James Morrison
Born: 1888-11-14 in Mattoon, Illinois, USA
Died: 1974-11-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
James Morrison, born James Woods Morrison, was an American silent movie actor with over 180 film credits. He later published two novels, Road End (1927) and April Luck (1932). He taught speech and drama classes at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn for many years.
Filmography
1927
1926
- The Impostor as Gordon
- The Count of Luxembourg as Anatole
- The Seventh Bandit as Paul Scanlon
1925
- Wreckage as Grant Demarest
- Don't as Abel
- The Pride of the Force as Jimmy Moore
1924
- Captain Blood as Jeremy Pitt
- Wine of Youth as Clinton (1870 prologue)
1923
- The Dangerous Age as Bob
- The Nth Commandment as Harry Smith
- The Little Girl Next Door as Jim Manning
- The Man Next Door as Jimmy
- On the Banks of the Wabash as David
- Held to Answer as Rollie Burbeck
- The Unknown Purple as Leslie Bradbury
1922
- The Little Minister as Gavin Dishart
- Only a Shop Girl as Charles Black
- Shattered Idols as Lt. Walter Hurst / David Hurst
- Handle with Care as Phil Burnham
1921
- Danger Ahead! as Norman Minot
- Black Beauty as Harry Blomefield
- When We Were Twenty-One as Richard Audaine
- Sowing the Wind as Ned Brabazon
- A Yankee Go Getter as Barry West
1920
- The Midnight Bride as Robert Pitcairn - Jeanne's sweetheart
- The Woman Game as Leonard Travers
- Love Without Question as Robert Blackburn
1919
- I'm on My Way
- Miss Dulcie from Dixie as Orrin Castleton
- Sacred Silence as Lt. Ralph Harrison
1918
- Over the Top as Albert Lloyd
- Moral Suicide
- A Marriage of Convenience as Billy Emerson, Mildred's Fiancé
- How Could You, Caroline? as Bob Worth
- Life or Honor? as James Manly / Aguinaldo
1917
- Bashful
- Crazy by Proxy
- Sins of Ambition as Franklin Church
- Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation as Philip Ward
- One Law for Both as Ossip Pulaski
- Babbling Tongues as Paul Savary
- Enlighten Thy Daughter as Harold Winthrop
1916
- The Hero of Submarine D-2 as Gilman Austen
- The Alibi as Arthur Mansfield
- Phantom Fortunes as Bob Deering
- The Man Hunt as Richard Ralston
- The Dawn of Freedom as Dick Cartwright
- The Redemption of Dave Darcey as Dave Darcey
- The Sex Lure as Arthur Reynolds
- The Little Trespasser
1915
- Easy Money as The Theatrical Manager
- The Wheels of Justice as Ralph Brooks
- Twice Rescued as Stephan Royston - Younger Son
- Mother's Roses as Payne Morrison
- Mortmain as Tom Forsythe
- A Madcap Adventure as Guy Dunbar
- For the Honor of the Crew as Dick Morgan
- The Ruling Power as Hugh Williams - the Son
- The Battle Cry of Peace as Charley Harrison
- Pawns of Mars as John - Florence's Brother
- Four Grains of Rice as Sidney Rance
- The Greater Motive as Bob Hammond aka The Battler
- A Wireless Rescue as Polly's Sweetheart
- From Out of the Big Snows as Harris
- The Man, the Mission and the Maid as Hal Gilman
- In the Days of Famine as Jan De Bar
- What Did He Whisper?
- A Fortune Hunter as Rupert
- The Third Party
1914
- The Hero
- The Christian as Brother Paul
- The Soul of Luigi as Luigi
- Marrying Sue as Percy
- The Passing of Diana as Rodney Miller
- The Apple as Hugo Hunfalvy
- Two Stepchildren as Joe Leigh - an Artist
- The Toll as John Steele
- The Honeymooners as Jimmy - the Nephew
- Too Much Burglar
- Iron and Steel as Carl Heiner
- Miss Raffles as Ralph Lyons
- My Official Wife as Undetermined Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- The Portrait as David - Mrs. Blair's Son
- The False and the True as Tom Saunders
- Dorothy Danesbridge, Militant as Ernest Lardner
- Children of the Feud as Boone Morton Sr.
