Stanton Heck
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 8, 1877
Place of Birth: Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Known For
Soft Shoes
Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and flashlight breaks into his hotel room and demands that Halahan cough up his dough. Halahan sees her threat and raises her a one-dollar bet that he can return a brooch she stole earlier the same evening before its loss is discovered. Pulling off his boots to slip on his own “soft shoes,” Halahan sets off to do a little second-story work, not realizing the trouble he’s in for.
The Mystic
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high society.
The Yankee Clipper
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
White Man
Lady Andrea Pellor is engaged with a South African wealthy mine owner only to save her family from misery. Before the wedding, she changes her mind about marrying the rich man for the wrong reasons, and she begs a pilot known as "White Man" to take her with him.
Outside the Law
Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…
Little Church Around the Corner
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.
Dangerous Days
Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodrama.
The Branded Sombrero
A cowboy promises his dying foster-father, "Honest" John Maggert, that he will return the cattle that Maggert rustled from the local ranchers.
The Gentle Cyclone
The story is motivated by a long-standing feud, which comes to a head when each of the warring families tries to adopt an orphan girl who is about to receive a huge inheritance.
An Adventuress
Filmed by Fred J. Balshofer in 1918 as the anti-German war drama Over the Rhine, the project was reshaped and released in 1920 as An Adventuress—a cross-dressing caper set in the fictional republic of Alpania and headlined by female-impersonation star Julian Eltinge, with early appearances by Rudolph Valentino and Virginia Rappe. The film was later re-edited and reissued in 1922 as The Isle of Love.
Filmography
as Honest John Hallett
as American Mate
as Jim Dornton
as Wilkes Senior
as Bull Dozier
as Bull Dunn
as The Adjuster
as Carlo
as Isaac Belding
as Detective
as Silver Smith
as Bradely
as Mark Hammer
as Brennan
as Jasper Hardy
as Poggin
as Burt Wilson
as Mr. Lawrence
as Jim Harris
as Abraham Nathan
as Hotel Detective
as Grand Duke Nebo
as Big Tim Riley
as Big Bill Thaine
as Police Officer (uncredited)
as Grogan
as George Conley
as Bullato
as Jefferson Corrigan
as William Carrington
as Grand Duke Nebo
as Herman Klein
as Bull Cruze
as Henry Fowler
as Christopher Beaumont
as Sea Captain (uncredited)
as The Warden
as Brauer
as Colonel Simon Dodd
as Buck Hardigan