T. Roy Barnes
Birthday: 1880-08-11
Place of Birth: Lincolnshire, England, UK
Biography: Barnes appeared in over 50 films between 1920 and 1935, primarily in comedies. Barnes started his show career in vaudeville later turning to stage and film acting. During the 1920s, he often played "brash young go-getters" in supporting and leading roles. He’s best known for his roles as Buster Keaton's business partner Billy Meekin in Seven Chances (1925) and in W. C. Fields' comedy It's a Gift (1934), portraying an inquisitive Insurance Salesman. He retired from movies in 1935 and died two years later.
Movies
Seven Chances
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday...
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Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...
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It's a Gift
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the groc...
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown....
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Sally
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the...
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A Blonde for a Night
After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blon...
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Wide Open
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment....
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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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Kansas City Princess
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie...
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A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...
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The Unknown Cavalier
Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds...
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Chicago
Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he lea...
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Body and Soul
A disgraced alcoholic surgeon settles in a small village in the Swiss Alps. He falls for Hilda, a se...
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Aloha
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander,...
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Women of All Nations
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sw...
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Dangerous Curves
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he dri...
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The Four Star Boarder
In an effort to appease his wife's wealthy aunt (Grace Goodall), newly-wed Charley must masquerade a...
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Life Begins at Forty
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to to...
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Doubting Thomas
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local produc...
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Carnival
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves...
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The Crowded Hour
Telephone operator Peggy, puts on an act with Matt Wilde at a Bowery amateur night and is seen by Bi...
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The Great White Way
Ambitious press agent Jack Murray introduces two of his clients, Follies dancer Mabel Vandegrift and...
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So Long Letty
Harry Miller is a "natural-born mixer" while his wife Grace is a homebody, distressed by her husband...
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Reckless Romance
Jerry Warner (Barnes) and Edith Somers (Breamer) are in love, but her father Judge Somers (Marshall)...
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Young Ideas
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine stor...
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The Old Homestead
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson....
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Ladies of Leisure
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but ...
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A Regular Scout
Silent cowboy western about a man on a mission to exact revenge on the gang who, he feels, are respo...
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Butterfly
A woman (Ruth Clifford) dedicates her life to her ungrateful younger sister (Laura La Plante), a bri...
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The Go-Getter
Bill Peck is discharged from an army hospital and goes in search of a job. Cappy Ricks hires Bill, b...
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Too Much Wife
Myra Coningsby, a newlywed who is determined not to be a submissive wife but ultimately learns to fi...
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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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Don't Get Personal
Patricia Parker, on the advice of her father, leaves her life as a chorus girl for the bucolic surro...
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See My Lawyer
Robert Gardner and Billy Noble become interested in a machine capable--according to the inventor, Tr...
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Exit the Vamp
Marion Shipley is happily devoted to her husband, John, until Mrs. Willy Strong, a society "vampire,...
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Is Matrimony a Failure?
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Saxby's silver wedding anniversary is interrupted by the surprise elopement of the...
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