Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 9, 1900
Place of Birth:
Walpole, Massachusetts, USA
Popular Hollywood leading man of late silents and early talkies. He is best remembered for his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances between 1927 and 1934. He retired from films in the early 1940s, but TV audiences of the 1950s would see him as Gale Storm's widower dad in the popular television series My Little Margie (1952).
Year | Movie | Role |
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1941 | The Deadly Game | Barry Scott |
1939 | Tail Spin | Bud |
1938 | Just Around the Corner | Jeff Hale |
1938 | Flight to Fame | Capt. Robert Lawrence |
1937 | Midnight Menace | Briant Gaunt |
1937 | Moonlight Sonata | Eric Molander |
1935 | Forbidden Heaven | Mr. Archer / Nibs |
1935 | Fighting Youth | Larry Davis |
1935 | Hollywood Hobbies | Himself |
1934 | Falling in Love | Howard Elliott |
1934 | Change of Heart | Chris Thring |
1934 | The Big Shakedown | Jimmy Morrell |
1933 | Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men | Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan |
1933 | Girl Without a Room | Tom Duncan |
1932 | After Tomorrow | Peter Piper |
1932 | Wild Girl | Billy, the Stranger |
1932 | Tess of the Storm Country | Frederick Garfield Jr. |
1932 | The First Year | Tommy Tucker |
1931 | Heartbreak | John Merrick |
1931 | Body and Soul | Mal Andrews |
1931 | The Man Who Came Back | Stephen Randolph |
1931 | Delicious | Larry Beaumont |
1931 | Merely Mary Ann | John Lonsdale |
1931 | The Flying Fool | Ponder |
1930 | High Society Blues | Eddie Granger |
1930 | City Girl | Lem Tustine |
1930 | Liliom | Liliom |
1930 | Song of Soho | Legionnaire |
1930 | The Princess and the Plumber | Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers |
1929 | The River | Allen John Spender |
1929 | Lucky Star | Timothy Osborn |
1929 | Sunny Side Up | Jack Cromwell |
1929 | Happy Days | Himself |
1928 | Street Angel | Gino |
1928 | The Red Dance | Grand Duke Eugen |
1928 | Fazil | Prince Fazil |
1927 | 7th Heaven | Chico |
1927 | The Rough Riders | Stewart Van Brunt |
1926 | A Trip to Chinatown | Gayne Wilder |
1926 | The Gosh-Darn Mortgage | Joe Hoskins |
1926 | Sandy | Timmy |
1926 | Old Ironsides | Boy |
1925 | Clash of the Wolves | Dave Weston |
1925 | Wings of Youth | Ted Spaulding |
1925 | The Freshman | Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited) |
1924 | Three Women | Reveler at Monkey Bar |
1923 | The Ten Commandments | Israelite Slave (uncredited) |
1923 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | (uncredited) |
1923 | A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate | Man in Nightclub (uncredited) |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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1956 | The Charlie Farrell Show | |
1952 | My Little Margie | Vern Albright |