Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan, among dozens of others. Hale was born Rufus Edward Mackahan in Washingto...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Various Roles (archive footage)
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the A...
The Best of Laurel and Hardy
1968
as Joe Grogan (archive footage)
Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts.
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
1950
as Little John
The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
Colt .45
1950
as Sheriff Harris
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
Stars in My Crown
1950
as Jed Isbell
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a ...
The Inspector General
1949
as Kovatch
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mist...
Always Leave Them Laughing
1949
as Sam Washburn
A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.
The House Across the Street
1949
as J.B. Grennell
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's ...
The Younger Brothers
1949
as Sheriff Knudson
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-a...
South of St. Louis
1949
as Jake Evarts
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each ...
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
as Leporello
Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under thr...
Whiplash
1948
as Terrance O'Leary
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
My Girl Tisa
1948
as Dugan
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in th...
My Wild Irish Rose
1947
as John Donovan
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
Cheyenne
1947
as Fred Durkin
Slick gambler James Wylie is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover...
Pursued
1947
as Jake Dingle
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely...
That Way with Women
1947
as Herman Brinker
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
The Man I Love
1946
as Riley
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various wa...
The Time, The Place and The Girl
1946
as John Braden
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door...
Night and Day
1946
as Leon Dowling
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee ...
Perilous Holiday
1946
as Dr. Lilley
A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes...
Escape in the Desert
1945
as Dr. Orville Tedder
Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
as Big Mike Harrigan
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into Ch...
Hotel Berlin
1945
as Herman Plottke
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
Roughly Speaking
1945
as Lew Morton
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and m...
Hollywood Canteen
1944
as Self
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club...
Janie
1944
as Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
as Steve Gillis
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
Make Your Own Bed
1944
as Walter Whirtle
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresti...
Destination Tokyo
1943
as 'Cookie' Wainwright
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in adv...
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
as Self
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
This Is the Army
1943
as Sergeant McGee
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son...
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
as Boats O'Hara
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa...
Gentleman Jim
1942
as Pat Corbett
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the...
Desperate Journey
1942
as Sgt. Kirk Edwards
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German...
Juke Girl
1942
as Yippee 'Yip'
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers ...
Captains of the Clouds
1942
as Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
The Smiling Ghost
1941
as Norton
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a mo...
Manpower
1941
as Jumbo Wells
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tens...
Thieves Fall Out
1941
as Robert Barnes
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortu...
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
as Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of...
The Strawberry Blonde
1941
as Old Man Grimes
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nef...
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
as 'Skipper' Martin
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
Santa Fe Trail
1940
as Tex Bell
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assign...
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1940
as Capt. Bullwinkle
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
The Sea Hawk
1940
as Carl Pitt
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
They Drive by Night
1940
as Ed Carlsen
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distri...
Virginia City
1940
as Olaf Swenson
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confedera...
Three Cheers for the Irish
1940
as Gallagher
Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary w...
Alice in Movieland
1940
as Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.
The Fighting 69th
1940
as Big Mike Wynn
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove hi...
Green Hell
1940
as Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
as The Prince of Tyrone
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
On Your Toes
1939
as Sergei Alexandrovitch
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
Dust Be My Destiny
1939
as Michael 'Mike' Leonard
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter l...
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
as Porthos
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...
Dodge City
1939
as Rusty Hart
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Pacific Liner
1939
as Gallagher
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the shi...
Listen, Darling
1938
as J.J. Slattery
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend ...
The Sisters
1938
as Sam Johnson
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Valley of the Giants
1938
as 'Ox' Smith
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
as Little John
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
as Furnoy
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938
as Kaidu
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
Algiers
1938
as Grandpere
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. ...
Breakdowns of 1937
1937
as Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
Music for Madame
1937
as Detective Flugelman
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party w...
Thin Ice
1937
as Baron
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
Stella Dallas
1937
as Ed Munn
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
High, Wide and Handsome
1937
as Walt Brennan
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when the...
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
as Captain of the Guard
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meet...
God's Country and the Woman
1937
as Bjorn Skalka
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and...
When Thief Meets Thief
1937
as Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Our Relations
1936
as Joe Grogan
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
Yellowstone
1936
as John Alexander Hardigan
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
Parole!
1936
as John Borchard
Soon after the prison release of a lawyer (Henry Hunter), his dedication to improving his life puts him at odds with other parolees who have returned ...
