Frank Keenan

AKA: James Francis Keenan
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1858-04-08

Dubuque, Iowa, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

The World Aflame
Screenplay
The World Aflame
Story
The Silver Girl
Director
Gates of Brass
Supervisor of Production Resources
Smoldering Embers
Director
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {29}

The Secretary - English episode

1917-12-01 0

National Red Cross Pageant

The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involveme ...
Genre :Drama

Mathias

1918-09-15 0

The Bells

A murderer is driven slowly insane by a sequence of coincidences and suggestive events which will not allow him to escape his own sense of guilt for his crime. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lemuel Deering

1918-07-14 0

More Trouble

Lemuel Deering's son Harvey graduates from college at the top of his class, then returns home to become a partner in his father's steel business. Because Harvey appears to be an exemplary young man wh ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Richard Gordon

1918-02-10 0

Loaded Dice

Richard Gordon's lack of religious conviction prompts him to live a life of crime. When he demands to be included in a scheme to corner the food market, the conspirators agree to accept him as a partn ...
Genre :Drama

1916-08-06 0

Honor Thy Name

The pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young man's father then plots to rescue his unwitting son fr ...
Genre :Drama

Carson Burr

1919-08-17 0

The World Aflame

Wealthy businessman Carson Burr discovers first-hand the problem of social unrest when he loses his cook and his chauffeur and he is insulted by a waiter. Burr runs for mayor to improve the labor situ ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Ensor Doone

1922-10-01 6.2

Lorna Doone

In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love. ...
Genre :Drama

Col. Jefferson Beverly Winslow

1915-11-14 5.767

The Coward

Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is ter ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

Robert Murdock

1917-11-03 0

The Public Defender

When bank president Leslie Morrison dips into the till, he seeks to place the blame on bank clerk David Moulton by altering the figures in Moulton's books. He lays his plan carefully, but upon leaving ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Jim Haverhill

1926-01-03 0

The Gilded Butterfly

Left penniless after the death of her reprobate father Linda Haverhill procures a loan from John Converse, who is smitten with her. She squanders the money in an attempt to maintain her social positio ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1919-02-09 0

Todd of the Times

Genre :Comedy

Elihu Knowland

1916-03-27 0

The Stepping Stone

Layabout Al Beresford is in a position of responsible in the brokerage film he works in only because of his smart and self-sacrificing wife Mary. While he dawdles and wastes his time she works behind ...
Genre :Drama

The Emir

1915-12-15 0

The Despoiler

Movie mogul Thomas H. Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the credits; but since Ince was known far and wide as a glory-hogger, it's also possible that one of his tal ...
Genre :Drama, War

Jonathan Swift

1924-03-03 0

Women Who Give

Jonathan Swift, stern Cape Cod businessman, has ambitions for his children, Emily and Noah, which are thwarted when they take romantic interests in Capt. Joe Cradlebow and Becky Keeler, respectively. ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Dudley Duprez

1917-01-14 0

The Bride of Hate

Dr. Dudley Duprez is a well-known Louisiana physician. His beautiful but wayward niece, Rose Duprez, is abducted by Paul Crenshaw, a friend of the doctor, and to prevent her shame from becoming known, ...
Genre :Drama, History

Grandfather de Fontenac

1925-12-06 1

When the Door Opened

"When the door opened" Clive Grenfel sees his wife in another man's arms. A tussle ensues leading Clive to believe he has killed the other man, and he flees to the Northwoods. There he becomes acquain ...
Genre :Drama

Frank Church

1923-03-04 3

Brass

With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Prince von Lindenstein

1926-01-01 4.2

Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Paris and New York. ...
Genre :Drama

Chief Justice Hare

1925-11-23 0

East Lynne

This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been filmed several times when it came to the screen once again in 1925. Director Emmett J. Flynn had an all- ...
Genre :Drama

John Lynch / 'Bige Rivers

1919-01-12 0

The Midnight Stage

In this Western, Frank Keenan has a dual role -- kind-hearted gambler John Lynch and evil bandit Big Rivers. The only person who realizes there is a resemblance between the two is dance hall girl Nita ...
Genre :Western

Colonel Newland

1923-03-05 0

Scars of Jealousy

Scars of Jealousy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lloyd Hughes and Frank Keenan. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and distributed through Associated Firs ...
Genre :Drama

Jefferson Hunter

1919-04-06 0

The Silver Girl

Jefferson Hunter (Frank Keenan) is a Western mining man. Anne Kepple (Catherine Adams) has inherited the mine next to his, but a loan shark steals it from her. Hunter helps her get it back, and out of ...
Genre :Drama

Major Aislee

1916-09-10 0

The Thoroughbred

The Colonel is at a financial low ebb, and his only recourse is to get his horse safely to the big race and win. But obstacles appear at every turn. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Harley P. Hennage

1915-11-01 0

The Long Chance

Harley Hennage, a gambler, loves Marie but remains silent when he realizes that she is in love with Oliver Corblay, a prospector. After Corblay and Marie marry, Harley moves to the distant town of San ...
Genre :Western

The Racehorse Owner

1924-12-29 0

The Dixie Handicap

Tale of a man and his horse. ...
Genre :Drama

Forbes Lombard

1925-07-01 0

My Lady's Lips

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and wh ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama

Jim Blake aka J. Hatfield Blake

1919-07-06 0

Gates of Brass

Genre :Crime, Drama

Luke Taylor

1923-01-01 0

Hearts Aflame

The son of a retired timber baron meets and falls in love with a Michigan woman who refuses to sell her land unless the buyer promises to replant to replace the trees that are to be cut down. ...
Genre :Drama

John Conroy

1920-02-29 0

Smoldering Embers

When John Conroy's wife takes his infant son Jack and runs away with another man, Conroy becomes a tramp and goes to Alaska. Fifteen years later, he returns and learns that his son Jack is being coerc ...
Genre :Drama