Lon Poff

Nascimento : 1870-02-08, Bedford, Indiana, USA

Morte : 1952-08-08

Filmes

Spaceship To The Unknown
The High Priest (archive footage)
Spaceship to the Unknown is a condensed version of the original serial, compressing the original twelve episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe) heads into space with brilliant scientist Dr. Zarkoff (Frank Shannon) and his sweetheart Dale Arden (Jean Rogers) in an effort to throw the planet Mongo off course; it is expected to crash into the Earth within a matter of days. However, once Flash and his crew arrive on Mongo, they have to deal with the supremely evil Ming the Merciless (Charles B. Middleton) and his wicked minions.
Esta Terra é Minha
Old Man
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
A Casa das Sete Torres
Juror
A decadência da família Pyncheon é simbolizada no aspecto sombrio de sua mansão, em cujas fundações estão a ganância, a traição e a arrogância. Persistirá o mal, como terrível maldição, enquanto sobreviverem os últimos Pyncheons.
Calling All Doctors
Phil Graves
Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
Vive-se Uma Só Vez
Halsey (uncredited)
A secretária do defensor público e um ex-presidiário se casam e tentam viver juntos, mas uma série de desastres deixa suas vidas fora de controle. Joan é a secretária do defensor público em uma cidade grande. Ela é apaixonada por um criminoso chamado Eddie, e acredita que ele é uma pessoa fundamentalmente boa, que só teve alguns problemas na vida. Ela usa sua influência para libertá-lo mais cedo, e ele tenta ir em frente depois de se casar com ela, mas as coisas não dão tão certo. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Flash Gordon: No Planeta Mongo
First High Priest
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden e Dr. Alexis Zarkov visitam o planeta Mongo para frustrar os planos malignos do Imperador Ming, o Impiedoso, que colocou seu planeta em rota de colisão com a Terra.
The White Angel
Minor Role (uncredited)
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
Balas ou Votos
Grand Jury Member (uncredited)
Depois que o capitão de polícia Dan McLaren se torna delegado, o ex-detetive Johnny Blake o despede, convencendo o chefe do crime organizado, Al Kruger, que o esforço de Blake é sincero para se unir ao crime organizado.
The Rainmakers
Townsman
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
She Couldn't Take It
Judge
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.
Alimony Aches
Undertaker
Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony.
Os Crimes do Museu
Tall Thin Henchman (Uncredited)
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Hello, Everybody!
Constable
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
No Palco da Vida
Deacon (uncredited)
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
The Expert
Morgue Attendant
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
Way Back Home
Constable (uncredited)
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
Ambassador Bill
Chauffeur
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
Caught
Clem
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.
Haunted at Midnight
Elder Husband
Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" When Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebenezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.
Behind Office Doors
Mr. Burden (uncredited)
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
Tom Sawyer
Judge Thatcher
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
Night of Goblins
Old Relative
Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Old Relative (uncredited)
The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.
What a Life
Prison Reformer
A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.
Courtin' Wildcats
Professor
College boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he finds Calamity Jane running roughshod over everyone. So the dude decides to tame her.
A Máscara de Ferro
Father Joseph
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.
The Faker
Hadiran's Aid
Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and astonish the rubes, gets work as private secretary to John Clayton, a wealthy man who has just disinherited his worthless son, Frank, and left his entire fortune to his upright stepson, Bob Williams. At Frank's request, the spiritualist later performs for the elder Clayton a seance during which Rita impersonates the late Mrs. Clayton and arranges for a reconciliation between Frank and his father. Rita falls in love with Bob, however, and, in order to protect Bob's interests against Frank's, exposes the spiritualist as a faker. Frank is disgraced in his father's eyes, and Bob quickly forgives Rita for her past complicity in Frank's schemes.
The Viking
Friar Slain by Vikings (uncredited)
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman.
O Homem Que Ri
Herdeiro de um ducado, Gwynplaine é sequestrado quando garoto e, por ordem do rei, ele fica com o rosto esculpido num perpétuo sorriso macabro. Quando cresce, acaba virando atração de circo como palhaço.
The Valley of the Giants
Bookkeeper (uncredited)
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
Silver Valley
'Slim' Snitzer
Fired for crashing his aeroplane into his employer's ranch, Tom Mix is elected sheriff in a town with, as a title stated, "a high mortality rate among sheriffs." Mix, of course, prevails against almost impossible odds, at one point cornering a gang of cutthroats holding leading lady Dorothy Dwan captive in the crater of a volcano about to erupt.
The First Auto
D. P. Graves - the Undertaker
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
O Cavalheiro dos Amores
Prison Friar (uncredited)
Durante o reinado de Luís XIII, um adolescente arrogante chamado Bardelys tornou-se famosa graças a suas conquistas amorosas.
Marriage License?
Footman
1926 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter McGrail.
Mantrap
Minister (uncredited)
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
Without Mercy
Madame Gordon's 1st Henchman (uncredited)
Silent melodrama.
