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John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952)
was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter
and producer. J. P. McGowan, as he was usually known, remains the only
Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directors Guild (now
Directors Guild of America).
Born in the then-bustling railway centre of Terowie in South
Australia, McGowan grew up in Adelaide (Islington) and Sydney. He was a capable
horseman and served in the Second Boer War with Montmorency's Scouts as a special
dispatch rider.
McGowan directed and often acted in the first 33 episodes of
Kalem's 1914 adventure film series, The Hazards of Helen, which eventually ran
to 54 episodes, some still with McGowan's participation. While filming he began
a relationship with Helen Holmes, the film's star, and the two married. They
left Kalem to set up their own production company, Signal Films, which
successfully made a series of railroad melodramas but lost out when their
distributor (Mutual) failed. The collaboration ended when they divorced in
1925. There was an adopted daughter, Kaye.
McGowan successfully made the transition from silent film to
talkies. While never a major star, in a busy career that spanned four decades
he is credited with acting in 232 films—mostly strong roles like sheriff or
villain—writing 26 screenplays and directing 242 productions. In 1932 he
directed a young John Wayne in the 12-episode rail vs airplane serial The
Hurricane Express for the independent Mascot Pictures. From 1938 to 1951, as
Executive Secretary of the Screen Directors Guild, he fought to secure
recognition for the director within the studio systems of the film and emerging
television industry.
J.P. McGowan died in 1952 in Hollywood and was interred in
the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Most Popular J.P. McGowan Trailers
Total trailers found: 252
22 June 1936
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
20 September 1936
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
01 October 1929
Story of a cowboy tracking down his father's killer
24 July 1922
A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4.
18 November 1928
Human cowboy hero is teamed with Rex, King of Wild Horses, an ornery critter but a magnificent animal.
10 June 1930
Despite past friendliness, cattle ranchers Tom and Jim Bledsoe, father and son, fence off their range to prevent its use by neighboring sheep ranchers Tug Wilson and Buck Rankin, suggesting that they hope to end their recent loss of cattle.
04 July 1926
Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex.
06 December 1935
Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.
24 November 1931
Jeremy Wales, a crook who stays on the safe side of the law but bends it whenever possible,has tricked short-sighted John 'Dad" Saunders to sign a note for ten thousand dollars instead of the one thousand that Saunders borrowed to work his "Rose o' My Heart" mine.
22 May 1927
When his master is attacked and left speechless, Ranger is held responsible. On the lam from the Law, the canine hero links up with telegrapher Bill Brady and Bill's girlfriend Helen Meadows.
18 November 1918
Lure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan.
02 January 1929
Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse.
10 September 1937
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad.
14 October 1915
Leonie Sobatsky (Laura Hope Crews) belongs to a ring of international thieves, headed by Bechel (George Gebhardt).
01 November 1931
A rancher's plan to herd his horses is complicated by an uncooperative landowner.
25 August 1930
Cattleman Benson finds Mildred and her brother George living in one of his cabins and their sheep are on his land.
28 September 1926
A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station.
28 September 1932
Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
02 September 1928
Story of a a Texas Ranger whose foster-father has been falsely accused of a series of crimes.
23 December 1912
Robert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the greedy Kinchella.
21 November 1914
In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs up between two men who are seeking Helen's favor, but to whom she has remained impartial.
31 May 1935
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
03 March 1932
A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo.
01 August 1932
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker we
01 November 1929
Leary is using the Express Agent's liking for alcohol to enable his men to steal insured packages. Then he claims the insurance.
01 July 1927
Story of a young shanghaied sailor. Forced to work as a deckhand on a rough-and-tumble transport vessel, the sailor ends up in South America, where his brutish captain intends to sell guns and ammo to a band of revolutionaries.
18 December 1936
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
28 November 1914
Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally shot by a partridge hunter, and the runaway train will collide with the Eastbound Express.
09 February 1912
A story of love triangle, between Nell, Big Jim and Tom.
22 March 1932
A gang of crooks kills a gold miner while trying to find out the location of the mine. They then terrorize the miner's son to get him to reveal the mine's location.
01 November 1929
A cowboy is ambushed by a gang of outlaws and later falsely accused of being one himself. He ultimately proves his innocence by displaying a tattoo depicting the state of Oklahoma!
26 November 1936
A cowboy out to find out who murdered his brother discovers that the killers may not be who he thought they were.
18 December 1934
Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.
01 August 1926
Don Luis O'Flagherty (Ken Maynard), a daredevil comes to the rescue of his long-lost father, "Tiger" O'Flagherty (George Nichols), the supervisor of a supply-wagon train destined for the miners in Sonora.
02 June 1936
RCMP Alan Barclay is sent to investigate the presumed murder of his friend and fellow RCMP Gene when Gene's horse is found riderless.
01 July 1912
An English doctor based in Egypt finds his wife in the arms of a local diplomat, and in a madness-induced frenzy departs for the desert.
14 February 1912
Kathleen leaves behind her sweetheart in Ireland to emigrate to New York, finding a position in a swt
20 November 1935
Northwest Mounted Police Corporal Jerry Hale is assigned to take over the district of a fellow-officer, and is puzzled as he had worked this district before and had been mysteriously transferred, disrupting his romance with Helen Brent, the niece of Peter Barkley, the Factor at the trading post.
13 August 1951
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
26 December 1914
Brandt, a defaulting cashier, hiding in Lone Point in his effort to throw detectives off his track, cuts the wires of Helen's telephone to prevent her from calling for help, binds and gags her, and boards the outgoing Limited.
08 June 1925
Not only is Cody cheated out of his valuable property, he also faces trial on a charge of robbery and murder.
18 January 1937
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman.
25 January 1912
An Irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son, a talented musician, to study in America.
16 June 1937
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
16 October 1911
A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he marries his rich cousin.
24 May 1935
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender.
26 March 1925
When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, they refuse.
20 April 1935
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.
02 March 1939
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
09 January 1915
Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point the following day.
24 January 1930
A young rancher falsely accused of kidnapping his own stepfather, the aptly named Henry Pennypincher.
17 November 1911
Kathleen, the daughter of a fisherman meets Henry, the son of a Wall Street Broker, her father forbids their relationship, Kathleen defies her father, and travels to New York to be reunited with Henry.
08 April 1913
A short smugglers’ drama in which a new employee of the harbour police starts working for an export trader, so as to keep an eye on the smugglers.
01 July 1925
Girl's father who is in sore financial straits because of a corporation man is aided by stranger who reveals that his father was ruined same way by the same person.
08 January 1921
Tiring of hunting big game in the jungle, Jack Lodge, son of a wealthy man, seeks adventure in the underworld district of a big city.
23 November 1910
A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home.
27 March 1915
Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train because of a hot box and are attempting to rifle the safe.
01 October 1928
When easterner Jack Steel gets into trouble with the law again, his father sends him to his ranch out west.
01 August 1931
An Arizona Ranger's investigation results in his having to arrest the brother of the girl he loves.
