James A. Marcus
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 20, 1867
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
The Man from Arizona
A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train. The cowboy sets out to find the bandit gang and clear his friend's name.
Steamboat Round the Bend
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Scaramouche
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
The Scarlet Letter
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
The Scarlet Empress
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Liliom
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Beau Brummel
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
The Prisoner of Shark Island
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
The Regeneration
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.
Filmography
as Parole Board Member (uncredited)
as Judge (uncredited)
as Sea Captain (Uncredited)
as Cal Pierson
as Mayor
as Blacksmith (uncredited)
as Ed Armstrong (uncredited)
as Warden
as Marshal Bat Manning
as Townsman in Print Shop
as The Hotel Keeper
as Peasant
as Peasant (uncredited)
as Brother of John Ball
as Brother of John Bull
as Turner
as Big Jim Edwards
as Colonel Hiller
as Cook General
as Jud Winters
as Tugboat Captain (uncredited)
as Judge McSweeney (as James Marcus)
as Boris Shillov
as U.S. Marshal
as Baker (as James Marcus)
as Charles Thompson
as Old Doctor (uncredited)
as Judge
as William P. Donovan
as Linzman
as Judge
as General Sheldon
as Sheriff John Brown
as Marnay
as Mining Engineer
as Basil
as Capt. Bonham (as James Marcus)
as Malay Pete (as James Marcus)
as Costa (as James Marcus)
as Maj. Hartman
as Joe Horn
as Maurice Armato
as Mayor
as 'Big Bill' Dawson (as James Marcus)
as Old Sea Salt
as Colonel Buckshot (uncredited)
as Colonel Carter
as Solomson
as A Sea Captain
as Dominique
as Emile Plock (as James Marcus)
as Colonel Hollis
as Andrei Vronsky
as Kyrilla Troekouroff
as The Sheriff
as Judge Maynard
as Judge Haller
as Captain Duffy
as Elliott Kimberly
as Squire Crabtree
as Snodgrass the Innkeeper
as Judge
as Tramp (uncredited)
as Binet
as Braithwaite
as Mr. Bumble
as Carmody (as James Marcus)
as Hobbs
as Pepuso
as Martin Tydeman
as Simon Tobin
as Curate
as Uncle Jim
as Basil
as William Desmond (as James Marcus)
as Patrick O'Grady
as Pat Kelly
as John T. Drake
as Jumbo
as Gov. John Hunter
as Ivan Lazar
as Dancaire
as Jim Conway