Lon Poff

AKA: Alonzo M. Poff, Alonzo M. "Lon" Poff
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1870-02-08

Bedford, Indiana, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {70}

Madame Gordon's 1st Henchman (uncredited)

1925-10-04 0

Without Mercy

In this silent melodrama Sir Melmoth Craven is running against John Orme for a seat in Parliament. Orme is an honest man, but Craven is on the shady side. For campaign money, he borrows money from an ...
Genre :Drama

Deputy

1921-05-20 0

Big Town Ideas

A woman and her dog defend an innocent man. ...
Genre :Comedy

Gideon Crane

1922-11-01 5.3

The Village Blacksmith

(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom the blacksmith marries. This angers the squire. Ye ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Haw Haw

1921-10-01 0

The Night Horsemen

Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale) after Dan is found wandering the desert as a youth. After he becomes a man, Dan wanders throughout the West, ...
Genre :Western

'Slim' Snitzer

1927-10-02 0

Silver Valley

Fired for crashing his aeroplane into his employer's ranch, Tom Mix is elected sheriff in a town with, as a title stated, "a high mortality rate among sheriffs." Mix, of course, prevails against almos ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Rev. Beal

1920-02-14 0

The Last Straw

A cowboy helps a pretty ranch owner getting rid of both cattle rustlers and an unwanted suitor in this silent oater. ...
Genre :Western

Undertaker

1935-06-29 0

Alimony Aches

Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sandy

1920-08-08 0

Square Shooter

Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, because he is suspicious of his foreman Sam Curtis' activities, decides to proceed incognito. Disguised as ...
Genre :Western

Minister (circuit rider)

1923-02-15 0

The Girl I Loved

John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But with the passage of time, John discovers (long after ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Lumberjack (uncredited)

1936-11-06 6.838

Come and Get It

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mountaineer (uncredited)

1937-07-22 5.8

The Toast of New York

After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous wor ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, History

Professor

1929-12-22 0

Courtin' Wildcats

College boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he finds Calamity Jane running roughshod over everyone. So the dude decides to tame her. ...
Genre :Western

Monty Price

1918-11-01 0

The Light of Western Stars

A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees ...
Genre :Western

Constable

1933-02-17 6

Hello, Everybody!

The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The ...
Genre :Music

Álvarez

1923-02-16 5

Suzanna

Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ramón and Dolores, although Ramón is in love with Suzanna, the daughter of a peon on his father's ranc ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Father Joseph

1929-02-21 6.7

The Iron Mask

King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and h ...
Genre :Adventure, History

Chauffeur

1931-11-13 6

Ambassador Bill

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is ...
Genre :Comedy

Slim Lally

1923-01-28 0

Brass Commandments

"Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria Hallowell, who has known him by reputation, falls in love with Lanning but believes that he loves Ellen Bo ...
Genre :Western

Sandy Joyce

1923-08-26 0

The Man Who Won

Bill is a gambler, whose friend Scipio goes in search of his wife Jessie. Jessie, fed up with her life of poverty, has run off with the wealthy and villainous James. She has left behind her two childr ...
Genre :Western

Hadiran's Aid

1929-01-02 0

The Faker

Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and astonish the rubes, gets work as private secretary to John Clayton, a wealthy man who has just disinhe ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Mr. Jolly

1925-07-05 5.8

Isn't Life Terrible?

Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, ...
Genre :Comedy

Tall Actor in Casting Office (uncredited)

1923-04-22 6.2

Souls for Sale

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

1920-06-10 0

Bonnie May

Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron, the invalid son who has written the play. He begs her to ...
Genre :Drama

Morgue Attendant

1932-03-05 6.3

The Expert

An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Minor Role (uncredited)

1936-06-25 7.2

The White Angel

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession. ...
Genre :Drama

Old Relative (uncredited)

1930-08-08 6.7

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the rel ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Bald-Headed Wrangler (uncredited)

1917-10-15 5.75

'49–'17

A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is di ...
Genre :Western

Bookkeeper (uncredited)

1927-12-04 0

The Valley of the Giants

Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Old Man on Porch (uncredited)

1951-04-05 6.47

Father's Little Dividend

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Minister (uncredited)

1926-07-24 6

Mantrap

A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation. ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

Clem (uncredited)

1931-08-08 6

Caught

Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to ...
Genre :Western, Romance

Old Man

1943-05-07 7.2

This Land Is Mine

Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage. ...
Genre :Drama, War

D. P. Graves - the Undertaker

1927-06-27 4.5

The First Auto

The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son. ...
Genre :Comedy

Lottery Agent (uncredited)

