Dan Mason

Acting

Dan Mason

Born 1857-02-09 · Syracuse, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dan Mason (born Daniel Grassman; February 9, 1857 – July 6, 1929) was an American actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1913 to 1929. He is remembered as the "Skipper" in the "Toonerville Folks" comedy films.

Acting credits

Toonerville Follies poster
NR

The Skipper, on behalf of the new minister, organizes the Follies, in which local rube talent is starred

Toonerville Follies

1921

Toonerville Trolley poster
NR

The first of a series of short comedy films based on the famed newspaper cartoons of Fontaine Fox.

Toonerville Trolley

1920

Toonerville Tactics poster
NR

One of seventeen Toonerville Trolley films made at the Betzwood studio based on the famed newspaper cartoons of Fontaine Fox.

Toonerville Tactics

1921

Toonerville Blues poster
NR

A crooked lawyer is thwarted in his designs on the heroine by the hero, who discovers oil in the outfield of the diamond where he is playing baseball.

Toonerville Blues

1922

Out All Night poster
10.0

A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.

Out All Night

1927

Shirley Kaye poster
NR

Shirley Kaye is the vivacious daughter of Egerton Kaye, president of the great Union Central Railroad. The latter holds his position through his descent from "Pirate" Kaye, who founded the line, rather than through any executive ability of his own. Shirley is queen of the most exclusive Long Island set, and as clever as she is lovely to look at. From the West comes T.J. Magen, a rough but lion-hearted financier, who buys the house next door to the Kayes. Magen cares little for society, and the elaborate household which their wealth forces them to support is a constant worry to his simple and unassuming wife. But the daughter, "Daisy," yearns, with all her heart to break into the society and swim where Shirley Kaye reigns supreme.

Shirley Kaye

1917

The Big Parade poster
7.6

The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

The Big Parade

1925

Rainbow Riley poster
7.0

Nerve lands "Rainbow" Riley a job as cub reporter on the Louisville Ledger. His first big assignment is to cover a feud in the Kentucky mountains between the Ripper and White clans. Thinking that the assignment is in the nature of a vacation, "Rainbow" provides himself with athletic equipment.

Rainbow Riley

1926

Forbidden Waters poster
10.0

After divorcing her husband in Reno, Nancy Bell is arrested for speeding and thrown into jail. Unable to pay the fine, she wires her former husband, J. Austin, for help; he comes to Nevada and gets her out of the clink. A blonde crook named Ruby becomes enamored of J. Austin, and Nancy, who still loves her former husband, does everything within her power to prevent J. Austin from falling in love with the gold digger. Eventually Ruby is arrested by the police, and Nancy and J. Austin are remarried by a bemused preacher.

Forbidden Waters

1926

Skinning Skinners poster
7.0

Skinning Skinners is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by William Nigh.

Skinning Skinners

1921

American Pluck poster
10.0

Blaze Derringer is a Texas cattle baron's son. He goes to a cabaret on his birthday, helps a pretty young woman and her guardian avoid a raid, but gets tossed from college for bad behavior. His disgusted father dispatches him to seek his fortune. Blaze jumps a freight, befriends a fake British duke and a sporting African-American, and is offered a prize fight in Galveston. He wins, but may have killed his opponent, so he takes the offer of the woman from the cabaret to accompany her to Begonia, where she's a princess about to be crowned. A court minister, the dastardly Count Verensky, has plans to share the throne and her affections. Can the plucky American help the Europeans sort things out?

American Pluck

1925

Hop Off poster
9.0

Only a few minutes remain of this partially lost film. A scientist discovers a potion that restores things to their original form: pets, jewelry--endless possibilities. His assistant wonders about its applications, with comical results.

Hop Off

1928

The Slave poster
NR

Caroline works at a hair dressing parlor. A wealthy man falls in love with her, takes her home and proposes to her. Caroline has a dream where she marries the man, who turns vicious and keeps her locked up in his mansion. He finally dies, and Caroline starts out having a good time with his money, but she sees the folly of her ways. She wakes up from the dream.

The Slave

1917

Iron to Gold poster
9.0

George Kirby steals a mining claim from Tom Curtis and forces him to become an outlaw. Years later, Curtis comes to the rescue when Anne Kirby is kidnapped by real outlaws, but when he finds out she is married to his enemy, he decides to hold her captive.

Iron to Gold

1922

Toonerville's Fire Brigade poster
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The Skipper is appointed chief of the newly organized Toonerville fire department and runs it with the same thoroughness and love of his job that characterizes his remarkably efficient control of his trolley car. There are great doings in town the first day the company parades, but the real excitement starts when an honest-to-goodness fire wakes up the town. The skipper, his book of rules under his arm, sees to it that every- thing is done according to the best authorities, even if they fail to put out the fire until the house is almost destroyed. When the engine does get to pumping it drenches everything in sight, which includes nearly every man, woman and child in the place.

Toonerville's Fire Brigade

1921

The Chinese Parrot poster
10.0

The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan.

The Chinese Parrot

1927

The Skipper's Narrow Escape poster
9.0

After hearing about his powerful raisin cider, Cynthia Snoop takes it upon herself to ensnare The Skipper. Meanwhile Katrinka accidentally ruins the Spriggins' tea party when she inadvertently breaks a water pipe when trying to kill a mouse.

The Skipper's Narrow Escape

1921

Toonerville's 'Boozem' Friends poster
7.0

Depicts a day in the life of Toonerville, featuring slapstick scenes in Bang’s Quick Service Restaurant, surreptitious drinking despite prohibition, and an evil villain trying to trade a mortgage for marriage to a beautiful young girl.

Toonerville's 'Boozem' Friends

1921

Thou Shalt Not Steal poster
NR

Mary Bruce is wooed by Lord Haverford but loves Roger Benton, her father's secretary. To finalize his marriage proposal, Lord Haverford offers her father a large sum of money and, being low on funds, Mr. Bruce accepts it, then places it in a safe. Horrified by her father's actions, Mary steals the cash from the safe that night, but on her way out is overcome by another thief whose wrist she bites in the ensuing tussle.

Thou Shalt Not Steal

1917

The Fire Brigade poster
5.0

Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.

The Fire Brigade

1926

Darwin Was Right poster
7.0

Just as he is about to experiment with an elixir of youth, Prof. Henry Baldwin is kidnapped by Courtney Lawson with his secretary, Egbert Swift, and his butler, Alexander, and placed in an asylum. A runaway dogcart deposits three babies in the house, and three escaped chimpanzees take their place.

Darwin Was Right

1924

The Skipper's Scheme poster
NR

The skipper advertises an auction by tacking up bills on every convenient spot while making a run from the depot and stopping every few feet, to the disgust of the passengers.

The Skipper's Scheme

1921

The Skipper's Flirtation poster
9.0

Aunt Eppie Hogg takes a ride on the trolley and gets a cinder in her eye. While The Skipper tries to remove it, Cynthia Snoop thinks that he's cheating on Matildy.

The Skipper's Flirtation

1921

A Short Life and a Merry One poster
9.0

An imp makes a tramp change places with a scarecrow who is permitted to roam about changing other scarecrows into living beings and having merry times with them so long as he keeps the magic wand in his hand.

A Short Life and a Merry One

1913