Date of birth: 1875-01-31
Place of birth: Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Horace Bernard Carpenter, Horace Carpenter, H.B. Carpenter, H. B. Carpenter, William Carpenter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Horace B. Carpenter (January 31, 1875 – May 21, 1945) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He appeared in 334 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934.

1930-11-08
Bill Tracy is a Cattleman's Protective Association agent. Working undercover on his way to Sonora, a

1934-09-11
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The

1936-09-23
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that the

2000-01-01
This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in

1928-03-01
When his father is falsely convicted and sentenced to die for a murder committed aboard ship, the ma

1945-07-16
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of g

1915-12-09
Richard Farquhar, the ne'er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted "good time" fi

1917-04-09
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he re

1918-02-25
George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New Yor

1936-02-14
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of
1929-03-31
With help from his talented horse and dog, a marshal captures bandits.

1914-03-09
The chance-shot fired by the villainous but keen-sighted Umballah, makes a bone-bruise upon the fair

1924-09-21
Mysterious cowboy Bill Patton (as Bob Norton) arrives, "in the land of the West - on the banks of th
1924-12-30
Evil Red Sampson and his band of rustlers shoot up Mineral Point, the ranch of William Conway, owner

1945-07-19
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it woul

1941-09-05
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.

1937-05-05
A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to
1929-02-18
A mining expert helps a girl and her kid brother defeat an evil claim jumper.

1938-07-08
It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the t

1938-01-11
Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's bandana,

1914-01-12
Kathlyn quickly recovers from the curious sensation of being forced to occupy an unwelcome throne in

1913-12-29
The serial detailed the experiences of Kathlyn Hare, the pretty daughter of an explorer. Kathlyn res

1944-07-17
The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain tra

1914-02-23
With Kathlyn's revelations of herself as a slave, Prince Umballah, her purchaser, has her imprisoned
1914-03-23
The vengeful Umballah, having delivered his three bags of silver and secured Col. Hare as his prison

1914-04-06
Pandemonium follows the escape of the leopards, placed to guard the treasure-room in Umballah's pala

1914-05-18
The captain of the guards, who was deposed by Umballah, observes Kathlyn in a perilous plight in the

1914-05-14
Kathlyn and her sister, Winnie, have hardly disappeared through the trap leading from the big animal

1914-04-20
Kathlyn's sister, Winnie, has been cowed and terrorized, is forcibly crowned Queen of Allaha, to ser

1914-06-01
Fast following the death of the King of Allaha, Prince Umballah, dethroned by the revolution, manage

1943-03-11
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.

1916-01-14
Feature version of the thirteen episode serial, Adventures of Kathlyn, released three years earlier.

1916-07-09
A young engineer, Tom Morley, is building a railroad through Imperial Valley. Tom's father also want

1915-05-14
The lives of a poor orphan and a rich kleptomaniac intertwine after the former is framed for a robbe

1936-10-19
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard)

1936-01-19
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruth

1936-09-28
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Fra

1937-05-15
A wealthy woman's wild lifestyle finally drives her husband to take their two children, move out of

1937-05-18
Lawyer Bowdre has started a war between the ranchers and the homesteaders planning to take over the

1942-04-24
A ring of cattle thieves uses short-wave radio to communicate with each other. A trio of range detec
1936-01-10
A police chief and two security agencies work to find out who is behind a recent rash of hijackings.

1930-11-22
A former outlaw eludes the authorities by masquerading as a cowboy.

1935-10-29
When his young son is shot, John Wellington kills the culprit and flees. But his son Johnny recovers
1924-12-22
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Lightnin' Jack travels to Arizona where he gets a job on the M

1936-02-20
A sharpshooter in a traveling sideshow is falsely accused of murdering a local miner.

1915-01-25
Count Von Herbeck, the chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps the fact sec

1932-09-23
While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.

1937-05-07
Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming

1938-04-16
When Tex is brought in to fight in a range war between the cowmen and the nesters, he meets his old

1935-08-15
When Tim Hanlon arrives to tell Ruth McArthur her long lost brother has been killed, she mistakes hi

1943-10-30
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is kil

1937-06-29
Stony's brother George has been accused of murder and the Mesquiteers have returned to prove his inn

1938-06-16
An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mot

1938-05-27
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make
1938-12-16
Molly Taylor owns the town of Stillwell but is unaware the taxes are due as Gomer has stolen her not

1936-09-15
Bob Allen in his starring debut gets a job on Wright's ranch where he hopes to find the rustlers no

1944-04-01
Lawyer Leland is using land rights to kick the ranchers off their land. When Wild Bill and Gabby arr

1944-10-06
Just after the Oklahoma Panhandle was annexed into the united states an ex-lawman turned newspaper m
1915-12-02
"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter o

1916-03-12
Two playboys stumble drunkenly home, where the owner falls asleep and the other attacks the maid. Th

1941-10-17
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scrat
1916-05-29
Olga Nelson, a Swedish maidservant, working at a boarding house that caters to college students, is

1935-04-01
The parents (Horace B. Carpenter)(Vane Calvert) of Smokey Smith (Bob Steele) are murdered while trav

1935-08-07
Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now gro

1936-03-02
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.

1939-11-17
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy a

1939-02-25
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to k

1931-07-21
A playboy travels west after having killed his wife's lover. By chance, he happens to run into the m

1934-08-28
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough west

1937-04-24
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prej

1937-07-06
Young Dave Austin hunts down the varmint who murdered his father in this B Western. Austin tracks ki

1939-07-04
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Orego

1934-07-01
An elderly rancher writes to his son to come home and help him fight against a bandit gang that is t

1939-03-31
Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown rustlers.

