Harrison FordFilmography

Blonde for a Night

Actors: Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford, Franklin Pangborn, Lucien Littlefield, T. Roy Barnes

Synopsis: Previously teamed for a number of boudoir farces like Getting Gertie's Garter and Up in Mabel's Room, star Marie Prevost and director E. Mason Hopper once more pooled their talents in Blonde for a Night. Prevost plays the dowdy brunette wife of roving husband Harrison Ford, who prefers to spend Read More

Woman Against the World

Actors: Harrison Ford, Georgia Hale, Lee Moran, Gertrude Olmstead, William H. Tooker

Synopsis: The "original" Harrison Ford and former Chaplin leading lady Georgia Hale are co-starred in Tiffany-Stahl's Woman Against the World. When a chorus girl is found murdered, girl reporter Carol Hill (Hale) takes it upon herself to solve the case. The police have arrested wealthy Schuyler Van Loan Read More

Three Week-Ends

Actors: Clara Bow, Neil Hamilton, Harrison Ford, Julia Swayne Gordon, Jack Raymond

Synopsis: The Clara Bow vehicle Three Week Ends was based on a story by Elinor Glyn, the romance novelist who bestowed the "It Girl" title upon the saucer-eyed Bow. Seeing hero James Gordon (Neil Hamilton) driving around in an expensive, custom-built Hispano Suiza automobile, heroine Gladys O'Brien (Bow) Read More

Just Married

Actors: James Hall, Ruth Taylor, Harrison Ford, William Austin, Ivy Harris

Synopsis: In this low-budget romantic comedy, a beautiful model from Paris sets her sights on the heart of an American ex-lover and so sets sail to stop him from marrying his newest girl friend. During the long voyage, the model must evade the persistent romantic advances of a passenger head-over-heels in Read More

Golf Widows

Actors: Vera Reynolds, Harrison Ford, John Patrick, Kathleen Key

Let 'er Go Gallegher

Actors: Harrison Ford, Elinor Fair

Synopsis: Long before Richard Harding Davis' "Gallegher" stories were serialized for television by Walt Disney, popular silent-screen juvenile actor Frank Coghlan Jr. played the title role in Let 'Er Go Gallegher. A street urchin who aspires to be a detective, Gallegher (Coghlan) gets more than he bargained Read More

The Rush Hour

Actors: Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford, Seena Owen, Ward Crane, David Butler

Synopsis: Previously teamed in such boudoir farces as Up in Mabel's Room and The Girl and the Pullman, Marie Prevost and the "original" Harrison Ford are again co-starred in The Rush Hour. Tired of the hustle and bustle of urban life, working girl Margie Dolan (Marie Prevost) stows away on a France-bound Read More

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary

Actors: May Robson, Phyllis Haver, Harrison Ford, Arthur Hoyt, Franklin Pangborn

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1914, the popular turn-of-the-century stage farce Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary was remade in 1927. This time, the title character was played by May Robson, repeating her original Broadway role. A priggish spinster, Aunt Mary (Robson) kicks up her heels when she is reunited with Read More

Girl in the Pullman

Actors: Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Girl in the Pullman is a standard door-slamming farce in the fine tradition of Up in Mabel's Room and Getting Gertie's Garter. While on his honeymoon with his new bride, Harrison Ford (not the same!) discovers that his ex-wife is occupying the adjacent pullman sleeper in the company of her new Read More

The Night Bride

Synopsis: Flamboyant flapper Cynthia Stockton (Marie Prevost) and misogynistic author Stanley Warrington (the "original" Harrison Ford) "meet cute" when their cars collide. Hoping to escape Warrington's wrath, Cynthia hitches a ride on a milk truck and returns home earlier than expected. Upon finding her Read More

No Control

Actors: Phyllis Haver, Harrison Ford, Jack Duffy, Tom Wilson

Synopsis: Silent-film leading man Harrison Ford (no relation to the current box-office champion) stars as John Douglas Jr., a go-getting young businessman. Falling in love with circus owner Nancy Flood (Phyllis Haver), John endeavors to save her dog-and-pony operation from foreclosure. This requires our Read More

