's murder, he's mistaken for a fierce outlaw...
Madonna of the Desert
1948
as Pete Connors
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe be...
Under Colorado Skies
1947
as Lucky John Hawkins
Monte Hale has been working as a teller in a Texas bank during the summer to earn money for his medical college expenses during the upcoming year. He ...
Angel and the Badman
1947
as Frederick Carson
Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes...
The Plainsman and the Lady
1946
as Al
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it.
Death Valley
1946
as Sergeant Dailey
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the righ...
In Old Sacramento
1946
as Stagecoach Driver
Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his dou...
The Virginian
1946
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot...
Murder in the Music Hall
1946
as Hobarth
An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
Dakota
1945
as Captain Spotts
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sand...
Midnight Manhunt
1945
as Murphy
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
Steppin' in Society
1945
as Cookie
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he i...
Scared Stiff
1945
as Sheriff
A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.
The Big Show-Off
1945
as Herbert Trafagan, aka "The Devil", a wrestler
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
Something for the Boys
1944
as Defense Plant Foreman (uncredited)
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern pla...
Girl Rush
1944
as Muley
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western minin...
Barbary Coast Gent
1944
as Jake Compton
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He disc...
Summer Storm
1944
as Orloff
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an...
The Ghost That Walks Alone
1944
as Sheriff Slim Carson
Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.
The Sky's the Limit
1943
as Dock Foreman (uncredited)
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly fall...
Coney Island
1943
as Louie
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spo...
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943
as Monty Smith
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
December 7th
1943
as World War I Ghost Soldier
"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii a...
Hi'ya, Chum
1943
as Archie Billings
Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown, and open up a restaurant.
Calaboose
1943
as Ed the bartender
A love-smitten cowpoke acciidentally causes a horse stampede.
Night in New Orleans
1942
as Sergeant Casper Riordan
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Sundown Jim
1942
as Broderick
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local crim...
Dudes Are Pretty People
1942
as Two-Gun
Western comedy about a cowhand falling in love with the pretty guest at a local dude ranch.
Pardon My Stripes
1942
as Feets
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a touchdown during a critical game, his error earns ...
Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941
as Page
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by ...
This Woman Is Mine
1941
as Second Mate Mumford
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
The Parson of Panamint
1941
as Jake Waldren
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield recalls the tow...
Caught in the Draft
1941
as Sgt. Burns
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake...
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
as Michael O'Connor
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Petticoat Politics
1941
as Slats O'Dell
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
Virginia
1941
as Thomas
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.
Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941
as Biff Sage
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940
as Pete
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Goin' Fishin'
1940
The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus.
Spring Parade
1940
as Headwaiter
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she wil...
The Westerner
1940
as Chickenfoot
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by...
South to Karanga
1940
as Slats
Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
They Drive by Night
1940
as Pete Haig (uncredited)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distri...
Torrid Zone
1940
as Daniels
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
Edison, the Man
1940
as Sheriff
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New Yor...
Star Dust
1940
as Mac, Amalgamated Lab Tech
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
Castle on the Hudson
1940
as Guard (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Remember?
1939
as Policeman
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff...
Gone with the Wind
1939
as Yankee Deserter
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...
Glove Slingers
1939
as Chuck Brenner
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939
as Empire State Building Guard
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
On Your Toes
1939
as Variety Club Bartender
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Bad Lands
1939
as Curly Tom
A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the d...
Quick Millions
1939
as Sheriff
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
Each Dawn I Die
1939
as Garsky
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the re...
It Could Happen to You
1939
as Sandy
In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn't even seem to see him. The ...
Broadway Serenade
1939
as Reynolds, a Drunk
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer ...
Cafe Society
1939
as Bartender
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Topper Takes a Trip
1938
as Charlie - the Bartender
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost ...
Secrets of a Nurse
1938
as Arlington Bysshe 'Slice' Cavanaugh
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true in...
The Last Express
1938
as Asst. Dist. Atty. Springer
A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Tay...
