Joseph Levering

Directing

Joseph Levering

Born 1874-07-20 · Columbus, Ohio, USA

Acting credits

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8.0

A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life.

Sporting Chance

1931

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NR

A New York detective solves the kidnapping of a rich banker by a gang of criminals, and clears the daughter's fiancé from being involved.

The Fight for Millions

1913

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9.0

With a parting kiss, Betty Lane, a fisherman's daughter, and John Monroe, promise to meet later in the day at their trysting place on the seashore. Betty returns to keep the appointment and is waiting but a moment when a wealthy young yachtsman comes ashore for provisions. He flits with Betty and Betty's heart is lost. John arrives to find his sweetheart in the stranger's arms. Betty ignores John's protests and agrees to the newcomer's proposal that she pack her things, meet him in half an hour and elope. John hides and awaits their return. The yachtsman is the first to arrive. He has his provisions and has not forgotten a bottle of stimulant, most of which he has already consumed. John thrashes him for stealing his girl, throws him into his rowboat, and orders him to get aboard his yacht and not to return. On board the yacht the intoxicated yachtsman drops a match near the oil tank.

The Lass of Gloucester

1912

The Temptations of Satan poster
NR

Satan decides to ruin the innocence of ambitious Everygirl , who has a beautiful voice and wishes to pursue a career singing in opera. He thus assumes human form and follows her in order to make sure that she accepts his terms.

The Temptations of Satan

1914

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NR

A tale of English political intrigue. A certain member of Parliament, whose voice and vote would have passed an objectionable measure, is prevented from reaching the house in time by the opposition's subterfuge of a girl calling for assistance just as he passed her house. The young lady being an actress merely re-enacts a scene from the amateur theatricals she appeared in. The plan works holding him until it is too late to take part in the debate or vote upon the question and the bill did not pass.

How Sir Andrew Lost His Vote

1911

The Pit and the Pendulum poster
5.8

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

The Pit and the Pendulum

1913

Brennan of the Moor poster
5.0

The film carries the slogan: ‘He Stole From the Rich to Give to the Poor’. It is a story of the ‘nobleman-bandit’, Brennan O'Malley, who is captured and imprisoned, but an attempt to drown him through flooding his cell fails. Recaptured after his escape from prison, he overwhelms a soldier and escapes again. He then holds up Lord Hastings and changes into his clothes. He escapes through a secret passage with Betty, Lady Lorrequer whom he had earlier rescued and with whom he had fallen in love. The couple cross a chasm with the aid of a human chain to elude Lord Hastings' troop of soldiers. In the pursuit, Hastings falls into the sea and is killed, while Brennan and Betty escape by ship.

Brennan of the Moor

1913

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NR

An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father.

The Rogues of Paris

1913

The Dream Woman poster
NR

In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his birthdays, becoming more and more real as the years go on. He leaves home to secure a place as groom, but arrives at his destination too late. Forced to retrace his steps, he seeks shelter in a little inn, forgetting that the hour of his birth is approaching. In the middle of the night he awakens, terrified with fright… Based on Wilkie Collins' novel “The Dream Woman”.

The Dream Woman

1914

The Awakening of John Bond poster
NR

A slumlord learns just how important it is to maintain clean living quarters when his wife contracts tuberculosis.

The Awakening of John Bond

1911

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kelly from the Emerald Isle

1913

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NR

A Parisian doctor, infatuated with the wife of his benefactor, drugs and kidnaps her, and tries to convince the husband that she is dead. This film is lost.

Shadows of the Moulin Rouge

Behind the camera

The Victim poster
NR

A priest is trying to help a poor family when nearby the father is hit on the head by a criminal who then throws him off a bridge into the water below. The priest administers Last Rites then seeks to help the family and find the murderer.

The Victim

1920

Luring Shadows poster
9.0

J.H. Wareing, a New York City financier, is found murdered in his library after the robbery of several securities and a necklace. Suspicion points to the butler, Jason, to whom Wareing had shown the necklace the night before. Wareing's daughter, Florence, is also a suspect and therefore denied her father's estate.

Luring Shadows

1921

Finger Prints poster
10.0

A string of valuable pearls provides the motivation for the murder of Wareing, a widowed banker, who intended them for his daughter, Mary. She is comforted by Barton, a criminologist and friend of her late father, who appears to have left his financial affairs in a terrible state. Meanwhile, Mary's fiancé works diligently to identify the murderer. Although the criminologist places the blame on Wareing's butler, a reformed burglar, the killer is finally revealed to be Barton himself.

Finger Prints

1922

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Unrestrained Youth

1925

Stagecoach Days poster
7.0

Western featuring a thrilling stagecoach race.

Stagecoach Days

1938

Sea Devils poster
8.0

An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.

Sea Devils

1931

Cheating Blondes poster
5.0

A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.

Cheating Blondes

1933

Lone Star Pioneers poster
9.0

Wagon trains bringing supplies are being robbed and Marshal Pat Barrett has been sent to investigate. Posing as an outlaw he gets into Buck's gang. When the Ranger Captain sends for more troops, Buck's inside man brings the message to him. Buck then plans to substitute his men for the Rangers but he tells Pat and Pat rides off to try and warn the Ranger Captain.

