Gareth HughesFilmography

Mister Antonio

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Gareth Hughes, Frank Reicher, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: In this romance, an organ grinder falls in love with a corrupt mayor's daughter. The mayor, worried that the organ grinder will reveal his knowledge of the politician's illegal activities, does all he can to persuade the organ grinder that the girl is not interested in him, but the intrepid street Read More

Broken Hearted

Silent Sentinel

Actors: Gareth Hughes, Josephine Hill, Lew Meehan, Aline Goodwin

Synopsis: The plot of Silent Sentinel is motivated by the villain, an outwardly respectable banker. Heading a clever gang of thieves, the banker is careful to have those in his employ do all the dirty work. Framed for one of the banker's recent heists, a cashier tries to prove his innocence, aided by his Read More

Comrades

Actors: Helene Costello, Gareth Hughes, Donald Keith, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: Comrades gets under way at a military academy, where cadets Gareth Hughes and Donald Keith greet the news of WWI in radically different ways. A craven coward, Hughes tries to duck military service on the battlefields of France, whereupon Keith selflessly offers to serve in Hughes' place. When Hughes Read More

The Sky Rider

Actors: Gareth Hughes, Josephine Hill, John P. Lockney, John Tansey, Lew Meehan

Synopsis: Several years before organizing Invincible Pictures, producer George Batcheller was releasing his product through Invincible's future "sister company" Chesterfield. In Batcheller's Sky Rider, an ill-tempered young man is cut off without a cent by his wealthy uncle, while the bulk of the estate Read More

Old Age Handicap

Actors: Alberta Vaughn, Vivian Rich, Olaf Hytten

Synopsis: Cabaret dancer Alberta Vaughan falls in love with upright Southern gentleman Gareth Hughes. To save Hughes' sister Vivian Rich from ruination, Vaughan "comes on" to Rich's would-be seducer Bud Shaw. The younger girl is kept from losing her virtue, but the price of her salvation is Vaughan's Read More

Heroes in Blue

Actors: John Bowers, Sally Rand, Gareth Hughes

Synopsis: Heroes in Blue is predicated on the rivalry between two Irish-American clans. Sally Rand, the daughter of one family, falls for John Bowers, the policeman son of the other family. Their relationship is sorely strained when Rand's stepbrother Gareth Hughes turns out to be the pyromaniac whom Bowers Read More

The Whirlwind of Youth

Actors: Lois Moran, Donald Keith, Alyce Mills, Larry Kent

Synopsis: Whirlwind of Youth was taken (as far as possible, apparently) from Soundings, a novel by Hamilton Gibbs. Impulsive 18-year-old Nancy Hawthorne (Lois Moran) falls hard for Bob Whittaker (Donald Keith), a rakish "love 'em and leave 'em" type. At first refusing to take Nancy seriously, Whittaker Read More

The Auctioneer

Actors: George Sidney, Doris Lloyd, Sammy Cohen, Marian Nixon, Gareth Hughes

Synopsis: Jewish comedian George Sidney stars as the title character in The Auctioneer. Sidney also doubles as a pawnbroker, which allows for a steady stream of colorful supporting characters. Our hero's lifestyle undergoes a radical shake-up when he takes over the mansion of a millionaire. He manages to Read More

Men of the Night

Actors: Gareth Hughes, Herbert Rawlinson, Wanda Hawley, Lucy Beaumont

Synopsis: According to critics of the day, the sentimentality of this crook drama was a bit too much even for the 1920s, when mother love was viewed with extreme reverence. A pair of thieves, J. Rupert Doods (Herbert Rawlinson) and Dick Foster (Gareth Hughes), are on the lam from the cops when they meet Read More

Midnight Girl

Synopsis: This melodrama, which starred Lila Lee, had quite a few names in the cast that were well known at the time but are largely forgotten now: Gareth Hughes, Dolores Cassinelli, and stage star Charlotte Walker. It also featured someone who was relatively new to pictures, but who eventually found fame Read More

The Sunset Trail

Actors: William Desmond

Synopsis: The second version of novelist Henry Herbert Knibbs' western romance Overland Red, previously filmed in 1920 under that title and starring Harry Carey, The Sunset Trail featured veteran action star William Desmond as a disgraced former sheriff who saves a miner from dying in the desert. Desmond is Read More

Christian

Actors: Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Gareth Hughes, Phyllis Haver, Cyril Chadwick

Synopsis: Childhood sweethearts with lofty goals do not a good Christian lifetime make, in this doomed romance directed by Maurice Tourneur. Glory Quayle (Mae Busch) and John Storm (Richard Dix) have been in love since their youth. Now, all grown up, they decide to travel to London -- John to enter a Read More

Penrod and Sam

Actors: Ben Alexander, Joe Butterworth, Buddy Messinger, Newton Hall, Gertrude Messinger

Synopsis: Penrod (Ben Alexander) and his pal Sam (Joe Butterworth) are the all-American boys growing up in a small town in this comedy drama taken from Booth Tarkington's popular novel. The boys form an exclusive club and conspire to keep the neighborhood wimp and his toady companion away from their Read More

The Enemies of Women

Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Alma Rubens, William Collier, Jr., Pedro de Cordoba, Gladys Hulette

Synopsis: This epic production was the last film that producer and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst produced for Paramount (after that, his production company, Cosmopolitan, went over to Goldwyn, which later merged with MGM). It was based on a novel by Vicenti Blasco Ibanez, who also wrote The Four Read More

