Jack Curtis
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1880-05-27
Locus Natus: San Francisco, California, USA
Et ut:
The Long Chance
Harley Hennage, a gambler, loves Marie but remains silent when he realizes that she is in love with Oliver Corblay, a prospector. After Corblay and...
release : 1915.11.01popularis : 2.171
The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an...
release : 1920.05.30popularis : 1.579
The Torrent
Velma is unhappily married to Sam Patton, a millionaire roué. Aboard his yacht bound for the South Seas, Sam pays more attention to his guests...
release : 1921.01.22popularis : 5.361
Treat 'Em Rough
Cowboy star Tom Mix was cast as Ned Ferguson, a sure-shot frontiersman with a nose for trouble.
release : 1919.01.05popularis : 0.92
Hell-Roarin' Reform
Tom Mix plays Tim, a goodhearted cowpuncher who, while riding down a trail, gets robbed of the money he was carrying for the Belgian Babies' Milk...
release : 1919.02.16popularis : 0.809
The Coming of the Law
Kent Hollis has arrived in Dry Bottom, New Mexico to settle the affairs of his dead father. But when he discovers that the town is at the mercy of...
release : 1919.05.11popularis : 0.591
The Speed Maniac
Billy Porter sells his ranch and travels to San Francisco to try his hand in the business world. But he's barely off the ferryboat before he gets...
release : 1919.10.10popularis : 2.157
Desert Love
Murderous bandits shoot up a town and kill the sheriff. But before he dies, the lawman leaves behind a list of the men responsible for his murder....
release : 1920.04.20popularis : 0.927
Mr. Logan, U.S.A.
During World War I, German spies were even capable of infiltrating a Tom Mix Western!
release : 1918.09.08popularis : 1.44
The Texas Streak
Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.
release : 1926.09.26popularis : 1.355
The Spoilers
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
release : 1923.08.26popularis : 0.885
Dangerous Trails
A mounted police inspector battles not only a gang of opium smugglers but also a haughty society belle
release : 1923.01.10popularis : 0.408
Baree, Son of Kazan
Wolfdog pup, Baree, is nursed back to health by a trapper's daughter after being caught in one of the traps.
release : 1925.04.18popularis : 0.441
The Pest
Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady John Harland is courting the judge's daughter...
release : 1919.04.20popularis : 1.177
Durand of the Bad Lands
A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands is the story a rancher falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Sheriff...
release : 1925.11.01popularis : 2.971
The Oklahoma Kid
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money...
release : 1939.03.11popularis : 4.768
Western Speed
Lorimer is wanted for a crime he didn't commit, and "Red" has his hands full keeping the old man safe from the sheriff and his posse.
release : 1922.04.23popularis : 1.426
Dressed to Kill
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent...
release : 1946.05.24popularis : 9.646
The Charge of the Light Brigade
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances...
release : 1936.10.20popularis : 7.765
Miss Polly
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....
release : 1941.11.14popularis : 1.96
The Wedding Song
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...
release : 1925.11.29popularis : 1.963
The Iron Hand
After political boss Tim Noland adopts Roy, the infant son of a dead crony, he reluctantly gives the boy up to a doctor who claims that, if raised in...
release : 1916.05.29popularis : 0.974
Frisco Kid
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...
release : 1935.11.30popularis : 6.816
Rails Into Laramie
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
release : 1954.04.14popularis : 6.052
Marked Cards
Ellen Shannon, the daughter of self-made Irish politician Pat Shannon, is engaged to Ted Breslin, but because Pat began his career as a menial...
release : 1918.07.14popularis : 3.088
Among the Living
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
release : 1941.12.12popularis : 6.634
Buccaneer's Girl
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
release : 1950.03.01popularis : 4.438
The Lady Gambles
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the...
release : 1949.05.20popularis : 3.976
Until They Get Me
In an effort to reach his wife's deathbed, Kirby is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He is arrested by Selwyn, a member of the North West...
release : 1917.12.02popularis : 1.974
Frenchie
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she...
release : 1950.12.25popularis : 2.737
Broadway Arizona
While on vacation in New York, millionaire cattle rancher John Keyes falls in love with musical comedy star Fritzi Carlyle. Recognizing the...