- The Antique Engagement Ring as George Darrel
- The Greater Love as John Brown
- The Crime of Cain as Wylie Stone
- Regan's Daughter as Detective Phil Riordan
- Saved from a Life of Crime as Tom
- The Wheat and the Tares as Jim Stillwell
- The First Endorsement as John Wild - Allen's Son
- Within an Ace as Dick Anderson
- The Love of Pierre Larosse as Jacques Javillier
- Netty or Letty as Freddy - the Young Sweetheart
- He Never Knew as Earle Castro
- Wooing the Cook
- Fanny's Melodrama
- A Pair of Frauds
- The Unwritten Play as Old Silas Liversedge - the Father
- The Vanity Case as Jack Upton
1913
- Beau Brummel as Lord Alvanley
- Getting Up a Practice as One of the Doctor's Friends
- A Lady and Her Maid as Billy
- He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law as The Husband
- Tricks of the Trade
- The Sale of a Heart
- The Tiger Lily
- The Swan Girl
- The Modern Prodigal as Jack Gray, Their Son
- The Web as Francis Phillips
- The Volunteer Strike Breakers as Chester Colton
- The Butler's Secret as Wallace Dixon - Alfred's Son
- A Christmas Story as Jack Harvey - the Artist
- Up in a Balloon
- Two of a Kind as Wallie
- Vampire of the Desert as Derrick Corday, William's Son
- Betty's Baby as George
- Stenographer Troubles as Office Employee
- Cupid Through a Keyhole as Harry Eschert - Lila's Sweetheart
- A Homespun Tragedy
1912
- The Serpents as Gregg
- Yellow Bird as Edith's Sweetheart
- The Higher Mercy as Jasper Brinton, Mrs. Brinton's Son
- As You Like It as Silvius, a Shepherd
- A Vitagraph Romance as Charles Mackay, A Young Author, Caroline's Sweetheart
- The Loyalty of Sylvia as Suiter
- Saving an Audience as Mark
- The Miracle as The Palace Poet
- At Scrogginses' Corner as A Young Sculptor
- The Adventure of the Italian Model as Aubrey, The Artist Under Suspicion
- The Seventh Son as Harry Beecham, Janet's Seventh Son
- On the Pupil of His Eye as Herbert - Senator Walker's Nephew
- Tommy's Sister as Tommy Morgan
- Coronets and Hearts
- The Black Sheep as Percival Summers - Clara's Sweetheart
- The Picture Idol as Beth's Sweetheart
- The Two Battles as Young Mayford - Gladys's Brother
- The Struggle as Howard Peyton
- Dr. LaFleur's Theory as The Criminal's Right-Hand-Man
- When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet as Young Man at Cotillion (uncredited)
- The Signal of Distress as The Stranger
- The Pink Pajama Girl as James Davidson - Cecilia's Fiancé
- Captain Jenks' Diplomacy as Sir Brian's Son, Gerald
- The Indian Mutiny as Jack Wilson - an Officer of the British Regiment in India
- Willie's Sister as Willie Green
- A Cure for Pokeritis
- The Seepore Rebellion
- She Never Knew as James
- The Cylinder's Secret
- Romance of a Rickshaw as Lt. Graham
- The First Violin
- Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes as Harry Brown - the Young Man Who Finds Belle's Dancing Shoes
- Suing Susan as James - Gordon's Valet
- An Eventful Elopement as Jack Moss - the Girl's Sweetheart
- The Heart of Esmeralda as Duncan Miller
- A Modern Atalanta as Jim - Third Suitor
- The Foster Child as Jack - the Adopted Son
- Lulu's Anarchist as Tom - a Reporter
- Following the Star as John Tobin
1911
- The Geranium as Daniel Briton, the Huckster
- A Tale of Two Cities as Peasant brother
- The Death of King Edward III
- She Came, She Saw, She Conquered as Jack Hally
- Cherry Blossoms as The Classmate
- The Battle Hymn of the Republic
- The Fighting Schoolmaster as Phil Gardner - Nellie's Brother
- Easter Babies as The Father
- When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins as Jack Howard
- Betty Becomes a Maid
- Troublesome Secretaries
- Over the Chafing Dish
- A Message from Beyond as Jack Morrison - the Son
- The Mate of the 'John M' as Mandy's School Chum's Brother
- The Younger Brother as The Younger Werner Brother
- The Life Boat as The Son
- Kitty and the Cowboys as Cowboy
- The Strategy of Ann as Bob
- The Subduing of Mrs. Nag