Personal Info
Birth date
1888-02-25 (137 Years)
Day of death
1948-08-28
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Zanesville, Ohio, USA
Also known as
-Gladden James
Biography
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Filmography
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.533
Overview:
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
7.095
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Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.Captains Courageous
7.449
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Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.Queen Christina
6.836
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Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.Night and Day
5.7
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When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.Another Thin Man
7.1
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Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.Conspiracy
4.8
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Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.Wilson
5.5
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The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.The Mayor of Hell
7.2
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Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.The Wrong Road
4.429
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A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.For Me and My Gal
6.4
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Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.Casanova Brown
6.3
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Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cass and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.Slightly Dangerous
6
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Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.Chained
6.8
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Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.Love Is News
6
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When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.Consolation Marriage
6.1
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A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.Week-End at the Waldorf
6
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Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.The Hoodlum Saint
5.2
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A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.Stranger on the Third Floor
6.49
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Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.Johnny Apollo
6.8
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Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.The Princess Comes Across
6.1
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A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.Afraid to Talk
6
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Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
NYR
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High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.Stage Mother
5
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Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.Rose of Washington Square
5.75
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Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.Swanee River
6.667
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Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.A Stranger in Town
6.071
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In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.Acting
1946Cross My Heart as Reporter (uncredited)
1946The Strange Love of Martha Ivers as John (uncredited)
1946Night and Day as Doctor (uncredited)
1946The Hoodlum Saint as Doctor in Marathon (uncredited)
1945Adventure as Barber (uncredited)
1945Week-End at the Waldorf as Assistant Manager (uncredited)
1945The Chicago Kid as Wright (uncredited)
1944Casanova Brown as Doctor with Spano Baby (uncredited)
1944Wilson as Redfield (uncredited)
1944Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid as Teacher (uncredited)
1943A Stranger in Town as Newspaper Man (uncredited)
1943Slightly Dangerous as Newspaper employee (uncredited)
1943The Meanest Man in the World as Clerk (uncredited)
1942For Me and My Gal as Doc (uncredited)
1942Hello, Annapolis as Doctor
1942The Man Who Returned to Life as Secretary
1942Joe Smith, American as Edgerton's Secretary (uncredited)
1941Pacific Blackout as Clerk
1941Railroadin' as Station Manager
1940Victory as Customer (uncredited)
1940Stranger on the Third Floor as Tom, a Reporter (uncredited)
1940Maryland as Court Clerk
1940Johnny Apollo as Court Clerk (uncredited)
1940The Earl of Chicago as Silky's Secretary (uncredited)
1939Swanee River as Hotel Clerk
1939Another Thin Man as Fingerprint Man (uncredited)
1939Too Busy to Work as Clerk in Drugstore
1939Rose of Washington Square as Court Bailiff (uncredited)
1939Pirates of the Skies as Unknown
1938Think It Over as Unknown
1937The Wrong Road as Bank Official (uncredited)
1937Hot Water as Assistant Druggist (uncredited)
1937Captains Courageous as Secretary Cobb (uncredited)
1937Love Is News as Salesman (uncredited)
1937Time Out for Romance as Reporter
1936Little Miss Nobody as Police Secretary
1936The Princess Comes Across as Ship's Official (uncredited)
1936Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Court Clerk (uncredited)
1936Exclusive Story as Friend (uncredited)
1935Music Is Magic as Reporter (uncredited)
1935I Live My Life as Teacher at Terry's Lecture (Uncredited)
1935Thunder in the Night as Police Secretary
1935Public Hero Number 1 as Federal Agent (uncredited)
1934Mills of the Gods as Secretary
1934Chained as Tribune Reporter (uncredited)
1933Queen Christina as 3rd Rabble Rouser (uncredited)
1933Stage Mother as Audience Member (uncredited)
1933Golden Harvest as Defeated Wheat Trader (uncredited)
1933The Mayor of Hell as Car Owner Paying 25¢ (uncredited)
1933Lucky Devils as Neville Silverman - Assistant Director
1932Afraid to Talk as Reporter
1932Union Depot as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
1931Consolation Marriage as Charlie - One of the Boys (uncredited)
1931Branded Men as Sam - Bookkeeper
1931Three Who Loved as Bank Employee
1930Conspiracy as Ed a Tourist at Hotel (uncredited)
1930Paradise Island as Roy Armstrong
1929The Vagabond Lover as Stevens - Reporter
1929The Girl from Woolworth's as Dowling
1929The Peacock Fan as Bertram Leslie
1929Weary River as Jerry's Manager
1929His Captive Woman as Unknown
1928The Look Out Girl as Conway
1928The Adorable Cheat as Howard Carter
1928The Hound of Silver Creek as Marvin Henley
1928The Girl He Didn't Buy as Hal De Forrest
1928Driftin' Sands as Benton
1925The Wedding Song as Jeffrey King
1923The Woman with Four Faces as The Boy
1923The Broken Violin as Phil Carter
1923A Clouded Name as Jim Allen
1922Channing of the Northwest as Jim Franey
1921Footfalls as Alec Campbell
1921Bucking the Tiger as Ralph Graham
1921His Brother's Keeper as Harvey Weer
1920Yes or No as Ted Leach
1920The Midnight Bride as Forrest Chenoweth
1919Who's Your Brother? as Robert E. Graham Jr.
1919Thou Shalt Not as Alec Peters
1919The Third Degree as Howard Jeffries Jr
1919The Heart of Wetona as Anthony Wells
1918The Safety Curtain as Sylvester
1917Runaway Romany as 'Inky' Ames
1917Scandal as Malcolm Fraser
1917Babbling Tongues as Felix
1917The Mystery of the Double Cross as Dick Annersley
1916The Social Secretary as Jimmie de Puyster
1916Paying the Price as Richard Tracy
1916The Decoy as Harvey Dix
1916As in a Looking Glass as Lord Udolpho
1915The Good in the Worst of Us as The Crook
1915Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde as Unknown
1914Underneath the Paint as Arthur Kellogg
1914The Butterfly as Unknown
1914The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray as Mr. Lennox
1914Etta of the Footlights as Jack Chester
1914The Antique Engagement Ring as Dave Brown
1914The Vanity Case as Fred Wright
1914A Million Bid as Harry Furniss
1914A Pair of Frauds as Unknown
1914Iron and Steel as Gustav Bonn
1913A Homespun Tragedy as Jack - the Thompson Son
1913Song Bird of the North as Unknown
1913Marked Cards as James Wade - the Actress's Brother
1912The Hater of Women as Harry
1912In Swift Waters as Harry James
1912Mignon as Laerte
1912Parson Sue as Sleeky Sam
1911The Violin Maker of Nuremberg as Fritz
1911Cupid and the Comet as Unknown