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Jack Richardson is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 18 november 1870 at New York City (USA)

Jack Richardson

Jack Richardson
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Birth name John Howard Richardson
Nationality USA
Birth 18 november 1870 at New York City (USA)
Death 12 june 1960 (at 89 years) at Santa Barbara (USA)

Jack Howard Richardson (November 18, 1883 – November 17, 1957) was an American actor.

Biography

Born in New York, New York, he was signed to a contract in silent films in 1911 by the Thanhouser Company in New Rochelle, New York, working there for several years. Richardson appeared in more than 600 films before his death in Santa Barbara, California.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jack Richardson (333 films)

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Actor

A Summer Place, 2h10
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, John Arthur Kennedy, Beulah Bondi
Rating68% 3.4456553.4456553.4456553.4456553.445655
A pair of onetime teenage sweethearts and lovers, Ken (Richard Egan) and Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), come from different social strata. Ken was a self-supporting college student, working as a lifeguard at the Maine resort of Pine Island, while Sylvia's nouveau riche family stayed as guests of the owners one summer between years at college. After their love affair, they married other people. Twenty years on, Sylvia has a son, Johnny (Troy Donahue), and Ken a daughter, Molly (Sandra Dee).
The Climax
The Climax (1944)
, 1h26
Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Gale Sondergaard, Thomas Gomez, June Vincent
Roles le chef d'orchestre
Rating54% 2.7055652.7055652.7055652.7055652.705565
The physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, Dr. Hohner (Karloff) murders his fiancee, a prima donna, out of obsession and jealousy. Ten years later, he hears another young singer (Foster) who reminds him of the late diva, and is determined to make her sing only for him, even if it means silencing her forever.
Air Raid Wardens, 1h7
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Military humor in film, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally, Nella Walker
Rating61% 3.05423.05423.05423.05423.0542
Set during World War II, just after Pearl Harbor, Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) try their hand at various business ventures. Their store opens and closes in various guises but without success. They finally open it as a bicycle store, but it goes bankrupt and they close it down to enlist in the army. They fail in every attempt to succeed in the military and return to their home town Huxton only to find out that their store now is open, with a man named Eustace Middling (Donald Meek) in charge, selling radios instead of bicycles. But Middling offers the unfortunate brothers to share the space in a joint venture. Stan and oliie don't realize that Middling in fact is a German spy, using the shop as a front to cover a base for espionage on the US Military. The brothers also join the civil defense by becoming air raid wardens in Huxton. To complete their training, they have to take part in an advanced military drill, and Stan of course manages to get the wrong assignment—one that is far more complicated than they can handle. They set out on their mission, to rescue a very prominent banker, J.P. Norton (Howard Freeman), from a fire. They fail hugely with their mission, ending up burying the banker alive in a huge load of sand. Still, they are given one more chance to prove their aptitude as air raid wardens, involving the task of ensuring that all the town citizens turn off their lights at night. They get into a quarrel with one of the more troublesome inhabitants, Joe Bledsoe (Edgar Kennedy), resulting in a commotion and a rumor that spy activity is taking place in Joe's home. The brothers are knocked out, and in the end they are finally dismissed from the corps altogether. When they return to their shop, they happen to overhear the psies speaking German, and follow them to a hide-out outside of town. They find out that Middling's real name is Mittelhause, and overhear him talking about blowing the town's magnesium plant to pieces with another spy, Rittenhause (Henry O'Neill). The brothers try to send a message to the civil defense, but instead they are captured by the German spies. Stan accidentally knocks out one of the spies and the boys manage to flee and alert the civil defense, who arrive at the plant just in time to stop the sabotage. Stan and Ollie also expose Middling as a German spy.
The Lady Eve, 1h34
Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about marriage
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore
Rating76% 3.845983.845983.845983.845983.84598
Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) is a beautiful con artist. Along with her equally larcenous father, "Colonel" Harrington (Charles Coburn) and his partner Gerald (Melville Cooper), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune ("The Ale That Won for Yale"). Pike is a woman-shy snake expert just returning from a year-long expedition up the Amazon. Though surrounded by ladies desperate for his attention, Charles is putty in Jean's hands.
Manpower
Manpower (1941)
, 1h43
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, Frank McHugh, Eve Arden, Barton MacLane
Roles Midnight Club Waiter (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.2980253.2980253.2980253.2980253.298025
A leg injury causes Los Angeles power line worker Hank McHenry to give up field work and accept a promotion to foreman. His crew includes good friend Johnny Marshall and old Pop Duval.
