Date of birth: 1889-04-27
Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Franklin Bryant Washburn III


1913-03-04
John Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which this is

1944-01-25
When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the pa
1931-04-05
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
1926-09-15
Railroad builder James Travers (George Nichols) wants his pretty daughter, Anne (Virginia Valli), to

1922-12-01
Tired of her friends and life as a society leader, Ninon Le Compte goes north to the Hudson Bay area

1928-04-01
Disappointed that her daughter has not married into money, a mother meddles trying to make the girl

1914-01-09
A lawyer defends a woman accused of murdering her husband without knowing that the murdered man was

1931-08-01
A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.

1914-12-15
While dining in a café with his sweetheart, Ned Hallman nearly swallows a huge diamond which is in h

1915-01-12
Jim Melcher, a swindler and a rogue, induces Rhoda, a society girl, to marry him. She later discover

1915-01-05
A young man's sweetheart calls upon him to retrieve some incriminating love letters, but it all turn

1914-12-22
Margery Trent, a beautiful girl, is trying to get possession of certain papers which will prove her

1914-12-29
Presenting Miss Irene Hough, who was recently voted the most beautiful telephone operator in America

1915-02-02
Jim Bradley is on trial for murder, and at the eleventh hour, Sandy O'Connell furnishes an alibi, sw

1915-05-24
Gloom overcasts the palace of Count Selim Nalagaski, governor general of Morovenia, Turkey. All effo

1913-11-04
It was mother who through false love had sinned. Years later on her deathbed, as the last sacraments
1915-07-19
The Hon. Archibald Graham is expelled from college and his indignant father sends him to a little En

1923-05-27
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio a

1944-08-04
The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.

1917-08-06
William Skinner is very pleased with the news his wife Honey is expecting their first child. He eage
1931-06-15
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated f

1941-06-13
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a c

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

1913-12-02
Kathleen Clifford, a wealthy widow, is undecided whom to marry. Ralph Fenton, a man of her own age,

1913-11-11
While Ruth is on a visit of charity to one of the poor quarters of the city she is saved from insult

1913-11-08
Olga, a writer, at a loss to bring her book to a fitting climax, goes for celestial inspiration into

1914-01-06
As the result of a mistaken marriage, Mrs. Russell, broken in spirit and body, becomes ill and is or

1914-01-20
Bess abhors the sinfulness of her brothers, who are crooks of the worst kind, so one day, while they

1914-01-28
Russell Shirley calls on Harriet Gorman, to whom he is engaged, and they happily plan for their wedd

1914-10-06
The man meets and falls in love with a girl much younger than himself, and decides to cast off the w

1914-10-20
A poor orphan's dream of luxuries and a mother's love, which eventually becomes a reality

1914-11-10
A necklace belonging to Mrs. Stuyvesant is stolen from Lawyer Smirney's office. It was smuggled in f

1914-11-24
Captain Fane, an English army officer stationed at Cairo, is in love with Lady Fiennis, who is treat

1914-07-14
Great-grandfather Huxley, an old soldier, is neglected by his grandson and wife. He feels he is in t

1915-04-16
While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautif

1915-05-01
Zelda Dunbar, a detective, on the trail of two notorious blackmailers, offers herself as their accom

1914-07-07
A clerk in a broker's office is accused of stealing a million dollars' worth of railroad bonds, but

1931-07-05
Two aspiring actresses encounter mishaps during a shoot.
1923-10-15
Dorothy Kane leaves home after being denounced by her father, a businessman, who is dictatorial with

1923-07-15
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania to play the King once more. Lost adaptation of the eponymous

1923-08-19
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l
1923-08-20
Former playboy Victor Olney becomes jealous of his wife's love soon after he and Constance are marri

1928-11-05
Peeved that her husband will not buy her a fur coat, Jackie Standish visits her former sweetheart, T

1937-07-22
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, a

1932-08-20
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants

1935-04-03
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.

1935-05-04
Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his ski

1943-10-04
Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented box

1933-04-23
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. Howe

1935-08-01
Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China.