Hold That Co-ed
1938
as Slapsy
An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football squad into a championship team.
My Lucky Star
1938
as Louie
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertise...
Prison Break
1938
as Soapy
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for ...
Josette
1938
as A. Adolphus Heyman
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they b...
Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938
as Bill Mulligan
Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls i...
In Old Chicago
1938
as Mitch
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Island in the Sky
1938
as Happy
A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938
as Florabelle's Father
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secr...
No Time to Marry
1938
as Sergeant
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop...
Second Honeymoon
1937
as Dennis Huggins
Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys...
Ali Baba Goes to Town
1937
as Captain
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--...
The Lady Fights Back
1937
as Maloney
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. W...
Danger – Love at Work
1937
as NYC policeman
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
as Bill
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Wake Up and Live
1937
as McCabe
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
She's No Lady
1937
as Cop
Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself. A...
You Can't Have Everything
1937
as Truck Driver (uncredited)
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon t...
The Legion of Missing Men
1937
as Muggsy
Bob Carter, a member of the Foreign Legion, is glad to see his brother, Don, for the first time in ten years but is sorry that Don has joined the Legi...
Super-Sleuth
1937
as Motorcycle Cop
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
You Can't Beat Love
1937
as Foreman Butch Mehaffey
The film begins with a knuckle-head playboy (Preston Foster) working on a road crew dressed in a tux in order to win a bet. Apparently, this guy will ...
Slave Ship
1937
as Drunk
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Angel's Holiday
1937
as Sgt. Murphy
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline K...
Fifty Roads to Town
1937
as Tom
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
This Is My Affair
1937
as Bowler
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Pa...
Trouble in Morocco
1937
as Tiger Malone
A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns ...
We Who Are About to Die
1937
as Tip Fuller
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspic...
North of Nome
1936
as Carlson
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation....
The Gay Desperado
1936
as American Detective
Opera singer Chivo is currently playing a singing cowboy, and Mexican bandito Braganza kidnaps him (along with Jane, an heiress) so he can learn to be...
I'd Give My Life
1936
as "Sport" Conly
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder...
To Mary - with Love
1936
as Drunk
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin...
Blackmailer
1936
as Inspector Killian
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
as 1st Deputy (uncredited)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the bi...
Robin Hood of El Dorado
1936
as Wilson
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and...
Riffraff
1936
as Belcher
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him an...
The Gay Deception
1935
as Bell Captain
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seem...
The Daring Young Man
1935
as Prison Guard
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 ...
Calm Yourself
1935
as Detective Roscoe
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
Public Hero Number 1
1935
as Rufe Parker
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 Case of the Curious Bride
1935
as Fibo Morgan (uncredited)
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meet...
Mississippi
1935
as Hefty
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, ac...
Shadow of Doubt
1935
as Lt. Sackville
When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Carnival
1935
as Policeman
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His fat...
Sequoia
1935
as Bergman
A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
Maybe It's Love
1935
as Expressman (uncredited)
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
The Ballad of Paducah Jail
1934
as Escaped Felon
Kentucky humorist Irvin S. Cobb hunts for an escaped felon, but the tables are turned when the criminal nabs him instead.
Tomorrow's Youth
1934
as Detective
A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
Among the Missing
1934
as Capt. W.F. 'Big Bill' Connors
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderl...
Take the Stand
1934
as Denny O'Brien
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
Midnight Alibi
1934
as Babe the Butcher
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
Charlie Chan's Courage
1934
as Undetermined Role
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begin...
A Very Honorable Guy
1934
as Butler
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to se...
The Big Race
1934
as Skipper O'Neal
Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old m...
Queen Christina
1933
as Swedish Soldier Betting on 6 (uncredited)
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
The Women in His Life
1933
as Paul, Perez's Second Bodyguard
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.
Day of Reckoning
1933
as Harry
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-r...
Saturday's Millions
1933
as Doc Maloney, Trainer
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainte...
