Jules Cowles

AKA: Ed Cowles, J.D. Cowles, Julius D. Cowles
0.0557

1877-10-17

Farmington, Connecticut, USA

Biography

Not Available
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {76}

The Drunk

1934-09-27 5.8

The Pursuit of Happiness

Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he ...
Genre :Comedy, History, Romance

Zambo

1925-02-02 6.7

The Lost World

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam. ...
Genre :Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller

The Hired Hand

1925-03-15 7.5

Seven Chances

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Ship's Cook

1928-10-02 0

Isle of Lost Men

The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers. ...
Genre :Drama

Hobo

1918-12-23 6

The Poor Rich Man

Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile, leads a fine upstanding life -- or at least he appears to, so he can curry favor with his wealthy uncle, ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Hicky Price (as Mr. Cowles)

1915-10-11 0

Emmy of Stork's Nest

Through the death of his father, Benton Cabot is left with nothing but a small mountain cabin which he has never seen. He goes to take up his property and in the mountains meets Emmy Garrett, an untut ...
Genre :Drama

Robert Kingston

1921-12-20 5

Tangled Trails

Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New York City. The killer is an unscrupulous promoter who is selling worthless stock in a gold mine. Bor ...
Genre :Adventure, Western

Beadle

1934-09-18 4.583

The Scarlet Letter

In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock. ...
Genre :Drama

Attorney

1931-01-15 0

Sea Devils

An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime

Michael Gallagher

1916-05-22 0

Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph

"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged that he has almost forgotten how to get angry. On ...
Genre :Drama

Hobo (uncredited)

1931-02-21 2.75

The Prodigal

An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family. ...
Genre :Romance

Bidder (uncredited)

1937-07-02 4.688

The Emperor's Candlesticks

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Hawkins

1928-09-02 0

Dog Law

Ranger the German Shepherd dog races to the rescue when Jim is framed on a murder charge. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Man on Betting Line in Front of Mr. Verne (uncredited)

1941-12-09 6.1

Johnny Eager

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Man at Flower Show (uncredited)

1942-07-03 7.1

Mrs. Miniver

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represe ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Cook

1928-11-04 5

Sal of Singapore

SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation ...
Genre :Drama

Jeb Case

1919-10-06 0

The Oakdale Affair

Refusing to marry her stepmother's choice, Gail Prim leaves her life of luxury, after cutting her hair, dressing in her butler's clothes and stealing money and jewels from her father's safe. Spending ...
Genre :Adventure

Man on Platform (uncredited)

1936-09-04 7

How to Vote

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled. ...
Genre :Comedy

Yankee Joe

1925-11-15 0

Lord Jim

Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a job at a trading post, and eventually works his way ...
Genre :Drama

Dance Watcher (uncredited)

1941-12-31 6.4

Two-Faced Woman

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Pinardo Henchman-Guard (uncredited)

1934-06-30 5

Young Eagles

Two Boy Scouts win an around-the-world trip with a crack aviator, and find themselves crash-landed in the South American jungles after the ace forgets to refuel in Ecuador. ...
Genre :Adventure

Man With Radio (voice, uncredited)

1938-08-12 5.9

Rich Man, Poor Girl

A millionaire courts a working-class woman. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Hotel Doorman (uncredited)

1938-01-14 5.7

Love Is a Headache

A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Court Attendant (uncredited)

1938-07-22 6.017

Love Finds Andy Hardy

Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Buffalo

1931-11-27 3

Heaven on Earth

A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him. ...
Genre :Drama

Bartender (uncredited)

1935-03-22 6.7

Mississippi

A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Casino Patron (uncredited)

1939-02-17 5.6

Fast and Loose

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript. ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy

Man with Finch (uncredited)

1939-09-15 5.9

Thunder Afloat

A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance, War

Missouri

1932-06-19 5.5

Heroes of the West

Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial. ...
Genre :Western

Frank (uncredited)

1936-06-05 7.4

Fury

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Member of the Senate (uncredited)

1940-07-01 4.5

A Failure at Fifty

The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Dinty Moore

1928-03-18 3

Bringing Up Father

The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but thin ...
Genre :Comedy

Printer Lockjaw Nelson

1935-02-15 0

Law Beyond the Range

Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge ...
Genre :Western

George Washington Black

1925-09-20 0

Spook Ranch

Bill Bangs and his Negro valet, George Washington Black, stray into a mining town and are arrested when they attempt to steal something to eat. The sheriff promises them their freedom if they solve th ...
Genre :Western

The Sheriff

1931-12-28 6

The Secret Menace

An old prospector discovers a bonanza mine of gold on the Diamond Dude Ranch. He tells two men about it and they kill him, and then make plans to acquire the ranch. They run into trouble when the owne ...
Genre :Western

Peasant Who Robs Tatiana (uncredited)

1927-08-13 6.7

Mockery

There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Serge ...
Genre :Drama

Singer at Beulah's (uncredited)

1938-10-07 4.5

Stablemates

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race. ...
Genre :Drama

Robin's Dressing Aide (uncredited)

1927-01-22 6

The Show

Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the be ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Joe (uncredited)

1942-02-05 6.943

Woman of the Year

Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Whitney T. Wilson

1933-05-28 6

Cross Fire

Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in con ...
Genre :Romance, Western

$100 Recipient (uncredited)

