Albert Herman

Directing

Albert Herman

Born 1887-02-22 · Troy, New York, USA

Albert Herman was born on 22 February 1887 in Troy, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Black Coin (1936), Sporting Chance (1931) and What Price Crime (1935). He died on 28 September 1958 in Los Angeles County, California, USA

Acting credits

Broncho Billy's Double Escape poster
7.0

Broncho Billy, an outlaw, while being pursued by the sheriff of Bear County, crosses the line into Gulch County. Later he is captured by the Gulch County authorities, who wire to the neighboring sheriff's office to send a man to bring the prisoner back. A deputy sheriff is sent and that night they stop at a small hotel. Broncho and the deputy become quite friendly and Broncho induces him to remove his handcuffs. While Broncho Billy sleeps the deputy steals downstairs and enters a card game. He loses heavily. He returns to the room and tells Broncho of his loss. They then both turn in for the night. While the deputy sleeps, Broncho slips his gun from his pocket, goes downstairs and holds up the gamblers. Without waking his guardian, he places the loot on the table, then writes a note, telling the deputy that he has gone to the boundary and will be waiting for him there.

Broncho Billy's Double Escape

1914

Hollywood Cowboy poster
5.5

Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes a picture and goes camping. Attracted to Joyce Butler, he hires on at her ranch and quickly gets caught up in Butler's conflict with Kramer. When the Butlers refuse to buy his service, he has their cattle stampeded.

Hollywood Cowboy

1937

Broncho Billy's Mother poster
7.0

The entire town is terrorized. Broncho Billy has again been drinking and is shooting at everything in sight. After "shooting up" a saloon and grocery store Broncho goes to his cabin where he falls asleep. The sheriff and his men arrive, and after a fierce struggle overpower him. The man stationed outside suddenly rushes in and informs them that Broncho's mother has arrived to pay him a visit. The news quickly sobers Broncho, and the sheriff seeing his distress, pins his star on him, and himself dons the handcuffs. When his mother enters she thinks Broncho is the sheriff, and takes pity on the prisoner.

Broncho Billy's Mother

1914

Broncho Billy's Judgment poster
10.0

Broncho Billy and his pal are in love with the same girl. They argue one night as to which one she really loves. Broncho suggests that they go to her home and settle the matter. They arrive just in time to see the girl marrying a gambler who is known to be a low-down good-for-nothing by both Broncho and his pal.

Broncho Billy's Judgment

1914

Behind the camera

Rogues' Gallery poster
5.9

Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds, the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.

Rogues' Gallery

1944

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Weak Knees

1927

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Weak Knees

1927

The Phantom of 42nd Street poster
4.8

A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.

The Phantom of 42nd Street

1945

The Dawn Express poster
5.1

A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.

The Dawn Express

1942

Fearless Harry poster
NR

Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by Relentless Rudolph; Hairbreadth Harry must race to her rescue.

Fearless Harry

1926

What Price Crime poster
4.0

Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercover agent assigned to the case happens to get into a traffic accident with the sister of the man the police suspect is head of the burglary ring, and in order to work his way into the gang, he romances the boss' sister. Complications ensue when the two fall in love.

What Price Crime

1935

Bars of Hate poster
7.0

Ted Clark rescues pickpoket Danny from a mob, and restores Danny's loot, a pocketbook, to its owner Ann Dawson. She is carrying a letter that proves her brother, who is on death row, is innocent and Jim Grant is the guilty party. Ted and Danny help her escape from Grant's henchmen. They have several narrow escapes while on their way to give the proof to the Governor.

Bars of Hate

1935

Starving Beauties poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Starving Beauties

1924

The Missing Corpse poster
5.1

A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car. Good guy Kruger attempts to hide McDonald's body, with the help of chauffeur Hogan (Jenks), to keep from being charged with murder. However, zany scenarios occur as the body just won't stay hidden, and keeps on popping up in multiple places where Kruger is located, leading to him hiding the body again and again while Kruger tries to find the real killer.

The Missing Corpse

1945

Gun Play poster
6.0

A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.

Gun Play

1935

Twisted Rails poster
5.5

A railroad employee finds out the identity of "The Wrecker", a criminal who is deliberately causing trains to crash. However, before he can disclose the crook's name, he is shot and killed. A passenger aboard the train volunteers to go after the killer and bring "The Wrecker" to justice.

Twisted Rails

1934

Snappy Eyes poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Snappy Eyes

1924

On the Great White Trail poster
6.5

Death stalked Garou's Landing, in the Canadian frozen north, but who was the killer who murdered two men and left them huddled in the snow. Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, accompanied by his dog, Silver King (Silver King the Dog), and Kay Larkin (Terry Walker) the daughter of the man, Andrew Larkin (Robert Frazer) accused of the crime, sets out to solve the crime and bring the real killer to justice.

On the Great White Trail

1938

Rainbow Over the Range poster
7.0

A U.S. marshal is sent to investigate a gang that is stealing horses from the cavalry.

Rainbow Over the Range

1940

Rollin' Westward poster
5.8

A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch.

Rollin' Westward

1939

The Big Chance poster
4.9

Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.

The Big Chance

1933

Mickey's Northwest Mounted poster
10.0

One of the last silent shorts in the series. Stinky invites Mickey and company to his rodeo. Plenty of lassoing, horse riding, and even a head-butting contest between Hambone and a goat!

Mickey's Northwest Mounted

1929

Dancing Daisies poster
10.0

Open up with Al Alt, dancing instructor, coming in on a train with a bunch of showgirls and the backer of the show, Maryland.

Dancing Daisies

1924

Dancing Daisies poster
10.0

Open up with Al Alt, dancing instructor, coming in on a train with a bunch of showgirls and the backer of the show, Maryland.

Dancing Daisies

1924

Starlight Over Texas poster
7.0

Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Marshal and assumed his identity. When Tex asks too many questons, he plans to get rid of him also.

Starlight Over Texas

1938

The Rangers Take Over poster
7.0

Jim Steele spots Pete Dawson taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger station, among them Tex Wyatt, the son of Ranger Captain John Wyatt, whom he hasn't seen for many years. Captain Wyatt tells Tex that he is in the Rangers strictly on his own merit and there will be no favors played. He assigns Tex to pick up Dawson's trail, but orders that no arrest be made without proof.

The Rangers Take Over

1942

Valley of Terror poster
6.3

A cowboy is arrested for rustling cattle. A lynch mob is formed by his buddy to try and arrange an escape in the confusion. Things go wrong.

Valley of Terror

1937

No artwork available
8.0

A new student at Washington College undergoes hazing, college football, dirty tricks by the rival team and a romance with a co-ed from Betsy Ross College.

Even Up

1927