Raymond McKeeFilmography

Campus Knights

Actors: Shirley Palmer, Raymond McKee

Synopsis: Audrey Scott (Shirley Palmer) is a fun-loving but basically proper college coed, who manages to escape the clutches of one over-eager freshman on a date, only to cross paths with Earl Hastings (Raymond McKee), another young woman-chaser on campus. She vows never to look at another man, except to Read More

Frozen River

Actors: Davey Lee, Josef Swickard, Raymond McKee

Synopsis: Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (or is it all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In characteristic fashion, Rinty braves the elements to rescue heroine Nina Quartero from the villains, a gang of cutthroats and thieves. The doggie hero also comes to the aid of little Davey Lee Read More

Smith's Pony

King of the Herd

Actors: Raymond McKee, Nola Luxford

Synopsis: Filmed in 1927, the silent western King of the Herd wasn't shown in New York until 1929. Although the film's official star is Raymond McKee, most of the footage is devoted to the exploits of the title character, played by White Star the "wonder" horse. As a novelty, polo-playing hero, McKee is Read More

The Speed Limit

Actors: Raymond McKee

Synopsis: It is said that "B"-picture producer Sam Sax was so budget-conscious that he'd write eating scenes into his films to avoid giving his actors a lunch break. One of Sax's penny-pinching silent efforts was Speed Limit, a vehicle for light comedian Raymond McKee. The star plays a young garage mechanic Read More

Free Love

Actors: Clara Bow, Donald Keith, Raymond McKee, Hallam Cooley, Charles Hill Mailes

Synopsis: Clara Bow and Donald Keith were teamed in several low-budget romantic comedies of the 1920s, but only Bow made it to the big time. In Free Love, settlement-house clergyman James Crawford (Keith) does his best to reform several paroled convicts. One of these is Marie Anthony (Bow), who isn't as Read More

Oh, What a Night

Actors: Raymond McKee, Edna Murphy, Ned Sparks, Charles French

Synopsis: Playwright Bob Brady (Raymond McKee) sequesters himself in his producer's apartment to pound out the last act of his newest stage melodrama. Working under extreme pressure -- after all, tomorrow is opening night! -- Brady does not welcome the endless parade of mysterious characters who stream Read More

Exclusive Rights

Actors: Gayne Whitman, Lillian Rich, Gloria Gordon, Raymond McKee, Gaston Glass

Synopsis: Exclusive Rights was inspired by Invisible Government, a story by Jerome N. Wilson. The central character is a crooked political boss who sets about to destroy an honest governor. The villain frames one of the governor's most trusted assistants on a murder charge. The price for the assistant's Read More

Free to Love

Synopsis: Producer B. P. Schulberg put his top star, Clara Bow, through her paces in this silent melodrama of a girl (Clara of course) wrongfully convicted of a crime, who is eventually adopted by the judge (Charles Hill Mailes) presiding at her trial. Bland juvenile actor Donald Keith would support Bow Read More

Lawful Cheaters

Actors: Clara Bow, David Kirby, Raymond McKee, Edward Hearn, George Cooper

Synopsis: Clara Bow is the sole redeeming factor of the cheaply produced melodrama Lawful Cheaters. Actually, that's not a fair assessment; though the film's storyline is slight and trite, it benefits immensely from its actual New York locations. Bow plays a good-time girl whose what-the-hell behavior lands Read More

Compromise

Actors: Irene Rich, Clive Brook, Louise Fazenda, Pauline Garon, Raymond McKee

Synopsis: Forever forced to take a back seat to her pretty, popular younger sister Pauline Garon, Irene Rich manages to land handsome Clive Brook while Garon is off galavanting in Europe. When sis returns, she does her darnedest to steal Brook away from Rich. This time, however, true love wins out over Read More

Romance Road

Actors: Raymond McKee, Gertrude Claire, Dick Gordon

Synopsis: This routine comedy-drama starred Raymond McKee, whose big claim to fame was his starring role in Down to the Sea in Ships (which would be forgotten today if it hadn't given Clara Bow her first decent part). McKee is Patrick O'Brien, who returns home from World War I to find that his job is Read More

Contraband

Actors: Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Hatton, Raymond McKee, Charles Ogle

Synopsis: Lois Wilson stars in this drama, which was based on the novel by Clarence Buddington Kelland. Schoolteacher Carmel Lee (Wilson) inherits a run-down country newspaper from her uncle. With the help of eccentric Professor Pell (Raymond McKee) and Jed Tubal, an old printer (Luke Cosgrave), she starts Read More

Along Came Ruth

Actors: Viola Dana, Tully Marshall, Raymond McKee

Synopsis: Viola Dana plays Ruth Ambrose, a citified interior decorator who expands her business to the country. The locals don't quite know what to make of the sophisticated Ruth, but she soon wins them over. After renovating a general store, Ruth finds true love in the form of farm boy Raymond McKee. Read More

Find Your Man

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, June Marlowe, Charles Hill Mailes, Pat Hartigan

Synopsis: Paul Andrews (Eric St. Clair) returns from the World War (there was only one in those days) with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe (Rin-Tin-Tin, who was actually found during the war as a puppy). Instead of getting a warm welcome, he finds his sweetheart, Caroline Blair (June Marlowe), missing. As Read More

Silent Accuser

Actors: Eleanor Boardman, Raymond McKee, Earl Metcalfe, Paul Weigel, Edna Tichenor

