Biography: Richard Talmadge |
Hollywood actor Richard Talmadge was born Ricardo Metezzeti in Munich. He came to Hollywood in the 1910s where he worked as a stunt double for Douglas Fairbanks. He became a star in his own right in the early '20s, usually appearing in minor comedies... more
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I Killed Wild Bill Hickok (1956)
Cast: Denver Pyle Helen Westcott
Length: 63min
The redoubtable John Carpenter strikes again with the ultra-low-budget I Killed Wild Bill Hickok. Carpenter serves as the film's producer and screenwriter, and also heads the cast, pseudonymously billed as John Forbes. Everybody knows that Wild Bill...
Cast: Hayden Rorke
Tags: Space Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 64min
Project Moonbase is a "feature film" cobbled together from several episodes of the unsold TV science fiction series "Ring Around the Moon." Set in the future -- 1970, that is -- the film takes place on a huge space station, where a group of pilots and...
Cast: Eddie Parker
Length: 56min
Filmed (in 16 mm) at Big Bear Lake, CA, and directed by stuntmen Richard Talmadge and Harvey Parry, this minor comedy-drama featured hayseed second banana Britt Wood and newcomer John Day (aka John Daheim) as a couple of travelers stranded at a...
Tags: Drama Crime Drama Melodrama
Length: 59min
Not to be confused with the prominent British film Never Too Late to Mend, which was released in the U.S. in 1937 as Never Too Late, this minor action-adventure from low-budget Reliable Pictures Corp. starred former silent-era stunt man Richard...
Length: 57min
Produced at Agoura, CA, and directed by silent film action star Richard Talmadge, this minor Western starred bandleader and early television personality Spade Cooley. Actually, Cooley had very little to do in the film other than offer name recognition...
Cast: Rychard Cramer
Tags: Crime Drama Crime
Length: 56min
Speed Reporter affords the viewer an undistilled opportunity to watch legendary stuntman Richard Talmadge in action. So what matter that the film is the cheapest of low-budget B productions? Typifying the pinchpenny budget are the scenes involving...
Cast: Harry Carey
Tags: Western Traditional Western
Length: 156min
This adventure film consists of a 12-part serial that has been spliced together. The story basically follows the travails of a hero pursing his brother's killer, a horse thief. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Tags: Crime Drama Drama
Length: 59min
An ex-con infiltrates a small town to rob their bank but ends up having a change of heart when it's up to him to protect the local orphans from a greedy land swindler. ~ All Movie Guide
Pirate Treasure: Mutiny (1934)
Cast: Pat O'Malley Walter Miller William Desmond Ethan Laidlaw
Length: 2rlmin
His dramatic fall broken by sacks of flour, Dick (Richard Talmadge) once again emerges unharmed and the voyage to the Caribbean island can begin. En route, Dorothy (Lucille Lund) accidentally discovers the group of gang members hiding in the hold of...
Cast: Richard Talmadge
Tags: Adventure Drama Drama
Length: 62min
A daredevil pilot saves the inventor of a new airplane from a gang of thieves in this stunt-oriented melodrama starring Richard Talmadge. When F.S. Reynolds (William Humphrey) refuses to sell his newest airplane, crooked businessman Cardigan (Robert...
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