Directing

Clifford Smith

Born 1894-08-22 · Richmond, Indiana, USA

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell poster
5.7

A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

1936

The Pretender poster
NR

After Bob Baldwin is fired for playing too many jokes on the tenderfoot owner of the Diamond K Ranch, he sets out for the nearby town of Freloe Beanos and meets Percival Longstreet on the way. Percival has been seriously injured in an accident and is therefore unable to assume his duties as the town's new schoolmaster. Distressed, Percival confesses that he and his sister Dolly, who is en route to the town, are doomed to starve, which so moves Bob that he agrees to serve as the schoolmaster during Percival's convalescence.

The Pretender

1918

Fighting Fury poster
10.0

A Spanish-American boy raised by his Mexican servant, Clay Hill, Jr. vows vengeance on the three ranchers who murdered his parents.

Fighting Fury

1924

Radio Patrol poster
10.0

About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

Radio Patrol

1937

Ace Drummond poster
7.0

This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to find out why a mysterious villain known only as 'The Dragon' is trying to prevent the newly formed International Airways from setting up an airport there. Ace meets Peggy Trainor (Jean Rogers) who is searching for her archaeologist father who has disappeared. Together they search for answers to the puzzles.

Ace Drummond

1936

My Dad poster
7.0

Tom's father, Barry, lives at a lonely trading post up north and is constantly in fear the post's factor, who has threatened to turn him in to the Mounted Police for a murder committed many years before.

My Dad

1922

My Dad poster
7.0

Tom's father, Barry, lives at a lonely trading post up north and is constantly in fear the post's factor, who has threatened to turn him in to the Mounted Police for a murder committed many years before.

My Dad

1922

Daring Chances poster
10.0

When his sister, who is married to saloon keeper Joe Slavin, dies, Jack Armstrong takes in her little daughter, Bebe. Sampson Burke, his rival for schoolteacher Agnes Rushton, conspires with Slavin to have Jack arrested for abduction.

Daring Chances

1924

The Texan poster
8.0

A cowboy on the run from the law gets mixed up with a crooked horse race scheme.

The Texan

1932

Ridin' Thunder poster
7.0

When Bill Croft, a notorious gunfighter, is bushwhacked, innocent rancher Frank Douglas is accused of the crime on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to be hanged. Jack Douglas, Frank's son, sets out to prove his father's innocence with the help of Jean, the murdered man's daughter; Jack eventually apprehends the killer and forces him to confess, but the sheriff is unable to stop the execution without an official pardon.

Ridin' Thunder

1925

The Demon poster
10.0

A band of marauders are burning the property of ranchers in Slocum Valley. Dane Gordon, Percival Wade's silent partner, poses as an ex-convict, joins the gang, and falls in love with Goldie Fleming, stenographer to Bat Jackson, the brains of the gang. He learns that the raids are conducted for the purpose of depreciating the properties so that they can be purchased for a song. The gang learns Dane's real identity and plots to blow him up.

The Demon

1926

Flying Hoofs poster
9.0

Sheriff Frank Moody has sworn to bring to justice a notorious bandit known only as The Raven, but, as he hunts for the unknown outlaw, circumstantial evidence and village gossip suggests that Henry Moody, the sheriff's kid brother, may be the bandit.

Flying Hoofs

1925

Arizona Sweepstakes poster
7.0

Arizona cowboy Coot Cadigan travels to San Francisco and runs into Stuffy McGee, a small-time crook who stages phony "fights" to amuse the tourists. During one of those frights a man is killed and Coot gets blamed for it. Stuffy hides him out, but when he gets arrested Coot hightails it back to Arizona. with Stuffy's three children. To earn some money, he enters the Arizona Sweepstakes, a horse race with a large purse and one on which Col. Savery--the father of the girl Coot loves--depends on to save his ranch.

Arizona Sweepstakes

1926

Daring Danger poster
9.0

Rancher Cal Horton, who has suffered considerably at the hands of cattle rustlers who have become a menace to local life and property, is called on by the United States Government to track down the outlaws.

Daring Danger

1922

Daring Danger poster
9.0

Rancher Cal Horton, who has suffered considerably at the hands of cattle rustlers who have become a menace to local life and property, is called on by the United States Government to track down the outlaws.

Daring Danger

1922

South o' Santa Fe poster
5.5

A ranch owner hires a young woman (Texas Guinan) to serve as foreman over a rambunctious group of cowboys.

South o' Santa Fe

1919

Bustin' Thru poster
10.0

Jack Savage, a rancher, refuses to sell his property to John Merritt, a millionaire newly interested in ranching. Jack later meets Helen Merritt and falls in love with her, not knowing that she is the wealthy man's daughter.

Bustin' Thru

1925

The Set-Up poster
8.0

Cliff Barton, suspicious of the intentions of the local banker, Seth Tolliver, withdraws his money from the bank, hides it, and is later killed by two hirelings of the banker. Deputy Sheriff Art Stratton, who has trained Barton's horse and is in love with his daughter, Thora, is assigned to guard the ranch for the creditors; and Tolliver, who has designs on the property and wants his son to marry Thora, arranges to have the ranch auctioned.

The Set-Up

1926

The Girl Who Dared poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Girl Who Dared

1920

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8.0

1919 film serial.

Man of Might

1919

3 Gold Coins poster
10.0

Happy-go-lucky cowboy Bob Fleming exhibits such prowess with his pistol, that he wins the three gold coins offered by millionaire Luther Reed to test his marksmanship. Bob also makes an impression on Reed's pretty daughter Betty. The cowboy is so admired by the local citizenry that when crooks J. M. Ballinger and Rufus Berry arrive in town, they decide to make Bob their patsy. After planting oil on Bob's land, they sell stock to the townfolk and the cowboy, who has been innocently drawn into the scheme, turns it over to the crooks for safekeeping. For his efforts, Bob is arrested and found guilty of defrauding the stock holders, and also charged with being notorious outlaw Pat Duncan. After several adventures, Bob succeeds in capturing the real Duncan, vindicates himself of the charges and wins Betty for his bride.

3 Gold Coins

1920

The Back Trail poster
9.0

Jeff Prouty loses his memory as a result of war injuries and is made to believe he has committed past crimes.

The Back Trail

1924

Singer Jim Mckee poster
10.0

Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is killed, but Jim and the daughter escape. Fifteen years later, Jim finds that he must turn robber again to continue to provide for Buck's daughter.

Singer Jim Mckee

1924

The Devil Dodger poster
NR

A gambler runs a frontier town with an iron fist.

The Devil Dodger

1917