Thurston Hall

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thurston Hall (May 10, 1882 – February 20, 1958) was an American film actor. He appeared in 250 films between 1915 and 1957 and is probably best remembered for his portrayal, during the later stages of his career, of often pompous or blustering authority figures. Hall's best-known television role was as Mr. Schuyler, the boss of Cosmo Topper (played by Leo G. Carroll), in the 1950s television series, Topper (1953–1956). Description above from the Wikipedia article Thurston
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34277

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

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Gender

Male

Birthday

1882-05-08

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As

  • Ernest Thurston Hall
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    Known For

    Parole Racket

    Parole Racke

    Tuxedo Junction

    Tuxedo Junct

    Swing It Soldier

    Swing It Sol

    Blondie on a Budget

    Blondie on a

    Footlight Glamour

    Footlight Gl

    Blondie's Secret

    Blondie's Se

    One Way Ticket

    One Way Tick

    Here Comes Elmer

    Here Comes E

    Belle of Old Mexico

    Belle of Old

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    Shakedown

    City for Conquest

    City for Con

    Money To Burn

    Money To Bur

    The Black Room

    The Black Ro

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    We Can't Hav

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    The Midnight

    The Squaw Man

    The Squaw Ma

    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    The Secret L

    The Invisible Woman

    The Invisibl

    You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

    You Can't Ch

    The Great McGinty

    The Great Mc

    The Farmer's Daughter

    The Farmer's

    Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Pu

    This Land Is Mine

    This Land Is

    The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

    The Amazing

    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    Theodora Goes Wild

    Theodora Goe

    Professor Beware

    Professor Be

    Carson City

    Carson City

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    Knights of t

    The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

    The Lone Wol

    Counter-Espionage

    Counter-Espi

    The Man Who Lived Twice

    The Man Who

    The Great Man's Lady

    The Great Ma

    The Unfinished Dance

    The Unfinish

    Saratoga Trunk

    Saratoga Tru

    The Youngest Profession

    The Youngest

    One Big Affair

    One Big Affa

    West of the Pecos

    West of the

    The Great Gildersleeve

    The Great Gi

    Trapped by Television

    Trapped by T

    The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

    The Lone Wol

    Welcome Stranger

    Welcome Stra

    Federal Agent at Large

    Federal Agen

    Skirts Ahoy!

    Skirts Ahoy!

