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Joseph W. Girard is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 1 april 1871 at Williamsport (USA)

Joseph W. Girard

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Nationality USA
Birth 1 april 1871 at Williamsport (USA)
Death 21 august 1949 (at 78 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Joseph W. Girard (April 2, 1871 – August 21, 1949) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1911 and 1944. He was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.

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Filmography of Joseph W. Girard (92 films)

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Mission to Moscow, 2h4
Directed by Michael Curtiz, Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Eleanor Parker
Roles American Senator (uncredited)
Rating54% 2.7043152.7043152.7043152.7043152.704315
The film chronicles ambassador Davies' impressions of the Soviet Union, his meetings with Stalin, and his overall opinion of the Soviet Union and its ties with the United States. It is made in faux-documentary style, beginning with Davies meeting with president Franklin D. Roosevelt to discuss his new appointment as United States ambassador to the Soviet Union. It continues to show the Davies' family's trip by boat to Moscow, with stops in Europe.
Captain Midnight, 4h30
Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Bryant Washburn, Sam Edwards, Luana Walters, Joseph W. Girard
Roles Major Steel (as Joe Girard)
Rating65% 3.279063.279063.279063.279063.27906
Captain Midnight was only one of the many aviation serials released in wartime whose leading characters were derived from early pulp magazines and radio favorites. In this serial, Captain Albright is an extremely skilled aviator better known as Captain Midnight, who is assigned to neutralize the sinister Ivan Shark, an evil enemy scientist who is bombing major American cities. Our hero leads the Secret Squadron, whose staff includes Chuck Ramsay who is Midnight's ward and Ichabod 'Icky' Mudd, the Squadron's chief mechanic. Shark has developed a highly efficient mercenary organization, being aided by his daughter Fury who is highly intelligent and second in command, Gardo the henchman and Fang, an Oriental ally. Unfortunately, Shark is after a new range finder invented by the altruistic scientist, John Edwards, whose beautiful daughter, Joyce, the villains attempt to capture to blackmail the inventor.
The Secret Code
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Paul Kelly, Anne Nagel, Trevor Bardette, Clancy Cooper, Gregory Gaye, Ludwig Donath
Roles Col. Drake
Rating73% 3.675913.675913.675913.675913.67591
This serial introduces the World War II scenario when a masked hero tries to prevent Nazi agents from crippling the US's war effort. The spy ring is led by fifth columnist Jensen, who, with his lieutenant Rudy Thyssen and a network of Nazi saboteurs, is trying to get possession of a top-secret formula the United States had developed for manufacturing synthetic rubber while creating explosive gases and radio-controlled bombs to sabotage the exhausting war effort. Then Police Lieutenant Dan Barton stages a public dismissal from the police department, in order to join the saboteurs ring and learn the secret code they have been using. To further assist his efforts (especially after his superior, the only person to know that Barton is working undercover, is murdered), Barton assumes the secret identity of the Black Commando, a masked man who is wanted both by the villains (who want the secret formula they think he has) and police (who are also searching for Barton for murder). Finally, Barton steals the formula and is captured by Thyssen and put under the protection of the sabotage ring. Joining the gang, he learns of their plans, which he immediately leaks to his best friend and former partner Pat Flanagan and news reporter girlfriend Jean Ashley and, as "The Black Commando", continually frustrates the Nazi plots. After innumerable dangers and lost efforts in trying to decipher the enemy's secret codes, Barton and Flanagan discover the key to the Nazi code, capture the Nazi ring and make sure that the Nazi U-boat which has been waiting to help the Nazis escape is depth-bombed and destroyed.
Sergeant York, 2h14
Directed by Don Siegel, Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly
Roles General John J. Pershing (uncredited)
Rating76% 3.8469653.8469653.8469653.8469653.846965
Alvin York (Gary Cooper), a poor young Tennessee hillbilly, is an exceptional marksman, but a ne'er-do-well prone to drinking and fighting, which does not make things any easier for his patient mother (Margaret Wycherly). He changes when he meets Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie), and works night and day to buy a good farm so she'll marry him. When he's cheated out of it at the last minute, he returns to his dissolute ways.
The Spider Returns
Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Superhero films
Actors Warren Hull, Mary Ainslee, Dave O'Brien, Joseph W. Girard, Kenne Duncan, Bryant Washburn
Roles Police Commissioner Kirk
Rating62% 3.100353.100353.100353.100353.10035
