
Acting
Steve Murphy
Born 1876-12-25 · Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Steve Murphy was born on December 25, 1876 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA as Stephen M. Clancey. He was an actor, known for Der Zirkus (1928), The Flame Fighter (1925) and White Fang (1925). He died on January 31, 1953 in Alameda, California, USA.
Acting credits
8.0A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
The Gold Rush
1925
8.0A 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
7.9Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
The Circus
1928
7.2Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.
Cops
1922
6.9Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
The Battle of the Century
1927
6.9The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919
7.3A hapless young man living in New York City rallies to save his girlfriend's grandfather's horse-drawn trolley, the last in the city, from being put out of business by a railroad company.
Speedy
1928
7.0A ten-chapter Rayart serial about fire-fighters in the Big City.
The Flame Fighter
1925
4.5A hard-working prospector enters the town of Bakeoven to stake his claim, only to have his rights stolen and his face on "Wanted" posters. He plans reprisal.
The Silent Man
1917
6.2Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…
Outside the Law
1921
6.7In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain.
The Love Nest
1923
6.1Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Professor McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage.
Sally of the Sawdust
1925
5.0A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik
Rolling Stone
1919
7.0Katherine Trowbridge, a rebellious young orphan, lives with her aunt and uncle, the Curtises, who desire a match between Katherine and Weathersbee but pretend to oppose the union, knowing she will be the more likely to accept it. Accidentally discovering their trickery, she leaves home and determines to marry the first man who will have her.
They Like 'Em Rough
1922
6.8Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
The Electric House
1922
4.4A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Leading Lizzie Astray
1914
9.0Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.
White Fang
1925
7.0Directed by Norman Dawn. With Arthur Jasmine, Marcia Manon, Laska Winter, Charles Reisner.
Justice of the Far North
1925
The Trombone family is very musically inclined, but their neighbours, the painter Pierre van Hall and his wife, are being driven crazy. This turns into a fight between the neighbours that gets way out of hand, because their reactions to each other become increasingly extreme; at one point a brass band is even used. The police ultimately force the quarrelling neighbours to make peace, by threatening them with jail.
Hole in the Wall
1919
5.7M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
M'Liss
1918
9.0Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
Fools Highway
1924
NRA series of 25 2-reel Western thrillers in which a cowgirl aids the cause of justice and humanity in the Old West, often aided by her fiancé and her rancher father. Each episode tells a complete story in itself.
The Girl from Frisco
1916