Frank Keenan
Acting
Biography
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Born: April 8, 1858
Place of Birth: Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Known For
Lorna Doone
In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
The Coward
Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is terrified by the war and deserts during a battle. The film focuses on the son's struggle to overcome his cowardice.
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Paris and New York.
Brass
With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.
When the Door Opened
"When the door opened" Clive Grenfel sees his wife in another man's arms. A tussle ensues leading Clive to believe he has killed the other man, and he flees to the Northwoods. There he becomes acquainted with an old gentleman and his lovely granddaughter but keeps his distance because of his past. A stranger’s arrival proves a catalyst to the whole fraught situation.
National Red Cross Pageant
The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I.
The Bells
A murderer is driven slowly insane by a sequence of coincidences and suggestive events which will not allow him to escape his own sense of guilt for his crime.
More Trouble
Lemuel Deering's son Harvey graduates from college at the top of his class, then returns home to become a partner in his father's steel business. Because Harvey appears to be an exemplary young man who neither drinks nor smokes, when bills from liquor dealers, tobacconists, and billiard emporia pour in, the proud father is mystified. Harvey stoutly denies having contracted the bills, including one for $25,000, and Lemuel, though puzzled, believes him until the workers threaten to strike and the bank places an attachment on the mill. Lemuel is about to disown his son when Harold Morrowton, Harvey's college roommate, confesses that he forged Harvey's name to the bills because his own father refused to give him spending money, and Harvey adds that because the two were fraternity brothers, he could not betray Harold's trust. Exasperated, Lemuel orders both young men to pay their debts through hard labor in the mill.
Loaded Dice
Richard Gordon's lack of religious conviction prompts him to live a life of crime. When he demands to be included in a scheme to corner the food market, the conspirators agree to accept him as a partner provided that he contribute $100,000 to the operation. In order to obtain the money, Richard blackmails Harry Palmer with the aid of his girl
Honor Thy Name
The pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young man's father then plots to rescue his unwitting son from "The Moth's" clutches, but at great sacrifice.
Filmography
as Jim Haverhill
as Prince von Lindenstein
as Grandfather de Fontenac
as Chief Justice Hare
as Forbes Lombard
as The Racehorse Owner
as Jonathan Swift
as Colonel Newland
as Frank Church
as Luke Taylor
as Sir Ensor Doone
as John Conroy
as Carson Burr
as Jim Blake aka J. Hatfield Blake
as Jefferson Hunter
as John Lynch / 'Bige Rivers
as Mathias
as Lemuel Deering
as Richard Gordon
as The Secretary - English episode
as Robert Murdock
as Dr. Dudley Duprez
as Major Aislee
as Elihu Knowland
as The Emir
as Col. Jefferson Beverly Winslow
as Harley P. Hennage