Rubber Tires

Actors: Bessie Love, Erwin Connelly, May Robson, Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Those who believe that It Happened One Night was the first film to tap the comic potential of "auto courts" (later known as motels) are referred to the 1927 film Rubber Tires. It all begins when the Stack family sells all its worldly possessions, invests in a car, and heads to California. Every Read More

Hell's 400

Synopsis: This melodrama was based on the novel The Just and the Unjust by Vaughn Kester. District attorney John North (Harrison Ford) is in love with Barbara Langham (Marceline Day), the sister of gambler Marshall Langham (Wallace McDonald). John Gilmore, a café owner (Henry Kolker), sends Evelyn Vance, a Read More

Almost a Lady

Actors: Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford, George K. Arthur, Trixie Friganza, John Miljan

Synopsis: Mack Sennett veterans Marie Prevost and Trixie Friganza enliven the proceedings of Almost a Lady. Prevost plays a model who uses the fancy clothes that she's paid to wear to crash into society. She very nearly crashes out when her ruse is exposed, but love, in the form of handsome Harrison Ford Read More

Up in Mabel's Room

Actors: Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford, Phyllis Haver, Harry Myers, Sylvia Breamer

Synopsis: This first film version of the Otto Harbach-William Collison stage farce Up in Mabel's Room was released in 1926, the same year that the original play premiered on Broadway. Newlywed Garry Ainsworth (played by the "original" Harrison Ford) discovers that his ex-wife Mabel (Marie Prevost) is in an Read More

The Song and Dance Man

Actors: Tom Moore, Bessie Love, Harrison Ford, Norman Trevor, Bobby Watson

Synopsis: Song and Dance Man was based on the play of the same name by George M. Cohan. Tom Moore plays vaudevillian Happy Farrell, who gives up show biz to take a "civilian" job. Finding success in the business world, Happy tries to go back on stage, only to find that it isn't quite so easy the second time Read More

The Nervous Wreck

Actors: Harrison Ford, Phyllis Haver, Chester Conklin, Mack Swain, Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis: Harrison Ford (no, not that Harrison Ford) plays a hypochondriac who heads to an Arizona health farm to regain his strength. En route, he meets pert Phyllis Haver, engaged to marry the sheriff in the western community where Ford is headed. She hitches a ride-an innocent gesture that leads to a Read More

Sandy

Actors: Madge Bellamy, Joan Standing, Leslie Fenton, Harrison Ford, Gloria Hope

Synopsis: Pert and pretty Sandy McNeill (Madge Bellamy) is strong-armed by her parents into marrying wealthy Ben Murillo (Bardson Bard). Ben turns out to be a sadistic wife-beater whose cruel excesses lead to the death of Sandy's baby. Fleeing this abusive environment, Sandy falls in love with handsome Read More

Marriage Whirl

Actors: Corinne Griffith, Kenneth Harlan, Harrison Ford, Charles Lane

Synopsis: Corinne Griffith stars in this jazz-age drama, which contains a seemingly endless round of wild parties and bootleg gin. Marian Hale (Griffith) is a refined young lady who has a good friend in Tom Carol (Harrison Ford). She meets Arthur Carrolton (Kenneth Harlan), who has a passion for parties and Read More

Lovers in Quarantine

Actors: Bebe Daniels, Harrison Ford, Alfred Lunt, Edna May Oliver

Synopsis: After a few films that did not showcase her talent well, Bebe Daniels was able to redeem herself in this comedy based on the F. Tennyson Jesse stage play Quarantined. Although Pamela Gordon (Eden Gray) is engaged to explorer Tony Blunt (Harrison Ford), she gets tired of waiting for him to come Read More

Zander the Great

Actors: Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford, Harry Watson, Harry Myers

