Personal Info
Birth date
1857-09-04 (167 Years)
Day of death
1928-04-22
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Also known as
Frank J. Currier
Frank Currier
Biography
Frank Currier was an American actor and director of the Silent films era.
Filmography
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.3
Overview:
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.Across to Singapore
6.8
Overview:
While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their return, convinces the townspeople that Joel abandoned his brother. Joel, determined to not only find Mark but to see justice done, returns the ship to Singapore.Tell It to the Marines
6.4
Overview:
U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O'Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O'Hara's feelings and is attracted to the handsome 'Skeet.' But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord's bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.The Callahans and the Murphys
NYR
Overview:
The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.Annie Laurie
6.667
Overview:
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.The Misleading Lady
NYR
Overview:
Jack Craigen, an engineer who has just finished a construction job in South Africa, returns to New York. There, at the home of his Uncle Cannell, he meets stage-struck society girl Helen Steele and her playwright fiancé Tracey. Scheming to win the lead in their new production, The Siren , Helen wagers Cannell and Tracey that she can vamp Jack--a notorious woman-hater--and have him propose to her in a week.The Red Lily
6.5
Overview:
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.The Right of Way
NYR
Overview:
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia.La Bohème
6.6
Overview:
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.Fifty-Fifty
5
Overview:
Naomi is a young aspiring artist known to her Bohemian friends as "The Nut." Naomi's alleged nuttiness does not in any way impede the efforts by wealthy Frederick Harmon to make the unworldly heroine his bride. When their first baby is born, Naomi becomes so obsessed with motherhood that she completely ignores poor Harmon, who, to offset his loneliness, begins squiring the vampish Helen Carew. Helen manages to convince Harmon that Naomi has been unfaithful, leading inevitably to divorce-court litigation.Telling the World
NYR
Overview:
The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrives in China, Davis has to save her from an execution.The Rose of Paris
NYR
Overview:
A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured to Paris by one of the heirs who does know who she is; he plans to swindle her out of her inheritance so he can have everything.The Darling of New York
7
Overview:
Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their stolen jewels in her ragdoll. In New York, Big Mike, finding Santussa a nuisance, dumps her and the doll in a trash can, where a newsboy finds her. After several adventures, Santussa finds her grandfather, the jewels are handed over to customs officials, and the gang of crooks is reformed.Being Respectable
NYR
Overview:
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, and marries Suzanne, after which Valerie leaves town. Years later, after Charles and Suzanne have had a child, Valerie comes back to town and Charles realizes he is still in love with her, and she with him. Complications ensue.The Brat
NYR
Overview:
An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model a character in a book he is writing. He takes her into his home where she is looked down upon by his snobbish family. But the girl brings something to the family unlike anything they have known before.As You Like It
1
Overview:
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.The Exquisite Sinner
NYR
Overview:
Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen.The Evil Men Do
NYR
Overview:
As childhood sweethearts, David Horton and Beatrice Elton are inseparable. Fifteen years later Beatrice goes abroad and while there is heartbroken to learn that David has married Margaret Forsythe, a social climber, Margaret starts to entertain on a lavish scale.Winners Of The Wilderness
7.5
Overview:
During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.Too Many Kisses
5.5
Overview:
Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral. When the son gets to Spain, he runs afoul of the local police chief - who has a secret that he tries to keep the young man from discovering.The Sea Hawk
6.5
Overview:
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.Lights of Old Broadway
6
Overview:
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.The First Year
NYR
Overview:
One of the films that Borzage shot under contract for Fox before he began his run of box-office hits. This is a comedy built up around the disastrous dinner that a couple of newlyweds organise for an important financial partner of the husband's.The Rookie's Return
