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Complete Filmography

London After Midnight
2002
Screenplay
A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney.

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
as Self (archive footage / uncredited)
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subje...

Test Pilot
1938
Screenplay
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

Man-Proof
1938
Screenplay
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.

The Plainsman
1936
Screenplay
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

Poppy
1936
Writer
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter...

Desire
1936
Screenplay
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France....

Peter Ibbetson
1935
Screenplay
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter i...

The Crusades
1935
Screenplay
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
Screenplay
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohamm...

Cleopatra
1934
Screenplay
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

Men in White
1934
Screenplay
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he...

A Bedtime Story
1933
Screenplay
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.

Island of Lost Souls
1932
Screenplay
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half...

The Sign of the Cross
1932
Screenplay
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.

Love Me Tonight
1932
Screenplay
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

Sinners in the Sun
1932
Screenplay
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.

Sky Bride
1932
Story
Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager, Alec Dugan, performing at fairs and air shows and...

The Miracle Man
1932
Adaptation
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and use...

Compromised
1931
Screenplay
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious ti...

Penrod and Sam
1931
Screenplay
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join ...

Chances
1931
Adaptation
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom be...

The Girl of the Golden West
1930
Screenplay
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.

Ladies Love Brutes
1930
Screenplay
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an It...

Sally
1930
Writer
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Wor...

Where East Is East
1929
Adaptation
A Chinese wife returns to the American family she left behind in Southeast Asia and then moves in on her daughter's (Lupe Velez) beau (Lloyd Hughes).

West of Zanzibar
1928
Adaptation
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.

The Trail of '98
1928
Continuity
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

London After Midnight
1927
Screenplay
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-loo...

The Unknown
1927
Screenplay
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really ...

Women Love Diamonds
1927
Adaptation, Writer
A young woman can't marry a millionaire because she was born illegitimately.

The Show
1927
Screenplay
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salo...

The Flaming Forest
1926
Writer
North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict to trial and woos the lovely Jeanne-Marie.

The Blackbird
1926
Screenplay
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the ...

The Mystic
1925
Adaptation
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high soc...

The Unholy Three
1925
Scenario Writer
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series o...

The Great Divide
1925
Writer
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation, ...

The Dixie Handicap
1924
Writer
Tale of a man and his horse.

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
1924
Adaptation
In the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George si...

The Hill Billy
1924
Writer
Jed is a hillbilly in love with pretty Emmy Lou who is forced into marriage with her dreadful cousin Aaron. Jed interrupts the marriage and Aaron is a...

Poisoned Paradise
1924
Writer
Margot Le Blanc loses her small fortune at Monte Carlo and makes the acquaintance of Hugh Kildair, an artist, who hires her as a housekeeper. A gang o...

You Can't Fool Your Wife
1923
Writer
Edith sets out to prove that a wife can never be fooled by her husband - but will she succeed?

Java Head
1923
Story, Adaptation
Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to C...

Burning Sands
1922
Screenplay
A kindly old sheik is being deceived by his villainous son, who seeks to destroy his father by uniting with the enemy tribe. However, the plan is foil...

Our Leading Citizen
1922
Adaptation
Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.

A Prince There Was
1921
Writer
A wealthy socialite poses as a magazine editor living in a boardinghouse to learn more about an intriguing woman who wants to publish her stories.

Cappy Ricks
1921
Writer
When seaman Matt Peasley and his friend, Murphy (Hugh Cameron), go ashore in San Francisco, they save Florrie Ricks (Agnes Ayers) from a couple of rob...

Experience
1921
Writer
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure an...

Girl in the Web
1920
Writer
A woman decides to take money from her wealthy mother to pay her gambling debts, but discovers that the contents of her mother's safe has already been...

Suds
1920
Scenario Writer
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months a...

The Wicked Darling
1919
Writer
A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to ...

A Petal on the Current
1919
Writer
A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness.

The Spitfire of Seville
1919
Writer

The Fire Flingers
1919
Writer
A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in lov...

The Light of Victory
1919
Writer
U.S. Navy Lieutenant George Blenton becomes drunk at an official reception, and his fiancee, Jane Ravenslee, the captain's daughter, breaks their enga...

A Taste of Life
1919
Story
When her husband, struggling lawyer Horace Dillingham, is unable to provide adequate money for her insatiable desire for expensive cherries, Kitty Dil...

The Little White Savage
1919
Scenario Writer
A reporter is related the tale of a girl from an isolated colony descended from the English survivors of a shipwreck.

The Millionaire Pirate
1919
Writer
In the early eighteenth century, pirate captain Jean Lafitte fights a rival pirate and wins a treasure and a beautiful female captive. Although the gi...

Fast Company
1918
Writer
Lawrence Percival Van Huyler, a society fop, protests against the necessity of living up to his snobbish family's blue-blooded traditions. His fiancée...

Brace Up
1918
Scenario Writer
Hero Henry Court (Herbert Rawlinson) is very much his parents' child, having inherited the predominant character traits of both his go-getting father ...

The Flash of Fate
1918
Writer
When his father commits suicide after being ruined by dishonest stockbroker Abner Hinman, Randolph Shorb resolves to gain revenge and rebuild his fort...

New Love for Old
1918
Writer
At a mountain resort, Kenneth Scott falls in love with Marie Beauchamp, an older woman who merely amuses herself with him. When she deserts him to ope...

The High Sign
1917
Screenplay
In order to be admitted to his school fraternity, David Bruce is told to impersonate a Balkan prince. In that guise, Bruce leaves for the prince's tin...

The Man Trap
1917
Writer
Framed by police inspector Finch and his managing editor, R. H. Steadman, to cover up their own crooked work, reporter John Mull languishes in prison ...

Flirting with Death
1917
Writer
When an aviator dies performing in a traveling circus, the circus closes and sideshow con men "Sky-High" Billy Wardell and "Domino" Dominick are arres...

A Stormy Knight
1917
Scenario Writer
While relaxing in his cabin one stormy night, John Winton, a rising young businessman who has successfully resisted the institution of marriage, is in...

The Clean-Up
1917
Writer
A publicist for a racy burlesque troupe romances the daughter of the head of The Purity League, an organization that wishes to see such shows banned.

The Show Down
1917
Writer
Inconsiderate millionaire John Benson, philanthropist Oliver North, courageous Langdon Crane, wealthy idler Robert Curtis and Lydia Benson are among t...

The Car of Chance
1917
Scenario Writer, Story
In his will, Mr. Baird leaves his son Arnold just one seven-passenger auto and a hundred dollars to keep it filled up and in good repair. When James B...