Howard Truesdale
Also Known As: Howard Truesdell, Howard Truedell, Howard Truesdall
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Conneautville, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: January 03, 1861
Deathday: December 08, 1941
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Burning Daylight
Overview: Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-10
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Go West
Overview: With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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The Tigress
Overview: In Spain, a band of gypsies poach the deer in a neighboring estate. The gypsy chief, Tser (Harold Truesdale), is murdered in cold blood, and the estate owner Winston Graham (Jack Holt) is blamed. The chief's daughter Mona (Dorothy Revier) is an expert knife-thrower and sets out to avenge her father.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-21
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The Pretenders
Overview: Upon striking oil on his farm, Silas T. Pettingill (Charles Eldridge) moves to Park Avenue at the behest of his social-climbing wife Maria (Kate Blancke) and daughter Helen (Emmy Wehlen). But like Jiggs in the comic strip, Pettingill never loses his common touch, and one evening he goes out on a toot with his new chauffeur Hubert Stanwood (Paul Gordon).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-21
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The Denver Dude
Overview: A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress a pretty young girl. He sees that a citified "dandy" is also after the girl, and the dude seems to be scoring some points with his "civilized" demeanor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-13
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Ride for Your Life
Overview: Bud Watkins loses his ranch and savings to gambling house proprietor "Gentlemen Jim" Slade. The Cocopah Kid, a notorious bandit, lures away Betsy Burke, Bud's sweetheart and the daughter of the local sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-25
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The Long, Long Trail
Overview: Its time for the big race and its the Rambling Kid riding Dynamite versus Wilson's horse Thunderbolt. When Gyp informs Wilson that Lightning is faster, Wilson has Gyp drug the Kid's coffee just before the race.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-26
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The Combat
Overview: Blaze Burke, rough-and-ready lumberjack, is promised the job of camp boss if he eliminates a gang of lumber poachers. He is doublecrossed and the job goes to Milton Symmons, the employer's nephew.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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What Women Want
Overview: During World War I, Francine D'Espard, a young French woman, meets William Holliday, a U.S. Army officer at the front, and they become engaged. Returning to America, William finds his father at the mercy of his business rival, Ezekiel Bates. Shortly after, when Francine arrives in America to marry her fiancé, she is informed that her lover is about to marry Bates's daughter Susan. Her love now turning to hate, Francine devotes herself to the task of destroying her former suitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Singed
Overview: Dance-hall girl Dolly Wall invests her life savings in an oil well. A gusher comes in, enriching not only Dolly but her ne'er-do-well socialite sweetheart Royce Wingate. While Wingate hobnobs with the Upper Crust, poor Dolly is left home alone, stigmatized by her "scandalous" past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-23
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The Upheaval
Overview: Young Jim takes over from his father, political boss Jim Gordon Sr. As ruthless and unfeeling as his dad, Young Jim blocks the efforts by a crusading newspaper to bring about reforms in the city's tenement district. But he comes to regret his intransigence when his father is ruined financially.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-28
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A Corner in Cotton
Overview: Peggy Ainslee, the daughter of a wealthy broker, tires of the empty life of society, and determines on a mission of charity and uplift in the poor quarters of New York City
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-21
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A Trick of Hearts
Overview: In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek as he goes up against a town run by such women as newly elected sheriff, Carrie Patience. Hoping to restore some masculinity to the sheriff's office, Gibson stages a series of fake hold-ups but is soon upstaged by a real crook
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-18
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Out of Luck
Overview: Believing he has committed murder, Sam Pertune, a simple westerner, enlists in the Navy, then cannot get released when he learns that his "victim" is alive.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-23
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The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
Overview: After 15 years of searching, Bud Watkins finally has his revenge on the cattlemen's gunman who killed his homesteader foster father, Pop Watkins. Bud finds refuge from the sheriff at the ranch of The Spider, falls in love with the bandit's daughter, "Miss," and is betrayed to the sheriff by his rival, Steve Lanning. In an attempt to escape, Miss is shot and Bud risks discovery to get a doctor from town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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Ashes of Vengeance
Overview: This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-06
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French Heels
Overview: Returning from France after the war, John Tabor informs Palma May of her brother's death and offers the penniless girl his help, but she refuses it, preferring to work as a cabaret dancer. Later, John and Palma meet again, marry, and go west to manage a lumber camp, as instructed by John's wealthy father, Jarvis Tabor. Displeased by John's choice of wife, the elder Tabor tests the couple with difficult living conditions, which eventually discourage Palma, and she accepts the party invitation of Keith Merwyn, manager of the cabaret where she starred. Meanwhile, Merwyn effects a disturbance among the lumbermen, endangering John.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-29
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The Lawless Legion
Overview: Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the area's cattle.
