James C. Morton
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 24, 1884
Place of Birth: Helena, Montana, USA
Known For
Modern Times
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
Free, Blonde and 21
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
Song of the Saddle
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
Our Relations
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
The Lucky Corner
The gang help Scotty and his grandfather after an obnoxious lunch counter owner forces them to move their lemonade stand.
Three Little Sew and Sews
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
Pardon My Scotch
The Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The Stooges impersonate Scotsmen at a party to fool the prospective buyer. Their usual antics disrupt the party, ending when a barrel of their "scotch" explodes and floods the whole house.
Tit for Tat
Stan and Ollie have set up their own electrical appliance store but, unfortunately for them, the grocery right next door is run by the man and wife whom they encountered in "Them Thar Hills" (1935). Stan and Ollie go and visit to offer the hand of friendship, but the grocer again becomes convinced that Ollie and his wife are fooling around.
Frisco Kid
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
Filmography
as Horseshoe Man (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Policeman
as Trooper Quincy
as Pat
as Red - Sacramento Bartender
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Chubby Detective (uncredited)
as Card Player (uncredited)
as Doorman (uncredited)
as Store Owner
as Casey
as Mack
as Littlefield
as The Cop in the Alley
as Stagecoach Station Manager
as Officer Brannigan
as Ed Pickett - Juror
as Liberty Bartender (uncredited)
as Joseph Aloysius Stacey (as James Norton)
as Baldy
as Bartender
as Bailey
as Proprietor
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
as Police Sergeant
as Policeman Clancy
as Bartender
as City Council Member
as Policeman
as Bartender Joe
as Second Policeman Arresting John (uncredited)
as Bill, the Chef (uncredited)
as Blackie the Electrician
as Ship's Cook
as Bartender
as Crowd Control Policeman (uncredited)
as Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)
as Wife's Uncle (uncredited)
as Joe--Janitor
as Prof. Wilson (uncredited)
as Judge (uncredited)
as Policeman at Drug Store
as Admiral H.S. Taylor (uncredited)
as Bartender
as Insurance salesman
as Dr. Pruitt
as Bartender
as Bald Man
as B.O. Botswaddle (uncredited)
as Bartender (uncredited)
as Bartender
as Adams
as Various (voice) (uncredited)
as Mr. Bell (uncredited)
as Kelly
as Doorman (uncredited)
as Cattle Man's Protective Assoc. Chief
as Waiter
as Eustace P. Quackenbush
as Dental Patient
as (scene deleted)
as Bartender at Denker's Beer Garden (uncredited)
as Court Clerk (uncredited)
as Mr. Gypsem
as Policeman
as Settler (uncredited)
as Assembly Line Relief Man (uncredited)
as Jim - the Bartender (uncredited)
as Vigilante (uncredited)
as Helen's Father (uncredited)
as Man on Train Who Wants to Sleep
as J.T. Walton
as Road House Patron (uncredited)
as Union General (uncredited)
as Herald (uncredited)
as Piano Player
as Bartender (uncredited)
as The Policeman
as Paradise Acres Promoter
as Milkman
as Grip (uncredited)
as Englishman (uncredited)
as Policeman
as Motorist (uncredited)
as The Timorous Woodchopper
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Presiding Judge
as Judge J.A. Morton
as Policeman (as James Morton)
as Stadium Policeman (uncredited)
as Henchman (uncredited)
as Mickie
as Brown - the Husband