The Country Beyond
1936
as Jim Alison
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
A Message to Garcia
1936
as Dr. Ivan Krug
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
Two in the Dark
1936
as Inspector Florio
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) conne...
Another Face
1935
as Charles L. Kellar
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935
as Burbix
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by ...
Hollywood Extra Girl
1935
as Crusades Actor (uncredited)
A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.
The Crusades
1935
as Blondel
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
The Good Fairy
1935
as Maurice Schlapkohl
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing goo...
Grand Old Girl
1935
as Click Dade
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
The Little Minister
1934
as Rob Daw
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one o...
Babbitt
1934
as Charlie McKelvey
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George ...
Broadway Bill
1934
as Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his j...
Imitation of Life
1934
as Martin the Furniture Man
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face fami...
There's Always Tomorrow
1934
as Henry
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
Great Expectations
1934
as Joe Gargery
A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss Havis...
The Scarlet Letter
1934
as Bartholomew Hockings
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Of Human Bondage
1934
as Emil Miller
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Little Man, What Now?
1934
as Holgar Jachman
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire...
Fog Over Frisco
1934
as Chief O'Malley
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is...
Picture Brides
1934
as Von Luden
Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining...
It Happened One Night
1934
as Danker
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them be...
The Lost Patrol
1934
as Cook
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is kill...
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934
as Sam
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One mo...
Destination Unknown
1933
as Lundstrom
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
The Eleventh Commandment
1933
as Max Stager
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful...
What Price Decency
1933
as Klaus van Leyden
A young woman with a shady past goes to the tropics, where she winds up marrying a vicious and brutal pearl trader, then falls in love with another ma...
The Match King
1932
as Borglund
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipula...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932
as Mr Simpson
A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel...
So Big!
1932
as Klass Pool
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
Union Depot
1932
as The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend S...
The Sea Ghost
1931
as Capt. Greg Winters
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Sub...
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1931
as Hubert
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
1931
as Jeb Mondstrum
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome enginee...
The Night Angel
1931
as Biezel
In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's daughter to a nurse's home until...
Aloha
1931
as Stevens
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir...
She Got What She Wanted
1930
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their che...
Red Hot Rhythm
1929
as Walter
Walter, a songwriter who is in love with Mary, a nightclub singer, prefers to make a living by fleecing crackpot songwriters and promoting their creat...
The Sap
1929
as Jim Belden
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
Sailor's Holiday
1929
as Adam Pike
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 Leatherneck
1929
as Otto Schmidt
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are...
The Spieler
1928
as Flash
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
Sal of Singapore
1928
as Captain Erickson
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, ne...
Power
1928
as Hanson
Tale of a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular basis. But when the dam threatens to burst, the battling ...
The Cop
1928
as Mather
Pete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night, aft...
Oh Kay!
1928
as Jansen
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound ...
Skyscraper
1928
as Slim Strede
Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured...
The Leopard Lady
1928
as Caesar
Jacqueline Logan stars as Paula, a beautiful and fearless circus leopard trainer. Working hand-in-glove with the police, Paula joins a circus where se...
The Wreck of the Hesperus
1927
as Singapore Jack
Captain Slocum of the Hesperus arrives on shore in a New England village to find that the girl he loves has been tricked into marrying John Hazzard in...
Vanity
1927
as 'Happy' Dan Morgan
Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a ...
Rubber Tires
1927
Director
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, th...
Risky Business
1926
Director
A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived ...
The Sporting Lover
1926
Director
Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.
Braveheart
1925
Director
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and ...
The Wedding Song
1925
Director
A beautiful con artist marries Hayes Hallan, the owner of a pearl-rich island. No sooner has the couple said "I do" than Beatrice's partners in crime ...
Dick Turpin
1925
as Tom King
In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart from a terrible marriage.
For Another Woman
1924
Young New York playboy Stephen Winthrop inherits the entire estate of his wealthy Canadian uncle but pays scant attention to it, preferring the "party...
One Night in Rome
1924
as Duke Mareno
The story of a great Italian Duchess and of the baffling mystic, L Enigma
Black Oxen
1923
as Prince Rohenhauer
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of th...
Long Live the King
1923
as King Karl
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people be...
Cameo Kirby
1923
as Colonel Moreau
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his lo...
