Jack Duffy

Jack Duffy

Nacimiento : 1882-09-04, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

Muerte : 1939-07-23

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Jack Duffy was born on September 4, 1882 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The Stage Hand (1920), Love Takes Flight (1937) and The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring (1916). He died on July 23, 1939 in Hollywood, California, USA.

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Jack Duffy

Películas

Love Takes Flight
Bartender
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
The Gold Racket
Hinkle
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.
Wild Brian Kent
Old-time fireman
Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Old Pirate
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.
El terror de Texas
Jake Abernathy
John Wayne interpreta a un sheriff que se ve obligado a renunciar a su cargo, tras la muerte de su mejor amigo. Con la llegada de la hija de su amigo, Wayne la ayudará con la labores del rancho, a la vez que indagará para descubrir a los culpables del asesinato.
She Couldn't Take It
Farmer
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Keystone Hotel
Man with Ear Trumpet
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigeous beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
Pop Goes the Easel
Bearded Man
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
The Dancing Millionaire
Dancing Academy Customer
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
Boys Will Be Boys
'Grandpa'
Frank Albertson's parents are worried about his seeing a showgirl instead of an "upstanding" young lady of class. But then Frank's father learns that the showgirl in question is the same one he himself has been flirting with. Eventually the whole family ends up at the nightclub, where the showgirl has a number of surprises in store for them.
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
Self
In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin. Then the master of ceremonies, Fredric March, brings on the various acts, starting with a pre-teen Mitzi Green), dressed as an adult and singing "Was That the Human Thing to Do?" , followed by Ginger Rogers and Jack Oakie singing-and-dancing to "The Girl Who Used to be You." Then the Three Brox Sisters do a triple imitation of Marlene Dietrich singing 'Falling in Love Again." 'Jack Duffy' does a drunken hillbilly bit involving a lamp post, the the finale has Eddie Peabody, playing a banjo for some chorus girls on a pedestal.
Doctor's Orders
Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy
Love in High Gear
Hotel Proprietor
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
The Freshman's Finish
At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in their bathing suits, while the freshmen and sophmores concentrate on higher things, like the motorboat race. So fierce is their rivalry that dean Jack Duffy decrees that the winner of the race and his classmates get to go to the dance, while the losers are barred. To prevent Carlyle Moore Jr. From winning, the sophmores force him to torment beat cop Vernon Dent and get thrown in jail. Will their perfidy prevail, and 30-year-old student Vera Steadman have to dance with a sophmore?
Sally
Roue
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Working as a waitress, she serves Blair (Alexander Gray), and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to socialite Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phoney. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has a show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.
Divorce Made Easy
Uncle Todd
A Wireless Lizzie
Grandpa Abner
Walter has invented an automatic remote-control for his jalopy. When a potential buyer comes to look it over, Walter proudly shows how he cam the car stop and go, turn corners and steer correctly. His spiteful rival, Bill, switches the plug and the car runs out of control. Walter and his sweetheart, Mary, plan to elope but they discuss their plans in front of an open microphone at the broadcast station, and Mary's father hears it and sets out to stop their elopement.
Are Scotchmen Tight
Sandy MacDuff
Two competitive Scotsmen are neighbours. Trouble starts when a tax inspector announces his imminent arrival, and the Scotsmen have to stash their expensive furniture. As soon as one succeeds in hiding every last stick, the other figures out where to put his. In his neighbour's now empty house!
Loose Change
Sandy MacDuff
A young woman decides to vamp her friend's husbands visiting Scottish uncle, but her scheme to trick him into marrying him backfires when her own husband catches on.
Say Uncle
Synopsis is unknown at this time, may be a lost film.
Love's Young Scream
The Mayor
Young lovers pursued by her father -- and then a series of sight gags based on the mayhem of their auto ride.
El hacha de la clase
Grandpop Teen
Farmboy Harold se muda a la ciudad y asiste a la escuela secundaria. Pronto es muy popular, su naturaleza enérgica causó mucho entusiasmo en el campus. Se une a una fraternidad, sale al fútbol y dirige su esfuerzo teatral de clase.
Long Hose
Jack Duffy had two skills that helped make him the lead in a nice series of short comedies in the 1920s: the usual ability to take one of the bone-breaking falls that slapstick called for and the ability to make himself up as an old coot, which gave him a nice character and made the pratfalls more impressive. In this one he manages to get himself tangled up coming down the pole at the fire station -- very amusing.
Chicken Feathers
Old Charley Kale
Comedy starring Jack Duffy and Anne Cornwall, featured in James Roots' 100 Essential Film Comedies
Ella Cinders
Fire Chief
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
Weak, But Willing
Nanny's Father
A devilish courtship.
Madame Behave
A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to the case of the plaintiff. He attracts the romantic attention of two old roués and one hot Broadway showgirl.
A Rarin’ Romeo
A 1925 comedy featuring Walter Hiers and Jack Duffy. A theater company does a unique presentation of the Shakespeare classic after consuming gasoline in their drinks.
Reckless Romance
The Brass Bowl
O'Hagan
After arriving unexpectedly at his country home, Dan Maitland discovers a young woman attempting to open his safe. She mistakes him for Anisty, a notorious thief who is Dan's double, and he gives her the jewels from the safe. Anisty appears, and there follow confusion and thrilling episodes in which Anisty is captured, escapes, and poses as Dan. Dan finally brings Anisty to justice and declares his love for Sylvia, who confesses she was searching Dan's safe to recover papers that might incriminate her father.
Court Plaster
Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
Grandpa's Girl
A 1924 Jack Duffy comedy. Jean manages to be expelled from college to be able to go to Europe with her grandfather. When he learns about that, grandpa disinherits Jean and starts looking for a grandson to replace her. Jean dresses as a boy, Oswald. Grandpa then tries to marry Oswald and test his new grandson’s strength.
La ley de la hospitalidad
Sam Gardner (uncredited)
Los Canfield y los McKay han heredado una enemistad que ha pasado de padres a hijos durante muchas generaciones. Pero, por caprichos del destino, Willie McKay (Buster Keaton) coge un tren en Nueva York, en el que conoce a Virginia Canfield (Natalie Talmadge)...
Jungle Pals
No Vacancies
An Old Goat
Arrow comedy shot in 1921 but released 2 years later, with an ensemble cast including Jay Belasco, Blanche Payson, Billy Armstrong and Jack Duffy. The plot centers around Jack and his wife who are looking for a place to rent. But what to do when the housing situation is not exactly easy?
365 Days
Grandpa
A very rich old man promises to leave his extended family his fortune if they all move in together and get along for one year.
The Bakery
Bit Part (uncredited)
Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.
Vecinos
The Judge (uncredited)
Las propiedades de dos familias están separadas por una endeble valla. A través de un agujerito de la misma, Buster Keaton, vástago de una familia, y una agraciada joven, hija de la otra familia, intercambian mensajes de amor. Esto va a dar pie a varios equívocos sobre quién ama a quién. Es sólo el comienzo de un montón de líos en que se mete Keaton, siempre con su cara impasible, y que además de tiznarle la cara, movilizan a todo un pelotón de policías hasta que las dos familias deben comparecer ante el juez.
The Stage Hand
The Hero
School Days
School Board Chairman
Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.
The Grocery Clerk
Old geezer / Hick
Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies' man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose.
Vida de perro
Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Charlot se encuentra sin trabajo y sus perspectivas no son nada halagüeñas cuando salva a una perra errante llamada Scraps del ataque de otros perros. Ambos se hacen inseparables y persiguen un mismo objetivo: conseguir comida.