Ruth Taylor

Ruth Taylor

Ruth Taylor was an American actress in silent films and early talkies. Her son was the writer/comic/actor Buck Henry (real name Henry Zuckerman).

  • Title: Ruth Taylor
  • Popularity: 0.189
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1905-01-13
  • Place of Birth: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
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  • Also Known As: Ruth Alice Taylor, Ruth Zuckerman
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Ruth Taylor Movies

  • 1920
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    Headin' Home

    Headin' Home

    5.4 1920 HD

    The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.

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  • 1926
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    The Soapsuds Lady

    The Soapsuds Lady

    1 1926 HD

    The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.

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  • 1926
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    Wandering Willies

    Wandering Willies

    1 1926 HD

    Percy Nudge (Australian-born Billy Bevan) and Dusty Duncan (Scotsman Andy Clyde) are two hoboes playing “hooky from the hoosegow” (that's "jail" to you and me). Desperate for some chow, they opt to impersonate a police officer and a baby, two types of diners most likely to get offered freebies. When that fails, they go to the food-chain source, posing as a cow. Yet more misadventures ensue before the duo finds itself chased by a latterday edition of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops. Director Del Lord was a former Keystone Kop who helmed many of the Three Stooges' most beloved comedies.

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  • 1926
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    Her Actor Friend

    Her Actor Friend

    1 1926 HD

    Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.

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  • 1926
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    The Perils of Petersboro

    The Perils of Petersboro

    1 1926 HD

    Alice Day is the pretty maid who wins the heart of Danny O'Shea, a young artist who motors down to Petersboro to paint the scenery.

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  • 1925
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    Butter Fingers

    Butter Fingers

    5.8 1925 HD

    The key to baseball is the pitcher, of course. In this comedy short, the pitcher has something special. Special enough to elicit a threat to rig a game! Our hero has other ideas, though.

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  • 1926
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    Flirty Four-Flushers

    Flirty Four-Flushers

    5 1926 HD

    With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.

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  • 1927
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    The Jolly Jilter

    The Jolly Jilter

    1 1927 HD

    Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin

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  • 1927
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    Cured in the Excitement

    Cured in the Excitement

    1 1927 HD

    Professor Brawn has been swinging a dumbbell for so long he looks like one!

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  • 1927
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    The College Kiddo

    The College Kiddo

    1 1927 HD

    The College Kiddo is a 1927 comedy short.

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  • 1927
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    For Sale, a Bungalow

    For Sale, a Bungalow

    1 1927 HD

    For Sale, a Bungalow is a 1927 comedy short

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  • 1929
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    This Thing Called Love

    This Thing Called Love

    1 1929 HD

    A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about married bliss.

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  • 1926
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    A Blonde's Revenge

    A Blonde's Revenge

    1 1926 HD

    Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise.

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  • 1927
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    The Pride of Pikeville

    The Pride of Pikeville

    1 1927 HD

    Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.

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  • 1925
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    A Rainy Knight

    A Rainy Knight

    5 1925 HD

    Sweethearts Jimmie Carter and Bessie Barnes work for Adolph Brock at the Acme Corporation. One day while he is out for a drive in his jalopy of a car, Jimmie spies a pretty young woman on horseback. He comes to her rescue after she falls off her horse and gets injured, he leading her to refuge in an abandoned cabin when it starts to rain heavily. Although she flirts with him, he, in turn attracted to her, wants to remain faithful to Bessie and resists his urges. When this woman mysteriously disappear on him, he can't stop thinking about her and follows her innuendo to meet with her at her apartment. All the while, he is unaware that she is Peggy Joyce, Brock's gold-digging fiancée. He is also unaware that Peggy has ulterior motives for coming on to him, which, in combination with her dangerous past, could lead to complications for all involved.

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  • 1927
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    Broke in China

    Broke in China

    5.5 1927 HD

    Donald Drake, a deep sea gondolier ex soda jerk, arrives at the All Nation Cafe in Shanghai. The proprietor believes he's a penniless ne'er-do-well - which he is - but he unexpectedly comes into a small windfall. So the proprietor orders slightly rough around the edges Maud and Mollie, two of his American good time girls working their way around the world, to get him to spend all his money while there. As Donald ends up telling the two good time girls his life story - most specifically about the blonde he let slip through his fingers, she who was the love of his life - a few revelations and the errant coin he left at the roulette wheel betting table change his life.

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  • 1925
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    Lucky Stars

    Lucky Stars

    7 1925 HD

    Harry leaves home to become a doctor, but winds up with "Doc" Healy's Medicine Show.

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  • 1928
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    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    1 1928 HD

    Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.

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  • 1928
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    Just Married

    Just Married

    1 1928 HD

    After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.

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  • 1925
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    The Iron Nag

    The Iron Nag

    1 1925 HD

    A jail break turns into a race.

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  • 1926
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    A Yankee Doodle Duke

    A Yankee Doodle Duke

    1 1926 HD

    Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.

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  • 1929
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    The College Coquette

    The College Coquette

    1 1929 HD

    Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her roommate, Doris Marlowe, is a naive girl who falls madly in love with Tom, a sophisticated playboy who leads Doris on until he tires of her. At this point Doris pleads with Tom to love her, but he refuses. Betty, afraid for Doris' welfare, tries to save her from Tom by falsely attracting him to herself. Doris, crestfallen, leaves them and accidentally tumbles into an elevator shaft and dies. Harvey is furiously jealous and determines never to see Betty again until he learns the real reason for her actions with Tom; then he asks her to marry him.

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  • 1929
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    A Hint to Brides

    A Hint to Brides

    1 1929 HD

    When a newly married couple go back to their apartment, they discover a robbery is in progress.

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  • 1918
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    Jack Spurlock, Prodigal

    Jack Spurlock, Prodigal

    1 1918 HD

    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 campus in an uproar when he shows up the first day of classes with his pet bear. Needless to say, Jack is immediately booted out of college, infuriating his big-businessman father (Dan Mason).

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  • 1918
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    Wild Honey

    Wild Honey

    1 1918 HD

    Actress Letty Noon and Rev. David Warwick seek advice from a parson who tells the tale of a minister who falls for a dance hall girl named Wild Honey. After a jealous suitor frames the minister for murder, Wild Honey clears his name, and he realizes her love. When another suitor tries to shoot the minister, Wild Honey is wounded protecting him. The minister takes her to another town, and they live happily together.

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  • 1946
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    The Queen's Husband

    The Queen's Husband

    1 1946 HD

    The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming son who wants to be king himself and is plotting to take advantage of the situation.

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