Nelson McDowell
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1870-08-14
Locus Natus: Greenville, Missouri, USA
Et ut:
The Lost World
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
release : 1925.02.02popularis : 9.653
The Vanishing Rider
William Desmond plays Jim Davis, a secret service agent by day and masked avenger by night. Ethlyne Clair provided feminine appeal, while Bud...
release : 1928.01.16popularis : 0.657
Down Home
DOWN HOME is a rural drama set in New England and stars Leatrice Joy as Nancy Pelot, daughter of the town drunk. He was once a businessman and still...
release : 1920.10.01popularis : 1.242
Pioneer Trails
Jack is orphaned as a young child when his wagon train is ambushed by Indians. Twenty years later, he rescues Rose from a runaway stagecoach. The two...
release : 1923.05.01popularis : 1.714
The Great Mail Robbery
Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbery. Theodore von Eltz stars as Marine lieutenant...
release : 1927.07.19popularis : 3.774
The Feud
Two Southern clans, the Lynches and the Summers, have been at odds with each other since long before Civil War times. But that hasn't stopped Jere...
release : 1919.12.07popularis : 0.811
The Rustler's Roundup
Winters is after the Brand ranch, and his man Brett who is foreman there is rustling the Brand stock. But Tom is on to their game and breaks up their...
release : 1933.03.16popularis : 2.377
Idaho!
Frank Leon Smith's well-written story told of Carter's Creek, a bustling mining camp, and of how Beth Cameron (Rich) seeks to avenge the murder of...
release : 1925.03.01popularis : 0.587
Wild Blood
It seems that an evil saloon owner not only wants this valuable steed for himself, but also its owner, the beautiful Mary Ellis. Enter honest gambler...
release : 1929.02.10popularis : 2.236
Born to the Saddle
John Pearson of Wall Street and his daughter Helen are out west on vacation to open his exclusive hunting lodge and are accompanied by Clyde...
release : 1929.10.03popularis : 0.532
The Fighting Trooper
When the Ranger Sergeant returns murdered with a note that LaFarge did it, Trooper Burke sets out to after LaFarge. Working undercover, he saves...
release : 1934.11.01popularis : 6.258
The Iron Rider
After he loses his money and horse in a poker game, Yak learns he was cheated. But then he learns that the men that cheated him are wanted and have a...
release : 1926.04.28popularis : 1.149
Santa Fe Rides
The Transcontinental Broadcasting Company sends a sound truck and equipment to a ranch to obtain an audition from "Santa Fe" Evans and his musical...
release : 1937.02.25popularis : 2.307
What Price Jazz
In rhyme, a soapbox preacher, Mr. Blue Laws, enlists Mr. Public Opinion in the efforts of the Society for the Prevention of Jazz. Armed with an ax...
release : 1934.05.28popularis : 1.378
The Silent Call
A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts.
release : 1921.11.07popularis : 2.017
Code of the Range
A cowpuncher is out for revenge on the gent who seduced his sister into a dance hall by advertising for a school teacher and then finished her off...
release : 1927.05.05popularis : 1.454
The Texas Ranger
Taylor has his men burning out the ranchers. When they kill Clayton, his daughter Helen and her men turn outlaw. The Rangers send Logan, and posing...
release : 1931.05.10popularis : 1.178
Midnight Mary
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term...
release : 1933.06.30popularis : 3.257
The Dawn Rider
When John Mason's father is killed, John is wounded. Attracted to his nurse Alice, a conflict arises between him and his friend Ben who plans to...
release : 1935.06.20popularis : 3.306
Whispering Smith
Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransacking wrecks. Sinclair along with his henchmen,...
release : 1926.03.28popularis : 1.883
Circus Lure
Joe Henry, head of a one-ring circus, plays a small town and after the departure of the troupe a young girl, fascinated by the prospects of being a...
release : 1924.06.15popularis : 0.532
The Devil's Cabaret
At Satan & Co., Inc., the devil is upset because too many people are going up to Heaven rather than down to Hades. He gives his assistant, Mr. Burns,...