Tugboat Annie
1933
as Sam
Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her conscie...
Hold Your Man
1933
as Aubrey C. Mitchell (uncredited)
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie take...
The Sphinx
1933
as Detective Terrence Aloysius Hogan
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was l...
Terror Aboard
1933
as Boatswain
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Grand Slam
1933
as Man Who Speaks Final Line of the Film
A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Island of Lost Souls
1932
as Capt. Donahue
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half...
Men Are Such Fools
1932
as Stiles
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is...
The Big Stampede
1932
as 'Arizona' Frank Bailey
Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.
The Phantom President
1932
as Sailor (uncredited)
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosse...
Hold 'Em Jail
1932
as Butch
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
The Thirteenth Guest
1932
as Detective Grump
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodi...
State's Attorney
1932
as Police Captain Morgan
Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster ...
My Pal, the King
1932
as Red
The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
Panama Flo
1932
as Al
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
The Secret Witness
1931
as Officer Brannigan
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor belie...
Bad Company
1931
as Paul Hurst
A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have he...
Maker of Men
1931
as Gabby
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defea...
The Public Defender
1931
as Doc
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
That's My Line
1931
as Mexican Bandit
The first in RKO Pathe's series of "Traveling Salesman Comedies" has Louis John Bartels traveling to Mexico to sell his line of underwear. He garners ...
Sweepstakes
1931
as Bartender
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Kick In
1931
as Detective Whip Fogarty
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...
The Secret Six
1931
as Nick Mizoski - the Gouger
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scor...
The Single Sin
1931
as Slug
A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent millionaire. The magnate falls madly in love with ...
The Third Alarm
1930
as 'Beauty' Johnson
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are espec...
Borrowed Wives
1930
as Bull Morgan
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
Paradise Island
1930
as Beauty
The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation o...
Hot Curves
1930
as 'Slug', Baseball Player
The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.
Shadow of the Law
1930
as Pete Shore
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the sha...
The Runaway Bride
1930
as Sergeant Daly
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, a...
Mountain Justice
1930
as Lem Harland
In the Kentucky mountains, Ken McTavish comes to Kettle Creek looking for the killer of his father. When he learns that it was Abner Harland, he fakes...
Swellhead
1930
as Mugsy
A young fighter, Bill Hickey, achieves success through the help and support of his friends and, once he does, he gets a big case of 'swellhead.' And t...
Officer O'Brien
1930
as Captain Antrim
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who ...
Lucky Larkin
1930
as Pete Brierson
Colonel Lee, a homesteader, is the object of terrorists who want to drive him off the range so that his horses cannot be entered in the county races, ...
His First Command
1929
as Sgt. Westbrook
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
The Racketeer
1929
as Mehaffy - Policeman
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
Oh, Yeah!
1929
as Railroad-Yard Superintendent
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find roma...
Sailor's Holiday
1929
as Jimmylegs
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 s...
The California Mail
1929
as Rowdy Ryan
During the darkest hour of the American Civil War, the Union desperately needs gold to keep its armies in the field and its credit good. Federal Agent...
Tide of Empire
1929
as Poppy
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
The Lawless Legion
1929
as Ramirez
Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the area's cattle.
Lilac Time
1928
as (uncredited)
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome new...
The Cossacks
1928
as Sitchi
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolsto...
Buttons
1927
as Slugger McGlue
Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell hi...
The Valley of the Giants
1927
as Randeau
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
The Red Raiders
1927
as Sergeant Murphy
Lone wolf, who is stirring up the Indians against the wishes of his elders, gets the job of scout at the fort. When he hears of the approval of the ne...
The Devil's Saddle
1927
as 'Swig' Moran
Hero is center of plot by a gang of lawless whites to convince Indians he killed one of their number, but finally clears himself.
Outlaw's Paradise
1927
as McDonald
Our hero is mistaken for a bandit. Al's girl Nancy at first believes him to be guilty, but he manage to convince her that the real bandit is McDonald.
