Ted McNamara
Actor · 1894 – 1928 · Melbourne, Australia
Movies9
Movie5.0Comedy"Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small harbor who has never had a boyfriend. Connie is instantly smitten. She invites Smith to dinner, where he dances with her and gives her a kiss. Connie has a hard time letting him go, and makes him promise that he will come back.
Shore Leave
1925 · 7 votes
Movie6.6DramaEllen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.
Mother Machree
1927 · 10 votes
Movie8.0DramaTo prevent discovery of the cruel methods he is using in building a Bolivian railway, Gillespie a ruthless construction crew foreman, attempts to kill Arthur Wyatt, an Englishman sent to inspect the job. Gillespie's niece, Toni, discovers the plot and saves Wyatt after he has been shot by her uncle's accomplice. A lost film.
The Gateway of the Moon
1928 · 1 votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaU.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain, takes up with flirtatious Charmaine, inn-keeper's daughter. Of course, Quirt has to arrive and spoil his fun. But the harsh realities of war and the threat of a shotgun marriage give the two men a common cause...
What Price Glory
1926 · 10 votes
Movie6.0DramaIn 1927 Olive Borden starred in Fox drama The Monkey Talks directed by Raoul Walsh. She played a circus performer who meets a man pretending to be a talking monkey.
The Monkey Talks
1927 · 6 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaA silent comedy set in an actor's boardinghouse. Some plot points are seemingly inspired by the Barrymore dynasty.
Upstream
1927 · 8 votes
Movie9.0ComedyWhy Sailors Go Wrong is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Henry Lehrman and written by Randall Faye and Delos Sutherland.
Why Sailors Go Wrong
1928 · 1 votes
Movie10.0WesternSteve Lannon is a retired gunman and reformed-outlaw who has left his ranch and is living in seclusion in San Francisco. He receives word that rustlers are on the rampage in the area of his ranch, and have stolen his horse, Silver. Steve returns to Nevada to take care of this matter.
Chain Lightning
1927 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyWarRich boy Dick Wright, rejected by both the Army and the Navy because he is a sleepwalker, joins an ambulance unit during the war with his chauffeur and valet tagging along to protect him. They accidentally get aboard a regular troop train, arriving in France as members of the U. S. Army. Following a series of comic adventures with a hard-boiled sergeant, Ted and Sam succeed in capturing a detachment of Germans, receiving decorations for their bravery. Along the way, the boys engage in romantic interludes with Betty and Joan, respectively American and French.
The Gay Retreat
1927 · 1 votes