Joseph W. Girard
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1871-04-01
Place of Birth:Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA
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Also Known As:Joe Gerard, Joseph W. Gerard, Joseph Gerard, Joe Girard, Jos. W. Girard, Jos. Girard, Joseph Girard, Joe Girrard

Radio Patrol (1932)
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who...

The Whirlwind (1933)
After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sheriff Tate Hurley who was his chief accuser. The...

The Midnight Man (1919)
Bob Gilmore, a young clubman, is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a birthday party. He overhears one of the men...

Nan of the North (1922)
A Canadian Mountie and a young girl team up to prevent an evil couple from finding a fallen meteorite that contains a powerful element called...

The Secret Six (1931)
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton....

The Screaming Shadow (1920)
Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.

Whispering Sage (1927)
This silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized by a greedy land baron (Joseph W. Girard). Jones played Buck Kildare, who, after...

A Soul for Sale (1917)
After Neila Pendleton's father dies, leaving his wife and daughter penniless, the avaricious Mrs. Pendleton decides to marry Neila to the highest...

What Am I Bid? (1919)
Betty Yarnell lives with her drunkard father in the North Woods mountains. Betty is shunned by the villagers whenever she ventures out to pick up her...

Silent Men (1933)
In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He is after the Wilder brothers who he thinks are...

A Yankee Go Getter (1921)
Popular action heroine Neva Gerber played the dual roles of Lucia and Vera Robilant in this low-budget silent melodrama produced by Benjamin F....

Aces and Eights (1936)
A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats.

Outlawed Guns (1935)
Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers. When Babe gets mixed up with outlaws, Reece...

Ride 'Em Cowboy (1936)
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.

The Fighting Trooper (1934)
When the Ranger Sergeant returns murdered with a note that LaFarge did it, Trooper Burke sets out to after LaFarge. Working undercover, he saves...

Flying High (1926)
While taking a joyride with his sweetie Patricia, daredevil pilot Roy Cummins witnesses the aerial hijacking of a mail plane.

Jack O'Clubs (1924)
A tough policeman who patrols the city's worst beat loses his nerve when he believes he has hurt the girl he loves.

His Fighting Blood (1935)
A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his...

The Third Alarm (1930)
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are...

The Mystery Train (1931)
A group of passengers are trapped in a runaway Pullman car.

Fireman, Save My Child (1927)
Two firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled and bratty daughter, who keeps turning in false...

The Hurricane Express (1932)
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of...

Dangerous Paths (1921)
Dangerous Paths is a 1921 silent film

The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen (1937)
Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the gang. Almost caught by them, he escapes only to...

The Big Stampede (1932)
Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.

The Silent Hero (1927)
Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade...

The Ladder of Fortune (1915)
Wandering minstrel Louis d’Angelo must flee his homeland to America after a duel over the hand of his beloved, Delicia. Finding hardship and...

The Blue Fox (1921)
Silent adventure serial starring Ann Little. Episodes: 1) Message of Hate, 2) Menace from the Sky, 3) Mysterious Prisoner, 4) A Perilous Ride, 5) A...

Shotgun Jones (1914)
Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cattle, receiving for it cash payment in bills of...

The Voice on the Wire (1917)
A silent action movie serial consisting of 15 chapters.

The Eagle's Talons (1923)
A stirring drama of Wall Street manipulation of the world's wheat supply, which leads the characters into adventures and danger in various corners of...

Driftin' Thru (1926)
A drifter hobo is falsely accused of killing a saloon owner

Frontier Justice (1936)
When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on their ranch and bring sheep onto the cattle...

Frontier Scout (1938)
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).

Whirlwind Horseman (1938)
Ken and Happy, looking for their friend Cherokee, run into an outlaw gang led by Ritter who have been terrorizing the ranchers. Ken figures that one...

Courtin' Wildcats (1929)
College boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he finds Calamity Jane running roughshod over everyone....

Crashing Thru (1939)
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.

Officer Thirteen (1932)
A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndicate that controls the gambling--and much of the...

Step on It! (1922)
Brother of Lorraine Leighton is falsely accused of rustling and murder and shipped off to jail. Desperate, Lorraine enlists the help of rancher Vic...

Strictly Dishonorable (1931)
A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boorish New Jersey boyfriend or a dashing Opera star,...

The One Woman Idea (1929)
He was a great Persian Prince. His Harem was filled with seductive beauties. Yet he loved one woman- a woman from another country-wife of another man.

The Tonto Kid (1934)
Lawyer Creech is after the ranch of the dying Cartwright. First he brings in Cahill to pose as the only living relative. Then when the Tonto Kid...

The Green Archer (1940)
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy...

Lightnin' Bill Carson (1936)
A lawman captures the notorious "Pecos Kid", who is tried and hanged for his crimes--then starts to have doubts as to whether the Kid actually...

What Becomes of the Children? (1936)
Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood! Originally intended to warn America's...

The Heart of Humanity (1918)
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five...

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand (1936)
15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the people that want it.

