The following is an overview of 1927 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
John Leslie Coogan was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films. Coogan's role in Charlie Chaplin's film The Kid (1921) made him one of the first child stars in the history of Hollywood.
Hollywood is a British television documentary miniseries produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV in 1980. Written and directed by film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, it explored the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and their cultural impact during the silent film era of the 1910s and '20s. At the 1981 BAFTA TV Awards, the series won for Best Original Television Music and was nominated for Best Factual Series, Best Film Editing and Best Graphics.
Barnes Reeves Eason, better known by his screen name B. Reeves Eason Jr. was an American silent film child actor. Billed as "Master Breezy Reeves Jr." and "Universal's Littlest Cowboy", and later also known as Breezy Eason Jr., he was the son of motion picture director and actor B. Reeves Eason and his wife, the actress Jimsy Maye.
William Reeves Eason, known as B. Reeves Eason, was an American film director, actor and screenwriter. His directorial output was limited mainly to low-budget westerns and action pictures, but it was as a second-unit director and action specialist that he was best known. He was famous for staging spectacular battle scenes in war films and action scenes in large-budget westerns, but he acquired the nickname "Breezy" for his "breezy" attitude towards safety while staging his sequences—during the famous cavalry charge at the end of Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), so many horses were killed or injured so severely that they had to be euthanized that both the public and Hollywood itself were outraged, resulting in the selection of the American Humane Society by the beleaguered studios to provide representatives on the sets of all films using animals to ensure their safety.
The Vanishing Legion is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film serial from Mascot, directed by Ford Beebe and B. Reeves Eason.
Hair-Trigger Burke is a 1917 American silent Western film starring Harry Carey.
The Secret Man is a 1917 American silent Western film, directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. Two of the five reels of the film survive at the Library of Congress film archive.
A Marked Man is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. It is considered to be a lost film.
The Phantom Riders is a 1918 silent American Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. The film is considered to be lost.
Wild Women is a 1918 American silent Western comedy film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. The film is considered to be lost.
Three Mounted Men is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. The film is considered to be lost.
Bullet Proof is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Harry Carey. It is not known whether the film currently survives, and it may be a lost film.
Human Stuff is a 1920 American silent Western film produced and released by Universal Pictures, directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Harry Carey. It is not known whether the film currently survives.
Blue Streak McCoy is a lost 1920 American silent Western film starring Harry Carey.
The Fox is a lost 1921 American silent Western film starring Harry Carey. Directed by Robert Thornby, it was produced and distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
Slide, Kelly, Slide is a 1927 American comedy film, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Edward Sedgwick, and starring William Haines, Sally O'Neil, and Harry Carey.
Shivering Spooks is a 1926 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 52nd Our Gang short subject to be released. One of the child actors, Johnny Downs, went on to become a successful character actor and starred with George Zucco in The Mad Monster (1942).
The Bugle Call is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Jackie Coogan and Claire Windsor, which was released on August 6, 1927.
Beloved Jim is a lost 1917 American silent drama film produced and released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It was directed by Stuart Paton and starred Priscilla Dean.