1924-12-04 7.3

Greed

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Juror

1940-04-12 6.9

The House of the Seven Gables

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Cliffo ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Shorty's Chum

1923-09-29 5

The Virginian

Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend ...
Genre :Western

Citizen

1925-01-01 0

A Fool and His Money

John Smart (William Haines), a hack writer, inherits a fortune from a distant relative and buys a castle in Laupheim. He pursues what appears to be a ghost of a beautiful woman but he learns that the ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Prison Reformer

1930-03-15 0

What a Life

A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Constable (uncredited)

1931-11-13 6.2

Way Back Home

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own. ...
Genre :Drama

Archbishop (uncredited)

1922-09-11 6.3

The Prisoner of Zenda

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

First High Priest

1936-04-06 6.4

Flash Gordon

Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action, Adventure

Judge Thatcher

1930-12-19 5.5

Tom Sawyer

The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, Comedy

Priest (uncredited)

1922-12-17 6.5

Peg o' My Heart

PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprisi ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Milkman

1925-02-07 0

The Million Dollar Handicap

After buying the filly Dixie following a strong finish Southern horse breeder John Porter discovers she has been doped for the contest. When he is paralyzed from a fall from Dixie his son, Alan, embez ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Old Relative

1930-10-16 6

Night of Goblins

Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Friar Slain by Vikings (uncredited)

1928-11-02 6.4

The Viking

In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same wom ...
Genre :History, Action, Adventure

Elder Husband

1931-05-21 7.75

Haunted at Midnight

Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case". When Stan's rich uncle Ebeneezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living of ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Townsman

1935-10-25 6

The Rainmakers

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Judge

1935-10-08 4.5

She Couldn't Take It

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, incl ...
Genre :Comedy

Deacon (uncredited)

1932-04-30 5.6

So Big!

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Prison Friar (uncredited)

1926-09-30 7.4

Bardelys the Magnificent

Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance

Grand Jury Member (uncredited)

1936-06-06 6.6

Bullets or Ballots

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Footman

1926-09-05 0

Marriage License?

When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his mother, reject her because of her outsider status. Lady Heriot engineers a scandal that ruins their marr ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

The High Priest (archive footage)

1966-01-01 6

Spaceship to the Unknown

A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is ab ...
Genre :TV Movie, Science Fiction, Action, Adventure

Halsey (uncredited)

1937-01-23 7.111

You Only Live Once

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

1928-04-27 7.302

The Man Who Laughs

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Horror

Father Joseph

1921-08-28 6.371

The Three Musketeers

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the pol ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Romance

Professor Payne - Schoolmaster

1921-02-26 0

The Old Swimmin' Hole

The normal life of a young farm boy as he goes to school and as he relaxes in the country is depicted. ...
Genre :

Tall Thin Henchman (Uncredited)

1933-02-18 6.446

Mystery of the Wax Museum

A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopen ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery, Comedy

Phil Graves

1937-07-22 0

Calling All Doctors

Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Burden (uncredited)

1931-03-15 4.656

Behind Office Doors

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Chet Dashaway

1923-04-25 4

Main Street

The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals. ...
Genre :Drama

Jim McWilliams

1924-01-28 0

The Man from Wyoming

Ned Bannister, manager of a sheep ranch, is accused of the murder of David Messiter, a neighboring cattle rancher. Bannister's employer, Halloway, would like to own the cattle rancher's spread. When H ...
Genre :Action, Romance, Western

Sleeper (uncredited)

1943-05-13 6.855

The More the Merrier

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to s ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1926-12-16 0

The Trouble Chaser

Hector, who was reared by a maiden aunt, decides to leave his sheltered life and become a reporter. At the newspaper where he has works, Hector becomes friendly with a young female reporter, who uses ...
Genre :Comedy

2024-10-29 10

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two

Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their success moving into 1928 galvanized the efforts of everyone at Hal Roach Studios (including famed d ...
Genre :Comedy

Constable (uncredited)

1917-12-24 4.5

The Scarlet Car

Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum ha ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Carver (uncredited)

1931-02-01 0

The Itching Hour

Comedy spoof of THE CAT AND THE CANARY. A female athlete and her entourage take refuge on a stormy night in a strange hotel that seems to be haunted. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Secretary

1924-09-07 3.917

Dante's Inferno

The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder and executed, and is afterward taken by demons to the Hel ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Romance

Garrett

1925-10-25 0

The Storm Breaker

John Strong, a fearless and boasting Nova Scotia sea captain, weds Lysette DeJon, a refined and dreamy young woman. During his long absences at sea, Lysette becomes increasingly attached to John's you ...
Genre :Drama