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The Triumph of Right (1912)
Character: The Sheriff
A drama in which a man buys a horse in order to get medicine for his wife, but is then arrested because he is riding a stolen horse.
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How States Are Made (1912)
Character: A Pioneer
Twenty or twenty-five years ago, when the unoccupied government lands were released for settlement, everyone who registered their names was given a fair and free chance to secure one of the sections of land, which was apportioned off in sections. The settlers were drawn up in a long line at a certain distance from the lands opened up, some of them on horseback and others in vehicles of all descriptions. At the firing of a cannon, everybody made a rush for the land. Harvey Mattson and his wife Annie, with their child, emigrate form Missouri in a prairie schooner. On their way they hear of the opening up of the Cherokee Strip. They hasten there and Harvey pitches camp, preparatory to entering his name. Their child is taken sick. Harvey goes for the doctor, and during his absence. Bill Slick, a good-looking ruffian, tries to force his attentions upon Annie. She repulses him. Harvey and the doctor arrive, and he "settles" Bill without ceremony. The ruffian, enraged, leaves.
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A Wasted Sacrifice (1912)
Character: Dr. Winton - The Sheriff Doctor
A short Western. When his child dies, Dick is at wit’s end. He begins to drink, and shoots someone dead. As the sheriff is chasing him, Dick comes across a dead Indian woman with her child. He cares for the child, and warns the sheriff. When they find him, the child has already died, and they take him away.
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The Courage of the Commonplace (1913)
Character: Mary's Father
A farmer's daughter, who devotedly endlessly gives selflessly of herself to her parents and younger siblings, dreams of going to college, which she's saved money to be able to pay for.
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A Little Madonna (1914)
Character: Guido - Maries Father
Terrorized by Guido, her drunken and brutal father, Marie receives assurance from her dying mother that the Madonna will always protect her. The father reels in just after the mother has expired, too drunk to realize the woman is dead, and finding the whiskey bottle empty, abuses the child. Marie appeals to the image of the Madonna and Guido, in a frenzy of rage, smashes it on the floor. Horrified at the sacrilege, Marie screams.
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Teddy at the Throttle (1917)
Character: John Bennett
Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of Bobbie's inheritance. The scheming guardian and his sister have been spending Bobbie's money, and they hope to have the sister marry Bobbie so that they can keep control over his money.
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Cursed by His Beauty (1914)
Character: The Art Student's Husband
Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.
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Mabel’s Latest Prank (1914)
Character: Mabel's Employer
Mabel meets a masher in the park while en route to get a position as maid. Later she finds the man was the husband of her new mistress. There is an exciting chase scene, and the picture winds up with everyone in the lake.
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The Better Man (1912)
Character: The Doctor
With a fondness for gambling, Jim Saunders is given to neglecting his wife and child. One night during his absence at the saloon, Miguel Gomez, a Mexican outlaw, for whom $1,000 reward is offered, enters Jim's home and demands food of Mrs. Saunders.
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Narcotic (1933)
Character: Hand wrestler
A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties.
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A Bit of Blue Ribbon (1913)
Character: Jim Hartwell, Mary's Father
A short Western in which a cowboy is rescued from a lynching in the nick of time.
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The Craven (1912)
Character: Ann's Uncle, Owner of the Ranch
A short western about a cowardly sheriff who leaves it up to his wife to catch a murderer, and then takes the credit himself.
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Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)
Character: Steward (uncredited)
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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The Greater Love (1912)
Character: Bannister - Nell's Father
A romantic Western in which a notorious criminal who is in love with the fiancée of the sheriff digs his own sentence by reuniting the sheriff, whom he has wounded, with the girl.
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Mabel's Busy Day (1914)
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
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Whose Baby? (1917)
Character: Elderly Man
Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.
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The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)
Character: Sailor
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Character: Entertainer (uncredited)
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, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Gunga Din (1939)
Character: Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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All Wrong (1919)
Character: Donald Thompson
Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged. Warren's boss, however, who was never enamored of the idea, fires him when he bungles an account and loses the company a large order. On top of that, through a series of misunderstandings Warren comes to believe that his wife is pregnant and his mother-in-law believes that Warren is having an affair with Betty's friend Ethel. Things go downhill for Warren from there.
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Mabel's Blunder (1914)
Character: The Boss - Harry's Dad
Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
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America (1924)
Character: William Pitt
The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
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The Top of New York (1922)
Character: Mr. Isaacson
Hilda lives in a tenement apartment with her aunt, Mrs. Brady, and her crippled younger brother Micky, and works in a department store where her boss lusts after her. But happiness comes into her life when she meets artist Emery Gray. Gray's wife deserted him long ago, leaving him with their daughter Susan (Mary Jane Irving) to raise. While Susan and Micky become playmates, Hilda restores Gray's faith in womanhood.
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The Captain's Christmas (1938)
Character: Singer #2 (voice) (uncredited)
Pirate John and his crew threaten Christmas after taking over the Captain's role as Santa.
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Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Character: Milkman (uncredited)
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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Recreation (1914)
Character: Seaman on Park Bench (uncredited)
Charlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fight between the two men that eventually involves two police officers, all five people end up in the local pond to cool off.
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The Adventures of Ruth (1919)
Character: Wayman
Daniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as "the 13," and is shot when he refuses to do their bidding. His daughter Ruth, brought home from boarding school, reaches his bedside before he expires. He tells her that she will be given thirteen keys. Instructions will be provided with each key and, if she follows the instructions, she will eventually fully learn of her birthright. Many adventures then follow as Ruth attempts to solve the puzzle of each key and establish her true birthright.
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Born to Dance (1936)
Character: Quartet Member (uncredited)
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.
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Man Hunt (1941)
Character: N/A
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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It Ain't Hay (1943)
Character: SPCA Driver (uncredited)
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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The Property Man (1914)
Character: Lena's Husband George Ham (uncredited)
Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
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I Live My Life (1935)
Character: Stewart (Uncredited)
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Character: Uncle Donald Banks
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
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Treasure Island (1934)
Character: Pirate of the Spanish Main
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
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