Acting

Jack C. Smith

Born — Died

1884-10-27 — 1944-01-14

Place of birth

Hudson, Massachusetts, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 23 titles

The Mummy's Ghost poster
5.6

An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...

The Mummy's Ghost

1944

The Mummy's Ghost poster
5.6

An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...

The Mummy's Ghost

1944

Christmas Holiday poster
6.5

A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

Christmas Holiday

1944

Honky Tonk poster
6.3

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Honky Tonk

1941

Corvette K-225 poster
6.2

The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

Corvette K-225

1943

Tough as They Come poster
9.0

The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.

Tough as They Come

1942

The House of the Seven Gables poster
7.0

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

The House of the Seven Gables

1940

Johnny O'Clock poster
6.3

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.

Johnny O'Clock

1947

Gypsy Wildcat poster
6.0

In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons them all in his castle. Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger on a white horse has hidden the murder arrow and won the heart of gypsy belle Carla, to the discomfiture of her erstwhile fiancée Tonio. Baron Tovar is also fascinated by Carla...especially when he notices her heraldic pendant.

Gypsy Wildcat

1944

Stick to Your Guns poster
5.7

Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends whose cattle are being rustled. Hoppy and California locate the rustlers' hideout and join the gang by posing as outlaws themselves, but must find a way to let the rest of the posse know where they are.

Stick to Your Guns

1941

Take Me Back to Oklahoma poster
6.5

Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm.

Take Me Back to Oklahoma

1940

Riot Squad poster
9.0

Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.

Riot Squad

1941

Between Us Girls poster
7.5

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.

Between Us Girls

1942

Calling Dr. Death poster
6.4

Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.

Calling Dr. Death

1943

Stagecoach Buckaroo poster
7.5

Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.

Stagecoach Buckaroo

1942

Top Man poster
9.0

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of local factory workers, the plucky lad, his siblings and his schoolmates put on a lively little show. With a little work, he even convinces Count Basie to come with his band.

Top Man

1943

Bullet Code poster
5.8

Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.

Bullet Code

1940

Ridin' the Cherokee Trail poster
7.0

Singing cowboy Tex Ritter and his sidekick, Slim Andrews, star in this musical Western about a couple of Texas Rangers who defend the citizens of a small territory from power-hungry outlaws. Villain Bradley Craven (Forrest Taylor) is determined to stop the election process that would allow the region to join the Union. Tex and Slim join a rancher and his daughter to stop Craven, with fearless Tex going undercover to ensure that justice is served.

Ridin' the Cherokee Trail

1941

Keep 'Em Slugging poster
5.8

A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

Keep 'Em Slugging

1943

The Phantom Creeps poster
4.2

The truncated feature version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

The Phantom Creeps

1949

Deadwood Dick poster
7.0

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

Deadwood Dick

1940

Nevada City poster
7.0

The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.

Nevada City

1941

Reg'lar Fellers poster
4.2

Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and go on the radio, celebrate a birthday, get involved with gangsters...and reunite a wealthy recluse with her baby granddaughter and estranged daughter-in-law.

Reg'lar Fellers

1941

1930s · 25 titles

Tower of London poster
6.2

In the 15th century, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother, King Edward IV of England.

Tower of London

1939

Each Dawn I Die poster
6.9

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Each Dawn I Die

1939

The Phantom Creeps poster
4.5

A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

The Phantom Creeps

1939

Gang Bullets poster
5.9

A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.

Gang Bullets

1938

Buried Alive poster
5.1

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.

Buried Alive

1939

The Oregon Trail poster
7.5

Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.

The Oregon Trail

1939

Frontier Marshal poster
6.3

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Frontier Marshal

1939

Rio Grande Ranger poster
8.0

Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction of the Texas Rangers. Ranger Bob Allen is sent across the border where he poses as an outlaw hoping to lure the gang back into Texas. He gets into Sayres' gang displacing the gang boss but the disgruntled ex-boss is able to expose the hoax and Bob is made a prisoner.

Rio Grande Ranger

1936

Headin' for the Rio Grande poster
8.0

Singing cowboy Tex Saunders finds himself in a heap of trouble when he agrees to investigate local gangsters at the behest of a lovely lady. As payment for his pains, he's framed by a saloon owner for killing bad guy Red Dugan and forced to sweat it out in jail. Will his faithful sidekick, Chilo, show up to save his skin … or will Tex have a date with the gallows?

