Acting

Richard Carlyle

Born — Died

1879-05-21 — 1942-06-12

Place of birth

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

28 titles

Known for

The Valiant poster
6.1

A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.

The Valiant

1929

Brotherly Love poster
8.0

Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.

Brotherly Love

1928

The Girl of the Golden West poster
10.0

A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.

The Girl of the Golden West

1930

Five Star Final poster
6.6

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.

Five Star Final

1931

Ten Nights in a Bar Room poster
10.0

Joe Morgan, a previously respectable worker, becomes a town drunkard, losing his job and neglecting his family due to the influence of the local tavern, the "Sickle and Sheaf". Joe's daughter, Little Mary, frequently comes to the bar to beg her father to return home. During a confrontation in the bar, a thrown glass hits Little Mary, resulting in her death. Devastated by the death of his child, Joe vows revenge but reforms, ending his addiction and reuniting with his family.

Ten Nights in a Bar Room

1921

The Girl in the Show poster
6.0

In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.

The Girl in the Show

1929

Film credits

1930s · 16 titles

The Girl of the Golden West poster
10.0

A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.

The Girl of the Golden West

1930

Five Star Final poster
6.6

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.

Five Star Final

1931

Mountain Justice poster
7.5

In the Kentucky mountains, Ken McTavish comes to Kettle Creek looking for the killer of his father. Pretending to be deaf so he can investigate, he arouses the suspicions of the Harland clan, a family in a longstanding feud with his own.

Mountain Justice

1930

When a Man's a Man poster
5.5

A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert refuses to let them have any water. Easterner Larry Knight takes a job with the Baldwins and he has a plan to divert the water back to the Baldwin ranch. But Phil, jealous of Kitty's attraction to Larry, lets Cambert know of the scheme.

When a Man's a Man

1935

West of Broadway poster
6.8

A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.

West of Broadway

1931

The Country Doctor poster
6.5

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

The Country Doctor

1936

Hide-Out poster
10.0

A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and the most popular man on campus.

Hide-Out

1930

Sons of Steel poster
7.0

Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell) through college in style...

Sons of Steel

1934

The Lion Man poster
5.2

A young British boy whose father was murdered by a treacherous Aran sheik finds himself in a position to exact revenge as an adult.

The Lion Man

1936

Tol'able David poster
8.5

Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.

Tol'able David

1930

The Saddle Buster poster
8.0

A rodeo rider can't face the game after he's almost killed by a wild bronco

The Saddle Buster

1932

Happiness C.O.D. poster
7.5

A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.

Happiness C.O.D.

1935

Unholy Love poster
4.0

An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed.

Unholy Love

1932

Playing Around poster
5.0

New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.

Playing Around

1930

No artwork available
8.0

A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.

Public Opinion

1935

Quick Trigger Lee poster
8.0

Jeremy Wales, a crook who stays on the safe side of the law but bends it whenever possible,has tricked short-sighted John 'Dad" Saunders to sign a note for ten thousand dollars instead of the one thousand that Saunders borrowed to work his "Rose o' My Heart" mine. Saunders tells his problem to Phil Lee, a prosperous young rancher, whose method of settling problems has gained him the nickname of "Quick Trigger."

Quick Trigger Lee

1931

1920s · 10 titles

The Valiant poster
6.1

A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.

The Valiant

1929

Brotherly Love poster
8.0

Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.

Brotherly Love

1928

Ten Nights in a Bar Room poster
10.0

Joe Morgan, a previously respectable worker, becomes a town drunkard, losing his job and neglecting his family due to the influence of the local tavern, the "Sickle and Sheaf". Joe's daughter, Little Mary, frequently comes to the bar to beg her father to return home. During a confrontation in the bar, a thrown glass hits Little Mary, resulting in her death. Devastated by the death of his child, Joe vows revenge but reforms, ending his addiction and reuniting with his family.

Ten Nights in a Bar Room

1921

The Girl in the Show poster
6.0

In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.

The Girl in the Show

1929

Shootin' Irons poster
8.0

Story of a rancher clearing his girlfriend's father of a crime he didn't commit

Shootin' Irons

1927

The Copperhead poster
7.0

A farmer in Illinois played by Lionel Barrymore is recruited by Abraham Lincoln to pose as a copperhead during the Civil War.

The Copperhead

1920

It Can Be Done poster
9.0

Jerry Willard, a clerk in a publishing house who is possessed of a massive inferiority complex, is fired from his job and, on the way out of the office, is mistaken for the boss, Watson, by Anne Rogers, the daughter of an author.

It Can Be Done

1929

The Inside of the Cup poster
8.0

Minister John Hodder becomes rector of a prestigious church in the Midwestern city of Bremerton but finds dissension and malfeasance among his congregation. When he calls it out both tragedy and a way forward are revealed.

The Inside of the Cup

1921

Women Men Marry poster
7.0

When he loses both his wife and child, Montgomery Rogers adopts his servants' little girl and raises her as his own. Completely unaware of her origins, Emerie grows up to be a first class snob. Her socially ambitious aunt takes her to Europe to become engaged to Brooks Fitzroy, an impoverished lord (Cyril Chadwick). On the voyage back she encounters a young man, Dick Clarke who is working for his passage.

Women Men Marry

1922

Hearts in Dixie poster
5.0

Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.

Hearts in Dixie

1929

1910s · 2 titles