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Frank Hayes is a Actor American born on 17 may 1871 at San Francisco (USA)

Frank Hayes

Frank Hayes
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Nationality USA
Birth 17 may 1871 at San Francisco (USA)
Death 28 december 1923 (at 52 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Frank Hayes (May 17, 1871 – December 28, 1923) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 73 films between 1913 and 1924. An actor with a unique hatchet face appearance he appeared mostly in comedies. His facial appearance naturally lent to comedic effect in silent films, but, he also showed up in sentimental farces such as A Hoosier Romance (1918), an early film starring Colleen Moore.

He died in Hollywood, California from pneumonia, aged 52.

Biography

Frank Hayes est un acteur de théâtre et de pantomime qui débute en 1898 et devient acteur de cinéma en 1914 en entrant à The Keystone Film Company dirrigée par Mack Sennett où il tient de nombreux seconds rôles. Il débute aux côtés de Roscoe Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin et Mabel Normand. Il est souvent employé dans l'équipe des Keystone Cops dont il est, à cause de son physique particulier, un élément remarquable.

Son visage extrêmement mobile et ses mimiques particulièrement expressives correspondent parfaitement au jeu de l'acteur des films muets et sont exploitées dans les comédies burlesques de l'époque. Il joue en général des personnages bien plus âgés Il a notamment à de très nombreuses reprises campé des rôles féminins en se travestissant.

Il meurt en 1923 à l'âge de 52 ans des suites d'une pneumonie.

Usually with

Roscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe Arbuckle
(18 films)
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett
(19 films)
Larry Semon
Larry Semon
(5 films)
Al St. John
Al St. John
(13 films)
Glen Cavender
Glen Cavender
(12 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Frank Hayes (36 films)

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Actor

Greed
Greed (1924)
, 2h20
Directed by Erich von Stroheim
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt, Jack Curtis, Tempe Pigott, Chester Conklin
Roles Charles W. Grannis, proprietor of the Modern Dog Hospital
Rating79% 3.9939053.9939053.9939053.9939053.993905
"I never truckled, I never took off the hat to fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth; I knew it for the truth then and I know it for the truth now."
The Barnyard
Directed by Larry Semon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Oliver Hardy, Larry Semon, Frank Hayes, William Hauber, Spencer Bell, Al Thompson
Roles The Farmer's Wife
Rating54% 2.720772.720772.720772.720772.72077
The Stage Hand, 20minutes
Directed by Larry Semon, Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Al Thompson, William Hauber, Frank Alexander, Frank Hayes
Roles The Prima Donna
Rating53% 2.658482.658482.658482.658482.65848
Love
Love (1919)
, 23minutes
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, Winifred Westover, Frank Hayes, Monty Banks, Kate Price
Roles Frank, Winnie's father
Rating66% 3.33773.33773.33773.33773.3377
As summarized in a magazine, Fatty (Arbuckle) meets Winnie (Westover) after rescuing her father Frank (St. John) from a well at their farm and is smitten with her. Fatty is dismissed and leaves, however, as Frank wants Winnie to marry Al Clove (St. John). Fatty returns to the farm in the disguise of a hired girl so that he can be near his beloved, but finds he must fend off the flirtations of her father Frank. Winnie's marriage is all arranged, but at the dress rehearsal the groom is missing, so the "hired girl" takes his place and goes through the practice ceremony, word for word, with the bride. When the wedding day arrives, the ceremony is broken up when Fatty and Winnie announce that they have already been married as the rehearsal was the real thing.
Jane Goes A-Wooing
Directed by George Melford
Origin USA
Actors Vivian Martin, Niles Welch, Casson Ferguson, Spottiswoode Aitken, Helen Dunbar, Frank Hayes
Roles Wicks