Hollywood
1923
as Alan Hale
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtim...
The Eleventh Hour
1923
as Prince Stefan de Bernie
An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world.
Main Street
1923
as Miles Bjornstam
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
The Covered Wagon
1923
as Sam Woodhull
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience deser...
Quicksands
1923
as Ferrago
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. ...
Shirley of the Circus
1922
as Max
Nita is the popular dancer in a French circus. The strong man, Max, is her guardian and lends her to an interested artist, James Blackthorne, who prom...
Robin Hood
1922
as Little John
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, gras...
The Dictator
1922
as Sabos
A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her hom...
The Trap
1922
as Benson
A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
A Doll's House
1922
as Torvald Helmer
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed.
One Glorious Day
1922
as Ben Wadley
Ek is a disembodied spirit, required to wait his turn in the boring cosmos until he is allowed to inhabit an earthly body. Impatient, he sneaks off to...
The Great Impersonation
1921
as Gustave Seimann
When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing towa...
The Fox
1921
as Rufus B. Coulter
Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a jo...
A Wise Fool
1921
as George Masson
Jean, a wealthy young Canadian back from a trip to Europe, meets and falls for Carmen, a pretty young Spanish girl. They marry and have a daughter, bu...
A Voice in the Dark
1921
as Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man.
The Barbarian
1921
as Mark Grant
Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. Ja...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921
as Karl von Hartrott
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being ha...
Moral Suicide
1918
as 'Lucky' Travers
Wealthy Richard Covington, although aging and lonely, distresses his children, Waverly and Beatrice, by marrying a heartless seductress named Fay Hope...
The Eternal Temptress
1917
as Count Rudolph Frizel
Austrian diplomats, seeking papers in the possession of the United States diplomat, work through the infatuation of his son, Harry, for an Italian wid...
Life's Whirlpool
1917
as Dr. Henry Grey
Ethel Barrymore plays the wife of an abusive country squire. So nasty is her husband that he all but forces her to seek solace in the arms of her form...
One Hour
1917
as G.D. Stanley
Opal, who knows nothing about her ancestors, falls in love with G. D. Stanley, the strange young man who is her closest neighbor in the Canadian wilde...
The Americano
1916
Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the P...
The Love Thief
1916
as Captain Arthur Boyce
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
The Scarlet Oath
1916
as John Huntington
Driven from Russia by the persecution of the police, who had caused the death of his wife, was Ivan Pavloff, a Nihilist, accompanied by his two infant...
The Beast
1916
as Cowboy
Mildred Manning wants to experience the Wild West firsthand with her beau, Sir Charles Beverly. While Charles is gambling, Mildred is saved from two d...
Sold Out
1916
as Halsey Brent
This picture tells of Leila Austen, a wealthy girl, who leaves Halsey Brent, a young suitor, to marry Tom Carter, a mining engineer.
Pudd'nhead Wilson
1916
as Tom Driscoll
A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.
Dora Thorne
1915
as Hugh Fernely
Ronald, heir to Lord Earle in Earlescourt, England, secretly loves Dora Thorne, a desirable but working-class woman. When Lord Earle hears of the rela...
East Lynne
1915
as Sir Francis Levinson
An adaptation of the stage warhorse East Lynne featuring a young, curly-haired Alan Hale as the villain.
The Americano
1915
as Madison - The Americano
Isabella De Ortega rides over to the mission for her music lesson. While she is there, pirates attack the mission and loot its treasures. The monks hi...
The Woman in Black
1914
as Frank Mansfield
Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as...
The Power of the Press
1914
as Sam Freeborn
An innocent man, serving a sentence of five years in prison through the perjured testimony of the real criminal, Steve Carson, foreman of a shipyard, ...
The Little Widow
1914
An early short film in which the young widow is protected by the employer of her recently deceased husband.
Woman Against Woman
1914
as John Tressider
Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger, pretti...
Strongheart
1914
as Ralph Thorne
STRONGHEART (1914) is a Native American Indian drama. Based on a famous play of the time, the film features an all-star cast. Originally five reels, t...
By Man's Law
1913
as Brother Owner
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of wh...
Dick's Turning
1913
as The Rich Boy's Father
Young Dick and Milly are married but struggling, especially when Dick loses his position on a labor gang. Milly returns to her father who refuses to t...