Complete Filmography

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
2008
Original Film Writer
Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to purs...

The Mummy Returns
2001
Characters
Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubi...

The Mummy
1999
Original Film Writer
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It ha...

Arizona Raiders
1965
Story
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant ...

Apache Rifles
1964
Story
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.

Sword of Lancelot
1963
Writer
Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls in love wit...

Gun Fight
1961
Screenplay
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wa...

Five Guns to Tombstone
1961
Screenplay
Billy Wade is an ex-gunslinger who is approached by his outlaw brother Matt, not long out of prison, to help him with a big-time robbery. Matt forces ...

The Mummy
1959
Original Film Writer
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries...

Gun Brothers
1956
Screenplay
Recently discharged cavalry sergeant Chad Santee (Buster Crabbe) joins his brother, Jubal (Neville Brand), and discovers that Jubal is a wanted outlaw...

Top Gun
1955
Screenplay
A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with hatred and fear for his previous killings.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
1955
Characters
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.

Khyber Patrol
1954
Story
British officers of India is jeopardized when warlords Ahmed Shir and Prince Ishak Khan battle at the Khyber Pass. Enter Capt. Kyle Cameron of the Bri...

The Lone Gun
1954
Screenplay
Cruze arrives in town and when he stands up to the three Moran brothers, he gets appointed Marshal. First the brothers kill a rancher while framing an...

The Steel Lady
1953
Screenplay
Surviving a plane crash in the Sahara, four oilmen find and manage to repair a German Afrika Corps tank which had been buried in the sand since WWII.

The Bandits of Corsica
1953
Writer
Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.

Cripple Creek
1952
Screenplay
It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted, an...

Indian Uprising
1952
Screenplay
It's 1885 in Arizona and an Army Captain has dispersed his troops to keep the whites off of Government land thereby keeping the peace with the Apaches...

The Texas Rangers
1951
Screenplay
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to c...

Lorna Doone
1951
Screenplay
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.

Kim
1950
Screenplay
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English s...

The Iroquois Trail
1950
Screenplay
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
1950
Screenplay
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous names...

Black Magic
1949
Screenplay
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

The Black Arrow
1948
Screenplay
A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is...

The Mummy's Curse
1944
Characters
After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princes...

The Mummy's Ghost
1944
Original Film Writer
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning th...

The Mummy's Tomb
1942
Characters
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian...

The Mummy's Hand
1940
Original Film Writer
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving ...

The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
Screenplay
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Dangerous Waters
1936
Screenplay
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.

The Winning Ticket
1935
Screenplay
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

The Meanest Gal in Town
1934
Writer
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.

Cocktail Hour
1933
Screenplay, Additional Dialogue
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined...

Private Jones
1933
Story
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter ...

The Mummy
1932
Story
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads...

The All-American
1932
Story
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

Night World
1932
Screenplay
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's st...

Destry Rides Again
1932
Adaptation
The story about a man framed for a crime he didn't commit, who returns to wreak havoc following his release from prison.

The Impatient Maiden
1932
Screenplay
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.

Law and Order
1932
Scenario Writer
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932
Scenario Writer
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets fail...

Private Lives
1931
Scenario Writer, Screenplay
Amanda and Elyot are one another's former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arriv...

Strictly Dishonorable
1931
Scenario Writer
A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boorish New Jersey boyfriend or a dashing Opera star, ...

Frankenstein
1931
Script Editor
Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are...

The Spirit of Notre Dame
1931
Screenplay, Associate Producer
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.

Waterloo Bridge
1931
Scenario Writer
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid s...

Just a Gigolo
1931
Adaptation, Dialogue
A playboy pretends to be a paid escort in order to court--and test the moral character of--a young British socialite. Comedy.

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
1931
Other
Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets marrie...

Dance, Fools, Dance
1931
Screenplay
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter...

Trader Horn
1931
Screenplay
While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her quest...

Forward, March!
1930
Writer
Spanish-language version of Doughboys.

Men of the North
1930
Writer
Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin, Woolie-Woolie be...

Doughboys
1930
Writer
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he acc...

Estrellados
1930
Writer
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispan...

Children of Pleasure
1930
Scenario Writer
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

Free and Easy
1930
Scenario Writer
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira w...

Devil-May-Care
1929
Adaptation
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.

Hallelujah
1929
treatment
A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

Where East Is East
1929
Continuity
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).

Spite Marriage
1929
Continuity
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't reali...

Wild Orchids
1929
Screenplay
A prince in J... tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.

The Flying Fleet
1929
Screenplay
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sic...

Honeymoon
1928
Writer
Two men are rivals for the same girl. When she finally agrees to marry one, the other--appearing to be magnanimous in defeat--presents his former riva...

The Cameraman
1928
Screenstory
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

The Actress
1928
Writer
A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The re...

Across to Singapore
1928
Writer
While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their ret...

The Law of the Range
1928
Writer
Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering "Solitaire Kid".

Tell It to the Marines
1926
Screenplay
U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lacka...

The Terror
1926
Writer
While Pop Morton, a rancher, is being sworn in as deputy sheriff, his daughter Molly, to escape the unwelcome attentions of usurer Blair Hatley (who h...

The Frontier Trail
1926
Screenplay, Story
Dolly Mainard, en route to her father, a major at Fort Blaine, is escorted through dangerous Sioux territory by a cavalry detachment and Army scout Ji...

