Walter James

Nacimiento : 1882-06-03, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

Muerte : 1946-06-27

Historia

Walter James was an American stage and screen actor.

Películas

Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Leading Citizen
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
The Panther's Claw
Police Captain Tom Henry
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
Ciudadano Kane
Ward Heeler (uncredited)
Un importante financiero estadounidense, Charles Foster Kane, dueño de una importante cadena de periódicos, de una red de emisoras, de dos sindicatos y de una inimaginable colección de obras de arte, muere en su fabuloso castillo de estilo oriental, Xanadú. La última palabra que pronuncia al expirar es Rosebud. El país entero y la prensa en general quedan intrigados por saber el significado de esta palabra. Para descubrirlo, un grupo de periodistas se pone a investigar.
The Kid's Last Ride
Bartender
The fifth film in the 24-film Range Busters series finds "Crash", "Dusty" and Alibi, on their way to Gopher City to become the town's peace officers. In the saloon, young Jimmy Rowell is losing money in a crooked poker game to saloon owner Bob Harmon. Harmon and his henchman Bart Gill are in reality wanted-outlaw brothers Jim and Ike Breedon seeking revenge against Jimmy and his school-teaching sister Sally as their father, a circuit judge in Nebraska, had sentenced their brother Bud to be hanged. Harmon involves Jimmy, because of his gambling debts, in a robbery of a rancher known to keep large amounts of money at his ranch. The Range Busters break up the robbery, Bart is killed, as is Rancher Fleming, and Jimmy is wounded but escapes. Harmon, setting a trap for Crash, tricks Sally and Jimmy to his hideout, and Crash follows them.
Legion of the Lawless
Vigilante at Meeting (uncredited)
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
Barreras invisibles
Worker (uncredited)
Cliff Taylor es un exconvicto que intenta llevar una vida normal, pero desde que salió de la cárcel en libertad condicional, su pasado criminal le impide encontrar y mantener un cualquier trabajo. Sin embargo, lo peor es que Tim, su hermano menor, siguiendo sus pasos, se une a la banda de Charles Martin
Eternamente tuya
Police Official
Una joven de vida sencilla conoce un día a un ilusionista, El gran Arturo. Deslumbrada por su excitante personalidad, se enamora del mago y, poco después, se casa con él y abandona su pueblo natal para seguirlo en sus giras artísticas. Después de varios años de vida nómada, la mujer se da cuenta de que la felicidad para ella consiste en tener una casa, una familia y un marido a quien cuidar. Una vida que el ilusionista, más preocupado por sus trucos que por su esposa, no parece dispuesto a ofrecerle.
Professor Beware
Man with New Hat
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Mountain Justice
Juror
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
California Mail
Man Who Bets $1000 (uncredited)
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
White Fang
Posse Member
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Custer's Last Stand
Judge Hooker
The feature length version of the serial by the same name. A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a lost gold treasure, is lost in one of many Indian attacks. It is recovered by the only two survivors, a Major and his daughter, who become the targets of those who wish to possess it. General George Armstrong Custer and army scout Kid Cardigan attempt to stop the ensuing war over the arrow, but fail in their efforts, which becomes the historic Custer's Last Stand.
Tiempos modernos
Assembly Line Foreman (uncredited)
Extenuado por el frenético ritmo de la cadena de montaje, un obrero metalúrgico acaba perdiendo la razón. Después de recuperarse en un hospital, sale y es encarcelado por participar en una manifestación en la que se encontraba por casualidad. En la cárcel, también sin pretenderlo, ayuda a controlar un motín, gracias a lo cual queda en libertad. Una vez fuera, reemprende la lucha por la supervivencia en compañía de una joven huérfana a la que conoce en la calle.
Custer's Last Stand
Judge Hooker
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
Arizona Bad Man
Jack - Bartender
The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father.
Ann Vickers
Guard (uncredited)
Una trabajadora social que lucha por las reformas se ve comprometida al enamorarse de un juez corrupto. (FILMAFFINITY)
Police Court
Cappy Hearn
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
La calle
Police Marshal James Henry
El escenario es una manzana anónima durante un verano sofocante, donde los residentes - italianos, judíos, suecos, alemanes e irlandeses- representan el no muy idealizado crisol de razas estadounidenses. Hay cháchara ociosa... chismorreos... celos... racismo... adulterio... y, de repente pero no inesperadamente, un asesinato.
The Public Defender
Police Captain Anderson
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Shadow of the Law
Captain of the Guards
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Santos del infierno
Sheriff
Tras robar un banco y perder a uno de sus compañeros en el tiroteo, tres forajidos huyen de la justicia a través del desierto. El camino les ayudará a reflexionar sobre lo ocurrido.
Me, Gangster
Police Capt. Dodd
Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
The Wright Idea
The Big Killing
Sheriff
The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.
The Patent Leather Kid
Officer Riley
The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a heroic act, which results in his being severely wounded.
The Blood Ship
Capt. Angus Swope
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman.
El hermanito
Jim Hickory
Harold es un muchacho algo tímido y simplón a quien su padre, el sheriff Hickory, considera y trata como a un niño. Pero cuando Hickory es acusado de haberse adueñado del dinero que la comunidad le había confiado, Harold se lanzará a la busca y captura de los ladrones.
El boxeador
The Mountain Girl's Father
Un millonario de enamora de una joven y quiere casarse con ella, pero la familia de la chica le desprecia porque es un hombre debilucho y escuálido. Para ganarse su respeto, y a sugerencia de su fiel mayordomo, se hará pasar por un campeón de boxeo que tiene su mismo nombre, Alfred Butler. El plan le da resultado; sin embargo, cuando en los diarios se anuncia un combate del verdadero boxeador llegan los problemas. El millonario tiene que sacrificarse y empieza a entrenarse para que su farsa no sea descubierta.
The Seventh Bandit
Ben Goring
The story of David Scanlon - a former gunfighter turned farmer, who sells the family homestead in favor of adventure in the California gold fields.
Charley My Boy!
Old Charley aka Charleyhorse
A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.
Charley My Boy!
President T.J.
A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.
The Everlasting Whisper
Aswin Brody
Cowboy Mark King (Tom Mix) comes to the aid of an old miner, Honeycutt (George Berrell) who, in gratitude, reveals the location of a secret gold mine. To get to the mine, however, King must fight an evil claim jumper, Gratton (Robert Cain), whose fiance, Gloria (Alice Calhoun), he once saved from falling off a cliff.
La pequeña Anita
Officer Timothy Rooney
Annie es hija de un policía y vive en los barrios bajos con su padre y su hermano. Sus mejores amigos son una pandilla de chavales del barrio con los que juega y se pelea. Cuando su padre es asesinado y el muchacho del que está enamorada es acusado del hecho, sus amigos harán todo lo posible por ayudarla a encontrar al verdadero culpable. (filmaffinit-y)
The Monster
Caliban
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
Secrets of Paris
The Strangler
Fair Lady
Gian Norcone
Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He arranges to have the bridegroom assassinated, and Norvin Blake, a young American (Robert Elliott), almost loses his life in his attempt to save him.
The Idol Dancer
Chief Wando
A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues.