
Charles K. French
Actor · 1860 – 1952 · Columbus, Ohio, USA
From Wikipedia Charles K. French (born Charles Ekrauss French; January 17, 1860 – August 2, 1952) was an American film actor, screenwriter and director who appeared in more than 240 movies between 1909 and 1945.
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Movie7.5ComedyDramaLongfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · 416 votes
Movie7.5RomanceAdventureA kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
The Prisoner of Zenda
1937 · 62 votes
Movie7.1ComedyRomanceIndependent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.
Design for Living
1933 · 216 votes
Movie6.7DramaRomanceWhen Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
1923 · 204 votes
Movie5.6ActionAdventureRe-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
Radio Ranch
1940 · 7 votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaIn the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Marked Woman
1937 · 79 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaAndrew Bullivant, a retired lawyer known as "Grumpy" for his irascibility, calls on all his experience and powers of deduction to expose Chamberlin Jarvis as the thief of a valuable diamond being transported by Ernest Heron. A gardenia is the clue; and Virginia Bullivant, Ernest's sweetheart, is Jarvis' unwitting dupe.
Grumpy
1923 · 1 votes
Movie5.8MusicComedyA kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
Roman Scandals
1933 · 25 votes
Movie5.3ActionCrimeA mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Dick Tracy's G-Men
1939 · 4 votes
Movie7.0ActionDramaBill Sanford (William Fairbanks), a daredevil race-car driver, is abducted by his main competitor Alan Lawson (Lloyd Whitlock) and his henchmen, on the eve of a race he hopes will win him $5,000. But he escapes his captors and arrives ate the race track just in time to drive his speedster to victory. With the prize money, he saves the father, Charles Hampton (Charles K. French) of his sweetheart Betty Hampton (Edith Roberts) from losing the family.
Speed Mad
1925 · 1 votes
Movie10.0WesternTrying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, which will be in the path of a future railroad, Underwood (Charles K.French) hires Keno Creager (Albert Smith) to impersonate Jimmy Winters, not seen by his mother and sister for many years.
Overland Bound
1929 · 1 votes
Movie6.0WesternA cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.
Gun Play
1935 · 2 votes
Movie8.0WesternChick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, because he is suspicious of his foreman Sam Curtis' activities, decides to proceed incognito. Disguised as Harold Montague, his partner's son, Chick works among the ranch hands and discovers that Curtis is rustling cattle and is responsible for driving Barbara Hampton and her aunt from their home.
Square Shooter
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.5WarDramaA 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943 · 3 votes
Movie9.0RomanceDramaGentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Rowland V. Lee, the film starred Bessie Love.
Gentle Julia
1923 · 1 votes
- MovieComedyDrama
Young John Glenarm's wealthy grandfather leaves him his estate, but the will stipulates that John live in the estate, rumored to be haunted, for one year or it will be forfeited to schoolteacher Marian Deveraux. John moves in and strange and unexplained events begin to occur. He really doesn't want to stay there anymore, but finds that he is falling in love with pretty young Marian, and decides to stick it out. However, there's more to his grandfather's will than John realizes, and it's not long before he finds out just what that is.
Haunting Shadows
1919
Movie10.0HistoryDramaA biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1924 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means of financial support from his father. But the young man becomes involved in a shady railroad deal which threatens to destroy his own father.
Movie10.0WesternBlinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed on the Mexican border because his previous military experience was as a Boy Scout.
Blinky
1923 · 1 votes
Movie5.5WesternThe Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942 · 4 votes
Movie7.0DramaMrs. Pitman seeks a wealthy husband for her daughter, Virginia. The first prospect, Colonel Singleton, insults Virginia and is shot by her brother. They move, assume another name, and find a new suitor, Clayborne Gordon, who changes his mind when he learns of Virginia's past. She then tells her story to poor racing-driver Cole Hawkins, whom actually she loves. He not only accepts her but reveals himself to be one of the wealthiest men in the area.
White Shoulders
1922 · 1 votes
Movie7.2DramaComedyJosephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Vagabond Lady
1935 · 6 votes
MovieDramaSoutherner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her down to his home. There, she finds an acquaintance, Alexander Chapman (Robert McKim), and the fact that she knows him rouses her new husband's jealousy. This is fanned even further when Pearson's younger brother, Morgan (Emory Johnson) returns from college. His fiancee, Margery (Doris Lee), believes there is something going on between Shirley and Morgan and complains to Pearson.
Green Eyes
1918
Movie7.0ComedyCharley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an asylum escapee.
Fast Work
1930 · 3 votes