Jack Duffy
Acting
Biography
Jack Duffy was born on September 4, 1882 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for The Stage Hand (1920), Love Takes Flight (1937) and The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring (1916). He died on July 23, 1939 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Born: September 4, 1882
Place of Birth: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Known For
Keystone Hotel
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
Our Hospitality
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
A Dog's Life
The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
Here Comes Cookie
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Neighbors
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.
Pop Goes the Easel
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
Ella Cinders
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
Harold Teen
Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus. He joins a fraternity, goes out for football, and directs his class theatrical effort. Instead of a school play, Harold suggests doing a western motion picture. Part of the plot requires them to blow up the dam that has cut off the water supply to Harold's homestead in the country. After the explosion Harold runs away because he is afraid of being arrested, but he returns just in time to win a football game for his team.
Sally
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Working as a waitress, she serves Blair (Alexander Gray), and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to socialite Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phoney. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has a show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.
School Days
Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.
Filmography
as SWAT #3
as Bartender
as Hinkle
as Old-time fireman
as Old Pirate
as Jake Abernathy
as Farmer
as Man with Ear Trumpet
as Wilbur
as Bearded Man (uncredited)
as Self
as Hotel Proprietor
as Roue
as Uncle Todd
as Sandy MacDuff
as The Mayor
as Grandpop Teen
as Noah Flood
as Fire Chief
as Nanny's Father
as M.T. House
as O'Hagan
as Sam Gardner (uncredited)
as An Old Goat
as Grandpa
as John Henry
as Bit Part (uncredited)
as The Judge (uncredited)
as The Hero
as School Board Chairman
as Old geezer / Hick
as The Dove
as Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)