1934-12-14 5.8

The Gay Bride

Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

William Tell

1929-10-05 5

One Hysterical Night

The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Si ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Marshal

1932-11-25 5.5

Renegades of the West

A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father. ...
Genre :Western

Prisoner (uncredited)

1936-03-06 7

Give Us This Night

After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the polic ...
Genre :

Vagrant #1 (uncredited) (uncredited)

1941-05-30 4.976

Billy the Kid

Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men wh ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Man on Train with Big Mustache (uncredited)

1931-01-03 4.3

Reducing

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor. ...
Genre :Comedy

J.A. Darby

1933-08-01 0

The Fighting Parson

A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and ...
Genre :Western

The Beadle

1927-01-08 7.1

The Scarlet Letter

In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth ...
Genre :Drama, History

Elevator Passenger (uncredited)

1939-03-17 4.5

An Hour for Lunch

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned. ...
Genre :Comedy

Allen Allan

1923-04-29 0

The Ne'er-Do-Well

Disgusted with his spendthrift son, Kirk Anthony's father has Kirk shanghaied and taken to Panama, where he attracts the attention of Mrs. Edith Cortlandt. He subsequently falls in love with Chiquita, ...
Genre :Comedy

1925-05-31 0

The Were-Tiger

A jungle drama about a woman who befriends a tiger. ...
Genre :Thriller

Derelict on Train (Uncredited)

1938-01-21 5.857

Mannequin

Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Man in Museum (Uncredited)

1943-05-31 6.095

Above Suspicion

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe. ...
Genre :Thriller

Seth Moore

1916-07-10 0

The Quitter

When his friends decide that "Happy Jack" Lewis needs a wife, they place an ad in the paper for one. Glad Mason replies and sends her picture. Jack's pals decide she is the one, and after he sees her ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Crazy Man at the Clinic (uncredited)

1942-04-22 5.5

Fingers at the Window

In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

1925-07-25 0

Love on the Rio Grande

A 1925 silent Western. ...
Genre :Western

Asticot

1917-01-21 0

The Girl Philippa

About the year 1900 in a midnight raid on the palace of a Balkan king, emissaries of a great power slay the royal pair, and carry off the infant crown princess. The time shifts to the present. Foreign ...
Genre :Drama

Gus, Waiter at Spike's (uncredited)

1937-10-15 6.371

Double Wedding

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Citizen at Tribunal (uncredited)

1938-08-26 6.5

Marie Antoinette

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in variou ...
Genre :Drama, History

Gallagher (uncredited)

1927-12-03 6.5

London After Midnight

The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. This film was lost in the 1965 MGM v ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery

Townsman on Street (uncredited)

1940-03-08 5

The Ghost Comes Home

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Cpl. Jones

1929-12-28 7

His First Command

A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action

Cook

1929-02-24 5.3

The Leatherneck

A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when a ...
Genre :War, Drama

The Hermit

1922-04-01 0

The Bootleggers

Jose Fernand seems interested in luring Helen Barnes onto his ship than he is in smuggling. The innocent orphan miss goes, accompanied by her younger sister Alice. With the boat out to sea, Fernand pr ...
Genre :Drama

Jake McGill

1925-07-14 5

The Ace of Clubs

Cowboy Jack Horton searches for the killer of his father and brother, both of whom were found with an ace of clubs pinned to their bodies. ...
Genre :Western

Man in Audience

1936-11-28 3.8

Every Sunday

Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from hap ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Joe

1930-09-12 5

Second Honeymoon

A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up". ...
Genre :

Head Farm Hand

1917-11-01 0

Persuasive Peggy

Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1915-08-16 0

A Royal Family

The King of Kurland suggests a marriage between his son, the crown prince, and Angela, the Princess of Arcacia, to defuse tensions between their tiny European countries. The tempestuous Angela rejects ...
Genre :Drama

Jack French's Servant

1922-04-20 0

God's Crucible

Their father, Michael Kalmar, imprisoned in Siberia, political refugees Ivan and Irma Kalmar seek freedom in Winnipeg, Canada. Encountering persecution at the hands of prejudiced neighbors, including ...
Genre :Drama

Man in Office

1937-06-04 4.125

Parnell

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Benton

1920-03-29 0

A Fool and His Money

American author John B. Smart, searching for solitude and an atmosphere for a new story, purchases an old castle in Switzerland. He discovers the beautiful Aline hiding with a baby in the east tower. ...
Genre :Drama

Jasper

1923-03-30 0

Lost in a Big City

Prospector Harry Farley returns from Alaska to find that his sister, Helen, has gone to New York with Florence, her blind daughter, after being deserted by her husband, Richard Norman. Under the name ...
Genre :Drama

Buck

1917-04-26 0

The Bar Sinister

The Bar Sinister is a 1917 silent film drama directed by Edgar Lewis. ...
Genre :Drama

One-Eye Wallace

1921-03-27 0

The Idol of the North

Dance-hall girl Colette Brissac, brought up in the Canadian Northwest, refuses the protection of New Yorker Lucky Folsom, who later marries Gloria Waldron, an ambitious woman actually in love with eng ...
Genre :Drama

Daniel Guernsey

1919-04-07 0

The Cambric Mask

John Sark is the owner of a piece of land coveted by Henry Murden, leader of the band of "White Riders," who has purloined the information that a railroad wishes to buy the property. Sark is a natural ...
Genre :Drama