James Kirkwood
Acting
Biography
James Cornelius Kirkwood Sr. (February 22, 1876 – August 24, 1963) was an American actor and director.
Born: February 22, 1876
Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Known For
Over the Hill
In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.
Intruder in the Dust
Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.
Madame Curie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
The Doolins of Oklahoma
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
Two of a Kind
A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.
Charlie Chan's Chance
Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and New York City police.
The Sun Shines Bright
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
Man in the Saddle
A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
Two Rode Together
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
I've Always Loved You
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
Filmography
as Officer (uncredited)
as Brian MacCarthy Age 68
as Justice Deal
as Tim Johnson
as Judge Parker
as General Fairfield
as Doctor
as Sheriff Medary (uncredited)
as Tex (uncredited)
as Convict (uncredited)
as Rev. Mears (uncredited)
as Rev. MacDougal
as John Van Derwin (uncredited)
as Murphy
as Board Member (uncredited)
as Warren Benedict
as Politician
as Dad
as Jim Malvern
as Count DeMar
as Judge
as Henry R. Graham
as Roger Norton
as Detective Crane
as Inspector Flannery
as Venters
as Pa Shelby in Prologue
as Sigrid's Beau
as William Drew
as John Gibson
as John C. Tullock
as Mark Stone
as Baron Serge Palma
as The Professor
as Rev. Eph Kelly / Tiger Larabee
as Mr. Kendricks
as James Norton
as John Humphries
as Guy Watson
as Colonel Fleming
as Calvin Clarke
as Robert Andrews
as Gerald Cranston
as Richard Whitney
as Dr. Wesley Van Martyn
as John Brand
as Ward Trenton
as George Moreland
as Jim Reagan
as Lundi Druro
as John Trent
as Alan MacFarland
as Robert Herrick
as O'Neill
as James Kirkwood
as John Quelch
as Daniel Forbes Pike
as Sir Everard Dominey / Leopold von Ragastein
as Jean Jacques Barbille
as Bob Hampton
as David Courtney
as Tom Chandler
as Abel Blake
as Pierre Landis
as Grant Adams
as Dr. Stannard Wayne
as William Grogan
as Detective
as Stephen Gambier
as Steve Hunter
as Lancer Morne
as The Mother's Son
as The Wife's Sweetheart
as The Rich Man
as The Husband
as The Westerner
as The Best Man
as Party Guest
as Backstage at Debut / At Party
as Farmer
as Silver Eagle's Father
as Mr. Nostrand
as The Mountain Girl's Brother
as At the Ball
as Mr. Morley
as In Mob
as An Admirer
as Luke
as Ben Webster
as In Bar
as At Bar Table
as Jim Blake
as Comata, the Sioux
as Messenger's Father
as In Store
as Zeke Wright
as Mr. Hearne
as Cowboy / Dying Man
as At Club
as The Father
as Standing Rock
as At Party
as Alachus
as Alice's father
as Joe Fielding
as A Simple Farmer Lad
as The Cardinal
as Party Guest
as The Father
as The Doctor