Tammany Young

AKA:
0.4898

1886-09-09

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {83}

1923-12-15 0

A Bride for a Knight

While having dental work done, Jimmy inhales too much gas and begins believing that he is a detective. He sets out to capture a gang of thieves who robbed Jean's uncle's bank. ...
Genre :Comedy

1930-12-06 0

Model Women

An insight into the gossip among window mannequins as they come to life when no one's watching. ...
Genre :

The Smiler

1921-02-28 0

The Right Way

Two young boys get in trouble with the law and wind up in prison. One, who was raised in poverty in the slums, goes to a reformatory and picks up tips on how to become a master criminal. ...
Genre :Drama

Tick

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

Bill Hawks

1925-06-07 0

The White Monkey

Two hundred fifty thousand have read this startling novel with its revelations on married life-its intimate story of the times and follies of new conventions that hurl their challenge to the old! ...
Genre :Drama

Slug, a Movie Patron (uncredited)

1933-12-09 6.943

Lady Killer

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Everett Ricks

1934-11-30 6.279

It's a Gift

After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the ne ...
Genre :Comedy

Dan Hicks

1919-11-16 0

Lure of Ambition

Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness. Sadly, Bara, who had more or less single-handedly begun the "vamp" cr ...
Genre :Romance

Clarkie

1935-06-15 6.4

The Glass Key

When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Chuck Connors

1933-02-09 5.829

She Done Him Wrong

New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t ex ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Chauffeur

1922-06-01 0

John Smith

Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social secretary, but is reluctant to tell her about his past. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bugs (uncredited)

1934-06-01 6.4

Little Miss Marker

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for hi ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

'Willie' the Weasel

1935-08-03 6.063

Man on the Flying Trapeze

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences. ...
Genre :Comedy

1922-12-27 0

Women Men Marry

When he loses both his wife and child, Montgomery Rogers adopts his servants' little girl and raises her as his own. Completely unaware of her origins, Emerie grows up to be a first class snob. Her so ...
Genre :Drama

Caddy

1934-04-06 6.25

You're Telling Me!

Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof ...
Genre :Comedy

Onlooker (uncredited)

1914-02-02 5.682

Making a Living

A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper. ...
Genre :Comedy

Crook

1925-09-03 0

The Wrongdoers

Philanthropical druggist Daniel Abbott, occasionally robs the rich to take care of the poor, goes to court with his young ward, Jimmy Nolan. In the courtroom Daniel meets Mrs. Warren, who, despondent ...
Genre :Drama

Doorman (uncredited)

1931-08-21 5

What Price Pants

The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal shenanigans. Charlie Dale is the greedy owner of a sweatshop pants factory, and Joe Smith is his unde ...
Genre :Comedy

Bull (uncredited)

1930-12-06 4.5

Follow the Leader

A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her opportunity, as the understudy, to play the role a ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Barfly

1931-12-10 6.7

The Struggle

A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism. ...
Genre :Drama

Todd

1934-12-23 0.5

The Mighty Barnum

20th Century Fox's highly fabricated film biography of circus showman P. T. Barnum stars Wallace Beery (as Barnum), Virginia Bruce (as Jenny Lind), Janet Beecher and Adolphe Menjou. Released in 1934. ...
Genre :Comedy

Johnny Tweed

1918-12-22 0

The Racing Strain

Lucille Cameron, the spirited daughter of a Kentucky colonel, discovers that her father is nearly bankrupt as a result of his dealings with New York horseman and stock promoter Jim De Luce.... ...
Genre :Drama

Orlando

1933-02-03 7.4

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum

A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt. ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Man in Sam's Tent (uncredited)

1933-05-13 4.8

Lilly Turner

One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer. ...
Genre :Drama

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

1933-09-29 5

Stage Mother

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Jerry

1930-02-15 4.5

Roadhouse Nights

Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood. ...
Genre :Drama

Shif'less

1933-08-04 7.25

Tugboat Annie

Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her conscientious son, Alec. Annie continually loses business ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Self (archive footage)

2006-03-21 4.9

Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound

Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals. ...
Genre :Documentary

Extra (uncredited)

1916-09-04 7.057

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

Thug

1936-08-01 4.5

To Mary - with Love

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together. ...
Genre :Drama

Marmaduke Gump

1934-07-13 7.1

The Old-Fashioned Way

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Bill

1914-10-25 4.8

Bill Joins the W.W.W.'s

Office boy Bill encounters a group of anarchists and inadvertently involves one of them in a scheme to open a safe. The "W.W.W.'s" stands for "We Won't Work", a comedic take on the real-life labor mov ...
Genre :Comedy