Based upon a review in a film magazine, Jane Neill (Martin) goes to work for irritable old dramatist David Lyman (Aitken), who is annoyed by the extravagance of his spendthrift nephew Monty Lyman (Welch). Monty throws a ball at his uncle's home while Jane is there at work, and she sees him under favorable circumstances and comes to idealize him. When the playwright dies, Jane discovers that he has left his vast property to her because of her assistance in his last great work. Believing through her infatuated eyes that Monty is the rightful heir, she sets out to reform him before turning over the property to him.
Cupid Forecloses
Directed by David Smith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bessie Love, Wallace MacDonald, Dorothea Wolbert, Frank Hayes, Aggie Herring, Anne Schaefer
Roles Oliver Brown

Geraldine Farleigh (Love), a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright. She falls in love with the man she believes is a lawyer representing Cartwright (MacDonald), who turns out to be Cartwright himself.
A Hoosier Romance
Directed by Colin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Colleen Moore, Thomas Jefferson, Harry McCoy, Eugenie Besserer, Frank Hayes, Billy Jacobs
Roles The widower

Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her life of drudgery is brightened by John, the hired hand, but when he asks for her hand in marriage, the old man flies into a rage and discharges him. Soon an aged but wealthy widower courts Patience, and although she still loves John, "Old Jeff" orders her to marry the widower, claiming that a father's will is the law. Aware of her unhappiness, the kindly squire and his wife arrange for John to hide in the Thompson home on the day of the wedding. With all of the guests assembled, Patience runs from the room and pretends to escape on a horse, and while the two old men search the fields for her, she quietly marries John.
When Do We Eat?, 50minutes
Directed by Fred Niblo
Origin USA
Actors Enid Bennett, Albert Ray, Gertrude Claire, Jack Nelson, Robert McKim, Frank Hayes
Roles Martin Grubb
Rating22% 1.1234351.1234351.1234351.1234351.123435
Nora, An actress (Enid Bennett) is performing in an adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin in a Texas town. A sheriff enters with an attachment against the show. Nora, dressed as Little Eva, escapes from the venue and gets onto a train. A tramp makes advances towards her, causing her to jump from the train. She lands in a field and is arrested for looking suspicious.
After His Own Heart
Origin USA
Actors Hale Hamilton, Naomi Childers, Frank Hayes, Harry Carter, William V. Mong, Herbert Prior
Roles Vincent

Thomas Wentworth Duncan, a millionaire, faces the prospect of being broke after a fradulent trustee absconds with his money. Duncan is now faced with getting a job to support himself, but he has never been accustomed to doing anything more strenuous than polo. Duncan has also fallen in love with Sally Reeves, an old flame, but he realizes he no longer has the fortune and lifestyle to which she is accustomed and obviously cannot ask her to marry him. After returning from a gala that he fully expects to be his last one with his elite friends, he finds a mysterious letter on his table inscribed "personal and important". The letter informs him that his financial woes are well known to the letter-writer and if he will give one month to an unexplained project, the sender will pay him $250,000. Duncan decides to reject the offer in the letter, but the thought of being with Sally makes him change his mind. The next day, a limousine arrives for Duncan and with it a huge man whom he names Goliath. Duncan is taken to the hospital of Dr. Spleen, a fanatic who wants to transplant Duncan's perfectly good heart into the body of Judah P. Corpus, Sally’s rich uncle, who wants to remain young. When Duncan learns that Spleen's previous heart transplant patients, which were two dogs, that both died, he becomes nervous and wants out of the deal, but he is prevented from leaving by Goliath. As Spleen is about to perform the operation, the excitement proves to be too much for him and he drops dead. Sally's uncle doesn't know that the Dr. has died, and thinks the operation has been performed. After leaving the hospital, Duncan receives news from the authorities that the trustee has been found and that his fortune is saved, so he and Sally can now get married.
The Grab Bag Bride
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Al St. John, Alice Lake, Wayland Trask, Frank Hayes
Roles le juge de paix
Rating60% 3.044323.044323.044323.044323.04432