Ernest Truex Movies

During World War I, Herr Dresser, a German-American professor from West Hoboken, New Jersey, invents a "mustache fixer," which stiffens the whiskers,...

Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.

In the town of Fremont, janitor Abraham Lincoln Jones is being groomed as the successor to Mayor Joe Bush. The old men who discuss politics in back...

After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

The life and complex relationships of ambitious college professor Walter Hubbard and the titular character, Elizabeth Owen, exploring the deeply...

Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he...

An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to...

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes...

A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his...

A young American broker at large in London.

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

Ernest Truex is a lawyer feuding for no clear reason with the lawyer across the hall. Truex gets a woman seeking a divorce; the lawyer across the...