Helen MacKellar
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Helen MacKellar.
Born: February 11, 1895
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Known For
The Great Train Robbery
Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an entire gold train, including the passengers......
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
Delinquent Parents
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.
The Powers Girl
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
Draegerman Courage
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
Northwest Passage
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
Crime School
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
Dark Command
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
Honolulu
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Disbarred
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income,is impressed by the way Joan Carroll handled a small-town murder, poses as a real estate agent and offers to get her into a law firm of a friend of his. Placed in the office of Roberts, running a front for Cradon, Joan is taught every trick of the trade. With her cases all prepared for her, she goes from one courtroom victory to another, soon becoming the darling of the underworld and the despair of all law-enforcing authorities.
Filmography
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
as Mrs. Davis
as Mrs. Hendricks
as Lucy Randall
as Ma Beebe
as Kansas Kate Conners
as Mrs. Logan
as Mrs. Barnes
as Sattherwaite's Secretary (uncredited)
as Mrs. Welles
as Mrs. Hale
as Juror
as Sarah Hadden
as Mrs. Mabel Doakes
as Mrs. Doakes
as Waitress (uncredited)
as Mrs. Fraser
as Secretary
as Middle Telephone Operator (uncredited)
as Abbey Tennant
as Mrs. Lorimer
as Martha Whittaker
as Mrs. Wanamaker
as Judge Edith Ellis
as Mrs. Burke
as Mrs. Thompson
as Stella Kenwood
as Mrs. Mary Haslett
as Martha Carstairs
as Mrs. Smith, the baby's mother
as Jane Andrews
as Mary Holmes