
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
6.2A 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
5.5The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
A Film Johnnie
1914
5.3A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
His Favorite Pastime
1914
Behind the camera
6.3A 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
6.2A 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
8.0Clyde 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
8.0Clyde 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
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
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
5.0A 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
Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.
The Bees' Buzz
1929
9.0Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
Midnight Daddies
1930
9.0A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
Just a Good Guy
1924
6.3Two 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
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
6.5A 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
6.5A 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
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
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
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
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7.0A 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
5.0Chaos 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
4.8A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.
The Mystery Train
1931
NRThere 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
7.0Wealthy Andy marries a young girl, who has an ulterior motive.
Sugar Plum Papa
1930
8.0Scotch is a 1930 comedy short.
Scotch
1930
6.5War 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