Sealed Lips (1931)
The Shadow's third movie short, an adaptation from a Donald Van Riper story, "Dying Lips," which appeared in an issue of Detective Story Magazine.

Out of the Storm (1926)
Out of the Storm is a 1926 silent drama.

The Drag-Net (1936)
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

Ride 'em, Cowgirl (1939)
Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X Ranch, owned by Rufe Rickson, to further some...

The Pride of the Force (1925)
The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film

The Crusader (1932)
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.

Clipped Wings (1937)
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Canadian Air Corps, because of his fear of...

The Final Extra (1927)
The alert atmosphere of a large-city newspaper office and its giant presses combines with the back-stage atmosphere of the theatre, set against the...

The Outlaw Deputy (1935)
While searching for his friend's killer, a former outlaw (Tim McCoy) thwarts a robbery and becomes a lawman.

Troopers Three (1930)
Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville...

Perils of the Yukon (1922)
A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4. Master and Man; 5. Terrors of the North; 6....

The Murder in the Museum (1934)
When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the...

Held For Ransom (1938)
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.

Defenders of the Law (1931)
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather...

Modern Youth (1926)
Modern Youth is a lost silent film.

The Fiddlin' Buckaroo (1933)
Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' objects to Wolf's kidnapping of Ann, he is left in a...

The Code of the Scarlet (1928)
Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang....

Sons of the Saddle (1930)
Jim Brandon, foreman of the Wind River Ranch, owned by Martin Stavnow, is in love with Ronnie, the rancher's daughter, though he is unaware that...

Partners in Crime (1928)
After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is...

Captain Midnight (1942)
Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator...

The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924)
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of...

Wild West Days (1937)
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry...

We're in the Navy Now (1926)
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him...

Racing Luck (1935)
Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a rival owner who knows that Dan's horse can win a...

The Night Hawk (1924)
Our Western star begins this actioner rather improbably, as a New York City gangster. But soon enough he heads for the more comfortable expanse of...

The Silent Code (1935)
Northwest Mounted Police Corporal Jerry Hale is assigned to take over the district of a fellow-officer, and is puzzled as he had worked this district...

While the City Sleeps (1928)
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though...

Zenobia (1939)
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

A Tenderfoot Goes West (1936)
Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see...

The Shield of Honor (1927)
Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?

Navy Secrets (1939)
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow...

The Oregon Trail (1936)
Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father.....

Man Of Action (1933)
The Sheriff shoots the robber of the Bank and recovers the money bag only to find it empty. Ranger Tim Barlow arrives and takes over the...

'49–'17 (1917)
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The...

The Girl from Havana (1929)
Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a musical comedy troupe to capture a gang of jewel...

Social Error (1935)
A wild college student gets in fights, steals cars, is caught by the police and finally expelled from college. Later on, though, he comes to the aid...

Back to the Primitive (1911)
John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and apprises her of the fact that Lord Thurlow sails on the...

Blazing Guns (1935)
After Slug Raton takes Brady's horse, hat, and gun, the Sheriff arrests Grady thinking he is the outlaw. Slug's men chase them to Ricard's ranch...

Her Social Value (1921)
A shop girl has ambitions of marrying up.

Trapped in Tia Juana (1932)
An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert...

Deadwood Dick (1940)
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

Sergeant York (1941)
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep...

Men of Action (1935)
A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.

Diamond Jim (1935)
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

The Spider Returns (1941)
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.

Unashamed: A Romance (1938)
A woman who is in love with her boss entices him to join her at a nudist camp, but his affection soon turns elsewhere.

Bare Fists (1919)
Harry's father is killed in a gunfight, and his mother makes him swear he'll never again use his gun, and rely only on his bare fists. But when his...

Golden Harvest (1933)
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat...

Tentacles of the North (1926)
Two ships are caught in the Arctic ice. (Silent Film)

The Terror (1928)
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".

Legally Dead (1923)
A man faces being hanged for a crime he didn't commit

Renegades of the West (1932)
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.

The Secret Code (1942)
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.

The Girl of the Golden West (1930)
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.

From Headquarters (1929)
United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Marines in a search of a party of American tourists...

The Fleet's In (1928)
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with...

Wolves of the North (1924)
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.

Outlaw Rule (1935)
A rancher, frustrated with constant cattle rustling and the inability of the local sheriff to stop it, is accused of murder when the sheriff is found...

Red Courage (1921)
Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is being urged to leave by a gang of thugs led by...

Hello Cheyenne! (1928)
Rival telephone crews are in a race to be the first to connect telephone service between Rawlings and Cheynne, Wyoming. Lineman Tom Remington's...

Mission to Moscow (1943)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

The Sky Spider (1931)
The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is shot down by Hugh Jeffries for the money it...

Hell Morgan's Girl (1917)
Roger Curwell (William Stowell) is disowned by his father (Joseph W. Girard) because of his desire to be an artist. But instead of making good as a...

Three Jumps Ahead (1923)
John Ford both directed and wrote the story (based on his published work The Hostage), a typical western romance in which Mix falls for the daughter...

A Huntress of Men (1916)
Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming Harcourt decides he can domesticate her and they...

