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Robert Ellis
Born: 25th Jun 1892 Brooklyn, New York, USA - Died 29th Dec 1974
Dept: Writing
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 96
Film: 96 (100%)
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Filmography
1934
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she ... view
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Frank Comstock
1934
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten dow ... view
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Casino Manager
1934
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to se ... view
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Gangster
1934
A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result. ... view
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Cavendish
1934
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes. ... view
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Turk Garrison
1934
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak ... view
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Sulkin
1933
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gamble ... view
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Prosecuting Attorney
1933
A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister has gotten mixed up with gangsters. ... view
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Police Chief Crown
1933
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she ... view
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Jack (Duke) Farnham
1933
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was l ... view
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Inspector James Riley
1933
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man. ... view
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Al Blake
1933
Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman. ... view
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Moran
1933
When a wife and mother abandons her family for the footlights of Broadway, then dies in a tragic accident, revealing long-held secrets, the husband tu ... view
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Leading Man
1933
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daugh ... view
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Kellar
1933
It's just after the Civil War in Kansas and Joan Randall and her troops are continuing the struggle. Jeff Conners is sent to bring her in and when he ... view
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Colonel Jedcott
1932
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. ... view
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James Forrester
1932
A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndicate that controls the gambling--and much of the ju ... view
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Jack Blake
1932
A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways. ... view
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Hotel Manager (Uncredited)
1932
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actu ... view
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District Attorney
1932
A mechanic works for his sweetheart's father, who builds racing boats. He begs for and gets the chance to race a new-design boat, but his rival gets h ... view
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Langard
1932
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up ... view
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Brandon
1932
Gregory is a phony government agent issuing worthless checks. To keep from being exposed he has his men dress as Indians and attack anything bringing ... view
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Jim Gregory
1932
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An ... view
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Frank Sanderson
1932
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west. ... view
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Butch Owens
1932
The villainous Marsden plans to sink a ship owned by Mr. Wingate to collect the insurance money, while also hoping to win over Wingate's daughter, Mar ... view
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English Charlie
1932
Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train. ... view
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Reynolds
1932
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank ... view
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Dude Finlay (uncredited)
1932
A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron. ... view
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Hugo DuSang
1932
Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and he has Triple X hand Joe let his men rustle their c ... view
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John Thomas (as Bob Ellis)
1932
Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jac ... view
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Jack Keene - Man-about-Town
1931
A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed. ... view
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Gordon Stiles
1931
Streetor is pulling off a land swindle and wants Thompson on his side. He does him a favor and then makes him Sheriff. But as Streetor evicts the ranc ... view
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Jonathan P. Streeter
1931
On parole from prison for a murder he did not commit, and not allowed to carry a gun, Buck sets out to find the real killer. His clue is a corner torn ... view
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Ira Coleman
1931
Mounted Fury is a 1931 American drama film directed by Stuart Paton and written by Betty Burbridge. ... view
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Paul Marsh
1931
Stern district attorney John Raymond sentences innocent June Lawrence to prison along with her guilty husband Dan. After she dies in prison, her broth ... view
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Dan Lawrence
1931
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis ... view
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Duncan Channing
1931
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man. ... view
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Dapper Dan Tyler
1931
A dying Jack makes Bob and Flash promise not to tell his sister that he was an outlaw. When Bob confronts Flash with his muffler found at the stage ho ... view
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Flash Halloway
1931
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 ... view
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Larry Leavitt
1931
During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a racketeer. ... view
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A.C. Marino
1931
Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife. ... view
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Joe Cabrone
1930
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husban ... view
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Valleti
1930
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue. ... view
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Howard LeMoyne
1930
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 ... view
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Jim Paine
1929
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensna ... view
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Mr. John W. Zelli
1929
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonight at Twelve is a 1929 American drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and written by Matt Taylor, Harry ... view
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Jack Keith
1929
A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family i ... view
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Guy Emory
1929
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. ... view
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Steve Crandall
1928
Innocent co-ed Dixie is unjustly expelled for unladylike activities by college chairman John Neil, (who also happens to be the local District Attorney ... view
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Robert Haines
1928
