Date of birth: 1866-06-24
Place of birth: Koblenz, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Joe Swickard, Joseph Swickard , Joseph Swickart, Peter Josef Schwickerath


1914-07-09
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anest

1921-03-06
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine f

1921-12-12
Barry Gordon, the older son of a Virginia colonel, inherits a taste for alcohol--a habit that caused

1928-01-15
A "love-'em-and-leave-'em" sailor hooks up with a dance-hall girl in Paris while waiting for his shi

1927-01-02
Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris retur

1929-03-02
Escaping from a revolution, the King of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here h
1918-05-06
Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab ch

1921-09-19
In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two child

1930-11-01
Horses are being stolen by a white stallion known as "The Phantom of the Desert." A cowboy sets out

1924-02-24
When old rancher Mark Ridgeway passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead of to

1925-04-30
Amy and Matthew Dale separate and they place their young son, Matthew Jr., in a London boarding scho

1935-03-06
An evil scientist invents a earthquake machine and plots to take over the world from his base in Afr

1923-05-07
An illiterate, uncouth brute rises to power during the Russian Revolution, plots to wreak vengeance

1916-10-01
A farm boy falls for a glamorous society girl who is engaged to another man.

1929-04-20
Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In

1914-08-19
Although Mabel’s parents disapprove of Roscoe and Mabel’s relationship, the two still secretly court

1914-10-17
Zip is a young man whose job is to dodge baseballs at a resort concession. To impress a young lady u

1914-12-09
This Keystone from the end of 1914, involving the usual suspects running around some plumbing issues
1915-11-14
Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sy

1936-12-01
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.

1915-01-18
When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of mak

1915-04-16
Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter

1915-03-01
Marksman Ambrose accidentally shoots a beer stein his wife has bought for him as a gift, so he tries

1914-04-20
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that

1934-10-01
Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about

1929-04-14
A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own

1936-11-06
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bri
1915-02-20
A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright.

1935-01-01
On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to sacrifice so
1915-07-19
After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry pre
1914-07-06
A Rowboat Romance is a 1914 Comedy short.
1914-11-12
Fatty's flirting with neighbor Kennedy's wife, and he isn't happy about it. Al's a crook, Minta's a

1934-07-05
A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend
1913-04-21
Harold is in love with Ethel Parks, but finds scant favor with her father, Parks always manages to g

1918-11-01
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is

1936-03-13
The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are prep

1936-03-27
Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!

1921-04-01
When Rosamond, a convent girl, discovers that her mother is Baby Brabant, a notorious queen of Petwo

1937-09-18
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to

1914-12-20
Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along

1936-09-01
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure

1936-01-02
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous hist

1914-09-15
A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
1915-04-11
Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a da

1938-09-01
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K

1930-03-04
A prospector is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang, who hope to find the murdered man's goldmin

1933-08-01
A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak sh

1922-02-06
Nita, a former singer, loses her voice and husband. To support her child, she becomes a cafe dancer.

1923-03-19
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime is a silent comedy film.

1922-03-27
An 18-part silent American adventure film serial now considered to be lost. Chapter Titles: 1. The

1921-08-01
In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When th

1926-11-14
Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds

1926-08-01
Don Luis O'Flagherty (Ken Maynard), a daredevil comes to the rescue of his long-lost father, "Tiger"

1930-06-29
After El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves Anita

1923-11-17
Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's so

1930-03-09
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I

1927-09-04
In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of
1913-05-14
A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first

1914-10-26
Keystone short about two suitors getting into an increasingly, cartoonishly violent fight over a wom

1914-11-19
Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.

1914-12-12
After running into a friend and two ladies, a married man sends his wife a note saying that he's tak

1915-12-26
A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.

1915-08-02
Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.

1936-04-13
Fact and fiction collide in this exploitation flick that employs documentary footage depicting the b
1925-07-05
Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes he

1926-01-05
The daughter of a Kentucky colonel returns from her European finishing school to help prove his inno

1914-04-27
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a

1914-08-10
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, f

1914-08-01
Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets

1914-12-21
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large ban

1915-07-26
Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch cour

1915-01-17
Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry

1915-02-10
When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that

1928-12-22
Cinematographer Ray Rennahan utilized the two-strip Technicolor process for this film, but either su
1920-03-01
A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on th

1939-09-02
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in pri

1927-12-06
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an

1922-11-11
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by
1915-08-23
Keystone silent comedy.

1939-11-01
The Pal From Texas features the diminutive screen cowboy attempting to prevent old prospector pal fr

1915-04-23
A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks se

1939-03-26
Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage

1937-09-05
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.

1915-01-18
After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with

1915-05-29
After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his girlfriend f

1915-04-07
The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair i

1925-10-13
When drunken Canadian trapper Raoul La Fane attacks his young wife Marie, she takes a shot at him. L

1926-08-06
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women g
1915-02-08
A porter works hard in an understaffed hotel.

1928-10-20
1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action serial

1925-02-12
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

1919-11-09
Alice Dane, a struggling English schoolteacher, is swept into a dangerous and complex marriage with
1914-09-21

1936-04-02
The feature length version of the serial by the same name. A mystical medicine arrow, the key to a l

1938-11-25
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married

1927-06-18
Alfred Sava-Goiu, who, after being dumped by his sweetheart, philosophically decides to end it all b

1926-11-15
A film directed by John P. McCarthy

1923-09-01
Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't t

1922-12-31
Manuel La Tessa, son of a wealthy South American family, meets Natalie Chester, a young Kentucky wom

1924-09-07
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit su

1916-08-24
Madcap Gloria disguises herself as a man, in order to lure a "dangerous" vamp away from her beau, Bo

1917-03-10
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned forme

1927-04-01

1923-10-08
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vanc

1925-09-06
A bee keeper does his best to help the army. This film is lost.

1915-02-13
Charles Murray out romancing in the park.

1918-09-28
Lilian is engaged to an older man in poor health when she meets his son Michael, whom she falls for.

1933-07-08
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

1939-10-04
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each to

1922-09-04
When two men, one from the city the other a trapper and a woman are trapped in a cabin in the Northw

1925-04-26
A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined.

1928-03-01
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring

1917-12-24
After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to dis

1916-07-16
A Social Cub is a 1916 short silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria S

1924-03-15
Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford (Jo
1929-05-27
In the great white north, a trapper searchers for the thief who has been stealing his furs while a l
1922-11-06
To evade a gang conspiring to assassinate him, wealthy businessman Stuart Granger induces his unsusp

1920-09-01
Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry anot

1924-06-03
Discouraged with life, Michelo throws his daughter Lucia into the sea, but she falls into a fisherma

1924-05-04
Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into c

1927-01-15
The search for a lost gold mine hinges on a secret branded onto the neck of a great horse, White Fur

1937-02-14
Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day west

1934-01-22
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

1926-03-22
George Thorne is a young army lieutenant at a border post. He is in love with Mercedes Castanada who

1922-01-09
Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ult

1933-11-05
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the

1921-08-12
When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and her un

1929-03-18
Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister

1924-01-27
Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's
1914-01-24
Young thief “The Bat” to distract an old bookseller, while his partner, “The Fly,” robs the till, pu
1914-01-10
The students at Riverdale Girls' Seminary, although typically well-behaved, care about public opinio

1923-09-09
Farmer's son David Wingate marries city girl Vianna Courtleigh over his parents' objections. Her fat
1928-03-26

1926-10-05
A gambler shoots a man in self defense and receives a prison sentence. Upon release, he disguises as

1923-08-11
Tells of Caleb Plummer, his son Edward and blind daughter Bertha, and rivalry over neighbor May Fiel

1947-01-01
A long-retired director of early silent films recalls his exciting career as a filmmaker.

1920-01-25
A humble fisherman's girlfriend is kidnapped by an egotistical prince tricked into believing he has

1919-06-16
Gertie Jones, known among other thieves as "The Chatterbox" because she talks to herself while she w
1929-12-10

1924-05-05
Robert Ardis, a small-town youth studying for the ministry, encounters a visiting Gypsy, Marcheta, a

1923-09-15
A woman, Mrs. Cameron (Estelle Taylor), is blackmailed by her lover's roommate, Blake (Philo McCullo

1925-04-26
In France, a romantic young woman named Germaine is shocked and disheartened to discover that, for f

1925-04-16
Carol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, f

1919-05-18
The mind of theology student Webster Smith becomes unbalanced from strain.

1920-07-12
Zora, a girl of French origin, is raised by a wealthy Bedouin family after her mother Valerie dies w