Isn't Life Terrible?
Mr. Jolly
Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
The Million Dollar Handicap
Milkman
The Million Dollar Handicap
Ouro e Maldição
Lottery Agent (uncredited)
O filme mostra a transformação do caráter de três pessoas. Após um bom tempo trabalhando em uma mina, McTeague se muda para a Califórnia, onde passa a trabalhar ilegalmente como dentista, e conhece e se casa com Trina, prima de seu amigo Marcus, também interessado nela. Trina ganha um grande prêmio na loteria e, aos poucos, vai sendo dominada pela avareza, o que desperta o caráter violento de McTeague, e a inveja de Marcus.
The Virginian
Shorty's Chum
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend, Steve, falls in with bad guys led by Trampas. The Virginian catches them cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his friend. Trampas gets away and shoots the Virginian in the back. Molly nurses him to health, and falls in love with him. They plan to marry, but on their wedding day Trampas returns, looking for trouble.
The Man Who Won
Sandy Joyce
Bill is a gambler, whose friend Scipio goes in search of his wife Jessie. Jessie, fed up with her life of poverty, has run off with the wealthy and villainous James. She has left behind her two children on James' promise that she can send for them later. Scipio leaves the tots with Bill when he goes on his search..
Almas à Venda
Tall Actor in Casting Office (uncredited)
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Suzanna
Álvarez
Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ramón and Dolores, although Ramón is in love with Suzanna, the daughter of a peon on his father's ranch, and Dolores is interested in Pancho, a toreador. When Suzanna learns that she was kidnapped in infancy and is really Don Diego's daughter, she keeps silent; but Ramón finally rebels and steals Suzanna from the altar as she is about to marry Pancho. There are explanations, Ramón marries Suzanna, and Dolores marries Pancho. Suzanna (1923) has been mastered from a good quality but incomplete 35mm print.
The Girl I Loved
Minister (circuit rider)
John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But with the passage of time, John discovers (long after everyone else has) that he loves Mary. But by now it's too late. She plans to marry his friend Willie.
Brass Commandments
Slim Lally
"Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria Hallowell, who has known him by reputation, falls in love with Lanning but believes that he loves Ellen Bosworth, an eastern "lady." Campan, the leader of the rustlers, hoping to lure Lanning into a trap, kidnaps both girls. Lanning rescues the girls, punishes Campan, and indicates to Gloria that she is the girl for him.
Peg o' My Heart
Priest (uncredited)
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead. While a bit too old for the character supposedly in her late teens or early twenties, Laurette was tailor made for it.
The Village Blacksmith
Gideon Crane
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom the blacksmith marries. This angers the squire. Years later, the squire's son Anson (Yearsley) dares the blacksmith's son Johnnie (Hackathorne) to climb a tree, from which he falls and is crippled. As adults, Anson and the blacksmith's daughter Alice (Valli) fall in love, which angers the blacksmith, who chastises his daughter. The blacksmith's other son Bill (Butler) returns from college and is injured in a train accident. Anson steals $480 from a church fund which is currently in Alice's possession. Alice is struck by lightning. The blacksmith take Anson and the squire to church where they both repent.
The Prisoner of Zenda
Archbishop (uncredited)
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
The Night Horsemen
Haw Haw
Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale) after Dan is found wandering the desert as a youth. After he becomes a man, Dan wanders throughout the West, following the wild geese when they fly South every year. He finds trouble in a lawless town and wounds a rival gunman.
Os Três Mosqueteiros
Father Joseph
O Cardeal Richelieu (Nigel De Brulier), envolvido em intrigas na corte de Louis XIII (Adolphe Menjou), ameaça a rainha (Mary MacLaren), que é secretamente apaixonado pelo Duque de Buckingham (Thomas Holding). As intenções do cardeal é uma jogada para desonrar Anne, que é Rainha da Áustria, desonrando desta forma também a própria França, e despertando a revolta de Louis XIII, impedindo, então, a união política dos dois países, e desta maneira tirar proveitos para seus próprios benefícios: conseguindo o respeito e agradecimento do rei e aumentando o seu poder palaciano. Enquanto isso, da Gasconha vem D'Artagnan (Douglas Fairbanks) aderir aos Mosqueteiros do Rei, na sua busca incansável por aventuras. Ele ganha, depois de alguns mal-entendidos, a confiança e a amizade de três dos melhores mosqueteiros do rei, Athos (Léon Bary), Porthos (George Siegmann) e Aramis (Eugene Pallete), por provar sua habilidade com a espada, sua valentia e dignidade, e juntos, fazem uma aliança eterna.
Big Town Ideas
A woman and her dog defend an innocent man.
The Old Swimmin' Hole
Professor Payne - Schoolmaster
The normal life of a young farm boy as he goes to school and as he relaxes in the country is depicted.
Bonnie May
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron, the invalid son who has written the play. He begs her to stay on to help him write another play, despite the reluctance of his mother.
The Last Straw
Rev. Beal
A cowboy helps a pretty ranch owner getting rid of both cattle rustlers and an unwanted suitor in this silent oater.
'49–'17
Bald-Headed Wrangler (uncredited)
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.
Square Shooter
Sandy
Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, because he is suspicious of his foreman Sam Curtis' activities, decides to proceed incognito. Disguised as Harold Montague, his partner's son, Chick works among the ranch hands and discovers that Curtis is rustling cattle and is responsible for driving Barbara Hampton and her aunt from their home.