    Night Stage to Galveston

    Night Stage

    Two-Fisted Gentleman

    Two-Fisted G

    Call of the Canyon

    Call of the

    The Golden Fleecing

    The Golden F

    I Dood It

    I Dood It

    Counsel for Crime

    Counsel for

    Whirlwind

    Whirlwind

    Secrets of the Lone Wolf

    Secrets of t

    Rim of the Canyon

    Rim of the C

    Something for the Boys

    Something fo

    The Girl Friend

    The Girl Fri

    The King Steps Out

    The King Ste

    Accent on Love

    Accent on Lo

    Sued for Libel

    Sued for Lib

    Up in Central Park

    Up in Centra

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    Metropolitan

    Three Little Girls in Blue

    Three Little

    The Day the Bookies Wept

    The Day the

    Atlantic Adventure

    Atlantic Adv

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    The Bandit Q

    A Feather in Her Hat

    A Feather in

    The Star Maker

    The Star Mak

    We Have Our Moments

    We Have Our

    Women Are Like That

    Women Are Li

    Fast Company

    Fast Company

    Pacific Blackout

    Pacific Blac

    Cover Girl

    Cover Girl

    There's Always a Woman

    There's Alwa

    Guard That Girl

    Guard That G

    Miraculous Journey

    Miraculous J

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    The Kaiser's

    Blonde from Brooklyn

    Blonde from

    Lady from Nowhere

    Lady from No

    Nine Lives Are Not Enough

    Nine Lives A

    The Affairs of Annabel

    The Affairs

    Millionaires in Prison

    Millionaires

    Washington Melodrama

    Washington M

    The Lone Wolf Returns

    The Lone Wol

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    A Burglar to

    Wilson

    Wilson

    Going Places

    Going Places

    Hooray for Love

    Hooray for L

    The WAC from Walla Walla

    The WAC from

    One Too Many

    One Too Many

    Don't Tell the Wife

    Don't Tell t

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    The Iron Tra

    After the Dance

    After the Da

    The Band Wagon

    The Band Wag

    Dangerous Business

    Dangerous Bu

    Spring Madness

    Spring Madne

    Alias the Deacon

    Alias the De

    Life with Henry

    Life with He

    Devil's Squadron

    Devil's Squa

    Repent at Leisure

    Repent at Le

    Three Smart Girls Grow Up

    Three Smart

    Dodge City

    Dodge City

    Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I

    Mutiny on the Blackhawk

    Mutiny on th

    Dancing Co-Ed

    Dancing Co-E

    First Love

    First Love

    The Hard Way

    The Hard Way

    It Had to Be You

    It Had to Be

    The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

    The Lone Wol

    Goodnight, Sweetheart

    Goodnight, S

    Jeepers Creepers

    Jeepers Cree

    Swing the Western Way

    Swing the We

    Women of Glamour

    Women of Gla

    Hawaiian Nights

    Hawaiian Nig

    Without Reservations

    Without Rese

    The Blue Bird

    The Blue Bir

    The Great Lie

    The Great Li

    In Old Missouri

    In Old Misso

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    Too Tough to

    Squadron of Honor

    Squadron of

    No Time to Marry

    No Time to M

    Oh, Doctor

    Oh, Doctor

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    He Hired the

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    The Three Wi

    The Night Before the Divorce

    The Night Be

    Virginia City

    Virginia Cit

    Stagecoach Kid

    Stagecoach K

    Three Daring Daughters

    Three Daring

    Murder in Greenwich Village

    Murder in Gr

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    The Go-Gette

    Friendly Neighbors

    Friendly Nei

    An Alien Enemy

    An Alien Ene

    Love Me Forever

    Love Me Fore

    Hold That Ghost

    Hold That Gh

    Her Cardboard Lover

    Her Cardboar

    Black Gold

    Black Gold

    It Can't Last Forever

    It Can't Las

    Bring on the Girls

    Bring on the

    Hello, Annapolis

    Hello, Annap

    Belle Le Grand

    Belle Le Gra

    One More Tomorrow

    One More Tom

    Mourning Becomes Electra

    Mourning Bec

    Don't Gamble with Love

    Don't Gamble

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    The Great We

    Song of Nevada

    Song of Neva

    Chain Gang

    Chain Gang

    Four Mothers

    Four Mothers

    Shepherd of the Ozarks

    Shepherd of

    Song of the Prairie

    Song of the

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    It Grows on

    Square Dance Jubilee

    Square Dance

    Remember the Day

    Remember the

    Flight from Destiny

    Flight from

    Ever Since Venus

    Ever Since V

    She Wrote the Book

    She Wrote th

    Don Juan Quilligan

    Don Juan Qui

    She Knew All the Answers

    She Knew All

    Affair in Reno

    Affair in Re

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    The Exquisit

    Twin Beds

    Twin Beds

    The Main Event

    The Main Eve

    Design for Scandal

    Design for S

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    Rusty Saves

    Campus Confessions

    Campus Confe

    Lady on a Train

    Lady on a Tr

    Bride for Sale

    Bride for Sa

    Sherlock Holmes in Washington

    Sherlock Hol

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    Sleepytime G

    One Dangerous Night

    One Dangerou

    Two Sisters from Boston

    Two Sisters

    Out West with the Hardys

    Out West wit

    Where Did You Get That Girl?