Outlaw's Paradise
1927
Director
Our hero is mistaken for a bandit. Al's girl Nancy at first believes him to be guilty, but he manage to convince her that the real bandit is McDonald.
Blue Streak O'Neil
1926
On a mission to discover the identity of the rustlers of the cattle on Britton ranch, Blue Streak O'Neil exposes the villains mingling with the sherif...
Blue Streak O'Neil
1926
Director
On a mission to discover the identity of the rustlers of the cattle on Britton ranch, Blue Streak O'Neil exposes the villains mingling with the sherif...
The Fighting Ranger
1926
After inheriting his uncle's ranch, a cowpoke manages to capture a ghost of the range, break up some cattle rustlers, and win the girl.
The Fighting Ranger
1926
Director
After inheriting his uncle's ranch, a cowpoke manages to capture a ghost of the range, break up some cattle rustlers, and win the girl.
The Midnight Message
1926
Director
Johnny works as a Western Union messenger, while his mother earns a meager living with an old sewing machine. One day he interrupts a robbery, scares ...
Roaring Road
1926
as Checking Board Tabulator (uncredited)
A young racing driver combines the best features of two rival cars, thus producing an automobile which is the best entry in the race. He triumphs over...
Roaring Road
1926
Director
A young racing driver combines the best features of two rival cars, thus producing an automobile which is the best entry in the race. He triumphs over...
The Law of the Snow Country
1926
Director
Northwest Mounted Policeman faces many obstacles in attempting to apprehend a murderer. He miraculously escapes ambush and learns of the dying murdere...
Haunted Range
1926
Director
The hero must solve the murder of his benefactor within six months in order to inherit a valuable ranch.
The Demon Rider
1925
Director
A ranch foreman captures a notorious gang of gold thieves. He ties them up and leaves them for a pursuing posse while he goes out to find the gold the...
The Fighting Cub
1925
Director
A determined copy boy achieves his aspiration of becoming a journalist after unearthing the hideout of a criminal gang.
The Were-Tiger
1925
Director
A jungle drama about a woman who befriends a tiger.
A Western Engagement
1925
Director
Dick Rawlins, a cowpoke on the Jackson ranch, is in love with Inez, the beautiful daughter of the ranchowner; planning to ask Inez to marry him, Dick ...
Branded a Bandit
1924
Director, Story, Scenario Writer
A miner has struck it rich and gives some ore to cowhand Jess Dean to take to his granddaughter. But Horse Williams has the miner shot and uses the or...
The Passing of Wolf MacLean
1924
Director
Addicted to heavy gambling and strong alcohol, Bert Granger owns a saloon in which his children, Benny and pretty Alice, entertain the patrons. One ni...
Battling Bunyan
1924
Director
A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he de...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923
as Emeralda's Torturer (uncredited)
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral ca...
Golden Silence
1923
Director
Sam Corwin, stage line owner and camp bully, makes unwelcome love to Polly, daughter of an old prospector. The old man drives him off the place at gun...
South of Northern Lights
1922
Director
Falsely accused of murder by a gang that wants to obtain possession of his ranch (on which gold has been discovered) northwestern rancher Jack Hampton...
The Crow's Nest
1922
Director
Table Top Ranch
1922
Director, Scenario Writer, Story
Cowhand John Marvin, in a cattlemen-vs-sheep-men range war, comes to the aid of a pretty and defenseless young sheepherder, Kate Bowers. This angers t...
The Heart of a Texan
1922
Scenario Writer, Director
King Calhoun comes to the aid of "Ma" Jackson, who is fighting to regain control of the family ranch after her husband's death. Her daughter, June, is...
Rangeland
1922
Writer, Director
Depury sheriff Ned Williams is sent to capture a cattle thief in the area. The thief turns out to be a young woman, Betty Howard, who steals to keep h...
King Fisher's Roost
1921
Story, Scenario Writer, Director
Barr Messenger escapes to Mexico after a frame-up. He is in love with Betty Brownlee, who disappears after $10,000 is stolen from the firm she works f...