release : 1930.12.13popularis : 3.336
Uncle Tom's Cabin
In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later,...
release : 1927.11.04popularis : 6.659
The Toast of New York
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he...
release : 1937.07.22popularis : 4.279
The Power God
In this movie serial Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is...
release : 1925.05.01popularis : 3.276
Avenging Angel
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Dawn Rider', complete with contemporary, pulse...
release : 1935.06.01popularis : 1.211
The Blind Trail
A man is suspected of robbery and murder and aided by his horse and dog.
release : 1926.01.15popularis : 0.935
Masked
The "Black Hound" band of desperadoes abduct a candidate for governor and demand a heavy ransom for him, but the hero and the girl lead a successful...
release : 1920.05.15popularis : 1.183
Clearing the Trail
A lawman and a rancher fight a gang of horse thieves.
release : 1928.10.07popularis : 1.659
Horses' Collars
The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the...
release : 1935.01.10popularis : 2.55
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
After 15 years of searching, Bud Watkins finally has his revenge on the cattlemen's gunman who killed his homesteader foster father, Pop Watkins. Bud...
release : 1924.11.30popularis : 0.595
The Phantom Bullet
When Click's father is killed by a phantom bullet, he returns home to find the killer. To put the killer off guard he poses as a dude with a camera....
release : 1926.05.09popularis : 3.553
Queen of the Northwoods
The villain of this serial, the "Wolf Devil", who's head covering amazingly looks to be a REAL wolf's head, is determined to eradicate the non native...
release : 1929.05.21popularis : 0.919
Billy the Kid
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat...
release : 1930.10.16popularis : 6.175
Born to Battle
Good-natured troublemaker "Cyclone" Tom Saunders is hired by a ranchers' association manager to investigate recent cattle rustling at one of their...
release : 1935.04.01popularis : 1.436
Desert Phantom
Billy Donovan arrives looking for his sister's killer. When he hires on at the Halloran ranch where the mysterious Phantom has killed all the hands,...
release : 1936.03.09popularis : 1.747
The Claw
Based on the 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley, this is the story of Dierdre Saurin, whose infatuation with Major Kinsella takes her to Africa where...
release : 1927.05.08popularis : 1.53
Ay Tank Ay Go
Boy loves girl, but she's on the other side in a hillbilly feud.
release : 1936.12.04popularis : 0.903
Santa Fe Stampede
The Mesquiteers capture a horse thief who escapes justice through a crooked judge. They gather signatures urging the governor to investigate but a...
release : 1938.11.18popularis : 2.708
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
An orphan (Richard Barthelmess) is adopted by Major Buford (Claude Gillingwater) is educated in Lexington and joins the Union Army as a Captain. He...
release : 1928.04.08popularis : 3.99
Asleep in the Feet
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
release : 1933.01.21popularis : 0.867
Rio Grande Ranger
Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction of the Texas Rangers. Ranger Bob Allen is sent...
release : 1936.12.11popularis : 1.358
Wheels of Destiny
Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map. When Rocky and his men attack,...
release : 1934.03.01popularis : 1.066
Gun Smoke
Parker, seeking revenge on Culverson, is bringing in a flood of sheep. Branning signs on at the Culverson ranch to help fight them off. Standing in...
release : 1935.05.01popularis : 1.929
Come On, Tarzan
Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who...
release : 1932.09.10popularis : 3.688
Border Guns
A cowboy drifting around the border gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionary gun smuggling when he becomes friends and rivals with the chief smuggler.
release : 1934.02.01popularis : 2.206
The Real McCoy
Charley poses as a hillbilly in his pursuit of a country girl.
release : 1930.02.01popularis : 1.361
Cupid the Cowpuncher
Alec Lloyd, the foreman of the Sewell ranch, is nicknamed "Cupid" because of his propensity for matchmaking. When Macie Sewell returns from boarding...
release : 1920.07.25popularis : 0.462
Crossed Signals
A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The...
