Complete Filmography

House of Dracula
1945
Screenplay
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his ...

Rough, Tough and Ready
1945
Screenplay
The story is the old bromide about two brawling buddies, duking it out over the same girl, in this case pert Jo Matheson (Jean Rogers). Owen and Brad ...

House of Frankenstein
1944
Screenplay
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count...

Timber Queen
1944
Screenplay
Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited i...

Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943
Writer
A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set ...

Minesweeper
1943
Screenplay
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is...

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942
Screenplay, Adaptation
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quic...

A Man's World
1942
Screenplay
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor exp...

The Girl from Alaska
1942
Screenplay
A would-be prospector becomes involved in a plot to deceive an old prospector of his cache, but falls in love with his daughter instead.
Gangs Of The City
1941
Screenplay
Heiress Bonnie Parker, tired of newspaper stories about her society high-life, gives a false story to energetic reporter Bill Raymond, who has frequen...

Scattergood Baines
1941
Screenplay
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardwar...

The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940
Producer
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the g...

Queen of the Mob
1940
Associate Producer
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Parole Fixer
1940
Producer
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice ...

All Women Have Secrets
1939
Producer
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against...

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
1939
Associate Producer
Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating th...

Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938
Producer
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an internat...
Touchdown, Army
1938
Producer
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.

Tip-Off Girls
1938
Associate Producer
A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.

Dangerous to Know
1938
Producer
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), wit...

Daughter of Shanghai
1937
Producer
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
1937
Producer, Screenplay
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its pla...

Hold 'Em Navy
1937
Producer
Two football players fight over the same girl.

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937
Screenplay
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to r...

Wild Money
1937
Writer
A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping cons...

Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937
Producer, Screenplay
Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a ...

Charlie Chan at the Race Track
1936
Screenplay
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncov...

Educating Father
1936
Writer
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come i...

Champagne Charlie
1936
Producer
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

Your Uncle Dudley
1935
Producer
A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.

Navy Wife
1935
Writer
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.

Charlie Chan in Egypt
1935
Producer
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed in...

Charlie Chan in Paris
1935
Screenplay
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is kille...

Such Women Are Dangerous
1934
Writer
An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatene...

Curtain at Eight
1933
Screenplay
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? ...

The World Gone Mad
1933
Screenplay
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.

The Vampire Bat
1933
Writer, Screenstory
A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.

The Penal Code
1932
Story
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.

The Unwritten Law
1932
Screenplay
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electr...

Red Haired Alibi
1932
Dialogue, Screenplay
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

Tangled Destinies
1932
Writer
An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house. Soon some of the passengers...

The Crusader
1932
Screenplay
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.

Thrill of Youth
1932
Writer
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the sp...

Alias Mary Smith
1932
Story, Dialogue
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.

Igloo
1932
Writer
Documentary detailing the hardships of life among Alaskan Natives.

The Midnight Lady
1932
Writer
The hard-boiled owner of a big-city speakeasy is reunited with her daughter, who has been raised to believe that her mother is dead, then finds hersel...

Escapade
1932
Writer
Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going straight, and visits his lawyer brother John. Phillip l...

Probation
1932
Writer
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leave...

Discarded Lovers
1932
Writer
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Emine...

King of Jazz
1930
Scenario Writer
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood ...

Undertow
1930
Screenplay
Johnny Mack Brown stars as Paul, who wants nothing more out of life than to take charge of a lighthouse. Falling in love with Sally (Mary Nolan), Pa...

The Mississippi Gambler
1929
Scenario Writer
He was a handsome gambler, living by his wits; yet when he played for the biggest stake of his life he threw away the winning hand; She was the beauti...

Broadway
1929
Adaptation
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

One Stolen Night
1929
Scenario Writer, Dialogue
When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for him....

Stolen Kisses
1929
Adaptation
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-h...

The Little Wildcat
1928
Adaptation
A pair of elderly Civil War veterans, Judge Holt and his friend Joel Ketchum, spent most of their time reminiscing about their wartime experiences. In...

State Street Sadie
1928
Writer
Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery. Considered a lost film.

Lonesome
1928
Writer
Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day tog...

Tenderloin
1928
Screenplay, Story
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the ...

The Little Snob
1928
Story
May Banks (May McAvoy) is a working-class girl who gets ideas above her station in life when her father, Colonel Banks (Aleck B. Francis), a Coney Isl...

Beware of Married Men
1928
Scenario Writer
A press sheet printed in Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World in 1928 put forth the suggestion that “people in the need of a good hearty laugh s...

The Thirteenth Hour
1927
Writer
A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder.

Sailor Izzy Murphy
1927
Writer
Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells....

Tillie the Toiler
1927
Story
Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic p...

The Understanding Heart
1927
Screenplay
Two men in love with the same girl are trapped with her in a forest fire.

The Sap
1926
Story, Scenario Writer
Barry Weston is raised by his widowed mother and is, at best, a "mama's boy," and, at worst, a bit of a coward. He is drafted into the A.E.F. when Wor...

Other Women's Husbands
1926
Adaptation, Story
When his wife, Kay, goes out of town on a visit, Dick Lambert attends a party arranged by an old college friend, Jack Harding, with whom Kay has flirt...

The Man Upstairs
1926
Writer
The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brother...

The Fighting Edge
1926
Writer
Juan de Dios O'Rourke, an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang...

Red Hot Tires
1925
Writer
The first time Al Jones sees Elizabeth Lowden, he becomes so distracted that he runs his car into a steamroller. The second time he sees her, Elizabet...

Compromise
1925
Writer
Compromise is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Alan Crosland. The film is now thought to be a lost film.

The Teaser
1925
Scenario Writer
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...

Head Winds
1925
Writer
Peter kidnaps Patricia to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.

The Mad Whirl
1925
Scenario Writer
A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.

The Rose of Paris
1924
Writer
A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured...

The Turmoil
1924
Writer
Industrialist James Sheridan, Sr., once a laborer, insists on moulding the careers of his three sons; however, he loses James, Jr., in a flood disaste...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923
Scenario Writer
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...

Trimmed in Scarlet
1923
Scenario Writer
Disapproving of the loose woman her father has married, Faith Ebbing leaves home and goes to work, but she later steals $5,000 in Liberty Bonds to pay...

The Prisoner
1923
Writer
While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo Ravorelli...

Ridin' Wild
1922
Writer
Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeople when he tries to act tough to impress Grace Nol...

Under Two Flags
1922
Writer
On the run from punishment for a crime committed by his brother, Bertie Cecil (alias Lewis Victor) joins the French Foreign Legion. In Algeria, he bec...

Big Game
1921
Adaptation
Larry Winthrop, the pampered son of an aristocratic Boston family, is loved by his wife, Eleanor, but she wants him to prove himself to her as a man.
Extravagance
1921
Writer
The marriage of Jim and Esther spirals downhill rapidly when Esther purchases a sable coat for herself. Hoping to live up to her expensive accessory, ...

Passion Fruit
1921
Writer
Filmed on location at Monterey, CA, and starring exotic stage dancer Mlle. Doraldina, this long-lost South Seas romance featured Stuart Holmes as a vi...

It's a Great Life
1920
Writer
At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaura...

A Double-Dyed Deceiver
1920
Scenario Writer
Most of the scenes are laid in a parrot-and-monkey country in South America, a land where "it is always after dinner." The Llano Kid, a Texas bad man,...

Jes' Call Me Jim
1920
Screenplay
Happy-go-lucky Jim Fenton is in love with Miss Butterworth, the town milliner, who is taking care of little Harry Benedict while his father Paul, an i...

The Street Called Straight
1920
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
Directed by Wallace Worsley.

The World and Its Woman
1919
Writer
A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's gove...

Men Who Have Made Love to Me
1918
Writer
The story of six affairs of the heart, drawn from controversial feminist author Mary MacLane's 1910 syndicated article(s) by the same name, later publ...
The Reaping
1915
Story
The Great Deceit
1915
Story
The Whirlpool
1915
Story

The Gilded Cage
1915
Director, Story
The Gilded Cage is a simple tale about two sisters: the pampered favorite and the put-upon, younger stepdaughter, played by Stonehouse. When the elder...

The Slim Princess
1915
Scenario Writer
Gloom overcasts the palace of Count Selim Nalagaski, governor general of Morovenia, Turkey. All efforts to make the count's elder daughter, the Prince...

The Mystery of the Silent Death
1915
Scenario Writer
Within less than five months after the mysterious death of her mother, Adene Maintland wakes in the early morning to learn that her father has also di...

The Verdict
1914
Story
The man meets and falls in love with a girl much younger than himself, and decides to cast off the woman with whom he had had a love affair. He goes t...

The Devil's Signature
1914
Writer
Ethel Vandiver and her friend, Marie Le Farve, arrive at the former's country home. Ethel's father objects to her seeing Douglas, whom he thinks is a ...

The Virtue of Rags
1912
Scenario Writer
A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself...