Tom Ricketts
Popularity:0.152
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1853-01-15
Place of Birth:London, England, UK
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Also Known As:Thomas Ricketts, Thomas R. Ricketts, Thomas B. Ricketts

Strangers of the Night (1923)
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when two...

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off...

Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925)
Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.

Bonnie May (1920)
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron,...

The Killer (1921)
Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with...

Dead End (1937)
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of...

Sham (1921)
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and...

Three Women (1924)
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving...

The Old Soak (1926)
To the distress of his family, Clem Hawley, retired from his garage business, spends his time and money in the company of Al, the local bootlegger.

The Young in Heart (1938)
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.

Dry Martini (1928)
Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis...

The Dangerous Maid (1923)
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he...

Cheap Kisses (1924)
Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy, Donald Dillingham causes even greater...

My Wife and I (1925)
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young...

Show Boat (1936)
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Love's Blindness (1926)
A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the...

A Tailor-Made Man (1922)
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.

Forsaking All Others (1934)
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.

Beating the Game (1921)
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow...

The Desperate Hero (1920)
Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out...

Manhattan Love Song (1934)
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe...

Interference (1928)
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did...

My Friend from India (1927)
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything...

Shattered Idols (1922)
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as...

Side Show (1931)
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

Now or Never (1935)
A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang.

Oh, Doctor! (1925)
Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order. Now an...

Daniel Boone (1936)
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.

Secrets of the Night (1924)
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.

Women Won't Tell (1932)
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is...

Black Oxen (1923)
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of...

Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with...

Young Fugitives (1938)
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.

Sea Legs (1930)
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a...

Breakfast for Two (1937)
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and...

The Common Law (1931)
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?

Ambassador Bill (1931)
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is...

Forgotten (1933)
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws'...

The Paliser Case (1920)
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder,...

Light Fingers (1929)
"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.

The Great Lover (1920)
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the...

Mama Loves Papa (1933)
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.

When the Wife's Away (1926)
Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthur) and Ethel Winthrop (Dorothy Reviere) rent a...

Hi, Gaucho! (1935)
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.

History Is Made at Night (1937)
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep...

Skirt Shy (1929)
Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.

The Expert (1932)
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.

I Am Suzanne! (1933)
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his...

The Curtain Falls (1934)
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an...

Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.

Music Is Magic (1935)
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

By Your Leave (1934)
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.

Pleasure Cruise (1933)
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a...

East Lynne (1931)
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite...

Get Your Man (1927)
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome...

Stage Mother (1933)
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...

Son of Frankenstein (1939)
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is...

The Lady Escapes (1937)
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.

Gordon of Ghost City (1933)
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other...

The Vagabond King (1930)
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is...

Stolen Sweets (1934)
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a...

The Life of the Party (1930)
Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.

The Belle of Broadway (1926)
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform...

Cavalcade (1933)
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst...

Doomsday (1928)
A woman must choose between a life on the farm and a life of luxury.

No Greater Glory (1934)
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

The Red Rider (1934)
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's...

Secret Sinners (1933)
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that...

Man of the World (1931)
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she...

Within the Law (1923)
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always...

Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Ricketts) on the conditions that he retains the...

He Learned About Women (1933)
He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan...

Thrill of Youth (1932)
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the...

The Three Musketeers (1935)
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most...

To Mary - with Love (1936)
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at...

Gateway (1938)
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

Stranded in Paris (1926)
American shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, who has to kiss her when she loses a sack race....

The Lavender Bath Lady (1922)
Young shop-girl Mamie Conroy and wealthy Jeanette Gregory become close friends. When Mamie foils an attempted abduction of Jeanette, the latter's...

The Invisible Man (1933)
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the...

Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical....

Carnival in Paris (1937)
In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police.

Children of Divorce (1927)
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would...

Casey at the Bat (1927)
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York...

The Eternal Flame (1922)
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.

After the Thin Man (1936)
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the...

Vanity Fair (1932)
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.

Glad Rag Doll (1929)
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song...

Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted...

A Star Is Born (1937)
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her...

Human Cargo (1936)
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens...

The Girl Who Wouldn't Work (1925)
Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her...

Just Married (1928)
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.

Bobbed Hair (1925)
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.

Prince of Diamonds (1930)
Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith),...

Ladies at Play (1926)
Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, but, so far, her aunts haven't approved of any...

Bulldog Drummond (1929)
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's...

Big Business Girl (1931)
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926)
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and...

If I Had a Million (1932)
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Four Men and a Prayer (1938)
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.

Venus of Venice (1927)
A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.

Laughter in Hell (1933)
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.

A Christmas Carol (1908)
Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter. However, Scrooge dismisses...

Dancing Days (1926)
Despite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Loring discovers that Ralph Hedman is a pushover for...

Circe the Enchantress (1924)
Mae Murray as a Jazz Age baby who treats men like swine until she falls for the upright doctor living next door.

The Great Impersonation (1935)
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

Maid of Salem (1937)
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem,...

A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927)
Cynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who has left a fortune on the condition that no scandal could ever be associated with her name....

The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Red Hot Speed (1929)
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an...

The Willow Tree (1920)
After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself...

One More River (1934)
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.

Freedom of the Press (1928)
When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.

Puppets of Fate (1921)
Gabriel Palombra, a Venetian Punchinello Street show operator decides to move to America leaving his wife, Sorrentina, behind, with a promise to send...

Ladies of Leisure (1926)
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her....

Poker Faces (1926)
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it....

Trouble for Two (1936)
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called...

Top Hat (1935)
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel...

Too Many Crooks (1927)
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred...

Berkeley Square (1933)
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him...

The Law and the Man (1928)
A silent film from the end of the silent era.

Wages for Wives (1925)
Nell Bailey, taking a lesson from the married lives of her sister, Luella Logan, and her mother, agrees to marry Danny Kester provided that he will...

Vagabond Lady (1935)
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony...

The Phantom President (1932)
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party...

Alice Adams (1970)
Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In...

Parnell (1937)
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...

Blind Adventure (1933)
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they...

The Nutcracker (1926)
A man flees his frustrating home and work life and is injured by a streetcar.