Max Asher
Also Known As: Jack Ascher, Max Ascher
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 04, 1885
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 15, 1957
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Subway Express
Overview: Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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Nearly Married
Overview: Monty Banks comedy produced by Warners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-11
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Avenging Fangs
Overview: A dog and his dead master's brother track down murderers.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-04
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The Call of the Wilderness
Overview: In a small western town, a man meets a girl whose father is a land agent. To please her, he buys a plot of land from her father. Next thing he knows, he's mixed up in a plot to drive him off his land.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-05
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Lights Out
Overview: Notorious crooks "Hairpin" Annie and Sea Bass steal a suitcase on the train and discover that it is filled with scenarios. Its owner, Egbert Winslow, agrees to write a screenplay about the underworld with Sea Bass's help. Sea Bass, seeing a chance to expose a pal who has double-crossed him, describes "High-Shine" Joe and some of his underworld activities. Joe sees the film in a South American theater and recognizes himself. He goes to the motion picture studio determined to kill Egbert Winslow, but bank president Peyton, who has been robbed by Joe, appears simultaneously with the police and saves Winslow.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-12
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Mike and Jake as Heroes
Overview: By deeds of valor both Mike and Jake seek to win the same girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-17
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Blazing Days
Overview: While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to that of Dutton, known as "Dude".
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-27
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Baffles Aids Cupid
Overview: Banker Shultz has not had a vacation for over thirty years. His doctor advises a rest or a breakdown will soon result. But it is impossible for Shultz to leave the affairs of the bank a moment. At last he hits on a great scheme. That of getting his friend, Detective Duck, to impersonate him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-08
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Galloping Fury
Overview: Billy Haven, a young rancher, accidentally discovers that clay found on his ranch will, when mixed with water, become the most beautifying mud-pack cosmetic that any young girl, or old woman, could desire. Then the land-grabbers, clay-speculators, cosmetic companies and a show girl or two show up to get a piece of the action.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-20
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Poor Jake's Demise
Overview: Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-16
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A String of Diamonds
Overview: A dog helps to recover a million dollars worth of diamonds.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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Dog Scents
Overview: A short western/crime film.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-31
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Just Plain Folks
Overview: Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, returns to his farm to find that his family is about to be evicted. Dan's sweetheart arrives with a baby who, unknown to Dan, is actually the child of his younger brother and the sweetheart's sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-18
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Trigger Tricks
Overview: Out to avenge his brother's death at the hands of cattleman Kingston, Tim gets hired at Dawley's sheep ranch. The sheep men are greatly outnumbered but Tim has some tricks planned that will even the odds.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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Danger Ahead
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-07
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Dynamite Dan
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-02
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Sweethearts on Parade
Overview: Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them reconsider whether they really need millionaires to be happy.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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She's My Baby
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-10
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Moonlight Nights
Overview: With a little-known director and second-string cast, the two-reel Moonlight Nights is typical of these low-budget independent productions. The comedy’s plot is not much: Told by his exasperated father to find a job, a klutzy rich kid named Art (Joe Moore) follows a bevy of dancers to their nightclub, where he tricks the maître d' into hiring him as a waiter. No guest proves safe from Art’s clumsy antics, but the shapely cabaret performers, led by Mademoiselle Fifi (Gloria Joy), dance on in the ensuing chaos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-15
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Mixed Nuts
Overview: Nuts in May, re-cut, with added footage and outtakes from _Pest, The (1922)_ , combined with newly shot sequences to bridge the scenes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-08
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We're in the Navy Now
Overview: "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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-06
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Show Boat
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-27
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The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Overview: Although the dance troupe of which she is leading lady is successful in South America, Lou urges her husband, Jim, to seek another environment for the sake of their 2-year-old son. When Dan McGrew offers to put Lou on the New York stage and beats Jim in a fight, she runs away with him to Alaska, where she becomes a decoy in the Malamute saloon. Learning that Lou has been duped by her abductor, Jim follows them to the Klondike and kills McGrew. Husband, wife, and child are then reunited.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-31
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In the Year 2014
Overview: On this certain afternoon in the year 2014, Mrs. Jones, and her daughter, stock brokers, advertise for a first-class stenographer. Charles Van Doren, a defenceless young man, striving to make a livelihood in the big city, and at the same time retain his good name, calls on Jones' daughter, and is at once accepted as the new stenographer. He has not been there long, however, when Mrs. Jones takes advantage of his innocence, and makes improper advances to him.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-31
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Sweetie
Overview: A Baby Peggy two-reeler
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-04
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The Red Kimona
Overview: A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-16
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Rip Van Winkle
Overview: The story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-02
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Somewhere In Wrong