Amateur criminologist Richard Wentworth, formerly the masked vigilante, The Spider, brings his former alter ego out of retirement for 15 action-packed chapters to help his old friend, police commissioner Kirk (Kirkpatrick in the pulp novels), battle a dangerous, power-obsessed maniac called The Gargoyle. This mysterious crime lord and his henchmen threaten the world with acts of sabotage and wholesale murder in an effort to wreck the U. S. national defense.
Deadwood Dick
Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Donald Douglas, Lorna Gray, Harry Harvey, Sr., Jack Ingram, Marin Sais, Lane Chandler
Roles Government Referee
Rating71% 3.560623.560623.560623.560623.56062
Deadwood Dick, a masked and mysterious hero, is in a reality Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of the Statehood For Dakota. He is on the trail of a masked villain known as the Skull, who leads a violent, renegade band which is infamous for its violence against the Deadwood residents wishes for a statehood status. Our hero soon discovers that the Skull terrorises the town to prevent statehood being achieved, in order to build his own empire in the vast territory. But Dick suspects that one of his fellow committeemen might be responsible for the string of criminal acts. It takes him fifteen episodes and about forty choreographed slugfests to finally uncover the truth and reward the Skull's villainy with an exemplary punishment.
The Green Archer
Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Victor Jory, Iris Meredith, Dorothy Fay, Robert Fiske, Forrest Taylor, Jack Ingram
Roles Inspector Ross
Rating64% 3.233713.233713.233713.233713.23371
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother, Abel Bellamy, takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans. Bellamy is using Garr Castle as a base for his jewelry-theft ring, and he kidnaps his brother's wife to keep things quiet. Insurance investigator Spike Holland enters the case, and Bellamy continually dispatches his resident gang to do away with him. Detective Thompson, representing the law, is seldom of any help. Meanwhile, the estate's fabled "Green Archer", a masked, leotard-clad marksman, steals silently through Garr Castle and the estate grounds, confounding the enemy forces.
Zenobia
Zenobia (1939)
, 1h13
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals
Actors Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, Hattie McDaniel, James Ellison
Roles Juryman
Rating59% 2.994362.994362.994362.994362.99436
Hardy plays Dr. Henry Tibbett, a country doctor who is called on by a travelling circus trainer to cure his sick elephant. After the doctor heals the grateful beast, the elephant becomes so attached to him that it starts to follow him everywhere. This leads to the trainer suing Dr. Tibbett for alienation of affection.
Held For Ransom, 59minutes
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Grant Withers, Blanche Mehaffey, Jack Mulhall, Kenneth Harlan, Harry Harvey, Sr., Walter McGrail
Roles Police Chief Howell
Rating52% 2.630682.630682.630682.630682.63068
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Clipped Wings, 1h3
Directed by Stuart Paton
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Lloyd Hughes, Rosalind Keith, William Janney, George Regas, Richard Cramer, Jason Robards Sr.
Roles Col. A.C. Clayton, Flight Surgeon
Rating41% 2.0704052.0704052.0704052.0704052.070405
In World War I, Captain Jerry Broun (Lloyd Hughes) feels he has to fight even though the United States has not yet entered the conflict. He enrols in Canada to fly as a pilot, with his adoring young half-brother Mickey (Delmar Watson) wanting to follow in his footsteps by becoming a pilot.
The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen, 1h
Directed by Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Tex Ritter, Iris Meredith, Horace Murphy, Charles King, Earl Dwire, Forrest Taylor
Roles Dan Farley
Rating47% 2.391012.391012.391012.391012.39101
Tex and Stubby keep their promise to a dying friend by helping his partner hang on to his gold mine and to avenge his death by taking on and wiping out a horde of masked riders.
Wild West Days
Directed by Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors John Mack Brown, Bob Kortman, Russell Simpson, Walter Miller, Charles Stevens, Francis McDonald
Roles Judge Lawrence
Rating64% 3.2295553.2295553.2295553.2295553.229555
Larry and Lucy Munro own a hidden gold mine. Newspaper editor Matt Keeler wants the mine for himself and has Larry framed for to get it. Frontiersman Kentucky Wade - with Dude Hanford, Mike Morales and Trigger Benton - come to the Munros' aid.
Aces and Eights, 1h2
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Tim McCoy, Luana Walters, Rex Lease, Wheeler Oakman, J. Frank Glendon, Charles Stevens
Roles Don Julio Hernandez (as Joseph Girard)
Rating53% 2.6726552.6726552.6726552.6726552.672655
A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.
Lightnin' Bill Carson, 1h15
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Tim McCoy, Lois January, Rex Lease, Karl Hackett, Jimmy Aubrey, Joseph W. Girard
Roles Banker John Mount
Rating60% 3.0033653.0033653.0033653.0033653.003365
Un avocat capture le fameux "Pecos Kid", qui est jugé et pendu pour ses crimes - puis commence à douter que le Kid ait réellement commis les crimes.