John Sinclair
Also Known As: John St. Clair, Johnnie St. Clair, Johnnie Sinclair, John West Sinclair
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee
Birthday: January 06, 1900
Deathday: February 13, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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It Pays to Advertise
Overview: To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-18
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The Lost Whirl
Overview: A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a subject for parodies and cash-in attempts. One of them was The Lost Whirl. This film featured stop-motion animation by Joseph L. Roop, who worked on the original classic, The Lost World.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Curses
Overview: When Buttonshoe Bill steals some papers from Buckwheat Ben, and kidnaps Ben's daughter, Rodney Hemingway comes to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-16
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Lovemania
Overview: This is an unusual farce comedy combining all the fast action, speed and thrills of the slapstick with the surprises of the farce. Main actor and director Al St. John was the nephew of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and considered as a wonderful pantomimist and an acrobat. The film was actually directed anonymously by his uncle. Being part of a series called "Tuxedo Comedies", Lovemania was set up by producers like Jack White and Joseph Schenck so that Arbuckle could work behind the scenes, since he couldn't appear on screen due to his 1921 scandal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-24
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The Messenger Boy
Overview: Benny Rubin is a Messenger Boy who gets into trouble with everyone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-28
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Cyclone Cavalier
Overview: Handsome action star Reed Howes, the former "Arrow Collar Man," starred in this low-budget silent melodrama as an adventuresome Yankee who saves the duly elected president of a South American republic from being overthrown by his unscrupulous secretary. Having fallen in love with Rosita Gonzales (Carmelita Geraghty), the daughter of the president of Costa Blanca, Ted Clayton accidentally overhears El Diablo (Jack Mower) discussing a scheme to illegally take control of the government.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-28
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The Barber Shop
Overview: An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of sartorial skill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
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Secret Service of the Air
Overview: Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-04
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Million Dollar Legs
Overview: A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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His Taking Ways
Overview: His Taking Ways is one of four films made for Biff Comedies, owned by independent producer Samuel Bischoff. Al St. John plays a hearing-impaired burglar who bumbles his way through a suburban break-in. One wonders how a criminal of such incompetence could be responsible for a “200 per cent” increase in burglary, but the premise is just an excuse for St. John to obliviously destroy household furnishings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-02
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Stupid, but Brave
Overview: Impoverished "bum" gets a close shave from a menacing barber, then gets tangled up with a banana king, escaped convicts and marathon runners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-25
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Rapid Fire Romance
Overview: Former boxer Billy Sullivan as Tommy Oliver, a young fighter who joins a gang of crooks in order to save Marjorie Bonner, the innocent girlfriend of gang leader Johnny Sinclair.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-06
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Hollywouldn't
Overview: A free-wheeling satire on the Hollywood industry at the height of the silent era. The film was noted for its stunts, which were claimed to be done by the stars of the film, Johnny Sinclair and Billy Jones. They did slug it out without any safeguards, on the roof of the thirteen-story Taft Building in Hollywood, where a crowd (allegedly of 20,000) watched them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-10
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Overview: Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-09
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