T. Roy Barnes
Barnes appeared in over 50 films between 1920 and 1935, primarily in comedies.
Barnes started his show career in vaudeville later turning to stage and film acting. During the 1920s, he often played "brash young go-getters" in supporting and leading roles. He’s best known for his roles as Buster Keaton's business partner Billy Meekin in Seven Chances (1925) and in W. C. Fields' comedy It's a Gift (1934), portraying an inquisitive Insurance Salesman. He retired from movies in 1935 and died two years later.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.521 |
| Birthday | 1880-08-11 |
| Place of Birth | Lincolnshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Thomas Roy Barnes, |
1925
Seven Chances
7.5/269
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million fro...
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Seven Chances
1923
Hollywood
7/1
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtim...
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Hollywood
1934
It's a Gift
6.454/87
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange...
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It's a Gift
1930
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
0/0
Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
1930
How's My Baby?
0/0
1930 Comedy short
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How's My Baby?
1930
Sally
6.833/6
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Wor...
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Sally
1928
A Blonde for a Night
5.1/7
After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.
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A Blonde for a Night
1930
Wide Open
5.3/3
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
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Wide Open
1935
Village Tale
4.5/1
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
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Village Tale
1934
Kansas City Princess
4.5/5
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynami...
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Kansas City Princess
1922
A Trip to Paramountown
6/2
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at wor...
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A Trip to Paramountown
1926
The Unknown Cavalier
0/0
Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds. The villain, as it turns out, is none other than...
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The Unknown Cavalier
1927
Chicago
5.7/19
Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted....
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Chicago
1923
Souls for Sale
6.2/20
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Souls for Sale
1923
Adam and Eva
0/0
An extravagant girl reforms when her father goes bust.
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Adam and Eva
1927
Body and Soul
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A disgraced alcoholic surgeon settles in a small village in the Swiss Alps. He falls for Hilda, a servant at the hotel where he lives. He tricks her i...
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Body and Soul
1931
Aloha
0/0
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir...
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Aloha
1931
Women of All Nations
2.6/5
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they g...
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Women of All Nations
1929
Dangerous Curves
5/1
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a...
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Dangerous Curves
1935
The Four Star Boarder
0/0
In an effort to appease his wife's wealthy aunt (Grace Goodall), newly-wed Charley must masquerade as a boarder in his own home while his wife (Consta...
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The Four Star Boarder
1935
Life Begins at Forty
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A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft fr...
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Life Begins at Forty
1935
Doubting Thomas
7/1
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides t...
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Doubting Thomas
1935
Carnival
0/0
"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His fat...
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Carnival
1925
The Crowded Hour
0/0
Telephone operator Peggy, puts on an act with Matt Wilde at a Bowery amateur night and is seen by Billy Laidlaw, who becomes convinced of her talents....
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The Crowded Hour
1924
The Great White Way
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Comic boxing tale was used as the basis for the 1936 Clark Gable/Marion Davies lark Cain & Mabel.
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The Great White Way
1920
So Long Letty
0/0
Harry Miller is a "natural-born mixer" while his wife Grace is a homebody, distressed by her husband's errant ways. Grace finds a kindred spirit in To...
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So Long Letty
1924
Reckless Romance
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Jerry Warner (Barnes) and Edith Somers (Breamer) are in love, but her father Judge Somers (Marshall) will not allow them to marry because he sees Jerr...
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Reckless Romance
1924
Young Ideas
0/0
Universal star Laura LaPlante stars in this lighthearted comedy based on Sophie Kerr's magazine story, Relative Values. Octavia Lowden (LaPlante) has...
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Young Ideas
1922
The Old Homestead
0/0
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
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The Old Homestead
1926
Ladies of Leisure
7/1
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her. Mami...
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Ladies of Leisure
1926
A Regular Scout
4/0
Silent cowboy western about a man on a mission to exact revenge on the gang who, he feels, are responsible for his mother's death, after their raid....
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A Regular Scout
1924
Butterfly
0/0
Silent Feature Film by Clarence Brown
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Butterfly
1923
The Go-Getter
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Bill Peck is discharged from an army hospital and goes in search of a job. Cappy Ricks hires Bill, but gives him an seemingly impossible test of findi...
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