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Joe King (actor)
Joe King ( – ) was an American actor of silent films and talkies as well as a director and writer. Biography King was born in Austin, Texas as Joseph Sayer King and acted in 211 films from 1912 to 1946. He appeared in his later years mainly in minor, uncredited roles. He directed two films, both in 1916 and wrote one script in 1915. Joe King was married to actress Hazel Buckham and he died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * ''The Battle of Gettysburg'' (1913) as Jack Lamar, the Confederate Brother * '' Her Bounty'' (1914, Short) as David Hale * ''The Pipes o' Pan'' (1914, Short) as Stephen Arnold * ''The Eternal Feminine'' (1915) as John Strong * '' Wild Winship's Widow'' (1917) * '' Big Timber'' (1917) * '' The Rose of Blood'' (1917) * '' Madame Du Barry'' (1917) * '' The Last Rebel'' (1918) * '' Everywoman's Husband'' (1918) * '' Shifting Sands'' (1918) * '' The Hand at the Window'' (1918) * '' The Secret Code'' (1918) * '' Love's Priso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the List of United States cities by population, 11th-most-populous city in the United States, the List of cities in Texas by population, fourth-most-populous city in Texas, the List of capitals in the United States, second-most-populous state capital city, and the most populous state capital that is not also the most populous city in its state. It has been one of the fastest growing large cities in the United States since 2010. Downtown Austin and Downtown San Antonio are approximately apart, and both fall along the Interstate 35 corridor. Some observers believe that the two regions may some day form a new "metroplex" similar to Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Dallas and Fort Worth. Austin i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love's Prisoner
''Love's Prisoner'' is a 1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ... American silent crime drama film starring Olive Thomas. Written by E. Magnus Ingleton, the film was directed by John Francis Dillion. at silentera.com Plot A poor girl named Nancy (Olive Thomas) leaves to take care of her two younger sisters, Sadie (Ann Forrest) and Jane (Dolly Dare), while their father (Walter Perry), who is a former criminal, is sent to prison for a crime which he has not committed and dies there. At that time Jonathan Twist, a qua ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Face In The Fog
''The Face in the Fog'' is a 1922 American silent film produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Alan Crosland and starred Lionel Barrymore. An incomplete print is preserved at the Library of Congress. Cast *Lionel Barrymore – Boston Blackie Dawson *Seena Owen – Grand Duchess Tatiana *Lowell Sherman – Count Alexis Orloff *George Nash – Huck Kant *Louis Wolheim – Petrus *Mary MacLaren – Mary Dawson *Macey Harlam – Count Ivan *Gustav von Seyffertitz – Michael * Joe King – Detective Wren *Tom Blake – Surtep * Marie Burke – Olga *Joseph W. Smiley – Police Captain * Martin Faust – Ivan's valet *Mario Majeroni Mario Majeroni (1870–1931) was an Italian-born American playwright and stage and film actor. Biography Majeroni came to the United States in 1906 and started acting on Broadway that year. Prior to coming to the United States he had lived and w ... – Grand Duke Alexis References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Of Little Smoky
''Anne of Little Smoky'' is a 1921 American silent romantic drama film directed by Edward Connor and starring Winifred Westover, Dolores Cassinelli, Joe King, Frank Hagney, and Ralph Faulkner. The film was released by Playgoers Pictures on November 20, 1921. Plot Set in the Kentucky mountains. The Brockton family consider Little Smoky to be their mountain, but the government declares it to be a forest and game preserve. Forest ranger Bob Hayne is in love with Anne Brockton, but when he catches her father, Ed, poaching game he tries to arrest him. The two men fight, and Brockton is believed to have died. When bloodhounds are set on Bob’s trail Anne dresses in some of his clothing in an attempt to confuse the hounds following his scent. Anne finds her father alive in the forest ranger’s cabin. Meanwhile Gita, a gypsy girl, is attacked by a renegade Indian. Anne’s brother Tom, who suffered shell-shock during the first World War, rescues Gita. The incident brings Tom back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvation Nell (1921 Film)
''Salvation Nell'' is a 1921 American silent drama film produced by Whitman Bennett and distributed by Associated First National Pictures, later First National Pictures. It was directed by Kenneth Webb and stars Pauline Starke. The film is based on a successful 1908 Broadway play by Edward Sheldon that starred Minnie Maddern Fiske. This film survives in the George Eastman House and the Library of Congress collections. An earlier 1915 version with Beatriz Michelena is now lost. A 1931 talkie version made by Tiffany Pictures survives. Cast *Pauline Starke as Nell Saunders * Joe King as Jim Platt (credited as Joseph King) * Gypsy O'Brien as Myrtle Hawes * Edward Langford as Major Williams *Evelyn Carter Carrington as Hallelujah (credited as Evelyn C. Carrington) *Maggie *Charles McDonald as Sid McGovern *Matthew Betz Matthew Betz (September 13, 1881 – January 26, 1938) was an American film actor. Betz was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1881. Following an extended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl With The Jazz Heart
''The Girl with the Jazz Heart'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Lawrence C. Windom and written by Philip Lonergan and George Mooser. The film stars Madge Kennedy, Joe King, Pierre Gendron, William Walcott, Helen Dubois, and Robert Vaughn. It was released on January 7, 1921, by Goldwyn Pictures. Cast *Madge Kennedy as Kittie Swasher / Miriam Smith * Joe King as Miles Sprague * Pierre Gendron as Tommie Fredericks *William Walcott as Miriam's Uncle *Helen Dubois as Miriam's Aunt *Robert Vaughn as Simeon Althoff *Emil Hoch as Detective Quinn *Lillian Worth as Camille *Robert Emmett Tansey Robert Emmett Tansey (June 28, 1897 – June 17, 1951) was an American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He was active in cinema in various roles from the 1910s to the 1950s. He was sometimes credited as Robert E. Tansey or Rober ... as Jimmie *Dorothy Haight as Mamie References External links *Stillat gettyimages.comat silenthollywood.com {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moral Fibre
