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Old Ironsides

6.2 114 mins History   Drama   1926
Paramount Pictures  
Director(s): James Cruze

Release Date: 06 Mon, Dec 1926

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.

Casts of Old Ironsides

Esther Ralston

as Girl

Wallace Beery

as Bos'n

George Bancroft

as Gunner

Charles Hill Mailes

as Commodore Preble

Johnnie Walker

as Stephen Decatur

Eddie Fetherston

as Richard Somers

George Godfrey

as Cook

William Conklin

as Esther's Father (uncredited)

Effie Ellsler

as Esther's Mother (uncredited)

Guy Oliver

as First Mate (uncredited)

Fred Kohler

as Second Mate (uncredited)

Arthur Ludwig

as Second Mate (uncredited)

Boris Karloff

as Saracen Guard (uncredited)

Dean Harrell

as Young Decatur (uncredited)

Spec O'Donnell

as Cabin Boy (uncredited)

Nick De Ruiz

as Bashaw (uncredited)

Frank Jonasson

as Pirate Captain (uncredited)

Duke Kahanamoku

as Pirate Captain (uncredited)

Mitchell Lewis

as Pirate Chief (uncredited)

Tetsu Komai

as Pirate (uncredited)

Richard Alexander

as Seaman (uncredited)

Richard Arlen

as Seaman (uncredited)

Frank Bonner

as Seaman (uncredited)

Gary Cooper

as Seaman (uncredited)

Frank Darien

as Seaman (uncredited)

Jack Herrick

as Seaman (uncredited)

Robert Livingston

as Seaman (uncredited)

William Bakewell

as Young Philadelphian (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

as (uncredited)

Herbert Janssen

as (uncredited)

Göta Ljungberg

as (uncredited)

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