James A. Marcus

James A. Marcus

Nacimiento : 1867-01-21, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1937-10-15

Perfil

James A. Marcus

Películas

The Wrong Road
Parole Board Member (uncredited)
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
Maid of Salem
Sea Captain (Uncredited)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
The Cattle Thief
Cal Pierson
Ken, sent to investigate cattle rustlers, poses as a peddler during the day but the Masked Rider at night.
The Lonely Trail
Mayor
A pesar de que luchó por el Norte en la Guerra Civil, el Gobernador de Texas le pide a John que se deshaga de algunos de los molestos ladrones de alfombras. Pide la ayuda de Holden antes de saber que Holden también está saqueando a la gente local.
La voz irresistible
Ed Armstrong (uncredited)
Sprinfield Davis es un experto cazador de zorros en los Ozarks, y cuenta con un fiel socio: el leal perro llamado Bugle Ann. Pero las cosas empiezan a cambiar en esa zona campestre cuando un pastor casquivano decide levantar una valla alrededor de sus rebaños de ovejas, anunciando además que le pegará un tiro al primer perro que se acerque...
Barco a la deriva
Warden
Mientras que el sobrino del doctor John Pearly debe juntarse con su tío para navegar sobre el Mississipi en un viejo barco a vapor, es arrestado por el crimen de un hombre que le impedía marcharse con Fleety Belle, con la que tenía la intención de casarse. El joven hombre es condenado al ahorcamiento. El doctor intentará todo para salvar a su sobrino...
Western Frontier
Marshal Bat Manning
Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now grown, is sent after the outlaw known as the Golden hair Girl only to find that she's his long lost sister.
La vida comienza a los cuarenta
Townsman in Print Shop
Un periodista (Will Rogers) vence a un banquero y limpia el nombre de un joven (Richard Cromwell) acusado de robo.
Red Morning
The Hotel Keeper
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
El largo camino
Brother of John Ball
En la frontera de Estados Unidos con Canadá, un sheriff ha de encontrar a una mujer perdida y una mina de oro. Su misión se verá alterada por un peligroso grupo de bandidos...
Honor of the Range
Turner
After Sheriff Ken puts money in the safe, his brother Clem gives Rawhide the combination. With the money gone the disgruntled townsmen make Boots Sheriff and lock up Ken. Clem, now a prisoner of Rawhide, has a change of heart and sends Ken a message with the outlaw's location. Ken escapes by impersonating the saloon entertainer and rides for the hangout.
El potro indomable
Big Jim Edwards
Las yeguas que Jim Edwards está perdiendo se atribuyen a un caballo salvaje cuando en realidad es su capataz Hawkins. El coronel Bownlee ofrece su rancho a cualquiera que pueda montar este palomino salvaje. Ken acepta el desafío y también busca al verdadero ladrón.
King of the Arena
Colonel Hiller
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
Adorable
Cook General
Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.
The Lone Avenger
Jud Winters
A prominent banker commits suicide. His son thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.
The Man from Arizona
Judge McSweeney (as James Marcus)
A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train. The cowboy sets out to find the bandit gang and clear his friend's name.
Mason of the Mounted
U.S. Marshal
Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence. He befriends young Andy and when Calhoun hits Andy, Mason and Calhoun fight. In the scuffle Calhoun's watch with the missing chain is dislodged. Mason then sets out to bring in Calhoun and his gang.
Vanishing Men
Baker (as James Marcus)
Heck Claibourne has been involving young Russ Whitely in his cattle rustling schemes, and when they are nearly caught by Sheriff Doug Barrett and deputy O'Hara, their cohort, Luke, shoots and kills O'Hara.
Hell's House
Charles Thompson
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
El doctor Arrowsmith
Old Doctor (uncredited)
Martin Arrowsmith es un joven e idealista doctor que, tras graduarse, se ve obligado a renunciar a un puesto como investigador con el prestigioso Dr. Max Gottlieb para casarse con la enfermera Leora Tozer. Regresa a su hogar natal en el campo, estableciendo una pequeña consulta, y en su tiempo libre desarrollará un suero para detener una mortal plaga del ganado.
Land of Wanted Men
Judge
A cowboy takes a job as sheriff in a small town and finds that one of his first jobs is trying to stop trouble between newly arrived sheepmen and local cattle ranchers, who don't want the sheep grazing on "their" range.
Billy el niño :  El terror de la pradera
William P. Donovan
Después de vengar a su jefe, Billy el niño es perseguido y posteriormente capturado por el sheriff Pat Garret. No obstante, el forajido consigue fugarse para huir en dirección a México, reanudando una vez más la cacería, ¿será la definitiva?. ---------------------- En esta versión de la leyenda de Billy the Kid, Billy, después de derribar a los secuaces del barón de la tierra William Donovan por matar al jefe de Billy, es perseguido y capturado por su amigo, el sheriff Pat Garrett. Se escapa y se dirige a México cuando Garrett, recapturándolo, debe decidir si lo trae o lo deja ir.
Liliom
Linzman
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
Back Pay
Judge
