Date of birth: 1877-10-17
Place of birth: Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ed Cowles, J.D. Cowles, Julius D. Cowles, Mr. Jules Cowles, Mr. Cowles


1934-09-27
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in l

1925-02-02
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric c

1925-03-15
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday

1928-10-02
The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story

1918-12-23
Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile, lead

1915-10-11
Through the death of his father, Benton Cabot is left with nothing but a small mountain cabin which

1921-12-20
Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New

1934-09-18
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her d

1931-01-15
An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed h

1916-05-22
"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of th

1931-02-21
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy

1937-07-02
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

1928-09-02
Ranger the German Shepherd dog races to the rescue when Jim is framed on a murder charge.

1941-12-09
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

1942-07-03
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxf

1928-11-04
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the

1919-10-06
Refusing to marry her stepmother's choice, Gail Prim leaves her life of luxury, after cutting her ha

1936-09-04
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and h
1925-11-15
Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certi

1941-12-31
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

1934-06-30
Two Boy Scouts win an around-the-world trip with a crack aviator, and find themselves crash-landed i

1938-01-14
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publici

1938-08-12
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

1938-07-22
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

1931-11-27
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then a

1935-03-22
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in

1939-02-17
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

1939-09-15
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

1932-06-19
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12

1936-06-05
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the

1940-07-01
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemplo

1928-03-18
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wif

1935-02-15
Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When

1925-09-20
Bill Bangs and his Negro valet, George Washington Black, stray into a mining town and are arrested w
1931-12-28
An old prospector discovers a bonanza mine of gold on the Diamond Dude Ranch. He tells two men about

1927-08-13
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is

1938-10-07
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down

1927-01-22
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions.

1942-02-05
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relation

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

1934-12-14
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectanc

1933-08-01
A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the

1932-11-25
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.

1941-05-30
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and

1927-01-08
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. Afte

1931-01-03
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out

1939-03-17
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunat

1929-10-05
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Nap

1936-03-06
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout

1923-04-29
Disgusted with his spendthrift son, Kirk Anthony's father has Kirk shanghaied and taken to Panama, w
1925-05-31
A jungle drama about a woman who befriends a tiger.

1938-01-21
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to fi

1943-05-31
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

1916-07-10
When his friends decide that "Happy Jack" Lewis needs a wife, they place an ad in the paper for one.

1942-04-22
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen

1925-07-25
A 1925 silent Western.

1917-01-21
About the year 1900 in a midnight raid on the palace of a Balkan king, emissaries of a great power s

1937-10-15
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-control

1938-08-26
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France,

1927-12-03
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to li

1940-03-08
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voya

1929-12-28
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.

1929-02-24
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win

1922-04-01
Jose Fernand seems interested in luring Helen Barnes onto his ship than he is in smuggling. The inno

1925-07-14
Cowboy Jack Horton searches for the killer of his father and brother, both of whom were found with a

1936-11-28
Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday.

1930-09-12
A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her h

1917-11-01
Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rath

1915-08-16
The King of Kurland suggests a marriage between his son, the crown prince, and Angela, the Princess
1922-04-20
Their father, Michael Kalmar, imprisoned in Siberia, political refugees Ivan and Irma Kalmar seek fr

1937-06-04
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his re

1920-03-29
American author John B. Smart, searching for solitude and an atmosphere for a new story, purchases a

1923-03-30
Prospector Harry Farley returns from Alaska to find that his sister, Helen, has gone to New York wit

1917-04-26
The Bar Sinister is a 1917 silent film drama directed by Edgar Lewis.

1921-03-27
Dance-hall girl Colette Brissac, brought up in the Canadian Northwest, refuses the protection of New

1919-04-07
John Sark is the owner of a piece of land coveted by Henry Murden, leader of the band of "White Ride

1926-12-06
Dolores Valdez, returning to her South American home, falls in love with Dan Stone, the ship's docto

1926-01-10
At the urging of Mary Wilson, his schoolteacher sweetheart, Buck Hayden becomes a reporter for the l
1928-08-19
Two young orphans, Buddy and Lucille Roberts, living in an old dark mansion atop a mountain are assa