Acting

Alfred Hewston

Born — Died

1882-09-13 — 1947-09-06

Place of birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Just Travelin' poster
8.0

Jus' travlin', Bob and his sidekick run into the outlaw Jean Le Roque. A miner has found gold and Le Roque not only wants the gold but also the miner's daughter. He captures the miner and tries to get the mine's location from him. He also tells the daughter he will kill her father unless she marries him. After disposing of Le Roque's gang by accidentally setting off a explosive charge that kills them, Bob goes after Le Roque.

Just Travelin'

1925

Warrior Gap poster
10.0

Against explicit orders, a vainglorious cavalry major insists on counterattacking a gang of hostile Sioux Indians. His captain refuses to comply and is arrested for insubordination and cowardice.

Warrior Gap

1925

Where North Holds Sway poster
7.0

A Northwest mounted policeman leaves the service to seek revenge for his brother's murder.

Where North Holds Sway

1927

Out of the West poster
10.0

John O'Connor and Jim Rollins, rival ranchmen, each has a baseball team, though Rollins' usually wins because O'Connor's foreman and pitcher, Bide Goodrich, is paid by Rollins to throw the game. When Tom Hanley and his grandmother settle on O'Connor's ranch, the boss discovers that he is a good pitcher; and Rollins, who has bet heavily on the Fourth of July game, plots to eliminate Tom.

Out of the West

1926

The Mysterious Airman poster
7.2

An inventor adds new innovations to an air company's planes, prompting the owners of a rival company to set out to steal them. The stakes are sky-high as an airman and an aviatrix find themselves in constant peril, both on earth and above the clouds.

The Mysterious Airman

1928

Let's Go, Gallagher poster
10.0

Cowboy Tom Gallagher, escaping from a saloon fight with Black Carter and Thug Peters, rescues Little Joey and his dog--who have been sent "parcel post" to Dorothy Manning's Bar M Ranch by her sister--from an approaching train. Tom completes the delivery and is hired by Dorothy as foreman. There he finds Carter and Peters, who have been rustling Dorothy's cattle and stealing right and left from the Bar M. Peters buys up the mortgage and then kidnaps Dorothy when Tom goes away to get the money to pay it off. Tom effects her rescue with the aid of Little Joey and Bendy Mulligan, a rheumatic old cowpuncher. The mortgage is paid off, and Bendy's accidental discovery of oil while taking a mud bath solves Dorothy's financial problems. Dorothy and Tom wed.

Let's Go, Gallagher

1925

Film credits

1930s · 4 titles

1920s · 31 titles

Just Travelin' poster
8.0

Jus' travlin', Bob and his sidekick run into the outlaw Jean Le Roque. A miner has found gold and Le Roque not only wants the gold but also the miner's daughter. He captures the miner and tries to get the mine's location from him. He also tells the daughter he will kill her father unless she marries him. After disposing of Le Roque's gang by accidentally setting off a explosive charge that kills them, Bob goes after Le Roque.

Just Travelin'

1925

Warrior Gap poster
10.0

Against explicit orders, a vainglorious cavalry major insists on counterattacking a gang of hostile Sioux Indians. His captain refuses to comply and is arrested for insubordination and cowardice.

Warrior Gap

1925

Where North Holds Sway poster
7.0

A Northwest mounted policeman leaves the service to seek revenge for his brother's murder.

Where North Holds Sway

1927

Out of the West poster
10.0

John O'Connor and Jim Rollins, rival ranchmen, each has a baseball team, though Rollins' usually wins because O'Connor's foreman and pitcher, Bide Goodrich, is paid by Rollins to throw the game. When Tom Hanley and his grandmother settle on O'Connor's ranch, the boss discovers that he is a good pitcher; and Rollins, who has bet heavily on the Fourth of July game, plots to eliminate Tom.

Out of the West

1926

The Mysterious Airman poster
7.2

An inventor adds new innovations to an air company's planes, prompting the owners of a rival company to set out to steal them. The stakes are sky-high as an airman and an aviatrix find themselves in constant peril, both on earth and above the clouds.

The Mysterious Airman

1928

Let's Go, Gallagher poster
10.0

Cowboy Tom Gallagher, escaping from a saloon fight with Black Carter and Thug Peters, rescues Little Joey and his dog--who have been sent "parcel post" to Dorothy Manning's Bar M Ranch by her sister--from an approaching train. Tom completes the delivery and is hired by Dorothy as foreman. There he finds Carter and Peters, who have been rustling Dorothy's cattle and stealing right and left from the Bar M. Peters buys up the mortgage and then kidnaps Dorothy when Tom goes away to get the money to pay it off. Tom effects her rescue with the aid of Little Joey and Bendy Mulligan, a rheumatic old cowpuncher. The mortgage is paid off, and Bendy's accidental discovery of oil while taking a mud bath solves Dorothy's financial problems. Dorothy and Tom wed.

