Which actor, who stars in the 1926 silent film comedy directed by William A. Seiter, was an amateur boxing champion?
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What Happened to Jones What Happened to Jones is a 1926 silent film comedy directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is taken from an 1897 Broadway play, "What Happened to Jones" by George Broadhurst.
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Reginald Denny (actor) Reginald Denny (born Reginald Leigh Dugmore, 20 November 1891 – 16 June 1967) was an English stage, film and television actor as well as an aviator and UAV pioneer. He was once an amateur boxing champion of Great Britain.
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List of sports films This compilation of films covers all sports activities. Sports films have been made since the era of silent films, such as the 1915 film "The Champion" starring Charlie Chaplin. Films in this genre can range from serious ("Raging Bull") to silly ("Horse Feathers"). A classic theme for sports films is the triumph of an individual or team who prevail despite the difficulties.
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The Champ (1931 film) The Champ is an 1931 American Pre-Code film starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper, and directed by King Vidor from a screenplay by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock. The picture tells the story of a washed-up alcoholic boxer (Beery) attempting to put his life back together for the sake of his young son (Cooper).
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My Own Pal My Own Pal is a lost 1926 American silent Western film directed by John G. Blystone and written by Lillie Hayward. The film stars Tom Mix, Olive Borden, Tom Santschi, Virginia Marshall, Ben Bard and William Colvin. The film was released on February 28, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation.
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The Clown (1927 film) The Clown is a 1927 silent film crime drama directed by William James Craft and produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It stars Dorothy Revier, Johnnie Walker and William V. Mong.
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The Great White Way (1924 film) The Great White Way is a 1924 silent film comedy centered on the sport of boxing. It was directed by E. Mason Hopper. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures. It was made with the cooperation of the New York City Fire Department. The film stars Oscar Shaw and Anita Stewart and is a lost film. It was remade twelve years later as "Cain and Mabel" with Marion Davies and Clark Gable.
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) is an American comedy silent film directed by Harry Edwards. It features Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford.
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It's the Old Army Game It's the Old Army Game is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring W. C. Fields and Louise Brooks. The "army game" is the shell game, a con-trick which WC Fields observes being played. "It's the old army game" he says, sagely. The film was directed by A. Edward Sutherland, billed as Eddie Sutherland, and co-stars Sutherland's aunt, the stage actress Blanche Ring in one of her few silent film appearances. The film is based on the revue "The Comic Supplement" by Joseph P. McEvoy and Fields, and included several skits from Fields' stage plays.
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Footlights and Fools Footlights and Fools is a 1929 American sound film directed by William A. Seiter that was billed by Warner Brothers as an all-talking musical film and released in Vitaphone with Technicolor sequences.
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The Sleuth (film) The Sleuth is a 1925 American silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
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Skinner's Dress Suit Skinner's Dress Suit is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and starring Reginald Denny. William Seiter was the director of the film which was based on the 1916 novel of the name by Henry Irving Dodge. Laura La Plante and Hedda Hopper co-star in this comedy which has seen video and DVD releases.
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Tom Wilson (actor) Tom Wilson (August 27, 1880 – February 19, 1965) was an American film actor. He appeared in 254 films between 1915 and 1963. He was born in Helena, Montana, and died in Los Angeles, California. Wilson had notable supporting roles in the Silent era, like "The Kindly Officer" in D. W. Griffith's epic "Intolerance" (1916), the angry policeman in Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" (1921) and a boxing coach in Buster Keaton's comedy "Battling Butler" (1926). After the rise of sound film, he was reduced to small roles for the rest of his long film career.
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The Ring (1927 film) The Ring is a 1927 British silent sports film directed and written by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis and Ian Hunter. It is one of Hitchcock's nine surviving silent films. "The Ring" is Hitchcock's only original screenplay although he worked extensively alongside other writers throughout his career.
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Sporting Goods Sporting Goods is a 1928 American comedy silent film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and written by George Marion Jr., Ray Harris and Thomas J. Crizer. The film stars Richard Dix, Ford Sterling, Gertrude Olmstead, Philip Strange, Myrtle Stedman, Wade Boteler and Claude King. The film was released on February 11, 1928, by Paramount Pictures.
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Raggedy Rose Raggedy Rose is a 1926 film American silent comedy film starring Mabel Normand. The film was co-written by Stan Laurel, and directed by Richard Wallace.
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The Fighting Gentleman The Fighting Gentleman is a 1932 American Pre-Code sports-drama film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer with William Collier, Jr. and Josephine Dunn in the leads.
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Love in the Ring Love in the Ring (German:Liebe im Ring) is a 1930 German sports film directed by Reinhold Schünzel and starring Max Schmeling, Renate Müller and Olga Tschechowa. Schmeling was a leading German boxer of the 1930s, and the film attempted to capitalise on this. Schmeling later appeared in another boxing-themed film in "Knockout" (1935).
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The Beautiful and Damned (film) The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by William A. Seiter and released by Warner Bros. The film, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel "The Beautiful and Damned", starred Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost.
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Tin Hats Tin Hats is a 1926 comedy film directed by Edward Sedgwick (his first for MGM), starring Claire Windsor and Conrad Nagel. The film is considered partially lost.
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The Second Hundred Years (film) The Second Hundred Years (a.k.a. The Second 100 Years) is a 1927 American silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films between 1921 and 1951.
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Synthetic Sin Synthetic Sin is a 1929 film directed by William A. Seiter, based on a play of the same name. While filmed as a silent, the film was accompanied with a Vitaphone soundtrack and sound effects.