Hallam Cooley

Acting

Hallam Cooley

Born 1895-02-07 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hallam Cooley (February 8, 1895 – March 20, 1971) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 106 films between 1913 and 1936. He was born in Brooklyn, and died in Tiburon, California.

Acting credits

Dollar Devils poster
10.0

When oil is discovered just outside a small New England town, the residents go wild at the prospect of newfound wealth, and they invest their money with the head of the venture, a young man named Bruce Merlin.

Dollar Devils

1923

No artwork available
8.0

Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is compelled to locate a temporary wife. His friend, Kit Eclair, is happy to fill in, but during a party, his home is quarantined for smallpox. To complicate matters, a burglar is hiding from a cop in Wilson's home, and wacky Anne Brown is busy trying to hold a seance.

Seven Days

1925

The Tomboy poster
7.0

Minnie, the village tomboy, meets a handsome Stranger after playing ball one afternoon. She invites him to see a bridge model her father has designed; but finding her intoxicated father in the act of destroying the model, she swears vengeance on the local bootleggers and joins a newspaper as sportswriter so as to expose their activities. Pike, the station agent, leader of the bootleggers, spreads a scandal about Minnie when she rejects him, but through the help of the Stranger everything is cleared up.

The Tomboy

1921

Trumpet Island poster
7.5

Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.

Trumpet Island

1920

The Thoroughbred poster
10.0

Bob Beemis comes to New York City hoping to get his family entrenched in the high-society circuit, but only succeeds in making friends with one person in the social whirl, Archie de Rennsaler. They party with a couple of chorus girls and Bob falls in love with one of them. His uncle arrives from the West to check out his progress, finds there has been none, and closes out his bank account. What's a poor rich-boy do do? Well, he could enter his horse in a really, really Big Race.

The Thoroughbred

1925

Wedding Rings poster
8.0

Two sisters battle for the love of a man.

Wedding Rings

1929

An Old Fashioned Boy poster
7.2

David Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals their betrothal. But when he finds out that she has other ideas, David tries a trickier method of winning her for his bride.

An Old Fashioned Boy

1920

Her Night of Nights poster
7.0

Molly, a glamorous clothing model in New York, though yearning for a life of luxury, spurns the advances of her boss's son in favor of a shipping clerk, late of the backwoods.

Her Night of Nights

1922

Wedding Bills poster
8.0

The best man at an upcoming wedding goes to a jeweler to pick up the wedding ring and is also given a bracelet, on approval, worth $25,000. On his way home, a pigeon swoops down and snags the bracelet. The man must track down the pigeon and get the bracelet back so he won't have to pay for it--but that's easier said than done.

Wedding Bills

1927

The Painted Flapper poster
8.0

A socially-ambitious mother is pushing her younger daughter into a life-style that will satisfy the desires of the mother but the older daughter, having tasted the consequences of such a life, determines to save her younger sister from the same mistakes.

The Painted Flapper

1924

The Ten Dollar Raise poster
8.0

A lowly office worker suffers the abuses of his cruel boss, until fate gives him enough wealth to buy out his boss and reverse their positions.

The Ten Dollar Raise

1921

The Brass Bullet poster
NR

Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial

The Brass Bullet

1918

No artwork available
10.0

Silent film directed by Victor Schertzinger

The Kingdom Within

1922

Paris Bound poster
5.3

Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Complications arise when these ideals are put into practice.

Paris Bound

1929

Sporting Blood poster
5.4

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.

Sporting Blood

1931

The Monster poster
5.7

A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

The Monster

1925

What Men Want poster
3.3

A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.

What Men Want

1930

Oh, Sailor, Behave! poster
6.0

Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."

Oh, Sailor, Behave!

1930

Holiday poster
6.2

A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.

Holiday

1930

The Foolish Age poster
9.0

After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she picks an ex-gangster named Bubbs out of the throng.

The Foolish Age

1921

Naughty But Nice poster
9.0

Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).

Naughty But Nice

1927

Fancy Baggage poster
10.0

In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.

Fancy Baggage

1929

Her Wild Oat poster
10.0

In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, who is pretending to be his own chauffeur. With her savings, she pursues him to a resort hotel, only to be mistaken for a duchess. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Národní filmový archív in 2007.

Her Wild Oat

1927

No artwork available
NR

A day in the life of a family of circus performers.

Just Show Folks

2022