Acting
Horace B. Carpenter
Born January 31, 1875 · Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, USA
Died May 21, 1945 · aged 70
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Horace B. Carpenter (January 31, 1875 – May 21, 1945) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He appeared in 334 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934.
Known For
Gone with the Wind · 1939Gone with the Wind
★ 7.91939
MovieDramaWar
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Foreign Correspondent · 1940Foreign Correspondent
★ 7.01940
MovieThrillerMystery
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Maniac · 1934Maniac
★ 4.01934
MovieHorror
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Cleopatra · 1934Cleopatra
★ 6.11934
MovieHistoryDrama
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
Along Came Jones · 1945Along Came Jones
★ 5.81945
MovieWesternComedy
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Dark Command · 1940Dark Command
★ 6.41940
MovieDramaRomance
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
Dodge City · 1939Dodge City
★ 6.91939
MovieWestern
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Dodsworth · 1936Dodsworth
★ 7.11936
MovieDramaRomance
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Movies
Gone with the Wind · 1939Gone with the Wind
★ 7.91939
MovieDramaWar
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Foreign Correspondent · 1940Foreign Correspondent
★ 7.01940
MovieThrillerMystery
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Maniac · 1934Maniac
★ 4.01934
MovieHorror
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Cleopatra · 1934Cleopatra
★ 6.11934
MovieHistoryDrama
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
Along Came Jones · 1945Along Came Jones
★ 5.81945
MovieWesternComedy
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Dark Command · 1940Dark Command
★ 6.41940
MovieDramaRomance
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
Dodge City · 1939Dodge City
★ 6.91939
MovieWestern
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
Dodsworth · 1936Dodsworth
★ 7.11936
MovieDramaRomance
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Young Blood · 1932Young Blood
★ 10.01932
MovieWestern
A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
Paroled - To Die · 1938Paroled - To Die
★ 5.01938
MovieActionWestern
Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's bandana, he has his gang rob his bank and uses the bandana to frame Doug. When Doug is convicted but immediately paroled, Meline has another plan that he thinks will put him away permanently.
The Silent Stranger · 1924The Silent Stranger
★ 9.01924
MovieDramaWestern
Supposedly a deaf-mute, Jack Taylor arrives in Valley City at the same time that Postmaster Dad Warner is threatened with the loss of his job because of the many recent mail thefts. Taylor suspects Warner's clerk, Law Sleeman, and is consequently captured by a gang led by local politician Dick Blackwell.
The Sowers · 1916The Sowers
1916
MovieDrama
Headed by a young nobleman, the Russian League of Freedom determines to free the peasants from oppression by the government. Prince Paul Alexis is in love with Karin Dolokhof, daughter of the chancellor. Both are working for the league. Shortly after they announce their engagement the prince receives word from the Czar that he must marry the Princess Tanya, for political reasons.
Riders of the Rio · 1931Riders of the Rio
★ 10.01931
MovieDramaWestern
Two ranchers are rivals not only over cattle but also over a beautiful young Mexican girl.
Arizona Round-Up · 1942Arizona Round-Up
★ 5.61942
MovieActionWestern
Tom Kenyon and his sidekick Pierre La Farge are hired by rancher Mike O'Day who, with his daughters Toni and Sugar, provides wild horses for the government remount station.
For the Defense · 1916For the Defense
1916
MovieDrama
Two playboys stumble drunkenly home, where the owner falls asleep and the other attacks the maid. The butler intervenes and a fight results in the death of the assailant. A French girl, escaping from a pimp who kidnapped her, witnesses the crime. The butler convinces his master he is the killer, and must flee. He joins the girl but is caught. She helps police expose the real killer by going undercover as another maid.
Rollin' Plains · 1938Rollin' Plains
★ 9.01938
MovieActionWestern
It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the respected town citizen Barrow is the boss and is tipping off the gang as to the Ranger's activities.
Belle of the Yukon · 1944Belle of the Yukon
★ 5.81944
MovieWesternComedy
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
Blue Steel · 1934Blue Steel
★ 4.81934
MovieWesternAction
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.
All That Money Can Buy · 1941All That Money Can Buy
★ 7.01941
MovieDramaFantasy
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
The Great Man's Lady · 1941The Great Man's Lady
★ 6.31941
MovieWesternDrama
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
In Old California · 1942In Old California
★ 5.31942
MovieActionRomance
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Riders of Destiny · 1933Riders of Destiny
★ 5.31933
MovieActionWestern
James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Government agent Sandy Saunders arrives undercover to investigate Kincaid's land swindle scheme, and win the heart of one of his victims, Fay Denton.
The Sons of the Pioneers · 1942The Sons of the Pioneers
★ 9.01942
MovieWesternMusic
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
Return of the Ape Man · 1944Return of the Ape Man
★ 5.61944
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.