Frank Whitson
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 22, 1877
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Captain Blood
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
Won by Law
Wanda Wiley stars as a very slow and lazy daughter in this excellent Century short. She gets servants to feed her and even plays tennis sitting in a chair. One day she decides to wake up to win the man she loves by going on an outdoor adventure that involves skunks and moonshiners!
Show Boat
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
If My Country Should Call
A doctor is called to the home of a young man who wants to enlist in the Army.
Boston Blackie's Little Pal
While burgling a mansion, Blackie is interrupted by little Joey, who has been awakened from his slumbers. Blackie gently orders the kid to return to bed, but Joey refuses to do so unless Blackie helps him say his prayers. Thus is formed a strong friendship between Blackie and his "little pal," inspiring our raffish hero to rescue Joey's mother Rosemary Theby from a scandalous situation.
3 Kids and a Queen
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
The Adventures of Tarzan
Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.
Square Deal Sanderson
Square Deal Sanderson is in pursuit of a horse thief, but someone else shoots the varmint before Sanderson can offer him a "square deal."
The Son-of-a-Gun
A young man is lured into a cardgame by a crooked dealer. He is about to lose all the money that was given to him to get medicine for his mother when a local cowboy comes to his rescue.
$50,000 Reward
Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be registered the next day, offers a $50,000 reward for Tex's capture.
Filmography
as Relative
as Jim Briscoe
as Captain
as Dave Hardy
as General Von Snootzer
as Harry's Sweetheart's Father
as Dr. Welland Strong
as Papa Franklin
as Asa Holman
as Baron de Rivarol
as Hudford's partner
as Shere Ali
as Colonel Pomeroy
as Attorney Bronson
as Sergeant McKenna
as Stub Allen
as Rokoff
as Martin Ward
as Luther M. Reed
as Alva Dale
as John Lewis
as John Wentworth
as Double Deck Harry
as Martin Wilmerding
as Monsieur Fayolle
as Franklin
as Abraham
as Bob Barrett
as Oliver Urmy
as August
as Sebastian Maure
as Robert
as John Graham
as Montrevor