Hampton Del Ruth

Production

Hampton Del Ruth

Born 1881-09-07 · White Clay Creek Hundred, Delaware, USA

Born Hampton Price Ruth on 7 September 1881 near Christiana, Delaware.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Good-bye Love poster
6.3

A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.

Good-bye Love

1933

Tillie's Punctured Romance poster
6.2

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

1914

Skirts poster
8.0

Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the strong man of the circus scheming to beat him to it.

Skirts

1921

Skirts poster
8.0

Clyde is a handyman around a circus. His mother is the bearded lady in the side-show; his father is a millionaire separated from his family. Clyde is endeavoring to get the old man's fortune, with the strong man of the circus scheming to beat him to it.

Skirts

1921

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7.0

Naughty is a 1927 silent film comedy directed by Hampton Del Ruth and starring Pauline Garon and John Harron. It was produced by Chadwick Pictures.

Naughty

1927

No artwork available
7.0

Naughty is a 1927 silent film comedy directed by Hampton Del Ruth and starring Pauline Garon and John Harron. It was produced by Chadwick Pictures.

Naughty

1927

A Bedroom Blunder poster
5.0

A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.

A Bedroom Blunder

1917

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5.0

Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.

The Bees' Buzz

1929

Midnight Daddies poster
9.0

Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.

Midnight Daddies

1930

Just a Good Guy poster
9.0

A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.

Just a Good Guy

1924

Air Eagles poster
6.3

Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.

Air Eagles

1931

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9.0

Ambassador Alfalfa Doolittle returns to his small town, fielding questions about Washington politics and his adventures. He regales them with stories that may be slightly exaggerated.

A Truthful Liar

1924

A Strange Adventure poster
6.5

A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.

A Strange Adventure

1932

A Strange Adventure poster
6.5

A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.

A Strange Adventure

1932

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8.0

Kipling had a prevision of this bird, when he wrote that famous line "HE'S A INDIA-RUBBER IDOT ON A SPREE!" Silent comedy short starring Clyde Cook.

Kiss Me Quick

1920

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NR

A doctor and an undertaker form a partnership and get more business through the alliance, but one or the other loses his wife in the business rush.

Watch Your Neighbor

1918

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NR

Lost at the Front is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Del Lord and written by Hampton Del Ruth, Frank Griffin, and Ralph Spence. The film stars George Sidney, Charles Murray, Natalie Kingston, John Kolb, Max Asher, and Brooks Benedict. The film was released on May 29, 1927, by First National Pictures.

Lost at the Front

Defenders of the Law poster
7.0

A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.

Defenders of the Law

1931

Are Waitresses Safe? poster
5.0

Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up her powder puff and her biscuits. The cook orders her to lighten them up. She blows them up like balloons, but they come out like rubber balls and so she is bounced out of that job. In her next position as housekeeper to a rich family, she throws a party for her friends when the family goes on vacation and they turn the house topsy-turvy.

Are Waitresses Safe?

1917

The Mystery Train poster
4.8

A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.

The Mystery Train

1931

That Night poster
NR

There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor, Trask and Murray, two entertainers, all race to her home with the idea of marrying her.

That Night

1917

Sugar Plum Papa poster
7.0

Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.

Sugar Plum Papa

1930

Scotch poster
8.0

Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.

Scotch

1930

Transcontinental Limited poster
6.5

War veteran returns home to find his sweetheart totally upset. Her father will lose his sight unless she can get funds for an expensive procedure. He and some army mates hatch a plot. For the railway safe to be utilized. A rival though robs the safe and the money is taken by the pals. A train journey later involving high speed the money is needed before the rival can send the hero to prison.

Transcontinental Limited

1926