James Kirkwood

Known for Acting

2/22/1876

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Biography

James Cornelius Kirkwood Sr. (February 22, 1876 – August 24, 1963) was an American actor and director.

Known For (149 credits)

6.4

Movie

Two Rode Together

1961

Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.

6.3

Movie

The Search for Bridey Murphy

1956

After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.

5.0

Crossroads

1955

An anthology series based on the activities of clergymen from different denominations.

Movie

Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush

1954

In TV's pioneer days when kids idolized the Lone Ranger, the Texas Kid was a knight errant of the frontier leading the fight for law and order alongside his Mexican companion Pepe. In this rarely-seen TV pilot, the Kid and Pepe intercede on behalf of the murdered rancher's daughter, openly defying the landgrabbers in a cow town so lawless that rustlers operate in broad daylight! Shot at the Corrigan Ranch in 1950, TEXAS KID co-starred Mercury Records recording artist John Laurenz as Pepe and stuntman Hugh Hooker as the Kid. Hooker, a specialist in stunts involving horses and stagecoaches, often doubled Gene Autry and even produced a few movies, including the low-budget gem . That movie's star was Hugh's teenage son Buddy Joe Hooker, whose own subsequent, stellar stunt career inspired HOOPER (1978), Burt Reynolds' hit comedy tribute to movie stuntmen.

6.0

Movie

The Last Posse

1953

A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.

6.5

Movie

The Sun Shines Bright

1953

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.

3.6

Movie

I Dream of Jeanie

1952

The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.

6.5

Movie

Man in the Saddle

1951

A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.

6.7

Movie

Two of a Kind

1951

A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.

5.8

Movie

The Nevadan

1950

A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.

7.4

Movie

Intruder in the Dust

1949

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man, holding a pistol that has recently been fired. Quickly arrested for murder and jailed, Beauchamp insists he's innocent and asks the town's most prominent lawyer, Gavin Stevens, to defend him, but Stevens refuses. When a local boy whom Beauchamp has helped in the past and who believes him to be innocent hears talk of a mob taking Beauchamp out of jail and lynching him, he pleads with Stevens to defend Beauchamp at trial and prove his innocence.

6.8

Movie

The Doolins of Oklahoma

1949

When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.