Max Asher
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 4, 1885
Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA
Known For
Rip Van Winkle
The story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field.
Crazy Like a Fox
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
The Head Waiter
The headwaiter does tricks with spaghetti that the greatest spaghetti handlers in the world never heard of. The sight makes your mouth water. Besides food, the scenes are garnished with a couple of trayfuls of beautiful girls.
Show Boat
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
The Red Kimona
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
We're in the Navy Now
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him a U.S. Navt recruiting office, and, the next thing they know, both are in the Navy and aboard an overseas transport ship. Madelyn Phillips is on board and Scruggs is the the ship's Master-of-Arms. They overhear a mysterious conversation between Madelyn and the ship's radio officer. Later, Madelun induces the pair to take her off the ship and into a row boat. She disappears and they are picked up by a French ship, which sinks a German U-Boat. When the war ends they learn that Madelyn was an operative of the U.S. Secret Service.
Soul of the Slums
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
Somewhere In Wrong
Stan plays a kind hearted tramp whose love goes un-requited in this sweet short film from 1925.
Danger Ahead
Greedy, Unscrupulous Rudolph learns that Belinda has just inherited $10,000, and he decides to steal it from her. He and his henchmen arrive at her house just as the money is being delivered. Meanwhile, Hairbreadth Harry observes the whole scene, and he hides the money for Belinda. But while Rudolph keeps Harry and Belinda occupied, his henchmen are already going about the job of stealing the money.
Dynamite Dan
Dan (Kenneth MacDonald) knocks out the foreman (Boris Karloff) at his workplace so the foreman accuses him of stealing money from the company safe. Dan takes off to visit his girlfriend when they're attacked by a man who Dan eventually knocks out with a single punch. A boxing manager see this and signs him up.
Filmography
as Bozo Watson
as Pawnbroker
as Mr. Blotnick
as Store Manager
as Ike
as Utility Man
as Nick
as Freckles Watson
as Wilson (as Max Ascher)
as Sheriff
as Sheriff
as The Father
as Adm. Puckerlip
as Sam Splivens
as Butler
as Minister
as Mayor Potash
as H.E. Reid the Jeweler (uncredited)
as William's Servant
as A tramp
as Mackhart's Deputy
as H.L.S.J. Lee
as Isadore Burke
as Isaac Cohen - the Hebrew
as Wellabach (a movie producer) (as Max Ascher)
as The Organ Grinder
as Sam
as Doctor
as Nick Vedder
as Hentzi
as Italian Crook
as Bum / dinning customer
as Detective Duck
as Mike
as Jake Schultz