Frank Brownlee

AKA:
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1874-10-11

Dallas, Texas, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

His Own Law
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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {67}

'Scrub' Hazen

1923-02-11 0

Romance Land

This silent action comedy features Tom Mix donning a suit of armor to battle an unscrupulous ranch foreman in a style that would appear familiar to King Arthur and his knights. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Gold Dust Barker

1919-09-01 0

Paid in Advance

In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields. ...
Genre :Drama

Editor George Ferguson

1917-07-23 0

The Double Standard

Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting the dives and cabarets of the city, and promises equal justice for all. ...
Genre :Drama

Jonas Warren

1919-11-21 0

Desert Gold

In this adaptation of Zane Grey's novel, adventurer Dick Gale (E.K. Lincoln) is traveling through the Southwest. He helps rescue Mercedes Castanada (Margery Wilson) from the clutches of notorious outl ...
Genre :Western

Jarvis Flint

1918-12-07 0

Vanity Pool

A candidate for governor, eager Gerald Harper persuades his equally ambitious wife Carol to enlist the aid of her friend Diana Casper, whose influence with political boss Jarvis Flint could help him w ...
Genre :Drama

Sheriff Judell

1933-02-02 0

Terror Trail

A gang of horse thieves are able to operate because the crooked local sheriff is in cahoots with them. When Tom Mix's beloved horse Tony Jr. is stolen, he steps in to break up the gang. ...
Genre :Western

Ackley

1918-05-25 0

$5,000 Reward

A wealthy old man is murdered after deciding to write his nephew out of his will. Fearing that he will be accused of the murder his nephew takes flight but, with the help of a young woman whose life h ...
Genre :Mystery

1927-05-15 0

Bigger and Better Blondes

Following a jewelry store robbery, Charley becomes the prime suspect due to his flashy antics and accidental collaborations with the true perpetrators. ...
Genre :Comedy

Phil Beason

1924-11-09 0

The Beloved Brute

A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match. ...
Genre :Western

Police Chief Ramsbottom

1933-08-03 6.5

The Midnight Patrol

Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation. ...
Genre :Comedy

Angus MacDonald

1931-11-01 5

The Lightning Warrior

A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plo ...
Genre :Action, Western, Adventure

(archive footage)

1992-04-05 6.7

Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys

Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise. ...
Genre :Documentary

Prospective House Buyer

1927-10-15 5.7

Call of the Cuckoo

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum. ...
Genre :Comedy

Limpy Jim

1921-12-12 0

The Hole in the Wall

When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from pri ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Oil Co. Director Bishop

1931-06-01 9

The Vanishing Legion

A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights. ...
Genre :Action, Mystery, Western, Crime

Tom

1931-09-01 2

The Galloping Ghost

A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from p ...
Genre :Action

Alf Sykes

1932-12-25 3.5

Tombstone Canyon

A range lawman (Ken Maynard) unmasks a black-cloaked phantom killer (Sheldon Lewis). ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Western

Bill Higgins

1925-04-05 0

Straight Through

O'Day, the terror of Red Gulch, wins the entire stake of a gambler named Granger in a poker game but gives it all to Denver Nell, a dancehall girl, when she tells him her sad story. O'Day later discov ...
Genre :Western

Winslow Wynn

1916-07-30 6.6

The Half-Breed

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by All ...
Genre :Western

1941-07-10 0

Gangs of Sonora

Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who publicly stands up to Tredwell is Beecham of the Clar ...
Genre :Western

Prison Warden Benton

1923-05-06 6

Boston Blackie

Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross" torture. Benton, however, is successful in his attempt to have Blackie arrested and returned to th ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1920-09-01 0

His Own Law

An American marries the widow of one of his French army friends, who never got back from the front. They live their lives together and take care of the child, who was born soon after the Frenchman was ...
Genre :Drama

Ship's Captain (uncredited)

1931-04-24 6

Rough Seas

On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble. ...
Genre :Comedy

John Strong the Father

1935-01-20 0

Man's Best Friend

Jed and his dog Lightning contend with the boy's abusive father. ...
Genre :Adventure

Card Player

1929-06-28 4

The River of Romance

Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Harbor master

1941-10-17 6

South of Tahiti

Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heiress to the throne after the death of her brother, ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Henry Adams

1942-01-13 0

Arizona Terrors

A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court validation of a counterfeit land grant, and proceeds to drive out ranchers already settled on the land ...
Genre :Action, Western, Romance, Adventure

Batonyi, aka 'The Wolf'

1917-03-01 0

The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee

Harry Larrabee, a young playwright, lives in the same studio apartment house with Carolyn Vaughn, a painter of miniatures, with whom he falls in love. "The Wolf," a famous criminal, supposed to be dea ...
Genre :Mystery

Panamint Pete

1940-12-13 5

Mysterious Doctor Satan

A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayn ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Crime, Science Fiction

Dairyman Jensen

1941-11-25 0

A Missouri Outlaw

Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning the local merchants and farmers out of their hard-earned dollars. Barry decid ...
Genre :Western

Harry Castleman (uncredited)

1941-04-11 0

The Apache Kid

Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes a stagecoach robber. It's all in a good cause, how ...
Genre :Western

Detective agency boss

1927-11-20 6.328

Do Detectives Think?