Genres: Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-17
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Bolshevism on Trial
Overview: Society melodrama about a wealthy father who purchases an island to prove to his son that communism won't work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-19
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Overview: Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-06
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The Panic Is On
Overview: Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his rent and nearly everyone he meets is down on their luck. After reading a "how to" book on the power of a forceful will, Charley applies the lessons with mixed results, but he does land a job that includes delivering a shake-down letter to his girlfriend's father. Is the naïve Charley going to end up in jail?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-14
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The Dude Cowboy
Overview: A rancher, smitten with a pretty young girl he meets, hires himself out to her as a chauffeur, only to find out that she's on her way to his ranch. In order not to look foolish he keeps up the pretense, but his crooked ranch foreman eventually brings matters to a head.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-30
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The Good for Nothing
Overview: A social comedy in which the young Dick Evans is seen as a failure, and then tries to prove himself to his father and father-in-law as an editor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-18
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The Stolen Ranch
Overview: Returning home from the Great War, "Breezy" Hart (Fred Humes) and his shell-shocked buddy Frank Wilcox (Ralph McCullough) discover the Wilcox property in the hands of evil Sam Hardy (William Norton Bailey). Frank, who is the rightful heir to the ranch, goes into hiding, while "Breezy" takes a job in the ranch kitchen. Learning of Frank's whereabouts, Hardy plots to have the young heir killed. Luckily, Breezy overhears the villain plotting with his henchmen and is able to rescue his friend. Hardy and his men are arrested, and Frank, now cured of his illness, is reunited with his girl, June Marston (Nita Cavalier). Breezy, meanwhile, is busy romancing his kitchen staff colleague, Mary Jane (Louise Lorraine).
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-26
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The Wonderful Thing
Overview: A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-07
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Why Men Leave Home
Overview: John and Irene Emerson's marriage begins well enough, but it is not long before John becomes less attentive. Feeling neglected, Irene spends more time with her girl friends, and John, consequently, falls prey to the vamping wiles of his secretary, Jean Ralston. When John comes home from the theater smelling of Jean's perfume, Irene procures a divorce; John then marries Jean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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Suspense
Overview: When government security files entrusted to a Rear Admiral go missing, his daughter aims to track them down.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Christopher Columbus
Overview: Everyone knows what happened after he "discovered" America, but in this film we learn about Columbus' multi-year struggle to secure funding for the journey. Prior explorers journey's to the North American continent also get a nod in this story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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Youthful Folly
Overview: Nancy is a restless young girl tired of living on a plantation with her three old-maid aunts. Her life brightens when her cousin Lola comes visiting from New York. What she doesn't know is that Lola is fleeing a scandal that erupted when she was caught running around on her husband with her lover, David. It's not long before David comes looking for her, and Nancy falls in love with him. Lola sees a way out of her problem--if she can get Nancy and David to hook up, it will take the heat off of her. Nancy's aunts, who want to get rid of her, are all for the plan, and soon Nancy and David get married. However, things don't quite work out for everyone the way they planned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-08
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Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-06
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The Night Message
Overview: The Lefferts-Longstreet feud is renewed when young Harney Lefferts is shot accidentally by Lem Beeman, telegraph operator and suitor of Elsie Lefferts. Evidence points to Lee Longstreet, Elsie's true love, and Beeman does not confess until Lee is tried, convicted, and sentenced to die.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-17
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