Jack Duffy

Acting

Jack Duffy

Born 1882-09-04 · Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA

Jack Duffy was born on September 4, 1882 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The Stage Hand (1920), Love Takes Flight (1937) and The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring (1916). He died on July 23, 1939 in Hollywood, California, USA.

Acting credits

A Dog's Life poster
7.3

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

A Dog's Life

1918

No Vacancies poster
NR

Arrow comedy shot in 1921 but released 2 years later, with an ensemble cast including Jay Belasco, Blanche Payson, Billy Armstrong and Jack Duffy. The plot centers around Jack and his wife who are looking for a place to rent. But what to do when the housing situation is not exactly easy?

No Vacancies

1923

Our Hospitality poster
7.5

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Our Hospitality

1923

Madame Behave poster
6.0

A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing witness important to the case of the plaintiff. He attracts the romantic attention of two old roués and one hot Broadway showgirl.

Madame Behave

1925

Court Plaster poster
8.0

Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.

Court Plaster

1924

Ella Cinders poster
7.1

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Ella Cinders

1926

No Control poster
10.0

Nancy Flood, whose father Noah operates a one-ring circus, decides to take a business job to earn extra money.

No Control

1927

She Couldn't Take It poster
5.3

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.

She Couldn't Take It

1935

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hitchin' Up

1926

Hostage for a Day poster
5.2

Harried suburban man Warren Kooey fakes a hostage situation in order to get the money he needs to escape his humdrum life.

Hostage for a Day

1994

No artwork available
7.0

The human pals of three apes become so attached to them that they take them to their home in the city where the apes prove too destructive to be really appreciative.

Jungle Pals

1923

365 Days poster
8.0

A very rich old man promises to leave his extended family his fortune if they all move in together and get along for one year.

365 Days

1922

Blackie's Redemption poster
NR

Shrewd crook Boston Blackie is determined to go straight. At a celebration held on the eve of his marriage to Mary Dawson, Fred the Count plants a stolen jewel and Blackie is arrested and sentenced to twenty years in jail. Fred the Count tries to win Blackie's fiancée, but the honorable Mary rejects him. Blackie's only hope for escape is from the hospital, so he manages to get into a weakened state. He escapes from the hospital, but is trailed by the warden. Blackie refuses to shoot the defenseless man, and the warden recognizes Blackie as an honorable person and allows him to escape. Blackie frames the Count, and leaves for Honolulu with Mary

Blackie's Redemption

1919

Harold Teen poster
7.0

Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus. He joins a fraternity, goes out for football, and directs his class theatrical effort. Instead of a school play, Harold suggests doing a western motion picture. Part of the plot requires them to blow up the dam that has cut off the water supply to Harold's homestead in the country. After the explosion Harold runs away because he is afraid of being arrested, but he returns just in time to win a football game for his team.

Harold Teen

1928

Texas Terror poster
4.8

Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's sister and helps her run her ranch. Then she finds out about his past.

Texas Terror

1935

Love Takes Flight poster
5.0

A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.

Love Takes Flight

1937

Wild Brian Kent poster
9.0

Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.

Wild Brian Kent

1936

No artwork available
NR

The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition

The Dancing Millionaire

1934

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mister Wife

1926

Loose Change poster
7.0

A young woman decides to vamp her friend's husbands visiting Scottish uncle, but her scheme to trick him into marrying him backfires when her own husband catches on.

Loose Change

1928

No artwork available
NR

At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in their bathing suits, while the freshmen and sophmores concentrate on higher things, like the motorboat race. So fierce is their rivalry that dean Jack Duffy decrees that the winner of the race and his classmates get to go to the dance, while the losers are barred. To prevent Carlyle Moore Jr. From winning, the sophmores force him to torment beat cop Vernon Dent and get thrown in jail. Will their perfidy prevail, and 30-year-old student Vera Steadman have to dance with a sophmore?

The Freshman's Finish

1931

No artwork available
8.0

Jerry Warner (Barnes) and Edith Somers (Breamer) are in love, but her father Judge Somers (Marshall) will not allow them to marry because he sees Jerry as a poor prospect. When Jerry's uncle sends him ten thousand dollars to set up a business Judge Somers tells him if he has that money at the end of six months, he can marry Edith. After several close calls all turns out all right for the lovebirds.

Reckless Romance

1924

Here Comes Cookie poster
7.2

A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.

Here Comes Cookie

1935

Neighbors poster
7.1

The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

Neighbors

1920