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Birth date
1870-11-17 (154 Years)
Day of death
1960-06-12
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Jack Howard Richardson
Jack Richardson
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Filmography
Mills of the Gods
NYR
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Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)I Shot Jesse James
6.2
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Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford soon finds himself greeted with derision and open mockery throughout town. He travels to Colorado to try his hand at prospecting in hopes that marriage with Cynthy is still in the cards.The Old Maid's Baby
NYR
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Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends most of her time with her lame dog and an elephant.The Mother of the Ranch
NYR
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James Collins leaves his dear old mother and goes West, where he becomes connected with the Bar Diamond Outfit. He finds the life of a cowboy arduous and the pay meager. The possibilities of owning a herd of his own by blotting brands or branding calves, occurs to him, as it has to many others, who desire quick results from very little effort. Six months later, he is a full-fledged cattle thief, branding cattle, under his own registered brand, while ostensibly an honest cowboy in the employ of the Bar Diamond Ranch. He writes his mother of his success and she, never dreaming of the hazardous occupation her son is following, plans to join him in the West.Michael Shayne: Private Detective
6.5
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Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.The Son of Kong
5.398
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Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.Police Court
5
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A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.The Sawdust Ring
5
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Janet sets out to find her circus ringleader father, who her mother abandoned believing him to be unfaithful. Along the way, Janet and her friend Peter join Colonel Simmonds's circus, she as a trick horse rider and he as a clown, but Janet cannot help but wonder why she finds Simmonds so familiar. The original, feature-length release of "The Sawdust Ring" is not known to survive.The Rainmaker
NYR
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The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.844
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.The Devil to Pay!
5.925
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Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.Across the Plains
NYR
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Helen Williams, lured to a wild cattle-town on the promise of a job learns that the job she has is not the kind she thought she had, and finds herself selling drinks and dancing with drunk cowboys in the saloon. She meets Jim Blake, the rough-and-ready foreman of the Bar-X Ranch and they fall in love. And face more than a few problems on the way to getting married.Dangerous Hours
5
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Idealistic young American falls under the influence of Communist agitators.Love or Justice
6
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Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal world. He passes his idle hours in the slums where he meets Nan Bishop, an underworld figure. Nan's influence helps to make a man out of Dunn and with her help he breaks his dependence on drugs and is successful in obtaining a position as a criminal lawyer. Years later, they meet again in a courtroom. Nan has been falsely accused of murder and Dunn is the prosecuting attorney. Learning that Dunn's professional future depends on his winning the case, Nan pleads guilty, but, at the last minute, the real criminal is discovered and Nan is cleared of the crime. She then accepts Dunn's offer of marriage and together they look forward to a happy future.Marked Money
NYR
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Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left instructions that The Boy is to be delivered to the home of Captain Fairchild (Bert Woodruff) the father's old sailing master, along with $25,000 in cash to finance the boy's education. The villains aren't interested at all in The Boy, but they do dearly covet the 25 grand he carries with him in a box. (From the Rotten Tomatoes page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marked_money/)The Hurricane
NYR
