Phil Dunham

AKA: Philip Gray Dunham, Phillip Dunham, Philip Dunham
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1885-04-21

London, England, UK

Biography

Crew Roles

Fury Below
Screenplay
The Duke Is Tops
Writer
Two Gun Troubador
Screenplay
Two Gun Troubador
Story
The Reckless Way
Writer
Feud of the West
Screenplay
Ridin' the Trail
Story
Ridin' the Trail
Screenplay
I'll Name the Murderer
Original Story
I'll Name the Murderer
Screenplay
Special Agent K-7
Screenplay
Breaking Records
Scenario Writer
Around the Bases
Scenario Writer
Fighting Spirit
Scenario Writer
The Dazzling Co-Eds
Scenario Writer
Samson at Calford
Scenario Writer
Running Wild
Scenario Writer
The Winning Punch
Scenario Writer
A Fighting Finish
Scenario Writer
Crimson Colors
Scenario Writer
The Winning Goal
Scenario Writer
The Junior Year
Scenario Writer
Kicking Through
Scenario Writer
Calford vs. Redskins
Scenario Writer
Calford in the Movies
Scenario Writer
Paddling Co-Eds
Scenario Writer
Fighting for Victory
Scenario Writer
Calford on Horseback
Scenario Writer
Dear Old Calford
Scenario Writer
The Bookworm Hero
Scenario Writer
Stormy Trails
Screenplay
Life Goes On
Story
Life Goes On
Screenplay
Gang Smashers
Screenplay
Rainbow Ranch
Dialogue
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {100}

Phil

1926-11-07 0

His Off Day

A beach-bound Phil Dunham comedy short. ...
Genre :Comedy

1933-12-15 0

Hold Your Temper

The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate. ...
Genre :Comedy

Wilkins

1942-05-15 0

Framing Father

Leon Errol tries to thwart his son's romance. ...
Genre :Comedy

Audience Member (uncredited)

1952-04-10 8.147

Singin' in the Rain

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Juror (uncredited)

1938-06-15 4.237

Tell Your Children

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, si ...
Genre :Drama

Pvt. Stich

1923-11-19 0

The Dangerous Maid

Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Dave's Brother

1914-03-12 0

The Heart of the Hills

Two brothers live together in the Kentucky mountains. Wally, the younger, is a wood-cutter, while Phil is a cripple. The brothers receive word from a city physician that Phil can recover from his infi ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1914-02-11 0

The Greater Devotion

The girl has three suitors: a young Mexican, who symbolizes love, a cripple, who symbolizes devotion, and a wealthy haciendiero, who symbolizes wealth. Despite the protests of Love and the pain of Dev ...
Genre :Drama

1914-02-27 0

Regeneration

The woman has been leading an adventurous life. Her admirer grows tired and casts her off. She departs and sinks down in the street, tired mentally and bodily. The artist is painting the Madonna. His ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1914-04-01 0

Cupid Incognito

Frank Graham, rich mine owner, is fatally injured by an explosion. On his death bed he confides to his friend, Jim Blake, all his plans concerning his daughter, Angela's, future. He makes him promise ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1914-04-08 0

A Gypsy Romance

A story of the inside life of nomads who live in the shadow of civilization, worshiping their own goods and clinging to their ancient rites. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

The Artist

1914-03-15 0

The Mountaineer

A young mountaineer loves Dorothy, daughter of a backwoodsman. An artist comes into the district to paint and falls in love with Lucille, Dorothy's sister. Dorothy is interested in the artist on accou ...
Genre :Drama

1914-03-04 0

The Voice of the Viola

This is a story of the love of two brothers for the same girl. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1914-04-20 0

The Skeleton

Two friends, Tad and Jack, are conversing with each other at the Club, when Dr. Matthews, the wealthiest man in town, enters. In contemplating the rich man, the two young men speculate as to whether o ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-05-06 0

The Quack

Dr. Frank Rosslyn, known to the world as a prominent physician, is in reality the head of a quack medical concern which dispenses patent medicines and advertises extensively. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1914-04-29 0

Women and Roses

Wallace's mother is the faded rose, his wife the pink rose and his mistress the red rose. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Englishman

1918-10-17 6

The Romance of Tarzan

Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes to their r ...
Genre :Adventure, Action

St. Joseph Reporter

1936-10-01 4.4

Cavalcade of the West

Two brothers are separated when young. One becomes the pony express rider Clint Knox and the other the outlaw Ace Carter. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