Lone Star Pioneers

1939

The Little American poster
6.3

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

The Little American

1917

His Temporary Wife poster
NR

Wealthy old Howard Eliot is so pleased with his young nurse Annabelle Rose that on his deathbed he bequeaths her an envelope with the caveat that it not be opened for sixty days. The remainder of his fortune is left to his son Arthur with the stipulation that he must marry anyone except his current girl friend, the fortune-hunting Verna Devore. In order to meet the requirements, Arthur places an advertisement for a temporary wife.

His Temporary Wife

1920

Flesh and Spirit poster
6.5

Donald Wallace is a self-centered scientist who believes only in science and ignores the love of his cousin, Truth Eldridge, choosing instead to pursue Paula Roberts. Wallace and others take care of a lost little girl named Peggy, but he stubbornly tells her that God does not exist. James Dale, an assistant who secretly admires Truth and tries to poison Wallace, accidentally kills Peggy instead. Following her death, Truth returns to Wallace in spirit form to prove to him that God and an afterlife are real.

Flesh and Spirit

1922

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9.0

Dean, the Bailey County Judge, is the boss of both the outlaw gang and the Sheriff. He utilizes the state law that Sheriffs have jurisdiction only in their own county. After a raid the gang merely returns to the safety of Bailey County. The Governor sends Lawyer John Hayes. When he has no success as a Lawyer he leaves town only to return disguised as an outlaw with a scheme that will nab all the culprits.

The Law Comes to Texas

1939

Who's Cheating? poster
7.0

Myrtle Meers breaks her engagement with Larry Fields when he proves to be a coward. Fields goes to work in his father's Pennsylvania coal mines to find his manhood. There he thwarts a plan to control the mines, rescues June Waugh, the girl he loves, and wins self-respect.

Who's Cheating?

1924

Frontiers of '49 poster
9.0

In California in 1848, Brunton through his stooge Sheriff is evicting the Mexicans from their ranches. Major John Freeman and his troops arrive to investigate. Keeping his troops hidden and appearing out of uniform, he takes up the fight against Brunton. He helps a rancher who has been evicted before his taxes were due only to find him murdered and this leads to the showdown between Brunton's men and the soldiers.

Frontiers of '49

1939

Defenders of the Law poster
7.0

A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.

Defenders of the Law

1931

Phantom Gold poster
7.0

A salted gold mine proves to be troublesome for a ghost town.

Phantom Gold

1938

Husbands and Wives poster
9.0

While visiting Atlanta, pampered Northern heiress Olive Thurston meets and marries Southerner John Ames, a member of an impoverished but old aristocratic family. John attempts to force his wife to conform to Southern ideals of womanhood, resulting in many conflicts between the newlyweds, but after a brief separation, Olive and John are reunited, resolving to look for each other's virtues and forgive the faults.

Husbands and Wives

1920

Riders of the Frontier poster
7.0

The Rancho Grande, a Texas border ranch, cut off from the law by a gang of outlaws led by ranch foreman Bart Lane, who is holding the elderly owner of the ranch, Sarah Burton, a prisoner. Tex Lowery, an undercover Texas Ranger, rescues Martha Williams, a nurse sent for by the ailing Sarah, from a stagecoach holdup by Lane's henchmen. He later convinces Laner that he is a wanted outlaw named Ed Carter, and gains entry to Rancho Grande. But the real Ed Carter shows up.

Riders of the Frontier

1939

Rolling Caravans poster
4.3

The strip is being opened to settlers and as everyone heads for the starting line, Thad and his outlaw gang are ready. Learning Rankin has a treasure map, Thad steals it. When Breezy attempts to recover the map he is captured by Thad. With Breezy tied up, Thad heads out to claim the treasure plot.

Rolling Caravans

1938

Pioneer Trail poster
9.0

Heading up the Chisholm Trail with a small herd and just a few men, Breezy has his cattle rustled by Curley and his gang. Returning to Texas, Breezy convinces the ranchers to send their cattle north in one big herd guarded by a lot of men. Outnumbered, Curley has a plan to get the cattle.

Pioneer Trail

1938

The Tie That Binds poster
8.0

A beautiful secretary has her pick of the men in the office, but instead of marrying the boss, she takes one of his junior staff. Later, when she is suspected of committing a murder, her husband confesses to it--although he didn't do it--in order to protect her. Complications ensue.

The Tie That Binds

1923

In Early Arizona poster
9.0

Marshal Jeff sends for his friend Whit Gordon to help bring law and order to Tombstone. Bull and his gang with the help of the Sheriff and the Judge control the town. After foiling Bull's attempt to stuff the ballot boxes, newly elected Marshal Whit and his pals head to the corral for the showdown with Bull and his men.

In Early Arizona

1938

Mickey's Medicine Man poster
7.0

The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.

Mickey's Medicine Man

1934