release : 1926.09.28popularis : 1.826
Oliver Twist
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring...
release : 1922.10.30popularis : 5.418
The Last of the Mohicans
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their...
release : 1920.11.21popularis : 4.813
The Last of the Mohicans
Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights...
release : 1932.05.17popularis : 3.035
The Big Kick
Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted...
release : 1930.03.29popularis : 0.373
Terror of the Plains
A ranch hand sets out to prove his father is innocent of murder in this B-movie Western starring cowboy hero Tom Tyler. Disguised as an outlaw, Tom...
release : 1934.11.22popularis : 1.434
Western Frontier
Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now grown, is sent after the outlaw known as the Golden...
release : 1935.08.07popularis : 1.257
Westbound Stage
A wagon train crossing the plains comes across the remains of other wagon trains that have been attacked by looters. Soon they too are attacked.
release : 1939.12.15popularis : 2.12
The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart...
release : 1939.02.25popularis : 3.738
Music Is Magic
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
release : 1935.11.01popularis : 2.068
Lilac Time
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome...
release : 1928.10.18popularis : 9.993
Back Page
A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
release : 1933.11.07popularis : 2.582
The Airmail Mystery
A pilot and a gold mine owner go up against the evil Black Hawk, who has invented a plane that can take off and land without using a runway.
release : 1932.03.28popularis : 1.256
The White Angel
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...
release : 1936.06.25popularis : 3.094
Oklahoma Terror
Cartwright's racket is to sell a ranch and then have Mason and his men drive the ranchers away so he can resell it. If they want their money back he...
release : 1939.08.24popularis : 1.035
Northern Frontier
A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.
release : 1935.02.01popularis : 1.803
Rawhide Mail
Reed breaks up the first attempted gold robbery. When the outlaws next attempt is successful, Reed is jailed as the suspect. Escaping from jail, he...
release : 1934.06.07popularis : 1.128
Riders from Nowhere
In this his penultimate Western for low-budget company Monogram, Jack Randall assumed the identity of a murdered ranger in order to track down the...
release : 1940.12.30popularis : 2.556
Lighting Bill
Landis kills Tom Ross but fails to get his money. Now he is after the Ross ranch for the money he knows is there. When he tries to evict Ross with...
release : 1934.02.01popularis : 0.861
Texas Jack
Jack is looking for the man that was responsible for the death of his sister after he hired her as a school teacher. When he runs into school teacher...
release : 1935.12.15popularis : 0.934
Pioneer Days
Jack Randall plays Dunham, a wandering cavalier who comes to the aid of frontier heiress Mary. The girl's legacy is half-ownership of a prosperous...
release : 1940.01.25popularis : 1.3
Roll Wagons Roll
The Army sends Tex Masters to find out who is supplying Indians with military guns.
release : 1940.08.16popularis : 0.695
The Girl Who Ran Wild
M'liss, raised in the mountains as an unruly tomboy, is orphaned and is offered "protection" by Calaveras John and Johnny Cake, friends of her...
release : 1922.10.09popularis : 1.429
Ferocious Pal
A stray German shepherd, a runaway teenage boy, and a runaway teenage girl end up at her uncle's place in Oregon, where an epidemic of sheep rustling...
release : 1934.04.03popularis : 0.801
Stars on Parade
In this musical showcase, two aspiring stars attempt to wow a pair of talent scouts with their stellar abilities. Songs include "My Heart Isn't in...
release : 1944.05.25popularis : 1.085
The Gas Station
Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach.
release : 1930.03.29popularis : 0.68
The Return of Frank James
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth...
release : 1940.08.10popularis : 8.992
Dark Command
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local...
release : 1940.04.15popularis : 6.862
Heart of the Rockies
Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain family. But the Three Mesquiteers are wise to the...
release : 1937.09.06popularis : 1.356
Kit Carson Over the Great Divide
When the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the heroism of the foremost Indian scout of the day...Kit...
release : 1925.09.02popularis : 1.376
Wild Babies!
