Date of birth: 1860-01-16
Place of birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Chas. French, Charles French, Charlie French , Chas. K. French, Charles Ekrauss French, Charles E. French

From Wikipedia Charles K. French (born Charles Ekrauss French; January 17, 1860 – August 2, 1952) was an American film actor, screenwriter and director who appeared in more than 240 movies between 1909 and 1945.

1921-09-04
Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death t

1927-06-12
Popular B-Western hero Wally Wales (later known as Hal Taliaferro) went up against none other than B
1918-11-01
Officer Terence Shannon is the head man of the Los Angeles Flying Squadron. In this capacity, Shanno

1918-08-26
Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brut

1918-08-26
Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her

1926-01-11
Jack, a southern spy during the Civil War, must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is compl

1926-05-10
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned

1924-09-21
This silent Western features Tom Mix as a rancher who goes to Washington to affect better conditions

1923-11-18
Three men, Lucky Bill ( Tom Mix ), Landry ( J. Gordon Russell ), and Morgan ( Jim Mason ) are in lov

1923-10-01
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave fo

1919-10-10
Billy Porter sells his ranch and travels to San Francisco to try his hand in the business world. But

1920-03-07
When Timothy Atkinson arrives in a rough Western town to become the telegraph operator, the locals p

1920-04-20
Murderous bandits shoot up a town and kill the sheriff. But before he dies, the lawman leaves behind

1920-05-29
Bat "No Limit" Carson, U.S. deputy marshal has to battle all types of varmints, including crooked da

1921-02-01
Tom Mix trades horses for cars. Tom Higgins meets Patricia O'Malley whose father is a car manufactur

1920-08-29
A cowpuncher by the name of Whistling Dan is adopted by a rancher, Joe Cumberland (James O. Barrows)

1921-10-01
Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale) after Da

1926-09-11
Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to lea

1933-09-21
Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range u

1912-10-03
Custer's Last Fight chronicles George Armstrong Custer's final battle against the forces of Sitting

1917-06-10
Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal wor

1922-09-03
West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Buck

1925-03-22
A young cowboy falls in love with the daughter of a rich rancher, and they plan to marry. However, t

1921-11-01
The successful operations of a lone bandit known as "The Night Hawk" terrorize a frontier town, and

1928-08-04
A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.

1924-07-01
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is reall
1927-11-29
The owner of a shipping line arranges to have his waster son shanghaied on one of his vessels comman

1922-01-01
After five years of marriage, Mildred comes to the realization that her husband, Lew, is going nowhe

1920-08-08
Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, becaus

1919-03-30
Sheriff's son Royal Beaudry is thought a coward, even by the young woman he has his heart set on. Bu

1927-06-12
Buck Brady is the son of a prospector whose valuable claim was stolen when Buck was a child. Brady g

1935-10-01
When Buck is young his cattle stealing father is killed. Now grown Buck returns home still carrying

1923-09-23
Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a salo

1926-02-07
Bob Erskine, the son of a wealthy New York banker, falls in love with Ella Parkhurst, the daughter o
1915-06-18
Pierre Vignol, an artist wintering in Arizona, is bitten by a snake. He is taken by his friend, Tom

1915-06-24
Donna Gonzales has a daughter, Rosa, and a son, Maxim. Maxim is fighting in the Rebel cause, his mot

1915-11-07
The story is set in Alaska, where spoiled and pampered heiress Octavia Van Ness has come for her hea

1917-01-07
Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered,

1918-07-14
Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus gi

1919-02-23
Poor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as a r

1925-02-16
Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his daughter

1935-11-01
A sailor (Richard Talmadge) journeys to a remote island in search of a rare urn. The film also stars

1925-06-01
Rangy Pete Grainger is a cowboy who saves a rancher and his daughter from being kicked off their pro

1940-05-02
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of

1924-08-10
Clarence, an eastern college youth masquerading as a mild, inoffensive dandy, joins a Wild West show

1929-08-19
A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from his bo

1935-01-05
A man comes to town to claim the estate of his father, who was shot by a masked killer. He sets out

1923-08-17
Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed

1923-10-14
The Ramblin' Kid, a cowboy, falls in love with Carolyn June, a beautiful easterner, and wins her aft

1922-04-03
The Bearcat, alias The Singin' Kid, crosses the Rio Grande into Three Pines, singing bloodthirsty ve

1917-10-22
A young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means of f

1935-09-04
Summoned by Ed Oliver, Jim Hale and sidekick Fuzz arrive at Oliver's ranch to find a range war in pr

1928-12-01
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.

1927-11-19
A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his moth

1936-05-09
Ted Warren returns from WWI to find that everyone thinks he was dead. The culprit is Kent who interc
1933-02-05
The Government has approved Betty Castelar's Spanish land grant and notification is sent via pony ex

1934-11-02
Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling

1937-10-13
Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes after W

1935-12-02
A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a tre

1927-07-25
Ted Lanning works for his father's railroad company. He is demoted to a manual labor position on a d

1936-12-11
Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction

1918-07-01
French scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray and

1928-05-10
A complete version of the film is held by Cineteca Del Friuli.

1935-10-29
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is w
1927-04-01
Secret Service agent Jerry Blaine is hot on the trail of a gang of jewel thieves, Jerry briefly pose

1930-04-20
A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a noc
1917-06-17
In Belgium, at the outbreak of the war, Russian agent Olga Raminoff shoots at a German general when

1916-08-13
William Berner is an English spy who is doing his job behind German lines. While working for the all

1919-12-07
Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful machin
1926-01-02
Joan and Magdalen are the daughters of a fisherman. Magdalen leaves her fiancé, Peter, to run off to

1909-01-28
Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic,

1923-10-28
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a pi

1920-10-21
Tex Benton, riding across the country, sees a turtle, catches a jack rabbit and tests out the old fa

1930-08-01
Dave Kent, a commercial aviator, and his mechanic, Skeets Smith, are forced to make an emergency lan

1920-12-25
Tex Benton (cowboy star Tom Mix) wants to marry Janet McWhorter (Kathleen O'Connor), but her father

1922-10-21
Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets

1922-02-05
Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-to

1925-03-08
Ben Johnson, a sheepherder who hates sheep, is instructed by his employer, Vasquez, to escort beauti

1934-11-17
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol

1932-10-15
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quic

1939-09-02
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in pri
1918-05-27
Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manag

1935-10-01
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent an

1918-01-27
Ezry is a hardworking hired man who saves his money carefully in the hopes one day of going to colle

1923-04-15
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great stren

1915-11-14
Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-wi

1934-08-28
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough west

1931-05-22
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ro
1933-07-09
Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York ha

1936-12-20
Singing cowboy Tex Saunders finds himself in a heap of trouble when he agrees to investigate local g

1939-12-22
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

1935-02-26
Sheriff Tom Tracy is summoned to the sheep camp where he finds Old Man Jenkins fatally wounded and,

1912-03-01
When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replac

1919-09-13
A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4". When a young

1934-07-16
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his

1937-09-03
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take

1938-07-01
During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involve

1933-12-29
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.

1915-04-15
A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who converts
1924-08-01
Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard a

1936-04-09
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and

1926-10-09
An Indian chief of the Arapahoe escapes the reservation where he has been living and takes along som

1940-01-05
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible a

1916-06-02
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenge

1917-07-01
Convinced that her impending marriage to fellow reporter Billy Williams will result in a loss of her

1915-10-16
Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier
1916-10-22
Prince Tonio of Bothalia, a mythical kingdom in the Balkan Mountains, escapes an arranged marriage t

1931-02-21
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.

1929-11-23
Trying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, whi

1926-11-06
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of st

1914-10-10
Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl

1931-08-08
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and r

1917-06-24
Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to the

1923-12-24
Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia b
1940-01-23
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a pol

Betty Austin gives up her dream of going to the city and marries Warren Wade, but she sadly finds hi

1914-12-03
After the bandit known as the Two-Gun Man Jim Stokes robs the stage, he is wounded in his flight fro

1932-07-13
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the o

1943-06-29
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home

1935-03-11
A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.

