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Jim Farley
Born: 8th Jan 1882 Waldron, Arkansas, USA - Died 12th Oct 1947
Dept: Acting
James "Jim" Farley was an early film actor, whose career spanned 30 years across the silent and sound film eras. Farley's final film, The Man from Texas (1948), was released after his death in 1947.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 131
Film: 131 (100%)
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Filmography
1949
The truncated feature version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. ... view
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Harbormaster
1947
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up runnin ... view
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Bank Guard #2 (uncredited)
1946
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband. ... view
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Warden (uncredited)
1945
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her. ... view
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Train Conductor (uncredited)
1945
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the a ... view
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(uncredited)
1945
Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" murder suspect Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove her innocence, all with the cooperation of a sympathetic s ... view
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Hank
1944
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to ... view
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Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1944
A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel. ... view
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Jury Member (uncredited)
1943
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the ... view
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Turnkey (uncredited)
1943
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort. ... view
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Town Crier (uncredited)
1943
A town is cleared of crime when a group of cowboys under the direction of Hayden battles an outlaw gang. They also manage to restore the reputation of ... view
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Jed Bates
1943
Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with intentions of sneaking off later. As usual, his be ... view
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1943
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers. ... view
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Detective
1942
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler. ... view
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Miner
1942
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin. ... view
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Ticket Seller (uncredited)
1942
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible. ... view
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Sheriff Sam
1942
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citi ... view
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Angry Citizen in Lynch Mob
1942
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, ... view
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Night Watchman (uncredited)
1941
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the r ... view
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Cop
1941
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother. ... view
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1941
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. C ... view
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Jim Pennywinkle (uncredited)
1941
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours. ... view
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Watchman (uncredited)
1941
In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. Whi ... view
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Councilman
1941
A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers. ... view
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Banker
1941
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Fora ... view
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Graham
1941
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, ... view
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Policeman (uncredited)
1940
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 ... view
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Brewer, Armory Hostage (uncredited)
1940
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang. ... view
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Rancher
1940
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the ... view
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Accusing Pedestrian (uncredited)
1940
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death. ... view
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Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
1940
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house. ... view
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Police Captain
1940
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devis ... view
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Inspector Warner
1940
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from bein ... view
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Greely
1940
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confedera ... view
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Southerner (uncredited)
1940
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be s ... view
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Prison Guard
1940
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of ... view
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Police Captain Moran
1940
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide. ... view
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Police Captain (uncredited)
1939
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair. ... view
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Tavern Owner (uncredited)
1939
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways. ... view
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Doorman (uncredited)
1939
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of n ... view
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Ship's Officer
1939
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp ... view
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Laborer-Grader (uncredited)
1939
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant. ... view
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Juryman
1939
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line. ... view
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Engineer (uncredited)
1939
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. ... view
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Skipper
1938
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted. ... view
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Policeman
1938
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish m ... view
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Police Sergeant (uncredited)
1938
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the po ... view
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Fire Chief
1938
Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow. Eaton teams ... view
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Hawkins
1938
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer. ... view
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Man in Sheriff's Office
1938
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1 ... view
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Miner (uncredited)
1938
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her kn ... view
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Plainclothesman (uncredited)
1938
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood. ... view
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Dining Car Waiter (uncredited)
1937
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying ... view
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Sheriff Mart
1937
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a s ... view
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Sheriff Stanton
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Police
1937
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it ... view
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Railroad Conductor
1937
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien ... view
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Jones - Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
1937
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 ... view
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Police Officer Johnson (uncredited)
1936
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years a ... view
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Detective (uncredited)
1936
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public. ... view
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Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
1936
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, howev ... view
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Dan Tolliver
1936
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and f ... view
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Sailor (uncredited)
1936
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding s ... view
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Deputy Sheriff
1936
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets ... view
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Tom Coburn
1936
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and th ... view
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Sheriff (uncredited)
1935
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of t ... view
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Vigilante (uncredited)
1935
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage ... view
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Chief James A. Sullivan
1935
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady. ... view
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Passenger
1935
Ballard's trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young John's parents and kidnaping his brother, Jim. In post-Civil War Californi ... view
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Lafe Gordon
1935
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore ... view
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Posse Member
1935
"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 ... view
