Jack Pratt
Canadian actor and screenwriter
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Jack Pratt, born John Harold Pratt, (1878–1938) was a Canadian film director and actor. He directed several films and acted in dozens more. As a director, his work included screen adaptations of novels.[1]
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Known as Smiling Jack, he married actress Betty Brice.[2] She starred in the 1916 film Her Bleeding Heart he directed and was also in the film Gods of Fate.
He was hired by Lubin as a director in 1915.[3] He served as President of the Lubin Benefit Association, associated with Lubin Manufacturing Company.[4]
Filmography
Director
- The Little Pirate (1913)
- Shore Acres (1914)[5]
- The Jungle (1914), one of the directors of an adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel
- The Garden of Lies (1915)
- The Rights of Man: a Story of War's Red Blotch (1915)
- The Gods of Fate (1916)[6]
- Her Bleeding Heart (1916)
- The Woman Untamed (1920)
- The Heart of a Woman (1920)
- Roman Candles (1920)
Actor
- Dan (1914), as Stonewall Jackson
- Ridin Thunder
- Bright Skies
- The Little Wanderer (1920) as Tully
- Hush (1921)
- Back to Yellow Jacket (1922) as William Carson
- The Lone Hand (1922), as Jack Maltrain
- The Western Wallop (1924), as Convict Leader
- The Iron Man (1924), a serial
- A Roaring Adventure (1925) as Brute Kilroy
- The Sign of the Cactus (1925), as Sheriff
- The Wild Horse Stampede (1925), as Henchman
- Ace of Spades (1925)
- Ridin' Thunder (1925)
- The Red Rider (1925)
- The House Without a Key (1926), a serial, as James Egan
- Hawk of the Hills (1927), a serial, as Colonel Jennings
- The Western Whirlwind (1927)
- Rough and Ready (1927) as Parson Smith
- Wild Beauty (1927) as Davis
- Heart Trouble (1928), as Army Captain Bob Reeves
- The Desert Song (1929), as Pasha
- Between Fighting Men (1932), as Sheriff Gorman