    Where Did Yo

    Crash Dive

    Crash Dive

    Roaming Lady

    Roaming Lady

    I Promise to Pay

    I Promise to

    Manhattan Angel

    Manhattan An

    Hard to Get

    Hard to Get

    The Brazen Beauty

    The Brazen B

    Ex-Champ

    Ex-Champ

    Pride of the Marines

    Pride of the

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    The Show Dow

    The Spitfire of Seville

    The Spitfire

    She Couldn't Take It

    She Couldn't

    Placeholder

    Who Will Mar

    The Price Mark

    The Price Ma

    Rings on Her Fingers

    Rings on Her

    Love Letters

    Love Letters

    The Fountainhead

    The Fountain

    Bright Leaf

    Bright Leaf

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    Born in Free

    Placeholder

    The Gay Seno

    In the Navy

    In the Navy

    In Society

    In Society

    Thrill of a Romance

    Thrill of a

    Brewster's Millions

    Brewster's M

    Million Dollar Legs

    Million Doll

    Tell It to the Judge

    Tell It to t

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    Fair Lady

    Killer at Large

    Killer at La

    Extortion

    Extortion

    Colonel Effingham's Raid

    Colonel Effi

    The Public Menace

    The Public M

    The Great Moment

    The Great Mo

    Case of the Missing Man

    Case of the

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    The Weaker V

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    The Valley o

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    The One Woma

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    Mother Etern

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    Our Neighbor

    Texas Carnival

    Texas Carniv

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    Wildness of

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    Idle Hands

    The Girl on the Park Bench

    The Girl on

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    1957

    Affair in Reno

    asJ.B. Del Monte

    1956

    The Go-Getter

    asMr. Higgins

    1954

    Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake

    asJames M. Townsend

    1953

    The Girl on the Park Bench

    asJudge

    1953

    The Band Wagon

    asColonel Tripp (uncredited)

    1952

    The WAC from Walla Walla

    asCol. Mayfield

    1952

    It Grows on Trees

    asMr. Sleamish (uncredited)

    1952

    Carson City

    asCharles Crocker

    1952

    Skirts Ahoy!

    asThatcher Kinston

    1952

    Night Stage to Galveston

    asColonel James Bellamy

    1952

    One Big Affair

    asMr. G

    1951

    Texas Carnival

    asMr. Gaytes

    1951

    Whirlwind

    asBig Jim Lassiter

    1951

    Knights of the Bath

    asMaster of the House (archive footage)

    1951

    Belle Le Grand

    asParkington

    1950

    The Bandit Queen

    asGovernor

    1950

    One Too Many

    asKenneth Simes

    1950

    Chain Gang

    asJohn McKelvey, news publisher

    1950

    Bright Leaf

    asPhillips

    1950

    Federal Agent at Large

    as'Big Bill' Dixon

    1950

    Belle of Old Mexico

    asHoratio Huntington

    1949

    Tell It to the Judge

    asSen. Caswell (uncredited)

    1949

    Bride for Sale

    asTrisby (uncredited)

    1949

    Square Dance Jubilee

    asG.K.

    1949

    Rim of the Canyon

    asBig Tim Hanlon

    1949

    The Fountainhead

    asBusinessman at Party (uncredited)

    1949

    Stagecoach Kid

    asPeter Arnold

    1949

    Manhattan Angel

    asEverett H. Burton

    1949

    Rusty Saves a Life

    asCounsellor Frank A. Gibson

    1948

    Blondie's Secret

    asGeorge Whiteside

    1948

    Miraculous Journey

    asKendricks

    1948

    Up in Central Park

    asGovernor Motley

    1948

    Three Daring Daughters

    asHowie Howard, Louise's Assistant (uncredited)

    1947

    It Had to Be You

    asNed Harrington

    1947

    Mourning Becomes Electra

    asDr. Blake

    1947

    The Unfinished Dance

    asMr. Ronsell

    1947

    Black Gold

    asColonel Caldwell

    1947

    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    asBruce Pierce

    1947

    The Son of Rusty

    asFranklyn B. Gibson

    1947

    Swing the Western Way

    asJasper Jim Bandy

    1947

    Welcome Stranger

    asCongressman Beeker (uncredited)

    1947

    The Farmer's Daughter

    asWilbur Johnson

    1946

    Three Little Girls in Blue

    asCol. Clay

    1946

    Dangerous Business

    asB.J. Calhoun

    1946

    Two Sisters from Boston

    asMr. Lawrence Tyburt Patterson, Sr.