Synopsis: Although this isn't a top-notch Marion Davies film, she's still very charming in it. Mamie Smith (Davies in pigtails and behaving in a near-parody of Mary Pickford) is a lively orphan whose antics are not appreciated by the orphanage's cruel matron (Emily Fitzroy). Mr. Pepper, a kindly trustee Read More

That Royale Girl

Actors: Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, James Kirkwood, Harrison Ford, Paul Everton

Synopsis: The stars and director of Sally of the Sawdust, namely Carol Dempster, W. C. Fields and D. W. Griffith, were reunited in That Royle Girl. Dempster heads the cast as Daisy Royle, the daughter of a small-time crook (Fields, of course). When Daisy's jazz-musician boyfriend Fred Ketlar (Harrison Ford) Read More

Proud Flesh

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Pat O'Malley, Harrison Ford, Trixie Friganza, William J. Kelly

Synopsis: King Vidor does a nice job of making an insignificant novel by Lawrence Rising into a pleasant light comedy. Fernanda (Eleanor Boardman, who would become Vidor's second wife) is born in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake and raised by aristocratic relatives in Spain. As a young woman she is Read More

Maytime

Actors: Ethel Shannon, Harrison Ford, William Norris, Clara Bow, Wallace MacDonald

Synopsis: This was the first time the sentimental Rida Johnson Young play was filmed (it was remade in 1937 as a Jeanette MacDonald/ Nelson Eddy vehicle). The wealthy Ottilie Van Zandt (Ethel Shannon) falls in love with Richard Wayne, the son of the family gardener (Harrison Ford). Although the pair swears Read More

The Price of a Party

Actors: Hope Hampton, Harrison Ford, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Mary Astor, Dagmar Godowsky

Synopsis: Grace Barrow (Hope Hampton) has become a cabaret dancer in New York, and when she hears her ailing mother needs money, she accepts an offer from Kenneth Bellwood (Arthur Edmund Carew). The crooked Bellwood wants to keep Robert Casson (Harrison Ford) in New York so that he'll miss out on a valuable Read More

Fool's Awakening

Actors: Enid Bennett, Harrison Ford, Alec B. Francis, Mary Carr, Harry S. Northrup

Synopsis: When John Briggs (Harrison Ford) returns from the Great War (later known as World War I), he tries his hand at writing, but his stories don't sell. Then his mother falls ill so he becomes desperate and uses material from a diary he found on a dead Russian soldier. He claims to be the man, Alexis Read More

Janice Meredith

Actors: Marion Davies, Harrison Ford, Maclyn Arbuckle, Spencer Charters, Olin Howland

Synopsis: Newspaper magnate and movie producer William Randolph Hearst created this massive epic about the American Revolution to showcase the talents of his mistress Marion Davies. The results were far better than anyone could have imagined, given these circumstances; both film content and Marion were Read More

The Average Woman

Actors: Pauline Garon, Dave Powell, Burr McIntosh, Harrison Ford

Synopsis: This states rights drama features Pauline Garon and Harrison Ford. Sally Whipple, a thoroughly unconventional young woman (Garon), is wooed by Rudolph Van Alten, a society man who secretly owns a sleazy road house (David Powell). Sally's affections turn to Jimmy Munroe (Ford), a newspaperman who Read More

Vanity Fair

Actors: Mabel Ballin, Hobart Bosworth, George Walsh, Harrison Ford, Earl Foxe

Synopsis: Filmmaker Hugo Ballin) pulled out all the stops on this adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the Napoleonic era. He surrounded his wife, Mabel Ballin, who plays Becky Sharp, with sumptuous period sets and a fine cast. Ballin stays close to the novel, detailing the scheming Becky's Read More

Bright Lights of Broadway

Actors: Lowell Sherman, Doris Kenyon, Harrison Ford, Effie Shannon

Synopsis: While this theatrical drama is based on the clichéd premise of a country girl coming to the big city, it offers some colorful shots of the Great White Way. Charlie Murray and the Tiller Girls also perform dance numbers. The cast, too, is excellent, beginning with Doris Kenyon as Irene Marley, the Read More

