Personal Info
Birth date
1860-12-31 (164 Years)
Day of death
1922-04-26
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Houston, Texas, USA
Also known as
-Frank Opperman
Biography
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Filmography
The Unchanging Sea
6.419
Overview:
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.The Face on the Barroom Floor
5.3
Overview:
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.Tillie's Punctured Romance
6.117
Overview:
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.The Knockout
5.7
Overview:
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.Tango Tangles
5
Overview:
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.The Lady and the Mouse
NYR
Overview:
The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if he had not caught her in the heart struggle? Be that as it may, she could not find it in her to drown the unwelcome visitor to the pantry, so she let it go and the silent little drama witnessed by the tramp greatly impressed him. Not so the strict aunt, she declared the whole thing to be in exact accordance with everything else in the family. Their hearts ran away with their heads. That was why they lost money on credit, could not pay off the mortgage and send the sick sister to a better climate. As for the tramp, they had no business to take him in. He could not pay for his keep. But the tramp surprised them all.A Film Johnnie
5.4
Overview:
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.One Is Business, the Other Crime
5.8
Overview:
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.His Favorite Pastime
5.2
Overview:
A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.Mabel's Busy Day
5.6
Overview:
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.The Masquerader
5.6
Overview:
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.Mabel's Married Life
5.8
Overview:
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.The Property Man
5.6
Overview:
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.Ramona
4.676
Overview:
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the greed and injustice of the white landowners.The Mate of the Alden Bessie
4
Overview:
The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One night the crew killed him, and marooned the mate and the captain's daughter by sending them adrift in a small boat. Days passed upon the vast expanse of ocean, and their food was all gone and death near, when land was sighted and their boat was cast up on a coral reef, and they with difficulty made the shore. Fear of death was soon supplanted in the heart of the captain's daughter by fear of a man loving her all too well. The mate, seeing this and realizing the strength of his passion, decided to live on the side of the island, but as the months passed away his loneliness overcame him and he made his way to where she sat reading. He looked over her shoulder, and saw that she read the marriage service.My Valet
NYR
Overview:
The parents of a wealthy young man arrange for him to marry a woman he has never seen. When he meets and falls for a young woman he convinces his valet to switch places. The idea is that the valet will make a bad impression on the fiance, the wedding will canceled and the hero can marry his true love. There is only one problem, his love and unseen fiance are the same woman.The Little Teacher
5.7
Overview:
The new school teacher fresh from the city struggles with her unruly bumpkin students, while she awaits the arrival of her fiancé.Broken Ways
NYR
Overview:
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give herself to another man, believing her husband dead, when he appears before her fleeing from justice. Shall she deliver him to the law or surrender to his claims? She yields in one instance, but not in the other. Then justice intervenes.The Newlyweds
5
Overview:
A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two separate bands of misinformed revelers) has other ideas.Fatty Again
NYR
Overview:
Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a postal card offering himself a handsome salary and is warmly welcomed back by the girl's parents. When the truth becomes known that he is really a sideshow barker, they again turn on him.The Massacre
5.9
Overview:
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.His Luckless Love
3
Overview:
His Luckless Love, starring Edgar Kennedy, has some funny moments as confusion surrounds the maid’s new beau.The Sands of Dee
5.6
Overview:
A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he seduces the young girl and gives her a ring, with the promise of marriage. When the young admiring fellow comes to propose, she proudly announces her engagement to the artist. Shocked he leaves and her parents demand meeting her husband to be. She goes to bring him home, and finds he already has a sophisticated fiancée. Distraught she hurries home, and when her father realizes what she has done, he orders her out of the house. As she wanders despondent along the sea, the young fellow who has found out about her betrayal, immediately goes to see her. Finding she has been disowned by her father, he goes looking for her...Iola's Promise
