Max Asher

AKA: Jack Ascher, Max Ascher
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1885-05-04

Oakland, California, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

Reap the Wild Wind
Makeup Artist
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {58}

Mr. Blotnick

1931-05-01 0

Subway Express

Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Drama

Italian Crook

1920-12-11 0

Nearly Married

Monty Banks comedy produced by Warners. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sheriff

1927-06-04 0

Avenging Fangs

A dog and his dead master's brother track down murderers. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Joe

1926-12-05 0

The Call of the Wilderness

In a small western town, a man meets a girl whose father is a land agent. To please her, he buys a plot of land from her father. Next thing he knows, he's mixed up in a plot to drive him off his land. ...
Genre :Western, Adventure

Wellabach (a movie producer) (as Max Ascher)

1923-11-12 0

Lights Out

Notorious crooks "Hairpin" Annie and Sea Bass steal a suitcase on the train and discover that it is filled with scenarios. Its owner, Egbert Winslow, agrees to write a screenplay about the underworld ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Mike

1913-12-17 0

Mike and Jake as Heroes

By deeds of valor both Mike and Jake seek to win the same girl. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sheriff

1927-03-27 0

Blazing Days

While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to that of Dutton, known as "Dude". ...
Genre :Western

Detective Duck

1915-07-08 0

Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Baffles Aids Cupid

Banker Shultz has not had a vacation for over thirty years. His doctor advises a rest or a breakdown will soon result. But it is impossible for Shultz to leave the affairs of the bank a moment. At las ...
Genre :Comedy

Freckles Watson

1927-11-20 0

Galloping Fury

Billy Haven, a young rancher, accidentally discovers that clay found on his ranch will, when mixed with water, become the most beautifying mud-pack cosmetic that any young girl, or old woman, could de ...
Genre :Western

Jake Schultz

1913-08-16 0

Poor Jake's Demise

Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly ...
Genre :Comedy

Mayor Potash

1926-03-01 0

A String of Diamonds

A dog helps to recover a million dollars worth of diamonds. ...
Genre :Adventure

Sam Splivens

1926-10-31 0

Dog Scents

A short western/crime film. ...
Genre :Western, Adventure

1925-02-18 0

Just Plain Folks

Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, returns to his farm to find that his family is about to be evicted. Dan's sweetheart arrives with a ...
Genre :Drama

Ike

1930-06-01 0

Trigger Tricks

Out to avenge his brother's death at the hands of cattleman Kingston, Tim gets hired at Dawley's sheep ranch. The sheep men are greatly outnumbered but Tim has some tricks planned that will even the o ...
Genre :Western

1926-10-07 5

Danger Ahead

Greedy, Unscrupulous Rudolph learns that Belinda has just inherited $10,000, and he decides to steal it from her. He and his henchmen arrive at her house just as the money is being delivered. Meanwhil ...
Genre :Comedy

1924-10-02 5

Dynamite Dan

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 a ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Store Manager

1930-09-12 1

Sweethearts on Parade

Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be ha ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Henry Conrad

1927-05-10 0

She's My Baby

Genre :Comedy

1925-07-15 0

Moonlight Nights

With a little-known director and second-string cast, the two-reel Moonlight Nights is typical of these low-budget independent productions. The comedy’s plot is not much: Told by his exasperated father ...
Genre :Comedy

Doctor

1922-03-08 5

Mixed Nuts

Nuts in May, re-cut, with added footage and outtakes from _Pest, The (1922)_ , combined with newly shot sequences to bridge the scenes. ...
Genre :Comedy

Adm. Puckerlip

1926-11-06 5.6

We're in the Navy Now

"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him a U.S. Navt recruiting office, and, the next thing ...
Genre :Comedy

Utility Man

1929-07-27 5.7

Show Boat

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a ...
Genre :Drama

Isadore Burke

1924-03-31 0

The Shooting of Dan McGrew

Although the dance troupe of which she is leading lady is successful in South America, Lou urges her husband, Jim, to seek another environment for the sake of their 2-year-old son. When Dan McGrew off ...
Genre :Western

1914-01-31 0

In the Year 2014

On this certain afternoon in the year 2014, Mrs. Jones, and her daughter, stock brokers, advertise for a first-class stenographer. Charles Van Doren, a defenceless young man, striving to make a liveli ...
Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

The Organ Grinder

1923-04-04 0

Sweetie

A Baby Peggy two-reeler ...
Genre :Comedy

H.E. Reid the Jeweler (uncredited)

1925-11-16 5.7

The Red Kimona

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive. ...
Genre :Drama

Nick Vedder

1921-10-02 7

Rip Van Winkle

The story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field. ...
Genre :Fantasy

A tramp

1925-01-29 5.2

Somewhere In Wrong

Stan plays a kind hearted tramp whose love goes un-requited in this sweet short film from 1925. ...
Genre :Comedy

1923-03-26 0

Chop Suey Louie

Joe Rock short comedy, also featuring Billie Rhodes and Frank Alexander. ...
Genre :Comedy

