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 Seventh Bandit as Paul Scanlon
- The Count of Luxembourg as Anatole
1925
- The Pride of the Force as Jimmy Moore
- Wreckage as Grant Demarest
- Don't as Abel
1924
- Captain Blood as Jeremy Pitt
- Wine of Youth as Clinton (1870 prologue)
1923
- The Unknown Purple as Leslie Bradbury
- The Nth Commandment as Harry Smith
- Held to Answer as Rollie Burbeck
- The Dangerous Age as Bob
- On the Banks of the Wabash as David
- The Little Girl Next Door as Jim Manning
- The Man Next Door as Jimmy
1922
- The Little Minister as Gavin Dishart
- Handle with Care as Phil Burnham
- Shattered Idols as Lt. Walter Hurst / David Hurst
- Only a Shop Girl as Charles Black
1921
- Sowing the Wind as Ned Brabazon
- Danger Ahead! as Norman Minot
- When We Were Twenty-One as Richard Audaine
- Black Beauty as Harry Blomefield
- 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
- Sacred Silence as Lt. Ralph Harrison
- Miss Dulcie from Dixie as Orrin Castleton
- I'm on My Way
1918
- How Could You, Caroline? as Bob Worth
- Moral Suicide
- A Marriage of Convenience as Billy Emerson, Mildred's Fiancé
- Over the Top as Albert Lloyd
- Life or Honor? as James Manly / Aguinaldo
1917
- One Law for Both as Ossip Pulaski
- Bashful
- Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation as Philip Ward
- Babbling Tongues as Paul Savary
- Sins of Ambition as Franklin Church
- Enlighten Thy Daughter as Harold Winthrop
- Crazy by Proxy
1916
- The Redemption of Dave Darcey as Dave Darcey
- The Alibi as Arthur Mansfield
- The Hero of Submarine D-2 as Gilman Austen
- The Dawn of Freedom as Dick Cartwright
- The Man Hunt as Richard Ralston
- Phantom Fortunes as Bob Deering
- The Sex Lure as Arthur Reynolds
- The Little Trespasser
1915
- In the Days of Famine as Jan De Bar
- The Man, the Mission and the Maid as Hal Gilman
- Mortmain as Tom Forsythe
- The Wheels of Justice as Ralph Brooks
- The Battle Cry of Peace as Charley Harrison
- For the Honor of the Crew as Dick Morgan
- From Out of the Big Snows as Harris
- The Ruling Power as Hugh Williams - the Son
- The Third Party as Newell Russell
- Twice Rescued as Stephan Royston - Younger Son
- Four Grains of Rice as Sidney Rance
- A Fortune Hunter as Rupert
- A Madcap Adventure as Guy Dunbar
- Mother's Roses as Payne Morrison
- A Wireless Rescue as Polly's Sweetheart
- What Did He Whisper?
- Easy Money as The Theatrical Manager
- Pawns of Mars as John - Florence's Brother
- The Greater Motive as Bob Hammond aka The Battler
1914
- Too Much Burglar
- The Christian as Brother Paul
- Two Stepchildren as Joe Leigh - an Artist
- Iron and Steel as Carl Heiner
- The Portrait as David - Mrs. Blair's Son
- Within an Ace as Dick Anderson
- The Love of Pierre Larosse as Jacques Javillier
- The Passing of Diana as Rodney Miller
- My Official Wife as Undetermined Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- The Hero
- Saved from a Life of Crime as Tom
- The Greater Love as John Brown
- The Wheat and the Tares as Jim Stillwell
- Regan's Daughter as Detective Phil Riordan
- He Never Knew as Earle Castro
- Marrying Sue as Percy
- The First Endorsement as John Wild - Allen's Son
- The Antique Engagement Ring as George Darrel
- The Vanity Case as Jack Upton
- Miss Raffles as Ralph Lyons
- The False and the True as Tom Saunders
- Netty or Letty as Freddy - the Young Sweetheart
- A Pair of Frauds
- The Toll as John Steele
- Fanny's Melodrama
- The Crime of Cain as Wylie Stone
- The Soul of Luigi as Luigi
- Dorothy Danesbridge, Militant as Ernest Lardner
- The Apple as Hugo Hunfalvy
- Wooing the Cook
- Children of the Feud as Boone Morton Sr.