1914-05-27 0

Passing of the Beast

Jacques watched through an opening in the foliage and saw Gilbert of the mounted police and his own wife exchange pleasant greetings. From that moment he hated the police officer. Gilbert was too fine ...
Genre :Drama

1914-05-20 0

The Man Within

A man is a fugitive from the law. A reward of $2,000 is offered for his capture. A large posse is on his trail. Weary, hungry and haunted, the refugee is slowly but surely being hemmed in. ...
Genre :Western

1913-12-10 0

Retribution

Dorothy and her father have staked all their hopes on their mine. While they are awaiting the arrival of Mr. Reid, who is to report on the value of the mine, Pedro, a Mexican, makes familiar advances ...
Genre :Western

1913-12-31 0

A Hopi Legend

An old arrowmaker's daughter, while at the stream, meets a brave from another tribe. They become enamored of each other in the sudden positive way of the savage, and agree to meet at sunset. The chief ...
Genre :Romance, Western

1913-12-24 0

The Lightning Bolt

Held and Brady are fellow officers of the mounted police, and both love the same girl, while Brady's affection is overshadowed by a deep hatred for his rival. The two men are dispatched into the surro ...
Genre :Drama

1914-01-21 0

The Countess Betty's Mine

Counters Betty Ardmore inherits from an uncle a large mining property in the United States. At the advice of her counselor she comes to America to personally superintend the conduct of her property. H ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1914-01-14 0

The Intruder

Much to the delight of the simple old father, his daughter becomes engaged to a big-hearted mountaineer. He builds their hut in the wilderness, and she is happy, though she often dreams of the great w ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Man (uncredited)

1945-04-18 6.3

Sudan

A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Romance

1914-06-03 0

Love's Western Flight

For five years Dorothy had put up with her husband although all his refinement, delicacy and love had long since been drowned in drink. Dorothy had reached the turning point. She answered an advertise ...
Genre :Drama, Western

1914-06-17 0

'Cross the Mexican Line

Lieut. Wallace leaves his fiancée, Dorothy West, to cross the border with his troops into Mexico. Later he is wounded, captured and taken to the hacienda of the Mexican officer, Senor Paranze, where h ...
Genre :Romance, Western

1914-06-24 0

The Den of Thieves

Lillian is an unfortunate woman. After leaving her baby at the door of a hospital she meets David, the author of her misfortune. It is a case of starvation or the "easiest way." She chooses the "easie ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1916-06-28 0

Pirates of the Air

The proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they were on his trail immediately. The head waitress dis ...
Genre :Comedy

Abe Rankin

1936-02-15 5

Ghost Town

An old miner is ambushed by outlaws trying to steal the $10,000 he is carrying to start up a new mine. A passing cowboy comes to the miner's aid, but winds up getting blamed for the attack. ...
Genre :Western

1925-09-26 0

Who's Which?

A slapstick comedy short directed by Jules White starring Phil Dunham. ...
Genre :Comedy

Abner

1936-03-01 5

Hair-Trigger Casey

After having been gone for some time, a cowboy comes home to his ranch to find himself up against a gang involved in smuggling Chinese into the country. ...
Genre :

Henchman Louie

1936-05-27 4.3

Gun Grit

Big city gangster muscle in on ranch territory with a cattle protection racket. Out to stop them is federal agent Jack Perrin. ...
Genre :Western

Cole, Sr.

1936-11-22 1

Fury Below

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if production doesn't ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Nightclub Patron (Uncredited)

1938-11-11 3.4

Sunset Murder Case

Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Train Dispatcher

1932-08-08 0

A Slip at the Switch

Charles 'Chic' Sale gets in the middle of a train robbery! ...
Genre :Comedy

1936-02-01 4

The Reckless Way

The DVD for this film bears the title "The Lure of Hollywood". Marian Nixon plays a girl who doesn't want to settle for second best. She is offered chance to be a model and jumps at it. Her boyfriend ...
Genre :Drama

George Larkin

1933-08-01 0

The Fighting Parson

A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and ...
Genre :Western

Tumblebug Jones

1936-08-05 6.5

The Idaho Kid

Idaho, returning to the area he left as a boy, gets in the middle of a range feud. He takes the side of Endicott. On the other side is Hollister who is unaware that Idaho is his long lost son. ...
Genre :Western

Dr. Matthews

1937-03-13 2

Navy Spy

A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Boyle

1942-01-30 0

Code of the Outlaw

After a payroll robbery the Mesquiteers catch up with the gang. But the members escape, the gang leader is killed, and they end up with only the leaders young son who is quickly sent to a work farm. T ...
Genre :Western

