Frank Richardson

Directing

Frank Richardson

Born 1898-09-06 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Acting credits

Kings of the Forest poster
4.8

A romantic drama that unfolds in part in British India. Sona, who leaves home with her ​​child because of the quarrel between her two suitors, is threatened along the way by wild animals. The quarrelling suitors put their dispute behind them, and rescue her.

Kings of the Forest

1912

A Frontier Girl's Courage poster
7.0

A short Western in which a group of settlers are ambushed and slain by Indians. A girl escapes the massacre, and flees with the gold digger Jim. After this adventure, a romance begins between Jim and the girl.

A Frontier Girl's Courage

1911

Shipwrecked poster
5.5

Annie Jackson, living with her uncle, Horace Gregory, an old fisherman on Val Dez Island, is injured by an automobile. John Kingdon, who happens by, takes her in his machine to the hospital. There he learns to love her, but his advances are not wanted by her uncle, for his choice for his niece's hand is John Runyon. So when Annie returns to her home, and is told to marry Runyon, she refuses. In the meantime, Kingdon leaves for Honolulu. The vessel is wrecked. Kingdon, cast into the sea, clings half exhausted to a spar. By a trick of Fate, the wreck occurs on the rocks of Val Dez Island, and Annie sees the spar, rows out and succeeds in dragging it to shore, where Kingdon is recognized. The young people declare their love for each other, but Runyon plans to get Kingdon out of his way. The "best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee," and so Kingdon escapes the trap laid for him, and taking Annie with him to the mainland, they get married.

Shipwrecked

1911

No artwork available
7.0

The Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His friend, Joe Saunders, also has to leave his aged mother and answer the call of duty to his country. The misfortunes of war claim Mace, and at night as Joe, sorely wounded, limps off the battlefield, he leaves Mace for dead. Soldiers burying the dead, discover life in Mace and he is hurried to the hospital, where the surgeons succeed in reviving him. Thinking Mace dead, Joe writes to his mother of this tragedy, and she sadly shows the letter to the wife. Joe returns. Mace's widow calls for the details of his death. After recovering from the operation it is found that Mace's mind is affected, and he is taken to an asylum for treatment.

The Blacksmith's Love

1911

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10.0

John Bird and Franklyn Fordham were once business partners, but because of Bird’s shady dealings they part. After years of success for one and failure for the other, Bird takes drastic measures, resorting to arson before his scheme is thwarted.

The Still Alarm

1911

No artwork available
10.0

The parents of a young man who is wrongly accused of theft eventually find their son on a ship, where he is working as a sailor.

Their Only Son

1911

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zaken zijn zaken

1921

Cabaret poster
NR

Set during rehearsals for a cabaret show, this short film features singer Rosalind Melville.

Cabaret

1945

Cabaret poster
NR

Set during rehearsals for a cabaret show, this short film features singer Rosalind Melville.

Cabaret

1945

No artwork available
10.0

John Bentley stars as a man who returns home to claim his inheritance. He soon learns his half brother has spent his fortune and is mixed up with jewel thieves

Bait

1950

No artwork available
10.0

John Bentley stars as a man who returns home to claim his inheritance. He soon learns his half brother has spent his fortune and is mixed up with jewel thieves

Bait

1950

No artwork available
10.0

John Bentley stars as a man who returns home to claim his inheritance. He soon learns his half brother has spent his fortune and is mixed up with jewel thieves

Bait

1950

No artwork available
6.6

A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's wife to show the girl how foolish she's been.

Her First Affaire

1932

King of the Pack poster
9.0

Peter the Great as the dog "King" that rescues his abducted owner.

King of the Pack

1926

The Black Tulip poster
4.0

In 17th century Holland, a faction of royalists is scheming to restore the monarchy and jail the De Witt brothers, who control the Republic. At the same time Tulip Fever is raging, and bulb-grower Cornelis van Baerle tries to obtain the secret of black tulips. Van Baerle will soon find himself threatened by radical royalists and rival bulb-grower Isaac van Boxtel.

The Black Tulip

1921

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NR

Vaudeville. A fog prevents a group of music-hall artistes from reaching the theatre in time for the show forcing the stage manager to bring the buskers in from the queues outside, and turn the performance into "Amateur Night".

Amateur Night

1946

No artwork available
NR

Vaudeville. A fog prevents a group of music-hall artistes from reaching the theatre in time for the show forcing the stage manager to bring the buskers in from the queues outside, and turn the performance into "Amateur Night".

Amateur Night

1946

Above Rubies poster
7.0

In Monte Carlo, Lady Wellingford cannot redeem a necklace from a jeweler.

Above Rubies

1932

No artwork available
7.0

Two nightclub cloakroom attendants become entangled with an enemy spy ring in an adventure that takes them to Paris.

That’s The Ticket

1940

The Avenging Hand poster
5.4

A Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package, and murder an innocent match-seller for it, he turns detective.

The Avenging Hand

1936

In the Night poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

In the Night

1920

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7.0

A gang of criminals masquerading as ghosts are eventually exposed.

The River House Ghost

1932

No artwork available
7.0

The second of two "Jack and Jim" musicals, starring Arthur Roscoe and Naunton Wayne.

For Love of You

1933

No artwork available
9.0

A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson

Flat No. 9

1932

No artwork available
NR

Elderly sweethearts Ma and Pa - proprietors of a London theatrical boarding house – enjoy a front-room variety show put on by their showbiz tenants in this cornucopia of music-hall madness. Watch and wonder at exotic dancing, a cockney Hawaiian guitar whistler, the bizarre ‘Utility Concert Party’ and a man who impersonates blitz legends Flanagan and Allen - simultaneously.

Sweethearts Forever

1945

No artwork available
NR

Elderly sweethearts Ma and Pa - proprietors of a London theatrical boarding house – enjoy a front-room variety show put on by their showbiz tenants in this cornucopia of music-hall madness. Watch and wonder at exotic dancing, a cockney Hawaiian guitar whistler, the bizarre ‘Utility Concert Party’ and a man who impersonates blitz legends Flanagan and Allen - simultaneously.

Sweethearts Forever

1945