Fred O'Beck

Fred O'Beck

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles

#1Oh Kay!

Movie - 1928, 2h 15m as Captain Hornsby

7.0 / 10
ComedyRomance

On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.

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#2Some Like It... Cold

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.6 / 10
Comedy

The old Valmorin died 200 years ago. The notary tells the family about the inheritance: the one who is terminally ill will receive the money. They all try their luck with getting ill before the other so one family member pretends to be deaf, another pretends to have a terrible back ache and so on...

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#3Vamping Venus

Movie - 1928, 2h 15m as Vulcan

7.0 / 10
Comedy

A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost.

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#4A Timely Rescue

Movie - 1913, 2h 15m as The Ranch Foreman

7.0 / 10
RomanceDrama

John Bronson, Mr. Daly's farmhand, has ambitions and decides to go to the city. He breaks the news to Mr. and Mrs. Daly and their daughter Lottie. They do their utmost to dissuade him from his purpose, but John has made up his mind to go. He gets employment in a department store. Soon he is promoted to a slightly higher position. He has become neglectful of his country friends, and Lottie waits in vain for an answer to her letters.

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#5The Skipper's Narrow Escape

Movie - 1921, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Comedy

After hearing about his powerful raisin cider, Cynthia Snoop takes it upon herself to ensnare The Skipper. Meanwhile Katrinka accidentally ruins the Spriggins' tea party when she inadvertently breaks a water pipe when trying to kill a mouse.

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#6Toonerville's 'Boozem' Friends

Movie - 1921, 2h 15m as Thaddeus Bumstead

7.0 / 10

Depicts a day in the life of Toonerville, featuring slapstick scenes in Bang’s Quick Service Restaurant, surreptitious drinking despite prohibition, and an evil villain trying to trade a mortgage for marriage to a beautiful young girl.

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#7The Great Divide

Movie - 1915, 2h 15m as Dutch

7.0 / 10
WesternDramaRomance

The Jordans, Phil and Ruth, accompanied by Philip's wife, Polly, and Dr. Winthrop Newbury, a suitor for Ruth's hand, bid old Mrs. Jordan good-bye at the station of Milford Corners, Mass., and depart for the West, to work over some unredeemed desert land, which was left to the Jordans by their dead father. Arriving in the west, they take up their work, but it proves anything but a success. On the brink of the Great Divide lives Stephen Ghent, an untamed and uncouth man of the West, and on account of his manner is respected by the habitués of Miller's saloon and dance hall in the town, which he and two of his acquaintances in the persons of Pedro, a half-breed Mexican, and Dutch, a brutal type of the West, frequent.

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