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Tom Ricketts
Catalogued films 48Director 2Actor 46
Thomas B. Ricketts (15 January 1853 – 19 January 1939) was an English-born American stage and film actor and director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the first American film adaptation of A Christmas Carol (1908), and directed one of the first motion pictures ever made in Hollywood. After directing scores of silent films, including the first film to be released by Universal Pictures, Ricketts became a prominent character actor.
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Young Fugitives
The Lady Escapes
Top Hat
Hi, Gaucho!
Now or Never
In Love with Life
Stolen Sweets
Secret Sinners
He Learned About Women
Forgotten
Mama Loves Papa
Gordon of Ghost City
Women Won't Tell
Thrill of Youth
Side Show
Danger Island
Man of the World
Sea Legs
The Life of the Party
Prince of Diamonds
The Vagabond King
Glad Rag Doll
Interference
Dry Martini
Doomsday
My Friend from India
Get Your Man
A Sailor's Sweetheart
Venus of Venice
Children of Divorce
The Old Soak
Poker Faces
The Belle of Broadway
The Nut-Cracker
Ladies of Leisure
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
When Husbands Flirt
Bobbed Hair
Oh, Doctor!
Circe the Enchantress
Secrets of the Night
Alice Adams
Within the Law
Black Oxen
The Eternal Flame
The Killer