The following is an overview of 1929 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1924 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.
Christopher Allen Lloyd is an American actor. He has appeared in many theater productions, films, and on television since the 1960s. He is known for portraying Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990) and Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series Taxi (1978–1983), for which he won two Emmy Awards.
Ruth Roland was an American stage and film actress and film producer.
Marshall Ambrose "Mickey" Neilan was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, whose work in films began in the early silent era.
Lloyd Vernon Hamilton was an American film comedian, best remembered for his work in the silent era.
The Show of Shows is a 1929 American pre-Code musical revue film directed by John G. Adolfi and distributed by Warner Bros. The all-talking Vitaphone production cost almost $800,000 and was shot almost entirely in Technicolor.
Ruth Hiatt was an American actress in motion pictures beginning in the silent film era. She is best known for performing in 1920s comedies directed by Jack White, Norman Taurog, and Mack Sennett.
Dollar Down is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Tod Browning. A print in the UCLA Film and Television Archive has one of its six reels missing. Filmed in April 1924 at the F.B.O Studios in Santa Monica, California, Dollar Down was the first of two features produced by star Ruth Roland and Browning's production company, Co-Artists Productions.
The Battle of the Sexes is a 1928 American comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Jean Hersholt, Phyllis Haver, Belle Bennett, Don Alvarado, and Sally O'Neil, and released by United Artists. The film was a remake by Griffith of an earlier film he directed in 1914, which starred Lillian Gish. Both films are based on the novel The Single Standard by Daniel Carson Goodman; the story was adapted for this production by Gerrit J. Lloyd.
Shorty Hamilton was an American actor and silent film comedian who appeared in more than 80 films, mostly westerns, from 1909 to 1925. His birth name was William John Schroeder, and he was also known as "Jack Hamilton." He had served in the United States Cavalry for several years and worked as a cowboy in Montana and Texas. He was best known for the "Adventures of Shorty" series of two-reel silent films that were released from 1912 to 1917.
The Last of the Duanes is a 1930 American pre-Code Western film produced and released by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Alfred L. Werker, and starring George O'Brien, Lucile Browne and Myrna Loy.
Ruth of the Range is a fifteen episode American adventure film serial starring Ruth Roland, in which a young woman attempts to rescue her father from a gang that has kidnapped him in order to find out his secret for making "Fuelite," a substitute for coal. The film was the final feature created by scenarist Gilson Willets for Pathe Productions, and is now thought to be a lost film.
Ruth Findlay was an American stage actress active over the early decades of the 20th century.
A Self-Made Failure is a 1924 American silent comedy film distributed by Associated First National Pictures, later First National Pictures. It was directed by William Beaudine and starred silent comic Lloyd Hamilton and then child actor Ben Alexander. At the time it was released, it one of the longest comedy features ever made.
Colonel Custard's Last Stand is a 1914 one-reel silent movie comedy about Custer's Last Stand and starred Lloyd Hamilton as Colonel Custard and featured Betty Burbridge, James Douglass, Harry Russell and Mai Wells. The film was directed by Richard Garrick and was released on 19 March 1914.
Hal Clements was an actor and director of silent films in the U.S. He starred in dozens of silent films. He married writer Olga Printzlau.
The Girl Bandits' Hoodoo is a lost 1912 silent film, a "Western comedy" produced by the Kalem Company of New York City at its West Coast studio in Santa Monica, California. The motion picture starred Ruth Roland and Marin Sais in the title roles with support from Edward Coxen.
