Robert McWade
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 23, 1872
Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York, USA
Known For
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Heroes for Sale
World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the pain of misfortune and a love for other human beings.
Early to Bed
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Grand Hotel
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
42nd Street
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
Thirty Day Princess
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
Hard to Handle
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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.
Filmography
as Mr. Crouch
as Dr. Lupus Crumm
as Col. Fentridge
as Admiral Dewey
as Horace Bamber
as Webster Parsons
as Corrigan
as Henry Prime
as Mr. J.J. Gates
as John Graves
as Mr. Jolly
as Willard Stone
as J.C. Kent
as Burgess Frisbie
as Quinlan
as Frank Carteret
as Elisha J. Whitney
as Judge Stephen Crawford
as Davis
as A.E. Moore
as Judge
as Mr. Bradshaw
as John Wagner
as Boss Tim Reglan
as Harris Snowden
as Herman Whimple
as Vice Presient Molleson
as District Attorney Markham
as Senator
as Colonel Sharpe
as Managing Editor
as Splevin
as McCloy
as Hotel Manager
as The Grouch
as Alonzo Holt
as Adopted Son
as Harvey Miles
as District Attorney Markham
as Larkin
as Mr. Peabody
as Dr. Briggs
as Henry Cameron
as Jerome Turner
as Jones
as District Attorney Walter Simpson
as Charles Reeves
as Mr. Larsen
as F.E. Ramsey
as Herbert Walcott
as Bill Conway
as Wesley Kitterman
as Uncle Felix
as Fred Livingston
as James Butterworth
as Meierheim
as Judge Henry Fish
as Simms
as Judge West
as Mr. Tuttle
as Uncle George
as G. A. Appleby
as Arthur Parker
as Louis Hefner
as John Quincy Tanner
as Frank
as Phil Reisman
as Cyrus Holt
as Joe Higginson
as P. H. Bancroft
as Department Store Clerk