Biography
Popular Hollywood leading man of late silents and early talkies. He is best remembered for his teaming with Janet Gaynor in 12 screen romances between 1927 and 1934. He retired from films in the early 1940s, but TV audiences of the 1950s would see him as Gale Storm's widower dad in the popular television series My Little Margie (1952).
Acted in 48
1940s
- 1941
The Deadly Game
Barry Scott
1930s
- 1939
Tail Spin
Bud
- 1938
Just Around the Corner
Jeff Hale
Flight to Fame
Capt. Robert Lawrence
- 1937
Midnight Menace
Briant Gaunt
Moonlight Sonata
Eric Molander
- 1935
Fighting Youth
Larry Davis
Forbidden Heaven
Mr. Archer / Nibs
- 1934
Change of Heart
Chris Thring
The Big Shakedown
Jimmy Morrell
- 1933
Girl Without a Room
Tom Duncan
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
Adoniram 'Schlumpy' Schlump / Red Branahan
- 1932
Tess of the Storm Country
Frederick Garfield Jr.
Wild Girl
Billy, the Stranger
The First Year
Tommy Tucker
After Tomorrow
Peter Piper
- 1931
Delicious
Larry Beaumont
Heartbreak
John Merrick
Merely Mary Ann
John Lonsdale
The Flying Fool
Ponder
Body and Soul
Mal Andrews
The Man Who Came Back
Stephen Randolph
- 1930
The Princess and the Plumber
Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers
Liliom
Liliom
High Society Blues
Eddie Granger
Song of Soho
Legionnaire
1920s
- 1929
Sunny Side Up
Jack Cromwell
The River
Allen John Spender
Happy Days
Charles Farrell
Lucky Star
Timothy Osborn
- 1928
The Red Dance
Grand Duke Eugen
Street Angel
Gino
- 1927
The Rough Riders
Stewart Van Brunt
- 1926
Old Ironsides
Boy
A Trip to Chinatown
Gayne Wilder
Sandy
Timmy
The Gosh-Darn Mortgage
Joe Hoskins
- 1925
Clash of the Wolves
Dave Weston
- 1924
Three Women
Reveler at Monkey Bar
- 1923
Rosita
Undetermined Bit Role (uncredited)
