Jack W. Johnston

AKA: John William Michael Johnston, J.W. Johnston
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1876-10-02

Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {56}

Robert Amory

1917-04-09 1

The Cost of Hatred

Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he returns home from a business trip, he finds his wife Elsie (Kathlyn Williams) in the arms of another m ...
Genre :Drama

Lynch

1917-11-26 0

The Eternal Mother

Maris, having married Lynch, a worthless man who deserts her, taking their daughter Felice with him, marries mill owner Dwight Alden after receiving notification that her husband and child are dead. D ...
Genre :Drama

Thomas Carter

1916-06-15 0

Destiny's Toy

Young Nan was rescued from a shipwreck by a man who becomes her foster father. Years later, when he dies, she moves to a nearby city and unknowingly gets involved with a criminal gang. When the gang a ...
Genre :Drama

Edward Marsh (as J.W. Johnson)

1917-12-09 0

The Land of Promise

Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm. ...
Genre :Drama

Horace Colt

1918-09-01 0

On the Quiet

Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mr. Curtis

1919-04-16 2.7

The Test of Honor

After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him. ...
Genre :Drama

Buddy

1922-04-10 0

Channing of the Northwest

A foppish Londoner joins the Royal Canadian Mounties and tries to break a smuggling ring. ...
Genre :Western

Juryman (uncredited)

1941-12-05 4

Borrowed Hero

A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1915-01-13 0

Runaway June

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Sheldon Truesdell

1927-06-04 0

The Black Diamond Express

Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon, does not approve of the blue-collar, rough-at-th ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

District Attorney

1928-05-15 0

Obey Your Husband

An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lieutenant Sandridge

1914-08-01 0

The Caballero's Way

A Cisco Kid story. ...
Genre :Western

The Stranger - a Wealthy Sailor

1912-10-16 0

The Lass of Gloucester

With a parting kiss, Betty Lane, a fisherman's daughter, and John Monroe, promise to meet later in the day at their trysting place on the seashore. Betty returns to keep the appointment and is waiting ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1945-08-03 6.6

Lady on a Train

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Captain of the Guards

1923-04-30 0

Backbone

When Yvonne de Chausson comes home from a trip to France, she is told that her grandfather, lumber magnate Andre de Mersay, has been stricken with an undisclosed illness. He is sequestered in a room a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

The Colonel

1927-12-04 0

Flying Luck

A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sergeant Jack Daniels of the R.N.W.M.P.

1913-02-12 0

The Trail of the Silver Fox

A real life drama enacted in the Yukon region where the rigors of battle for existence reduced it's human characters to it's primitive. The girl's perilous trip to the frozen north to save a life will ...
Genre :Western

U.S. Minister to Belgium

1918-10-27 0

The Woman the Germans Shot

The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Trapper

1923-11-18 0

Unseeing Eyes

The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Jim Worth

1922-02-01 0

Partners Of The Sunset

Supposedly wealthy, Patricia and Vi Moreland find themselves penniless and dependent upon relatives when their father dies. They accept an uncle's offer to live on his Texas ranch, which is desired by ...
Genre :Western

Joe Cooley

1926-03-14 5

The New Klondike

Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of the Florida land boom (in which a lo ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Tim Dean (as F.W. Johnston)

1926-09-25 0

Desert Valley

Seeing cattle dying of thirst, a stranger shoots a hole in Hoades water pipeline. Hoades is hoarding water trying to drive the ranchers away. Hounded by the law for stealing a pie, the stranger sees a ...
Genre :Western

Man (uncredited)

1939-05-05 6.572

Union Pacific

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstruct ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Magic Show Audience Volunteer

1939-08-10 6.4

Miracles for Sale

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered. ...
Genre :Mystery

Nightclub Guest (uncredited)

1945-11-29 7.6

The Lost Weekend

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and ...
Genre :Drama

Lawyer (uncredited)

1941-02-25 7.2

The Lady Eve

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Man at Club (uncredited)

1944-10-25 7.4

The Woman in the Window

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Steve

1914-09-07 5.6

The Virginian

A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice. ...
Genre :Western

Clayton Craig (as J.W. Johnston)

1914-10-12 0

Where the Trail Divides

Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an Indian uprising. When the children are grown, How proposes to Bess, whom he has loved since his childh ...
Genre :Western

Man at Maxim's (Uncredited)

1940-11-08 6.3

Arise, My Love

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Customer (uncredited)

1943-09-25 6

Thank Your Lucky Stars

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

District Attorney

1928-06-28 0

The Sawdust Paradise

She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then Regeneration. A Drama of Lights and Shadows. ...
Genre :Drama

Harry White

1919-03-18 5.7

The Twin Pawns

A drama about twin sisters Daisy and Violet, who grow up unaware of each other's existence, one with their wealthy father and the other with their poor mother. The two sisters are manipulated by a cri ...
Genre :Drama

Frederic Harmon (as J.W. Johnston)

1916-10-21 5

Fifty-Fifty

Naomi is a young aspiring artist known to her Bohemian friends as "The Nut." Naomi's alleged nuttiness does not in any way impede the efforts by wealthy Frederick Harmon to make the unworldly heroine ...
Genre :Drama

Kearney, Government Agent

1914-11-15 4

The Rose of the Rancho

Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his l ...
Genre :Romance, Western, Adventure

(as Jack Johnstone)

1919-12-01 0

The Broken Melody

Stewart, an art student in the "bohemian" Greenwich Village in New York City, lives next door to his girlfriend Hedda, who wants to be a singer. One night while they are dining at their favorite cafe, ...
Genre :Drama

Relative at Wedding (uncredited)

1938-06-09 5.778

The Rage of Paris

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New Yo ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1922-09-10 6

The Valley of Silent Men

The hunter becomes the hunted, an officer of the Royal Mounted, fleeing, fighting for his life. Guided to a secret valley in the frozen North by a hot-blooded French-Canadian beauty, with a secret of ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Action, Western

Henry Norman (as J.W. Johnston)

1916-08-01 1

God's Half Acre

Leaving his wife Rose for a few weeks and eager to do research for his new novel about the elderly, Henry Norman goes to live in a home for the aged, where Blossom, the home's young maid, falls in lov ...
Genre :Drama

1916-04-27 0

The Moment Before

The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following day, the duke falls off his horse and is mortally in ...
Genre :Drama

Markam the Man

1914-12-07 0

The Ghost Breaker

Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fort ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery

Stanley Adams

1919-08-11 0

The Praise Agent

Press agent Jack Bartling persuades a local Suffragette leader, Mrs. Eubanks, whose husband is a Senator and soap manufacturer, to hire him for publicity. He falls for her daughter Nell and through va ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Boone's Brother

1921-02-20 0

The Kentuckians

Boone Stallard, elected to the Kentucky Legislature by a mountain district, clashes with Randolph Marshall, a Blue Grass aristocrat who is engaged to Anne, the governor's daughter. When a feud breaks ...
Genre :Drama

Burton

1916-01-01 0

Should a Baby Die?

Genre :Drama

Night Club Guest (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

Man (uncredited)

1946-12-20 6.4

The Locket

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Boris Litofsky

1918-04-20 0

At the Mercy of Men

Vera Souroff, a young Russian girl, is kidnapped off the street and raped by one of three officers of the Czar's guard. The crime is brought to the attention of the Czar, but Vera cannot tell which of ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Barlow

1928-10-15 0

Driftwood

Daisy Smith (Marceline Day), a floater and non-desirable citizen in most societies, seeks refuge on a tropical island in the South Seas. She meets Jim Curtis (Don Alvarado), another society-outcast an ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance

Peterson

1922-01-22 0

The Ruling Passion

A millionaire's health deteriorates when his doctor and family prevail upon him to retire. ...
Genre :Comedy

William Brennon

1921-04-17 0

Mother Eternal

Unable to support her second child, a boy, Alice Baldwin gives him up to the wife of Edward Stevens, a wealthy manufacturer. Her other child, a daughter, grows up, marries, and selfishly neglects her ...
Genre :Drama

Captain Morelake

1920-04-01 1

Why Women Sin

Genre :Drama

Ball Guest

1941-09-18 6.455

Lydia

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed sp ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Sam Rogers

1916-04-16 0

Molly Make-Believe

Molly is an irrepressible young lady who decamps from her grandmother's farm where she learns of the dire poverty with which they are threatened. Coming to the city, she seeks a position and failing t ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Rudolph

1916-02-24 0

Out of the Drifts

Out of the Drifts is a 1916 silent romance film directed by J. Searle Dawley. ...
Genre :Romance

Dan Vaughan

1920-05-10 0

Man's Plaything

While working as a flower girl in Devlin Maddox's nightclub, Nellie Vaughan meets wealthy young Pelton Van Teel and falls in love. Maddox, desirous of using Nellie to blackmail Van Teel, spreads a rum ...
Genre :Drama

Henry Dillman

1919-03-23 0

Speedy Meade

After his assistant, Bud Lester, is killed, Texas Ranger Speedy Meade bids farewell to his girl friend, convent student Mary Dillman, and sets out to break up a gang of cattle thieves operating on the ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Western