Little Old New York

Actors: Marion Davies, Harrison Ford, Courtenay Foote

Synopsis: This charming and expensively made historical romance was one of Marion Davies' best films. She spends much of the picture disguised as a boy, something she also did effectively in several other films. A young Irish lad, Patrick O'Day (Stephen Carr), inherits a fortune, providing he travels to New Read More

Shadows

Actors: Lon Chaney, Marguerite de la Motte, Harrison Ford, John St. Polis, Walter Long

Synopsis: When it reviewed this simple little drama, the trade paper The Film Daily remarked (rather awkwardly), "Ben Schulberg has never achieved a reputation previously for desiring a place among the artistic producers, but...Shadows is one of the most artistically made pictures." Art was definitely not Read More

Her Gilded Cage

Actors: Gloria Swanson, Dave Powell, Harrison Ford, Anne Cornwall, Walter Hiers

Synopsis: This picture was one of several that Sam Wood directed for Gloria Swanson, and its lavishness shows the influence of Cecil B. DeMille -- not long before, Wood had been DeMille's assistant (and Swanson, for that matter, had been his star). Unfortunately, fancy sets and gowns was just about all it Read More

Old Homestead

Actors: Theodore Roberts, George Fawcett, T. Roy Barnes, Fritzi Ridgeway, Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Character actor Theodore Roberts was better known for his scene-stealing supporting roles than he was as a star in his own right. But he gets the opportunity to shine in this heart-warming drama based on the old play by Denman Thompson. Its small town theme was especially popular in an ever-more Read More

When Love Comes

Actors: Helen Jerome Eddy, Harrison Ford

Synopsis: This commonplace rural drama was purely filler for Helen Jerome Eddy, Harrison Ford, and the theaters that booked it. Jane Coleridge (Eddy) and Peter Jamison (Ford) are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve to propose and Read More

Smilin' Through

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Wyndham Standing, Harrison Ford, Alec B. Francis, Glenn Hunter

Synopsis: Producer Joe Schenck reportedly paid seventy-five thousand dollars (an immense sum in those days) for the film rights to the stage play written by Jane Murfin and actress Jane Cowl (as a vehicle for herself). But it was money well spent, because it was a success for his wife, Norma Talmadge, who Read More

Foolish Wives

Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Rudolph Christians, Miss Du Pont, Maude George, Mae Busch

Synopsis: Actor/ writer/ director Erich Von Stroheim stars as a fraudulent count, living high on the hog in Monte Carlo. He supports himself by extorting huge sums of money from silly married ladies who are dumb enough to fall for his romantic charms. Von Stroheim's partners in crime, phony princesses Mae Busch Read More

Primitive Lover

Actors: Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, Kenneth Harlan, Joe Roberts

Synopsis: Light comedienne Constance Talmadge did some of her best work with the husband/wife, director/writer team of John Emerson and Anita Loos. Without them, her films were a mixed bag, and this poorly paced romantic comedy is not one of her best. Considering that Frances Marion wrote the scenario, and Read More

Wedding Bells

Actors: Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, Emily Chichester, Ida Darling, Jimmy Harrison

Synopsis: The lead in this domestic comedy seems tailor-made for vivacious Constance Talmadge -- Rosalie Wayne, who bobs her hair, much to the chagrin of her new husband, Reggie Carter (Harrison Ford, one of Talmadge's regular leading men). Continuing confusion results in a trip to Reno for Rosalie. After Read More

The Passion Flower

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Courtenay Foote, Eulalie Jensen, Harrison Ford, Charles E. Stevenson

Synopsis: Although Raimunda (Eualie Jensen) marries Esteban (Courtenay Foote), he holds a secret passion for his stepdaughter, Acacia (Norma Talmadge). He uses his servant, Rubio (Walter Wilson) to ruin Acacia's romance with Norbert (Harrison Ford). Then, when she becomes engaged to Faustino (Robert Agnew) Read More

