Jack Pickford
Date of birth: 1896-08-17
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Johnny Pickford, Jack Smith, John Charles Smith
Biography
Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith) was an actor of some popularity in American Silent films. He was Silent screen star Mary Pickford's younger brother.
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Gang War
1928-09-02
Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers tha
The Bat
1926-03-14
A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mys
The School Teacher and the Waif
1912-06-26
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her
To Save Her Soul
1909-12-27
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and o
Wildflower
1914-10-15
Known as "Wildflower," Letty Roberts meets Arnold Boyd, a wealthy man who is weary of life in the ci
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
1912-10-31
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated
Mile-a-Minute Kendall
1918-05-13
Young Kendall struggles for acceptance in the eyes of his wealthy father, who sees him only as a lay
The Would-Be Shriner
1912-07-25
Hank Hopkins is a "rube" of the most extreme type, and on the morning of the great Shrine Parade in
Life in Hollywood No. 6
1927-08-25
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
Huck and Tom
1918-03-04
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Garrison's Finish
1923-01-15
Billy Garrison, a jockey, is framed and suspended for throwing a face. Depressed, he goes to a bar a
For the Son of the House
1913-09-20
In the home of ease and refinement a new life opens to the girl. She no longer is obliged to resist
The Informer
1912-11-21
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his broth
A Misappropriated Turkey
1913-07-27
His mind perverted by the many lies forced upon him, Lang becomes an outcast from the Labor Union. I
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913-02-27
In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's
Heredity
1912-11-04
Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to
Brutality
1912-12-02
An abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece does
Hollywood
1923-08-19
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l
The Massacre
1912-12-19
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
Exit Smiling
1926-11-06
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of st
The Mysterious Shot
1914-04-04
A feud between the families of Gourd and Fork Ranches
The New York Hat
1912-12-05
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a styli
The Goose Woman
1925-08-02
A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. Wh
A Dash Through the Clouds
1912-06-24
Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim an
His Last Dollar
1914-10-28
Former newsboy and jockey Joe Braxton, becomes a millionaire rancher and decides to visit New York.
The Painted Lady
1912-10-24
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice
The Chief's Blanket
1912-10-10
When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred bla
What the Doctor Ordered
1912-08-04
A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Mack Sennett, Kate Toncray & Mabel Normand.
Katchem Kate
1912-06-12
Mabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention in a
The Narrow Road
1912-08-01
Two men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go straig
Home, Sweet Home
1914-05-16
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot
Ramona
1910-05-23
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with t
Poor Little Peppina
1916-03-02
Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia kidna
The Pretty Sister of Jose
1915-05-31
Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother, whos
Sweet Memories
1911-03-27
An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-depa
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942-01-01
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio
Brown of Harvard
1926-05-02
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
1910-09-01
Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called
The Spirit of '17
1918-01-26
Davy Glidden is the son of the adjutant general in charge of an old soldier's home in a small town n
Fanchon, the Cricket
1915-05-10
A young wild girl, Fanchon, lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the
The Gangsters of New York
1914-02-01
Biff Dugan, the eldest son of a poor family living in a tenement on the squalid East Side of New Yor
The Lesson
1910-12-19
Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".
Freckles
1917-05-28
Freckles, a one-armed orphan tired of being tormented by others runs away eventually finding a place
Rose o' Salem Town
1910-09-25
A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the g
The Speed Demon
1912-07-14
An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.
Liberty Belles
1914-05-13
Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bamb
In Wrong
1919-10-31
Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
1920-02-01
An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morga
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
1920-06-22
Most of the scenes are laid in a parrot-and-monkey country in South America, a land where "it is alw
As a Boy Dreams
1911-08-13
A cabin-boy gets to take center stage during a riotous adventure story involving mutineers and pirat
Waking Up the Town
1925-03-30
Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit,
Home, Sweet Home
1914-05-16
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot
Tom Sawyer
1917-12-10
Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) e
The Modern Prodigal
1910-08-28
In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, excl
For Her Brother's Sake
1911-05-11
A lost film. Hiram Flint, a young gambler and horseman, loves Madge, the daughter of James Spotwood
A Girl of Yesterday
1915-10-07
A lost film. A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.