The Bride's Awakening (1918)
A husband orders his wife to keep their marriage a secret, in order to better continue his affair with a married woman.

The Risky Road (1918)
Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Park would direct films with actress and producer...

Her Body in Bond (1918)
The cabaret act of husband-and-wife dancing team Peggy and Joe Blondin is broken up when Joe becomes consumptive and is ordered West to recuperate....

Fear Not (1917)
Brothers James and Allen Mornington are both addicted to cocaine and both believe that their addiction is caused by a hereditary failing. James rises...

The Boaster (1926)
Angered by his son Dick's boastful ways, which in one incident lead him to lose a business deal, an automobile manufacturer challenges him to...

Treason (1917)
The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous position. The spy is intercepted and killed by...

The Two-Soul Woman (1918)
Two men, one of them a villainous hypnotist, contend for the same woman, unaware that she suffers from dual personality disorder.

Danger, Go Slow (1918)
Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "the Eel," the leader of the gang of crooks with...

King of the Rodeo (1929)
A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.

Paid in Advance (1919)
In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.

The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the...

Kentucky Blue Streak (1935)
A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence. Now, Coughlin can ride his family's pride and...

Lovebound (1923)
Besse Belwin works as a stenographer for district attorney John Mobley. It doesn't take long for Mobley to fall in love with his cute little employee...

Doughboys (1930)
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he...

The Brass Bullet (1918)
Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial

My Woman (1933)
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.

Soft Boiled (1923)
John Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter learns to curb his violent temper. Tom is put on a...

The Marriage Lie (1918)
Left alone and penniless after her father dies, Eileen Orton attempts suicide. Douglas Seward, who must be married to obtain the position he seeks,...

The Crowd (1928)
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress,...

Society's Driftwood (1917)
When Judge Grant sentences Paul Rogers to jail on circumstantial evidence, Paul's sister Lena swears revenge.

The Sealed Envelope (1919)
Peter James Slaney, just released from prison, is the only boarder who is kind to Lena, the maid at the cheap Paris Hotel. So that Lena can leave her...

The Ivory-Handled Gun (1935)
Buck Ward and the Wolverine Kid, who each own one of the ivory handled guns, continue the feud started by their fathers.

Racetrack (1933)
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif,...

Ten Days (1925)
Dick Van Buren, a wealthy young man with a penchant for breaking traffic laws, is arrested for speeding and sentenced to 10 days in jail. He is given...

Conscience (1915)
Inventor George Grant and his partner, financier John Benson, accept an offer of $200,000 for the rights to an invention. After Grant breaks up a...

Gambling Wives (1924)
Bank clerk Vincent Forrest loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe and her provider, Van Merton. Forrest's wife Ann begins an affair...

Love's Pilgrimage to America (1916)
Lulu, the bishop's daughter, and Tom, the Duke of Bilgewater's nephew, are in love and want to marry. Their relatives oppose the marriage, however,...

The Double Standard (1917)
Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting the dives and cabarets of the city, and promises...

Loot (1919)
Wade Hildreth is sent to New York from London to receive a diamond necklace for Lady Gwendolyn from the jeweler Arabin. A gang of crooks led by Pete...

The Lords of High Decision (1916)
Even though he disapproves of the harshness with which his father, the Colonel, treats his employees, Wayne Craighill joins the old man's mining...

The Lair of the Wolf (1917)
Widow Margaret Dennis, unaware of the abusive nature of Oliver Cathcart, agrees to become his wife. Among other cruelties, Cathcart has ruined the...

The Leatherneck (1929)
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three...

Laughing at Danger (1924)
A young fellow, down in the dumps after a belle breaks his heart, believes his father is setting up staged escapades and dangers in an attempt to get...

Dishonored (1931)
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

The Man from Nowhere (1916)
Although Dorenzo murders Betty Herron, a jury convicts her brother James, and sentences him to life imprisonment. Then, after James saves the...

Thrown to the Lions (1916)
Linnie Carter, a cabaret entertainer, struggles to remain innocent in the midst of the fast life. Harry Sullivan, a gangster, becomes attentive to...

Forlorn River (1926)
A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on the desert by his companion, Bill Hall. He is...

The Narrow Path (1916)
Bessie Allen, a girl of the slums, dances in the streets of the Lower East Side of New York to the delight of the crowds. She becomes an orphan when...

Where Is This West? (1923)
John Harley leaves his milkman job to take possession of half of a cattle ranch while waitress Sallie Summers goes west on a similar mission to take...

A Seashore Romeo (1915)
Dolly’s father disapproves of her boyfriend Ben, thinking he is only interested in athletics and not being able to provide for his daughter....

Rene Haggard Journeys On (1915)
Rene, condemned to execution for murder in the first degree tells his mother the story of the crime. His sister had been lured from home and...

The Other Woman's Story (1925)
Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colby is arrested and at trial all testimony...

The Night Message (1924)
The Lefferts-Longstreet feud is renewed when young Harney Lefferts is shot accidentally by Lem Beeman, telegraph operator and suitor of Elsie...