Joseph Burke

AKA:
2.8165

1870-08-08

England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {35}

Professor G. Wottan Orphul-Schmell

1918-09-22 0

Come on In

A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough for him to pass the height requirement. Meanwhile, h ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, War

Ward's Secretary

1926-03-17 0

Fascinating Youth

Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable oper ...
Genre :Comedy

Sam Jenkins

1918-12-08 4

Independence, B'Gosh

A middle-aged couple find their rural lives in disarray when they inherit eighty-nine million dollars. One of James Montgomery Flagg's 'Sweethearts and Wives' series of short comedies. ...
Genre :Comedy

Charlie

1925-12-13 0

The Pinch Hitter

Joel Parker is sent to college by his crabby farmer father only because it was his mother's dying wish that he get an education. At college, he's immediately pegged as a chump and is constantly victim ...
Genre :Comedy

The Judge

1919-04-27 0

Help! Help! Police!

While vacationing with his father Edward at a Palm Beach hotel, George Welston becomes smitten with Eve Pendleton, the daughter of Edward's business rival Judson. After George prevents Pendleton from ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Reuben Hoagland

1917-09-17 0

The Awakening of Ruth

Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop ...
Genre :Drama

Jim

1928-05-15 0

Obey Your Husband

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

J.T. Manly

1918-03-01 0

Life or Honor?

When retired merchant J. T. Manly is murdered, his son James, with whom he had quarreled, is arrested and finally convicted through the testimony of Manly's valet Aguinaldo. Shortly before James's exe ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Professor Cipher

1917-07-14 0

Chris and His Wonderful Lamp

A young man buys an Aladdin’s lamp at an auction and employs the genie to help him see his love. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Comedy

Kings Tutor

1929-02-17 0

The Royal Rider

Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance. The king is greatly impressed with the American cowbo ...
Genre :Western

The Father

1919-08-10 0

The Trap

A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises her hand in marriage to a rich prospector, but instead she marries his no-good brother. After her husband disappears and is reported dead, she marries a rich New ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

The Landlord

1923-05-21 7.1

The White Rose

A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1916-01-01 0

The City of Illusion

Genre :Drama

Neddy Joe - Dermot's Servant

1928-05-13 6.4

Hangman's House

Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father die ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Romance

Jester

1913-07-26 0

The Sleeping Beauty

Filled with jealousy, the evil witch Maleficent curses Princess Aurora to die on her 16th birthday. Thanks to Aurora's guardian fairies she only falls into a deep sleep that can be ended with a kiss f ...
Genre :Fantasy

James Forbes

1916-02-01 0

The Immortal Flame

Silent drama directed by Ivan Abramson. ...
Genre :Drama

1926-09-30 0

Another Bottle, Doctor

Carrie is a chorus girl traveling with a medicine show. They stop outside a sanitarium to peddle their elixirs, not knowing the bogus sanitarium is providing bodies for an enterprising mortician. ...
Genre :Animation

Robert Hitchins

1918-07-01 0

Opportunity

When Mary’s father refuses to let her attend a prize fight because he thinks it’s undignified for a young lady, she disguises herself in her brother's clothes, which sets in motion a series of misunde ...
Genre :Comedy

Cyrus Monroe

1918-05-19 0

De Luxe Annie

A 1918 film directed by Roland West. ...
Genre :Drama

Benson

1919-06-08 6

Through the Toils

Author Noel Graham goes to the little village of Mondon, where his ancestors lived, for solitude to write. While searching for a lost puppy, Noel meets Rhona Allerton, who is visiting her guardian, Le ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Thomas (as Joseph Burke)

1924-02-04 5

Pied Piper Malone

Pied Piper Malone (1924) ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ebenezer Balfour

1917-05-07 6

Kidnapped

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats. ...
Genre :Adventure

Uncle Billy McGaw

1923-11-04 0

His Children's Children

Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a ...
Genre :Drama

J.J. Simmons

1920-07-01 0

The Perfect Woman

Mary Blake can charm any man, young or old, with her winning ways -- except for the one she really wants. James Stanhope is a misogynist who won't give her the time of day. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Judge

1926-09-01 0

'Morning, Judge

After Uplift Society-champion Crabbine Hicks has the musical revue shut down, her son Buster hides the out-of-work chorus girls in their home, while Crabbine is out of town. While cooking sausage, Bus ...
Genre :Comedy

The Professor

1925-07-13 6.5

The Lucky Devil

Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner's son, a soul seemingly always in trouble with cop ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Drama

Garcia

1928-11-14 0

South Of Panama

South of Panama is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Charles J. Hunt and starring Carmelita Geraghty, Edward Raquello and Lewis Sargent ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. McNeil

1918-06-02 0

Cecilia of the Pink Roses

Cecilia is a spunky Irish girl from a struggling family, faced with the imminent death of her mother. ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Simmons

1925-01-11 5.5

Too Many Kisses

Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Drama

1925-06-12 0

The Adventurous Sex

A young man spends so much time at work on his airplane that he neglects his girl. She goes out on her own to live the high life, but her reputation is soiled by an adventurer. The young woman resolve ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1915-11-04 0

Clarissa's Charming Calf

Clarissa spins the tale for her children of how when she was a young girl, she was the belle of the small town of Cherry Pit Siding. Winning the title of “the most popular young lady” at the annual fi ...
Genre :Comedy

Western Union Employer

1916-06-20 0

Blow Your Horn

Musty Suffer finds a bicycle and gets a job as a messenger; hilarity ensues, of course. ...
Genre :Comedy

Butler

1917-11-12 0

Outwitted

Duplicity and double crosses run thick and fast when Ben Farraday forces Nan Kennedy to steal documents from Ben’s enemy John Lawson in exchange for his silence about her escapee brother’s whereabouts ...
Genre :Drama

Town Drunk

1924-01-06 0

West of the Water Tower

Young marrieds Guy & Bee are ostracized by their supposed friends in town when Bee discovers she is expecting but the legitimacy of their union is called into question. Eventually the squire who perfo ...
Genre :Drama

Jed Bramson

1921-01-01 0

Princess Jones

Princess Jones, the niece of a country store keeper, dreams of being a wealthy, glamorous lady. While at an luxurious nearby resort she meets the wealthy Arthur Forbes, who falls in love with her and ...
Genre :Comedy