Ralph Lewis

1935-09-07 6

Little Big Shot

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Spike

1925-12-27 7

Womanhandled

Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gol ...
Genre :Western, Adventure, Comedy

Donald Peabody

1922-02-06 6.2

The Seventh Day

A group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion are forced to put into a New England fishing village for repairs. The engaged couple Reggie and Patricia are taken with the quaint town and its ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Gigolo Eddie (uncredited)

1933-05-27 7.185

Gold Diggers of 1933

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Self (archive footage)

1975-08-06 6.1

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression. ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Crook

1915-08-01 0

The Foundling

Molly O, a young girl abandoned by her wealthy painter father, David King, after her mother's death; she endures an orphanage and a cruel boardinghouse before her father, remorseful and famous, unknow ...
Genre :Drama

Crook

1916-01-03 0

The Foundling

Rich artist David King sends his infant daughter Molly to an orphanage, then years later regrets it and tries to find her. She's sent to slave at a boarding house,and the mistress of the orphanage pas ...
Genre :Drama

Push Miller

1919-08-24 0

Checkers

Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order to save someone he loves from disaster. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

(Undetermined Role)

1917-08-17 0

The Amazons

Three sisters, all raised as boys, have trouble fitting into male-dominated society. ...
Genre :Comedy

Stump Rogers

1926-03-21 0

The Highbinders

Author David Marshall is sandbagged by holdup men and loses his memory. He finds his way to a bookshop run by his friend Ladd, who takes him in with the hope of helping him to regain his memory. David ...
Genre :Drama

Shif'less in 'Tugboat Annie' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1964-09-02 6.3

The Big Parade of Comedy

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history. ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary

Crook

1916-03-20 0

The Lost Bridegroom

Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bartender (uncredited)

1935-05-31 6.111

Public Hero Number 1

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Di ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Pickpocket (uncredited)

1925-03-15 0

The Heart of a Siren

This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut. ...
Genre :Drama

The Bowery Man

1919-07-02 5

The Lost Battalion

World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help b ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

Tout at Owen's Place (Uncredited)

1935-07-13 5

Don't Bet on Blondes

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

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

Paducah

1935-09-09 5

Wanderer of the Wasteland

Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Romance, Western

Useless

1921-09-09 0

The Man Worthwhile

Chorus girl Peggy Malone marries press agent Jimmy Parsons but faces hardship when her shiftless family moves in, causing Jimmy to fall ill and go West for health. Peggy follows, becomes a film star, ...
Genre :Drama

Yokel in the Old Army Game

1925-08-01 6.1

Sally of the Sawdust

Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Professor McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

1928-09-08 0

Two Masters

Lenora, caught in Spanish-Dutch conflict, becomes a spy, initially against the Dutch for her Spanish lover Ramón, but after his death, switches allegiance, helps the Dutch capture a fortress, and is r ...
Genre :Drama

1924-11-23 0

Flying Fists

A series of six boxing dramas, each a complete story in its own right. The episode titles are: #1: Intrusion; #2: Hit Hard; #3: Soft Muscles; #4: The Return; #5: The Surprise Fight; #6: The Jazz Fight ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Benny's Trainer

1925-04-01 0

The Jazz Fight

In the gritty streets of Detroit, *The Jazz Fight* follows Benny "The Hammer" Leonard, a once-promising boxer whose career has been derailed by his own demons—alcoholism, anger, and a destructive past ...
Genre :Documentary

Benny's Trainer

1925-03-15 0

The Surprise Fight

Episode #5 in the Flying Fists series featuring real-life boxer Benny Leonard. ...
Genre :Documentary

Benny's Trainer

1925-03-01 0

The Come-Back

Talented boxer Benny Leonard suffers a series of personal and professional setbacks and must find the inner strength and physical discipline to return to the ring to reclaim his title and prove his wo ...
Genre :Action

Benny's Trainer

1925-02-15 0

Soft Muscles

Third installment of the "Flying Fists" silent series with boxer Benny Leonard in the lead. ...
Genre :Documentary

Benny's Trainer

1925-02-01 0

Hitting Hard

The second of six episodes in the "Flying Fists" boxing series sometimes listed as "Hit Hard" starring pugilist Benny Leonard. ...
Genre :Documentary

Benny's Trainer

1925-01-15 0

Breaking In

Part of a series based on Sam Hellman's "Flying Fists" stories, featuring real-life boxing champ Benny Leonard as a flyweight boxer, where he'd fight for glory, training and battling rivals as a boxin ...
Genre :Adventure, Action

Sam McGuire

1922-10-15 0

Till We Meet Again

Swindler Arthur Montrose has tricked Marion Bates into getting committed to an insane asylum, after cheating her and her friends out of all of their money. She escapes and winds up with a criminal gan ...
Genre :Drama

