Richard Rosson
Nascimento : 1893-04-04, New York City, New York, USA
Morte : 1953-05-31
Second Unit Director
A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Director
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Director
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Second Unit Director
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Director
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
Director
A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
Director
Wyoming, década de 1880. Lenhador Barney Glasgow despreza a amada Lotta Morgan, cantora de saloon, em favor de um casamento por interesse com Emma Louise, filha do patrão. Seu amigo Swan Bostrom une-se a Lotta. Barney enriquece derrubando árvores sem o cuidado de replantá-las. Anos mais tarde, tanto ele quanto o filho Richard apaixonam-se pela filha de Lotta e Swan, também chamada Lotta e também muito parecida com a mãe.
Director
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
Co-Director
Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, Diana, uma mulher inglesa, vive um triângulo amoroso entre o oficial inglês Claude e um piloto de caça norte-americano, Bogard. Diana e Claude viviam um romance antigo, mas quando surge Bogard, ela conhece o verdadeiro amor.
Assistant Director
O famoso piloto Joe Greer retorna à sua cidade natal, onde descobre que seu irmão, Eddie Greer, também está a caminho de se tornar um campeão nas pistas.
Co-Director
Tony "Scarface" Camonte trabalha para Johnny Lovo, um ambicioso gangster que deseja criar um império do crime em Chicago. Nesta guerra pelo comando, o chefe da quadrilha rival fora assassinado por Tony e a polícia suspeita que Lovo o tenha pago para tal feito. Tony logo ganha respeito na quadrilha pelo feito e espera pacientemente pelo momento exato de liquidar com seu chefe e assumir o comando do bando. No comando, Tony ganha dinheiro como jamais sonhou e passa viver tranqüilo e luxuosamente. Mas sua tranqüilidade duraria pouco tempo, pois sua irmã Cesca Camonte, por quem tem paixões secretas, envolve-se com Guino Rinaldo, seu "braço direito", obrigando-o a tomar medidas drástic.
Assistant Director
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
Director
Pre-code comedy (1929) about a young married couple's unsuccessful efforts to become parents.
Director
Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to more heady, roadhouse entertainment. There he becomes involved with an underworld gang and falls in love with Spanish Marla, one of their vamps. Larry leaves home after an argument with his father, throws in with the gang (who are using him for their own purposes), and is blamed for a murder. Tried and convicted, Larry is given a light sentence when the judge places most of the blame on his overindulgent parents.
Director
A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our hero discovers this only after losing an important race, his boss chalks up the loss to Fairbanks' supposed cowardice.
Director
A mad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body.
Director
Story of a rancher clearing his girlfriend's father of a crime he didn't commit
Director
O Sr. Treadway está decepcionado com o filho Jim (James Hall) por não fazer parte da equipe de regata na faculdade enquanto seu irmão mais novo, Ralph (Richard Arlen), faz parte da equipe e sustenta a tradição da família. O irmão é cativado pelos encantos de Carol Fleming (Louise Brooks), mas Ralph é prejudicado por trotes e regras rígidas de treinamento. Na véspera da grande corrida da faculdade, Jim leva Carol para um baile e deixa Ralph ardendo de ciúme; decidindo enfrentar a desaprovação oficial, Ralph vai ao baile e leva uma jovem loura de jazz para uma hospedaria. Jim vai atrás e ejeta seu irmão depois de uma briga e é encontrado com a garota. Depois de ser aclamado como herói, Ralph confessa que é culpado pela desgraça de Jim, e Carol encontra a felicidade com o irmão mais velho.
Director
Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
Director
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.
Orphaned Ruth Sheldon reads an article on "Love Charms" on her way to live in the home of her Aunt Julia and Cousin Hattie Nast. Upon her arrival, Ruth is put to work as housekeeper, cook, and seamstress. When Thomas Morgan, a young banker, is invited to dinner, he focuses his attention on Ruth, prompting the envious Hattie to claim him as her own. To oblige her cousin, Ruth attempts to discourage Thomas by behaving like a frivolous society "vampire," rather than the old-fashioned girl he believes her to be.