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge. ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain Claver

1919-12-29 0

The Lincoln Highwayman

Masked bandit The Lincoln Highwayman terrorizes motorists on California highways. His latest victims are a San Francisco banker and his family on their way to a party. While the masked highwayman hold ...
Genre :Mystery

Grogan

1928-02-26 0

Midnight Rose

Midnight Rose, a dancer in the Gold Coast Cabaret, loves Tim Regan, an underworld gang leader who decides to go straight in spite of entreaties from other gang members. A dying gangster requests that ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mr. Blaylock

1926-11-13 5.2

Be Your Age

Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, her attorney, sees a way to solve both their proble ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Doctor

1940-12-13 0

Trail of the Vigilantes

A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Paul Weaver

1940-12-25 6.3

Arizona

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoe ...
Genre :Western

Ezekiel Whaley

1921-11-11 5.6

Love Never Dies

John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him, and he lea ...
Genre :Drama

The Mountain Girl's Brother (uncredited)

1916-09-04 7.071

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Amorous Repo Man

1928-02-12 4.2

The Chaser

A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take his wife's place in the household--including dres ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill--Farmer

1940-07-03 5.4

Three Faces West

Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in m ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Western

Sheriff

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

Nicholas

1916-04-15 5.9

Sold for Marriage

A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her lover, an retu ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Neal

1935-03-08 0

Big Calibre

Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escapin ...
Genre :Western

Hired Hand

1942-07-02 0

Sons of the Pioneers

A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids. ...
Genre :Western, Music

Man in Street with Packages

1942-01-16 7.5

Man from Cheyenne

Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame. ...
Genre :Western

Movie-Watcher

1942-02-17 4.5

South of Santa Fe

To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the rid ...
Genre :Western

Lynch Mob Member

1942-05-18 5.7

Romance on the Range

Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends. ...
Genre :Western

Man on Street

1942-05-31 5.1

In Old California

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, ...
Genre :Action, Romance, Western

Slim

1941-07-01 6.5

Riders of Death Valley

The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan h ...
Genre :Action, Western

Henry Chapple

1921-04-08 4.8

The Whistle

Robert must avenge his son who was killed in a workplace accident. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Dr. Woodman

1917-02-05 0

The Mysterious Mrs. M

A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire. ...
Genre :Drama

John Baird

1917-09-10 4

The Little Pirate

In dire financial straits, businessman John Baird considers liquidating the bonds that are held in trust for his little daughter Margery. Failing to comprehend her husband's desperation, Virginia Bair ...
Genre :Drama

Terence Callahan

1919-04-06 0

Brass Buttons

Kingston Hollister admires Bernice Cleveland from afar. He asks Officer Callahan, the policeman on the beat, about her and mistakenly believes she is a lady's maid. So the wealthy Hollister disguises ...
Genre :Comedy

Big Ed

1918-07-06 0

The Empty Cab

Henry Egbert Xerxes' big chance as a cub reporter comes when he is assigned to track down a gang of counterfeiters which gathers regularly at the Red Dog Inn. As he leaves the office, Henry witnesses ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Ramon Mordant

1917-09-17 0

The Mysterious Mr. Tiller

Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives are on the track of a gang led by master thief Ramo ...
Genre :Mystery

Mike Dyer

1925-06-21 0

The Desert Flower

A mining camp girl attempts to reform a young derelict addicted to drink. Colleen Moore broke her neck in a fall from a moving handcar during the making of this rousing sagebrush melodrama. The pert ...
Genre :Western

Farmer

1928-09-22 7.1

Beggars of Life

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in th ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Crime

Victor Dravich

1918-07-01 6

Her Moment

In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university eventually becoming a successful engineer. Un ...
Genre :Drama

Captain Bull (uncredited)

1927-09-25 6.7

Sailors, Beware!

A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dead Sight Burke

1920-07-05 0

Under Crimson Skies

The captain of a sailing ship has an affair with the wife of one of his passengers, and gets mixed up in a mutiny at sea and a revolution. ...
Genre :Adventure

1942-02-13 5

Stagecoach Buckaroo

Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold. ...
Genre :Action, Music, Western

Mr. Leigh

1917-03-08 0

Mentioned in Confidence

Genre :Drama

2023-09-01 10

Laurel & Hardy: Year One

Laurel & Hardy: Year One, The Newly Restored 1927 Silents, as proudly presented by Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films®, offers fans new and old the rare opportunity to observe the evolving partnership ...
Genre :Comedy

Bit Part (uncredited)

1929-04-13 0

Thru Different Eyes

Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the prosecuting and the defense attorneys put forward ...
Genre :Drama

Vesher Charley

1923-04-02 0

Nobody's Bride

Jimmy Nevins--once wealthy and now engaged to Doris Standish--is reduced to poverty and jilted by her when he is befriended by Mary Butler, the leader of a gang of crooks. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Joe Borral

1922-04-16 0

The Face Between

On the night of his engagement to Sybil Eliot, Tommy Carteret discovers that his father has been involved in an inappropriate situation with a neighbor's household. To protect his family's name, Tommy ...
Genre :Drama