- The Honeymooners as Jimmy - the Nephew
- The Unwritten Play as Old Silas Liversedge - the Father
1913
- Beau Brummel as Lord Alvanley
- Vampire of the Desert as Derrick Corday, William's Son
- Up in a Balloon
- Stenographer Troubles as Office Employee
- A Homespun Tragedy
- Cupid Through a Keyhole as Harry Eschert - Lila's Sweetheart
- A Lady and Her Maid as Billy
- A Christmas Story as Jack Harvey - the Artist
- The Butler's Secret as Wallace Dixon - Alfred's Son
- Tricks of the Trade
- The Tiger Lily
- The Modern Prodigal as Jack Gray, Their Son
- The Web as Francis Phillips
- Getting Up a Practice as One of the Doctor's Friends
- The Sale of a Heart
- The Swan Girl
- The Volunteer Strike Breakers as Chester Colton
- Betty's Baby as George
- He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law as The Husband
- Two of a Kind as Wallie
1912
- A Cure for Pokeritis
- The Cylinder's Secret
- The First Violin
- As You Like It as Silvius, a Shepherd
- Suing Susan as James - Gordon's Valet
- The Higher Mercy as Jasper Brinton, Mrs. Brinton's Son
- The Heart of Esmeralda as Duncan Miller
- The Adventure of the Italian Model as Aubrey, The Artist Under Suspicion
- Captain Jenks' Diplomacy as Sir Brian's Son, Gerald
- The Seepore Rebellion
- A Vitagraph Romance as Charles Mackay, A Young Author, Caroline's Sweetheart
- Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes as Harry Brown - the Young Man Who Finds Belle's Dancing Shoes
- Coronets and Hearts
- The Picture Idol as Beth's Sweetheart
- Following the Star as John Tobin
- An Eventful Elopement as Jack Moss - the Girl's Sweetheart
- Romance of a Rickshaw as Lt. Graham
- The Signal of Distress as The Stranger
- The Black Sheep as Percival Summers - Clara's Sweetheart
- Saving an Audience as Mark
- At Scrogginses' Corner as A Young Sculptor
- When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet as Young Man at Cotillion (uncredited)
- The Loyalty of Sylvia as Suiter
- Yellow Bird as Edith's Sweetheart
- Tommy's Sister as Tommy Morgan
- On the Pupil of His Eye as Herbert - Senator Walker's Nephew
- The Serpents as Gregg
- The Miracle as The Palace Poet
- The Pink Pajama Girl as James Davidson - Cecilia's Fiancé
- The Indian Mutiny as Jack Wilson - an Officer of the British Regiment in India
- The Struggle as Howard Peyton
- Dr. LaFleur's Theory as The Criminal's Right-Hand-Man
- The Seventh Son as Harry Beecham, Janet's Seventh Son
- She Never Knew as James
- The Two Battles as Young Mayford - Gladys's Brother
- The Foster Child as Jack - the Adopted Son
- A Modern Atalanta as Jim - Third Suitor
- Willie's Sister as Willie Green
- Lulu's Anarchist as Tom - a Reporter
1911
- The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
- Betty Becomes a Maid
- A Tale of Two Cities as Peasant brother
- The Geranium as Daniel Briton, the Huckster
- The Strategy of Ann as Bob
- Troublesome Secretaries
- The Death of King Edward III
- The Life Boat as The Son
- The Battle Hymn of the Republic
- The Fighting Schoolmaster as Phil Gardner - Nellie's Brother
- The Younger Brother as The Younger Werner Brother
- Kitty and the Cowboys as Cowboy
- Cherry Blossoms as The Classmate
- A Message from Beyond as Jack Morrison - the Son
- Over the Chafing Dish
- She Came, She Saw, She Conquered as Jack Hally
- Easter Babies as The Father
- When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins as Jack Howard
- The Mate of the 'John M' as Mandy's School Chum's Brother