Filmografía de John R. Cumpson como actor
Películas protagonizadas por John R. Cumpson
4
1912
A short silent comedy in which Billy, who has lied to his wife so that he can go out on the town with a friend, gets caught by her. ...
0
1911
Billy is out for a stroll when he spies a prepossessing-looking young woman. He follows and she enters the office of a spiritualist. Producing a tip, he is initiated into the mysteries of table r ...
4.7
1910
It's a busy day at the office, and the stenographer is exhausted from trying to keep up with the demands on her skills. Even when she stays late, she cannot catch up with all of the work. But the ...
🎭 Bumptious
4.6
1910
Mr. Bumptious insists on wallpapering the parlor himself, in order to save money. ...
🎭 Mr. Nichols
0
1910
A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daughter are dining at. ...
🎭 The Husband
0
1910
A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is mortally wounded and his now repentant wife c ...
🎭 Miner
4.2
1909
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all the men flirt with him and abandon Lucy. When h ...
🎭 In Boarding House
4.8
1909
This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position. Lillie Green, who keeps a boarding house, rec ...
🎭 Delivery Man
0
1909
A woman in love with an unsuccessful author tries to convince a publisher to accept his work. ...
🎭 Mr. Jones
0
1909
Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the parlor. ...
🎭 Mr. Jones
0
1909
Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he's gone, a burglar starts to break into his home. Mr. Jones arrives home just in time to catch him. Instead of calling for the pol ...
5
1909
Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home. ...
🎭 At Party
4.5
1909
Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment, she comes face to face with her misdeeds. ...
🎭 Comic Cutthroat/A Member of the Court
4.5
1909
A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily re ...
🎭 Mr. Jones
4
1909
Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find ...
🎭 Mr. Jones
4
1909
A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visit ...
🎭 In Crowd
4.6
1909
A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches ...
4.7
1909
A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him t ...
🎭 Innkeeper
3.9
1909
After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man. ...
🎭 Edward Jones
0
1909
After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jones's pocket. A jealous Mrs. Jones finds the note, and a huge quarrel erupts. ...
🎭 In Office
0
1909
A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds her so attractive that he suggests a new job ...
🎭 Member of Suicide Club
0
1909
One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself. Presumed to be a lost film. ...
🎭 The Man with the Satchel
0
1909
Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag, even when he's robbed. The thieves assume he's a colleague and return the bag and tools. ...
🎭 Innkeeper
0
1909
A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He returns to the castle and hides until the kidnappe ...
🎭 Mr. Schneider
0
1909
Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his house, but when he sees they are stealing all the ...
🎭 Chinese Man
0
1909
Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he reconciles with his daughter so he can get a good mea ...
🎭 The Tramp
3
1909
A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person. ...
🎭 Man in the Orchestra / Man in the Bar
5.8
1909
A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how h ...
🎭 Mr. Jones
0
1909
Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation. ...
🎭 Man on Street / At Dance
4.5
1909
"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a masterpiece of the dressmaker's art she easily fas ...
🎭 Barkeep / Salvationist
4.5
1909
A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a ...
🎭 Father
0
1909
A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers, and the disgusted suitor rejects her. ...
🎭 Nobleman
0
1909
Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of diversion he visits the art rooms, just as a ...
🎭 Mr. Jones
0
1909
Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk. ...
🎭 Dinner Guest
3.8
1909
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic turn of mind and her soul soared above plebeian ...
🎭 Mr. Jones
4.1
1909
The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses' residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch 'the acting bug' in this split-reel subject. ...
🎭 The Doctor
0
1909
Jack Windom experiences a sensation of awe at the reception of the Hindoo dagger from his old chum, Tom, who was traveling in India. Hanging the dagger on the wall. Jack goes out. For some time J ...
🎭 At Black & Tan Ball
4
1909
Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money. ...
🎭 In Tenement
3.7
1909
Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met with a positive rebuff, and when he becomes ...
🎭 Theatre Audience
6.2
1909
A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats. ...
🎭 Mr. Jones
4
1909
Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was t ...
🎭 Party Guest
0
1909
Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company. ...
🎭 At Jeweler's
🎭 In Crowd
0
1909
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the crowd in this film produced by the Biograph Company. ...
🎭 Footman
0
1909
Mack Sennett appears as a footman in this film produced by the Biograph Company. ...
🎭 Mr. Jones
5.5
1908
Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his long-suffering wife. In this film, Jones rips ...
0
1908
Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company. ...
🎭 Smithson / Man at Broker's
0
1908
It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of a case of jewels at the home of Robert Jenkin ...
🎭 Mr. Bibbs
5
1908
After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired. The police arrive and pursue the man, now cov ...
🎭 Honorable Patrick McPheeney
0
1908
Mack Sennett appears as a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company. ...
5
1905
Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and then proceeds to abuse his wife both verbally ...