
Jack Pickford
Actor · 1896 – 1933 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith) was an actor of some popularity in American Silent films. He was Silent screen star Mary Pickford's younger brother.
Movies24
Movie6.1CrimeDramaA man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912 · 105 votes
MovieDramaOrphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Movie10.0CrimeDramaThe Merediths, in reality much in love, have quarreled and agreed to separate but cannot agree as to the disposition of their little daughter Beryl. All this is opportune for the plans of Spider, a notorious kidnapper and his gang, who plot to steal Beryl while her nurse flirts in the park with one of their pals.
The Dummy
1917 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaA mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New England fishing village.
My Son
1925 · 1 votes
- Movie5.0ComedyRomance
Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bambrick.
Liberty Belles
1914 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaFantasyJohn Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins leading a life of dissolute habits, which soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he recalls better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
Home, Sweet Home
1914 · 15 votes
Movie4.4Mabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention in a newspaper. Apparently, it is an ad on becoming a detective. Mabel goes rushing off to a Detective school run by Fred Ward.
Katchem Kate
1912 · 4 votes
MovieComedyDramaSeventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man. William now heartbroken, contemplates suicide, until a friend from childhood, May Parcher, pays a visit and William decides to fall in love with her.
Seventeen
1916
Movie6.5ComedyDramaJohnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't get her to look his way. Things get even worse when a city boy comes to town and boards at the Fields' home.
In Wrong
1919 · 2 votes
Movie5.9ActionWarThe story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
The Massacre
1912 · 20 votes
Movie2.5ComedyTom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.
Pranks
1909 · 1 votes
MovieDramaRomanceKnown as "Wildflower," Letty Roberts meets Arnold Boyd, a wealthy man who is weary of life in the city.
Wildflower
1914
Movie6.4ComedyMysteryA masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
The Bat
1926 · 29 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaAngela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Hollywood
1923 · 3 votes
Movie5.2DramaAgnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.
To Save Her Soul
1909 · 4 votes
MovieDocumentaryThe edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
MovieDramaRomanceA Scots-Irish lad comes to America hoping to find his fortune. On the sea voyage he meets and falls for a lovely young girl, but they are parted on arrival. Years later, in the Kentucky town where he has settled and prospered, he meets the girl again, and both sparks and complications arise.
Sandy
1918
Movie6.5CrimeDramaSaxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss "Blackjack" is also in love with her. "Blackjack" is also battling gang boss Mike Luego in a violent turf war.
Gang War
1928 · 2 votes
Movie5.5DramaRomanceTom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
Brown of Harvard
1926 · 14 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
To Walter Holden since the death of his wife, falls the responsibility of raising his only child.
The Kid
1910 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ComedyDramaThe story of David Harum, a small-town banker, and how what he does and who he is affects the lives of everyone in his town, whether they--or he--realize it.
David Harum
1915 · 7 votes
MovieDramaAn abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece does to his family exactly what he is doing to his own family.
Brutality
1912
MovieComedyAdventureThe adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Huck and Tom
1918
Movie7.0DramaA young wild girl, Fanchon, lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the villagers of being a witch. The unkempt Fanchon suffers from her grandmother's sorceress reputation. One day the girl rescues a boy from drowning and they fall in love, but Fanchon won't agree to marry him unless his father asks her. A year later the boy has fallen very ill and it is only the presence of the enchanting Fanchon that helps to restore his health.
Fanchon, the Cricket
1915 · 12 votes
Series1
TV6.5DocumentaryTV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
American Experience
1988 · 48 votes