release : 1917.09.30popularis : 0.553
Through Thick and Thin
An undercover agent tracks a gang of drug smugglers to their headquarters in Mexico, a nightclub, where he manages to get a job as a bouncer. There...
release : 1927.09.29popularis : 1.95
His Back Against the Wall
Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he...
release : 1922.05.21popularis : 1.126
Jaws of Steel
Our doggy hero is abandoned in the desert while in pup-hood. Upon reaching maturity, Tin Tin has undeservedly earned the reputation as a killer...
release : 1927.09.10popularis : 1.417
The Strangers' Banquet
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John...
release : 1922.12.31popularis : 2.895
Reno
After obtaining a divorce from his second wife Emily, Roy Tappan marries Dora Carson, who has just divorced her husband. Left poor with two children,...
release : 1923.12.09popularis : 1.309
The Shadow on the Wall
George Walters is a youth who is dominated by Bleary, a heartless bully, who forces him to pose as the son of millionaire George Warring, kidnapped...
release : 1925.01.01popularis : 1.361
How Green Was My Valley
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
release : 1941.10.28popularis : 15.923
The Sea Lion
When his long-suffering wife leaves him, the hard-driving captain of a whaling ship turns bitter and takes out his anger, resentment and frustrations...
release : 1921.12.04popularis : 3.004
Comanche Territory
Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into...
release : 1950.05.01popularis : 2.48
Son of Frankenstein
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is...
release : 1939.01.13popularis : 15.25
Stagecoach
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the...
release : 1939.03.03popularis : 15.295
White Fang
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
release : 1936.07.17popularis : 2.332
Frankenstein
Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams...
release : 1931.11.21popularis : 20.425
It Happened One Night
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other...
release : 1934.02.22popularis : 16.692
Winchester '73
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a...
release : 1950.07.12popularis : 13.511
Pinky
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her...
release : 1949.09.28popularis : 10.76
Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...
release : 1937.12.31popularis : 6.695
The Phantom in the House
A man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife.
release : 1929.10.20popularis : 1.865
Mammy
Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in cities and towns across the U.S. Jolson falls in love with an...
release : 1930.03.26popularis : 1.241
Under a Texas Moon
A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.
release : 1930.04.01popularis : 2.589
The Woman from Monte Carlo
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to...
release : 1932.01.09popularis : 3.874
Westward Ho
Ballard's trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young John's parents and kidnaping his brother, Jim. In post-Civil War...
release : 1935.08.19popularis : 5.349
Lawless Range
John Middleton is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emmett, a rancher who disappeared earlier. They help...
release : 1935.11.04popularis : 4.885
Sins of Man
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the...
release : 1936.06.19popularis : 1.236
The Cry of the First Born
Owing to his father's illness, Cecil Crenwell is sent to inspect the family rice plantation in Hawaii. While there he falls in love with Hawai'ian...
release : 1915.09.23popularis : 1.387
Moby Dick
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
release : 1930.09.20popularis : 5.767
Romeo and Juliet
A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.
release : 1924.08.03popularis : 4.039
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...
release : 1932.11.09popularis : 11.351
My Darling Clementine
Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find...
release : 1946.10.17popularis : 10.895
Brass Knuckles
Zac Harrison, upon his release from prison, assumes responsibility for seeing to the needs of June Curry, the 17-year-old daughter of a fellow inmate...
release : 1927.12.03popularis : 0.932
Scarlet Seas
A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long...
release : 1928.01.12popularis : 1.844
Greed
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
release : 1924.12.04popularis : 9.553
Captain Caution
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
release : 1940.08.09popularis : 6.4
Road Gang
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a...
release : 1936.03.28popularis : 3.592
Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...
release : 1941.04.17popularis : 52.092
Silly Billies
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the...
release : 1936.03.20popularis : 2.959
3 Godfathers
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their...
release : 1948.12.31popularis : 8.068
Billy the Kid Trapped
Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies...
release : 1942.02.27popularis : 5.699
Hold Everything
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
release : 1930.03.20popularis : 0.927
Flower of the North
Two men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the Northwest to gain the right-of-way for their railroad...
release : 1921.12.04popularis : 0.603
The Rainmakers
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous...
release : 1935.10.25popularis : 2.267
The Exile
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver...
release : 1947.10.17popularis : 1.957
The Love Trader
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic,...
release : 1930.09.25popularis : 2.417
The End of the Rainbow
The daughter of a lumber man disguises herself and gets hired as the secretary of her father's rival.
release : 1916.10.30popularis : 1.147
God's Crucible
Having worked himself out of grinding poverty, grouchy millionaire Lorenzo Todd adopts a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude concerning the rest of...
release : 1917.01.22popularis : 0.575
It Happened in Honolulu
Story of a pretty girl whose ambitious mother wants to marry her off to an English nobleman. The girl, however, loves a plain American, the son of a...
release : 1916.06.26popularis : 1.182
Southern Justice
Three old men -- Judge Moran (George Hernandez), Roger Appleby (Jack Curtis) and Caleb Talbot (Jean Hersholt) -- are the caretakers of a young boy,...
release : 1917.05.28popularis : 0.942
Mutiny
Although Esther Whitaker is in love with Caleb Tilden, her sea captain father demands that she marry his first mate. However, Esther's grandfather...
release : 1917.03.12popularis : 1.256
Captain Blood
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of...
release : 1924.09.21popularis : 1.518
Canyon of the Fools
Veteran western performers Harry Carey and Marguerite Clayton appeared in three films together from 1923-1924: Desert Driven, Tiger Thompson and,...
release : 1923.01.21popularis : 0.304
Baby Face
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her...
release : 1933.07.13popularis : 16.571
The Range Feud
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend,...
release : 1931.10.14popularis : 3.778
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a...
release : 1947.10.08popularis : 2.41
Show of Shows
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...
release : 1929.11.21popularis : 4.633
Man's Desire
Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists...
release : 1919.07.20popularis : 3.615
Seeds of Vengeance
In the mountains of West Virginia, Alderson Cree is mortally wounded in an ambush by Kip Ryerson, after Kip's wife, Martha, seeks refuge at the...
release : 1920.08.19popularis : 1.709
The Way of the World
Gubernatorial candidate Walter Croyden is in love with Beatrice, but he acts obnoxiously when he drinks, so she flees to Europe to re-evaluate the...
release : 1916.07.03popularis : 1.228
Magnificent Doll
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne...
release : 1946.12.08popularis : 5.067
Soft Boiled
John Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter learns to curb his violent temper. Tom is put on a...
release : 1923.08.26popularis : 2.468
The Long Chance
Harley P. Hennage, town gambler, takes under his protection Dana Corbaly when her widowed mother dies. He becomes suspicious of the motives of Bob...
release : 1922.10.02popularis : 1.925
Two Men of Sandy Bar
John Oakhurst, a gentleman gambler, befriends Sandy Morton, who has dissipated his birthright through gambling and excessive drinking and dropped...
release : 1916.04.03popularis : 1.46
Secret Love
In an English mining town during the 1870's, Joan Lowrie falls in love with Fergus Derrick, the new chief engineer who vows to improve working...
release : 1916.01.31popularis : 0.89
The Yaqui
In Mexico, a poor Yaqui Indian loses his family through the actions of a racist Mexican officer named Martinez.
release : 1916.03.09popularis : 0.922
Mr. Opp
Optimistic in the face of failure, Daniel Webster Opp finally attains success as a traveling salesman for a shoe firm, but just when his prospects...
release : 1917.08.20popularis : 1.171
An Unwilling Hero
As a man travels down to New Orleans for the winter, he finds out a robbery will be taken place on Christmas night in a plantation. he helps a girl...
release : 1921.01.08popularis : 1.914
The Egg and I
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country....
release : 1947.05.01popularis : 10.516
The Big Punch
Buck, who is preparing to enter a theological seminary, aids his brother and some friends who are fleeing from justice, and thus implicated he is...
release : 1921.02.13popularis : 2.09
Find the King
In this two-reel comedy, Edward Everett Horton is the pampered scion of a family, raised by a couple of prissy aunts. He does card tricks. Through...
release : 1927.11.05popularis : 0.671