Wonderful Thing

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Harrison Ford, Howard Truesdale, Robert Agnew

Synopsis: This picture, based on the stage play by Lillian Trimble Bradley, was an odd choice of material for star Norma Talmadge -- it was a lightweight comedy-drama which gives Talmadge little opportunity to show her talents as an emotional actress. She plays Jacqueline Boggs, the convent-bred daughter of Read More

Love's Redemption

Actors: Norma Talmadge, Harrison Ford, Montagu Love, H. Cooper Cliffe, Ida Waterman

Synopsis: In 1922 Norma Talmadge was one of the most popular stars of the silent screen, but every now and then she'd wind up in a clinker; this cliched drama, made shortly before her production company moved from the East to the West Coast, was certainly one of them. Even Anthony Paul Kelly, a noted Read More

Oh, Lady, Lady

Synopsis: Bebe Daniels stars in this picture, based on the musical comedy by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. Although May Barber (Daniels) has made the transformation from innocent country girl to successful stage actress, she's still fond of her former sweetheart, Willoughby Finch (big man Walter Hiers). So Read More

Easy to Get

Synopsis: The popular silent-film team of Marguerite Clark and Harrison Ford star in Easy to Get. While on their honeymoon, newlyweds Milly (Clark) and Bob Morehouse (Ford) have a falling out. It's all hubby's fault: Milly has overheard Bob insist that all girls are "easy." To prove otherwise, Milly spends Read More

A Lady in Love

Synopsis: Barbara (Ethel Clayton) is a naive convent girl who runs off and elopes with a man she doesn't know very well. Only after the ceremony does she discover that he already has a wife and child. He takes off and she goes to New York to confer with her guardian about a divorce. The guardian's wife Read More

Miss Hobbs

Synopsis: Miss Hobbs (Wanda Hawley, in her first leading role) is a wealthy young lady with advanced ideas. In 1920, that meant that she liked barefoot dancing, modern art, and that she hated men. She is so persuasive that she inspires one friend to leave her husband and the other to break her engagement. Read More

Food for Scandal

Synopsis: Wanda Hawley debuted as a star in her previous film, Miss Hobbs. So it is suggested that the poor material in this pointless picture, based on the Paul Kester play Beverly's Balance, is one of the reasons that Hawley's name did not endure beyond her era. Sylvia (Hawley) is the last of the Read More

Hawthorne of the USA

Synopsis: Douglas Fairbanks starred in the original Broadway production of James B. Fagan's Hawthorne of the USA, but Doug was too busy setting up United Artists in 1919 to appear in the film version. The popular Wallace Reid takes over as Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne, a young man who wins a tidy sum at Read More

Happiness a La Mode

Synopsis: Lighthearted Constance Talmadge stars in this frothy comedy-drama, which, entertaining as it was, had barely enough substance to carry it through five reels. Easygoing Barbara Townsend (Talmadge) is never jealous and allows her husband, Richard (Harrison Ford), to come and go as he pleases. Read More

Experimental Marriage

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: This film, based on the stage play Saturday to Monday by William J. Hurlburt, made a nice vehicle for the charms of Constance Talmadge. Constance plays Suzanne Ercoll, a young widow who believes in women's suffrage (the feminist cause of the day). When the handsome Foxcroft Grey (Connie's frequent Read More

Romance and Arabella

Synopsis: Like many another Constance Talmadge vehicle, Romance and Arabella was based on a popular stage play, this one written by William J. Hurlbutt. Cast in the role originated on Broadway by Laura Hope Crews, Talmadge played young widow Arabella Cadenhouse. Having been wed for several years to an Read More

Girls

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Pamela (Marguerite Clark), Violet (Mary Warren) and Kate (Helene Chadwick) are roommates who have been disappointed in love. Pamela, fed up with the male race, declares herself a man-hater, and the other girls follow suit. But Edgar Holt (Harrison Ford) comes along and scoffs at Pam's silly ideas. Read More