''Moral Fibre'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Webster Campbell and starring Corinne Griffith, Catherine Calvert and Harry C. Browne.Munden p.524 Cast * Corinne Griffith as Marion Wolcott * Catherine Calvert as Grace Elmore * William Parke Jr. as Jared Wolcott * Harry C. Browne Harry Clinton Browne (August 18, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American banjo player and actor. He appeared on stage and in silent films and recorded for Columbia Records in the 1910s and 1920s. Biography Browne was born in 1878 in North Ada ... as George Elmore * Joe King as John Corliss * Alice Concord as Nancy Bartley References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1921 films 1921 drama films 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarab Ring
''The Scarab Ring'' is a 1921 American silent mystery film directed by Edward José and starring Alice Joyce, Maude Malcolm and Joe King.Wlaschin p.196 Cast * Alice Joyce as Constance Randall * Maude Malcolm as Muriel Randall * Joe King as Ward Locke * Eddie Phillips as Burton Temple * Fuller Mellish as John Randall * Claude King as Hugh Martinn * Joseph W. Smiley as James Locke * Jack Hopkins as Mr. Kheres * Armand Cortes Armand Cortes, sometimes credited as Armand Cortez, (August 16, 1880 – November 19, 1948) was an actor in theater and film in the United States. He had various theatrical roles in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1902 he was cast in the mus ... as Kennedy References Bibliography *Ken Wlaschin. ''Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography''. McFarland, 2009. External links * 1921 films 1921 mystery films American silent feature films American mystery films American black-and-white films Films directed by Edwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Idol Of The North
''The Idol of the North'' is a lost 1921 American silent drama film directed by Roy William Neill and written by Frank S. Beresford and Tom McNamara based upon a story by J. Clarkson Miller. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Edwin August, E.J. Ratcliffe, Riley Hatch, Jules Cowles, and Florence St. Leonard. The film was released on March 27, 1921, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine, while Colette Brissac (Dalton) is inside a saloon in a northwestern gold camp begging for assistance her mother and father, who is a fugitive from the law, die outside the dance hall. She becomes an entertainer in the saloon and develops a cynical contempt for the men of the place, but soon becomes one of the big attractions of this crude stage. The men become angered at her attitude towards them and compel her to marry drunken stranger Martin Bates (August), a young engineer who has been spurned by a girl in New York. The two are thrown into a cabin and held virtually as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man And Woman (1920 Film)
''Man and Woman'' is a 1920 American silent drama film produced by A. H. Fischer, Inc. Directors were Charles Logue and B. A. Rolfe with Gene O'Donnell and Conrad Wells (as A. Fried) as cinematographers. Logue wrote the story and the screenplay. Plot A young Civil engineer builds a bridge that later collapses which causes him to mentally collapse. He retreats to a South Pacific Ocean island and becomes a beachcomber. Later one of his former engineering supervisors comes to the island with his daughter to repair a lighthouse. She bets the local Governor that she can dress up a beach bum to pass as a society swell. She picks the young former engineer. He decides to teach her a lesson and takes her to a leprosy colony where she is "treated like dirt". She learns her lesson and her father gives him a job at the lighthouse. Cast * Diana Allen as Diana Murdock * Joe King as Joe * Eddie Sturgis as The Flash * John L. Shine as Greasy * Tatjana Irrah as The Duchess * Eleanor Cozzat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman God Sent
''The Woman God Sent'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Zena Keefe, Warren Cook and Joe King.Connelly p.436 Cast * Zena Keefe as Margaret Manning * Warren Cook as Jack West Sr. * Joe King as Jack West Jr. * William Frederic as Senator Mathews * William Gudgeon as Pat Kane * Louise Powell as Rosie * William Magner as Joe * Duncan Penwarden as Mason * John P. Wade John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Seco ... as Jim Connelly References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. External links * 1920s American films 1920 films 1920 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broadway Bubble
''The Broadway Bubble'' is a lost 1920 American silent drama film directed by George L. Sargent and starring Corinne Griffith in a dual role as twin sisters. It was produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. Plot As described in a film magazine, finding married life irksome, Adrienne Landreth (Griffith) asks her husband Geoffrey (King) for permission to return to the stage. When he refuses to give it, she decides to take up her career anyway and sends for her unmarried twin sister Drina (Griffith) to take her place in the household. Geoffrey spends but a few hours with Drina before he must depart for the West on a business trip, but during that time he notices a difference in his supposed wife, a difference he hopes will result in patching the troubles in their marriage. During his absence the stage production is whipped into shape for its New York City opening. Geoffrey returns from his trip on the day of the show's opening and Drina acting as his wife, sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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