Thomas Commerford

Acting

Thomas Commerford

Born August 1, 1855 · New York City, New York, USA

Died February 17, 1920 · aged 64

No biography available.

Known For

FraudsFrauds · 1915
Frauds
8.01915
MovieDrama
Zelda Dunbar, a detective, on the trail of two notorious blackmailers, offers herself as their accomplice and is accepted by Eldridge and Mortimer. Zelda wins the heart of Kendrick, a rich bachelor. Zelda slips Kendrick a note saying her father is going to force her to marry a man she does not love. Kendrick takes the girl into another state.
The UnderstudyThe Understudy · 1913
The Understudy
10.01913
MovieDrama
Stella Le Vere, an ambitious but struggling actress, is abandoned by her husband and is forced to leave her baby girl, Grace, in the care of an orphan asylum. Later, the child is adopted by a well-to-do and kindly family named Thornton, who bring Grace up in ignorance of her identity.
A Freight Train DramaA Freight Train Drama · 1912
A Freight Train Drama
4.71912
Movie
Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want to derail an express train.
The False OrderThe False Order · 1913
The False Order
8.01913
MovieDrama
The sensational crux of jealous revenge in "The False Order" is a head-on collision of two enormous locomotives. A realistic effect that heavily discounts any stage device ever materialized to thrill.
The Hobo's Rest CureThe Hobo's Rest Cure · 1912
The Hobo's Rest Cure
7.01912
MovieComedy
Bill Grogan, a happy hobo, having successfully eluded all sorts of allurements to go to work and having discharged himself from several easy jobs after numerous attempts to get painlessly injured, frightens a chauffeur into believing that he had been injured by a baby carriage. Eventually he reaches the limit of his restful ambition by getting a cot in a hospital.
The Fire CopThe Fire Cop · 1912
The Fire Cop
9.01912
MovieDrama
Andy Brannigan was a good-natured policeman, large of frame, but limited in nerve. He has, however, been very successful in posing as a hero, and deceives all but his wife, who laughs at him when he tells her that he has been awarded a medal for bravery.
The Sting of VictoryThe Sting of Victory · 1916
The Sting of Victory
1916
MovieDramaWar
David Whiting belongs to a fine old aristocratic family of the south and is an officer in the United States Army. He believes in the Union and he is opposed to slavery. When the Civil War breaks out he frees his personal slaves and joins his regiment to fight for the north.
GraustarkGraustark · 1915
Graustark
1915
MovieAdventure
While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through the mountains and finally catch it. They travel to Washington and have a great time, but they soon part. They meet again later in the small European country of Graustark, where Grenfall and his friend Harry rescue her from kidnappers, and they then discover that she is actually the country's Princess Yetiva. She is engaged to Prinze Lorenz of Asphan in order to pay off Graustark's enormous debt from the war, but Lorenz is murdered and Grenfall is framed for the crime. Complications ensue.

Filmography

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The Fable of the 'People's Choice Who Answered the Call of Duty and Took Seltzer'The Fable of the 'People's Choice Who Answered the Call of Duty and Took Seltzer' · 1914
The Fable of the 'People's Choice Who Answered the Call of Duty and Took Seltzer'
1914
MovieComedy
The political bosses knew it was an off year and they needed a Goat to run for City Clerk. They didn't want a regular guy to get "stepped on," so they started out to find a Fish. They found a nice man who ran a feed store and had lots of coin, so they pounced on him. Mr. Bolivar was his name and he drank malted milk and said "whom" and did everything that was nice. They jollied him until he really thought that he was the man for the position, and when his wife tried to save the poor simp, he only said he must answer the call of duty, that the Peepul wanted him. He sometimes wondered if the other fellow would get any votes at all. Little by little the bosses were drawing on his bank account, and on the night of election he was broke. He lost the fight by 20,000 votes, and when he looked for his pushers, they had skipped.

Patsy Bollivar

The Little SamaritanThe Little Samaritan · 1916
The Little Samaritan
9.01916
MovieDrama
On the morning of her 11th birthday, Joyce reads in one of her gift books that she should perform a good deed. After giving the $5 gift to an old man in the park her mother reprimands her and warns her that old men steal little girls. She goes to the park the next day to see if this is true. Her old friend assures her it isn’t, and she invites him to come to her home. Hiding him in the attic she hears the story of how he left his little girl with friends’ years before, and when he returned, all trace of her had been lost. When Joyce’s parents return the old man recognizes Mrs. Farley as his long-lost daughter much to the delight of all except Joyce, who pouts that she can have nothing of her own without others sharing it. So, she invites a host of human derelicts in to dine, insisting that they too have lost their little girls.

Joyce's Grandfather