Hentzi

1921-06-01 0

The Silver Car

After serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent resolves to go straight. He wants to track down the English private who saved his life, and discovers his true identity is Arthur Gren ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Wilson (as Max Ascher)

1927-08-07 7

Painting the Town

Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, headed the cast of Universal's Painting the Town. In his first starring role, Tryon is cast as bucolic inventor Hector Whitmore, who falls for flirtatious city gal P ...
Genre :Comedy

Butler

1926-08-26 6.2

Crazy Like a Fox

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, an ...
Genre :Comedy

Native Chief

1915-09-03 5

The Awful Adventures of an Aviator

Amateur aviator Harold McNutt's hopes of taking flight result in an escalating series of high jinks. ...
Genre :Comedy

Her Lover, Ezekial Brown

1915-10-16 0

A Millionaire for a Minute

Gale, the Village Schoolmarm, wants to marry Ezekial Brown, but her Uncle objects to the match. ...
Genre :Comedy

1925-12-13 0

A Peaceful Riot

Sailor Slim Summerville saves a lady from nasty men. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Father

1927-02-20 0

Sailor Beware

Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads, "Guinea Pig With Deadly Germs Roaming Our Streets". B ...
Genre :Comedy

Pawnbroker

1931-11-15 5.5

Soul of the Slums

A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slu ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1922-01-03 2

The Whirlwind

A strong wind blows a city slicker and a local girl together. A Joe Rock Comedy ...
Genre :

1921-05-01 0

Grief

Begins with a child-cast parody of "The Kid." The Adams portion finds the guy chased about town because they are looking for some crook in a gray derby...and Jimmie happens to have one. ...
Genre :Comedy

The French Chef

1919-04-21 0

A Yankee Princess

A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was directed by David Smith and stars Bessie Love, who also wrote the scr ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Detective Duck

1915-05-27 0

Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery

First episode in the Lady Baffles and Detective Duck one-reel comedy series. The city is being terrorized by a mysterious female Raffles. At last, in desperation, the chief of police sends for his fri ...
Genre :Comedy

Detective Duck

1915-10-14 5

Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry

This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On the refusal of the Governor to sign a bill in favor ...
Genre :Comedy

Minister

1926-06-27 0

Vamping Babies

"Lewis Sargent of 'Huckleberry Finn" fame, now grown up, and Alice Ardell are the principal players in this Standard Comdy which deals with the attempts of a love-sick young couple to wed despite an ...
Genre :Comedy

1919-03-10 5

Damsels and Dandies

Movie comedy with Earl Montgomery and Joe Rock. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bozo Watson

1933-06-01 4

Crashing Broadway

When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to t ...
Genre :Western

George Smith

1926-05-01 0

The Mystery Pilot

Genre :Action, Adventure

Isaac Cohen - the Hebrew

1923-12-19 5

Slow as Lightning

Our hero Jimmie March works for stockbroker E.J. Philips and daydreams of romance with Eleanor, the boss's lovely daughter. Unfortunately, Eleanor is dating Mortimer Fenton, a wealthy cad who used to ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1920-06-01 0

Footprints

Genre :Comedy

1926-01-20 0

Her Lucky Leap

Genre :Comedy

1925-03-04 0

Don't Worry

Genre :Comedy

Her Father

1920-05-14 0

Married n' Everything

Heinie Conklin has a African desert adventure. ...
Genre :Comedy

1914-10-19 0

Carmen's Wash Day

Genre :Comedy

Mackhart's Deputy

1924-11-01 0

Trigger Fingers

Sergeant Bob Steele (Bob Custer), of the Texas Rangers, is assigned to put an end to the lawlessness of a gang of outlaws led by a mysterious man known as 'The Black Hawk.' Hoping to infiltrate the ga ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Sam

1922-08-20 0

The Ladder Jinx

Peter Stalton, retiring as a bank cashier, is anxious that his nephew Richard Twing should succeed him. The directors, however, appoint Arthur Barnes, engaged to Helen Wilbur, the president's daughter ...
Genre :Comedy

Bum / dinning customer

1919-12-01 6

The Head Waiter

The headwaiter does tricks with spaghetti that the greatest spaghetti handlers in the world never heard of. The sight makes your mouth water. Besides food, the scenes are garnished with a couple of tr ...
Genre :Comedy

William's Servant

1925-07-02 0

The Bandit Tamer

The Bandit Tamer is a 1925 American silent film directed by J.P. McGowan. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance, Western

H.L.S.J. Lee

1924-11-01 0

Women First

Directed by B. Reeves Eason. With William Fairbanks, Eva Novak, Lydia Knott, Bob Rhodes. ...
Genre :Drama

Nick

1928-01-19 0

Burning Up Broadway

Harry Wells, a New Yorker, takes his friend Bob Travers, a westerner visiting the city, to a cafe for an evening of pleasure. When Bob becomes interested in Floss, the chief chorus girl, he incurs the ...
Genre :Drama