DeWitt Jennings
Birthday: 1871-06-21
Place of Birth: Cameron, Missouri, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1906 and 1920, and in 153 films between 1915 and 1937. In 1935, Jennings played Sailing Master Fryer in Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He died in Hollywood, California at the age of 65.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed hi...
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Seven Footprints to Satan
Before a planned African expedition, a man's fiancée worries her father's guest plans to steal one o...
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The Secret Six
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, mastermind...
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The Criminal Code
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecute...
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The Poverty of Riches
John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, To...
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The Big House
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he m...
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Thru Different Eyes
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder ...
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The Desert Outlaw
Tom Halloway, compelled through circumstances to become an outlaw, robs the express office on the da...
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Silver Dollar
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty....
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Caught Plastered
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming ...
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A Lady's Profession
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse....
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Murder on a Honeymoon
An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third ...
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Alias Ladyfingers
When Rachel Stetherill's daughter marries a man of whom she disapproves, Rachel disowns her. Five ye...
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I Dream Too Much
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evenin...
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I Loved a Woman
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as...
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Exclusive Story
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster be...
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Go Straight!
Gilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to Hollywoo...
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The Accusing Finger
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly c...
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The Valiant
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and t...
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The Match King
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden....
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Flesh and Blood
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who fram...
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Hit and Run
Big league baseball scout Red McCarthy signs up "Swat," a bush leaguer from a desert town, and Swat ...
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Out of Luck
Believing he has committed murder, Sam Pertune, a simple westerner, enlists in the Navy, then cannot...
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Blinky
Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed...
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The Splendid Road
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on...
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Beating the Game
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, an...
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One Year Later
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On boar...
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On Your Guard
An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting t...
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That I May Live
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years i...
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Arrowsmith
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of ...
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The Squaw Man
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezz...
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The Fire Brigade
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin,...
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Trapped
The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Det...
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Little Man, What Now?
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband...
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McFadden's Flats
Irish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son Jock,...
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Dancers in the Dark
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, t...
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Village Tale
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love ver...
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Name the Man
Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes in...
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The Primrose Path
A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters o...
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The Fighting Rookie
Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs ...
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By Divine Right
Mildred, a young stenographer, seeks protection at the mission run by Austin Farrol, known as "The P...
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Massacre
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reserva...
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Ladies They Talk About
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot....
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The Hillcrest Mystery
During a party held in honor of his daughter Marion, Thomas Sterling announces that he will turn ove...
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A Man's Game
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy ...
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The Trial of Mary Dugan
A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars N...
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There Are No Villains
In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence again...
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Chip of the Flying U
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on ...
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The Night Ride
Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robber...
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Captain of the Guard
In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French...
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The Night Flyer
Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietre...
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While London Sleeps
Rinty is a police-dog assigned to a young Scotland Yard police-officer who covers the Limehouse dist...
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Two Arabian Knights
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beauti...
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The Ice Flood
Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father,...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six oth...
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Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New Y...
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The Bat Whispers
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after,...
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A Dog of Flanders
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition i...
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Alibi
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When ...
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Mixed Faces
Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets ...
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We Who Are About to Die
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sente...
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Exit Smiling
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of st...
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The President Vanishes
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol...
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Strictly Personal
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a smal...
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Min and Bill
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy,...
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Mary Jane's Pa
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he ...
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A Dangerous Affair
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook....
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Secret of the Chateau
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable ...
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Take the Stand
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets...
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Sins of Man
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo...
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Within the Law
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take...
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The Daring Young Man
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a...
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The Mystic
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man cra...
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Salvation Nell
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....
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This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well ...
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Midnight Morals
A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the ...
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Sing, Baby, Sing
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed i...
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At Bay
In his crusade against the city’s gambling houses District Attorney Graham runs afoul of lawyer Juds...
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The Meanest Gal in Town
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town....
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The Silent Watcher
A lawyer (Bosworth) running for Congress decides to end his relationship with a showgirl (Bennett), ...
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The Little American
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home i...
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Golden Harvest
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious ...
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Thru Different Eyes
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body wa...
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Death on the Diamond
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debt...
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Slave Ship
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again...
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Front Page Woman
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes wome...
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A Wicked Woman
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's cond...
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The Enemy Sex
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, ...
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Fifty Roads to Town
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the...
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Night Court
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special p...
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Police Car 17
Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daug...
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The Air Mail Pilot
A high-flying action film involving a pilot battling air mail robberies....
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Me, Gangster
Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams....
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Red Hot Speed
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father...
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The Great Mail Robbery
Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbe...
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The Golden Snare
Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer B...
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Reform Girl
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a ...
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Central Park
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled ...
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Merton of the Movies
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lo...
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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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Sherlock Brown
The secret formula for the world's most powerful explosive has been stolen from the U.S. government....
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Charlie Chan's Courage
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes h...
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By Whose Hand?
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry mag...
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Made on Broadway
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway pre...
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The Big Trail
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get...
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The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
To support a demanding wife, bank clerk Brian Kent embezzles a large sum of money and, overcome with...
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The Heart Bandit
A kindly old woman named Mrs. Rand takes in wayward girl and petty crook Molly O'Hara, known as "Ang...
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The Gaiety Girl
Forced to abandon his ancestral castle, William Tudor accompanies his granddaughter Irene to London,...
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