    1946

    She Wrote the Book

    asHorace Van Cleve

    1946

    One More Tomorrow

    asThomas Rufus Collier II

    1946

    Without Reservations

    asHenry Baldwin

    1946

    Colonel Effingham's Raid

    asEd - the Mayor

    1945

    Saratoga Trunk

    asMr. Pound (uncredited)

    1945

    Song of the Prairie

    asJerome Wingate

    1945

    West of the Pecos

    asCol. Lambeth

    1945

    The Gay Senorita

    asJ.J. Frentiss

    1945

    Lady on a Train

    asJosiah Waring

    1945

    Blonde from Brooklyn

    as"Colonel" Hubert Farnsworth

    1945

    Don Juan Quilligan

    asFirst Judge

    1945

    Thrill of a Romance

    asJ.P. Bancroft (uncredited)

    1945

    Brewster's Millions

    asColonel Drew

    1945

    Bring on the Girls

    asRutledge

    1944

    Something for the Boys

    asColonel Jefferson L. Calhoun (uncredited)

    1944

    Ever Since Venus

    asEdgar Pomeroy

    1944

    In Society

    asMr. Van Cleve

    1944

    Song of Nevada

    asJohn Barrabee

    1944

    Wilson

    asSenator Edward H. 'Big Ed' Jones

    1944

    The Great Moment

    asSenator Borland

    1944

    Goodnight, Sweetheart

    asJudge James Rutherford

    1944

    Cover Girl

    asTony Pastor (uncredited)

    1943

    Here Comes Elmer

    asP. J. Ellis

    1943

    Footlight Glamour

    asRandolph Wheeler

    1943

    Hoosier Holiday

    asHenry P. Fairchild

    1943

    I Dood It

    asKenneth 'Ken' Cawlor

    1943

    This Land Is Mine

    asMayor Henry Manville

    1943

    Crash Dive

    asSenator from Texas

    1943

    He Hired the Boss

    asMr. Bates

    1943

    Sherlock Holmes in Washington

    asSen. Henry Babcock

    1943

    The Youngest Profession

    asMr. Drew

    1943

    One Dangerous Night

    asInspector Crane

    1943

    The Hard Way

    asHarry (Uncredited)

    1942

    The Great Gildersleeve

    asGovernor Jonathan Stafford

    1942

    Counter-Espionage

    asInsp. Crane

    1942

    Call of the Canyon

    asGrantley B. Johnson

    1942

    Her Cardboard Lover

    asMr. Garthwaite - Barling's Lawyer (uncredited)

    1942

    Twin Beds

    asHorace Touchstone

    1942

    Hello, Annapolis

    asCapt. Wendall

    1942

    Shepherd of the Ozarks

    asJames Maloney

    1942

    Rings on Her Fingers

    as

    1942

    The Night Before the Divorce

    asBert Harriman

    1942

    Sleepytime Gal

    asMr. Adams

    1941

    Pacific Blackout

    asWilliams

    1941

    Remember the Day

    asGov. Teller

    1941

    Design for Scandal

    asNorthcott

    1941

    Tuxedo Junction

    asDoug Gordon

    1941

    Secrets of the Lone Wolf

    asInspector Crane

    1941

    Swing It Soldier

    asOscar Simms- Wheezies Sponsor

    1941

    The Great Man's Lady

    asMr. Sempler

    1941

    Nine Lives Are Not Enough

    asHuntley (uncredited)

