Acting
James Donnelly
Born — Died
1865-01-01 — 1937-04-13
Place of birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
29 titles
Known for
8.2A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
City Lights
1931
7.0"Lewis Sargent of 'Huckleberry Finn" fame, now grown up, and Alice Ardell are the principal players in this Standard Comdy which deals with the attempts of a love-sick young couple to wed despite an irate father who shows his temper by demolishing straw hats. They finally elope, resulting in a chase scene. Slapstick comedy of average amusement value". - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World. Originally two reels, one survives.
Vamping Babies
1926
8.0An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.
Sea Devils
1931
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
8.0Elizabeth Browne is the daughter of nouveau riche parents, who became wealthy when they struck oil. While she attends finishing school, her folks travel to England in search of a family tree so that they can enter society. They encounter Lady Dysart, an adventuress who married Lord Dysart shortly before his death. Lady Dysart tries to convince the Brownes that Cecil, her son from a previous marriage, is the new Lord Dysart.
A Girl's Desire
1922
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
Film credits
1930s · 3 titles
8.2A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
City Lights
1931
8.0An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.
Sea Devils
1931
6.5Ranger Bill Williams goes to prison to get information on Chuck Adams. Then a fake posse chase gets him invited into Adams' gang. But just as he learns who Adams' boss is and is about to make his move, his cell mate who escaped from prison returns to identify him.
The Border Menace
1934
1920s · 15 titles
7.0"Lewis Sargent of 'Huckleberry Finn" fame, now grown up, and Alice Ardell are the principal players in this Standard Comdy which deals with the attempts of a love-sick young couple to wed despite an irate father who shows his temper by demolishing straw hats. They finally elope, resulting in a chase scene. Slapstick comedy of average amusement value". - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World. Originally two reels, one survives.
Vamping Babies
1926
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
8.0Elizabeth Browne is the daughter of nouveau riche parents, who became wealthy when they struck oil. While she attends finishing school, her folks travel to England in search of a family tree so that they can enter society. They encounter Lady Dysart, an adventuress who married Lord Dysart shortly before his death. Lady Dysart tries to convince the Brownes that Cecil, her son from a previous marriage, is the new Lord Dysart.
A Girl's Desire
1922
9.0Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
From Rags to Britches
1925
8.0An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's daughter. This rival begins to scheme against the inventor, and it is left up to the inventor's hired man to try to stop him.
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
1925
A two reel Bobby Vernon comedy
Turn Him Loose
1929
Ruth Hiatt is the object of Raymond McKee's affections, but her mother, Sunshine Hart, and a bogus Baron, Kewpie Morgan, are providing him reasons to be uneasy in his courtship. Most of the action is set around a swimming pool on a ship.
Love's Last Laugh
1926
A 1926 short film
North of 6 7/8
1926
5.3Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
On Patrol
1922
Two barbers, Billy and Andy head out West when one of their customers tells them that gold can literally be scooped up off the ground. Unbeknownst to them and with the shop’s manicurist in tow they run into their customer again who is a crooked gambler winning his money by questionable methods. As he rakes in the pots, an assistant pours the money down a chute which leads to a vault. Billy and Andy, in their explorations, find this vault and think they have discovered a mine. Taking some of the money, they go to the gambler's room and sit in the game. Thus, the money continues to circulate - from the mine to Billy - from Billy to the gambler - and down the chute again.
Trimmed in Gold
1926
5.2Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive. There's anger all around, leading to Harry's arrest. He's jailed while awaiting trial in front of Betty's father, a judge. She visits him in the clink. He escapes and disguises himself as a cabman. The police are looking for him, as are his fiancée and her mother. Will it get straightened out in time for wedding bells to ring?
The Hansom Cabman
1924
9.0Two circus hands create chaos.
Circus Today
1926
7.0Billy Dooley is sent on a mission inside a submarine.
The Dizzy Diver
1928
Snooky the Chimpanzee help out a melancholy little girl and her guardian.
Beat It
1921
9.0A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show......
Naughty Baby
1929
1910s · 11 titles
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
NRPetticoat Perils is a 1917 comedy short.
Petticoat Perils
1917
5.0An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
A Clever Dummy
1917
6.0A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.
Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs
1918
6.9Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.
Passing the Buck
1919
NRThe Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
The Pullman Bride
1917
A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold Me Tight. (MoMA)
A Schoolhouse Scandal
1919
10.0The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.
The Snow Cure
1916
8.5Larry Semon comedy.
Hindoos and Hazards
1918
early comedy short by Triangle Film Corporation
The Telephone Belle
1917
The Roman setting provides ample opportunity for a very high concentration of gag titles, many of which are quite witty and many of which are quaint for deriving their humor from the juxtaposition of having ancient Romans use a lot of hip 1918-era slang. The whole thing is an excuse for a good send-up of how the Roman Empire has been depicted in "serious" plays, movies, &c.
Romans and Rascals
1918