Waiter No. 5
1910-11-03
After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined the re
The Eagle's Mate
1914-07-10
A young girl, Anemone, who lives with her Aunt is abducted by a crude family of Virginia mountain mo
The Unwelcome Guest
1913-03-15
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
1912-10-03
The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The gi
A Pueblo Legend
1912-08-29
A love story set among Native Americans.
The Inner Circle
1912-08-12
A lonely widower living in the Italian quarter of the city, whose only solace since the death of his
Burglar by Proxy
1919-08-23
A terrible toothache causes Jack Robin to stop his automobile in front of the home of Dorothy Mason.
David Harum
1915-02-22
The story of David Harum, a small-town banker, and how what he does and who he is affects the lives
The Man Who Had Everything
1920-10-17
Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar
A Temporary Truce
1912-06-10
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the
Bill Apperson's Boy
1919-06-22
Jack Pickford got his own production company when his sister Mary signed a huge contract with First
The End of the World
1925-04-01
Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no ca
Pranks
1909-08-30
Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they e
My Son
1925-04-19
A mother and her son's lives are upended by the arrival of a wealthy flapper to their small New Engl
The Girl at Home
1917-04-26
Jimmie Dexter is on his way to college when his mother discovers that her stocks have stopped paying
The Kid
1910-04-14
To Walter Holden since the death of his wife, falls the responsibility of raising his only child.
Seventeen
1916-11-02
Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt.
The Hill Billy
1924-03-15
Jed is a hillbilly in love with pretty Emmy Lou who is forced into marriage with her dreadful cousin
The Oath and the Man
1910-09-21
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the p
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
1912-08-26
This ill-tempered gentleman accompanies his wife to the seashore, but being so insanely jealous of h
Great Expectations
1917-01-08
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that h
The Lost Necklace
1911-01-01
A young girl is presented, on her birthday, with a beautiful pearl necklace, the oldest heirloom in
The End of the World
1925-04-01
Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no ca
What Money Can't Buy
1917-07-16
Madison Hale, a wealthy American financier, is bidding against Govrian Texler, the financial advisor
His Duty
1909-05-31
It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him wit
The Love Route
1915-02-25
John Ashby and Allene Houston, two neighboring ranchers, are in love, but their parents' violent dis
The Newlyweds
1910-03-03
A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two se
The Commanding Officer
1915-03-25
When Colonel Archer, the commanding officer of the military post, refuses to lend money to his secon
The Tenderfoot's Triumph
1910-04-21
"It's in the surprise" that great plays are made and battles won, and our tenderfoot friend, appreci
The Making of Crooks
1915-12-27
Walton the pharmacist, convicted of selling drugged candy to children, is released from prison throu
Just Out of College
1920-11-27
In order to win the hand of the girl he loves, Ed Swinger creates a phony business to fool her fathe
Sandy
1918-07-01
A Scots-Irish lad comes to America hoping to find his fortune. On the sea voyage he meets and falls
The Varmint
1917-08-05
John Humperdink Stover, otherwise known as "The Varmint" for his pestiferousness or as "Dink" when i
The Ghost House
1917-10-01
The old Atwell home is said to be haunted, and Jeremy Foster, the gardener--who is actually the head
Jack and Jill
1917-11-12
Young boxer Jack Ranney agrees to challenge 'Young Kilroy' and knocks him out with his first punch.
His Majesty, Bunker Bean
1918-04-08
Bashful stenographer Bunker Bean, works for wealthy businessman Jim Breede by day and by night theos
The Dummy
1917-03-19
The Merediths, in reality much in love, have quarreled and agreed to separate but cannot agree as to