Jack Ackroyd

Acting

Jack Ackroyd

Born June 5, 1889 · Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Died November 16, 1962 · aged 73

No biography available.

Known For

No VacanciesNo Vacancies · 1923
No Vacancies
1923
MovieComedy
Arrow comedy shot in 1921 but released 2 years later, with an ensemble cast including Jay Belasco, Blanche Payson, Billy Armstrong and Jack Duffy. The plot centers around Jack and his wife who are looking for a place to rent. But what to do when the housing situation is not exactly easy?
365 Days365 Days · 1922
365 Days
8.01922
MovieComedy
A very rich old man promises to leave his extended family his fortune if they all move in together and get along for one year.
SmithySmithy · 1924
Smithy
5.81924
MovieComedy
After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employment. He finds a job on a construction site, where he helps to build a house, and soon causes havoc amongst the other workers. The construction company owner leaves for a week, and tells his secretary to send a letter to Mr. Smith telling him to complete the construction of the house while he (the owner) is away. The letter is accidently sent to Smithy who manages to complete the house. When the owner returns the house is complete, and Smithy is commended until the last support beam is removed...
Hard KnocksHard Knocks · 1924
Hard Knocks
6.81924
MovieComedy
A man tries to win over the daughter of his boss.
Postage DuePostage Due · 1924
Postage Due
6.31924
MovieComedy
Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery after hearing a remark by a postal inspector that the absence of the stamp makes the card a criminal offense for the sender. In the course of his struggles he swims through "oceans" of mail, rides up and down chutes, gets tied up in a mail bag and finally finds himself locked in a delivery truck with two thieves.
Finger PrintsFinger Prints · 1922
Finger Prints
10.01922
MovieDramaMystery
A string of valuable pearls provides the motivation for the murder of Wareing, a widowed banker, who intended them for his daughter, Mary. She is comforted by Barton, a criminologist and friend of her late father, who appears to have left his financial affairs in a terrible state. Meanwhile, Mary's fiancé works diligently to identify the murderer. Although the criminologist places the blame on Wareing's butler, a reformed burglar, the killer is finally revealed to be Barton himself.
The Better 'OleThe Better 'Ole · 1926
The Better 'Ole
5.71926
MovieComedyDrama
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
The Dawn PatrolThe Dawn Patrol · 1930
The Dawn Patrol
6.61930
MovieWarDrama
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.

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Isle of EscapeIsle of Escape · 1930
Isle of Escape
6.51930
MovieDrama
On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smuggled by Shane, the principal trader and virtual dictator of the island. Dave Wade, exhausted from the heat, lands on the shore near the hotel and reports having escaped from a nearby cannibal island. Stella has her servants, Manua and Loru, care for him, but Shane, to whom she is married but with whom she has never lived, orders him taken to his house, intent on stealing his gold. In a drunken orgy, Shane takes the gold, provoking a fight in which Stella aids Wade. When Ma Blackney dies and Stella recovers the gold, she suggests they go to another island and establish a trading business; but because of a misunderstanding, Stella is kidnaped by the natives and taken to the cannibal island. Disregarding their differences, Wade and Shane join forces and go to the island; Shane sacrifices himself to stall the cannibals while Stella and Wade flee to the sea.

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The Cruise of the Jasper BThe Cruise of the Jasper B · 1926
The Cruise of the Jasper B
7.21926
MovieRomanceComedy
The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggert, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday-- otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune. Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when Jerry's cousin, the dastardly lawyer Reginald Maltravers claims Agatha as his own. The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.

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