Billy Sullivan
Actor · 1891 – 1946 · Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Movies24
Movie6.3CrimeDramaG-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Public Hero Number 1
1935 · 9 votes
Movie6.2RomanceMusicRacketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
1933 · 4 votes
- Movie7.0ActionDrama
A motorcycle cop falls in love with a pretty girl when he gives her a speeding ticket, and she realizes that she loves him at the dinner she stages, with the help of her uncle, a judge, as a joke on the policeman.
Speed Cop
1926 · 1 votes
- Movie5.0ActionDrama
Broadway Billy is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Harry Joe Brown.
Broadway Billy
1926 · 2 votes
Movie6.2ComedyCrimeSassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.
Big Brown Eyes
1936 · 31 votes
Movie8.0DramaThe morning after his engagement party, wealthy young New York playboy Billy Hepburn awakens, battered and bruised, but without any memory of what happened the night before. Billy's valet then informs him that he and prize fighter Battling Burke had gotten into a brawl over Billy's fiancée, and Burke won. Determined to regain his honor, Billy goes into training, with his valet's help.
The Patent Leather Pug
1925 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ActionComedyThree American sailors on shore leave from the Pacific Fleet discover that a crazed inventor plans to launch an attack on the fleet and set out to thwart his plans.
Smiling Billy
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ActionAdventureWhile Scotty McTavish is driving around his his big automobile, he sees a very pretty girl enter his father's railroad yards and falls in love at first sight. He borrows some blue overalls, gets by the gate-man and applies to the yard-foreman, "Slugger" Martin for a job. Scotty tells Martin his main objective is to meet the girl. The girl is Patsy Thorne, daughter of the yardmaster, and also the apple of Martin's eye. Martin also is more than a little bit crooked and he makes things very complicated before Scotty and Patsy can get together.
The Winner
1926 · 1 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaThree people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
One More Spring
1935 · 5 votes
Movie10.0DramaHistoryA dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower.
The Courtship of Miles Standish
1923 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ThrillerMa McGregor, big-hearted owner of a race-track hot dog stand, goes turf crazy and spends her savings on a stable of five horses, including Tarcutta; and hires "Losing" Jones as trainer.
The Hot Dog Special
1924 · 1 votes
Movie5.0MusicDramaIn this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
Broadway to Hollywood
1933 · 6 votes
Movie8.4DramaJazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
Walking Back
1928 · 4 votes
Movie8.0DramaFollowing a rift with his wealthy father, Billy Mathewson, a young Broadway wastrel, escapes with his friend, Dizzy Durby, to the small town of Salino, where his father's company is building a dam. However, a crooked foreman is engaged in making himself rich at the expense of his employer and the villagers. However, Billy defeats the villain, and also wins Elinor, the daughter of a prominent local resident.
When Seconds Count
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyWesternA blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
The Thrill Hunter
1933 · 4 votes
Movie9.0ActionAdventureJohn Fenton visits a fortune-teller to gain insight into his parentage. While there, a police raid occurs, and he climbs the fire escape to the apartment above. There he finds a girl standing over the body of a young man who has just shot himself. The girl, Belle Charmion, explains that her half brother, Gordon Brewster, had stolen some jewels from their uncle and, fearing that the police would capture him, had attempted suicide
A Manhattan Knight
1920 · 1 votes
Movie4.2ThrillerMysteryJames Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
Murder by Television
1935 · 22 votes
- MovieComedy
A Big Boy comedy
Hot Luck
1928
- Movie10.0CrimeDrama
A 1927 American silent melodrama film.
The Cancelled Debt
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ActionAdventureA beautiful young woman is a daring master thief. She meets the young millionaire Thomas Babbington Norton, while fleeing from the scene of her latest theft.
The Lightning Raider
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0DramaWar
John Nisheto, a Native American, saves Senator's son Jack Burr during World War I. Upon returning to the United States, John begins a relationship with Jack's sister, Agnes, despite Jack's initial objections due to John's ethnicity and his ignorance of John's heroic act.
Red Clay
1925 · 1 votes
Movie7.0WesternA red-blooded romance of a millionaire cowboy and a city girl with stirring chase after a racing express that'll hold you spellbound.
Ridin' Pretty
1925 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaThe spread of yellow journalism in a small town almost destroys the lives of several people and threatens the livelihood of the hamlet itself.
Over the Hill
1917 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
The Heart Of A Coward
1926 · 1 votes