Jack Pickford

Jack Pickford

Birthday: 1896-08-17

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography: Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith) was an actor of some popularity in American Silent films. He was Silent screen star Mary Pickford's younger brother.

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Gang War
Gang War

Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers tha...

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The Bat
The Bat

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mys...

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The School Teacher and the Waif
The School Teacher and the Waif

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her...

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To Save Her Soul
To Save Her Soul

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and o...

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Wildflower
Wildflower

Known as "Wildflower," Letty Roberts meets Arnold Boyd, a wealthy man who is weary of life in the ci...

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The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Musketeers of Pig Alley

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated ...

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Mile-a-Minute Kendall
Mile-a-Minute Kendall

Young Kendall struggles for acceptance in the eyes of his wealthy father, who sees him only as a lay...

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The Would-Be Shriner
The Would-Be Shriner

Hank Hopkins is a "rube" of the most extreme type, and on the morning of the great Shrine Parade in ...

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Life in Hollywood No. 6
Life in Hollywood No. 6

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood....

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Huck and Tom
Huck and Tom

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer....

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Garrison's Finish
Garrison's Finish

Billy Garrison, a jockey, is framed and suspended for throwing a face. Depressed, he goes to a bar a...

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For the Son of the House
For the Son of the House

In the home of ease and refinement a new life opens to the girl. She no longer is obliged to resist ...

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The Informer
The Informer

The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his broth...

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Love in an Apartment Hotel
Love in an Apartment Hotel

In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's ...

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A Misappropriated Turkey
A Misappropriated Turkey

His mind perverted by the many lies forced upon him, Lang becomes an outcast from the Labor Union. I...

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Brutality
Brutality

An abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece does...

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Heredity
Heredity

Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to...

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Hollywood
Hollywood

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...

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The Massacre
The Massacre

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation....

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Exit Smiling
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 Mysterious Shot
The Mysterious Shot

A feud between the families of Gourd and Fork Ranches...

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The New York Hat
The New York Hat

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a styli...

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The Goose Woman
The Goose Woman

A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. Wh...

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A Dash Through the Clouds
A Dash Through the Clouds

Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim an...

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His Last Dollar
His Last Dollar

Former newsboy and jockey Joe Braxton, becomes a millionaire rancher and decides to visit New York. ...

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The Painted Lady
The Painted Lady

A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice...

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The Chief's Blanket
The Chief's Blanket

When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred bla...

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What the Doctor Ordered
What the Doctor Ordered

A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Mack Sennett, Kate Toncray & Mabel Normand....

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Katchem Kate
Katchem Kate

Mabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention in a ...

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The Narrow Road
The Narrow Road

Two men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go straig...

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Home, Sweet Home
Home, Sweet Home

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot...

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Ramona
Ramona

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with t...

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Poor Little Peppina
Poor Little Peppina

Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia kidna...

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The Pretty Sister of Jose
The Pretty Sister of Jose

Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother, whos...

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Sweet Memories
Sweet Memories

An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-depa...

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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...

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Brown of Harvard
Brown of Harvard

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not...

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Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Muggsy Becomes a Hero

Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called...

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The Spirit of '17
The Spirit of '17

Davy Glidden is the son of the adjutant general in charge of an old soldier's home in a small town n...

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Fanchon, the Cricket
Fanchon, the Cricket

A young wild girl, Fanchon, lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the...

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The Gangsters of New York
The Gangsters of New York

Biff Dugan, the eldest son of a poor family living in a tenement on the squalid East Side of New Yor...

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The Lesson
The Lesson

Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother"....

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Freckles
Freckles

Freckles, a one-armed orphan tired of being tormented by others runs away eventually finding a place...

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Rose o' Salem Town
Rose o' Salem Town

A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the g...

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The Speed Demon
The Speed Demon

An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors....

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Liberty Belles
Liberty Belles

Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bamb...

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In Wrong
In Wrong

Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't...

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The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morga...

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A Double-Dyed Deceiver
A Double-Dyed Deceiver

Most of the scenes are laid in a parrot-and-monkey country in South America, a land where "it is alw...

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As a Boy Dreams
As a Boy Dreams

A cabin-boy gets to take center stage during a riotous adventure story involving mutineers and pirat...