1939-04-08
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a r

1939-04-11
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St.

1939-11-10
South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the

1939-12-15
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof

1939-12-20
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank ro

1939-10-24
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in p

1939-03-01
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are tryi

1944-12-27
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest c

1936-03-12
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers qu

1935-11-20
The owners of a lumber mill hire an investigator to find out who is sabotaging their mill.

1941-07-29
An evil land baron uses the local Indians as laborers and then finds legal methods to cheat them of

1937-02-24
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gan

1915-10-31
Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smug

1915-12-30
Despite her well-bred upbringing, Mary had disobeyed her family’s wishes and married Steve Denby, a

1940-01-05
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible a

1937-06-28
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes hims

1940-04-11
It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' ran

1941-06-04
The notorious outlaw Black Bart has reappeared and the Range Busters are sent to investigate. When t

1938-07-07
Caldwell and Nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the Sheriff for not catching the r

1939-02-24
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ran

1940-01-26
U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a mem

1940-04-15
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place,

1937-08-27
When mild mannered Friendly Fields is sent to the Blair ranch to work, he is mistaken for the notori

1940-07-19
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

1940-07-02
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a va

1944-07-14
Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before lo

1914-09-07
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a

1940-08-16
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i

1940-07-21
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.

1940-07-03
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees fr

1936-12-26
A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afterno

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

1940-06-25
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crook

1935-04-14
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough

1941-07-15
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their

1942-05-01
Prince the wonder horse and his gallant rider gallop off to protect hapless ranchers from the ruthle

1943-04-02
The first of a long-running series of Monogram-produced westerns starring Johnny Mack Brown and Raym

1916-12-25
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, w

1942-06-03
Tom Kenyon and his sidekick Pierre La Farge are hired by rancher Mike O'Day who, with his daughters

1933-03-01
Joe has Cowboy-Race Driver Brent drive him to the border where his men slug Brent, and he shoots Sta

1932-11-05
A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.

1934-06-11
Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in

1942-10-23
A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other.

1938-09-06
Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the

1942-07-02
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solv

1942-11-16
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to

1942-05-31
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt D

1933-06-01
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent

1942-09-22
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep be

1942-12-18
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are

1941-12-12
When Sheriff Hanley sends for Billy and his pals, they arrive to find him murdered and Ed Slade temp

1942-02-27
Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of

1941-08-08
A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.

1935-01-01
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of

1941-11-27
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outla

1941-10-31
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who

1943-04-30
When territorial governor Steven Nichols (Herbert Heyes) terrorizes the population with violence and

1943-11-26
Marshals Nevada and Sandy are after Scully and his gang who have been robbing stage-coaches. The Tex

1916-07-30
Crusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged to Mo

1917-03-05
An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to

1933-04-05
After Burton kills Dad Mason and makes it look like a suicide, Ace Cooper arrives to investigate. He

1914-11-09

1924-11-15
Dan Dawson hires on at the Mason ranch where he wins the affection of Ruth and alienates Frank Macy

1914-08-10
Graehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to ave

1930-03-23
The Arizona Kid carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and ca

1943-12-30
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.

1938-03-18
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.

1938-06-17
Bradley and sidekick Sharpe are sent west to investigate the murders of pony express riders who are
1929-09-27
Jack is a cowboy posing as an outlaw in order to infiltrate the gang of counterfeiters who has kidna

1918-10-06
Ranch owner John Hardy becomes the dupe of Cleo Dade when he marries her and brings her home to be

1935-10-05
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.

1938-06-11
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, i

1917-12-16
Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy

1932-04-23
The Rangers in New Mexico are being disbanded but Bob Houston gets them to make one more ride. They

1935-02-02
A jobless cowpuncher rides into Cottonwood, Arizona in search of the man who swindled his father.

1917-12-12
Henry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider

1916-05-07
Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fis

1945-12-08
Jimmy and partner Dusty have bought a ghost town in the Cherokee strip. When they arrive they find t

1914-12-07
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaine

1933-10-10
James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Governme

1934-02-15
Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the

1934-05-10
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he

1915-02-18
Tom, a young man in a small town, wants to marry his sweetheart Jane, but Jane's father won't allow
1915-11-18

1916-06-19
Severely injured after saving the son of Judge Jonathan Le Roy from a team of runaway horses circus

1917-02-19

1915-07-29
A beautiful Russian Princess gives up the throne to wed an American.
1931-02-15
1931-04-15

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

1936-10-26
The three Mesquiteers try to recover the gold stolen by a gang in its effort to ruin the banker/mayo

1934-06-18
Edited version of Randy Rides Alone. Jailed for murders he didn't commit, Randy escapes only to stu

1936-02-15
Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent.

1917-06-11
The manager of the American oil company quits out of fear of El Jaguar, the bandit who is terrorizin

1916-10-26
The Hoorah, richest mine in California, has made millionaires of its three bachelor owners, Joe, Bud

1916-03-30
Headed by a young nobleman, the Russian League of Freedom determines to free the peasants from oppre

1917-10-01
The old Atwell home is said to be haunted, and Jeremy Foster, the gardener--who is actually the head

1916-11-13
A story that begins on the South African veldt and goes to the drawing rooms of fashionable London S

1916-09-28
Cossack Anton Kazoff seeks revenge for the wrongs inflicted on his sister Olga.

1918-01-14
Jules Lemaire, a happy-go-lucky French-Canadian lumberman, arrives at the Nemo lumber camp carrying

1938-06-30
Brad Buckner has just bought a ranch. Murdock keeps his rustled cattle on the ranch and sends his me

1919-02-02
1919 Western serial.