John J. Richardson

John J. Richardson

Birthday: 1888-11-01

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Biography: John J. Richardson (born Harold Jack Joseph Richardson) was an English-born actor in American films, his screen career spanning the years 1917 to 1941.

Movies

Manpower
Manpower

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and ...

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The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments

The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receip...

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Yukon Jake
Yukon Jake

Cyclone Bill is the popular sheriff of Mustang Gulch, where "a gun in the hand is worth two on the h...

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Earthworm Tractors
Earthworm Tractors

A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl....

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The Iron Nag
The Iron Nag

A jail break turns into a race....

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The Cannon Ball Express
The Cannon Ball Express

Fun develops after a feud between a railroad president and a promoter, and takes the form of a race ...

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The Lion's Whiskers
The Lion's Whiskers

Billy works at a film studio where lots of things keep going wrong. First, while filming, the camera...

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Sneezing Beezers
Sneezing Beezers

An exiled king supports his daughter and himself by serving genuine chili con carne at a rapid-servi...

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Kid Galahad
Kid Galahad

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid...

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A Sweet Pickle
A Sweet Pickle

A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short....

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Lizzies of the Field
Lizzies of the Field

There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on ...

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Daily Dozens
Daily Dozens

The "Joybell Players" consisting of Jack Cooper, Ethelyn Gibson and Jack Richardson star in this ver...

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When Summer Comes
When Summer Comes

Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short ...

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Bulls and Bears
Bulls and Bears

Andy's wife, seeing others succeed in the stock market, decides to invest their money in it....

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Merely a Maid
Merely a Maid

Beatrice is a maid to a naughty society girl. The latter's lover takes a liking to the maid and a ri...

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The Three Must-Get-Theres
The Three Must-Get-Theres

In this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel "The Three Musketeers"....

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The Dawn Patrol
The Dawn Patrol

In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen g...

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Galloping Bungalows
Galloping Bungalows

All the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man wit...

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Fearless Harry
Fearless Harry

Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by Relentless Rudolph; Hairbreadth Harry must race to her rescue....

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Sign Them Papers
Sign Them Papers

Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by terrible people who want her to sign over a gold mine....

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Water Wagons
Water Wagons

A boat race rivalry erupts into comical danger....

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Black Oxfords
Black Oxfords

In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment i...

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Maids a la Mode
Maids a la Mode

Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party....

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The Patient in Room 18
The Patient in Room 18

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warn...

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Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline...

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The Invisible Menace
The Invisible Menace

Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. ...

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Going Places
Going Places

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargain...

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Angels Wash Their Faces
Angels Wash Their Faces

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending ...

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It's a Great Life
It's a Great Life

Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As...

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The Right to Live
The Right to Live

A man with a broken back dies after his wife has an affair with his brother....

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Draegerman Courage
Draegerman Courage

After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners....

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Garden of the Moon
Garden of the Moon

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performin...

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Love Is on the Air
Love Is on the Air

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves....

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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of mansl...

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Melody for Two
Melody for Two

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band....

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Secret Service of the Air
Secret Service of the Air

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercove...

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Public Wedding
Public Wedding

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fak...

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Smashing the Money Ring
Smashing the Money Ring

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in ...

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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hosp...

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Call It a Day
Call It a Day

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during...

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The White Angel
The White Angel

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs...

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Girls on Probation
Girls on Probation

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart....

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Maybe It's Love
Maybe It's Love

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in l...

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He Couldn't Say No
He Couldn't Say No

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marr...

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King of the Underworld
King of the Underworld

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her i...

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They Made Me a Criminal
They Made Me a Criminal

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk....

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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Nancy Drew... Reporter

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a...

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The Oklahoma Kid
The Oklahoma Kid

McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw ...

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Women in the Wind
Women in the Wind

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women....

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Union Pacific
Union Pacific

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro...

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A Child Is Born
A Child Is Born

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward....

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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter

When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by bo...

