Joseph J. Dowling
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6148 |
| Birthday | 1850-09-03 |
| Place of Birth | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As | Joseph Johnson Dowling, |
1919
The Midnight Stage
8/1
In this Western, Frank Keenan has a dual role -- kind-hearted gambler John Lynch and evil bandit Big Rivers. The only person who realizes there is a r...
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The Midnight Stage
1919
Josselyn's Wife
7/1
Bessie Barriscale and Nigel Barrie play Ellen and Gibbs Josselyn, a young married couple who have spent several years in Europe while Gibbs, an artist...
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Josselyn's Wife
1919
Kitty Kelly, M.D.
8/1
Kitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up business in a Western mining camp. Because she is pre...
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Kitty Kelly, M.D.
1922
The Infidel
8/1
Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom -- her father -- was so cruel that he drove her m...
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The Infidel
1921
The Grim Comedian
9/1
Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her daughter, Dorothy (Gloria Hope) sequestered in a co...
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The Grim Comedian
1919
The Lord Loves the Irish
7/1
Miles Machree (J. Warren Kerrigan) meets Irish-American Sheila Lynch (Fritzi Brunette) when she travels through Ireland with her father (James O. Barr...
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The Lord Loves the Irish
1924
Unseen Hands
10/1
A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for saving her. Unbeknown to the wife, Scholast is a f...
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Unseen Hands
1917
Master of His Home
10/1
Unhappy with her daughter's choice to marry a miner instead of her choice, a man of wealth, a mother tries to convince her daughter to get an abortion...
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Master of His Home
1922
One Clear Call
7/1
An outcast who runs a road house of ill repute leads his mother to believe him dead. His only friend, a doctor, falls for a married woman.
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One Clear Call
1919
A Man's Country
8/1
Dance-hall queen Kate Carewe is the toast of the gold-mining camp of Huxley's Gulch. One day a minister, Ralph Bowen, arrives to "clean up" the town....
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A Man's Country
1922
Quincy Adams Sawyer
10/1
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
1915
The Scourge of the Desert
0/0
Bill Evers, a gambling house keeper, is in reality the "Desert Scourge," an outlaw.
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The Scourge of the Desert
1925
New Lives for Old
9/1
Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence inform...
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New Lives for Old
1915
The Scrub
0/0
Gordon Elliott, a student at one of the big universities, is unable to make the football team until his senior year. He is then awarded a position at...
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The Scrub
1915
The Reward
0/0
A poor young boy falls for a chorus girl after he finds out that she is not like the "loose women" she works with. He determines to get her to leave t...
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The Reward
1915
College Days
10/1
Nell Saunders is the daughter of an innkeeper in a college town. She is loved by Glen Dale, the quarterback of the college team, and also Pierson, the...
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College Days
1916
Home
10/1
Bessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find her nouveau riche family has adopted and magnified the worst characteristics of the upper class. Her father...
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Home
1915
The Iron Strain
4/1
The story is set in Alaska, where spoiled and pampered heiress Octavia Van Ness has come for her health. Here she meets 'Chuck' Hemingway, who despite...
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The Iron Strain
1923
The Courtship of Miles Standish
10/1
A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecuti...
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
1920
The House of Whispers
7/1
Spaulding Nelson moves into an apartment after his uncle has been driven from it by the sounds of screams and whispers. Upon undertaking an investigat...
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The House of Whispers
1925
The Golden Princess
9/1
A story of greed and lust driven by gold fever. Rapacious Kate Kent abandons her daughter Betty to run off with Tom Romaine, her husband’s killer duri...
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The Golden Princess
1920
The U.P. Trail
8/1
Civil engineer Warren Neale rescues a badly wounded Allie Lee after her family is killed in an Indian massacre. Falling in love after nursing her back...
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The U.P. Trail
1921
Little Lord Fauntleroy
7.028/18
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trus...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
1926
The Little Irish Girl
9/1
Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny...
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The Little Irish Girl
1920
A Splendid Hazard
8/1
Karl Breitman, obsessed with the notion that he is a descendant of Napoleon, is driven to restore the monarchy in France. To accomplish this, he court...
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A Splendid Hazard
1924
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
6.5/2
A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on with her path, she gets married. All is well unti...
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1919
The Miracle Man
6/3
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam g...
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The Miracle Man
1920
Sink or Swim
9/1
A silent comedy Sink or Swim edited from the 1917 film The Yankee Way (1917)
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Sink or Swim
1917
The Yankee Way
0/0
Dick Mason is arrested for defending a girl's honor in a Chicago restaurant brawl, and his father sends him to Lithuania where his family owns a share...
