Ira M. Lowry

Directing

Ira M. Lowry

Born

1889-09-10 (137)

Place of birth

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

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 Follies poster
NR

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

Toonerville Follies

1921

Oh, Johnny! poster
8.0

A young girl inherits half of the Lost Camp Mine when her father dies. His partner tries to help her from being cheated out of her share of the mine, first by local crooks and then by a group of her greedy relatives back East.

Oh, Johnny!

1918

Speedy Meade poster
10.0

After his assistant, Bud Lester, is killed, Texas Ranger Speedy Meade bids farewell to his girl friend, convent student Mary Dillman, and sets out to break up a gang of cattle thieves operating on the border.

Speedy Meade

1919

Speedy Meade poster
10.0

After his assistant, Bud Lester, is killed, Texas Ranger Speedy Meade bids farewell to his girl friend, convent student Mary Dillman, and sets out to break up a gang of cattle thieves operating on the border.

Speedy Meade

1919

High Pockets poster
9.0

U.S. Marshal "High Pockets" Henderson discovers the body of Bud Blythe near the town of Farewell. After leaving his fingerprints on a photograph of Blythe's sister Joy, who traveled West with Blythe to start a ranch, High Pockets informs the sheriff.

High Pockets

1919

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

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

Sandy Burke of the U-Bar-U poster
7.5

Brave and good-natured cowboy Sandy Burke saves young Dolly after her father is killed in the saloon. He entrusts the girl to kindly Widow Mackey, who is having trouble paying her mortgage and decides he is responsible for the pair so he best start earning some money. Soon he is seeking work at the U-Bar-U ranch but who could predict the trouble he will have with the rancher's daughter, Molly, or the surly foreman, Jim Diggs!

Sandy Burke of the U-Bar-U

1919

The Road Called Straight poster
10.0

Al Boyd, a wealthy cattle rancher, falls in love with Betty Swiftmore, the sophisticated daughter of an Eastern meat packing tycoon. However, Betty loves fellow socialite Harrison Stevens and dismisses Al's marriage proposal, until a lawsuit threatens to bankrupt her family.

The Road Called Straight

1919

For the Freedom of the East poster
10.0

In World War I China, Princess Tsu, who leads a secret group dedicated to eradicating German influence in China, learns that the Chinese viceroy, in order to further his own ambitions, has organized an army to help Germany win Russia. She steals their written agreement and smuggles it to American agent Robert Kenyon, with whom she has fallen in love. The princess' jealous fiancé, Prince Kang, tells her that Robert is betrothed to an American girl and, bent on revenge, she informs German agent Von Richtman that Robert possesses the secret papers. In Washington, Von Richtman sends his henchmen to apprehend Robert before he can reach the Secretary of State, but Princess Tsu, whose love of country has triumphed over her personal concerns, foils the plot. Aware of her great love for Prince Kang, she returns to China and marries him.

For the Freedom of the East

1918

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 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

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

Toonerville's Fire Brigade poster
NR

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 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

A Misfit Earl poster
10.0

The Earl of Dunhaven, who disinherited his son for marrying an American, tries, on his deathbed, to leave his estate to his nephew, the Honorable Guy Wyndham. To stop him, the Dunhaven solicitor, John Grahame, travels to America and finds the earl's grandson, Jim Dunn, a Wyoming cowpuncher.

A Misfit Earl

1919