Dick Dickinson
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 16, 1895
Place of Birth: Tipton, Iowa, USA
Known For
The Vanishing Legion
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Pinky
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Street Angel
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
The Far Country
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
Tap Roots
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
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.
Armored Car Robbery
While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the loot. Thinking he got away scot-free, Purvis collects his money-crazy mistress, Yvonne, then disposes of his partners and heads out of town. What Purvis doesn't know is that Phillips' partner, tough-as-nails Lt. Cordell, is wise to the criminal's plans and is closing in on his prey.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.
Filmography
as Miner (uncredited)
as Newsboy (uncredited)
as Man (uncredited)
as Field Hand (uncredited)
as Villager (uncredited)
as Bartender Ed
as Born (uncredited)
as Barfly Killed By Matson
as Thief (uncredited)
as Rider
as Rancher Cliff
as Thin Barfly, drinking with Long Ben
as Telegraph Operator
as Henchman Mack
as Barfly
as Thug
as Wooden-Leg Man (uncredited)
as Mike's Henchman
as Henchman Rent Collector
as Card Player
as Contortionist (uncredited)
as Les Martin
as Waggoner
as Mail Guard
as Cowhand
as Henchman Joe
as Henchman Joe
as Carnival Spectator
as Henchman
as Henchman (uncredited)
as Red
as Henchman
as Slash
as Martin [Ch. 1] (uncredited)
as Henchman Burns
as Gavin Henchman - White Hat
as Reporter Of Rustlers
as Tall Drake Brother
as Luke Grimes
as Walter F. Kane
as Henchman Buck Connors
as Adams - Henchman
as Mogul Taxi Clerk - Bribed Foorball Player Byrns
as Rawlins
as Bartender
as Bimbo