    1941

    Hold That Ghost

    asAlderman Birch (uncredited)

    1941

    Accent on Love

    asT. J. Triton

    1941

    In the Navy

    asLead Senator (uncredited)

    1941

    She Knew All the Answers

    asJ. D. Sutton

    1941

    Washington Melodrama

    asSen. Morton

    1941

    The Great Lie

    asOscar Worthington James

    1941

    Repent at Leisure

    asJay Buckingham

    1941

    The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

    asInspector Crane

    1941

    Flight from Destiny

    asDean Somers

    1941

    Life with Henry

    asMr. Woodring (uncredited)

    1941

    Four Mothers

    asMr. Davis (uncredited)

    1941

    Where Did You Get That Girl?

    asStuyvesant, Four Star Record Co. President

    1940

    The Invisible Woman

    asHudson

    1940

    Kiddie Kure

    asBill "Old Man" Morton

    1940

    Friendly Neighbors

    asThe Governor

    1940

    The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

    asInspector Crane

    1940

    City for Conquest

    asMax Leonard

    1940

    The Golden Fleecing

    asCharles Engel

    1940

    The Great McGinty

    asMr. Maxwell

    1940

    Millionaires in Prison

    asHarold Kellogg

    1940

    The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

    asInspector Crane

    1940

    Alias the Deacon

    asJim Cunningham

    1940

    In Old Missouri

    asJohn Pittman Sr.

    1940

    Virginia City

    asGen. George Meade (uncredited)

    1940

    Blondie on a Budget

    asBrice

    1940

    The Blue Bird

    asFather Time

    1939

    Money To Burn

    asEllis

    1939

    Our Neighbors - The Carters

    asMr. Guilfoyle

    1939

    First Love

    asAnthony Drake

    1939

    Sued for Libel

    asDavid Hastings

    1939

    Jeepers Creepers

    asM.K. Durant

    1939

    Dancing Co-Ed

    asHenry W. Workman

    1939

    The Day the Bookies Wept

    asCol. March

    1939

    Hawaiian Nights

    asT.C. Hartley

    1939

    The Star Maker

    asMr. Proctor

    1939

    Each Dawn I Die

    asHanley

    1939

    Mutiny on the Blackhawk

    asSam Bailey

    1939

    Million Dollar Legs

    asGregory Melton Sr.

    1939

    Ex-Champ

    asMr. Courtney

    1939

    Dodge City

    asTwitchell (uncredited)

    1939

    Three Smart Girls Grow Up

    asSenator

    1939

    You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

    asMr. Archibald Bel-Goodie

    1938

    Going Places

    asCol. Withering

    1938

    Out West with the Hardys

    asH.R. Bruxton (uncredited)

    1938

    Spring Madness

    asCharles Platt

    1938

    Hard to Get

    asJohn Atwater

    1938

    Campus Confessions

    asWilliam Atterbury, Sr.