The Dancer's Husband

1915-08-13 0

Driven by Fate

When fate intervenes to prevent a pair of desperate young people from suicide they realize their love for each other and forge ahead together to rebuild their lives. ...
Genre :Drama

Bill

1914-12-20 0

Bill and Ethel at the Ball

A group of stenographers decide to host a ball and invite their boss, Mr. Hadley, as the guest of honor. The plot revolves around a mix-up involving masquerade costumes. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill

1914-07-19 0

How Bill Squared It with His Boss

Mr. Hadley shows Bill a photograph of his fiancée, Alice Mordaunt, and instructs Bill to admit her immediately should she arrive at the office. Bill leaves for lunch. Upon his return, he discovers his ...
Genre :Comedy

British Tommy

1922-10-08 0

When the Desert Calls

British bank cashier Eldred Caldwell lives with his wife on the edge of the Arabian desert. One day a man named Richard Manners appears at their doorstep. He has some incriminating information about E ...
Genre :Drama

Pool Hall Cashier

1935-10-25 5

Bad Boy

An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Bill the Cab Driver

1931-12-18 1

Taxi Tangle

Caught in a 5th Avenue traffic jam, as they are riding in side-by-side taxicab and limousine, Jack Benny (Jack Benny) and Helen Hunt (Francetta Malloy), engage in conversation that leads to a hasty ma ...
Genre :Comedy

1917-01-08 0

The Great Secret

A wealthy young athlete comes to the aid of a beautiful heiress, whose fortune is being threatened by two arch villains, The Great Master and Doctor Zulph. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Barbary Bennie

1925-11-01 0

Camille of the Barbary Coast

For the sake of a woman, Robert Morton serves a prison sentence and is disowned by his father, Henry. He is freed after several years and arrives in San Francisco, California, where he meets Camille B ...
Genre :Drama

Man on the Street

1934-04-09 0

I Believed in You

An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile th ...
Genre :Drama

Tony, the newsdealer

1931-03-28 5.7

A Broadway Romeo

Jack Benny, his finances at a low ebb, watches a newsstand for a friend and picks up a young lady customer, equally broke. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill

1914-11-22 0

Ethel Has a Steady

Silent comedy short film about Mr. Hadley's fiancée, Ethel, and her new "steady" relationship with a lunch counter employee named Bill. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill

1914-11-08 0

Ethel's Roof Party

Office worker Ethel decides to host a luncheon party on the office roof while her boss is away. Two male co-workers, Bill and his pal, decide they should be invited as well and join the party uninvite ...
Genre :Comedy

Bill - the Office Boy

1914-08-02 0

Bill Takes a Lady Out to Lunch... Never Again

Bill, an initially unkempt office boy, world is changed when he becomes infatuated with Genevieve Reilly, a girl working in a different office. Driven by his desire to attract her attention, Bill begi ...
Genre :Comedy

Fireman (uncredited)

1933-10-07 5

The Bowery

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Joe Kelly

1916-09-07 0

The Big Sister

A daughter of the slums has a little brother and makes a brave attempt to earn enough for both herself and Jimmy after her father is sent to jail on a fake charge trumped-up by "Nifty" Mendez, who is ...
Genre :Drama

Gang Leader

1927-02-26 0

Blind Alleys

Merchant marine Captain Dan Kirby arrives in New York City with his Cuban bride, María. Leaving his hotel to buy flowers, Dan forgets his billfold but meets Julio Lachados, a former admirer of María's ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Another Yeggman

1925-11-22 0

The Unguarded Hour

Bryce Gilbert convinces his daughter, Virginia, that she should not elope with a casual boyfriend and sends her to Italy to stay with his fiancée, Duchess Bianca. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

George Barrow

1927-01-23 0

The Perfect Sap

Wealthy young Herbert Alden, a would-be detective, is practicing housebreaking with his valet, an ex-convict, when he meets George and Polly, two real thieves; they are discovered and, following a cha ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Tour Guide (uncredited)

1933-11-25 4.3

The World Changes

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather. ...
Genre :Drama

Shorty Mulligan

1921-07-04 0

The Man Who

Bedford Mills, wounded in France, meets aristocratic Helen Jessop at a party given by her father for returning war heroes in his Fifth Avenue home. Bedford falls violently in love with Helen, but disc ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Racetrack Tout

1935-07-15 0

Champagne for Breakfast

Always-broke racetrack tout shows his true colors when setting up an apartment for his girl friend. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mac

1919-11-10 0

A Regular Girl

A wealthy young woman, unfulfilled in life, volunteers to work in the overseas war effort. But when she returns from the war, she finds her old life still holds little meaning for her. She rounds up a ...
Genre :Comedy