Biography: Cornelius Keefe |
Spindly, mustachioed character actor Cornelius Keefe was active in Hollywood from 1924 to 1958. When talkies came in, Keefe was engaged as a recurring player in Educational Studio's "Torchy" 2-reel comedy series. He landed sizable parts in films like
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Cast: Betty Blythe Ken Maynard
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 61min
Ken Maynard's western series for Columbia was a mixed bag indeed, with Western Courage neither the best nor worst of the bunch. Maynard plays Ken Baxter, foreman of a dude ranch who takes it upon himself to "tame" spoiled city gal Gloria Hanley...
Circumstantial Evidence (1929)
Length: 65min
Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord (Charles Gerrard) talks Tony Benton (Ray Hallor), the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton (Helen Foster), into forging a check. The evidence is framed so that innocent clerk Arthur Rowland (Cornelius Keefe) is...
Cast: Boris Karloff Josef Swickard
Length: 6rlmin
Escaping from a revolution, the King (Joseph Swickard) of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret service agent Yorke Norray (Cornelius Keefe). With Norray's help, the King is restored...
Cast: Gustav von Seyffertitz George "Gabby" Hayes
Tags: Whodunit Mystery Detective Film
Length: 62min
A rather nifty little science fiction-thriller/murder mystery from Poverty Row company Monogram, Mystery Liner was based on a ~Saturday Evening Post story by British pulp writer Edgar Wallace. Noah Beery starred as John Holling, the captain of an...
Length: 60min
Hearts of Men was based on a story by James Oliver Curwood. At first glance, hero Cornelius Keefe seems to be a coward. And at second glance, too. But by reel five, the worm turns, and Keefe manages to solve a murder and thwart a high-stakes robbery....
Length: 50min
Ostensibly based on pulp writer James Oliver Curwood, this minor silent Northwest melodrama featured Cornelius Keefe as a city slicker who saves a female logging camp manager (Lila Lee) from being ruined by her evil superintendent (Walter Long). The...
Cast: Claire Windsor
Length: 64min
The title of this "woman's picture" had little to do with its content. The story is set in an industrial town, where domineering old matriarch Vera Lewis controls the lives of everyone. The old woman's granddaughter Claire Windsor lives in the "wrong"...
Cast: Lila Lee
Length: 76min
In this melodrama, a wealthy girl decides to disguise herself and work as a laborer in her father's factory so she can be near her dad and prove to him that she is capable of helping out in the family business. While there, she falls in love with a...
Length: 63min
A late silent from small-scale producer Trem Carr, this crime drama stars Comelius Keefe and Arthur Rankin, two actors usually found playing cads. They are orphaned brothers, separated when Tom (Keefe) escapes the authorities and Bob (Rankin) is taken...
Cast: Cornelius Keefe
Length: 55min
Rookie policeman Cornelius Keefe can't help but run afoul of his superiors. It isn't that Keefe is a screw-up, simply that he considers himself smarter and more "in the right" than anyone else. His know-it-all attitude endangers the young cop's...
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