Mike Donlin
Know for: Acting
Born: 1878-05-30
Place of birth: Peoria, Illinois, USA
Also know as:
The General (1926)
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an...
Off His Base (1932)
It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports...
Fifth Avenue Models (1925)
A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an...
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is...
The Trouble Shooter (1924)
Tom Mix, the most popular screen cowboy of his era, played a lineman for a power company in this action melodrama which was a Western in name only.
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917)
A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love...
Midnight Mary (1933)
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...
Air Hostess (1933)
A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
High Gear (1933)
When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod (Murray) looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and...
Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927)
A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.
The Tip-Off (1931)
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
Hit and Run (1924)
Big league baseball scout Red McCarthy signs up "Swat," a bush leaguer from a desert town, and Swat becomes a success because of his exceptional...
A Fool's Advice (1932)
An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Swellhead (1935)
Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his...
The Sea Beast (1926)
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
Hot Curves (1930)
The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.
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...
The Unknown Purple (1923)
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor...
The Primrose Path (1925)
Alcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more responsible, after a drinking accident causes him to...
Born Reckless (1930)
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
The Widow from Chicago (1930)
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
Spite Marriage (1929)
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't...
Ella Cinders (1926)
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of...
Sweepstakes (1931)
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
The Secret Witness (1931)
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor...
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall...
Thunderbolt (1929)
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and...
Riley the Cop (1928)
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
One Way Passage (1932)
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's...
Iron Man (1931)
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back...
The Fighting Marine (1926)
As a reporter, Dick Farrington is sent to cover an assignment that promises a big story. A lawyer has advertised for an ex-Marine who is a boxer. He...
Doctor Bull (1933)
In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly...
The Star Witness (1931)
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of...
Her Man (1930)
A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
The Purchase Price (1932)
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their...
Woman-Proof (1923)
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
Below the Deadline (1929)
Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested,...
Goldie Gets Along (1933)
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Up the River (1930)
Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled...
Beggars of Life (1928)
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains,...
Jack Spurlock, Prodigal (1918)
George Walsh plays the "prodigal" hero in this fast-moving star vehicle from the Fox factory. An incurable cut-up, Jack Spurlock throws a college...
Right Off the Bat (1915)
A dramatization of the life of real-life major league baseball player Mike Donlin.
White Flannels (1927)
A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz, stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz to local girl Anne, because she, as the...