1943-03-03
When the night watchman at the bank is gunned down during a robbery, he fingers Barton as the trigge

1937-04-16
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
1915-06-12
Gilbert and Lawrence Carthage are in love with Peggy Lorraine. George Duncan, a wealthy and unscrupu
1932-01-24
Keep Laughing is a 1932 Comedy short

1932-02-15
Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader ha
1932-10-01
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women'

1936-04-17
15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the peop

1936-02-14
Madcap society girl June Bolton has a talent for trouble. Trying to evade a subpoena in connection w

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

1936-02-14
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of

1936-08-01
When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
1936-11-04
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a

1936-05-19
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama

1920-02-08
Henry Carpenter and his wife Millicent are the envy of their exclusive suburban set because of their

1936-02-28
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. A
1912-09-27
An accidental death on a hunting trip results in an innocent young man being accused of murder.

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

1937-01-18
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune.
1937-08-20
J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling

1932-04-19
A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved i

1938-05-06
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connectio

1932-08-07
A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She g

1943-01-29
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. Th

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

1915-11-01
The hero is a young soldier who is in love with two girls simultaneously. While on the battlefield,

1943-08-06
When a band of American Indians breaks a treaty with the federal government, U.S. Marshals Ken Mayna

1943-12-03
When a fed-up businessman tires of watching gold shipments disappear without a trace, he calls in th

1930-05-18
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circ

1930-05-18
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circ

1915-07-07
The Gilded Cage is a simple tale about two sisters: the pampered favorite and the put-upon, younger

1942-02-15
Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright

1928-04-09
Having been in show biz since infancy, Broadway chorus girl Beatrice regrets her lack of formal educ

1934-10-02
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and rea

1927-06-14
The story of a controversial white settlement in 1860s Spirit Lake, Iowa. Unbowed by the encroachmen

1937-01-08
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sente

1913-01-23
Comedy in which Charles retaliates when Louise breaks off their engagement. Louise breaks off her en

1938-02-25
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two

1936-12-04
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.

1936-03-01
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

1933-11-07
A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in

1938-07-14
A hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for

1939-03-02
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo

1935-04-14
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.

1939-09-11
"Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-

1933-06-24
A young woman has to pay the price for fooling around with men.

1944-06-03
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlou

1928-12-01
Fighting the invasion of their small New England town by a big city--type nightclub, the Jazzland, a

1940-09-19
The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paral

1938-01-07
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.

1936-08-20
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of
1925-06-28
Mary and John Rand marry right after graduating law school, but John chooses to join the ministry. A

1940-02-22
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lin

1931-02-22
A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in

1942-08-24
Shadows on the Sage is a 1942 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Lester Orlebe

1936-11-29
Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to

1937-09-30
Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennes

1945-04-13
A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's

1944-12-08
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Holly

1932-08-15
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not
1913-04-01
A girl falls in love with a rich passerby. She breaks off her engagement, marries the rich man and m

1913-04-03
Don Fernando, smitten with Giulia, a Spanish dancer, persuades the young and innocent girl to run aw

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

1935-10-20
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs a

1934-10-29
A young mechanic gets a job with a small airline, which he helps win a mail contract. A rival airlin

1936-06-16
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the tw

1939-03-03
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get

1941-05-09
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spi

1942-09-25
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get

1930-01-30
A short drama about a married couple planning to go to Niagara Falls.

1922-11-26
A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better
1926-09-26
A woman with a sordid past is redeemed by love in this silent melodrama from low-budget Sanford Prod

1923-03-01
A wealthy New York City stockbroker who sets out to prove that women are corrupted by wealth.

1932-06-24
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film dir

1937-10-30
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows wer

1938-01-01
A District Attorney decides to go after a doctor who is targeting young women and talking them into

1919-01-26
Buddy McNair is so enchanted by the newspaper photos of New York society beauty Mrs. Pat Dyvenot tha
1924-09-28
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.