    1938

    The Affairs of Annabel

    asMajor

    1938

    Professor Beware

    asJ.J. Van Buren

    1938

    The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

    asGrant

    1938

    Fast Company

    asDist. Atty. MacMillen

    1938

    Squadron of Honor

    asBob Metcalf

    1938

    The Main Event

    asCaptain Phillips

    1938

    Extortion

    asProf. Tisdelle

    1938

    Women Are Like That

    asClaudius King

    1938

    There's Always a Woman

    asDistrict Attorney

    1938

    No Time to Marry

    asPettensall

    1937

    Murder in Greenwich Village

    asCharles Cabot

    1937

    Counsel for Crime

    asSen. Maddox

    1937

    It Can't Last Forever

    asFulton

    1937

    Venus Makes Trouble

    asHarlan Darrow

    1937

    I Promise to Pay

    asPolice Captain Hall

    1937

    Oh, Doctor

    as'Doc' Erasmus Thurston

    1937

    We Have Our Moments

    asFrank Rutherford

    1937

    Parole Racket

    asEditor Jamison

    1937

    Women of Glamour

    asMr. Stark

    1937

    Don't Tell the Wife

    asMajor Manning

    1936

    Lady from Nowhere

    asJames Gordon Barnes

    1936

    Theodora Goes Wild

    asArthur Stevenson

    1936

    Killer at Large

    asInspector O'Hara

    1936

    The Man Who Lived Twice

    asDr. Schuyler

    1936

    Two-Fisted Gentleman

    asPop

    1936

    Shakedown

    asT. Gregory Stuart

    1936

    Trapped by Television

    asJohn Curtis

    1936

    The King Steps Out

    asMajor

    1936

    The Three Wise Guys

    asHatcher

    1936

    Roaming Lady

    asE. J. Reid

    1936

    Devil's Squadron

    asMajor Metcalf

    1936

    Pride of the Marines

    asCol. Gage

    1936

    Don't Gamble with Love

    asMartin Gage

    1935

    The Lone Wolf Returns

    asInspector Crane

    1935

    Too Tough to Kill

    asJim Whitney

    1935

    One Way Ticket

    asMr. Ritchie

    1935

    Crime and Punishment

    asEditor

    1935

    Guard That Girl

    asDr. Silas Hudson

    1935

    A Feather in Her Hat

    asSir Elroyd Joyce

    1935

    Case of the Missing Man

    asBoyle

    1935

    Metropolitan

    asT. Simon Hunter

    1935

    She Couldn't Take It

    asParty Guest

    1935

    The Public Menace

    asCaptain of Ocean Liner

    1935

    The Girl Friend

    asGeorge S. Harmon

    1935

    Atlantic Adventure

    asCity Editor Rutherford

    1935

    The Black Room

    asCol. Paul Hassel

    1935

    Love Me Forever

    asMaurizio

    1935

    After the Dance

    asDistrict Attorney

    1935

    Hooray for Love

    asJason Thatcher

    1931

    A Burglar to the Rescue

    asThe Banker, Steve Corley

    1924

    The Valley of Doubt

    asJules

    1924

    The Great Well

    asPeter Starling

    1923

    The Royal Oak

    asColonel Ancketell

    1922

    Wildness of Youth

    asEdward Grayton

    1922

    Fair Lady

    asItalian banker

    1921

    The Iron Trail

    asCurtis Gordon

    1921

    Idle Hands

    asHenry Livingston

    1921

    Mother Eternal

    asEdward Stevens Sr

    1921

    A Citrate Special

    asThe Director

    1919

    The Spitfire of Seville

    as

    1919

    The Weaker Vessel

    asJ. Booth Hunter

    1919

    The Exquisite Thief

    asAlgernon P. Smythe

    1919

    Who Will Marry Me?

    asJerome Van Tyne

    1918

    The Squaw Man

    asHenry, Jim's Cousin

    1918

    The Midnight Patrol

    asOfficer Terrence Shannon

    1918

    The One Woman

    asGovernor Morrison

    1918

    The Brazen Beauty

    asKenneth Hyde

    1918

    We Can't Have Everything

    asPeter Cheever

    1918

    The Kaiser's Shadow

    asHugo Wagner

    1918

    An Alien Enemy

    asDavid J. Hale

    1917

    Love Letters

    asJohn Harland

    1917

    The Price Mark

    asDr. Daniel Melfi

    1917

    Cleopatra

    asAntony

    1917

    The Show Down

    as

    1915

    Sweeter Than Revenge

    asJoe Best

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    (1 episode)as

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    (23 episode)asHarrison Prentice

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    (1 episode)asJudge

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    (1 episode)asMr. Smith

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    (1 episode)asJ. Peter Stuyvesant

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    (1 episode)asMr. Schuyler