Tom Santschi
Acting
Biography
Tom Santschi was an American leading man and character actor of the silent film era. Additionally, he directed numerous films during the mid 1910s.
Born: October 24, 1880
Place of Birth: Crystal City, Missouri, USA
Known For
Tracked by the Police
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
3 Bad Men
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
The Cradle of Courage
Former crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of his comrades-in-arms convinces him to join the police force. But Kelly finds himself confronting the very criminals who made up his old gang.
River's End
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung and Keith takes his place.
The Spoilers
The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara. It was adapted to screen by Lanier Bartlett from the Rex Beach novel of the same name.
Monte Cristo
An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of beating Adolph Zukor's adaptation to the screen, Zukor successfully sued and the prints were ordered to be destroyed. The film is now lost.
Ben's Kid
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
The Eyes of the Totem
After selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma with her husband and young daughter to start a new life. Things don't go as planned when her husband is murdered by a mysterious sinister eyed stranger, leaving Ms. Hardy a destitute widow. With the police unable to help find the murderer, Ms. Hardy is rescued by a kindly elderly beggar and taken in by a beggar's society. Miriam enrolls her daughter in a private seminary and lives a double life as a street beggar and a member of polite society, until a chance encounter one day leads her back to the sinister eyed stranger she has been seeking for years.
Alone in the Jungle
The Brown family, which consists of Hon. John Brown, his wife, two sons, Harold and Billy, and a young sister named Helen, has settled on an isolated plantation in the Jungles. Jack Arden, son of another English planter, who comes over frequently to hunt with the boys has fallen in love with Helen. But Papa Brown discourages the lovers, saying that Helen is too young to be married. Jack agrees to wait. Some time afterward the Browns receive a letter from Jack stating that he is coming for another week-end of shooting- with the Brown boys. On his way to the Brown's home, Jack knocks down Concho, an overseer, for being cruel to one of the slaves. His action is approved of by the Browns. In honor of Jack the family starts on a lion hunt, and, after a long trip, they return by the river route. They espy a lioness drinking at the river's edge. She is killed by Jack and taken aboard. That night Jack again asks Mr. Brown for Helen's hand and is again told to wait.
Little Robinson Crusoe
Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, but he is shipwrecked and stranded on an island inhabited by cannibals who worship him as a war god.
Filmography
as Simon Slade
as Harris
as Bud Landers
as Shotwell
as Butch
as Bit role (voice)
as Dutch Mike Lutze
as Bradford
as Jake Lynch
as Jules Breton
as Butch Nelson
as Captain Jan Jodahl
as Mr. Mortimer
as Grim Hawley - Sea Captain
as Dan Creedoon
as Glenister
as Captain Stoner - in Prologue
as Captain of Convict Boat
as Bob Crew
as Philip La Rue
as 'Sandy' Sturgeon
as Ben Harley
as Hawk Lespard
as Sam Black
as Daredevil Daley
as Jasper
as Bill Hall
as 'Bull' Stanley
as Bill
as Richard Palmer
as Breen
as Alexis Vetkin
as August Deering
as Big Joe Snead
as Chief of Detectives Callahan
as Hon. Bill Cronk
as Jack Donovan
as Captain Dynes
as 'Brute' Morgan
as Gordon Van Brock
as 'The Fox,' Dan Grogan
as Smith
as Kildevil Brenon
as Campan
as Doreon
as Rameriz
as Tom
as Roger
as Tierney
as Tom Langley (as Thomas Santschi)
as John Radd
as Lascho
as Pedro Toral
as Perry Risdon
as Clive Standish
as Dave Johnson
as Dan Cregan
as Jim Dyke
as Jack Manley
as Daniel Fitzhugh
as Big Bill O'Shaughnessy (as Thomas Santschi)
as John Mentor
as Boris Androvsky
as Stephen Brice
as Bruce
as Allan Golyer
as Peter Herman
as John Bruce
as John Bruce
as John Bruce
as John Bruce
as Alex McNamara
as John Bruce
as John Bruce (as Thomas Santschi)
as John Bruce
as John Bruce
as John Bruce
as John Bruce
as Jan Karl
as Bob Arden
as The Indian Warrior
as Deranged Actor
as Mike Rosenberg
as Fritz - Sona's Husband
as Danglars
as The 'Sea Lawyer'
as Stone - First Mate of the Dakota
as Bill Rooney - a Workman
as Undetermined Role
as Joe Runyon
as Joe Saunders - the Blacksmith
as Soldier