Date of birth: 1869-06-10
Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: John Franklin Sheridan


1933-12-09
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Ho

1935-03-18
Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.

1931-08-29
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beg

1921-11-20
The Brockton clan considers the mountain Little Smoky their own, but then the government comes in an

1935-10-09
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

1932-08-17
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on de

1936-11-06
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bri

1935-11-30
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him ris

1922-10-02
A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older suitor who has a hold over her adoptive mother,

1936-09-24
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the sto

1936-03-02
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse p

1936-11-08
After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze in

1935-01-09
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked spo

1935-01-14
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work b

1934-04-26
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his

1931-01-09
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight

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

1937-06-30
A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is

1938-07-01
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle"

1934-04-28
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably un

1939-11-07
Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's f

1931-12-26
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder

1933-07-14
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new

1936-09-04
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and h

1929-09-14
Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

1920-01-05

1935-08-02
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into anoth

1935-06-29
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

1935-03-23
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.

1933-12-09
A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is in

1917-01-28
Lillian Stevens was raised without care, attention, or education on the ways of the world. When she

1931-08-01
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled

1937-11-06
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success s

1935-05-15
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself.

1937-02-13
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly a

1932-04-28
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper

1933-06-30
An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire duri

1936-01-20
Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tyc

1932-01-19
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, lik

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

1940-02-29
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him w

1932-11-11
A mechanic works for his sweetheart's father, who builds racing boats. He begs for and gets the chan
1915-11-26
In his crusade against the city’s gambling houses District Attorney Graham runs afoul of lawyer Juds

1929-09-01
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to de

1932-11-17
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taki

1935-07-11
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes wome

1933-09-01
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush an

1931-06-06
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.

1931-07-21
A policeman investigates a woman's link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a fa

1930-02-09
The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon

1932-06-04
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special p

1931-06-02
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when hi

1932-11-04
Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have be

1934-03-15
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar.

1923-05-28
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge o

1936-02-15
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of

1937-09-09
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair

1936-06-26
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days befo

1932-09-08
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.

1935-11-29
A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle driv

1934-05-04
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in ord

1932-09-23
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for sav

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

1917-12-16
Ruined by a powerful financial ring, Farrington commits suicide, after which his daughter Paula vows
1921-03-01
Indiana Stillwater, the daughter of a wealthy American railroad industrialist, marries English noble

1933-02-17
Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to

1921-05-22
John Kavanagh, a Maine lumberman, clashes with Stephen Marthorn, owner of a spruce-logging company,