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The Yankee Way
1923
The Christian
10/1
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Inst...
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The Christian
1925
Lorraine of the Lions
6.75/2
A ship carrying a touring circus troupe sinks at sea, and Lorraine, a young girl, is washed up on a deserted island. Her only companion is a gorilla f...
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Lorraine of the Lions
1914
The Bargain
5.6/12
After the bandit known as the Two-Gun Man Jim Stokes robs the stage, he is wounded in his flight from the scene. Recuperating at a ranch, he falls in...
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The Bargain
1920
Riders of the Dawn
9/1
A young soldier returns from the war to find his western homeland despoiled by conflict between the wheat farmers and a crooked lawyer.
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Riders of the Dawn
1926
Why Girls Go Back Home
7/1
Trusting country girl Marie Downey falls in love with touring stage-actor Clifford Dudley. As he becomes a matinee idol on Broadway, she turns a chor...
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Why Girls Go Back Home
1925
Lord Jim
7/1
Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a j...
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Lord Jim
1924
Her Night of Romance
6.773/11
An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for lo...
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Her Night of Romance
1917
Sudden Jim
7/1
James Ashe sends his son James Jr. off to manage a family-owned logging mill. While attending to his duties, James Jr. falls in love with a beautiful...
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Sudden Jim
1917
The Gun Fighter
0/0
Cliff Hudspeth, the leader of a band of outlaws in Arizona, has won his place by the killing of notorious gun-bullies. At their headquarters, in the G...
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The Gun Fighter
1924
Those Who Dare
8/1
Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with...
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Those Who Dare
1925
Confessions of a Queen
7.333/6
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Tur...
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Confessions of a Queen
1922
The Girl Who Ran Wild
8/1
M'liss, raised in the mountains as an unruly tomboy, is orphaned and is offered "protection" by Calaveras John and Johnny Cake, friends of her father'...
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The Girl Who Ran Wild
1922
The Half Breed
7/1
Delmar Spavinaw, an educated "half-breed," loves Evelyn Huntington, daughter of a racist judge. Evelyn's other suitor is Ross Kennion, a widower with...
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The Half Breed
1918
Madam Who
0/0
During the Civil War, Jeanne Beaufort becomes a secret service agent for the South....
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Madam Who
1918
Maid o' the Storm
0/0
Scottish fisherman Andy MacTavish rescues a baby whom he discovers washed up on the shore during a storm, and names her Ariel. As a girl, Ariel often...
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Maid o' the Storm
1918
Patriotism
10/1
During World War I, Robin Cameron transforms her home on the Scottish seacoast into a hospital for convalescing soldiers. Sidney Carson, who owns the...
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Patriotism
1921
The Sin of Martha Queed
9/1
Due to a misunderstanding, and the vicious streak of her relative David Boyd, Martha Queed is believed to be involved in an illicit affair with Arnold...
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The Sin of Martha Queed
1925
Flower of Night
10/1
Triumph of the daughter of a cheated mine owner over a renegade and her love for the superintendent.
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Flower of Night
1916
The Stepping Stone
0/0
Layabout Al Beresford is in a position of responsible in the brokerage film he works in only because of his smart and self-sacrificing wife Mary. Whil...
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The Stepping Stone
1918
An Alien Enemy
7/1
Neysa von Igel, who is living with her supposed grandfather, Adolph Schmidt, loves America, although she believes herself to be German-born. Unknown t...
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An Alien Enemy
1918
Social Ambition
10/1
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Social Ambition
1919
Adele
0/0
Adele Bleneau is a young nurse who assists her father, a renowned surgeon/. While in Washington, DC, she meets and falls in love with a British army o...
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Adele
1918
A Law Unto Herself
9/1
The daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat Kurt Von Klassner, even though her heart belongs to Ber...
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A Law Unto Herself
1918
Wedlock
0/0
Unknown to his proud and wealthy family, Granger Hollister marries Margery Harding, a telephone operator. Granger presents his new wife at an engageme...
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Wedlock
1918
Honor's Cross
9/1
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Honor's Cross
1918
The Goddess of Lost Lake
0/0
Mary Thorne is the quarter-breed daughter of prospector Marshall Thorne. She has just returned from college and when a pair of hunters, Mark Hamilton...
