T. Roy Barnes
Also Known As: Thomas Roy Barnes
Biography: Barnes appeared in over 50 films between 1920 and 1935, primarily in comedies. Barnes started his show career in vaudeville later turning to stage and film acting. During the 1920s, he often played "brash young go-getters" in supporting and leading roles. He’s best known for his roles as Buster Keaton's business partner Billy Meekin in Seven Chances (1925) and in W. C. Fields' comedy It's a Gift (1934), portraying an inquisitive Insurance Salesman. He retired from movies in 1935 and died two years later.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lincolnshire, England, UK
Birthday: August 11, 1880
Deathday: March 30, 1937
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Gender: Male
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Seven Chances
Overview: Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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It's a Gift
Overview: After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Overview: Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-01
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How's My Baby?
Overview: 1930 Comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-22
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Sally
Overview: Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Working as a waitress, she serves Blair (Alexander Gray), and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to socialite Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phoney. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has a show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-12
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A Blonde for a Night
Overview: After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-25
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Wide Open
Overview: An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Village Tale
Overview: The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-15
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Kansas City Princess
Overview: Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-14
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A Trip to Paramountown
Overview: Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-10
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The Unknown Cavalier
Overview: Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds. The villain, as it turns out, is none other than Henry Suggs (James Mason), heretofore considered a pillar of the community.....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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Chicago
Overview: Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for Kander/Ebb's 1975 Broadway musical of the same name and its Oscar-winning 2002 film adaptation.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-23
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Souls for Sale
Overview: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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Adam and Eva
Overview: An extravagant girl reforms when her father goes bust.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-11
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Body and Soul
Overview: A disgraced alcoholic surgeon settles in a small village in the Swiss Alps. He falls for Hilda, a servant at the hotel where he lives. He tricks her into marrying him by making her think her lover, Ruffo, has abandoned her. Things don't go quite as planned, however, when Ruffo returns.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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Aloha
Overview: In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-26
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Women of All Nations
Overview: Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-31
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Dangerous Curves
Overview: A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-12
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The Four Star Boarder
Overview: In an effort to appease his wife's wealthy aunt (Grace Goodall), newly-wed Charley must masquerade as a boarder in his own home while his wife (Constance Bergen) pretends to be married to an old beau (T. Roy Barnes).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-26
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Life Begins at Forty
Overview: A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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Doubting Thomas
Overview: A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-10
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Carnival
Overview: "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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The Crowded Hour
Overview: Telephone operator Peggy, puts on an act with Matt Wilde at a Bowery amateur night and is seen by Billy Laidlaw, who becomes convinced of her talents. Billy subsequently arranges for the Broadway debut of the act and falls in love with Peggy, who wholeheartedly returns his affection. When the World War breaks out, Billy remains unconcerned until his younger brother is killed in action. Billy then immediately enlists and is sent to France; Peggy joins the Red Cross to be with him, and Grace Laidlaw, Billy's wife, also goes to France, working with the Y. M. C. A. Billy is assigned to destroy an ammunition dump, and Peggy learns, after he has left on the mission, that he has been recalled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-20
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The Great White Way
Overview: Comic boxing tale was used as the basis for the 1936 Clark Gable/Marion Davies lark Cain & Mabel.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-03
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So Long Letty
Overview: Harry Miller is a "natural-born mixer" while his wife Grace is a homebody, distressed by her husband's errant ways. Grace finds a kindred spirit in Tommy Robbins, who lives in an adjoining bungalow and whose wife Letty is devoted to the cabarets. Harry admires Letty as much as Tommy admires Grace, and suggests to his neighbor that they arrange an exchange of wives. The wives overhear their husbands' plotting to obtain divorces and, still in love with the men they married, conceive a counter-plan of a week of platonic trial marriages. Over the seven-day period, the wives make life so miserable for each other's husbands that the two men gladly return to their respective spouses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-17
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Reckless Romance
Overview: Jerry Warner (Barnes) and Edith Somers (Breamer) are in love, but her father Judge Somers (Marshall) will not allow them to marry because he sees Jerry as a poor prospect. When Jerry's uncle sends him ten thousand dollars to set up a business Judge Somers tells him if he has that money at the end of six months, he can marry Edith. After several close calls all turns out all right for the lovebirds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-09
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Young Ideas
Overview: Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has virtually become a drudge in order to support her sponging relatives -- flapper sister Eloise (Lucille Ricksen), hypochondriac Aunt Minnie (Lydia Yeamans Titus), and storytelling Uncle Eph (James O. Barrows). Only Octavia's frail grandmother (Jennie Lee) really needs help. When Octavia's sweetheart, photographer Pritchett Spence (T. Roy Barnes), discovers the toll these bloodsuckers are exacting, he plots with the family doctor to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-07
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The Old Homestead
Overview: Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-08
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Ladies of Leisure
Overview: Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her. Mamie is saved from suicide by Eric, who's in a compromising position when he brings her home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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A Regular Scout
Overview: Silent cowboy western about a man on a mission to exact revenge on the gang who, he feels, are responsible for his mother's death, after their raid. Upon discovering that one of the gang members killed in the raid was the long-lost son of the Monroe family, so he decides to impersonate him to exact his revenge on the their family.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-26
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Butterfly
Overview: Silent Feature Film by Clarence Brown
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-11
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The Go-Getter
Overview: Bill Peck is discharged from an army hospital and goes in search of a job. Cappy Ricks hires Bill, but gives him an seemingly impossible test of finding and buying a particular blue vase to prove he can handle a challenging job in China.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-08
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