White Eagle
Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Buck Jones, Raymond Hatton, Dorothy Fay, Jack Ingram, Chief Yowlachie, Charles King
Roles Express Agent Richardson
Rating64% 3.2123153.2123153.2123153.2123153.212315
White Eagle, a Pony Express Rider, is the son of a massacred Army officer who has been raised by an Indian tribe. He believes himself to be the son of the tribal chief, and is working to get a peace treaty signed between the Indians and the white settlers. But 'Dandy' Darnell, a notorious and merciless outlaw, tries to keep the fight alive by sending his henchmen to stir up trouble, partly due to his wish to grab hundreds of thousands of acres in the western territories for himself and also to incite a war with the Indians along the territory. This serial was inspired by the 1932 movie of the same name, again starring Buck Jones in the title role.
The Great Mr. Nobody, 1h11
Directed by Benjamin Stoloff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Alan Hale, William Lundigan, John Litel, Dickie Moore
Roles Man Knocked Down By Dreamy
Rating58% 2.9066152.9066152.9066152.9066152.906615
A Chump at Oxford, 1h3
Directed by Alfred J. Goulding, Harve Foster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilfred Lucas, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin, Forrester Harvey
Rating71% 3.5941053.5941053.5941053.5941053.594105
Stan and Ollie are down to their last six bucks and call a lift to a job agency to find work. A City Water Dept. truck driver offers them a lift and drenches them with water as a joke and leaves them behind. They finally arrive in a badly damaged car that has been towed away. At the job agency a call comes from Mrs. Vandeveer looking for a maid and butler to help at a dinner party she is holding that night. Ollie tells the receptionist they can fill the post and to leave it to them. They arrive and Stan is dressed in drag, pretending to be the maid "Agnes".
An Angel from Texas, 1h9
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Eddie Albert, Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan
Roles Stage Doorman
Rating57% 2.856172.856172.856172.856172.85617
Peter "Tex" Coleman, a butter and egg man from Texas, comes to New York with his mother's life savings to buy a hotel in the big city and be near his stage struck sweetheart, Lydia Weston. Upon his arrival, Tex finds Lydia working as a secretary for a couple of fast-talking producers rather than being the stage star that her home town thinks she has become.
Castle on the Hudson, 1h17
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Burgess Meredith, Henry O'Neill, Jerome Cowan
Roles Prisoner (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3449453.3449453.3449453.3449453.344945
Un voleur est envoyé à la prison de Sing Sing. Sa petite amie voulant l'aider, se retrouve sous l'influence d'un avocat véreux, et pour lui échapper elle saute en marche d'une voiture.
A Fugitive from Justice, 53minutes
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Roger Pryor, Eddie Foy, Jr., Lucile Fairbanks, Sheila Bromley, Donald Douglas, Morgan Conway
Roles Photographer at Train Station (uncredited)
Rating49% 2.4974152.4974152.4974152.4974152.497415
Fugitive Lee Leslie is wanted by three groups; the police, the gangsters who fear his testimony in court and the insurance company that carries a $1,000,000 policy on him and is anxious to protect its interests by seeing that Leslie stays alive. The company assigns Dan Miller to find Leslie. A night club singer, Ruby Patterson the beneficiary of his will, tips the gangsters as to his whereabouts. He escapes but the gang kidnaps his sister Janet and his mother. His plan to surrender to the police now depends on being able to rescue them first.
Calling Philo Vance, 1h2
Directed by William Clemens
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O'Neill, Edward Brophy, Sheila Bromley, Ralph Forbes
Roles 4h Reporter (uncredited)
Rating58% 2.904192.904192.904192.904192.90419
Philo est à Vienne travaillant pour le gouvernement des États-Unis pour voir si Archer Coe vend des dessins d'avions à des puissances étrangères. Il saisit les plans avec la signature Archer, mais est capturé par la police avant qu'il ne puisse échapper. Déporté, il revient à l'Amérique et des plans pour faire face à Archer, mais Archer est retrouvé mort dans sa chambre fermée à clé avec un fusil à la main. Bien qu'il ressemble à un suicide, Vance sait mieux et le coroner estime que Archer a été tué, frappé avec un objet contondant et poignardée - qui fait du suicide improbable. Mais Vance est sur l'affaire et cherche à voir si les secrets du gouvernement ont été vendus et qui a assassiné Coe. Ceci est un remake de « The Assassiner Kennel Case » à l'aide des dessins d'avions et d'espionnage au lieu de la porcelaine chinoise et des spectacles de chiens.
King of the Lumberjacks, 58minutes
Directed by William Clemens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors John Payne, Gloria Dickson, Stanley Fields, Joe Sawyer, Victor Kilian, Earl Dwire
Roles Lumberjack On Line for Cashier (uncredited)
Rating55% 2.7583952.7583952.7583952.7583952.758395
Union Pacific, 2h15
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson, Charles Barton, James Patrick Hogan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy
Roles Official (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5419153.5419153.5419153.5419153.541915
The 1862 Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad westward across the wilderness toward California, but financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau. Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?