House Peters
Biography: Robert House Peters, Sr. (12 March 1880 – 7 December 1967) was a British-born American silent film actor, known to filmgoers of the era as "The Star of a Thousand Emotions." Born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, Peters began his career on a high note, playing the handsome leading man in In the Bishop's Carriage (1913), co-starring Mary Pickford. While The Bishop's Carriage was filmed in an East Coast studio, Peters was in Los Angeles by 1914, becoming one of the first screen stars to permanently settle there. Although he stated publicly that he preferred playing villains, Peters, curly haired and pleasantly dimpled, was from the outset typecast as the romantic hero. After enjoying his greatest success as the good-bad hero of The Girl of the Golden West (1915), Peters found his career peak of the early 1920s. He signed with Universal Studios for six films in 1924, hoping for a comeback. The results, however, were mostly mediocre and he was soon demoted to supporting roles. Retired after 1928's Rose Marie, Peters returned for a guest appearance in The Old West, a 1952 Gene Autry film that also featured his son, House Peters, Jr., who subsequently enjoyed a lengthy film career. Peters was married to actress Mae King in 1914 with whom he had three children, Gregg, Patricia and Robert, Jr. (1916–2008). Peters died at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 12, 1880
Deathday: December 07, 1967
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Leah Kleschna
1913-12-10
Leah Kleschna
Overview: Leah Kleschna has been a thief all her life. However, an encounter with a man she intends to rob makes her question her life's course. The film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-10
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A Lady of Quality
1913-12-27
A Lady of Quality
Overview: News is received by Sir Jeoffrey, a dissolute roué, whose contempt for the other sex extends even to his own daughters, of the arrival of another female child in the family. The mother dies shortly after, and the child, Clorinda, is brought up among the servants without a guiding hand. True to his vow to ignore his offspring, Sir Jeoffrey does not come in contact with Clo, until her sixth year, when he finds her playing with his powder horn in the great hall of his castle, Wildair, and sternly upbraids her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-27
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Stolen Goods
1915-05-14
Stolen Goods
Overview: The lives of a poor orphan and a rich kleptomaniac intertwine after the former is framed for a robbery by the latter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-14
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Isobel or the Trail's End
1920-12-19
Isobel or the Trail's End
Overview: In retaliation for an attack upon his wife Isobel, Scottie Dean, a passenger on a whaling ship, throws Captain Jim Blake overboard and, believing that he is responsible for the captain's death, flees to the Northwoods for safety.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-19
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Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
1925-05-23
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
Overview: Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman." While sailing from India to England accompanied by his friend, Bunny Manners, it is rumored that the infamous cracksman is aboard ship. Raffles warns a lady passenger to keep an eye on her necklace, which is stolen soon afterward. Although a search reveals no evidence, the necklace is returned upon reaching London.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-23
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Don't Marry for Money
1923-08-19
Don't Marry for Money
Overview: Don't Marry for Money is a 1923 silent drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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Held to Answer
1923-11-22
Held to Answer
Overview: John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-22
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1914-12-31
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-31
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Mignon
1915-01-18
Mignon
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-18
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The Unafraid
1915-04-01
The Unafraid
Overview: In Montegro brothers Stefan and Michael kidnap American heiress Delight Warren. Stefan marries her so he can claim her wealth, but then they fall in love.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-01
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The Hand of Peril
1916-03-27
The Hand of Peril
Overview: Nine rooms of a house are shown, with action occurring in each room simultaneously
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-27
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The Warrens of Virginia
1915-02-14
The Warrens of Virginia
Overview: As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-14
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Between Men
1916-01-01
Between Men
Overview: When Ashley Hampdon becomes the target of a scheme to ruin him by his daughter's suitor, Hampdon sends for his old friend Bob White. Bob discovers that the suitor, Gregg Lewiston, cannot hope to win Lina Hampdon while her father's wealth remains intact. Lewiston hopes that if her family becomes destitute, she will turn to him. But Bob White is there to upset the scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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The Great Redeemer
1920-10-24
The Great Redeemer
Overview: A murderer and a thief, imprisoned together, find their lives changed forever when the thief's drawing of Christ's crucifixion on the cell wall comes to life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-24
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O. Henry's Full House
1952-08-07
O. Henry's Full House
Overview: Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
1920-01-01
Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
Overview: After small-town attorney Deane Kendall wins an important case, a prestigious law firm lures him to the city. Accompanying him is his wife Edith, who retains her small-town ways, so does not fit into her husband's new social world. When adventuress Georgia Wilson meets the promising attorney, she falls in love and determines to break up his marriage. Georgia arranges for artist Charles Madison to lure Edith to his apartments and seduce her. Resisting his advances, Edith flees back to the innocent town of Harmony. Soon after, Kendall arrives, informed by Georgia that his wife is with Madison. However, the artist's mistress, who witnessed the incident, testifies to Edith's purity, and Kendall follows Edith back to their hometown, where they are reconciled.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Old West
1952-09-29
The Old West
Overview: Doc Lockwood and his gang are trying to take away Autry's contract for supplying horses to the stagecoach line. Parson Brooks joins Autry in an effort to clean up the town of Sadderlock.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-29
