Acting

Ford West

Born — Died

1873-03-27 — 1936-01-03

Place of birth

Dallas, Texas, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

15 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 4 titles

1920s · 11 titles

Sherlock Jr. poster
8.0

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Sherlock Jr.

1924

Steamboat Bill, Jr. poster
7.6

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

1928

Duped poster
8.0

New Yorker John Holmes, who has made a fortune on Wall Street, receives an urgent message to go West because a California gold mine in which he has invested may be lost due to the larceny of his foreman. Once in California, he meets Dolores Verdiego, who became an innocent victim of the foreman and his gang when she was coerced into making a false ownership claim on the mine from an old charter.

Duped

1925

Half Way to Heaven poster
6.0

A trapeze artist causes the death of another over their mutual love of a girl. When a new artist joins the troupe and falls in love with her, she must protect him from her ex-lover's jealous rage.

Half Way to Heaven

1929

Grief poster
NR

Begins with a child-cast parody of "The Kid." The Adams portion finds the guy chased about town because they are looking for some crook in a gray derby...and Jimmie happens to have one.

Grief

1921

The Broadway Gallant poster
9.0

Young heiress Helen Stuart is engaged to Monty Barnes, a restless young man. Since Helen is not yet 21, her estate is controlled by her guardian and uncle, Jack Peasley, who is not above using Helen's money for his own purposes. He takes a large chunk of her money to buy a block of railroad stock, that turns out to be worthless. Red Sweeney, who sold him the phony stock, assures him that if Helen marries before she turns 21, she'll never know the money's missing because the estate will revert to him, as her guardian. They force her to marry Monty, who is unaware of their scheme. Complications ensue.

The Broadway Gallant

1926

Hard Knocks and Love Taps poster
8.0

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met.

Hard Knocks and Love Taps

1921

All Wet poster
7.0

A newly married couple looking for a house come up against a crooked real estate agent.

All Wet

1922

No artwork available
10.0

Big Boy, the charming little scoundrel wearing adult rags and boots was already performed by child actor Malcolm Sebastian at the age of two. As a child Big Boy’s fame went global, but could not likely maintain at adolescence.

Kid Tricks

1927

No artwork available
9.0

The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short.

The Marriage Circus

1925

Post No Bills poster
7.3

Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Snootful picture, Paul goes bonkers with glue and paper and ends up attaching promotional material to any surface within his reach, including the rear ends of a number of people, though his attempt to nail a poster to a glass window is somewhat less successful.

Post No Bills

1923