Frank Campeau

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1864-12-14

Detroit, Michigan, USA

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {84}

Welfare Officer (uncredited)

1921-01-21 8.147

The Kid

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Marine Major

1927-02-12 0

Let It Rain

Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Bote ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance

'Spade' Allen

1926-08-28 6.8

3 Bad Men

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed. ...
Genre :Romance, Western

Steven Wilson

1919-01-26 0

Cheating Cheaters

Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sheriff Smith

1917-02-03 0

Delayed in Transit

Delayed in Transit is a 1917 comedy Western. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

The Stage Driver (as Frank Camby)

1911-09-11 0

Kit Carson's Wooing

Kit Carson, scout, hunter, trapper and soldier-of-fortune, has won the enmity of Azakah, the cruel chief of a prowling band of renegade Indians. ...
Genre :Western

Tinker Gibbs

1936-06-10 0

Everyman's Law

Texas Ranger Johnny, poses as a hired gunman called The Dog Town Kid in order to infiltrate the outlaw gang, to uncover a plot by a crooked lawman, Sheriff Bradley, and a large landholder, Jim Morgan ...
Genre :Western

1921-01-01 0

Sleeping Acres

Australian actor Snowy Baker's first American movie made for producer Willian N. Selig who specialized in adventure tales. A contemporary fan magazine said that " The Australian possesses a magnetic s ...
Genre :Adventure, Action

Shackleton

1925-02-17 0

Coming Through

Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford marries Alice Rand, the daughter of his boss, John Rand. Rand is aware of Blackford's motivations and he sends him to take over as superintendent of one of ...
Genre :Drama

Quintard

1925-12-19 1

The Pleasure Buyers

Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas. ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance

Potter

1929-04-20 0

Frozen River

Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In characteristic fashion, Rinty braves the elements to rescue heroine Jane from the villains, a gang ...
Genre :Adventure, Family

Frank

1921-09-01 0

For Those We Love

Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 dollars that his father was responsible for. Berenic ...
Genre :Romance

'Slip' Blaney

1924-04-27 0

Those Who Dance

A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang. ...
Genre :Drama

Boss McQuarg

1922-09-01 0

Skin Deep

The plot concerns a war hero who returns home determined to give up his old ways as a crook. Bud Doyle (Milton Sills) is still being hounded by the cops, and both his wife (Marcia Nanon) and a former ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Banker Rand

1924-01-27 0

Not a Drum Was Heard

Jack Mills comes to the aid of a friend, Bud Loupel (William Scott), who has robbed a bank to keep up his house payments. ...
Genre :Western

The Police Sergeant

1922-05-08 5.2

The Trap

A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine. ...
Genre :Drama

Sneaky Pete

1922-02-01 0

The Greater Duty

When Bill Hinchley is wrongfully imprisoned his wife, Mary, becomes a schoolteacher out of necessity concealing from the school trustees that she is the wife of a convict. Sneaky Pete, Bill's cellmate ...
Genre :Western

Uncle Henry Burroughs

1918-04-15 6

Mr. Fix-It

A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Basil Courtrey (uncredited)

1922-04-02 3

The Crimson Challenge

In the cattle town of Lost Valley, Buck Courtrey, saloon owner and political boss, covets Tharon, daughter of Jim Last, a small rancher; and when rebuffed, he has Last killed. Tharon swears revenge wi ...
Genre :Western

Shad Donlin

1926-06-20 0

The Frontier Trail

Dolly Mainard, en route to her father, a major at Fort Blaine, is escorted through dangerous Sioux territory by a cavalry detachment and Army scout Jim Cardigan. When Captain Blackwell offends some br ...
Genre :Western

John Falloner

1925-12-13 0

The Man from Red Gulch

In the days of the California Gold Rush of '49, Sandy is at odds with his partner, Falloner, over the latter's heavy drinking. ...
Genre :Western