Spanish Dancer

Actors: Pola Negri, Antonio Moreno, Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Hughes

Synopsis: The rights to Don Cesar, the novel by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez, were originally purchased by Paramount as a vehicle for Rudolph Valentino. When he and the studio had a parting of the ways, the story was rewritten for Pola Negri, with Gypsy dancer Maritana as the lead. This was Negri's third film for Read More

Kick in

Actors: Betty Compson, Bert Lytell, May McAvoy, Gareth Hughes, Kathleen Clifford

Synopsis: The Willard Mack stage play Kick In starred John Barrymore on Broadway and was made into a motion picture in 1917, with Ouida Bergere writing the scenario. Bergere was at the typewriter once again when the story returned to the screen in 1922. This production, with its more lavish budget and fine Read More

Forget Me Not

Actors: Irene Hunt, Will Machin, Bessie Love, Gareth Hughes, Otto Lederer

Synopsis: Although this drama tugged a little too insistently at the heartstrings, Billie Dove -- still a fresh star -- stands out as the crippled young orphan girl. She is left in an asylum by her mother (Irene Hunt), who can't afford to keep her. As the years pass, the girl forms a friendship with another Read More

Little Eva Ascends

Actors: Gareth Hughes, May Collins

Synopsis: This comedy was based -- as many silent films were -- on a Saturday Evening Post story. Blanche St. George (Eunice Van Moore) has a repertory company that performs Uncle Tom's Cabin in every tiny hamlet they can manage to reach. Two of her star players are her sons, John (Benjamin Haggerty), who Read More

I Can Explain

Actors: Gareth Hughes, Herbert Heyes, Grace Darmond, Bartine Burkett, Victor Potel

Synopsis: It's doubtful that any comedian could have pulled off this mixture of farce and slapstick; Gareth Hughes, whose talents were better used in light comedies and comedy dramas, didn't even have a chance. In spite of the film's title, meek Jimmy Berry (Hughes) never does get to explain anything. He's Read More

Sentimental Tommy

Actors: Gareth Hughes, May McAvoy, Mabel Taliaferro, George Fawcett

Synopsis: Tommy Sandys (Gareth Hughes) is a poor Scottish boy who has an endless imagination. At the age of 16, he comes to the town of Thrums with his sister, Elspeth (Leila Frost). They meet Grizel (May McAvoy), a sweet young girl whose mother is known as the Painted Lady (Mabel Taliaferro). This woman Read More

The Hunch

Actors: Gareth Hughes, Ethel Grandin, John Steppling

Synopsis: Jimmy Humphrey (Gareth Hughes) wakes up in his bathtub. There's a note written on his shirt urging him to buy Jerusalem Steel. Humphrey decides to go along with this hunch, and borrows the money for five thousand shares from John Thorndyke (John C. Steppling), the father of his fiancée, Barbara (Ethel Grandin Read More

Life's Darn Funny

Actors: Viola Dana, Gareth Hughes, Eva Gordon, Kathleen O'Connor, Mark Fenton

Synopsis: Zoe Roberts (Viola Dana) is an aspiring violinist. Living in the same Greenwich Village boarding house is aspiring artist Clay Warwick (Gareth Hughes). Their careers are both going nowhere until Zoe is scheduled to play a concert. Clay, who has inherited a knack for dressmaking, fashions a gown Read More

The Lure of Youth

Synopsis: Veteran leading lady Cleo Madison played a famous stage diva who falls for a struggling young playwright (Gareth Hughes) in this plodding silent melodrama released by the Metro organization. The diva brings her discovery to New York as her protegé. At first, the lady's lover (William Conklin) Read More

A Chorus Girl's Romance

Synopsis: When a musical comedy goes to New Haven for a try-out before hitting Broadway, actress Marcia Meadows (Viola Dana) stumbles into the life of Yalie Horace Tarbox (Gareth Hughes), the son of a rich man. The honor student and the actress wind up hitched and go back to New York, where they find Read More

Woman in His House

Actors: Mildred Harris, Gareth Hughes, Winter Hall, Ramsey Wallace, Thomas Holding

Synopsis: Even though her marriage to Charles Chaplin had long been on the rocks, producer Louis B. Mayer tried to bring in as much box office as possible by billing star Mildred Harris as Mildred Harris Chaplin. Name-calling aside, Harris did a credible job here of playing Hilda Emerson, who is woefully Read More

Eyes of Youth

Synopsis: Clara Kimball Young stars in this mystical tour de force. She plays a woman who goes to an Oriental fortune teller in an effort to decide the path in life she should take. The seer shows her the outcome of three of the four choices she has: duty, wealth and fame. In the end she chooses love, the Read More

Isle of Conquest

Synopsis: Mrs. Harmon (Hedda Hopper) is a widow with two daughters, Ethel (Norma Talmadge) and Janis (Natalie Talmadge -- Norma
's real-life sister). She leaves the two girls to spend their vacation at Holy Cross Academy while she angles for a rich husband to support them all. But the man she wants, Van Read More

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Synopsis: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice was a favorite children's book of the Victorian era. It was made into a play and filmed several times. This version is notable because its Mrs. Wiggs, Mary Carr (who made a screen career of playing kindly old ladies), also performed the role on Read More