NYR
Overview:
A young soldier is discharged from the service and has trouble making a living. However, when he inherits a great deal of money, he finds his troubles only beginning.The Fog
NYR
Overview:
Nathan Forge, romantic son of a cruel businessman, publishes in a local newspaper a poem about a girl who once befriended him. The girl, a student in a nearby school, reads the poem and recognizes herself. Years pass, and Nathan goes through various hardships, including an unhappy marriage, imprisonment, and the war. Then in Siberia, working for the International Red Cross, he meets the girl who is the subject of his poem and thus achieves happiness. A lost film.Easy Come, Easy Go
NYR
Overview:
Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets slip a few (fortuitously unheard) profanities. Fired from his job, Parker enters into an amusing series of misadventures with veteran bank robber Jim Bailey (Charles Sellon).The End of the Tour
NYR
Overview:
A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind. The boy, Byron Bennett, grows up, and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe. To make enough money to get out of town, they teach the local fire department how to put on a play. While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act, one of the troupe tries to seduce her. Byron, knowing what the lecher is up to, even if Grace doesn't, follows the pair and chokes the man senseless.Men of Steel
NYR
Overview:
Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick -- simultaneously fall for Bokak. It later develops that Claire and Mary are actually sisters, the first of a series of surprising plot twists leading to Bokak being accused of a murder he didn't commit.Acting
1928Telling the World as Mr. Davis
1928Easy Come, Easy Go as Mr. Quayle
1928Across to Singapore as Jeremiah Shore
1927The Enemy as Prof. Arndt
1927Foreign Devils as U.S. Minister Conger
1927The Callahans and the Murphys as Grandpa Callahan
1927Annie Laurie as Cameron of Lochiel
1927California as Don Carlos del Rey
1927Winners Of The Wilderness as Gov. de Vaudreuil
1926Tell It to the Marines as General Wilcox
1926Men of Steel as Cinder Pitt
1926The Great Love as Mr. Bunker
1926The Exquisite Sinner as Colonel
1926La Bohème as Theatre Manager
1926The First Year as Dr. Livingston
1925Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Quintus Arrius
1925Lights of Old Broadway as Lambert de Rhonde
1925Graustark as King
1925Too Many Kisses as Richard Gaylord, Sr.
1924The Rose of Paris as George Der Vroo
1924The Story Without a Name as Adm. Walsworth
1924The Family Secret as Simon Selfridge
1924The Red Lily as Hugo Leonnec
1924The Heart Buster as John Hillyer
1924Being Respectable as Darius Carpenter
1924Revelation as Prior
1924The Sea Hawk as Asad-ed-Din - Basha of Algiers
1924The Trouble Shooter as Benjamin Brewster
1923The Darling of New York as Grandfather Van Dyne
1923Stephen Steps Out as Dr. Lyman Black
1923Children of Jazz as Adam Forestall
1923The Victor as Waring's father
1923The Go-Getter as Hugh McNair
1923The Fog as Caleb Gridley
1922The Lights of New York as Daniel Reid
1922My Old Kentucky Home as Colonel Sanders
1922Reckless Youth as Cumberland Whipple
1922Why Announce Your Marriage? as Unknown
1921The Lotus Eater as The Dean
1921Clay Dollars as Sam Willetts
1921Without Limit as The Reverend Marlowe
1920The Rookie's Return as Dad
1920The Misleading Lady as Napoleon
1920Clothes as Horace Watling
1920The Cheater as Peg Meany
1920The Right of Way as Seigneur
1919Should a Woman Tell? as Mr. Maxon
1919Her Kingdom of Dreams as James Warren
1919The Brat as The Bishop
1919The Red Lantern as Sir Philip Sackville
1919Satan Junior as Nathaniel Ardway
1919The Great Romance as King Rudolph
1919The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns as William Gordon
1918Sylvia on a Spree as Edwin Booth D'Aubrey
1918His Bonded Wife as Digby Morse
1918Opportunity as Henry Clay Willard
1918The Winning of Beatrice as James Buckley
1918Toys of Fate as Pharos
1918Social Hypocrites as Col. Francis Fielding
1918Revelation as The Prior
1917Outwitted as John Lawson
1917The Greatest Power as Randolph Monroe
1917Her Father's Keeper as William Masters
1917His Father's Son as John Arden
1917The Barricade as Amos Merrill
1917The End of the Tour as Col. Jessup
1917Panthea as Dr. Von Reichstadt
1916The Wager as A.E. Thorpe
1916Fifty-Fifty as Judge
1916The Conflict as Unknown
1915Hearts Ablaze as The King
1915Jane Was Worth It as Elsie's father
1915The Goddess as Sen. Blackstone (First Millionaire)
1915The Juggernaut as James Hardin
1915Twice Rescued as Farmer Royston
1915Mother's Roses as John Morrison
1915The Evil Men Do as The Colonel
1914Saved from a Life of Crime as Mr. Barnes - Helen's Father
1914Fixing Their Dads as The Widow's Sweetheart
1914In Bridal Attire as Mary's Father
1912As You Like It as Unknown role
1912The Cross Roads as Kirke's Uncle (as Frank J. Currier)