Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Рождение : 1903-05-01, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Смерть : 1978-04-16
История
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Ralph Everly Bushman (May 1, 1903 – April 16, 1978), was an American actor. He appeared in fifty-five films between 1920 and 1943. In his early film career, he was often credited as Francis X. Bushman Jr.
The son of notable silent film star Francis X. Bushman and Josephine Fladung Duval, he was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in Los Angeles, California at age 74.
He was a maternal uncle of Pat Conway (1931–1981), star of the ABC western television series Tombstone Territory (1957–1960). He and his wife Beatrice were married for 54 years at the time of his death.
Schmidt (archive footage)
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
Giant Policeman (uncredited)
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Frank - Dealer #1
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Uniformed Sanitarium Guard (uncredited)
День четвёртой годовщины свадьбы у героя пошёл наперекосяк... Он едва не погиб, приехала тёща, а в довершение ко всему жена приревновала к бывшей подружке, которая случайно поселилась в том же доме. Чтобы спастись от развода, бедолаге пришлось сойти с ума...
Man with Nitroglycerine (uncredited)
Эта история началась в 1918 году, когда в Техасе произошёл нефтяной бум. Нефтяные участки появлялись повсюду, люди богатели на глазах, и именно сюда устремились два парня, в будущем известные как Большой Джон и Джон Справедливый. Эта парочка провернула немало успешных дел и смогла сколотить на нефти целое состояние. Двадцать лет всё шло как по маслу, пока в Техас не приехала Элизабет Бартлетт.
С той поры словно черная кошка пробежала между некогда дружными компаньонами. Отныне миллионеры знать друг друга не хотят, делят бизнес и строят козни. И только женщина способна разрешить их спор.
Gagan's Henchman (uncredited)
Гражданская война в США позади. Пронырливый бизнесмен Джим Нокс использует любую возможность, чтобы как можно дешевле заполучить землю под свой проект новой железной дороги. Жители города надеются на то, что идеалист и воспитанник Гарварда Стив Логан покончит с проделками Нокса, но неожиданно для всех тот наоборот становится союзником предпринимателя. Никто не знает, что на самом деле Логан — тайный агент правительства. Когда об этом случайно узнает Нокс, он задумывает расправиться со шпионом. Но неожиданно, в дело оказывается впутана девушка...
Club Sirocco Doorman (uncredited)
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
Second comic (uncredited)
Германия рубежа 20-30-х годов. Ожоги войны, навсегда оставшиеся в душах людей, постоянно напоминают о себе. Трое друзей - Отто, Готфрид, Эрих и его юная возлюбленная Пат - учатся жить в мире, где так много боли и зла, предательства и малодушия. Каждый из героев оказывается у нравственного рубежа, каждый делает свой выбор и каждый расплачивается за свое решение собственной судьбой...
Minor Role (uncredited)
This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no discernible reason - of crew, passengers and captain. At "the famed nautical court of Gibraltar", investigators propose three hypotheses.
Ticket Taker (uncredited)
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Reporter Larry Hauser (uncredited)
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
Banquet Doorman (uncredited)
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Knight (uncredited)
A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater.
Billy Grady (as Ralph Bushman)
This short follows the early career of actress Jane Barnes. She starts by doing extra work. After several months she is offered a studio contract (the "first step"). However, her work consists mostly of fashion shoots and bit parts that end up on the cutting room floor. She is even used as a stand-in for Maureen O'Sullivan on the set of a Tarzan movie when camera angles and lighting must be set up.
Brad Sheridan
Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!
Martin (uncredited)
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Man Insuring Collar Size 15 (Uncredited)
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Pendleton
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
Matt Caldwell
Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.
Mirabelle's Pickup (uncredited)
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
The Soldier
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
Gun Salesman (uncredited)
Богатый предприниматель (Отто Крюгер) пытается добиться развода от своей жены, так как влюблен в свою помощницу (Джоан Кроуфорд). Ему не удается развестись, потому что жену полностью устраивает ее положение и она не хочет лишаться тех благ, которые ей дает фамилия мужа. Чтобы проверить свои чувства и уладить все дела по разводу, он отправляет свою любовницу в круиз, где она знакомится с человеком, который круто меняет ее жизнь...
Paige's Palm Springs Doorman (uncredited)
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes to Eadie, only to then commit suicide due to bankruptcy. Fellow millionaire T. R. Paige defends Eadie when the police question her for having Cousins' jewelry -- but when she becomes enamored with his son, Tom, Paige declares Eadie a gold digger.
Wallace Calloway
Беллетризованная биография Панчо Вильи, одного из лидеров повстанцев во время Мексиканской революции. Он родился в бедной крестьянской семье и рано потерял отца, в молодости трудился на ферме. Но однажды Панчо убил надзирателя и вынужден был бежать в горы. Там в 1910 году он познакомился с американским репортером Джонни Сайкесом. Они подружились, вместе вышли из тени и Панчо Вилья начал восхождение к оппозицонной власти. Ему предрекли будущее генерала революции. «Да здравствует Вилья!» — будут выкрикивать в его честь повстанцы. Цель революционера — свергнуть власть и самому править Мексикой.
Dutch Schmidt
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion.
Jeff Maitland
A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold deposit as his own. With the help of General Custer, right wins out. Presented in serial form in 12 episodes.
Jim Collins
A gang of crooks kills a gold miner while trying to find out the location of the mine. They then terrorize the miner's son to get him to reveal the mine's location.
Jack Grant
The manager of The Big Circus plots to marry the owner's daughter and gain control of the outfit.
Steve
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner of the ranch, but runs afoul of foreman Steve, who also loves Molly.
Ludwig
A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.
McAndrews
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
Haskins
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
Franz - Her Son
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
Tony Garland
Two men in love with the same girl are trapped with her in a forest fire.
Bob McAndrew
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
Lynn Claymore
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied. As the house staff begins to arrive they sense a strange presence in the house, and when a young woman no one knows runs into the house to escape a knife-wielding psycho, the occupants realize they may be in danger from both outside and inside the house.
Young Hospital Intern (uncredited)
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.
Jack Griffen
The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film
Jerry (as Ralph Bushman)
The Man Life Passed By (1923)
Clayton Canfield
Получив известие о смерти родственника, завещавшего ему свой дом, герой отправляется в поезде в южный городок, где находится завещанный ему дом и где ему суждено столкнуться с семьёй врагов его рода.
Big Graham (as Ralph Bushman)
At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.
The Grouch
A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself is experiencing the sordid experiences of being destitute, the old man sees the error of his ways and becomes suddenly charitable.
