Arthur Rankin
Acting
Biography
Arthur Gardner Rankin (August 30, 1895 – March 23, 1947) was an American film actor.
Born: August 30, 1895
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
The Wolf of Wall Street
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances. A lost film, only a nine second fragment survives.
Walking Back
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Here I Am a Stranger
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
The Blood Ship
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
The Wild Party
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
Swanee River
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Trailing North
As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog sled as Curly the Kid, he finds her and her friend Lucky. But Flash is another friend and Lee is in trouble when his true identity becomes known.
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
Remember the Day
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Filmography
as Photographer
as Reporter
as Fingerprinter
as Clerk
as Reporter
as Assistant Cameraman
as Man in Newspaper Office
as Airways Official
as Clerk
as Secretary
as Assistant Director
as Bellhop
as Legion Member (uncredited)
as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
as Intern
as Usher with Package
as Desk Clerk
as Sailor
as Reporter (uncredited)
as Radio Operator
as Blackton's Secretary (uncredited)
as Blaney
as Stenographer
as Radio Technician
as Reporter (uncredited)
as Hank
as Party Guest
as Tommy
as Georgie - Call Boy
as Pat Smith
as Assistant Treasurer (uncredited)
as Jimmy
as Would-Be Assassin (uncredited)
as Office Boy (uncredited)
as Joe aka Lucky
as Roy Lang
as Bernie Laird, known as 'Little Casino'
as Frank Woods
as Bud Collins
as Bob Conroy
as Loco, the Halfwit
as Tom Ford Jr
as Jimmy Fairchild
as Party Guest
as Frank
as Jimmy Byron
as Donald Hearne
as The Boy
as Tommy Van Cleve
as Jim Grey
as Doug Caswell
as Pet Masters
as Meredith Roberts
as Bud
as Gerald
as Nils
as Jeffrey Payne
as Harry
as Vasili
as Denny O'Meara
as Bud
as Larry, the Kid
as Bob Madison
as Clifford Raynes
as Bobby Allen - age 16
as Teddy
as Virgil Rust
as John Fitzgerald
as Lord Cecil
as Davie Aaronson
as Allan Corey
as Tommy Corbin
as Lord Drelincourt
as Leek's Son
as Wilfred Brownell
as Billy Ferris
as Joey
as Lammeter