Directing

Otis Thayer

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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Amy Lindel, a church choir singer, goes to the city to pursue a singing career, but finds herself only able to get cabaret gigs. She then becomes entangled in a situation involving stolen diamonds, and is saved by the "good guy" whom she later marries.

Finders Keepers

1921

Miss Arizona poster
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Miss Arizona Farnley (Gertrude Bondhill), tomboy of the West, avenges the death of her father, who was killed by Bob Evans during a bar fight at The Oasis.

Miss Arizona

1919

A Romance of the Rio Grande poster
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The Texas Rangers, led by Tom Wilson, are hot on the trail of the Mexican bootleggers, who have been smuggling whiskey into American territory and supplying it to the Indians.

A Romance of the Rio Grande

1911

A Romance of the Rio Grande poster
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The Texas Rangers, led by Tom Wilson, are hot on the trail of the Mexican bootleggers, who have been smuggling whiskey into American territory and supplying it to the Indians.

A Romance of the Rio Grande

1911

The Scapegoat poster
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Harry Mason, a young New Yorker of good family, tries to borrow money from his brother, Tom. One afternoon Tom collects $5,000 for his father. As it is after banking hours, Mr. Mason puts the money in his house safe. He is overseen by Harry, who breaks into the safe and steals the money.

The Scapegoat

1912

Pirates of the Plains poster
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The first, and apparently only, surviving film produced by the Colorado Motion Picture Company, Pirates of the Plains is a quite well-made story about two brothers, one a champion rodeo rider, the other a horse thief.

Pirates of the Plains

1914

The 'Diamond S' Ranch poster
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The "Diamond S" ranch abounds in thrilling scenes of dare-devil cowboy life.

The 'Diamond S' Ranch

1912

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A growing number of cattle raids prompts the cattlemen to call on their cattlemen's association president Martin Lethbridge to investigate. Sheep Ranchers are suspected, who led by Gregg Randall blame the cattlemen for increased casualties among the sheep herds. Letherbridge falls in love with Randall's daughter, Dolly, and eventually exposes Blunt Vanier as the cause of the conflict.

Riders of the Range

1923

A Cowboy's Best Girl poster
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Alice Marson, an eastern young lady, becomes engaged to Glen Arnold, a young man just out of college. Girl-like, she rushes to her friend, Lucy Starr, and tells of the engagement. Lucy, who also had designs on Glen, congratulates Alice, but determines to break up the match.

A Cowboy's Best Girl

1912

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Smith & Smith, publishers, in a letter, notify Professor Bernard that they will accept his latest story if he will alter the enclosed paragraph: "Marry me and I will do away with my wife as I did her father." The absent-minded professor leaves this paragraph on his study table while he goes to the store to secure some cloth for his wife. The Professor, however, is very absent-minded, and forgets his mission when he meets a group of firemen who induce him to play a game of checkers. In the meantime, Ellen, the cook, is having her troubles with the butcher boy, who brings liver instead of chops, as ordered.

All on Account of Checkers

1912

Across the Border poster
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Curley Smith, a lieutenant of the Texas Rangers, gets chased by a band of smugglers after getting caught spying on them and becomes injured. Anita, the daughter of the chief smuggler tends to him and the two of them fall in love. Dean, a member of the renegade, becomes jealous of their romance, and will do whatever he can to get rid of Curley - fair or foul.

Across the Border

1914

Little Red Riding Hood poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Little Red Riding Hood

1918

Tracy the Outlaw poster
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A fictionalized biography of famed Western outlaw Harry Tracy.

Tracy the Outlaw

1928

Finders Keepers poster
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Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.

Finders Keepers

1928

The Bully of Bingo Gulch poster
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Hiram Hughes, foreman on "Pop" Lynd's ranch in Bingo Gulch, has quit his job. He has had enough of "Wild Jim," who is the pest of the ranch. In despair, Pop goes to Bingo, where he places a sign on the post office, advertising for a new foreman. "Easy" Thompson, the star performer of the "Circle Bar Ranch" show, has had enough of circus life and resigns his job.

The Bully of Bingo Gulch

1911

The Bully of Bingo Gulch poster
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Hiram Hughes, foreman on "Pop" Lynd's ranch in Bingo Gulch, has quit his job. He has had enough of "Wild Jim," who is the pest of the ranch. In despair, Pop goes to Bingo, where he places a sign on the post office, advertising for a new foreman. "Easy" Thompson, the star performer of the "Circle Bar Ranch" show, has had enough of circus life and resigns his job.

The Bully of Bingo Gulch

1911

Saved by the Juvenile Court poster
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William Desmond Taylor’s feature about an orphan reclaimed through the juvenile court of Judge Ben Lindsey.

Saved by the Juvenile Court

1913