When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations. ... view
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Cyrus Hazlett
1928
The story deals with college life at Princeton with a different angle of situations and romance than is usually served from the screen (Tampa Times, N ... view
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Rod Luke
1928
A pulsing drama of modern life centering about a young war-widow and her son. ... view
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Harry Wayland
1928
A silent film from the end of the silent era. ... view
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Ernest Vane
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Steve Martin, aka 'Slick'
1926
A gambler shoots a man in self defense and receives a prison sentence. Upon release, he disguises as a mining engineer and pursues revenge on the judg ... view
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1926
Returning from the war to his father's California sawmill, Bob Cameron takes up with Hinky Dink, a cocky Englishman and man of the road. Ignoring a "n ... view
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Bob Cameron
1926
Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estat ... view
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Phillip Mott
1926
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her. Mami ... view
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Jack Forrest
1926
A Parisian cabaret dancer Emilia finds herself under the scrutiny of aristocratic British military officer Jerome Hautrix, who catches her act while o ... view
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Jack Ewing
1925
S.O.S. Perils of the Sea is a 1925 American silent film featuring Elaine Hammerstein, directed by James P. Hogan and released through Columbia Picture ... view
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1925
When drunken Canadian trapper Raoul La Fane attacks his young wife Marie, she takes a shot at him. La Fane falls, and Marie, thinking she killed him, ... view
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Louis Le Blanc
1925
Doris Fuller, noted screen star, marries poor newspaperman Kenneth Scott. His pride is hurt when he is called "Mr. Doris Fuller" and by the disparity ... view
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Kenneth Scott
1925
Disguising herself as a masked bandit, Catalina, the ward of the governor of a Spanish province, avenges injustice, aids the poor, and plots a revolut ... view
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Hugh Winthrop
1925
A vivacious young woman known only as Captain Joe captains a rum-runner operating between the Bahamas and the United States. Jerry Burke, a Secret Ser ... view
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Jerry Burke
1924
When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought u ... view
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Barry Braxton
1924
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 ... view
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Bob Cooper
1924
Paul and Rhoda Remsen, having marital difficulties, separate; and each is awarded custody of their child Peggy for 6 months of the year. Rhoda and Peg ... view
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Paul Remsen
1923
Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns ho ... view
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Elliot Worthington
1923
Leslie Adams, secretary to the city editor of a newspaper, persuades him to let her write up a society affair. Her efforts result in a libel suit agai ... view
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Basil Wingate / Stuart Furth
1923
Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' l ... view
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Fergus Derrick
1923
Ruth Rutherford, crippled as a result of being thrown from a horse, breaks her engagement to Lord Wallington. Dejected, he returns to his regiment in ... view
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Lord Wallington
1922
Desperate for a job, New York showgirl Eva Lee accepts an offer from Cameron Camden and Eban Burnham to go to South America to dance exotic. ... view
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Fernando Pennington
1922
Allen Holubar silent seafaring pirate ship adventure thriller ... view
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Steele O'Connor
1922
Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom -- her father -- was so cruel that he drove her m ... view
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Cyrus Flint
1922
Russell Carrington accepts the blame for a murder charge to protect Rita, the woman he loves, from being accused of killing her husband. He escapes th ... view
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Herbert Norwood
1922
Lady Vivienne is implicated in a murder as a result of refusing the romantic suit of Henry Porthen. Years later, in South Africa, she encounters the m ... view
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Kerry Burgess
1921
Schooled by her wealthy brother-in-law William Hollins, Christine Bleeker plans to marry Ralph Lincourt when he is divorced. He, however, is equally p ... view
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Anthony Mulvain
1921
Orphan Lois Walton is treated unkindly by her aunt, who has her placed in a reformatory. She and the other inmates are badly abused but are afraid to ... view
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Peter Madison
1920
For revenge, wealthy Osbert Gault marries Virginia Mynors, the daughter of a woman who had jilted him years earlier. Unaware of Gault's motives, Virgi ... view
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Gerald Roseborough
1919
Tessa Doyle, an innocent country girl who has come to New York and joined a vaudeville sister act, becomes embroiled in a scheme to earn money at her ... view
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Billy Swayne
1919
Missy, the heiress to her uncle's fortune, resolves to make atonement for the innocent lives lost when her uncle's box factory burns down because of h ... view
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Rupert Bawlf
1919
Louisiana is a mountain girl living in North Carolina. A poor girl, she is sent by her father to work in a resort hotel in order to obtain some cultur ... view
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Laurence Ferol
1919
Alice Chesterton is described as a "Baby Vamp" by the social set and engaged to boring Tom Carey. She flirts with many of the male guests idling at th ... view
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Terrence O'Keefe
1919
The Honorable Hugh Wentworth, arriving from England with a valuable diamond to millionaire Edward Ensloe. Ensloe's eldest daughter Eleanor has romanti ... view
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Honorable Hugh Wentworth
1919
Helen Corning, a rich "Yankee" widow's daughter, antagonizes her Southern neighbors when she speeds in her roadster. After she causes Brett Page's sta ... view
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Brett Page
1918
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for th ... view
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'Bud' Hall
1917
Overcome with guilt after having an affair with her best friends husband, Clorinda hopes to escape her past by moving to Europe, where she meets Malco ... view
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Leslie Palliser
1916
Through his mirror vocograph The Wolf learns that Marguerite is carrying the codebook with her to a reception at the home of Col. West. The Wolf and h ... view
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The Wolf
1915
A scientist tries to transfer the personality of a man into his mentally retarded son. ... view
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Buford
1915
The Denton's marital happiness brings home to Randall the loneliness of his own existence. Shortly afterwards, the young man meets Pearl Eltinge, a ca ... view
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Lloyd Denton - Randall's Chum
1913
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. ... view
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Roger Master - Nora's Sweetheart