Joseph J. Dowling
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 3, 1850
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
The Rainmaker
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.
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.
Confessions of a Queen
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Turmoil increases as a revolution demands the abdication of the King and the Queen opposes this decision.
Her Night of Romance
An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
Everybody's Sweetheart
When the benign headmistress of the county poor farm is discharged and replaced with a tyrant, John and Mary, two orphans who have lived there since infancy, decide to run away. Accompanied by a feeble old corporal from the farm, they are forced to seek refuge at the home of General Phillip Bingham when the old soldier becomes ill. After the corporal's death, the general promises to care for the two waifs. Mary becomes his protegee, and John his gardener. Friction develops between the two newcomers and Willing and his wife Jessica, a couple living with the general who hope to inherit his wealth, until one day the general notices a close resemblance between a portrait of his deceased son and John. It is discovered then that John is actually the general's grandson. Thus legitimized, John weds Mary, and the general is pleased with his newly acquired family.
The Pride of Palomar
A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral land in the hands of strangers.
Carmen of the Klondike
Dorothy Harlan, a vaudeville artist, joins her fiancé, Cameron Stewart, in the Klondike during the early days of the gold rush. Dance hall owner "Silk" McDonald, who wants her for himself, tricks Dorothy into believing that Cameron has been unfaithful, and Dorothy begins dancing in Silk's establishment.
The Bargain
After the bandit known as the Two-Gun Man Jim Stokes robs the stage, he is wounded in his flight from the scene. Recuperating at a ranch, he falls in love with a local settler's daughter. Now wishing to go straight, Stokes encounters trouble when the Sheriff-- not entirely incorruptible-- Catches wind of his location.
Lorraine of the Lions
A ship carrying a touring circus troupe sinks at sea, and Lorraine, a young girl, is washed up on a deserted island. Her only companion is a gorilla from the circus, Bimi, who raises her as its own. Several years later Lorraine's wealthy grandfather, who has hired a psychic to help find her, is led by the psychic to Lorraine's island, and she and Bimi are taken back to "civiliation" in San Francisco, but things don't work out exactly as planned.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on with her path, she gets married. All is well until her husband discovers her past. Leading her on a life of wandering, murder, and execution.
Filmography
as Father Murphy (as Joseph Dowling)
as Capt. Dugan
as Joe Downey
as Livingston Sr
as Padre
as Duke of Rosen
as Senator Warren
as Professor Gregg (as Joseph Dowling)
as David Rollins
as The Parson
as William Tudor
as George Le Quintrec
as Reverend Loranger
as The Judge
as Captain Bijonah Keeler (as Joseph Dowling)
as Elder Brewster
as Judge Van Leer
as Father Thibault
as Old 565
as The governor
as Father Lampleigh
as Nathaniel Sawyer
as Don Miguel
as Benjamin
as Calaveras John
as Dr. Somers
as Ezra Wood
as Judge Huntington
as Colonel Garnett (as Joseph Dowling)
as Reverend Mead (as Joseph Dowling)
as MacGregor
as James McGraw
as Carleton Hutchins
as Marvin Queed
as The Girl's Father (as Joseph Dowling)
as William Havisham
as Col. Martin Culpepper
as Professor Lampton
as Mrs. Marshall
as George Roan
as "Place" Hough
as General Phillip Bingham
as Rufus Gaston
as French emigré
as Colonel Remington Osbury
as Alick Crayshaw
as Tom Anderson
as Shib Mizah
as David Pratt
as Baron Brinker
as Dr. Leon Wilson / Hugo Strauss
as Wilbur Warren
as Sheriff
as Hamid-Ali
as The Patriarch
as William Roberts
as Marshal Leland
as Grandpa Latimer (as Joseph Dowling)
as Major Lee
as James Brown
as Judge Beverly Allen
as Dr. Bleneau
as 'Twisted' Tuttle
as Hamilton Brisbane
as Marshall Thorne
as LeSieur Juste DeLarme
as Jeffrey's Grandfather
as Andy MacTavish
as Philip Merrill
as Nicholas Marinoff
as Sir Angus Cameron
as Old Joe
as David Stevens
as Baron von Mecklin
as John Fryeburg
as Saleratus Joe
as Bruce Nelson
as 'Parson' John Kennedy
as William Jackson
as President Sarros
as Colonel Mason
as Captain Hendrik von der Bloom
as Bill Boggs
as Judge Zanaan Frame
as Two Spot Hargis
as Obediah Parker
as Count Ivan of Darbaya
as 'Ace High' Larkins
as The Butler
as Carlos Lupoli
as General Andres
as Doc Witherspoon (as J.J. Dowling)
as Count d'Orr
as Colonel Taylor
as Tom McCoy
as W. B. Prescott
as Count Ivan
as Justice of the Peace
as The Doctor
as John Saunders
as Rev. Joshua Wilkes