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Detective
1934
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes ... view
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Third Cop
1934
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drow ... view
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Cop
1934
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they ... view
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1st Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
1933
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians. ... view
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Arresting Policeman
1933
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell fro ... view
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Jim Brown (uncredited)
1932
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs. ... view
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Police Sergeant
1932
Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening. ... view
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Board Member
1932
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life. ... view
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Horsecar Conductor (uncredited)
1932
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million. ... view
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Police Lieutenant
1932
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton fami ... view
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Bar Proprietor (uncredited)
1932
When Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned. After a confrontation with Utah Becker, Grant learns Jim's ... view
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Web Oliver
1931
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook. ... view
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Clancy - a Policeman
1931
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small chil ... view
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Policeman (uncredited)
1931
In 1877, thieves Ace Beaudry, Bronco Dawson and Bull Stanley head West together after having each been betrayed by a woman. They come across a wagon t ... view
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Marshal Dunn
1931
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; ... view
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Joe Geraghty
1930
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite. ... view
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Police Officer Farley (uncredited)
1930
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, ... view
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Martin Brierson
1929
College boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he finds Calamity Jane running roughshod over everyone. S ... view
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The Doctor
1929
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will ... view
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Death Row Police Officer
1929
An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that fr ... view
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Police Inspector Wilmot
1929
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations ... view
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Plainclothesman with Sergeant (uncredited)
1928
Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends muc ... view
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Townsman (uncredited)
1928
The Shady Lady is a 1928 sound part-talkie American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith. ... view
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1928
A police inspector 'solves' a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all. ... view
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Jones (as James Farley)
1928
Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White and Donald Reed. It was adapted from a n ... view
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Police Inspector
1928
A Woman Against the World is a 1928 American drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Harrison Ford, Georgia Hale, and Lee Moran. ... view
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Detective
1927
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywoo ... view
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Executioner
1926
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached ... view
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General Thatcher
1926
Jim Wallace, a young engineer, is engaged by Hammond, manager of an estate in the Northwest, to build flumes for a logging camp, but Donovan, the supe ... view
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Bill Duncan
1925
'Big Boy' Morgan and his friend, invalid Charlie Grey, must overcome the efforts of the villainous Holdbrook to foreclose on the Los Rosas ranch and m ... view
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Indian Pete
1924
Mother O'day, running her saloon after the death of her husband, places her daughter in the care of Mrs. Kendall, a high society woman. Later, in the ... view
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Mike
1923
The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers. ... view
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Jack McQueen (as James Farley)
1923
Elizabeth West, a young woman who is both a thief and a con artist and allied with a gang of crooks, is freed when a jury does not convict her on a la ... view
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Morton
1923
Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for ... view
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Murray Jessop
1922
Robert Ware takes it upon himself to tame wild girl, Mag, to prove to his doubting friend Arnold, he can turn her into a graceful young lady. Later, w ... view
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Pete
1922
Based on the play The Shaughraun, this is the story of Robert Ffolliat, a young Irish lad, who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony ... view
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Corry Cinchella
1922
A Western involving William S Hart as an outlaw who comes to the aid of a preacher in a small town through his infatuation with the preacher's wife. R ... view
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Dandy Dan McGee
1922
Jackie's father runs a general store that is on the brink of bankruptcy. To save it, Jackie borrows $2,000 from the local millionaire, Mr. Skinner, an ... view
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Kidnapper
1921
Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama ... view
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Scurlock
1921
Ranchers Bess Lynne and her invalid brother, Harold, seek the services of a competent foreman. Duke, of the "Bar Nothin'" ranch, rides into town and t ... view
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Bill Harliss
1921
A young rancher searchs for the villain who murdered his father and ran off with his sister. ... view
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Jim Crenshaw
1920
A Canadian Mountie pursues an outlaw across the border into the America... ... view
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Pere Du Barre
1920
During a quarrel at a Scottish inn, Captain Gordon wounds another officer and flees to New York with detective Jenks on his trail. Once there, he meet ... view
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Monk Brady
1920
A man and two women, suspected of stealing bonds, are traced to a country hotel. While Judith, one of the women, is out horseback riding, the other tw ... view
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Max Williams
1920
The saga of Alias Jimmy Valentine began with the O. Henry story "A Retrieved Reformation". This surprise-ending tale was adapted into a stage play by ... view
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Cotton
1919
Big Hearted Jim, the sheriff, loves the tomboyish Nugget Nell ( Dorothy Gish ), who runs a hash house in the mining country, but although she has roma ... view
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Badman #1
1919
Lindy, an innocent girl reared in a small town, accepts a letter for her friend Mrs. Bates from wealthy landlady Mrs. Cribbley. Believing the letter t ... view
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Brogan's Accomplice
1919
When cowboy Nick McCredie notices in a second-hand book an inscription to "Emily, the prettiest girl in school," he writes to her and learns that she ... view
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Sheridan
1919
After her stepfather's death, orphan Marty McKenzie and her companion, teacher Fannie Perkins, find themselves in financial straits. To raise money, t ... view
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Reagan
1919
Sue Gordon, a mountain girl on the Tennessee side of the Cumberlands, lives with her grandmother. When "Granny" dies, Sue--fulfilling Granny's dying w ... view
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John Peyton
1918
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas f ... view
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Flood
1918
During World War I, young Dorothy Grant comes home from finishing school and informs her parents that she is going to contribute to the war effort by ... view
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Henry - the Chauffeur
1918
Gordon Kingsley lives happily with his wife Dorothy and little daughter Mary Jane. On visiting the home of San Francisco architect Frank Mason, he is ... view
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'Bull' McDevitt (as James Farley)
1918
George MacFarland, a wealthy young man who loves adventure, bets his friends Thornton Brown and Arthur Sole $20,000 that he can commit a crime and elu ... view
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Detective Thorne
1918
Davy Glidden is the son of the adjutant general in charge of an old soldier's home in a small town near the Top Copper mine. Davy idolizes Capt. Jeric ... view
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Carl Bender
1917
Betsy Shelton, an orphan since early childhood, lives in Myrtleville with her aunt, and is engaged to marry Calvin Stone, a young lawyer. Betsy's brot ... view
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Williams
1917
Cast out by his father because of his wild shenanigans, Steve King travels west, where he drowns his sorrows in drink. One night while drunk, he marri ... view
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Missouri Joe
1915
Irrepressible Helen Rhinelander, the daughter of a railroad president. A dastardly villain, Segrue, however, desires not only Helen but also the plans ... view
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Amos Rhinelander (as J.H. Farley)