Acting

James Spottswood

Born — Died

1882-05-07 — 1940-10-11

Place of birth

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

9 titles

Known for

Blackwell's Island poster
5.5

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

Blackwell's Island

1939

Thunderbolt poster
5.7

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.

Thunderbolt

1929

The Climbers poster
9.0

To keep his social-climbing wife and daughters in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed, wealthy George Hunter makes some large investments in the stock market, but the stocks crash and he loses a great deal of money. His wealthy aunt offers to bail the family out, but complications ensue.

The Climbers

1919

Hollywood Stadium Mystery poster
6.2

A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.

Hollywood Stadium Mystery

1938

Girls on Probation poster
6.2

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Girls on Probation

1938

The Love Expert poster
5.9

After neglecting her studies in favor of romantic experiments, Babs Hardcastle is thrown out of boarding school. In hopes of ceasing her romance studies, Babs’s father sends her to Boston to stay with her aunt. Boston, however, proves to be the perfect place for Babs’s matchmaking. When Babs falls in love with Jim Winthrop, she learns that he must find suitable men for his two sisters, Dorcas and Matilda, and his elderly aunt Cornelia, before he can marry. Babs, determined to marry Jim, takes it upon herself to find them all husbands.

The Love Expert

1920

Film credits

1920s · 2 titles