1935-09-01
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

1942-01-31
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

1935-01-01
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of

1928-08-25
Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank ro

1916-04-09
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rag

1915-12-15
Movie mogul Thomas H. Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the cred

1925-10-18
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city

1935-02-22
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns

1930-06-28
Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an

1933-09-30
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's fath

1928-12-25
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the a

1933-05-28
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight i

1916-11-27
Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village

1928-08-31
Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.

1920-01-11
Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again.
1927-09-10
Ranch hand Jack Harlan comes to the aid of his girlfriend’s father when his ranch is threatened by a

1918-04-30
Outlaw Hawk Parsons, notoriously successful in his pursuits, has been caught by the local sherif of

1916-12-09
1926-09-01
Cullen Landis stars as rookie fireman Danny Grogan. Though well-liked by his colleagues, Danny is op

1929-01-06
A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.

1937-04-10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste

1936-02-10
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an a

1916-03-09
Family relationships of a New Mexico family are just one part of this silent cowboy western about a

1921-04-03
Tex Robert rescues beautiful Ramona Wadley from the gang-leader of cattle rustlers. Later, he saves

1927-06-12
When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an ac

1928-11-25
Bill Mathews mistakenly comes to believe that his sweetheart, Sally Brown, prefers the company of hi

1926-10-10
Joe Foley, charged to deliver a trainload of cattle to his employer, is forced to commandeer the eng

1920-01-01
Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells

1916-07-09
Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of his

1925-11-16
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

1922-01-01
Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following

1917-08-17
Wee Lady Betty rules the O'Reilly castle with a stern hand and a big heart until she learns that Rog
1945-10-19
Richard Fleischer provides a funny twist and amusing narrative commentary by Ward Wilson on two re-e

1929-02-19
A ship's captain keeps a tame gorilla as a pet. During a mutiny the captain is injured by a blow and

1917-08-05
Claire Curtis, Jimmie Strong and Mary have spent their childhood together in the country. Upon reach

1924-02-02
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the America
1934-04-03
Two cowboys get involved with a pretty ranch owner, her crooked fiancé and a robbery.

1935-12-20
Manning breaks out of prison and joins Blake's gang of outlaws. Later a paroled Muggs arrives to rej
1932-12-25
To celebrate Father and Son Week, Andy takes his son roller skating.

1935-05-03
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store o

1919-04-15
After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce

1919-02-23

1918-09-29

1922-10-01
Russian Jews Nathan & Esther Levinsky, along with son, David, escape to the U.S. Nathan’s life as a

1922-04-23

1919-02-10
Joe Smith Jr., the son of a millionaire, is challenged by his father to earn his own living instead

1919-08-10
War hero Captain November Jones tries to sneak into his hometown of Gold City, Nevada undetected but

1919-05-05

1930-06-14
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.

1920-01-01

1933-11-27
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asl
1914-10-23
Don McFadden, an East Side gunman and member of the Gopher gang, of which Schwartz is the leader, is
1914-01-27
Grace and her brother Edwin are living in a modest city apartment when they receive an invitation fr

1916-11-19
Algy, a British youth of ideals, is sent to America for an arranged marriage with a wealthy heiress.

1922-07-02
The story of a crook who achieves regeneration through association rather than reformation through f

1925-05-07
Jimmy Kenton, a young wastrel with an addiction to jazz, falls in love with Marguerite Crandall when

Cousins Jim and Ned Thorpe are best friends, but that comes to an end when they both vie for the aff

1922-10-01
Mrs. Pitman seeks a wealthy husband for her daughter, Virginia. The first prospect, Colonel Singleto
1912-11-08
During a fiercely contested battle, a wounded Union officer seeks refuge in a Southern home. He is d

1916-12-02
A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs

1916-11-05
When a distant Irish relative dies, a young American travels to Ireland to obtain his inheritance. H

1925-07-15
Bill Sanford (William Fairbanks), a daredevil race-car driver, is abducted by his main competitor Al

1918-10-28
Spoiled, lazy Harold Chester Winthrop Gordon finds that he has been disinherited, barred from seeing

1918-12-01
An uneducated young girl becomes suddenly wealthy and hires the disinherited son of an upper-class f

1923-03-11
Andrew Bullivant, a retired lawyer known as "Grumpy" for his irascibility, calls on all his experien