The Scrappin' Kid
1926
Story, Scenario Writer
Bill Bradley, who owns a small house and a one-horse corral in the hills, saves the lives of Betty Brent and her brother Mike from a forest fire in wh...

The Unknown Soldier
1926
Writer
The Unknown Soldier is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman and written by Richard Schayer and James J. Tynan. The film stars ...

The Seventh Bandit
1926
Writer
The story of David Scanlon - a former gunfighter turned farmer, who sells the family homestead in favor of adventure in the California gold fields.

Rustlers' Ranch
1926
Writer
Lee Crush, an out-of-work cowhand, gets into a fight with Bull Dozier and knocks him through a railing. Thinking he has killed the man, Lee takes to h...

The Calgary Stampede
1925
Writer
Real life rodeo champion Hoot Gibson plays Dan Molloy, an expert rider who wins the big one, the Calgary Stampede. When the father of his new French-C...
The Man in Blue
1925
Writer
Tom Conlin, an Irish cop walking a beat in an Italian neighborhood, falls in love with Tita Sartori, the daughter of a florist. Tita returns Tom's aff...

The Hurricane Kid
1925
Writer
The Hurricane Kid runs afoul of Colonel Langdon's ranch foreman, Lafe Baxter when Joan Langdon shows an obvious preference for The Kid, and The Kid re...

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
1924
Writer
After 15 years of searching, Bud Watkins finally has his revenge on the cattlemen's gunman who killed his homesteader foster father, Pop Watkins. Bud ...
Silk Stocking Sal
1924
Writer
Silk Stocking Sal is discovered burgling a palatial townhouse by its owner, Bob Cooper. Intrigued with her poise and daring, he offers to find her an ...
The Dangerous Flirt
1924
Screenplay
The naïve Sheila Fairfax (Brent) plays with men’s emotions without fully comprehending the risks leading to several dangerous situations from which sh...

The Sawdust Trail
1924
Writer
Clarence, an eastern college youth masquerading as a mild, inoffensive dandy, joins a Wild West show where he clashes with the leading lady, "Calamity...

Ride for Your Life
1924
Adaptation
Bud Watkins loses his ranch and savings to gambling house proprietor "Gentlemen Jim" Slade. The Cocopah Kid, a notorious bandit, lures away Betsy Burk...

Hook and Ladder
1924
Writer
Cowboy Ace Cooper, to avoid arrest, becomes a fireman, falls in love with the chief's daughter, Sally Drennan, and wins her in spite of the efforts of...

The Thrill Chaser
1923
Scenario Writer
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills a...

The Ramblin' Kid
1923
Scenario Writer
The Ramblin' Kid, a cowboy, falls in love with Carolyn June, a beautiful easterner, and wins her after he triumphs in a rodeo in spite of having been ...

The Victor
1923
Writer
In order to save his family from financial ruin, an English aristocrat agrees to come to America and marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Once...

The Spider and the Rose
1923
Adaptation
In Southern California during the Mexican regime, Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, returns home to find that his father's secretary, Men...

My Dad
1922
Writer
Tom's father, Barry, lives at a lonely trading post up north and is constantly in fear the post's factor, who has threatened to turn him in to the Mou...

The Man Of The Forest
1921
Writer
Ailing ranch owner Al Auchincloss (Harry Lorraine) sends for his two nieces, Helen and Bo Raynor (Claire Adams and Charlotte Pierce), who are his heir...

Black Roses
1921
Writer
Japanese architect Yoda is hired as groundskeeper for retired criminal Benson Burleigh.

The Killer
1921
Writer
Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-broth...

An Arabian Knight
1920
Writer
Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa is cast as an ancient Egyptian donkey boy in An Arabian Knight. The humble Hayakawa rescues high-born Lillian Hall from...

Li Ting Lang
1920
Writer
In a day and age when interracial marriages were considered taboo, film star Sessue Hayakawa rarely got the girl in his pictures. The issue of prejudi...

The Woman in Room 13
1920
Scenario Writer
Laura Bruce is married to John Bruce, police commissioner. She discovers her husband is enjoying a drunken revel with another woman, and vows she will...

The Cup of Fury
1920
Writer
Sir Joseph and Lady Webbing are the foster parents of Marie-Louise. The couple are also in league with Verrinder, a German spy. When their work agains...

The Tong Man
1919
Scenario Writer
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

Flame of the Desert
1919
Writer
An Englishman goes undercover posing as an Egyptian sheik in order to infiltrate a conspiracy to throw off British rule. An English woman complicates ...

The Dragon Painter
1919
Scenario Writer
A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.

The Westerners
1919
Writer
Michael, a half-breed Indian, is forced off a wagon train by scout Michael. Seeking revenge, he murders the wife of a college professor, kidnaps her b...

A Man's Country
1919
Scenario Writer
Dance-hall queen Kate Carewe is the toast of the gold-mining camp of Huxley's Gulch. One day a minister, Ralph Bowen, arrives to "clean up" the town. ...

The One Woman
1918
Scenario Writer
Denounced for preaching socialism Reverend Frank Gordon founds his own "Temple of Man." financed by Kate Ransom, the woman Gordon has fallen in with l...

Sudden Riches
1916
Scenario Writer
Successful, but financially struggling architect Robert Crewe is devoted to his wife Marion and daughter Emily. Unknown to him, his Uncle Abner harbor...