DeWitt Jennings
Date of birth: 1871-06-21
Place of birth: Cameron, Missouri, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: De Witt C. Jennings, De Witt Jennings, DeWitt C. Jennings, DeWitt Clarke Jennings
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1906 and 1920, and in 153 films between 1915 and 1937. In 1935, Jennings played Sailing Master Fryer in Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He died in Hollywood, California at the age of 65.
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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
Seven Footprints to Satan
1929-01-27
Before a planned African expedition, a man's fiancée worries her father's guest plans to steal one o
The Secret Six
1931-04-18
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, mastermind
The Deadwood Coach
1924-12-07
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
The Criminal Code
1931-01-03
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecute
Circus Days
1923-07-30
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
The Poverty of Riches
1921-11-01
John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, To
The Big House
1930-06-14
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he m
Thru Different Eyes
1942-06-19
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder
The Desert Outlaw
1924-08-24
Tom Halloway, compelled through circumstances to become an outlaw, robs the express office on the da
Silver Dollar
1932-12-22
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Caught Plastered
1931-08-21
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming
A Lady's Profession
1933-03-03
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
Murder on a Honeymoon
1935-02-22
An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third
Alias Ladyfingers
1921-10-30
When Rachel Stetherill's daughter marries a man of whom she disapproves, Rachel disowns her. Five ye
I Dream Too Much
1935-11-29
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evenin
I Loved a Woman
1933-09-23
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as
Exclusive Story
1936-01-17
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster be
Go Straight!
1925-04-27
Gilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to Hollywoo
The Accusing Finger
1936-11-17
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly c
The Valiant
1929-05-19
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and t
The Match King
1932-12-31
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden.
Flesh and Blood
1922-08-22
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who fram
Hit and Run
1924-08-10
Big league baseball scout Red McCarthy signs up "Swat," a bush leaguer from a desert town, and Swat
Out of Luck
1923-07-23
Believing he has committed murder, Sam Pertune, a simple westerner, enlists in the Navy, then cannot
Blinky
1923-08-17
Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed
The Splendid Road
1925-12-06
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on
Beating the Game
1921-09-01
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, an
One Year Later
1933-08-24
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On boar
On Your Guard
1933-01-31
An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting t
That I May Live
1937-09-13
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years i
Arrowsmith
1931-12-07
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of
The Squaw Man
1931-07-21
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezz
The Fire Brigade
1926-12-20
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin,
Trapped
1931-10-28
The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Det
Don't
1925-11-15
Don't is a 1926 silent Comedy
Little Man, What Now?
1934-06-04
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband
McFadden's Flats
1927-02-06
Irish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son Jock,
Dancers in the Dark
1932-03-11
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, t
Village Tale
1935-06-15
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love ver
Name the Man
1924-01-27
Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes in
The Primrose Path
1931-01-25
A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters o
The Fighting Rookie
1934-05-15
Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs
By Divine Right
1924-02-17
Mildred, a young stenographer, seeks protection at the mission run by Austin Farrol, known as "The P
Massacre
1934-01-20
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reserva
Ladies They Talk About
1933-02-04
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
The Hillcrest Mystery
1918-03-29
During a party held in honor of his daughter Marion, Thomas Sterling announces that he will turn ove
A Man's Game
1934-06-16
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1929-06-08
A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars N
There Are No Villains
1921-11-14
In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence again
Chip of the Flying U
1926-03-14
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on
The Night Ride
1930-01-12
Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robber
Captain of the Guard
1930-03-28
In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French
The Night Flyer
1928-02-05
Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietre
While London Sleeps
1926-11-27
Rinty is a police-dog assigned to a young Scotland Yard police-officer who covers the Limehouse dist
Two Arabian Knights
1927-09-23
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beauti
The Ice Flood
1926-10-01
Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father,
Seven Keys to Baldpate
1929-12-25
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six oth
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
1929-05-25
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New Y
The Bat Whispers
1930-11-13
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after,
A Dog of Flanders
1935-03-22
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition i
Alibi
1929-04-20
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When
Mixed Faces
1922-10-21
Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets
We Who Are About to Die
1937-01-08
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sente
Exit Smiling
1926-11-06
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of st
The President Vanishes
1934-11-17
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol
Strictly Personal
1933-03-17
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a smal
Min and Bill
1930-11-29
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy,
Mary Jane's Pa
1935-04-27
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he
A Dangerous Affair
1931-09-29
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook.
Secret of the Chateau
1934-12-03
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable
Take the Stand
1934-08-07
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets
The Deadwood Coach
1924-12-07
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
Sins of Man
1936-06-19
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to lo
Within the Law
1923-04-28
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take
Those Who Dance
1930-04-18
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
The Daring Young Man
1935-07-17
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a
The Mystic
1925-09-26
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man cra
Kelly the Second
1936-08-21
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
Salvation Nell
1931-07-01
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935-11-22
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty.
This Is My Affair
1937-05-28
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well
Midnight Morals
1932-08-01
A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936-08-21
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed i
At Bay
1915-11-26
In his crusade against the city’s gambling houses District Attorney Graham runs afoul of lawyer Juds
The Meanest Gal in Town
1934-01-12
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
The Silent Watcher
1924-10-05
A lawyer (Bosworth) running for Congress decides to end his relationship with a showgirl (Bennett),
The Little American
1917-07-12
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home i
Golden Harvest
1933-09-21
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious
The Right That Failed
1922-02-20
The Right That Failed
Thru Different Eyes
1929-04-13
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body wa
Death on the Diamond
1934-09-14
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debt
Slave Ship
1937-06-16
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again
Front Page Woman
1935-07-11
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes wome
A Wicked Woman
1934-12-07
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's cond
The Crash
1928-10-07
The Crash (1928)
The Enemy Sex
1924-08-25
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing,
Fifty Roads to Town
1937-06-03
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the
Night Court
1932-06-04
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special p
Police Car 17
1933-09-30
Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daug
The Air Mail Pilot
1928-02-11
A high-flying action film involving a pilot battling air mail robberies.
Me, Gangster
1928-10-20
Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
Red Hot Speed
1929-01-27
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father
The Great Mail Robbery
1927-07-19
Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbe
The Golden Snare
1921-07-10
Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer B
Reform Girl
1933-03-04
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a
Central Park
1932-12-10
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled
Merton of the Movies
1924-11-03
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lo
Movie Crazy
1932-09-23
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and go
Sherlock Brown
1922-06-26
The secret formula for the world's most powerful explosive has been stolen from the U.S. government.
Charlie Chan's Courage
1934-07-06
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes h
By Whose Hand?
1932-07-06
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry mag
Made on Broadway
1933-05-19
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway pre
The Big Trail
1930-11-01
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
1925-02-15
To support a demanding wife, bank clerk Brian Kent embezzles a large sum of money and, overcome with
The Heart Bandit
1924-01-24
A kindly old woman named Mrs. Rand takes in wayward girl and petty crook Molly O'Hara, known as "Ang
Home Made
1927-11-20
Home Made is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Charles Hines.
The Gaiety Girl
1924-07-31
Forced to abandon his ancestral castle, William Tudor accompanies his granddaughter Irene to London,