Two aspiring songwriters have a weird nightmare about the jungle.
release : 1932.06.17popularis : 1.508
The House of the Seven Gables
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother...
release : 1940.04.12popularis : 4.843
Chad Hanna
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
release : 1940.12.25popularis : 4.067
The Vagabond King
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is...
release : 1930.02.17popularis : 4.392
Feud of the West
A rodeo rider works himself into two different 'gangs' in order to end a range war over.
release : 1936.04.14popularis : 4.063
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
Home Stuff
Stranded in the small town of Buckeye Junction young actress Madge Joy crawls upon a load of hay and falls asleep. Knocked unconscious when young...
release : 1921.06.16popularis : 2.02
Lone Texas Ranger
"Iron Mike" Haines (Tom Chatterton), a crooked sheriff, and "Hands" Weber (Roy Barcroft), the town blacksmith, are in cahoots and have been robbing...
release : 1945.05.20popularis : 0.932
Sign of the Wolf
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
release : 1941.03.25popularis : 7.024
Heart Trouble
No known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen's rejection from service in WWI and subsequent...
release : 1928.10.01popularis : 1.052
Law of the Rio Grande
Escaping from the Sheriff, Jim and Cookie decide to go straight. But when they meet their old cohort, The Blanco Kid, he tells their new boss they...
release : 1931.08.08popularis : 7.455
The Bugle Call
Tale of a young bugler whose stepmother attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory.
release : 1927.08.06popularis : 1.171
Fighting Thru
Cattlemen Protective Agent Reb Russell arrives to try and stop the cattle rustling. He gains a friend when he saves Jack Thorn from Lenahan and his...
release : 1934.08.29popularis : 2.013
Welcome Danger
A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
release : 1929.10.12popularis : 2.521
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
Jane Eyre
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
release : 1943.12.24popularis : 15.747
Blood Test
An outlaw decides to hang up his guns and lead the "straight" life. His foster son falls for the daughter of a wealthy estate owner. The crooked...
release : 1923.04.10popularis : 0.557
Border Blackbirds
A couple of drifters seeking shelter from a blizzard. In a mountain cabin, they find the body of an old friend and a note that blames his death on...
release : 1927.08.28popularis : 0.795
On the Go
Bill Drake is a cowpoke who must prove himself innocent of robbing the general store. The real culprit, as our hero detects, is Tom Evans, the...
release : 1925.04.04popularis : 1.796
Boots and Saddles
Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real westerner instead. When new owner Spud arrives from...
release : 1937.10.04popularis : 3.514
Keep 'Em Flying
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott &...
release : 1941.11.27popularis : 2.579
The Ramblin' Galoot
The hero, cowpuncher Buddy Royle is not only handy around the cattle but a golfing enthusiast to boot. Buddy teaches the upscale sport to Pansy Price...
release : 1926.11.21popularis : 2.873
Ridin' On
Bolton has organized a feud between the Rork's and the O'Neil's. He has rustled cattle and killed a man putting the blame on Danny O'Neil. Tom Rork...
release : 1936.02.29popularis : 1.197
Everything But the Truth
Although the Hervey oil company is nearly bankrupt, owner Bill Hervey is unconcerned because he is about to be married to Helen Gray and can think of...
release : 1920.05.31popularis : 1.207
Another Man's Shoes
To evade a gang conspiring to assassinate him, wealthy businessman Stuart Granger induces his unsuspecting, look-alike cousin, Jack Burton, to...
release : 1922.11.06popularis : 1.753
Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...
release : 1938.02.12popularis : 4.07
The House of Flickers
The troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler starring Paul Parrot and Mildred June.
release : 1925.03.15popularis : 2.258
The Scarlet Brand
In The Scarlet Brand, a young cowpoke tricked into rustling cattle and hell-bent on getting revenge against the poacher who set him up.
release : 1932.04.10popularis : 3.402
Mason of the Mounted
Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence. He befriends young Andy and when...
release : 1932.05.14popularis : 1.975