James P. Spencer
Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Indian (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Indian
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Bald Convict (uncredited)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Carl (uncredited)
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Native (uncredited)
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Cook
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Crewman
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Tupa
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.

Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • as Pedro
Bill Sommers returns to find his ranch threatened by a corrupt, water-stealing landowner, John Weston. Weston’s foreman, Ballon, commits murder, frames Bill, and forces him to fight to clear his name.

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Black Wolf (uncredited)
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappers in the rugged Northwest Territory of Canada.

Movie - 1925, 2h 15m • as Adam
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackland, a female soldier of fortune, arrives by schooner in the islands. With the help of her Kanaka crew, she protects David from an attack by the natives who are led by Googomy. Joan nurses David back to health and becomes his business partner, protecting his mortgaged property from two avaricious moneylenders. Seeking vengeance, the moneylenders incite the natives to revolt.

Movie - 1929, 2h 15m • as Medicine Man
The picture is based on the 1920 novel, Norden For Lov og Ret, by Ejnar Mikkelsen, set in Nome, Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 and 1899. Presumed lost.