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The Goddess of Lost Lake
1921
The Beautiful Liar
10/1
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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The Beautiful Liar
1917
Alimony
0/0
Bernice Bristol Flint, an attractive grass widow (a woman divorced or separated from her husband), associates herself intimately with a number of divo...
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Alimony
1923
Enemies of Children
9/1
A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she is adopted and cared for until her marriage, whic...
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Enemies of Children
1917
The Square Deal Man
0/0
A gambler decides to play one last game before he turns over a new leaf. However, during the game one of the players accuses him of cheating. Sudden...
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The Square Deal Man
1923
Tiger Rose
5.375/4
Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading p...
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Tiger Rose
1921
Fightin' Mad
10/1
Returning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud McGraw becomes restless, and his father decides to send...
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Fightin' Mad
1921
His Nibs
7/2
Shenanigans at a small town movie theater.
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His Nibs
1917
The Iced Bullet
0/0
A "scientific detective" story about the attempted murder of a wealthy New Yorker in his mountain lodge is framed with a satire of Hollywood as the wr...
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The Iced Bullet
1924
Women Who Give
10/1
Jonathan Swift, stern Cape Cod businessman, has ambitions for his children, Emily and Noah, which are thwarted when they take romantic interests in Ca...
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Women Who Give
1919
A Man in the Open
10/1
Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse fi...
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A Man in the Open
1922
The Pride of Palomar
7/2
A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral...
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The Pride of Palomar
1920
The Devil to Pay
7/1
Small town politician and banker Brent Warren is responsible for a murder, but only George Roan is sent to the gallows for it. Roan, however, is resus...
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The Devil to Pay
1916
Somewhere in France
0/0
Wicked Frenchwoman Marie Chaumontel is the mistress of Captain Henry Ravignac. She steals some papers from him, which she gives to the Germans. Then s...
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Somewhere in France
1917
The Pinch Hitter
7/1
Shy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her prodding, Joel goes from timid nobody to a baseball star with...
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The Pinch Hitter
1926
The Rainmaker
9/2
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he l...
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The Rainmaker
1920
The Dream Cheater
8/1
An adaptation of Balzac's novel set in the roaring twenties, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his e...
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The Dream Cheater
1916
The Thoroughbred
0/0
The Colonel is at a financial low ebb, and his only recourse is to get his horse safely to the big race and win. But obstacles appear at every turn.
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The Thoroughbred
1916
The Deserter
0/0
Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer. But when Barbara rejects him,...
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The Deserter
1918
Carmen of the Klondike
6/1
Dorothy Harlan, a vaudeville artist, joins her fiancé, Cameron Stewart, in the Klondike during the early days of the gold rush. Dance hall owner "Silk...
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Carmen of the Klondike
1916
The Apostle of Vengeance
0/0
1916 American silent drama film directed by Clifford Smith and starring William S. Hart, Nona Thomas and John Gilbert. A Kentucky-born preacher retur...
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The Apostle of Vengeance
1918
A Little Sister of Everybody
0/0
Young Celeste Janvier ( Bessie Love ) lives in an East Side tenement with her immigrant grandfather, a humanitarian and socialist. Like her kindly gra...
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A Little Sister of Everybody
1919
The Long Lane's Turning
7/1
When brilliant lawyer Harry Sevier, an alcoholic, cannot cope with the prosecution's tactics, his innocent client Paddy the Brick goes to prison. Afte...
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The Long Lane's Turning
1918
Humdrum Brown
0/0
Love and double-crosses at the bank.
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Humdrum Brown
1920
Everybody's Sweetheart
7.667/3
When the benign headmistress of the county poor farm is discharged and replaced with a tyrant, John and Mary, two orphans who have lived there since i...
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Everybody's Sweetheart
1916
Bullets and Brown Eyes
0/0
Countess Olga and Prince Carl, although from two European countries that have been longtime enemies, are madly in love with each other. Olga's brother...
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Bullets and Brown Eyes
1923
The Spider and the Rose
9/1
In Southern California during the Mexican regime, Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, returns home to find that his father's secretary, Men...
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The Spider and the Rose
1924
The Law Forbids
7/1
Paul and Rhoda Remsen, having marital difficulties, separate; and each is awarded custody of their child Peggy for 6 months of the year. Rhoda and Peg...
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The Law Forbids
1917
Paddy O'Hara
0/0
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Paddy O'Hara
1922
Trail of the Axe
9/1
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Trail of the Axe
1919
The Joyous Liar
9/1
Burke Harlan an artist, saves Anne Warren from auto thieves, but he is wrongfully arrested and accused of stealing her car. The girl's father is a cri...
