Lon Poff
Date of birth: 1870-02-08
Place of birth: Bedford, Indiana, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Alonzo M. Poff, Alonzo M. "Lon" Poff
Biography
Movie Credits
Without Mercy
1925-10-04
In this silent melodrama Sir Melmoth Craven is running against John Orme for a seat in Parliament. O
Big Town Ideas
1921-05-20
A woman and her dog defend an innocent man.
The Village Blacksmith
1922-11-01
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling)
The Night Horsemen
1921-10-01
Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale) after Da
Silver Valley
1927-10-02
Fired for crashing his aeroplane into his employer's ranch, Tom Mix is elected sheriff in a town wit
The Last Straw
1920-02-14
A cowboy helps a pretty ranch owner getting rid of both cattle rustlers and an unwanted suitor in th
Alimony Aches
1935-06-29
Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony.
Square Shooter
1920-08-08
Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, becaus
The Girl I Loved
1923-02-15
John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He tur
Come and Get It
1936-11-06
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years l
The Toast of New York
1937-07-22
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, a
Courtin' Wildcats
1929-12-22
College boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he find
The Light of Western Stars
1918-11-01
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is
Hello, Everybody!
1933-02-17
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sis
Suzanna
1923-02-16
Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ra
The Iron Mask
1929-02-21
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when th
Ambassador Bill
1931-11-13
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and
Brass Commandments
1923-01-28
"Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria Hallow
The Man Who Won
1923-08-26
Bill is a gambler, whose friend Scipio goes in search of his wife Jessie. Jessie, fed up with her li
The Faker
1929-01-02
Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and as
Isn't Life Terrible?
1925-07-05
Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decide
Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Bonnie May
1920-06-10
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endea
The Expert
1932-03-05
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
The White Angel
1936-06-25
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
1930-08-08
The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle
'49–'17
1917-10-15
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experienc
The Valley of the Giants
1927-12-04
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the g
Father's Little Dividend
1951-04-05
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father t
Mantrap
1926-07-24
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds he
Caught
1931-08-08
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and r
This Land Is Mine
1943-05-07
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn bet
The First Auto
1927-06-27
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a fathe
Greed
1924-12-04
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
The House of the Seven Gables
1940-04-12
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the
The Virginian
1923-09-29
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a loc
A Fool and His Money
1925-01-01
John Smart (William Haines), a hack writer, inherits a fortune from a distant relative and buys a ca
What a Life
1930-03-15
A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer
Way Back Home
1931-11-13
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
The Prisoner of Zenda
1922-09-11
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take
Flash Gordon
1936-04-06
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth.
Tom Sawyer
1930-12-19
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pal
Peg o' My Heart
1922-12-17
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Ma
The Million Dollar Handicap
1925-02-07
After buying the filly Dixie following a strong finish Southern horse breeder John Porter discovers
Night of Goblins
1930-10-16
Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.
The Viking
1928-11-02
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viki
Haunted at Midnight
1931-05-21
Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case". When S
The Rainmakers
1935-10-25
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spel
She Couldn't Take It
1935-10-08
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustra
So Big!
1932-04-30
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926-09-30
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could w
Bullets or Ballots
1936-06-06
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly
Marriage License?
1926-09-05
When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his moth
Spaceship to the Unknown
1966-01-01
A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an effici
You Only Live Once
1937-01-23
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a bre
The Man Who Laughs
1928-04-27
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly execut
The Three Musketeers
1921-08-28
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends
The Old Swimmin' Hole
1921-02-26
The normal life of a young farm boy as he goes to school and as he relaxes in the country is depicte
Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933-02-18
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed hi
Calling All Doctors
1937-07-22
Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
Behind Office Doors
1931-03-15
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. H
Main Street
1923-04-25
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up
The Man from Wyoming
1924-01-28
Ned Bannister, manager of a sheep ranch, is accused of the murder of David Messiter, a neighboring c
The More the Merrier
1943-05-13
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C.
The Trouble Chaser
1926-12-16
Hector, who was reared by a maiden aunt, decides to leave his sheltered life and become a reporter.
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024-10-29
Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their
The Scarlet Car
1917-12-24
Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns tha
The Itching Hour
1931-02-01
Comedy spoof of THE CAT AND THE CANARY. A female athlete and her entourage take refuge on a stormy n
Dante's Inferno
1924-09-07
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit su