Paris, France
Actor and director Jack Pickford was born John Charles Smith. After a career on stage as a young child, in 1909 he was signed to Biograph Studios where his older sister Mary had a lot of influence. Information from the 1923 Blue Book stated Pickford then weighed about 135 pounds and stood five feet, seven inches. Jack Pickford died of multiple neuritis in the American Hospital in Paris when he was just 36-years-old.
Learn more about Jack Pickford
Also see: Mary Pickford
Also see: Lottie Pickford
Features & TV Movies:
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Modern Prodigal (1909)
The Message (1909)
Pranks (1909)
Wanted, a Child (1909)
In a Hempen Bag (1909)
To Save Her Soul (1909)
All on Account of the Milk (1910)
The Call (1910)
The Newlyweds (1910)
The Smoker (1910)
The Kid (1910)
The Tenderfoot’s Triumph (1910)
An Affair of Hearts (1910)
Ramona (1910)
The Modern Prodigal (1910)
Muggsy Becomes a Hero (1910)
In Life’s Cycle (1910)
The Oath and the Man (1910)
Rose O’Salem Town (1910)
Examination Day at School (1910)
The Iconoclast (1910)
The Broken Doll (1910)
Two Little Waifs (1910)
Waiter No. 5 (1910)
A Plain Song (1910)
A Child’s Stratagem (1910)
Happy Jack, a Hero (1910)
The Lesson (1910)
White Roses (1910)
His Trust Fulfilled (1910)
His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
Fate’s Turning (1911)
The Poor Sick Men (1911)
A Decree of Destiny (1911)
Sweet Memories (1911)
As a Boy Dreams (1911)
For Her Brother’s Sake (1911)
Tou Shalt Not Lie (1911)
A Boy of the Revolution (1911)
The Stuff Heros are Made Of (1911)
A Convict’s Heart (1911)
The Lost Necklace (1911)
A Temporary Truce (1912)
Kate Katchem (1912)
A Dash Through the Clouds (1912)
The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)
Man’s Lust for Gold (1912)
An Indian Summer (1912)
THe Speed Demon (1912)
The Would-Be Shriner (1912)
Black Sheep (1912)
The Harrow Road (1912)
What the Doctor Ordered (1912)
A Child’s Remorse (1912)
The Inner Circle (1912)
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore (1912)
A Pueblo Legend (1912)
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills (1912)
A Ten-Karat Hero (1912)
The Chief’s Blanket (1912)
The Painted Lady (1912)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
Heredity (1912)
My Baby (1912)
The Informer (1912)
Brutality (1912)
The New York Hat (1912)
My Hero (1912)
An Indian Summer (1912)
A Misappropriated Turkey (1913)
Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913)
The Unwelcome Guest (1913)
Fate (1913)
The Sneak (1913)
The Work Habit (1913)
For the Son of the House (1913)
Bink’s Vacation (1913)
Giovanni’s Gratitude (1913)
The Massacre (1914)
The Gangsters of New York (1914)
The Warning Cry (1914)
The Mysterious Shot (1914)
Liberty Belles (1914)
Home Sweet Home (1914)
Seven Days (1914)
The Eagle’s Mate (1914)
Wildflower (1914)
His Last Dollar (1914)
The Love Route (1915)
The Commanding Officer (1915)
Fanchon the Cricket (1915)
The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915)
A Girl of Yesterday (1915)
The Making of Crooks (1915)
Why Love is Blind (1916)
Virtue Triumphant (1916)
Poor Little Peppina (1916)
The Hard Way (1916)
The Reprisal (1916)
The Conflict (1916)
Seventeen (1916)
Great Expectations (1917)
Cupid’s Touchdown (1917)
A Strange Adventure (1917)
The Dummy (1917)
The Girl at Home (1917)
Freckles (1917)
What Money Can’t Buy (1917)
The Varmint (1917)
Ghost House (1917)
Jack and Jill (1917)
Tom Sawyer (1917)
Spirit of ’17 (1918)
Huck and Tom (1918)
His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1918)
Mr. Fix-It (1918)
Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918)
Sandy (1918)
Bill Apperson’s Boy (1919)
Burglar by Proxy (1919)
In The Wrong (1919)
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1920)
A Double-Dyed Deceiver (1920)
The Man Who Had Everything (1920)
Just Out of College (1920)
The End of the World (1922)
Garrison’s Finish (1923)
Hollywood (1923)
The Hill Billy (1924)
Waking Up the Town (1925)
My Son (1925)
The Goose Woman (1925)
The Bat (1926)
Brown of Harvard (1926)
Exit Smiling (1926)
Gang War (1928)
Credits as a Director:
Through the Back Door (1921)
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