Hester Bevins está aburrida de Gerald, que la ama, aburrida de los grandes almacenes Finley, y aburrida de Demopolis. Ella sale de la ciudad con un vendedor ambulante llamado Bloom y la ropa que lleva puesta. Van a Nueva York, donde se muda a la amante del Sr. Wheeler y está bien cuidada. Cuando la pandilla decide irse de vacaciones a Lake Placid, dejan a Hester en Demopolis para ver cómo se ve el casco antiguo después de cuatro años. Ve a Gerald y él piensa que es una mujer de carrera exitosa y todavía quiere casarse con ella. Pero nunca sucederá, por lo que Gerald se une al ejército para luchar en la Gran Guerra.
Todo un hombre
Sheriff John Brown
Después de matar a un jugador en defensa propia, un bandido apodado "Llano Kid", viendo que ponen precio a su cabeza, se refugia en casa de una familia mexicana.
Captain of the Guard
Marnay
A captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.
Evangeline
Basil
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.
In Holland
Comedy short.
The Border Patrol
Capt. Bonham (as James Marcus)
Texas Ranger Bill Storm is sent to El Paso to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters thought to be working there and, on the way, gives a ride to New York socialite Beverly Dix, whose car has been wrecked on the road to El Paso. Bill quickly comes to suspect Earl Hanway and Lefty Waterman of passing bad bills; taking Beverly's father into his confidence, Bill identifies the counterfeiting plant, arrests Hanway and Waterman, and finds himself with his arms full of Beverly.
Isle of Lost Men
Malay Pete (as James Marcus)
The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers.
Revenge
Costa (as James Marcus)
Rascha, the wild daughter of Costa, the Gypsy bear tamer, swears revenge on Jorga, her father's enemy, when he cuts off her braids (a sign of disgrace among the Gypsies).
Buck Privates
Maj. Hartman
Pvt. Smith, an American soldier stationed in a German town during the occupation of Germany after World War I, falls in love with the daughter of the town's leading citizen. The problem is that his sworn enemy, Sgt. Butts, also has designs on the girl. Butts comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition and get the girl for himself, but things don't go quite the way he planned.
Sadie Thompson
Joe Horn
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
The Broken Mask
Maurice Armato
Pertio, an Argentine dancer, has a severely scarred face that has kept him from succeeding in his chosen career. He is persuaded by Caricia, an Argentine dancer who has become a star, to have a plastic surgeon repair his face. The surgery is successful and the two dancers team up both professionally and personally. However, the doctor who performed the operation has fallen madly in love with Caricia, and his determination to have her leads him to perform a procedure on Pertio that makes his scars reappear.
The Beauty Shoppers 1927
This film was released in 1927
The Valley of the Giants
Mayor
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
The Meddlin' Stranger
'Big Bill' Dawson (as James Marcus)
Popular B-Western hero Wally Wales (later known as Hal Taliaferro) went up against none other than Boris Karloff in this primitive silent oater from poverty row studio Action Pictures.
Captain Salvation
Old Sea Salt
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
Sopa de pato
Colonel Buckshot (uncredited)
Huyendo de un grupo de guardabosques, que están reuniendo vagabundos para servir de bomberos, se refugian en una mansión. El propietario se ha ido de vacaciones y los sirvientes están ausentes, por lo que Hardy pretende ser el propietario y le ofrece alquilar la casa a una pareja inglesa. Hardy consigue que Laurel se haga pasar por la criada. Desafortunadamente, el propietario regresa y le dice a los posibles inquilinos que él es el propietario de la casa; Laurel y Hardy luego huyen de nuevo y son atrapados por los guardabosques y obligados a combatir incendios forestales.
The Bachelor's Baby
Colonel Carter
Directed by Frank R. Strayer. With Helene Chadwick, Harry Myers, Midget Gustav, Edith Murgatroyd.
The Scarlet Letter
A Sea Captain
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 to their child and is the focus of local censure.
The Eagle of the Sea
Dominique
Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a bold American pirate captain who proves to be putty in the hands of New Orleans belle Louise Lestron (Florence Vidor).
The Lily
Emile Plock (as James Marcus)
The Texas Streak
Colonel Hollis
Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.
Siberia
Andrei Vronsky
Officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Petroff, is in love with Sonia, a schoolteacher who casts her lot with revolutionaries. During a time of suppression, she is exiled with her brother to Siberia. There Petroff is sent in the discharge of his official duties and secretly renews their romance. When the Bolsheviki overthrow the government, Sonia is freed and aids in the escape of Petroff, who incurs the enmity of Egor, the revolutionary leader, because he is a royalist. Together they escape across the frozen wastes in a sledge, pursued by wolves and Egor, who has used patriotism as a cloak to conceal personal ambitions.
All Around Frying Pan
The Sheriff
Wondering cowboy Bart Andrews (played by Fred Thompson) gets arrested simply because a crooked sheriff is short on men for his chain gang. A chance visit to a rodeo on the way to jail, gives Bart a chance to demonstrate his bronco-busting skills, which results in the sheriff caving to pressure from a group of cowboys, to allow Bart to work on ranch, rather than joining the road gang. Finding himself in the right place at the right time, Bart is able to prevent the theft of a train full of cattle, but later ends up being accused of killing a station agent when he interrupts the ranch foreman robbing an express office. Bart is eventually able to bring the foreman to justice, and in a surprise twist, it turns out that he was in fact the real owner of the ranch he was working at!