5
Overview:
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people.The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
NYR
Overview:
The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her. His chances, however, are slim for Blue-grass Pete has won her affections, he having at an opportune moment saved her from the fangs of a snake which was about to attack her. Pete's affections turn to the Goddess's sister, while Pete's friends plot to rob.During the Round-Up
NYR
Overview:
Called away on a deal, the ranchero left the foreman in full charge of the round-up. That was the opportunity the stranger and his accomplice were seeking. The girl's determination to recover the money at all costs resulted in a daring rescue on the part of the young foreman, who registered another triumph at the final round-up.In Old California
NYR
Overview:
An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.The School Teacher and the Waif
4.8
Overview:
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.A Temporary Truce
4
Overview:
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian; The son, a brave, vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. When the Indians attack both prospector and Mexican, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.Acting
1917The Late Lamented as Art Gallery Connoisseur
1917Her Fame and Shame as The Sheriff
1916The Feathered Nest as Justice John Lincoln Stubbs
1916A Dash of Courage as Henry Cooper - Traveling Lecturer
1915My Valet as Hiram Stebbins - Mabel's Father
1915The Little Teacher as School Administrator
1915A Bear Affair as The Lodgekeeper
1915The Rent Jumpers as The Landlord
1915His Luckless Love as 1st Sanctimonious Man
1915Love in Armor as The Sweetheart's Father
1915A Lucky Leap as The Store Owner
1915Fatty's New Role as Bearded Dark-Vested Saloon Customer (uncredited)
1915Colored Villainy as Rastus - the Farmer
1915Hash House Mashers as The Landlord
1914His Second Childhood as The Suitor's Sweetheart's Father
1914Tillie's Punctured Romance as Rev. D. Simpson / Guest in First Restaurant / Station Cop / Movie Spectator (uncredited)
1914Fatty's Magic Pants as Clothing Store Operator (uncredited)
1914How Heroes Are Made as The Girl's Father
1914'Curses!' They Remarked as Blackheart Sr.
1914The Love Thief as Pawnbroker / The Girl's Father
1914Fatty Again as The Boarding House Proprietor
1914The Masquerader as Actor (uncredited)
1914Those Country Kids as Mabel's Father
1914The Face on the Barroom Floor as Drinker (uncredited)
1914The Property Man as Man in Front Row Audience (uncredited)
1914Mabel's Married Life as Sporting Goods Salesman (uncredited)
1914Mabel's Busy Day as Spectator (uncredited)
1914The Knockout as Fight Promoter (uncredited)
1914A Fair Rebel as Confederate Officer
1914His Favorite Pastime as Husband
1914Tango Tangles as Clarinetist / Guest (uncredited)
1914A Film Johnnie as Mustached Audience Member w/ Handlebar/Studio Guard (uncredited)
1914Rebecca's Wedding Day as Wedding Guest
1914A Flirt's Mistake as Rajah's Associate
1914The Under-Sheriff as Villager
1913He Would a Hunting Go as Villager
1913The Battle at Elderbush Gulch as The Indian Chief
1913An Indian's Loyalty as The Ranchero
1913During the Round-Up as The Ranchero
1913A Timely Interception as Second Oil Rig Foreman
1913The Sorrowful Shore as The Orphan's Father
1913The Yaqui Cur as The Preacher
1913The Lady and the Mouse as The Landlord
1913The Little Tease as On Street / In Lunchroom / A Prospector
1913Near To Earth as A Friend
1913The Power of the Camera as The Bartender
1913Broken Ways as Road Agent's Gang Member
1913An Adventure in the Autumn Woods as First Thief
1912The Massacre as The Old Settler
1912The Ambitious Butler as father
1912Stolen Glory as old soldier
1912The Beating He Needed as Mabel's father
1912The School Teacher and the Waif as At the Bee
1912A Temporary Truce as The Indian Chief / A Drunken Cutthroat / Bartender (uncredited)
1912A Lodging for the Night as The Owner of the Gambling Hall
1912One Is Business, the Other Crime as The Rich Man's Second Foreman
1912Fate's Interception as The Old Man
1912The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch as A Cowboy (uncredited)
1912Iola's Promise as Frank's Sweetheart's Father
1912The Sands of Dee as A fisherman
1912The Mender of Nets as Fisherman
1912The Mate of the Alden Bessie as The Man at the Wheel
1911The New Superintendent as A Workman
1911The Primal Call as A Servant / On Ship
1910Ramona as Ranch Hand
1910The Unchanging Sea as In Second Village (uncredited)
1910As It Is in Life as Son-in-Law's Companion
1910In Old California as Governor's Servant
1910The Newlyweds as At Station Reception