John Larkin
Birth : 1879-01-01, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Death : 1936-03-18
History
John Larkin was born in 1879 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He was a Negro actor, known for Hearts Divided (1936), The Wet Parade (1932) and Sporting Blood (1931). He died on March 18, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Ebony
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
Mose (uncredited)
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
Deacon
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
Rumbo
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 brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceƩ's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
Fisherman (uncredited)
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
Porter (uncredited)
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Negro at Jockey Club
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
Train Porter
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
The Porter
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 a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Black Trusty (uncredited)
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Eph
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
Train Conductor with Telegram
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
Jed
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.
Jeff (uncredited)
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
Lucifer Jones
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
Moses
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
Porter with Ticket for Ruth (uncredited)
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Train Station Porter (uncredited)
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
Uncle Ben
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
Black Waiter Aboard Yacht (uncredited)
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.