Mr. Anson

1936-12-21 0

Aces Wild

Cheyenne rides into Durango and runs into his old enemy Kelton. Kelton's game is to bring his safe to a town without a bank and let the townspeople put their valuables in it. Then he grabs the loot an ...
Genre :Western

Phil Shill

1925-10-24 0

Scrambled Eggs

Two "correspondence romance" suitors prepare to meet their respective partners for the first time; mixups ensue. ...
Genre :Comedy

Homesteader

1937-08-27 5

Trailing Trouble

When mild mannered Friendly Fields is sent to the Blair ranch to work, he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw Blackie Burke. When a drought develops and the ranchers look for new grazing land, he pla ...
Genre :Comedy, Western, Music

Frenchy, the barber

1931-07-28 0

The Nevada Buckaroo

When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets rob ...
Genre :Western

Mr. Fair

1930-11-15 0

Moonlight and Monkey Business

Genre :Comedy

Doctor

1936-09-01 0

Romance Rides the Range

Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arriving there with his double-talking friend Shorty, ...
Genre :Western

Pericles Panopulous

1936-11-02 5

Two Minutes to Play

Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a co-ed at a rival college, changes his mind team and ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Pawnbroker (uncredited)

1952-12-25 7.333

The Bad and the Beautiful

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee B ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1927-04-24 0

Jungle Heat

Two reel comedy starring Al St. John ...
Genre :Comedy

Judge McGill (uncredited)

1934-01-22 4.9

The Lucky Texan

Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it rich with a gold mine. They then find their lives complicated by bad guys and a woman. ...
Genre :Western

Phil

1916-05-17 5

Gertie's Gasoline Glide

Two men are vying for the favours of Gaby. One of them takes her for a motorcycle ride, the other in his car. When the second man manages to marry her, the first takes his revenge. He calls the police ...
Genre :

Doctor

1939-01-05 5

Code of the Fearless

When it appears that Fred Jamison is a member of Red's gang, he is kicked out of the Rangers. But it's just a plot between Fred and the Ranger Captain. Fred then gets into Red's gang and makes plans t ...
Genre :Music, Western

Jefferson Wells - Attorney

1939-12-15 2

Westbound Stage

A wagon train crossing the plains comes across the remains of other wagon trains that have been attacked by looters. Soon they too are attacked. ...
Genre :Western

Cashier Peterson

1935-10-21 0

Wild Mustang

Prison escapee Utah Evans kills Sheriff McClay. Joe Norton was McClay's predecessor and sent Utah to prison. Ma McClay having taken over as Sheriff for her husband, now gets Joe to return. Joe sets ou ...
Genre :Western

1931-11-06 5.4

Scratch-As-Catch-Can

Scratch-As-Catch-Can is a 1932 American short comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Comedy). ...
Genre :Comedy

Wilber Hall (uncredited)

1933-07-25 0

Rainbow Ranch

An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is acc ...
Genre :Western

Nervous Juror (uncredited)

1939-03-29 6.8

Let Us Live

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innoce ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Clem (uncredited)

1942-07-24 3.2

Thundering Hoofs

Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line. ...
Genre :Western

Man (uncredited)

1947-12-15 7

The Judge Steps Out

A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Passenger Asked for Match

1939-05-26 5.1

Bridal Suite

A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

Night Club Reveller (uncredited)

1934-10-27 7

My Grandfather's Clock

At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. It seems as though there was a second will and changes have been made as to who will ...
Genre :Music, Mystery

1927-01-02 0

High Sea Blues

Only the first reel is known to survive. Bill and Jennie marry over his aunt's objections. As the couple leaves on their honeymoon, his aunt shows up to chaperon. A luggage mix-up causes jealousy and ...
Genre :Comedy

Counterman

1932-06-30 5.2

Tom Brown of Culver

Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter. ...
Genre :Drama

Man in Elevator (uncredited)

1947-07-17 6.9

The Hucksters

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

Party Guest

1934-10-18 1

Everything's Ducky

Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough take to the streets as pots and pans salesmen, wreaking havoc door to door with their demonstrations of their cookware. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ed, Newspaper Editor (Uncredited)

1936-01-26 5

I'll Name the Murderer

Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1925-09-26 0

Fair Warning

Genre :Comedy

1926-07-03 0

Honest Injun

Johnny Arthur has been ordered to spend a year out west to toughen him up, so he and butler George Davis head out. The cowboys at the ranch don't like him, so Johnny and they play practical jokes on e ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