McQuade

1929-08-25 0

Points West

Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death. ...
Genre :Western

Joe

1930-10-30 4.5

A Soldier's Plaything

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, War

Captain Stevens

1936-06-20 5.8

The Border Patrolman

When a border patrolman catches their spoiled daughter smoking in a no-smoking area, parents hire him to watch over her. She then runs over to Mexico and gets involved with jewel thieves and he has to ...
Genre :Western

Mark Lezzard

1923-12-20 5

Hoodman Blind

John Linden, a victim of wanderlust, jumbles up his life and that of his two daughters. One is a daughter by marriage, the other an offspring of Jessie Walton, a young woman of the village. Noting the ...
Genre :Drama

John Bartlett

1918-09-09 5.5

He Comes Up Smiling

Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill Minden

1915-12-19 0

Jordan Is a Hard Road

A bandit reforms himself and gives up his baby into better hands. Years later, he attempts to reunite with his daughter without revealing who he is. ...
Genre :Drama

'Bull' Madden

1917-09-29 4.8

The Man from Painted Post

In order to find out who's behind a cattle rustling operation that's hurting ranchers, a detective for the Cattleman's Protective Association pretends to be a tenderfoot from back east who's just arri ...
Genre :Western, Comedy, Romance

Grand Duke Sarzeau

1919-09-01 5.8

His Majesty, the American

A European prince is raised in America without knowing his true identity; he spends his time thrill-seeking, but his country needs him when a revolt threatens the crown. ...
Genre :Romance, Adventure, Comedy

Black Boris

1917-11-16 5.8

Reaching for the Moon

A button factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he is indeed the only heir to the throne ...
Genre :Adventure

Bill

1932-01-15 5.1

Girl of the Rio

A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Jeff Moffitt

1931-02-01 4.833

Fighting Caravans

Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson (Ernest Torrence) and Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) talk a sympathetic Fr ...
Genre :Action, Western, Romance

Mayor Jim Robbins

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

Chin-de-dah

1917-12-30 5.2

A Modern Musketeer

A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Western

Jim

1938-12-11 4

King of the Sierras

An unusual film in that it was composed of new film footage tacked onto an original film produced by M. H. Hoffman Sr. and Jr.,and never released because of the collapse and merger of the Hoffman's Li ...
Genre :Western

General Sheridan

1930-11-08 5.4

Abraham Lincoln

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd ...
Genre :History, Drama

Luke Stevens

1930-08-31 3

The Last of the Duanes

Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of the outlaw Bland. In rescuing Ruth, he becomes enta ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Romance, Western

Lew Hervey

1922-08-19 0

Just Tony

A cowboy seeks revenge against the man who shot him in a bar-room brawl. While searching for him, he comes across a wild stallion that he is determined to capture and break, and unknowingly falls in l ...
Genre :Western

Buck Brent

1925-03-08 0

The Saddle Hawk

Ben Johnson, a sheepherder who hates sheep, is instructed by his employer, Vasquez, to escort beautiful Rena Newhall to her father's ranch. On the journey, Rena is abducted by Zach Marlin, who takes h ...
Genre :Western

Coach Driver Steve

1936-03-17 4.2

Robin Hood of El Dorado

In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta rev ...
Genre :Action, History, Western, Romance

Frisco

1935-08-23 5.3

Hop-a-long Cassidy

An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while helping a gang to rustle the cattle. Each cattleman blames the other for missing cattle. With the h ...
Genre :Western

Stampede Smith

1924-09-14 0

The Alaskan

An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state. ...
Genre :Drama

Judge Voris

1920-11-21 5.2

The Life of the Party

An attorney is thrust into wild adventures by an attractive young woman. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

U. S. Marshal G. Masters

1938-02-16 4

The Painted Trail

Tom Keene, formerly George Duryea and latterly Richard Powers, made his final starring appearance in the Monogram western The Painted Trail. Keene is cast as a former federal agent who is drawn out of ...
Genre :Romance, Western