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Indianapolis Speedway
Indianapolis Speedway

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather...

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The Daredevil Drivers
The Daredevil Drivers

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her r...

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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the mur...

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Dust Be My Destiny
Dust Be My Destiny

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a ...

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Espionage Agent
Espionage Agent

When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo...

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The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally...

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Wall Street Blues
Wall Street Blues

A bumbling bank custodian becomes an unlikely hero when he foils a robbery....

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While the Patient Slept
While the Patient Slept

A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill fami...

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Oh, What a Man!
Oh, What a Man!

A detective sets out to nab Notorious Nora, the tough female leader of a gang whose headquarters is ...

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Heart of the North
Heart of the North

A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound fre...

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She Loved a Fireman
She Loved a Fireman

A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman....

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Pack Up Your Troubles
Pack Up Your Troubles

Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines....

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Missing Witnesses
Missing Witnesses

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City....

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The Dare-Devil
The Dare-Devil

The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's ...

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Calling Philo Vance
Calling Philo Vance

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to...

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British Intelligence
British Intelligence

During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the...

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Smart Blonde
Smart Blonde

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the ma...

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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chine...

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Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll....

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King of the Lumberjacks
King of the Lumberjacks

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new b...

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I Married a Doctor
I Married a Doctor

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the towns...

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Jailbreak
Jailbreak

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars....

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Talent Scout
Talent Scout

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom....

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Castle on the Hudson
Castle on the Hudson

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....

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An Angel from Texas
An Angel from Texas

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show....

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Temptation
Temptation

Pre-code crime drama directed by E. Mason Hopper starring Lois Wilson, Lawrence Gray, Billy Bevan an...

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Sons o' Guns
Sons o' Guns

Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays t...

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Road Gang
Road Gang

A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a ...

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Over the Wall
Over the Wall

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfr...

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Satan Met a Lady
Satan Met a Lady

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress...

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Yes, My Darling Daughter
Yes, My Darling Daughter

Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year j...

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Dinky
Dinky

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a priso...

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The Cowboy Quarterback
The Cowboy Quarterback

Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runne...

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Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes

An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry....

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Beau Brummel
Beau Brummel

George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley...

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The Great Mr. Nobody
The Great Mr. Nobody

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit....

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Stranded
Stranded

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters....

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What a Trip
What a Trip

Vernon Dent out fishing....

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A Fugitive from Justice
A Fugitive from Justice

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the ru...

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Penrod's Double Trouble
Penrod's Double Trouble

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical...

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Thrilling Youth
Thrilling Youth

Billy Davis discovers that his father's bakery business is in serious financial trouble and leaves c...

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The Golden Age of Comedy
The Golden Age of Comedy

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and...

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Page Miss Glory
Page Miss Glory

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant cel...

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Marked Woman
Marked Woman

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste...

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Go Into Your Dance
Go Into Your Dance

An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters....

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Ten Dollars or Ten Days
Ten Dollars or Ten Days

In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred ove...

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Movie Crazy
Movie Crazy

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and go...

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Don't Bet on Blondes
Don't Bet on Blondes

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His fir...

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Call a Cop
Call a Cop

Wacky shenanigans ensue when our gang of merrymakers "Call a Cop"!...

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J-U-N-K
J-U-N-K

A Hank Mann slapstick comedy where he plays a Junk Dealer's Helper....

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The Trouble Chaser
The Trouble Chaser

Hector, who was reared by a maiden aunt, decides to leave his sheltered life and become a reporter. ...

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Romance in the Air
Romance in the Air

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The Candid Camera
The Candid Camera

Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all ove...

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Hard Knocks and Love Taps
Hard Knocks and Love Taps

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first...

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In Conference
In Conference

Walter MacIntosh and Abe Salisbury are filmmakers in the process of viewing their swashbuckling roma...

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Melting Millions
Melting Millions

Melting Millions is a 1927 American adventure film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet....

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