J. Barney Sherry
Acting
Biography
J. Barney Sherry (March 4, 1874 – February 22, 1944) was an American actor of the silent film era. He appeared in more than 210 films between 1905 and 1929. He was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from cardiovascular disease.
Born: March 4, 1874
Place of Birth: Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
The White Sister
Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Back Pay
Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life. There she becomes the lover of a wealthy and unscrupulous businessman. But when Jerry returns blinded and dying from the war, Hester must choose between her new life and the man whose loyalty to her has never failed.
Love or Justice
Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal world. He passes his idle hours in the slums where he meets Nan Bishop, an underworld figure. Nan's influence helps to make a man out of Dunn and with her help he breaks his dependence on drugs and is successful in obtaining a position as a criminal lawyer. Years later, they meet again in a courtroom. Nan has been falsely accused of murder and Dunn is the prosecuting attorney. Learning that Dunn's professional future depends on his winning the case, Nan pleads guilty, but, at the last minute, the real criminal is discovered and Nan is cleared of the crime. She then accepts Dunn's offer of marriage and together they look forward to a happy future.
The Crackerjack
A pickle salesman finds himself in the middle of a South American revolution, impersonating a rebel general and falling for the general's daughter.
Broadway Scandals
Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
Go and Get It
Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.
The Brown Derby
Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex. One day he learns that an eccentric uncle has died, leaving him a brown derby said to bring good luck to its wearer. Meanwhile Edith Worthing and her Aunt Anna are expecting Edith's wealthy uncle, Adolph Plummer, from Australia. On a call to their house, Tommy is mistaken for the uncle, being announced as "a plumber," and soon a mutual romance develops with Edith. They are wedded by mistake when serving as witnesses to marriage by elopement. Farrell, a rival for Edith, learns of Tommy's deception and persuades Edith to elope with him; but Tommy follows in hot pursuit, in his pajamas and derby. At the last minute, a message arrives telling Edith that she and Tommy are already married.
Custer's Last Fight
Custer's Last Fight chronicles George Armstrong Custer's final battle against the forces of Sitting Bull at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Madcap Madge
The social climbing Flower family is comprised of Mr. Flower, a banker who has overextended himself financially, Mrs. Flower, a socially ambitious mother, Julia Flower, a marriage-minded elder daughter and Madge Flower, a high-spirited younger daughter. When Madge is expelled from boarding school for her practical jokes and pranks, she joins her mother and sister in Palm Beach, where they are wintering, in hopes of snaring a titled husband for Julia. Julia, fearful that her little sister will impair her success on the marriage market, forces Madge to dress as a child of ten. Julia has her sights set on the Earl of Larsdale, but after a series of misadventures, Madge elopes with the young man who turns out not to be an earl at all, but a prosperous young American who is holding her father's notes. Thus, she saves the day for the Flower family.
The Bargain
After the bandit known as the Two-Gun Man Jim Stokes robs the stage, he is wounded in his flight from the scene. Recuperating at a ranch, he falls in love with a local settler's daughter. Now wishing to go straight, Stokes encounters trouble when the Sheriff-- not entirely incorruptible-- Catches wind of his location.
Filmography
as Le Maire
as John Parker (uncredited)
as Papal Secretary
as Capt. Shay
as John Warren
as Henry Langdon
as Howard Young
as Thomas W. Sutton
as Henry Foster
as Col. Perkins
as Richard Shaw
as Maj. Romayne Murphy
as David Forbes
as Monsignor Saracinesca
as His Father
as Thurlow Michael Barclay Sr
as Horace Demrest
as Arthur Montrose
as Lt. Col. Potter
as Horace Wedderburn
as Chancellor
as Senator James Gleason
as The Proud Father
as Martin Lang
as Inspector Brandt
as Yacht Captain
as Dr. Jordan
as Charles G. Wheeler
as Whitney Barnes
as James Heatherton
as Henshaw
as Judge Whitely
as John Woodward
as Gordon Davis
as Senator Todd (as Barney Sherry)
as 'Shut the Door' Gordon
as Clark Farrell
as McDowell
as Frederick Cavendish
as John Merritt
as Daavid Carr
as Jackson J. Joseph
as Philip Remington
as David Marston
as Henry Leamington
as Dr. Loring
as Morton Sr
as Hartley Crance
as Mason Clark
as Dr. Robert Calvert
as Senator Wheeler
as Sen. John Calhoun Rand
as Pat Dugan
as Mr. Reyton
as Bragdon Brant
as Wilbur Gray
as Craig Lansing
as Earl of Selkirk
as John Hampton
as Earl of Larsdale
as Winthrop E. Haines
as Malcolm Blackridge
as President Brooks
as Richard Deering
as Edward Tilden
as Pioneer Spokesman
as Horatio Wells
as The King
as Dr. Hartman
as Dr. Jim Hendon
as Ashley Hampdon
as Mr. Keith - Doris's Father
as Alfred Zanden
as Jim Black
as Hayes - the Gambler
as Phil Brent
as Granddad
as Jim Brown - the Bandit
as James McLaughlin
as Lone Bear, a Cheyenne Chief
as Captain Haines
as The Colonel
as Mr Brown
as A Frontiersman
as The Express Agent
as Bandit