T. Roy Barnes

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.

  • Title: T. Roy Barnes
  • Popularity: 0.194
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1880-08-11
  • Place of Birth: Lincolnshire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Thomas Roy Barnes
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T. Roy Barnes Movies

  • 1925
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    Seven Chances

    Seven Chances

    7.5 1925 HD

    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...

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  • 1923
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    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    7 1923 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    It's a Gift

    It's a Gift

    6.5 1934 HD

    After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an...

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  • 1930
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    Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5

    Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5

    1 1930 HD

    Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.

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  • 1930
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    How's My Baby?

    How's My Baby?

    1 1930 HD

    1930 Comedy short

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  • 1930
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    Sally

    Sally

    7 1930 HD

    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....

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  • 1928
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    A Blonde for a Night

    A Blonde for a Night

    5.1 1928 HD

    After an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.

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  • 1930
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    Wide Open

    Wide Open

    5.3 1930 HD

    An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.

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  • 1935
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    Village Tale

    Village Tale

    4.5 1935 HD

    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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  • 1934
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    Kansas City Princess

    Kansas City Princess

    4.5 1934 HD

    Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend...

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  • 1922
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    A Trip to Paramountown

    A Trip to Paramountown

    6 1922 HD

    Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...

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  • 1926
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    The Unknown Cavalier

    The Unknown Cavalier

    1 1926 HD

    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...

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  • 1927
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    Chicago

    Chicago

    5.7 1927 HD

    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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  • 1923
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    Souls for Sale

    Souls for Sale

    6.2 1923 HD

    A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

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  • 1923
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    Adam and Eva

    Adam and Eva

    1 1923 HD

    An extravagant girl reforms when her father goes bust.

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  • 1927
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    Body and Soul

    Body and Soul

    1 1927 HD

    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...

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  • 1931
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    Aloha

    Aloha

    1 1931 HD

    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...

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  • 1931
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    Women of All Nations

    Women of All Nations

    2.6 1931 HD

    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...

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  • 1929
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    Dangerous Curves

    Dangerous Curves

    5 1929 HD

    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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  • 1935
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    The Four Star Boarder

    The Four Star Boarder

    1 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    Life Begins at Forty

    Life Begins at Forty

    1 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    Doubting Thomas

    Doubting Thomas

    7 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    Carnival

    Carnival

    1 1935 HD

    "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...

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  • 1925
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    The Crowded Hour

    The Crowded Hour

    1 1925 HD

    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...

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  • 1924
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    The Great White Way

    The Great White Way

    1 1924 HD

    Comic boxing tale was used as the basis for the 1936 Clark Gable/Marion Davies lark Cain & Mabel.

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  • 1920
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    So Long Letty

    So Long Letty

    1 1920 HD

    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...

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  • 1924
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    Reckless Romance

    Reckless Romance

    1 1924 HD

    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...

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  • 1924
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    Young Ideas

    Young Ideas

    1 1924 HD

    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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  • 1922
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    The Old Homestead

    The Old Homestead

    1 1922 HD

    Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.

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  • 1926
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    Ladies of Leisure

    Ladies of Leisure

    7 1926 HD

    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....

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  • 1926
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    A Regular Scout

    A Regular Scout

    4 1926 HD

    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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  • 1924
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    Butterfly

    Butterfly

    1 1924 HD

    Silent Feature Film by Clarence Brown

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