Shadows of the West
1921
Director
California cowpuncher Jim Kern and his pal enlist in the war against Germany and, shortly thereafter, meet Frank Akuri, who has pledged to colonize th...
Lightning Bryce
1919
as Powder Solvang
Two prospectors, one the father of Sky "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tri...
Lightning Bryce
1919
Director
Two prospectors, one the father of Sky "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tri...
The Tiger's Trail
1919
Director
A cult of Hindu tiger worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws try to cheat a young woman out of rich mines that belong to her.
Play Straight or Fight
1918
Director
Helen is a strong-minded, upright, two-handed gunwoman and the protector of a younger brother who has fallen under the evil influence of unscrupulous ...
Smashing Through
1918
as Stevens
Claim jumper Dave Marco and his boss Earl Foster, a crooked investment broker, hire chemist Ralph Brandon to falsify papers that a certain worthless m...
The Woman in the Web
1918
Director
An adventure serial released in 1918
Rimrock Jones
1918
as Ike Bray
Rimrock Jones is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already been cheated out of several valuable copp...
The Further Adventures of Stingaree
1917
as Howie
The movie serial sequel to the popular original series featuring Stingaree. Both are now lost.
The Further Adventures of Stingaree
1917
Director
The movie serial sequel to the popular original series featuring Stingaree. Both are now lost.
The Railroad Raiders
1917
as Steve Arnold (as Paul C. Hurst)
A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. Inside Treachery; 4. A Race for a Fortune; 5. A Wom...
The Railroad Raiders
1917
Director, Writer
A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. Inside Treachery; 4. A Race for a Fortune; 5. A Wom...
The Hazards of Helen
1917
as Benton - a Foreman
The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February 24...
The Manager of the B & A
1916
as Roger Oakley (as Paul C. Hurst)
Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening hours incurs the workers' wrath. With the help of G...
The Diamond Runners
1916
as Paul - the Brains of the I.D.B.
Helen, a "diamond runner," reaches South Africa.
Judith of the Cumberlands
1916
as Blatchley Turrentine
Two rival mountain clans that have been feuding for years begin a new battle over the moonshine whiskey trade. A young man and a girl from each of the...
Medicine Bend
1916
as Murray Sinclair
Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars.
Whispering Smith
1916
as Murray Sinclair
Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give every man a chance to show what is in him. There is n...
A Lass of the Lumberlands
1916
15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan.
A Lass of the Lumberlands
1916
Director
15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan.
Stingaree
1915
as Howie - Stingaree's Partner
Wealthy Irving Randolph is falsely denounced as a deliberate murderer by his greedy younger brother when Randolph, during a rifle shooting contest, ac...
The Vivisectionist
1915
as Bart - Jardine's Servant
American horror movie from 1915.
The Red Signal
1915
as Chief Dispatcher
Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passing freight, and has been rendered temporarily insan...
The Red Signal
1915
Director
Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passing freight, and has been rendered temporarily insan...
The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
1915
as A Trainman
Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the ...
The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
1915
Producer
Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the ...
The Girl Detective
1915
as Blair / Thompson / Michaels / Snake Henely / Mike Donegal / Bat Dorgan / Kelly / Dalton / Blake
A series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for the police and works on various cases where her uniq...
The Plot at the Railroad Cut
1914
as Benton, the Foreman
In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs ...
The Chief of Police
1914
as Daniels
How a man, imprisoned for another's crime, finds justice at last.
The Quicksands
1914
as Captain Lanning - Osborn's Rival
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the lat...
The Cave Men's War
1913
as Red Axe
The dramatized illustration of the invention of the bow-and-arrow through a romantic triangle foregrounded by the bloody conflicts between the Cave Dw...
The Driver Of The Deadwood Coach
1912
as Bad Bill - a Desperado
A young boy foils outlaw "Bad Bill" from stealing a gold shipment in this classic Western short.