1923-08-30
Valerie West, a beautiful artist's model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his arist

1919-06-01
Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new w

1956-01-01
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.

1927-04-19
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, w

1927-10-23
While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall f

1934-11-11
When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up e

1912-12-17
A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an

1941-03-28
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into th
1944-10-23
Edgar is so anxious to get brother out of the house that when a prospective fiancée arrives on the s

1925-01-20
Arthur Randall becomes prosperous after divorcing his wife, Laura, and she now attempts unsuccessful

1938-12-13
A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her b

1916-11-06
Graustark needs thirty million dollars to satisfy a Russian loan. The Prince of Dawsbergen, ruler of
1926-06-14
Hal Whitney, an irresponsible young millionaire, befriends Timothy Payne, a wise old college profess

1921-11-01
An American millionaire visiting London falls in love with a young aristocrat and elopes with her, p

1942-11-13
A young boy donates his pet, a police dog, to the army to be trained as a war dog.

1929-04-27

1945-04-24
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.

1920-08-08
Heeding the pleas of Bobbie Brown, Jimmie Jones packs his trunk full of liquor to present to his des

1926-10-11
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.

1920-05-09
Jack Temple (Washburn) adores his wife, Clara Temple (Hawley) but she is extremely jealous, and accu

1916-03-20
Richard Craig and Paul Hessert, who work in the same office, are great chums. Both are in love, howe
1922-10-23
Clytie Whitmore (Viola Dana) finally consents to marry Cadbury Todd (Gerald Pring), but while walkin

1935-12-01
A half Mexican, half Irish gunman called The Irish Gringo and his pals come across a little girl wan

1934-01-09
A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle.

1919-12-01
Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he ta
1916-04-01
The first film featuring Mildred Davis

1918-08-25
Yvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry, and h

1915-01-19
In honor of his return from abroad, Mrs. Worthington invites her cousin, Brian Hartley, to dinner th

1922-11-15
A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the int

1915-01-26
The story opens with an old couple in the evening of life, sitting by the fireside reminiscing the h

1936-09-01
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off thei

1914-09-11
Ethel Vandiver and her friend, Marie Le Farve, arrive at the former's country home. Ethel's father o

1947-02-10
Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence, mother-in-

1927-05-23
The handsome Dr. John Waller specializes in the ailments of women, or more specifically, wealthy wid

1942-10-21
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

1942-06-01
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a b

1933-08-20
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name
1931-12-23
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides tha
1913-09-02
Draw back your skirts, oh maiden pure and fair, lest they perchance may touch her garments as she pa
1927-06-08
Independently produced social drama directed by John Gorman.
1926-11-26
Amateur criminologist is hired by the Secret Service to track down airplane thieves, who then kidnap

1945-10-25
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

1918-11-17
Edward Andrews, a generous but fainthearted young man, loves Frances Raymond, who believes herself t

1918-12-29
When shipping clerk Arthur McArney falls in love with pretty stenographer Elsa Owenson, he finds him
1919-03-09
When he loses both his father’s canning factory and his girl “Tiny” to Stephen Douglas modest Simpso
1916-02-26
Wealthy miner, Ben Cameron's son, Bruce, becomes the criminal "The Shadow" after being disinherited

1919-06-01
Jack Trevor, an automobile salesman who takes the place of the recently deceased heir, Horace Barney

1934-10-05
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

1924-03-09
Bryant Washburn and Edward Everett Horton are ordered to retrieve an old $25 debt from a stubborn (a
1912-05-14
A super sleuth of the Secret Service Bureau disguises himself as a common thief to penetrate a gang

1927-05-08
Joyce Brandon is in love with Jack Sturdevant, but he doesn't even know she's alive.

1920-11-21
When John Harlow loses his sweetheart Jenny Larkin as a result of poverty, he vows never to be broke

1924-11-16
Vale Harvey invites Marie Wynn, an old school friend, to visit her, not knowing that Marie was once

1923-10-22
Richard Clark is a kind lawyer who decides to get tough after losing all his clients, but he discove

1920-12-19
Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. Wh