Overview: Stan plays a kind hearted tramp whose love goes un-requited in this sweet short film from 1925.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-29
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Chop Suey Louie
Overview: Joe Rock short comedy, also featuring Billie Rhodes and Frank Alexander.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-26
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The Silver Car
Overview: After serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent resolves to go straight. He wants to track down the English private who saved his life, and discovers his true identity is Arthur Grenvil, the son of the Earl of Rosecarrel. Trent falls in love with Grenvil's sister, Daphne, and sets out to win the Earl's approval. He discovers that the Earl is being blackmailed by Count Michael Temesvar, the prime minister of Croatia, over some documents.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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Painting the Town
Overview: Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, headed the cast of Universal's Painting the Town. In his first starring role, Tryon is cast as bucolic inventor Hector Whitmore, who falls for flirtatious city gal Patsy Deveau (Miller). Misinterpreting her fluttering eyelashes as a sign of true and lasting love, Hector follows Patsy to New York, much to the dismay of the girl's wealthy fiance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-07
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Crazy Like a Fox
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-26
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The Awful Adventures of an Aviator
Overview: Amateur aviator Harold McNutt's hopes of taking flight result in an escalating series of high jinks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-03
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A Millionaire for a Minute
Overview: Gale, the Village Schoolmarm, wants to marry Ezekial Brown, but her Uncle objects to the match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-16
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A Peaceful Riot
Overview: Sailor Slim Summerville saves a lady from nasty men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
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Sailor Beware
Overview: Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads, "Guinea Pig With Deadly Germs Roaming Our Streets". Billy causes havoc at the Yellow Cab stand when a cabbie catches sight of his cute little "piggy". Billy sets out to see his girl at her father's mansion. On the streetcar, he takes the guinea pig out of its box. Soon passengers and driver are diving off, and the runaway car is gaining on a dynamite truck!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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Soul of the Slums
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-15
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The Whirlwind
Overview: A strong wind blows a city slicker and a local girl together. A Joe Rock Comedy
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-03
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Grief
Overview: Begins with a child-cast parody of "The Kid." The Adams portion finds the guy chased about town because they are looking for some crook in a gray derby...and Jimmie happens to have one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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A Yankee Princess
Overview: A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was directed by David Smith and stars Bessie Love, who also wrote the screenplay. It is a lost film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-21
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery
Overview: First episode in the Lady Baffles and Detective Duck one-reel comedy series. The city is being terrorized by a mysterious female Raffles. At last, in desperation, the chief of police sends for his friend, the famous sleuth, Detective Duck. While these two are sitting in conference, Raffles, in her search for loot, enters the home of Mrs. Gotta Millun. Raffles' eyes sparkle as she takes in with delight the rich Oriental knick-knacks and furnishings. Mrs. Millun is a connoisseur. Raffles hides under a table when Mrs. Millun comes in. Mrs. Millun has just received a gift from her brother in far-off India. It is a jewel case containing eight beautiful and rare pearls as large as hen eggs. In a note accompanying them her brother explains that the jewels were part of the loot of the Britishers when they raided Oski Wow Wow, and that they were taken from a famous Indian Princess who had sworn eternal vengeance on all who thereafter possessed them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-27
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
Overview: This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On the refusal of the Governor to sign a bill in favor of the liquor interest, the political boss tries to force the executive to his will. The Governor, after a series of thrilling experiences, thwarts the efforts of the politicians. The latter calls on Lady Baffles, who impersonates the Governor's wife and secures the executive's signature to the bill. Detective Duck, however, captures the politicians in a clever manner and beats Lady Baffles at her own game. (Moving Picture World Synopsis)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-14
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Vamping Babies
Overview: "Lewis Sargent of 'Huckleberry Finn" fame, now grown up, and Alice Ardell are the principal players in this Standard Comdy which deals with the attempts of a love-sick young couple to wed despite an irate father who shows his temper by demolishing straw hats. They finally elope, resulting in a chase scene. Slapstick comedy of average amusement value". - Synopsis via The Moving Picture World. Originally two reels, one survives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-27
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Damsels and Dandies
Overview: Movie comedy with Earl Montgomery and Joe Rock.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-10
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Crashing Broadway
Overview: When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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The Mystery Pilot
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-01
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Slow as Lightning
Overview: Our hero Jimmie March works for stockbroker E.J. Philips and daydreams of romance with Eleanor, the boss's lovely daughter. Unfortunately, Eleanor is dating Mortimer Fenton, a wealthy cad who used to push Jimmie around in college. To add insult to injury, Jimmie gets fired. All seems lost until a gypsy fortune teller foretells that he'll make a bundle playing hunches in the stock market. So, he convinces his buddies to lend him some money and invests in stocks that then start to skyrocket. However, Fenton isn't about to take that lying down and subsequently hatches a plan to wipe his rival out for good... Will Jimmie's fortune come true? Will he be able to defeat Fenton and win the heart of the girl? Watch and find out!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-19
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Footprints
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-01
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Her Lucky Leap
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-20
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Don't Worry
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-04
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Married n' Everything
Overview: Heinie Conklin has a African desert adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-14
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