Let's Go, Gallagher

1925

Across the Dead-Line poster
8.0

Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John, and the hedonistic branch led by Enoch's brother Aaron. Aaron plans to sway John to come over to his side by using a young girl who has lost her memory to lure him over, but when he kidnaps her John sets out to free her. Complications ensue.

Across the Dead-Line

1922

Born to Battle poster
7.0

A cowboy is framed for his father's murder. His investigation leads him into the middle of a bitter feud between two families, and he winds up falling in love with the niece of the man who actually killed his father.

Born to Battle

1927

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lure of the West

1926

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 Iron Rider poster
10.0

After he loses his money and horse in a poker game, Yak learns he was cheated. But then he learns that the men that cheated him are wanted and have a price on their heads. This gives him a chance to get his money back and more, so he sets out after them.

The Iron Rider

1926

Blue Streak O'Neil poster
8.0

On a mission to discover the identity of the rustlers of the cattle on Britton ranch, Blue Streak O'Neil exposes the villains mingling with the sheriff's posse. Having won the ranch for the heroine, he accepts from her a half interest in it, and also her love.

Blue Streak O'Neil

1926

Code of the West poster
9.0

Leary is using the Express Agent's liking for alcohol to enable his men to steal insured packages. Then he claims the insurance. Railroad Agent Hartley is sent to investigate and suspecting Leary, he and the Sheriff plan to trap them the next time they try their scheme.

Code of the West

1929

No artwork available
7.0

Bill Drake is a cowpoke who must prove himself innocent of robbing the general store. The real culprit, as our hero detects, is Tom Evans, the weakling son of a local rancher.

On the Go

1925

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Trail Dust

1924

Shootin' Square poster
6.5

Dan Dawson hires on at the Mason ranch where he wins the affection of Ruth and alienates Frank Macy who gets fired. Later, on Dan and Ruth's wedding day, the cowhands bring Macy, now an outlaw and escaping the Sheriff disguised as a preacher, to perform the ceremony. But upon leaving Macy loses part of his disguise and Dan now recognizing him gives chase.

Shootin' Square

1924

The Man from Nevada poster
6.5

Jack Carter rides into Nevada and finds himself caught between a local family feud and a dangerous outlaw gang. As he earns the trust of the Watkins family, Carter must confront Luke Baldridge and fight to bring justice to a lawless town.

The Man from Nevada

1929

The Cowboy and the Outlaw poster
8.0

Story of a cowboy tracking down his father's killer

The Cowboy and the Outlaw

1929

The Masquerade Bandit poster
9.0

A young woman, Molly Marble, is enmeshed in a train robbery by her crooked step-father. She meets a stranger, Jeff Morton, and suspects he knows where the loot is hidden. For the sake of her relatives, she must try to 'vamp' this information from him but, instead, she falls in love with him.

The Masquerade Bandit

1926

A Texas Cowboy poster
7.0

Dick Carlysle returns home to find that his mother has married Brute Kettle who is really out to get the Carlysle ranch. First Kettle gets Bennett to forge a letter saying Dick relinquishes his inheritance in the ranch and then he tries to get Dick's mother to relinquish hers.

A Texas Cowboy

1929

The Wolf poster
10.0

A short film starring Fearless the dog and directed by Lou Carter.

The Wolf

1926

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Menacing Past

1922

The Recoil poster
10.0

Evelyn Nelson portrays the character Frances Powell in this story that centers on themes of justice and personal vendettas in the old West.

The Recoil

1921

No artwork available
7.0

After inheriting his uncle's ranch, a cowpoke manages to capture a ghost of the range, break up some cattle rustlers, and win the girl.

The Fighting Ranger

1926

Tearin' Loose poster
9.0

Jim Dorn, owner of the Bar X Ranch, is accused of crime he actually committed by Bud Deering, his girlfriend Ann's brother.

Tearin' Loose

1925

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Blind Circumstances

1922

The Wyoming Wildcat poster
8.0

Cowboy Phil Stone gets a job as foreman on a ranch owned by pretty young Isabel Hastings. He discovers that ruthless rancher Jeff Kopp has a claim on Isabel's ranch, and that if she dies unmarried before she turns 21, Kopp will get her ranch. When Isabel turns down a marriage proposal by Kopp's son Rudy, Kopp decides to kill her and get the ranch for himself, and hires a notorious killer, "Cyclops", to do the deed.

The Wyoming Wildcat

1925

'Neath Western Skies poster
8.0

Ranch owner Tex McCloud is convinced there is oil under his property and brings in a drilling rig and equipment to drill for it. But a gang who wants the property wage a sabotage and theft war against him.

'Neath Western Skies

1929

No artwork available
8.0

Our hero is mistaken for a bandit. Al's girl Nancy at first believes him to be guilty, but he manage to convince her that the real bandit is McDonald.

Outlaw's Paradise

1927

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Beyond All Odds

1926

Flying Wheels poster
10.0

Having caused her father’s auto business trouble by slacking off and not showing up to work, Wanda Wiley finds an ingenious way to help. His company is entering a car race but needs a driver. Wanda steps in to try to win the race. Hijinks follow.

Flying Wheels

1926