Johnny Hines
Also Known As: John F. Hines, John Hines, Johnnie Hines, Mr. Hines
Biography: Johnny Hines was an American film actor, primarily playing in movies and short films in the silent era.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Golden, Colorado, USA
Birthday: July 25, 1895
Deathday: October 24, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Man's Woman
Overview: A 1917 silent drama film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-02
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The Dancer's Peril
Overview: The Grand Duke Alexis has been happy with his wife, Lola, formerly the queen of the St. Petersburg ballet, and their baby daughter, Vasta. But the lowering cloud that has always hung over them through the refusal of the Russian Court to recognize their marriage breaks when the Duke learns there is an intrigue against his wife's life.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-12
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The Crackerjack
Overview: A pickle salesman finds himself in the middle of a South American revolution, impersonating a rebel general and falling for the general's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-08
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The Weakness of Man
Overview: David Spencer (Holbrook Blinn) is a basically good man, but like all men he has a few character flaws. Alas, these flaws deepen into weaknesses, leading to disaster for Spencer and his lady love Janice Lane (Eleanor Woodruff).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-24
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Chinatown Charlie
Overview: A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-15
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The Studio Girl
Overview: The original play's French locale was changed to New England, where Celia Laird resides with her two overprotective aunts. When artist Frazer Ordway arrives in town, he falls in love with Celia -- much to the dismay of the aunts, who'd intended the girl to marry a local millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
Overview: Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confidence."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-09
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The Wright Idea
Overview: A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the “millionaire” is really an escapee from an asylum and the yacht is being used to smuggle illicit spirits by a gang of bootleggers. Can’t win ‘em all…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-05
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Don't Leave Home
Overview: Johnny Hines flies in from Chicago early to surprise wife Doris Phillips and their infant. Meanwhile, Miss Phillips is preparing to take the baby with her to see Hines in Chicago. When he arrives home, there's a note that she's left, so Hines takes the baby to a hotel, setting off the usual series of misunderstanding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-28
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The Runaround
Overview: Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged in by her fellow chorines
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-21
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Too Hot to Handle
Overview: While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he manages to hire her as his assistant. During an adventurous expedition through the jungles of South America, her opinion of him begins to change.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-16
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The Power and the Glory
Overview: In order to help her poverty-stricken family, Jonnie Consadine, a strong-willed young woman from the Blue Ridge Mountains, comes to the city and takes a job in a mill, while her uncle, Pros Passmore, continues his endless search for a lost silver mine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-02
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The Circus: Premiere
Overview: Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Yankee Pluck
Overview: Once a wealthy man, John Pollard now resides in reduced circumstances in Washington, D.C. with his pretty daughter Polly. Despite the poor conditions, Polly manages to move in good social circles and meets multimillionaire George Singleton and Lieutenant Richard Travers, at the home of Mrs. Madison Derwent. Also at the Derwent mansion is Baron Wootchi, a Japanese diplomat trying to obtain valuable plans that are in Travers' possession. Old Pollard owes Singleton money and tries to persuade his daughter to marry the millionaire. Polly refuses and accepts Travers' proposal instead, until her father informs her that Singleton can seize their house unless Polly pays off the debt by becoming his wife. Meanwhile the Baron offers Pollard $50,000 to produce the documents in Travers' keeping. Pollard steals the papers and goes to a roadhouse to turn them over to the Baron. Discovering the theft, Polly follows and confronts the Baron at gunpoint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-21
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The Brown Derby
Overview: Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex. One day he learns that an eccentric uncle has died, leaving him a brown derby said to bring good luck to its wearer. Meanwhile Edith Worthing and her Aunt Anna are expecting Edith's wealthy uncle, Adolph Plummer, from Australia. On a call to their house, Tommy is mistaken for the uncle, being announced as "a plumber," and soon a mutual romance develops with Edith. They are wedded by mistake when serving as witnesses to marriage by elopement. Farrell, a rival for Edith, learns of Tommy's deception and persuades Edith to elope with him; but Tommy follows in hot pursuit, in his pajamas and derby. At the last minute, a message arrives telling Edith that she and Tommy are already married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-04
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Society Doctor
Overview: Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-25
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The Live Wire
Overview: The Great Maranelli, a stunting circus clown, falls instantly in love when he sees Dorothy Langdon, who does not think too much of him and lets him know it. He is so smitten that his works suffers to the extent that he is soon just a hobo drifting along the open road. When he again encounters Dorothy, she gets him a job as a salesman with her father's light-and-power company, and proves to be a a real "live-wire" salesman. He is then put in charge of the lighting in an amusement park being built under Dorothy's supervision, and trouble comes many directions, guided by Dorothy's cad fiancée who wants to make the stock in the project worthless so he can buy it cheaply.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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Alias Jimmy Valentine
Overview: After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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Whistling in the Dark
Overview: A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
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The Early Bird
Overview: An idealistic milkman, Jimmy Burke, organizes the independents to combat the milk trust. Jimmy discovers that George Fairchild is conspiring to poison the independent milk supply.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Conductor 1492
Overview: A young Irish immigrant gets a job as a conductor on a streetcar and fights off an attempt by crooks to take over the company, all the while pursuing the boss' beautiful daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-12
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Eastward Ho!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-23
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Luck
Overview: A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-01
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Tillie Wakes Up
Overview: Tillie and her neighbor Mr. Pipkins are both distraught over their respective marriages. One day, they sneak off to have a lively time at Coney Island. They flee the park together just as their spouses come to find them. After a chase, each is rescued from the ocean and reconcile with their respective spouses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-29
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The Girl in 419
Overview: A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-26
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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Overview: Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him the carefree life.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-01
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Stepping Along
Overview: Johnny Rooney is a fast-stepping young politician and Molly Taylor is an even faster-stepping showgirl in "George White's Scandals" in a tale of New York City's theatrical and political life during prohibition and the jazz-age.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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How to Hold Your Husband - BACK
Overview: In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-30
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Her Bodyguard
Overview: The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring. However, soon the bodyguard and the star begin to become attracted to each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-21
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The Cub
Overview: This breezy comedy is about a cub newspaper reporter who goes to investigate a family feud, which has erupted into violence again—a parody of the real Hatfield-McCoy feud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-15
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The Speed Spook
Overview: An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-30
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A Girl's Folly
Overview: A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-26
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Rhythm Racketeer
Overview: A Chicago gangster steals jewels and frames his band leader double.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Little Johnny Jones
Overview: Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart in order to make Johnny throw the race. Will he succeed?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-12
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Miss Petticoats
Overview: Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-31
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Torchy's Millions
Overview: A 1920 silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-03
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Sure-Fire Flint
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-25
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Three Green Eyes
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-28
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The Golden Wall
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-15
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All Man
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-04
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Man of the Hour
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-12
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The Little Miss Brown
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-07
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The Arrival of Perpetua
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-29
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Neighbors
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-29
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A Price for Folly
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-13
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