Writing

Frank Howard Clark

Born 1888-05-15 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Texas Tornado poster
10.0

Briscoe leases land from Latimer. When oil is found Latimer tries to stop Briscoe from renewing the lease. Tom arrives and fights off Latimer and his men to renew the lease. But Latimer is not done. Now he shoots Briscoe, kidnaps Buddy, and blames Tom who is arrested and put in jail.

Texas Tornado

1928

Texas Tornado poster
10.0

Briscoe leases land from Latimer. When oil is found Latimer tries to stop Briscoe from renewing the lease. Tom arrives and fights off Latimer and his men to renew the lease. But Latimer is not done. Now he shoots Briscoe, kidnaps Buddy, and blames Tom who is arrested and put in jail.

Texas Tornado

1928

Terror Mountain poster
8.0

Two young orphans, Buddy and Lucille Roberts, living in an old dark mansion atop a mountain are assailed regularly by ghostly apparitions and mysterious death threats. They enlist the aid of a famous Hollywood Western movie star named Tom Tyler (with Tyler actually playing himself in the film) to investigate the situation and help them discover who is menacing them.

Terror Mountain

1928

The Avenging Rider poster
9.0

The story concerns a rivalry between two ranch owners in a boundary dispute.

The Avenging Rider

1928

Idaho Red poster
9.0

Idaho Red is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey.

Idaho Red

1929

No artwork available
9.0

Wells Fargo agent, Kirk Stockwood, is sent to put a stop to put a stop to the stagecoach robberies by a band of outlaws known as the Wolves.

The Pride of Pawnee

1929

Wild Horse Mesa poster
10.0

Chane Weymer, an Arizona rancher, goes after a gang that is trapping wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures.

Wild Horse Mesa

1932

The Bandit's Son poster
8.0

Bob McCall, a young cowboy, tries to save his outlaw father from being lynched for a crime he didn't commit.

The Bandit's Son

1927

The Amazing Vagabond poster
9.0

A wealthy scion toughens up in a rough-and-tumble lumber camp when he is forced to defend Phil Dunning and his daughter from the brutal George Hobbs

The Amazing Vagabond

1929

The Night Patrol poster
8.0

Los Angeles cop goes undercover to catch a gang of murderous thieves.

The Night Patrol

1926

Yvonne from Paris poster
10.0

Successful Parisian dancer Yvonne Halbert grows tired of the overwatchfulness of her aunt and runs away to America. Disguised and hiding out in the steerage of a boat, Yvonne meets violinist Luigi. She dances to Luigi's accompaniment in a Greenwich Village cabaret, where she is discovered by David Marston, the producer who had negotiated to bring the famous Yvonne to America. Marston signs the supposed unknown performer and intends to bill her under the name of Yvonne, whom he believes has broken her contract with him. Apache dancer Cecile claims to be the real Yvonne, but matters are straightened out with the arrival of Aunt Marie. Yvonne marries Lawrence Bartlett, the author of the play that features her in America.

Yvonne from Paris

1919

Trail of the Horse Thieves poster
9.0

Vic Stanley, a wandering cowboy, is found by Clint Taggart and his daughter, Amy, after he has escaped from a band of rustlers. Upon recovering his sight from a desert sandstorm, he sees and falls in love with Amy and becomes resolute in his decision to uncover the identity of the rustlers and particularly their leader, "The Eagle." Though blind during his capture, he nevertheless recognizes the voice of The Eagle in McElroy, a leading banker. After another escape from the gang, Vic manages to save Taggart and Amy from The Eagle's sticky clutches, exposes their operation, and proceeds on course with Amy.

Trail of the Horse Thieves

1929

No artwork available
9.0

The One Man Dog is a 1929 silent film featuring Ranger the Dog, directed by Sam Nelson and written by Leon D'Usseau and Frank Howard Clark.

The One Man Dog

1929

No artwork available
8.0

Fury of the Wild is a 1929 silent melodrama film directed by Leon d'Usseau.

Fury of the Wild

1929

Splitting the Breeze poster
8.0

Splitting the Breeze is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey.

Splitting the Breeze

1927

The Rustler's Roundup poster
9.0

Winters is after the Brand ranch, and his man Brett who is foreman there is rustling the Brand stock. But Tom is on to their game and breaks up their attempt to buy the ranch. When they plan to rustle their horses, Tom must not only rescue Danny Brand, who is their prisoner, but stop the rustlers.

The Rustler's Roundup

1933

Her Dangerous Path poster
10.0

Corinne Grant, a wealthy society girl, is forced, upon the physical and financial break-down of her father, to choose her future path in life. Her Chinese cook, Wong, offers to read her future in the sands, and the rest of each episode shows what would happen if she decided upon the different careers open to her, coming back at the finish to the girl and the Oriental pouring over the box of shifting sand. Episode titles: 1. What the Sands Told 2. Fetters of Gold 3. At the Brink 4. Should She Become a Politician's Wife? 5. Should She Marry an Artist? 6. Should She Marry a Rancher? 7. Should She Become a Society Reporter? 8. Should She Marry a Scientist? 9. Should She Become Assistant to a Detective? 10. [unknown].

Her Dangerous Path

1923

The Last of His People poster
5.0

Lumberjack Anthony Briggs has lived alone in the Canadian North Woods ever since his wife took their daughter and ran off to New York City with Robert Lacey, the lumber camp foreman. One day he comes across young Indian chief Lone Wolf and his sister Na-ta-Le, whose tribe has been wiped out by a "spotted sickness", and adopts them. Years afterward Briggs' daughter, now a young woman, returns to lead a hunting party with her fiance, Lacey's son Reynard. Complications ensue.

The Last of His People

1919

Prairie Trails poster
8.0

Tex Benton (cowboy star Tom Mix) wants to marry Janet McWhorter (Kathleen O'Connor), but her father (Charles K. French) will give his blessings only if Tex works on his sheep ranch. Tex, a cattleman through and through, refuses and gets his aggressions out by stirring things up at the local saloon.

Prairie Trails

1920

Hands Off! poster
7.0

Tex Robert rescues beautiful Ramona Wadley from the gang-leader of cattle rustlers. Later, he saves Ramona's sister from a stampede, and is then awarded a job on the Wadley ranch. The obligatory showdown features Pete and the gang.

Hands Off!

1921

Youth and Adventure poster
9.0

Reggie Dillingham, a spendthrift socialite, is challenged by his lawyer to support himself for six months; Reggie finds a job as a newspaper editor to keep quiet about a compromising photo of a powerful politician, but soon discovers his boss is involved in bootlegging and uses the newspaper to expose him, despite threats, with the help of his loyal staff, leading to the boss's arrest and Reggie's financial windfall.

Youth and Adventure

1925

Two in Revolt poster
7.0

A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging a race.

Two in Revolt

1936

Billy Jim poster
8.0

Billy Jim is a rich cowboy who tries to seduce a young girl whose father exploits a mine.

Billy Jim

1922

Tom's Gang poster
7.0

Dave Collins is a young man who is bequeathed a ranch on the condition that he marry the late owner's granddaughter Lucille. But when he arrives at the ranch with young sidekick Spuds in tow, Dave finds that a distant relative of Lucille's, Ray Foster, has taken his place. Foster hires tough Bart Haywood to kill his rival, and soon our hero is hogtied to a handcar in the path of an approaching train.

Tom's Gang

1927