Acting

James Donnelly

Born 1865-01-01 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Acting credits

City Lights poster
8.3

A 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

From Rags to Britches poster
9.0

Billy 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

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

Petticoat Perils poster
NR

Petticoat Perils is a 1917 comedy short.

Petticoat Perils

1917

Sea Devils poster
8.0

An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.

Sea Devils

1931

Vamping Babies poster
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

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

The Pullman Bride poster
NR

The Pullman Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.

The Pullman Bride

1917

A Girl's Desire poster
8.0

Elizabeth 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

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
7.0

A two reel Bobby Vernon comedy

Turn Him Loose

1929

No artwork available
9.0

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

No artwork available
NR

A 1926 short film

North of 6 7/8

1926

The Snow Cure poster
10.0

The Snow Cure is a silent Comedy short.

The Snow Cure

1916

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies poster
8.0

An 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

Passing the Buck poster
7.2

Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.

Passing the Buck

1919

Naughty Baby poster
9.0

A gorgeous showgirl is hired as a lingerie model at a fashion show......

Naughty Baby

1929

On Patrol poster
5.3

Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.

On Patrol

1922

Circus Today poster
9.0

Two circus hands create chaos.

Circus Today

1926

The Dizzy Diver poster
7.0

Billy Dooley is sent on a mission inside a submarine.

The Dizzy Diver

1928

Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs poster
6.0

A 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

The Hansom Cabman poster
5.2

Harry 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

No artwork available
7.0

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

The Border Menace poster
6.5

Ranger 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