Ward Crane
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 18, 1890
Place of Birth: Albany, New York, USA
Known For
Sherlock Jr.
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
The Phantom of the Opera
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
The Mad Whirl
A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.
Risky Business
A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived devices and bringing in other candidates more to her liking.
The Flaming Frontier
Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, General George A. Custer. Bob returns to the west and is made a scout for Custer's 7th Cavalry. At the Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer sends Bob with a message for aid, and Bob becomes the only survivor of the battle.
Upstage
Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, thinking she is the reason, meets a handsome leading man and joins up with him but, before long, he discovers 'she ain't a trouper' and she is soon performing with 4th-class acts in Tank Town America
Within the Law
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.
That Model from Paris
A light hearted comedy romance involving a fake French woman and lots of 1920's fashions
In the Heart of a Fool
Laura Nesbit, daughter of old Dr. Nesbit and belle of the younger social set in the town of Harvey, plans to marry Grant Adams, the editor of the local paper, until she flirts with rising but unethical lawyer Tom VanDorn to arouse her beau's jealousy. A saddened Grant is drawn into an affair with town siren Margaret Muller, with whom he has an illegitimate son. On the rebound, Laura marries VanDorn and Margaret weds attorney Henry Fenn. History repeats itself when Laura's husband becomes infatuated with Margaret, which breaks up both marriages. Meanwhile, Grant has given up his newspaper to become a foreman in the mines. After he is injured in an explosion, Grant is taken to the Nesbit home, where Laura's care restores his health. When Grant's little son is shot and killed during a strike, he becomes so overwrought with grief that he confesses the boy's parentage to Laura, who forgives his past and they begin a new life together.
The Luck of the Irish
William Grogan, lives in New York City and meets the outside world only through the little basement window of his plumbing shop. One day he sees and falls in love with a pretty pair of feet, belonging to Ruth Warren, a schoolteacher who is lusted after by Norton Colburton, a dissolute playboy. Ruth is about to marry Colburton, but at the last minute runs away and decides to take a Cook's tour. On the boat, she meets Grogan, who has inherited a fortune, and recognizing the feet, he falls in love with their owner.
Filmography
as Sheik / Villain
as Anthony Weir
as Paul Groode
as Archduke Stephan
as Wallace King
as Morgan Grant
as Coults-Browne
as Sam Belden
as Lester White
as Tracy Redmond
as Otto Stern
as Sam Belden
as Andrew Fuller
as Spencer Clark
as Walter Higgins
as Count Ruboff (uncredited)
as Benny Kingsley
as Phillip Crane
as Milt Bisnet
as Sheik / Villain
as Van Merton
as David Templeton
as Carleton Childs
as English Eddie
as Dudley Gillette
as Reggie Whitley
as Lieutenant John Tabor
as Jim Morley
as Henry Fenn
as Royal Blondin
as The Albany Kid
as John Mathison
as Norton Colburton
as Reginald King
as French Secret Service Agent