Kit Kress

1936-12-20 0

Empty Saddles

Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch. ...
Genre :Western

Raymond

1929-06-29 0

The Gamblers

A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doesn't belong to him and is indicted on a swindling charge. The plot gets spicy when the District Atto ...
Genre :Drama

Officer

1929-08-05 4.8

Say It with Songs

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the ...
Genre :Music

Man in the Store

1940-02-25 3.5

Murder on the Yukon

Unknown to Joan Manning, her trading post partner Weathers is operating a counterfeiting ring. When miner Jim Smithers brings his gold dust in, Weathers pays him off in counterfeit money. Jim's drunke ...
Genre :Western, Adventure, Mystery, Action

Hank

1930-12-27 3.8

Captain Thunder

A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. ...
Genre :Western, Drama, Adventure, Music

Cowhand Ike Bowlaigs

1937-09-04 5.2

Black Aces

When Len Stoddard wins Ted Ames ranch in a poker game he sends his brother Jake along with Ted to take over the ranch. When Jake is found murdered he offers a reward for the capture of Ted who now is ...
Genre :Western

Cameron MacDonald

1923-11-18 5.6

North of Hudson Bay

On a steamboat heading North, where his brother has struck gold, Mike Dane falls in love with Estelle MacDonald. When he arrives at the Canadian trading post, Dane learns that his brother has been mur ...
Genre :Action, Western

Mark Drake

1919-12-28 6.8

When the Clouds Roll By

Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands o ...
Genre :Romance, Action, Comedy

1921-11-03 0

The Sin of Martha Queed

Due to a misunderstanding, and the vicious streak of her relative David Boyd, Martha Queed is believed to be involved in an illicit affair with Arnold Barry. Her small-minded father, Marvin, insists t ...
Genre :Drama

Scrubby

1933-12-08 0

Smoky

Rodeo star forms a strong bond with the noble horse he took from the wilds and trained. Unfortunately, they end up on different life paths and are separated. When at last they are reunited, the cowboy ...
Genre :Western

Extra (uncredited)

1916-09-04 7.1

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

Jim Canby

1924-02-11 0

Battling Bunyan

A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sheriff Henry Peters

1930-01-30 5

Trifles

The Sheriff and County Prosecutor come to an isolated country farm where a woman killed her husband, attempting to gather evidence. Only their wives are able to solve the mystery, which they decide to ...
Genre :Drama

Detective Jackson

1923-03-17 0

The Isle of Lost Ships

A likely lost film. The passengers on an ocean steamer guided by a strict captain are shipwrecked. He gives the main woman in the group 24 hours to choose her mate from among the motley community. ...
Genre :Drama

Senor Cordoza

1926-02-22 0

Sea Horses

Helen Salvia sets sail with her 4-year-old daughter for Panda, an isolated East African port, where she expects to join her Italian husband, Lorenzo, who deserted her a year after their marriage. Coch ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Spanish Joe

1918-02-25 0

Headin' South

A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth in search of Spanish Joe (Campeau), a Mexican resp ...
Genre :Western

The Villain

1918-06-16 0

Say! Young Fellow

A lost film. "The Young Fellow"(Fairbanks), has recently been hired as a cub newspaper reporter for the New York Herald. His editor tasks him with unearthing "the facts concerning a scheme to defraud ...
Genre :Comedy

Basha El Harib

1918-07-28 0

Bound in Morocco

A lost film. George Travelwell (Fairbanks), an American youth motoring in Morocco, discovers that the governor of El Harib (Frank Campeau) has seized a young American woman for his harem. Disguised as ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Crooked Sheriff

1919-05-25 6

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

A lost film. Teddy Drake is a pleasure-seeking aristocrat who ends up expelled from his exclusive Fifth Avenue club for playing practical jokes and other rambunctious antics. He decides to reform his ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Western