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The Joyous Liar
1915
The Hammer
10/1
Illustrator Donald Barstow living in a run-down studio building develops an interest in the married Mrs. Blakely. She invites him to Philadelphia for...
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The Hammer
1919
All of a Sudden Norma
7/1
Norma Brisbane has a taste for the finer things in life, but learns after her father's suicide that she is penniless. Resolved to recover her fortune...
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All of a Sudden Norma
1917
A Man's Man
0/0
John Stuart Webster, mining engineer, having accumulated a fortune in Death Valley, Calif., starts for Denver. On the train is Dolores Ruey, a beautif...
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A Man's Man
1922
If You Believe It, It's So
8/1
The story of a crook who achieves regeneration through association rather than reformation through faith. It is a slow and arduous process till he rea...
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If You Believe It, It's So
1920
Live Sparks
10/1
Wealthy wastrel Neil Sparks devotes more attention to the pursuit of pleasure than to his inherited oil business. Neil's neglect allows two schemers,...
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Live Sparks
1918
His Robe of Honor
0/0
Julian Randolph, a disreputable lawyer, gains an ad interim appointment to the Supreme bench as a reward for fixing a jury that acquits the brother of...
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His Robe of Honor
1924
Untamed Youth
10/1
Robert Ardis, a small-town youth studying for the ministry, encounters a visiting Gypsy, Marcheta, and is displeased by her pagan conduct. When she sa...
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Untamed Youth
1920
The Kentucky Colonel
8/1
Young Southerners Buck Hineman and Remington Osbury both are in love with the same woman, who promises to marry the one who returns when the Civil War...
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The Kentucky Colonel
1921
The Breaking Point
9/1
Ruth Marshall's dire financial situation forces her to marry Richard Janeway, a wealthy but drunken playboy who cheats on her. Not only that, but on t...
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The Breaking Point
1919
Beckoning Roads
7/1
When Marquita Shay, the adopted daughter of Canadian farmer John Grayson, reaches womanhood, Grayson enrolls her in a St. Louis boarding school where...
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Beckoning Roads
1919
Her Purchase Price
9/1
Hamid-Ali, an Arab chieftain and bandit, captures an English baby during a raid on a caravan and, naming her Sheka, puts her in a harem to be prepared...
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Her Purchase Price
1920
Big Happiness
8/1
John living a Bohemian life in Paris when his twin brother James, a British financier, appears and implores John to assume his identity so that he can...
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Big Happiness
1921
The Lure of Egypt
9/1
Professor Lampton's work of excavating the tomb of Akhnaton (Ikhnaton) is held up by lack of funds, and Prince Dagmar, scion of a Balkan royal family,...
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The Lure of Egypt
1917
Wooden Shoes
0/0
Pampy lives in a quaint little Dutch village, where she supports her invalid father by selling flowers to tourists. Pampy is so beautiful that she pro...
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Wooden Shoes
1916
The Criminal
0/1
A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs of her tenement, with a note attached explaining t...
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The Criminal
1918
The Ghost of the Rancho
0/0
Jeffrey Wall, the dissipated grandson of a wealthy man, requests that a farewell party be given in his honor before he is disinherited. During the wil...
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The Ghost of the Rancho
1924
The Gaiety Girl
9/1
Forced to abandon his ancestral castle, William Tudor accompanies his granddaughter Irene to London, while millionaire John Kershaw buys the castle fo...
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The Gaiety Girl
1922
The Danger Point
9/1
James Benton marries much younger Alice Torrance, who is from from the city, but she soon finds it difficult to adjust to the small town and Benton's...
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The Danger Point
1923
The Girl Who Came Back
10/1
Country girl Sheila goes to work in a city department store. After a quick courtship she marries Ray Underhill, unaware that he is a car thief.
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The Girl Who Came Back
1919
A Trick of Fate
8/1
After her father dies and a banker, to whom he owed $5,000, insults the family's honor, dancing instructor Mary Lee, the last of a long line of Southe...
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A Trick of Fate
1921
A Certain Rich Man
10/1
In the small town of Sycamore Ridge live youthful sweethearts Bob Hendricks and Molly Culpepper; Bob's banker father, General Hendricks; and John Barc...
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A Certain Rich Man
1919
A White Man's Chance
10/1
Minor member of a Boston law firm, Donald Joseph Blenhorn goes to Mexico to investigate Dorothy Charlton's fiancé, Hugh Hankins, who must meet approva...
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