Mac Barnes

Acting
1863-06-02
Bedford, Indiana, USA

Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles

#1The Understudy

Movie - 1913, 2h 15m as Hank Armstrong

10.0 / 10
Drama

Stella Le Vere, an ambitious but struggling actress, is abandoned by her husband and is forced to leave her baby girl, Grace, in the care of an orphan asylum. Later, the child is adopted by a well-to-do and kindly family named Thornton, who bring Grace up in ignorance of her identity.

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#2The Food Gamblers

Movie - 1917, 2h 15m as Police Inspector

8.8 / 10
Drama

Designated to write an article on the high price of food, reporter June Justice visits the tenement districts where there have been food riots and where the women of the neighborhood have rebelled against the food retailers, thinking that they are to blame for high food prices. June then visits the retailers, the middlemen, and finally interviews Henry Havens, the leader of the ring of food speculators. Havens attempts to bribe June to slant her story, but finds himself falling in love with her instead. Under June's influence, Havens sees the hardship that his policies have wrought, and finally joins her in her push for legislation which would dissolve the food trust.

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#3Bread Upon the Waters

Movie - 1912, 2h 15m as Big Bill Quinn

8.0 / 10
Drama

Tim Clancy, an ex-convict, on the day of his release, returns home and is welcomed by his mother and sweetheart. He decides to turn over a new leaf. He applies and secures work at the Ganes shoe factory. Here he is recognized by a detective and when his record is made known to the management he is discharged. The inevitable follows.

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#4A Freight Train Drama

Movie - 1912, 2h 15m as Henery Sickels - the Engineer

4.7 / 10

Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want to derail an express train.

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#5The Fire Cop

Movie - 1912, 2h 15m as Jo Smith

9.0 / 10
Drama

Andy Brannigan was a good-natured policeman, large of frame, but limited in nerve. He has, however, been very successful in posing as a hero, and deceives all but his wife, who laughs at him when he tells her that he has been awarded a medal for bravery.

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#6The Sign on the Door

Movie - 1921, 2h 15m as 'Kick' Callahan

9.0 / 10
Drama

A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.

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#7Experience

Movie - 1921, 2h 15m as Makeshift

8.0 / 10
Drama

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.

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#8The Ex-Convict

Movie - 1913, 2h 15m as 1st Jail Guard

8.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

Wilbur Stone is falsely accused of a crime, convicted on circumstantial evidence and "railroaded" to the penitentiary. As an odd coincidence. Frank Fink, a hardened degenerate, is sent up at the same time and he becomes a prison parasite on Stone. Both men are released about the same time.

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#9Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

Movie - 1921, 2h 15m as Andrea Dempsey

8.0 / 10
ComedyRomance

Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.

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#10The Three Valises

Movie - 1912, 2h 15m as Police Sergeant Kenney

9.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

Jim Allen accidentally finds a valise full of burglars' tools. At the same time he discovers that he has fallen heir to a $10,000 legacy. In order to secure the legacy he must be in a distant city on the following day. Being hard up, he decides to borrow the necessary carfare from his double, an unscrupulous broker named Harrington.

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#11The Haunted House

Movie - 1917, 2h 15m as The Sheriff

8.8 / 10
Mystery

Young Anne who lives with her stern uncle, is considered strange by the gossips of her village because she spends much of her time in the woods, where she has imaginary conversations with her deceased mother. When Jimmy, a crook is wounded after a robbery, he eludes the sheriff by hiding in a deserted mansion, unaware that the mansion is said to be haunted.

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#12The Cowboy Millionaire

Movie - 1909, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.0 / 10
Western

Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and the biggest novelty ever, the acme of all thrillers, "see Bud bulldog a steer." Only three men have successfully accomplished this feat and lived to tell about it. Then Bud receives a shock. The local operator appears with a telegram. "Your Uncle John dead. You are sole heir to his estate valued at several millions. Come to Chicago at once." The astounded cowboys tumble over with sheer amazement. Bud buys and the scene closes with a characteristic rush for the bar.

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#13How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home

Movie - 1912, 2h 15m as 1st Policeman

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Percival, a master-mind in the army of the deliberately unemployed, visits a fashionable restaurant and piles up a large meal by impertinent orders, but, before he gets a chance to eat he is detected and thrown out. He breaks a store window and so loudly proclaims his guilt that the police do not believe him.

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