Ben Fanchette
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow safecracker. Out of "professional courtesy" he informs Lawson of what he has done. Instead of calling the police, Lawson--who believes in the philosophy of "honor among thieves"--makes a deal with Charlie: to show Charlie that it's actually more profitable to be a legitimate businessman then a crook, he'll give Charlie some money if Charlie will use it to establish a legitimate business in the small town of Plumfield, and at the end of a year they will divide up whatever profits Charlie is able to make honestly. Charlie agrees, but soon discovers that things aren't going to be quite as easy as he thought.
Jimmy Arnold
Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 dollars that his father was responsible for. Berenice sets out to get the money back, but winds up causing a scandal because of her association with Trix Ulner, a gambler and thief.
Spiffy (as Dick Rosson)
Helen Rowland is indifferent towards her wealthy husband Henry and spends most of her time at social events. Henry agrees to give financial assistance to young clergyman John Sterling if Helen can become interested in Sterling's work in the slums.
Colin Craven
A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's estate. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected.
Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's hot-headed musician lover Tony (Francis McDonald), whereupon the heroine takes refuge in the villa of French playwright La Farge. Under La Farge's careful tutelage, Giulia develops into a famous actress, capturing the heart of the Duke De Chaumont. Though LaFarge himself has fallen in love with the girl, he does not stand in her way when she accepts the Duke's proposal. But Giulia has not reckoned with Tony, who is still crazy about her and still willing to kill any man who stands in his way. Tony murders LaFarge, then sets his sights on the Duke, intending to kill the poor fellow during the wedding ceremony. Hoping to save the Duke's life, Giulia pretends to have fallen out of love with him and returns to Tony.
Assistant Director
A 1917 film directed by Arthur Rosson.
Director
A 1917 film directed by Arthur Rosson and Richard Rosson.
Pablo Centeno
A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.
Johnny Watson
Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man. William now heartbroken, contemplates suicide, until a friend from childhood, May Parcher, pays a visit and William decides to fall in love with her.
The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the planet lazy and lethargic, and actually stops time.
Manuel - the Serenader
Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother, whose faded beauty led her husband to abandon her for another, plunge a dagger into her breast.
Mary's Father (uncredited)
The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen.
Danx
Ojo and Unc Nunkie are out of food, so they decide to journey to the Emerald City where they will never starve. Along the way, they meet Mewel, a waif and stray (mule) who leads them to Dr. Pipt, who has been stirring the powder of life for nine years. Ojo adds plenty of brains to Margolotte's Patchwork servant before she is brought to life with the powder. When Scraps does come to life, she accidentally knocks the liquid of petrifaction upon Unc Nunkie, Margolotte, and Danx (daughter Jesseva's boyfriend). So all go on separate journeys to find the ingredients to the antidote. (Of course Jesseva has Danx shrunken to take with her, which causes trouble with Jinjur.) Of course, no one ever told Ojo that some of the ingredients were illegal to obtain...
François
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews. A lost film.
Bert Smith - Secret Service Agent
Chief of Police Ivorytop and Chief of Detectives Sherlock Bonehead, of Rottenport, fall in love with Helen, a girl from the city
The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)
Filme mais antigo sobrevivente com Lon Chaney em um papel maior, "By the Sun's Rays" é apenas um dos vários westerns de 2 rolos estrelando o florido Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie desempenha um detetive que investiga uma série de roubos de carregamento de ouro. No caminho, ele se apaixona pela bela filha (Agnes Vernon) de um superintendente de mina, para o desespero de um mal-humorado auxiliar de escritório da mina (Chaney), que também está apaixonado pela moça...
Writer
For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams.
Zeb
Hughey Mack comedy produced by Vitagraph.
Bettina's Substitute
Bettina was justified in being indignant because her employer, a married man, makes love to her. She tells her beau, Raymond, about it and he vows to get square with the old masher and teach him a lesson. He tells Bettina to send word to her boss that she is sick and obliged to remain at home for a few days, but she will send a substitute.
A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.
A silent comedy in which a jealous woman wants to catch her husband in the act of infidelity.