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Waking Up the Town
Waking Up the Town

Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, ...

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Home, Sweet Home
Home, Sweet Home

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot...

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Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer

Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) e...

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The Modern Prodigal
The Modern Prodigal

In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, excl...

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For Her Brother's Sake
For Her Brother's Sake

A lost film. Hiram Flint, a young gambler and horseman, loves Madge, the daughter of James Spotwood ...

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A Girl of Yesterday
A Girl of Yesterday

A lost film. A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate....

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Waiter No. 5
Waiter No. 5

After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined the re...

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The Eagle's Mate
The Eagle's Mate

A young girl, Anemone, who lives with her Aunt is abducted by a crude family of Virginia mountain mo...

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The Unwelcome Guest
The Unwelcome Guest

Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated...

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A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The gi...

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A Pueblo Legend
A Pueblo Legend

A love story set among Native Americans....

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The Inner Circle
The Inner Circle

A lonely widower living in the Italian quarter of the city, whose only solace since the death of his...

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Burglar by Proxy
Burglar by Proxy

A terrible toothache causes Jack Robin to stop his automobile in front of the home of Dorothy Mason....

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David Harum
David Harum

The story of David Harum, a small-town banker, and how what he does and who he is affects the lives ...

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The Man Who Had Everything
The Man Who Had Everything

Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar ...

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A Temporary Truce
A Temporary Truce

A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the...

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Bill Apperson's Boy
Bill Apperson's Boy

Jack Pickford got his own production company when his sister Mary signed a huge contract with First ...

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The End of the World
The End of the World

Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no ca...

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Pranks
Pranks

Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they e...

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My Son
My Son

A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New Engl...

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The Girl at Home
The Girl at Home

Jimmie Dexter is on his way to college when his mother discovers that her stocks have stopped paying...

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The Kid
The Kid

To Walter Holden since the death of his wife, falls the responsibility of raising his only child....

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Seventeen
Seventeen

Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt....

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The Hill Billy
The Hill Billy

Jed is a hillbilly in love with pretty Emmy Lou who is forced into marriage with her dreadful cousin...

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The Oath and the Man
The Oath and the Man

A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the p...

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Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore

This ill-tempered gentleman accompanies his wife to the seashore, but being so insanely jealous of h...

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Great Expectations
Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that h...

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The Lost Necklace
The Lost Necklace

A young girl is presented, on her birthday, with a beautiful pearl necklace, the oldest heirloom in ...

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The End of the World
The End of the World

Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no ca...

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What Money Can't Buy
What Money Can't Buy

Madison Hale, a wealthy American financier, is bidding against Govrian Texler, the financial advisor...

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His Duty
His Duty

It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him wit...

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The Love Route
The Love Route

John Ashby and Allene Houston, two neighboring ranchers, are in love, but their parents' violent dis...

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The Newlyweds
The Newlyweds

A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two se...

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The Commanding Officer
The Commanding Officer

When Colonel Archer, the commanding officer of the military post, refuses to lend money to his secon...

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The Tenderfoot's Triumph
The Tenderfoot's Triumph

"It's in the surprise" that great plays are made and battles won, and our tenderfoot friend, appreci...

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The Making of Crooks
The Making of Crooks

Walton the pharmacist, convicted of selling drugged candy to children, is released from prison throu...

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Just Out of College
Just Out of College

In order to win the hand of the girl he loves, Ed Swinger creates a phony business to fool her fathe...

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Sandy
Sandy

A Scots-Irish lad comes to America hoping to find his fortune. On the sea voyage he meets and falls ...

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The Varmint
The Varmint

John Humperdink Stover, otherwise known as "The Varmint" for his pestiferousness or as "Dink" when i...

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The Ghost House
The Ghost House

The old Atwell home is said to be haunted, and Jeremy Foster, the gardener--who is actually the head...

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Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill

Young boxer Jack Ranney agrees to challenge 'Young Kilroy' and knocks him out with his first punch. ...

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His Majesty, Bunker Bean
His Majesty, Bunker Bean

Bashful stenographer Bunker Bean, works for wealthy businessman Jim Breede by day and by night theos...

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The Dummy
The Dummy

The Merediths, in reality much in love, have quarreled and agreed to separate but cannot agree as to...

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