El águila negra
Kyrilla Troekouroff
Cuando Vladimir Dubrovsky rehúsa convertirse en amante de la zarina Catalina II, ésta, herida en su orgullo, lo acusa de ser un criminal y ordena que lo capturen vivo o muerto. Las propiedades de la familia Dubrovsky son inmediatamente confiscadas y entregadas a Kyrilla Troekouroff, un hombre cruel que provoca la muerte del padre de Vladimir. Cuando éste se entera, jura vengarse y, para ello, se oculta tras un antifaz negro y actúa con el apodo de Águila Negra. Para ejecutar su venganza, se disfraza de preceptor y entra en la casa de Troekouroff como profesor de francés de Mascha, la hija de su enemigo. Pero sus planes se tambalean cuando empieza a enamorarse de la joven.
Corazón intrépido
Judge Maynard
Esta película es la historia de un niño y una niña de un pueblo pequeño. El héroe, Denny Bolton, golpea al matón de la ciudad solo para encontrarse con él más tarde en el ring de boxeo en la ciudad de Nueva York. La ambición lo ha llevado a Broadway, pero la búsqueda del amor lo devuelve a la calle principal de su ciudad natal.
The Isle of Hope
Captain Duffy
A ship captain's beautiful daughter and a wealthy playboy who is searching for buried treasure find themselves stranded on a desert island.
Dick Turpin
Squire Crabtree
In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart from a terrible marriage.
El caballo de hierro
Judge Haller
Considerada la mejor película de la época muda de John Ford, un western alrededor del ferrocarril y el espíritu pionero de los Estados Unidos de América. El presidente Lincoln ha autorizado la construcción de un enlace entre las líneas ferroviarias de la Union Pacific y la Central Pacific. Un contratista (Will Walling) y un topógrafo (George O´Brien) emprenden viaje con el objetivo de trazar la ruta idónea, pero, aunque logran localizar un paso montañoso que permitiría el establecimiento de una conexión mucho más rápida de lo que se había esperado, el riesgo de que los nativos ataquen a los trabajadores amenaza con dar al traste con el ambicioso proyecto.
Beau Brummel
Snodgrass the Innkeeper
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
The Acquittal
Judge
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
Scaramouche
Binet
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
The Strangers' Banquet
Braithwaite
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
Oliver Twist
Mr. Bumble
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thieves who befriend him for their own purposes. All the while, there are secrets from Oliver's family history waiting to come to light. Written by Snow Leopard
Come on Over
Carmody (as James Marcus)
Shane O'Mealia leaves Ireland, promising to send for his sweetheart, Moyna. In the mean time the son of the old lady she lives with, takes them back to America without telling Shane, who then must explain a girl he's been seeing in New York.
El pequeño Lord Fauntleroy
Hobbs
l joven Cedric Errol vive con su madre viuda en la ciudad de Nueva York. El difunto padre de Cedric era un hijo del conde de Dorincourt, pero el conde se había opuesto firmemente a la boda de su hijo, y por lo tanto se ha distanciado de Cedric y su madre. Pero cuando el hijo único superviviente del conde muere en un accidente de equitación, Cedric repente se convierte en Lord Fauntleroy, heredero del conde. Cedric y su madre viajan a Inglaterra, donde se tienen que superar duros sentimientos del conde sobre el pasado, así como algunos obstáculos inesperados. (filmaffinit)
Serenade
Pepuso
In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When the town is captured by brigands led by Ramírez, the governor is deposed, and Don Domingo Maticas is appointed in his place. Ramón, son of the new governor, becomes infatuated with María. She repulses him, but he is encouraged by her mother.
Headin' Home
Simon Tobin
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
Evangeline
Basil
In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown Evangeline follows the exiled men in hopes of finding her beloved, but even after he and the other Acadians are released in Louisiana, she cannot find him, always arriving at some locale just after he has departed. But she dedicates her life to searching the continent for the man she loves.
On the Jump
William Desmond (as James Marcus)
In this propaganda film, athletic silent star George Walsh plays reporter Jack Bartlett, who interviews President Wilson regarding the Fourth Liberty Loan. The story never appears in the paper, however, because its new owner, Otto Crumley, is pro-German. So Jack quits his job and begins canvassing for the Liberty Loans. In the midst of his vigorous campaigning he also halts Crumley's plans to inspire a strike at a munitions plant.
The Prussian Cur
Patrick O'Grady
A German spy who is married to Lillian, the sister of Rosie O'Grady.
The Conqueror
Jumbo
The life of Sam Houston, soldier, statesman, patriot and one of the founders of the Republic of Texas, is depicted.
The Honor System
Gov. John Hunter
A potentially lost film, this film tells the story of a man is convicted unjustly of a crime and then subjected to inhumane torment in a prison run by corrupt administrators.
The Serpent
Ivan Lazar
Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.
Carmen
Dancaire
A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her leads to his ruin.
The Regeneration
Jim Conway
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.