Josef Swickard
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 24, 1866
Place of Birth: Koblenz, Germany
Known For
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Men
Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but instead she is taken to a baron, who betrays her. In spite of this inauspicious start, Cleo becomes a successful and renowned actress, but her feelings about men have never recovered. She loathes them and uses them only for the money they offer her, which she then hands over to a penniless girl.
Under Your Spell
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
The Young Rajah
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
Don Juan
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
Get Your Man
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
Maytime
Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.
Tillie's Punctured Romance
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
Filmography
as Patient (Archive Footage)
as Texas Malden
as Hamilton McGlen Sr. (uncredited)
as Presidente Huenemo Mendoza
as Gonzales
as Old Man
as Professor
as Jonesy
as Mohammedan Priest (uncredited)
as Banker Porter
as Lafe Turner
as Amigo (uncredited)
as Don Pedro Navarro
as Dr. Andrew Robert Taylor
as Maj. Henry Trent MD
as Jean Foray
as The Tutor
as Major Henry Trent MD
as Dr. Manyus
as Tyba, the White Magician
as Tyba, The White Magician [Chs. 8-12]
as Dean Todd
as Revolutionist
as Haggins, Foreign Consul
as Federal narcotics agent
as Dutch Constable
as Colonel Van Horn
as Manuel
as Juan Valdez
as Hazy
as Col. De Selincourt
as Ovaldo
as The King
as The toymaker (as Joseph Swickard)
as Colonel Torreon
as John Burton
as Grandpère
as Duke of Albin
as Don Hernandez de Vasquez
as Elvire's father
as Don Francisco Hernandez
as John Forsythe
as Old Gand
as Señor Jose Cordova
as Lingo
as Duke Della Varnese
as Juan Estrada
as Sebastian Castaneda
as Col. Girard
as Père Le Blanc
as Bee Master
as Monsieur Jomier
as Josef Ludant
as De Goncourt
as Pierre Ronsard
as Prime Minister Kruel
as Old Man Hayes
as Eugene Craig
as Michelo Brescia
as Pietro
as Cleo's Father
as Verdugo Montford
as Mark Ridgeway
as John Locke
as Colonel Van Zandt
as Urbano
as Pierre Grange
as John Standing
as Newton Wingate
as Marcio
as Caleb Plummer
as Maud's Father
as Prince Markoff
as Estaban Juárez
as Don Fernando DeContas
as Narada - the Mystic
as Jacques Fachard
as Leonati
as Abel
as Colonel Fairfax Gordon
as The Great Schabelitz
as Sam Lacey
as Domingo Maticas
as Petworth
as Marcelo Desnoyers
as Jacques de Merincourt
as Latour
as Pierre Monnier
as Nodo
as Colonel Alden Van Dusen
as Baron Bonart
as Reverend Goddard
as De Brionne
as Judge
as Delicate Hanson
as Raoul Garson
as Padre Marcos
as Mortimer
as Paul Manning
as Tom Glenny (as Joseph Swickard)
as Chicago Stone
as Dr. Alexandre Manette
as The Minister
as Old Man in Lobby (uncredited)
as The Knight of Old
as Surplus Store Owner (uncredited)
as Customer
as The Photographer
as The Sheriff
as Mary's Father, a Banker
as Police Chief
as Restaurant Manager
as O. Schmidt - Stein Dealer
as The Rival
as Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
as Police Chief
as Desk Sergeant
as Mabel's Father
as Movie Spectator (uncredited)
as Minta's Father
as Funeral Director
as Mr. Felix - Home Owner
as Desk Sergeant
as The Father
as Ball Toss Operator
as The Girl's Father
as Grandfather
as Drinker (uncredited)
as Old Stagehand (uncredited)
as Patient
as Mabel's Father (uncredited)
as Victim