David Arnold

1916-01-23 0

The Wood Nymph

A silent drama film directed by Paul Powell ...
Genre :Drama

Frank Healy

1926-08-29 0

No Man's Gold

A dying prospector divides the map to his gold mine into three parts: one for the outlaw who shot him, one for comedy sidekick Harry Grippe, and the third to hero Tom Stone. Tom must care for the mine ...
Genre :Western, Action, Adventure, Romance

Sheriff Brooks

1930-11-28 3.7

Lightnin'

Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' ...
Genre :Comedy

Surviving Wagon Driver

1938-02-25 0

Border Wolves

Just after Carson's gang murder members of a wagon train, Rusty and Clem come along and are arrested. Knowing they are innocent Judge Coleman breaks them out and sends them after Carson. They join Car ...
Genre :Western, Music

Blue

1923-09-23 0

To the Last Man

Feuding ranchers and sheepherders. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Mr. Bancroft

1925-12-14 0

The Golden Cocoon

The story of a much put-upon woman who becomes involved with a professor of political economy only to be thrown over by him for the daughter of a wealthy businessman. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Henry Hooper

1921-01-30 0

The Killer

Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Con ...
Genre :Western

Lemonade Vendor (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

Man Chasing Cisco (uncredited)

1928-12-25 5.3

In Old Arizona

Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not re ...
Genre :Western

Edward Sanderson

1923-01-07 0

Three Who Paid

Three Who Paid is a 1923 American silent Western melodrama film directed by Colin Campbell, and starring Dustin Farnum, with Bessie Love and Frank Campeau. The film was based on the 1922 short story b ...
Genre :Western

Ulysses S. Grant Impersonator (Uncredited)

1921-03-06 5.9

The Nut

Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to help children from poor neighbourhoods. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Romance

'Dice' McAllister

1917-02-25 4

The Heart of Texas Ryan

To get in the good graces of his rancher boss’s daughter, cowboy Single Shot captures a cattle raider but then gets kidnapped by his gang of thieves. ...
Genre :Western, Romance

Buck Marshall

1926-01-01 0

The Prince of Broadway

"The Prince of Broadway" George Burke, heavyweight boxing champion of the world, trains by drinking and dancing all night. After he is knocked out, his manager tears up his contract and tells him he i ...
Genre :Drama

Andrew Morphy

1926-10-24 0

Whispering Wires

A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Jehosephat Smith

1931-12-01 0

Lasca of the Rio Grande

A Texas Ranger who loves a dance hall girl must bring her in when she is charged with murder. ...
Genre :Western

Tardiff

1922-01-15 0

The Lane That Had No Turning

Louis Racine has inherited great wealth and married famed singer Madelinette, whom he passionately loves. But Louis carries a pair of secrets. Terrified that the truth will come out, Louis dares any ...
Genre :Drama

Don Fernando

1923-02-15 0

The Spider and the Rose

In Southern California during the Mexican regime, Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, returns home to find that his father's secretary, Mendozza, has seized power. The coup arouses the ange ...
Genre :Adventure

1923-10-22 0

The Meanest Man in the World

Richard Clark is a kind lawyer who decides to get tough after losing all his clients, but he discovers it's not that easy to be mean. ...
Genre :Comedy

Jerry Smallbones

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The Yosemite Trail

Cousins Jim and Ned Thorpe are best friends, but that comes to an end when they both vie for the affections of Eve Marsham, and Ned wins her. Jim leaves for South America, but when he returns some tim ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Western

Mr. Flynn

1923-09-15 0

Modern Matrimony

Chester Waddington secretly marries society girl Patricia Flynn, a fact that is revealed at a party celebrating her engagement to another suitor. A brawl ensues. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Old Skin Full

1927-05-29 0

The Heart of the Yukon

A girl, Anita Wayne, finds herself an heiress of her mother's estate, but learns that her father lives in Alaska. Determined to find her father she travels to a mining town in the Klondike, but runs i ...
Genre :Adventure