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Otis B. Thayer is a Actor and Director American born on 1862

Otis B. Thayer

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Birth name Otis B. Thayer
Nationality USA
Birth 1862
Death 16 august 1935 (at 73 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Otis B. Thayer (1862 – August 16, 1935) "Obie," was an American actor, director, film producer and owner of silent era film production companies. Before his film career he was a stage actor and operatic comedian. By 1910 he piloted the Chicago based Selig Polyscope Company filming westerns on locations at Canon City. He founded the Art-O-Graf film company of Denver in 1919. And by 1920 he was the president of the "Superior Foto Play Company."

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Filmography of Otis B. Thayer (4 films)

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Actor

The Desert Scorpion, 50minutes
Directed by Otis Thayer, Otis B. Thayer
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Edmund F. Cobb, Otis Thayer, Otis B. Thayer, Countess Stoeffel
Roles the Sheriff
Rating55% 2.764962.764962.764962.764962.76496
A feud between sheepherders and cattlemen heats up when the cattlemetn set fire to the sheepherder's homes. The Sheepherder, who is in love with the Cattle Queen's daughter, leads a robbery on the cattlemen's bank. The Sheriff's daughter is impregnated and deserted by the Cattle Queen's daughter's fiance. The sheepherders rescue her and abduct the Cattle King's daughter to nurse her back to health. The cattlemen track them back to the cabin where everything is revealed and forgiven. And the Cattle Queen's daughter falls in love with the Sheepherder.

Director

Riders of the Range
Directed by Otis Thayer, Otis B. Thayer
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Edmund F. Cobb

A growing number of cattle raids prompts the cattlemen to call on their cattlemen's association president Martin Lethbridge to investigate. Sheep Ranchers are suspected, who led by Gregg Randall blame the cattlemen for increased casualties among the sheep herds. Letherbridge falls in love with Randall's daughter, Dolly, and eventually exposes Blunt Vanier as the cause of the conflict.
Finders Keepers
Directed by Otis Thayer, Otis B. Thayer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Edmund F. Cobb, Dorothy Bridges, Violet Mersereau

Amy Lindel, a church choir singer heads to the city to make a fortune with her voice and finds out she can only get jobs cabaret singing. Two men fall for her, one of which plants stolen diamonds on her. Threatened with arrest she throws herself in a lake, she is saved by the good guy who she marries.
Wolves of the Street, 1h
Directed by Otis Thayer, Otis B. Thayer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Edmund F. Cobb, Countess Stoeffel, Tom Gibson

James Trevlyn's father, who is battling profiteers working to corner the wheat market, is murdered. James leaves his mine work out west to pick up where his father left off on wall Street. The profiteers foment a Bolshevist strike at Trevlyn's mines in his absence. Eleanor locates a James Trevlyn look-alike at a mission house who takes his place on Wall Street to allow the real James to travel back west to take control of the mines. James is kidnapped and his look-alike is bribed and changes sides. James is mistaken for a wanted murderer and has to re-establish his identity.
The Desert Scorpion, 50minutes
Directed by Otis Thayer, Otis B. Thayer
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Edmund F. Cobb, Otis Thayer, Otis B. Thayer, Countess Stoeffel
Rating55% 2.764962.764962.764962.764962.76496
A feud between sheepherders and cattlemen heats up when the cattlemetn set fire to the sheepherder's homes. The Sheepherder, who is in love with the Cattle Queen's daughter, leads a robbery on the cattlemen's bank. The Sheriff's daughter is impregnated and deserted by the Cattle Queen's daughter's fiance. The sheepherders rescue her and abduct the Cattle King's daughter to nurse her back to health. The cattlemen track them back to the cabin where everything is revealed and forgiven. And the Cattle Queen's daughter falls in love with the Sheepherder.