Wilbur the Waiter

1919-06-11 0

All Jazzed Up

Phil Dunham and Eva Novak must contend with Dan Russell and Hughie Mack in this early L-KO Kompany release. ...
Genre :Comedy

Phil

1926-05-30 0

Creeps

Phil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house for thirty days. But their cousin, Anita, wants the property for herself and, with several hired-hench ...
Genre :Comedy

Janitor

1939-08-23 0

Our Leading Citizen

Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son join ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Bank Cashier Summers

1940-11-25 4

West of Pinto Basin

The Range Busters head for Pinto Basin where a series of stage robberies have occurred. To try and find the gang's boss, Crash sends out a empty money box. The plan backfires when the boss has the Ran ...
Genre :Western

Mr. Weems (uncredited)

1934-08-31 6

Down to Their Last Yacht

Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

Fargo Agent

1946-03-07 0

Swing, Cowboy, Swing

An obscure entry in the musical Western cycle, Swing, Cowboy, Swing was produced by and starred country & western bandleader Cal Shrum. Shrum and his band, the Rhythm Rangers, are warned away from ...
Genre :Western

Drummer Thrown Out of Saloon

1938-09-06 0

Starlight Over Texas

Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Mar ...
Genre :Romance, Action, Adventure, Western, Music

The Hypnotist

1926-03-28 0

Skybound

Comedy starring one of the most prolific but underrated comedians of the silent era, Al St John. ...
Genre :Comedy

Old Grad

1933-09-30 0

Saturday's Millions

Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, ...
Genre :Drama

1934-11-12 0

Perfectly Mismated

Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him. ...
Genre :Comedy

Edwin Dobbs (as Phillip Dunham)

1922-05-01 0

The Deuce of Spades

Amos, a Boston beanery owner inherits a restaurant out West and goes out to make his fortune. Unfortunately, the local card sharps take his last dime and show him up for a tenderfoot. So Amos sets out ...
Genre :Comedy

1927-07-03 0

The Movie Hound

A comedy short all about finding the right type of dog for a Hollywood movie. ...
Genre :Comedy

1st Husband

1927-10-09 0

Eats for Two

A dinner involving two couples gets complicated. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Reformer

1927-03-06 0

Hot Lightning

Life and activity at a hotel. Slapstick-style. ...
Genre :Comedy

McGlen's Second Boy (uncredited)

1939-10-04 2

$1,000 a Touchdown

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score. ...
Genre :Comedy

Elevator Operator (uncredited)

1946-11-11 5.8

Undercurrent

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she as ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

1920-09-01 5

A Convict’s Happy Bride

Alice and Phil's happy home is disrupted when their furniture is being repossessed by a huge bullying workman. To placate him, they try being nice and inviting him to dine with them, but fighting brea ...
Genre :Comedy

Wilson (uncredited)

1934-07-27 5.7

Bachelor Bait

After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

1926-04-18 0

The Tin Ghost

Lige Conley is a newspaper reporter covering a demonstration of a new invention to some money-men. The inventors boss wants to get the credit for the device and crosses the wires so that it doesn't wo ...
Genre :Comedy

Horace Wimpus

1926-09-12 0

The Radio Bug

A homeowner takes delivery of his new radio. The crate is so big that the front door needs to be widened by about a yard. No problem when you've got a saw! In spite of the size of the crate, the radio ...
Genre :Comedy

Barber (Uncredited)

1936-04-03 6.3

Big Brown Eyes

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Cookie

1933-07-15 0

The Fugitive

A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutc ...
Genre :Western

Barber (uncredited)

1947-02-21 6.5

California

"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from ...
Genre :Western

Phil

1926-07-11 0

Who Hit Me?

Genre :Comedy

1926-03-14 0

Quick Service

Genre :Comedy

Jerry Thompson

1918-08-12 0

Playthings

Marjorie North, a department store clerk, falls in love and has an affair with the store owner's son, Gordon Trenwith, but realizes when her baby is born without a name that he meant only to use her a ...
Genre :Drama

2nd Suitor

1920-12-20 0

The Punch of the Irish

Genre :Comedy

1920-09-13 0

The Kick in High Life

Genre :Comedy

2nd Game Hunter

1921-06-27 0

A Game Lady

Genre :Comedy

Vendor (uncredited)

1947-05-01 5.5

High Barbaree

After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, War