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Salomy Jane
1914-11-02
Salomy Jane
Overview: When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangling with the man. Jack fights the ruffian and kills him. He escapes with the law on his trail, for it is (wrongly) presumed that he is also the man who held up the stagecoach. Salomy Jane comes to his rescue when he is captured and about to be lynched.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-02
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The Leopard Woman
1920-10-18
The Leopard Woman
Overview: An epic of passion, intrigue, and espionage set in the African Jungle.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-18
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Human Hearts
1922-08-19
Human Hearts
Overview: Innocent country boy Tom Logan is taken in by the scheming Barbara Kay, a city woman who knows Tom is set to inherit his fathers farm which sits on a rich coal field. Toms father sees through her plot and disinherits him when her marries Barbara. When Barbara tires of farm life, the ensuing events lead to death and misplaced guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-19
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The Captive
1915-04-22
The Captive
Overview: Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm when older brother Marko goes off to battle. Unable to handle the day-to-day tasks following her brother’s tragic death, help comes in the form of Mahmud Hassan, a captured Turk nobleman, now a prisoner of war. Tasked with helping Sonia, their initial frosty relationship soon melts into love. As the war rages on Sonia, Mahmud and Milos will face near-insurmountable obstacles in their quest for a better life amidst the hell of war.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-22
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Head Winds
1925-03-29
Head Winds
Overview: Peter kidnaps Patricia to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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The Girl of the Golden West
1915-01-04
The Girl of the Golden West
Overview: A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-04
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In the Bishop's Carriage
1913-09-10
In the Bishop's Carriage
Overview: A lost film. A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righteousness by a benefactor.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-10
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The Closed Road
1916-04-24
The Closed Road
Overview: 1916 silent drama directed by Maurice Tourneur
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-24
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The Rail Rider
1916-08-21
The Rail Rider
Overview: The Rail Rider is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring House Peters, Bertram Marburgh, and Henry West.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-21
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Chelsea 7750
1913-09-20
Chelsea 7750
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-20
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The Tornado
1925-01-04
The Tornado
Overview: a tornado, flood, and log jam of astounding realism..a love theme as overwhelming as the tornado itself, acclaimed by critics as the most thrilling screen drama ever presented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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The Storm
1922-09-04
The Storm
Overview: When two men, one from the city the other a trapper and a woman are trapped in a cabin in the Northwoods after a massive snowstorm. Through the winter a silent bitter struggle develops between the men for the hand of the young woman which ends in the treachery of the city man being exposed and the trapper winning the affections of the young woman after a thrilling forest fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-04
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The Great Divide
1915-12-20
The Great Divide
Overview: The Jordans, Phil and Ruth, accompanied by Philip's wife, Polly, and Dr. Winthrop Newbury, a suitor for Ruth's hand, bid old Mrs. Jordan good-bye at the station of Milford Corners, Mass., and depart for the West, to work over some unredeemed desert land, which was left to the Jordans by their dead father. Arriving in the west, they take up their work, but it proves anything but a success. On the brink of the Great Divide lives Stephen Ghent, an untamed and uncouth man of the West, and on account of his manner is respected by the habitués of Miller's saloon and dance hall in the town, which he and two of his acquaintances in the persons of Pedro, a half-breed Mexican, and Dutch, a brutal type of the West, frequent.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-20
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Lying Lips
1921-01-30
Lying Lips
Overview: A spoiled rich girl from England encounters a wonderful young man who, unfortunately, has no money. Will love or money win out?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-30
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A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
1920-08-15
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
Overview: A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920) presents a fascinating glimpse into the Thomas H. Ince studios at Culver City.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-15
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Rose-Marie
1928-02-11
Rose-Marie
Overview: Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of murder but he escapes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-11
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The Combat
1926-03-28
The Combat
Overview: Blaze Burke, rough-and-ready lumberjack, is promised the job of camp boss if he eliminates a gang of lumber poachers. He is doublecrossed and the job goes to Milton Symmons, the employer's nephew.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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You Never Know Your Luck
1919-11-17
You Never Know Your Luck
Overview: Ranch foreman Kerry has boarded with Kitty Tynan and her mother for five years in western Canada, his past is a mystery to everyone. He is actually an English aristocrat who lost all his money gambling and left the country in search of work. Kerry and his friend Horan own an option on property which crooked lawyer Burlingame is trying to secure. Burlingame's cohort Logan murders Hogan, and is caught and arrested. In the trial, Burlingame forces Kerry to admit his past, and succeeds in preventing Kerry from receiving bank assistance. When Kerry is shot, Kitty opens a letter from Kerry's wife that he had been carrying for five years, and cables her. Kerry's wife arrives and informs him that his last bet in England had turned out to be a $20,000 winner. Kerry is able to use the money just in time to foil Burlingame and secure the property, thus winning prosperity and the affections of his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-17
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The Brute
1914-04-27
The Brute
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-27
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