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Anna Townsend is a Actor American born on 4 january 1845
Anna Townsend (January 5, 1845 – September 11, 1923) was a long-time theatre actress who turned to silent film in an advanced stage of her life. Townsend performed in several Harold Lloyd films, she is probably best known for her role as Harold's good-hearted grandmother in Grandma's Boy (1922).
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Safety Last! (1923)
, 1h10Directed by Sam Taylor, Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke, Earl Mohan, Ray Erlenborn
Roles Tiny Old Lady Helped by $50 Ruse (uncredited)
Rating80%
The film opens in 1922 with Harold Lloyd (the character has the same name as the actor) behind bars. His mother and his girlfriend, Mildred, are consoling him as a somber official and priest show up. The three of them walk toward what looks like a noose. It then becomes obvious they are at a train station and the "noose" is actually a trackside pickup hoop used by train crews to receive orders without stopping, and the bars are merely the ticket barrier. He promises to send for his girlfriend so they can get married once he has "made good" in the big city. Then he is off.
Daddy (1923)
, 1hDirected by E. Mason Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jackie Coogan, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Josie Sedgwick, Cesare Gravina, Bert Woodruff, Anna Townsend
Roles Mrs. Holden
Rating62%
Jackie, le fils d'un pauvre professeur de violon, est séparé de son père à la suite du divorce de ses parents, et ne le retrouve que quand il est devenu un célèbre instrumentiste.
Grandma's Boy (1922)
, 1hDirected by Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Sammy Brooks, Anna Townsend, Dick Sutherland, Charles Stevenson
Roles His Grandma
Rating69%
The grandma's boy is a timid coward who cannot muster courage to woo his girl and is afraid of his rival. His loving grandma gives him a magic charm from the Civil War that had been used by his grandfather, which gives him the courage to capture a town criminal and win the girl. The "magic charm" turns out to be the handle of her umbrella and his grandma was pretending it was magical all along.
Dr. Jack (1922)
, 1hDirected by Sam Taylor, Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Charles Stevenson, Jackie Condon, William Gillespie, James T. Kelley
Roles Jamison's Mother (uncredited)
Rating70%
The Sick-Little-Well-Girl (played by Mildred Davis) has been wrapped in cotton wool all her life. At the sign of the slightest sniffle or cough, she is packed off to bed and each time, the stuffy (and expensive) Dr Ludwig von Saulsbourg (Eric Mayne) is called to attend to her.
Three Mounted Men (1918)
, 1hDirected by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Harry Carey, Neva Gerber, Joe Harris, Harry Carter, Charles Hill Mailes, Ruby Lafayette
Roles Harry's Mother
Rating44%
A Marked Man (1917)
, 50minutesDirected by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Harry Carey, Hoot Gibson, Molly Malone, Harry L. Rattenberry, Vester Pegg, Anna Townsend
Roles Harry's mother
Rating46%
As described in a film magazine, Cheyenne Harry (Carey), in his search for food, breaks into the home of Grant Young (Rattenberry) and his daughter Molly (Malone), who recognizes him as the man who held up the train she was traveling on but then allowed her to keep a brooch, a gift from her mother. Grant gives him a chance to make good by becoming an employee on the ranch. Harry enters a horse race contest to get enough money to visit his mother, but Ben Kent, a road agent and an old friend of Harry, cuts his stirrups. Grant forces Harry to assist in holding up a stage coach, and after Kent kills the driver of the coach, both he and Harry are arrested. A message announcing the pending arrival of Harry's mother (Townsend) results in the postponement of Harry's hanging for a couple of weeks, and Harry is allowed by the sheriff (Steele) to make use of Grant's ranch and daughter to deceive Harry's mother, as Harry had stated in his letters to her that he was an honorable man. After his mother's departure, a telegram arrives that exonerates Harry, and he rushes to see Molly.