Synopsis: The success of dog stars like Strongheart and Rin-Tin-Tin inspired a number of copycats (or should that be copydogs?). Peter the Great was one of those lesser lights, and as is usual with dog films, he's pretty much the whole show. Barbara Jane (Eleanor Boardman) is planning to elope with Jack (Raymond McKee Read More

Babbitt

Actors: Willard Louis, Mary Alden, Carmel Myers, Raymond McKee, Maxine Hicks

Synopsis: This first movie version of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt stars the corpulent Willard Louis in the title role. A middle-aged businessman/blowhard in the small town of Zenith, Babbitt is somewhat naïve in the ways of the world. He allows himself to stray from his long-standing marriage to wife Myra (Mary Alden Read More

Three Women

Actors: May McAvoy, Pauline Frederick, Lew Cody, Marie Prevost, Willard Louis

Synopsis: Even though director Ernst Lubitsch had only been in the U.S. for a little over a year, his soon-to-be-famous "touch" was already making itself known. This sophisticated society drama has a number of subtle, lightly humorous moments before the drama intensifies. The womanizing Edmund Lamont (Lew Cody Read More

Tenth Woman

Actors: Beverly Bayne, June Marlowe, John Roche, Raymond McKee, Alec B. Francis

Synopsis: Beverly Bayne, June Marlowe, and John Roche co-star with Raymond McKee, Alec B. Francis, and Charles A. Post in this light romantic comedy. A heartbroken young woman is saved from making a suicidal jump off a bridge by a handsome young hero. She soon falls in love with the man and forgets about Read More

Down to the Sea in Ships

Actors: Raymond McKee, William Walcott, William Cavanaugh, Leigh Smith, Marguerite Courtot, Elizabeth Foley, Clara Bow

Synopsis: This whaling drama is most famous as the screen debut of Clara Bow (Bow had actually made one previous film, Beyond the Rainbow, but her scenes wound up on the cutting-room floor). Besides that, it is also solid entertainment, offering both the best (documentary-like scenes of a whale being Read More

A Blind Bargain

Actors: Lon Chaney, Raymond McKee, Jacqueline Logan, Fontaine La Rue, Virginia True Boardman

Synopsis: Not long before they collaborated on The Hunchback of Notre Dame, star Lon Chaney and director Wallace Worsley combined their talents on Blind Bargain. As was often his wont, Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature Read More

Greater Claim

Actors: Shirley Mason, Raymond McKee, Edward McWade, Harry S. Northrup, Betty Shade

Synopsis: Alice Lake made a fine comic foil for Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and several other comics at the Keystone studios. In spite of this, she wanted to be a serious actress. Ironically her dramatic work has pretty much been forgotten. This average drama has good performances by Lake and DeWitt Jennings Read More

Wing Toy

Synopsis: Pert -- and very Caucasian -- Shirley Mason does not make a terribly convincing Chinese girl in this drama, but in the end it doesn't really matter because it turns out her character wasn't Asian to begin with. As in many films of the era, all the Chinese roles are taken by white actors. Wing Toy Read More

The Jolt

Synopsis: Several big wars in the 20th century have inspired films about the fate of the soldiers who returned and had to readjust to civilian life. WWII had The Best Years of Our Lives, the Vietnam War had Coming Home, and WWI had this picture. Although it received good notices at the time, it wasn't Read More

The Lamplighter

Actors: Shirley Mason, Raymond McKee, Edwin Booth Tilton

Synopsis: Emily Graham (Iris Ashton) marries Philip Amory (Philo McCullough), whose father is the lifelong enemy of Emily's father (Edwin Booth Tilton). When Philip accidentally blinds Emily, her father takes her infant and gives it to a sailor, who hands it over to his wife. The baby, Gertie grows up (to Read More

Blind Hearts

Actors: Hobart Bosworth, Wade Boteler, Irene Blackwell, Collette Forbes, Madge Bellamy

Synopsis: Hobart Bosworth both produced and starred in this rugged drama. Lars Larson (Bosworth) and John Thomas (Wade Boteler) are pals who head for the Yukon with their new wives (Irene Blackwell and Collette Forbes). The wives give birth in Nome -- the Larsons have a girl and the Thomases a boy. But Read More

Flame of Youth

Actors: Shirley Mason, Raymond McKee, Philo McCullough, Cecil Van Auker

Synopsis: Beebe, a Belgian flower girl (Shirley Mason), falls in love with Victor Fleming (not the director -- although he was known as a ladies' man -- but Philo McCullough), a charismatic artist visiting from Paris. He finds her innocence appealing, but eventually he returns to Paris, promising to send Read More

Girl of My Heart

Synopsis: A Southern aristocrat is under doctor's orders to put down his fiddle and take a vacation in the West. He plays a final song before putting down the instrument and picking up a gun to kill himself. His grim mission is interrupted by a young country girl (Shirley Mason) who is running away from her Read More

Kathleen Mavourneen

Synopsis: The quaint Irish lass of Annie Crawford's poem and Dion Boucicault's stage play came to the screen for the second time in 1919, courtesy of Theda Bara. No longer in the bloom of youth, the famous vamp was perhaps not the obvious choice to play the young innocent forced into a loveless marriage by Read More

Kidnapped

Synopsis: This first major adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped adhered fairly faithfully to the original novel. Raymond McKee was starred as David Balfour, the young 18th-century Scotsman who is cheated out of his inheritance by his scheming uncle Ebeneezer (Joseph Burke). At uncle's behest Read More