Date of birth: 1871-04-01
Place of birth: Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Joe Gerard, Joseph W. Gerard, Joseph Gerard, Joe Girard, Jos. W. Girard, Jos. Girard, Joseph Girard, Joe Girrard
Joseph W. Girard was an American screen actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1911 and 1944. He was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
1932-06-02
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing hou
1916-12-24
Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000
1933-04-13
After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sh
1919-09-01
Bob Gilmore, a young clubman, is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a
1922-03-01
A Canadian Mountie and a young girl team up to prevent an evil couple from finding a fallen meteorit
1931-04-18
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, mastermind
1920-01-02
Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.
1927-03-20
This silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized by a greedy land baron (Joseph W.
1917-11-30
After Neila Pendleton's father dies, leaving his wife and daughter penniless, the avaricious Mrs. Pe
1919-04-14
Betty Yarnell lives with her drunkard father in the North Woods mountains. Betty is shunned by the v
1933-03-03
In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He i
1921-07-01
Popular action heroine Neva Gerber played the dual roles of Lucia and Vera Robilant in this low-budg
1936-06-06
A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.
1936-09-20
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
1935-07-29
Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers
1934-11-01
When the Ranger Sergeant returns murdered with a note that LaFarge did it, Trooper Burke sets out to
1926-12-20
While taking a joyride with his sweetie Patricia, daredevil pilot Roy Cummins witnesses the aerial h
1924-02-01
A tough policeman who patrols the city's worst beat loses his nerve when he believes he has hurt the
1935-10-14
A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang
1930-11-16
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veter
1931-08-01
A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.
1927-08-01
Two firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled an
1932-08-01
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker w
1921-07-01
Dangerous Paths is a 1921 silent film
1937-08-06
Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the
1932-09-29
Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off al
1927-08-01
Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup
1915-04-22
Wandering minstrel Louis d’Angelo must flee his homeland to America after a duel over the hand of hi
1921-05-09
Silent adventure serial starring Ann Little. Episodes: 1) Message of Hate, 2) Menace from the Sky, 3
1914-04-27
Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cat
1917-03-18
A silent action movie serial consisting of 15 chapters.
1923-04-30
A stirring drama of Wall Street manipulation of the world's wheat supply, which leads the characters
1926-02-21
A drifter hobo is falsely accused of killing a saloon owner
1938-09-16
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John)
1936-10-01
When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on
1938-04-29
Ken and Happy, looking for their friend Cherokee, run into an outlaw gang led by Ritter who have bee
1929-12-22
College boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he find
1939-12-11
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
1932-11-26
A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndic
1922-05-29
Brother of Lorraine Leighton is falsely accused of rustling and murder and shipped off to jail. Desp
1931-12-01
A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boor
1929-06-02
He was a great Persian Prince. His Harem was filled with seductive beauties. Yet he loved one woman-
1934-08-14
Lawyer Creech is after the ranch of the dying Cartwright. First he brings in Cahill to pose as the o
1940-10-25
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the w
1936-04-14
A lawman captures the notorious "Pecos Kid", who is tried and hanged for his crimes--then starts to
1936-12-04
Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hol
1918-12-21
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in lov
1936-04-17
15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the peop
1931-11-11
The Shadow's third movie short, an adaptation from a Donald Van Riper story, "Dying Lips," which app
1926-04-10
Out of the Storm is a 1926 silent drama.
1936-04-15
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss
1939-01-20
Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X
1925-09-11
The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film
1932-10-04
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughte
1937-12-02
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Cana
1927-02-07
The alert atmosphere of a large-city newspaper office and its giant presses combines with the back-s
1935-06-20
While searching for his friend's killer, a former outlaw thwarts a robbery and becomes a lawman.
1930-02-23
Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and
1922-07-24
A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fat
1934-05-26
When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a some
1938-06-17
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.
1931-05-23
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and th
1926-04-10
Modern Youth is a lost silent film.
1933-07-20
Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' object
1928-07-01
Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan wh
1930-08-03
Jim Brandon, foreman of the Wind River Ranch, owned by Martin Stavnow, is in love with Ronnie, the r
1928-03-01
After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Ri
1942-02-15
Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright
1924-12-01
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is
1937-07-05
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Bento
1926-11-06
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with P
1935-11-19
Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a riv
1924-02-17
Our Western star begins this actioner rather improbably, as a New York City gangster. But soon enoug
1935-11-20
Northwest Mounted Police Corporal Jerry Hale is assigned to take over the district of a fellow-offic
1928-02-15
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi
1939-04-21
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage
1936-10-15
Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate
1927-12-10
Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel
1939-02-08
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investig
1936-01-18
Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father.....
1933-01-20
The Sheriff shoots the robber of the Bank and recovers the money bag only to find it empty. Ranger T
1917-10-15
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experienc
1929-09-22
Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a mu
1935-04-30
A wild college student gets in fights, steals cars, is caught by the police and finally expelled fro
1911-05-10
John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and apprises
1935-02-03
After Slug Raton takes Brady's horse, hat, and gun, the Sheriff arrests Grady thinking he is the out
1921-10-24
A shop girl has ambitions of marrying up.
1932-08-14
An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know
1940-07-19
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
1941-09-27
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the
1935-07-13
A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.
1935-09-01
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
1941-05-09
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spi
1938-03-19
A woman who is in love with her boss entices him to join her at a nudist camp, but his affection soo
1919-05-05
Harry's father is killed in a gunfight, and his mother makes him swear he'll never again use his gun
1933-09-21
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious
1926-11-25
Two ships are caught in the Arctic ice. (Silent Film)
1928-09-06
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
1923-07-30
A man faces being hanged for a crime he didn't commit
1932-11-25
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
1942-09-04
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial l
1930-10-12
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catch
1929-04-27
United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Mari
1928-09-15
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it i
1924-09-21
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements
1935-02-01
A rancher, frustrated with constant cattle rustling and the inability of the local sheriff to stop i
1921-10-10
Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is
1928-05-13
Rival telephone crews are in a race to be the first to connect telephone service between Rawlings an
1943-04-29
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th
1931-10-01
The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is s
1917-03-05
Roger Curwell (William Stowell) is disowned by his father (Joseph W. Girard) because of his desire t
1923-03-25
John Ford both directed and wrote the story (based on his published work The Hostage), a typical wes
1916-05-08
Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming H
1918-01-01
A husband orders his wife to keep their marriage a secret, in order to better continue his affair wi
1918-04-08
Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Pa
1918-07-20
The cabaret act of husband-and-wife dancing team Peggy and Joe Blondin is broken up when Joe becomes
1917-11-26
Brothers James and Allen Mornington are both addicted to cocaine and both believe that their addicti
1926-12-14
Angered by his son Dick's boastful ways, which in one incident lead him to lose a business deal, an
1917-05-14
The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous
1918-05-06
Two men, one of them a villainous hypnotist, contend for the same woman, unaware that she suffers fr
1918-12-16
Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "th
1929-01-06
A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.
1919-09-01
In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band o
1933-12-13
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that sh
1935-05-01
A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence
1923-04-15
Besse Belwin works as a stenographer for district attorney John Mobley. It doesn't take long for Mob
1930-08-30
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly
1918-08-10
Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial
1933-10-04
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
1923-08-26
John Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter learns
1918-04-27
Left alone and penniless after her father dies, Eileen Orton attempts suicide. Douglas Seward, who m
1928-03-03
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start
1917-10-22
When Judge Grant sentences Paul Rogers to jail on circumstantial evidence, Paul's sister Lena swears
1917-10-02
Lost film.
1919-02-17
Peter James Slaney, just released from prison, is the only boarder who is kind to Lena, the maid at
1935-11-11
Buck Ward and the Wolverine Kid, who each own one of the ivory handled guns, continue the feud start
1933-02-25
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted in
1925-01-05
Dick Van Buren, a wealthy young man with a penchant for breaking traffic laws, is arrested for speed
1915-06-25
Inventor George Grant and his partner, financier John Benson, accept an offer of $200,000 for the ri
1924-02-10
Bank clerk Vincent Forrest loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe and her provider, V
1916-01-10
Lulu, the bishop's daughter, and Tom, the Duke of Bilgewater's nephew, are in love and want to marry
1917-07-23
Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting
1919-10-06
Wade Hildreth is sent to New York from London to receive a diamond necklace for Lady Gwendolyn from
1916-02-28
Even though he disapproves of the harshness with which his father, the Colonel, treats his employees
1917-08-20
Widow Margaret Dennis, unaware of the abusive nature of Oliver Cathcart, agrees to become his wife.
1929-02-24
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win
1924-11-23
A young fellow, down in the dumps after a belle breaks his heart, believes his father is setting up
1931-04-04
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
1916-06-19
Although Dorenzo murders Betty Herron, a jury convicts her brother James, and sentences him to life
1916-04-24
Linnie Carter, a cabaret entertainer, struggles to remain innocent in the midst of the fast life. Ha
1925-01-03
Silent western
1926-09-27
A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on
1916-09-03
Bessie Allen, a girl of the slums, dances in the streets of the Lower East Side of New York to the d
1923-09-17
John Harley leaves his milkman job to take possession of half of a cattle ranch while waitress Salli
1915-08-22
Dolly’s father disapproves of her boyfriend Ben, thinking he is only interested in athletics and not
1915-05-06
Rene, condemned to execution for murder in the first degree tells his mother the story of the crime.
1925-11-15
Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colb
1924-03-17
The Lefferts-Longstreet feud is renewed when young Harney Lefferts is shot accidentally by Lem Beema
1919-01-01
1920-08-01
1921-03-01
1933-11-29
The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating
1926-03-01
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but
1925-01-04
Reggie Dillingham, a spendthrift socialite, is challenged by his lawyer to support himself for six m
1924-10-10
Parolee Bart Tullison becomes foreman of Anita Stillwell's ranch near the Nevada border. While Anita
1917-12-09
Jim Brockton had three interests in life: His nephew, Donald: the Trinity, three friends of differen