{{short description|Canadian actor and screenwriter}} {{About|the film director|the hockey player|Jack Pratt (ice hockey)|other people named John or Jack Pratt|John Pratt (disambiguation){{!}}John Pratt}} [[File:Ridin Thunder lobby card 3.jpg|thumb|Ridin Thunder lobby card]] [[File:The Woman Untamed (1920) - 1.jpg|thumb|Advertisement for ''The Woman Untamed'']] '''Jack Pratt''', born '''John Harold Pratt''', (1878–1938) was a Canadian film director and actor. He directed several films and acted in dozens more. As a director, his work included screen adaptations of novels.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvEmDwAAQBAJ&q=%22jack+pratt%22+actor+director&pg=PA99|title=Fort Lee: The Film Town (1904–2004)|first=Richard|last=Koszarski|date=March 2, 2005|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780861969425|via=Google Books}}</ref>
Known as Smiling Jack, he married actress Betty Brice.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fhpSAAAAYAAJ&q=%22jack+pratt%22+actor+director&pg=PT583|title=Hollywood|date=February 16, 1922|via=Google Books}}</ref> She starred in the 1916 film ''Her Bleeding Heart'' he directed and was also in the film ''Gods of Fate''.
He was hired by Lubin as a director in 1915.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUs_AAAAYAAJ&q=jack+pratt+lubin&pg=PA1179|title=The Moving Picture World|date=February 25, 1915|publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}</ref> He served as President of the Lubin Benefit Association, associated with Lubin Manufacturing Company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=saMbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22jack+pratt%22+film+actor+%22brice%22&pg=PA934|title=The Moving Picture World|date=February 16, 1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Filmography== ===Director=== *''The Little Pirate'' (1913) *''Shore Acres'' (1914)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VjkgAgAAQBAJ&q=%22violet+horner%22&pg=PA430|title=Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen|first=Leonhard|last=Gmür|date=November 14, 2013|publisher=epubli|isbn=9783844246018|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''The Jungle'' (1914), one of the directors of an adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel *''The Garden of Lies'' (1915) *''The Rights of Man: a Story of War's Red Blotch'' (1915) *''The Gods of Fate'' (1916)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a3lJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22jack+pratt%22+film+actor+%22brice%22&pg=PA374|title=Motography|date=February 16, 1916|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''Her Bleeding Heart'' (1916) *''The Woman Untamed'' (1920) *''The Heart of a Woman'' (1920) *''Roman Candles'' (1920)
===Actor=== *''Dan'' (1914), as Stonewall Jackson *''Ridin Thunder'' *''Bright Skies'' * ''The Little Wanderer'' (1920) as Tully * ''Hush'' (1921) * ''Back to Yellow Jacket'' (1922) as William Carson *''The Lone Hand'' (1922), as Jack Maltrain *''The Western Wallop'' (1924), as Convict Leader *''The Iron Man'' (1924), a serial *''A Roaring Adventure'' (1925) as Brute Kilroy *''The Sign of the Cactus'' (1925), as Sheriff *''The Wild Horse Stampede'' (1925), as Henchman *''Ace of Spades'' (1925) *''Ridin' Thunder'' (1925) *''The Red Rider'' (1925) *''The House Without a Key'' (1926), a serial, as James Egan *''Hawk of the Hills'' (1927), a serial, as Colonel Jennings *''The Western Whirlwind'' (1927) * ''Rough and Ready'' (1927) as Parson Smith * ''Wild Beauty'' (1927) as Davis *''Heart Trouble'' (1928), as Army Captain Bob Reeves *''The Desert Song'' (1929), as Pasha * ''Between Fighting Men'' (1932), as Sheriff Gorman
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