Headin' for the Rio Grande

1936

Paradise Express poster
5.8

A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.

Paradise Express

1937

Where the Buffalo Roam poster
5.5

Tex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men. He makes Tex Marshal but this backfires when Tex enlists Rogel and his men and goes after Foster who he now knows is responsible for his Mother's death.

Where the Buffalo Roam

1938

Heroes of the Alamo poster
5.3

In early spring of 1833, the smoldering resentment of American settlers in Texas against their oppression by Mexico dictator General Santa Anna/Ana coming to a head. When a decree is issued that no more Americans may enter Texas, William H. Wharton, fiery head of a faction determined on independence or nothing, warns Stephen F. Austin that the time for half-measures is past. Austin, responsible for bringing the Americans to Texas as colonists, reminds Wharton that a settler's revolt against Mexico would dishonor his name and the arrangements he had with the Mexican government. He gets the "Whartonites" to agree to a general convention of all colonists. Almerian Dickinson, biggest land owner in the settlement of Gonzales, deeply in love with his wife Anne, warns Wharton that a bloody revolt would endanger every wife and mother in the colony. He proposes they send Austin to Mexico City to ask Santa Anna to grant Texans a voice in their own government.

Heroes of the Alamo

1937

A Lawman Is Born poster
4.5

An outlaw falsely accused of murder realizes the only way to clear himself is to become a lawman.

A Lawman Is Born

1937

Cheyenne Rides Again poster
6.0

A lawman poses as an outlaw, steals $10,000 from a cattle thief, then promises to return the money if he can join the gang--while finding a way to expose them.

Cheyenne Rides Again

1937

Paroled - To Die poster
5.0

Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's bandana, he has his gang rob his bank and uses the bandana to frame Doug. When Doug is convicted but immediately paroled, Meline has another plan that he thinks will put him away permanently.

Paroled - To Die

1938

Code of the Fearless poster
4.7

When it appears that Fred Jamison is a member of Red's gang, he is kicked out of the Rangers. But it's just a plot between Fred and the Ranger Captain. Fred then gets into Red's gang and makes plans that will enable the Rangers to bring them all in. But his message to the Captain is intercepted and the hoax revealed.

Code of the Fearless

1939

Frontier Scout poster
6.0

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).

Frontier Scout

1938

Outlaws' Paradise poster
8.0

Bill Carson assumes the identity of gang leader Trigger Mallory in order to fool his gang and his girlfriend.

Outlaws' Paradise

1939

Six-Gun Rhythm poster
4.2

When football player Tex fletcher arrives home he finds his father missing. Jim Davis has killed the father and learning of Tex's identity.

Six-Gun Rhythm

1939

Doomed at Sundown poster
5.0

Young Dave Austin hunts down the varmint who murdered his father in this B Western. Austin tracks killer Jim Hatfield to his hideout, a Mexican cantina where Hatfield and his ruthless gang terrorize the locals. After being deputized, the courageous Austin allows himself to be captured by the gang and devises an ingenious plan to turn the bad guys against one another.

Doomed at Sundown

1937

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

Frontier Town poster
6.3

Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins all the events, Regan has him accused of murder. As Tex looks for the counterfeiters, his pals Stubby and Pee Wee keep the Sheriff off his trail.

Frontier Town

1938

The Fighting Deputy poster
6.0

The Sheriff and his deputies are after Scar Adams. Scar is the brother of Alice Denton, the girl Deputy Tom plans to marry, and when the Sheriff is wounded she makes Tom refuse the job of Sheriff. But when Scar kills his father, Tom puts on the badge and takes out after him.

The Fighting Deputy

1937

Hittin' the Trail poster
6.0

When he swaps horses with the Tombstone Kid — a wrongly accused man on the run from the law — singing cowboy Tex Randall gets arrested by the local sheriff in a case of mistaken identity.

Hittin' the Trail

1937

The Feud Maker poster
7.0

When Tex is brought in to fight in a range war between the cowmen and the nesters, he meets his old outlaw boss Lassiter. He learns Lassiter is behind the feud when Lassiter asks him to join up with his gang. Tex refuses and instead sets out to stop the feud but no one will believe him that Lassiter is responsible.

The Feud Maker

1938