Lottery Man

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Newspaperman Jack Wright (Wallace Reid) borrows five hundred dollars from his reluctant friend Foxhall Peyton (Harrison Ford), which he promptly blows on the stock market. To make good on the loan, Wright comes up with a scheme which also provides a story for his paper -- he plans to hold a Read More

Veiled Adventure

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Writer Julia Crawford Ivers penned a story that was a perfect fit for playful silent star Constance Talmadge. Talmadge is Geraldine Barker who has become engaged to Reginald Crocker (Stanhope Wheatcroft) mainly because all the girls want him. But it turns out he's not such a great catch -- one day Read More

Who Cares?

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: This film was made primarily to cash in on star Constance Talmadge's sparkling personality. Joan Ludlow (Talmadge) is a lively, carefree young girl who is disgusted by the thought of growing old. Her motto is "Who cares?" and she lives up to it, even when she meets and marries the handsome Martin Read More

Viviette

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Vivian Martin stars as Viviette, a British beauty whose affections are sought after by Dick (Eugene Pallette), a handsome but bull-headed young man. When Viviette befriends Dick's aristocratic brother Austin (played by the "first" Harrison Ford), Dick misunderstands the relationship and becomes Read More

Sauce for the Goose

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: John Constable (Harrison Ford) is a writer whose ego is being tempted by designing widow Margaret Alloway (Vera Doria). As a result, he neglects his pretty young wife, Kitty (Constance Talmadge). But Kitty is determined to win John back. Harry Travers (Harland Tucker) makes this task easy, as he's Read More

Lady's Name

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: In this witty comedy -- an adaptation of Cyril Harcourt's play -- Constance Talmadge plays a writer who runs a lonely hearts ad in order to get material for a novel she's working on. Her ad is answered by a large group of odd personalities. Not so odd is Harrison Ford, and he wins the novelist's Read More

Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots began life as an Augustus Thomas play, originally written as a vehicle for Margaret Illington. The film version starred Constance Talmadge as the feather-brained wife of the level-headed Mr. Leffingwell (played by the "original" Harrison Ford). As the fashionable young Read More

A Pair of Silk Stockings

Synopsis: The fifth of Constance Talmadge's thirteen starring vehicles for producer Lewis Selznick was A Pair of Silk Stockings. Based on a stage farce by Cyril Harcourt, the film casts Talmadge as Molly, the wife of wealthy Britisher Sam Thornhill (the "original" Harrison Ford). Though devoutly loyal to Read More

Good Night, Paul

Synopsis: Good Night, Paul stars bubbly comedienne Constance Talmadge. This time around, Talmadge's character is happily married (her husband played by Norman Kerry), but still agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman (Harrison Ford -- no, not that Harrison Ford) to hoodwink the businessman's rich uncle (John Steppling Read More

Molly Entangled

Synopsis: Although she's in love with Barney Malone (played by the "original" Harrison Ford), heroine Molly Shawn (Vivian Martin) cannot marry him because her once-aristocratic family is flat broke. In desperation, she agrees to marry feeble old millionaire Jim Barry (G. S. Spaulding), who is about to kick Read More

Mysterious Mrs. Musslewhite

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: Most theater marquees advertised this Lois Weber production under its alternate title, The Mysterious Mrs. M. Cast in the title role was Evelyn Selbie, but the true heroine of the piece is Phyllis Woodman, played by one of Weber's most talented protégées, Mary MacLaren. The story is set in motion Read More

Anton the Terrible

Actors: Harrison Ford

Synopsis: William deMille, Cecil's (arguably) more talented brother, served as director for Anton the Terrible. Theodore Roberts, who later played Moses in brother Cecil's The Ten Commandment, here portrays a fierce Cossack chieftan. He spends the first three reels of the film avenging the rape of his Read More