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"Hurricane" Jack Foster is a smuggler who ignores his wife and child in order to pursue Marguerite Blair, the unhappy wife of the Chief Ranger of the North West Mounted Police. Foster lays plans for his final theft, after which he will elope with Marguerite, although Blair lays his own plans to thwart his rival. Dispirited over Blair's lack of attention, Marguerite nonetheless calls his office before running away with Foster in a last effort to reconcile with her husband. Marguerite cannot reach Blair but does receive a message that his remoteness has been due to his job rather than "another woman." When Foster then attempts to carry out his plan and knocks out Blair in the process, Marguerite does not hesitate to shoot Foster. With Foster and his gang rounded up, the Blairs reconcile.Dynamite Dan
5
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Dan (Kenneth MacDonald) knocks out the foreman (Boris Karloff) at his workplace so the foreman accuses him of stealing money from the company safe. Dan takes off to visit his girlfriend when they're attacked by a man who Dan eventually knocks out with a single punch. A boxing manager see this and signs him up.The Chinatown Mystery
NYR
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Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era: director J.P. McGowan, actors Francis Ford and Joe Bonomo (a carnival strongman-turned-actor), producer Trem Carr (who would later help found Monogram Pictures), and a slew of silent-era supporting icons such as Ruth Hiatt, Grace Cunard, and more. Chapter names like “The Clutching Claw,” “The Devil’s Dice, “Galloping Fury,” and “The Invisible Hand” offer all one needs to know of the film’s concerns: to promise and deliver as much action and suspense as possible, and move our intrepid hero and heroine from one perilous situation to another. One of the biggest stars of the early silent era and a successful serials director in his own right, Francis Ford was the brother of director John Ford.The Daring Young Man
NYR
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The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.The Costello Case
NYR
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An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.Scandal Sheet
NYR
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Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.The Iron Horse
6.6
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Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.Stage Door
7.028
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The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel.Without Honor
5.5
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Pete Marlan is a gambler with an unsavory past. Suspected of being an outlaw, Pete plays along with this misconception, the better to infiltrate a gang of smugglers. Along the way, he clears the name of the brother of Texas Ranger Mike Donovan, and helps patch up the romance between Donovan and heroine Bernice.The End of the Game
3
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A love story that takes place at the time of the gold rush. Prospector Allister Burke is in love with Mary, but he believe the slanderous lies that are spread by Burke, his competitor.Eagle of the Night
5
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1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action serial from Pathe was one of the studio's last. Some pieces are no longer extant (half of chapters 3&6, all of 7, 8, and 9, and the beginning of the 10th and final chapter), but the beginning and end are there as well as enough to follow the action adequately. The surviving Grapevine print is beautifully restored and tinted in spots, although you can tell the print is deteriorated in some of the surviving sections. Basically, an inventor (Josef Swickard, in a role not unlike the one he later played in THE LOST CITY) has created a silencer/muffler for planes to silence any engine sounds, and the bad guys are out to steal the invention and put it to evil use.Sailor's Holiday
5.2
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Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.Partners in Crime
2
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After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is taken captive by the criminals. Suspected of the crime, he is sought by the police, but his sweetheart, Marie, convinced of his innocence, enlists the help of two friends, a newspaper reporter and a half-witted detective. Hoping to win the girl's favor, the two go to the gangsters' hideout, encounter a violent gang war, and accidently set off a case of police tear bombs. The police, summoned by Marie, arrive just in time to save the kidnaped attorney.Acting
1959A Summer Place as Claude Andrews
1951The Unknown Man as Unknown
1951The Mating Season as Board Member (uncredited)
1949I Shot Jesse James as St. Joseph Saloon Bartender (uncredited)
1947Possessed as Concertgoer (uncredited)
1947Dishonored Lady as Passerby
1945Black Market Babies as Jury Foreman (uncredited)
1944The Climax as Musical Conductor (Uncredited)
1942Obliging Young Lady as Second Uncle (uncredited)
1941Borrowed Hero as 2nd Detective Escorting Dixie (uncredited)
1941Mr. Celebrity as Bill Geraghty
1941The Lady Eve as Father of Girl on Ship (uncredited)
1940Michael Shayne: Private Detective as Casino Patron
1940Rangers of Fortune as Townsman
1940The Sea Hawk as (uncredited)
1940Gun Code as Mike McClure
1940A Chump at Oxford as Minor Role (uncredited)
1939The Housekeeper's Daughter as Reporter
1939Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Senator Manchester (uncredited)
1939Our Leading Citizen as Member
1939News Is Made at Night as Golfer
1939The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle as Old Man in Montage (uncredited)
1938Danger on the Air as District Attorney Franklin (Uncredited)
1937Stage Door as (uncredited)
1937History Is Made at Night as Unknown
1937Maid of Salem as Sheriff (Uncredited)
1935The Rainmakers as Engineer
19353 Kids and a Queen as Customer
1935The Daring Young Man as Detective
1935The Perfect Clue as Simms
1934Mills of the Gods as Workman
1934I Sell Anything as Spectator Bidding $4.00 (uncredited)
1934The Merry Frinks as Newspaper Officer Worker (uncredited)
1934Stand Up and Cheer! as Unknown
1934Long Lost Father as Man Getting Race Results
1933The Son of Kong as Sailor
1933Gun Justice as Sheriff
1933Roman Scandals as Roman Citizen (uncredited)
1933The Invisible Man as Official (uncredited)
1932Afraid to Talk as Editor
1932They Never Come Back as Hank Bates
1932Scandal for Sale as Compositor
1932The Man from New Mexico as Jim Fletcher
1932Police Court as Unknown
1932Without Honor as Steve Henderson
1931Land of Wanted Men as Thorpe
1931Maid to Order as Jim McGuire, Smuggler
1931Gun Smoke as Rancher Eddie
1931The Sunrise Trail as Henchman
1931Scandal Sheet as Reporter
1930Chiselers of Hollywood as Unknown
1930The Devil to Pay! as Porter (uncredited)
1930Only Saps Work as Chef (uncredited)
1930The Costello Case as Donnelly
1930The Dude Wrangler as Dude Guest
1930Trigger Tricks as Joe Dixon
1929Sailor's Holiday as Captain
1929One Splendid Hour as Peter Hoag
1929The Leatherneck as Court-Martial Officer
1928Marked Money as Scudder
1928Eagle of the Night as Unknown
1928Melody of Love as Music Publisher
1928The Chinatown Mystery as Unknown
1928Across the Plains as Joe Steward
1928Women Who Dare as Frank Lawson
1928Partners in Crime as Jake
1928The Ballyhoo Buster as Jim Burnett
1927Black Tears as Unknown
1927Avenging Fangs as Trigger Kincaid
1926Devil’s Dice as Unknown
1926The Silent Trailer as Steve Hale
1926Code of the Northwest as Donald Stafford
1926Her Honor, the Governor as Slade
1926The Heart Of A Coward as Unknown
1926The Rainmaker as Western Doctor
1926The Hurricane as The Husband
1926Walloping Kid as Don Dawson
1925The Iron Horse as Union Officer at White House (uncredited)
1925Ridin' Wild as Scarface Jordan
1925Border Vengeance as Mark Newman - Assayer
1924Lightnin' Jack as Bud Knowles
1924Dynamite Dan as Spike Moran
1924The Cowboy and the Flapper as Red Carson
1924The Fire Patrol as 'Butch' Anderson
1924Tiger Thompson as Bull Dorgan
1924The Midnight Express as Detective Collins
1924A Two Fisted Tenderfoot as Thomas Haldane
1923The Daring Years as Flagier, cabaret owner
1923Fog Bound as Sheriff Holmes
1923Souls for Sale as Movie Heavy (uncredited)
1922A Dangerous Adventure as Herbert Brandon
1921Fightin' Mad as Amos Rawson
1921Too Much Speed as Tyler Hellis
1921The Show Down as Blackie
1920Dangerous Love as Half-Breed
1920The Silent Avenger as Irving Somers
1920The Toll Gate as The Sheriff
1920The Strange Boarder as Westmark
1919Dangerous Hours as Boris Blotchi
1919The Mayor of Filbert as Mayor Johnson Schmidt
1919South o' Santa Fe as Unknown
1919The Mints of Hell as Clay Hibbing
1919The End of the Game as Dan Middleton
1919The Old Maid's Baby as Her Father
1919The Long Lane's Turning as Cameron Craig
1918Wife or Country as Dr. Meyer Stahl
1918The Reckoning Day as Frederick Kube
1918You Can't Believe Everything as Hasty Carson
1918Captain of His Soul as Martin
1917The Sudden Gentleman as Count Caminetti
1917Ashes of Hope as 'Ace High' Lawton
1917Golden Rule Kate as 'Slick' Barney
1917The Sawdust Ring as Colonel Simmonds
1917Giving Becky a Chance as Ross Benson
1917Love or Justice as Paul Keeley
1917The Outlaw and the Lady as Ruth's Father
1917Beware of Strangers as Professor Otto Rusburg, a Clairvoyant
1917The Bad Man of Cheyenne as Bill
1917Blood Money as Sam Blaire
1916Rehabilitated as The Bandit
1916Immediate Lee as Kentucky Hurley
1916Land O' Lizards as Buck Moran
1916The Pilgrim as Joe Mex
1916A Flickering Light as Hardy Anderson
1915The Pitch o' Chance as Kentuck
1915The Poet of the Peaks as Martingay
1914The Story of the Olive as Ortega - the Foreman
1914Destinies Fulfilled as Thomas Pennington
1913Trapped in a Forest Fire as Tom Nevins
1913American Born as Dick Travers
1913Calamity Anne Takes a Trip as Unknown
1913Unwritten Law of the West as Unknown
1913Boobs and Bricks as Jasper Ragout
1912The Thief's Wife as The Thief
1912Geronimo’s Last Raid as Capt. Gray
1912The Wanderer as The Troublemaker
1912Calamity Anne's Ward as Unknown
1912A Life for a Kiss as Jim Richeson
1912The Distant Relative as The Bogus Long Lost Cousin
1912Maiden and Men as Unknown
1911The Mother of the Ranch as James Collins
1911The Cowboy and the Artist as Ed Gardner
1911The Poisoned Flume as John Morgan
1911The Sheepman's Daughter as The cattleman