Tom Dempsey

Acting

Tom Dempsey

Born 1868-01-20 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Tom Dempsey was born on January 20, 1868 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA as Thomas Dempsey. He was an actor, known for Elmer and Elsie (1934), The Bush Leaguer (1927) and The Singing Plumber (1932). He died on October 6, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Acting credits

City Lights poster
8.3

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

City Lights

1931

In Conference poster
NR

Walter MacIntosh and Abe Salisbury are filmmakers in the process of viewing their swashbuckling romance epic, 'The Loves of LaVorees', starring silent screen idol, Romaine Salisbury, hotly contested within Hollywood and part of an expensive silent film production, only for Bovine Productions to switch to sound production and reveal to them for the first time, Romaine's real all-talking, all-singing voice.

In Conference

1931

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9.0

Billy Dooley meets a showgirl while on leave.

Happy Heels

1929

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7.0

Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all over town. But when Jack Townes is exposed in a newsreel pursuing a girl on the beach, Mrs. Townes has now means to negotiate.

The Candid Camera

1932

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10.0

A milquetoast trucker is bullied by his domineering wife.

Elmer and Elsie

1934

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7.0

A two reel Bobby Vernon comedy

Turn Him Loose

1929

Dangerous Females poster
10.0

Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.

Dangerous Females

1929

Fair Enough poster
10.0

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Fair Enough

1922

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7.0

A man believes that the baby in his livingroom is the "surprise" his wife messaged him about, and must contend with the real father's attempts to get his daughter back.

His Angel Child

1929

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10.0

Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When Minerva Urecal (sporting an Italian accent) shows up, wife Vivien Oakland resists attempts to get her out of the house so she can confront the interloper and her husband.

Maid to Order

1939

Love on a Budget poster
8.0

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.

Love on a Budget

1938

Too Many Highballs poster
6.3

Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.

Too Many Highballs

1933

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4.0

We first meet Harry on the morning of his wedding day. He looks like he's been partying, but we know he's a sweet guy because he sleeps with a photo of his bride. Friends serenade Harry outside, but when he goes to the window to join in they douse him with water. As he prepares for his wedding, he looks in the mirror and it shatters. When the groom attempts to run to the church the ring slips out of his hand and is run over by a passing car. As anyone who has seen Harry's 1924 comedy HIS MARRIAGE WOW can guess, the ring sticks to the tire, and Harry must climb on to the car to retrieve it.....

Tied for Life

1933

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7.0

Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance company, who repossess the trailer for non-payment. Edgar discovers that Pop had failed to mail the money order he had given him for the payment. He also finds some other items Pop failed to take care of.

A Trailer Tragedy

1940

Love's Young Scream poster
10.0

Young lovers pursued by her father -- and then a series of sight gags based on the mayhem of their auto ride.

Love's Young Scream

1928

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8.0

Andy, proprietor of an oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.

The Peppery Salt

1936

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10.0

Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.

Radio Kisses

1930

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10.0

A wealthy father tries to discourage his daughter's taste for stories of the Mounted; her imagination conjures up the ideal lover as one who wears that red coat and whose slogan is "get your man." She arrives at her father's camp in the frozen North the victim of a frameup: her father had planned that his employees must discourage her in every manner possible. The idea is if she sees him she will be disillusioned. A few hunters spying the "wolves" shoot with intent to kill, and a real bear enters the hut and scatters the plotters. The scheme works well, even with all these inconveniences, until a genuine Mountie appears on the scene and administers punishment to the arch-villain and his dwarf-like henchman. As a result the girl's romantic imagination vindicates her beau ideal. The two lovers are last seen standing chest-deep in the snow.

Cold Feet

1922