Biography: From Wikipedia Ella Margaret Gibson (September 14, 1894 – October 21, 1964), was an American stage and silent film actress who had leading roles in Vitagraph westerns, often opposite William Clifford. She also appeared with Charles Ray in The Coward (1915) and later worked in two Westerns with William S. Hart: The Money Corral and Sand!. In 1999 it was reported that on the afternoon of October 21, 1964 she made a dying confession to the murder of director William Desmond Taylor. Gibson was sometimes credited or otherwise identified under at least seven other names, such as Patricia Palmer, Margie Gibson, Marguerite Gibson, Ella Margaret Lewis, Ella Margaret Arce or Pat Lewis. She appeared in 147 movies between 1913 and 1929.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 14, 1894
Deathday: October 21, 1964
Popularity:
1925-10-04
Overview: In this silent melodrama Sir Melmoth Craven is running against John Orme for a seat in Parliament. Orme is an honest man, but Craven is on the shady side. For campaign money, he borrows money from an equally shady establishment called Gordon, Ltd. Orme's sweetheart, Margaret Garth, becomes infatuated with Craven, much to the dismay of her mother, Enid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-04
Popularity:
1916-01-22
Overview: Margot is the pawn in a game set up by her father, "Old Bill" Prewitt, and her husband, Tom Sloan. They use her to fleece gamblers until a gun fight results in serious injuries for both Tom and Bill. Bill thinks Tom is dead and takes Margot across country. He finally collapses from exhaustion and they are found by a trapper.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-22
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1924-10-06
Overview: Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-06
Popularity:
1915-08-04
Overview: Johnny Firth is a young prize fighter who, because of wine, woman and song, is knocked out. He leaves for the west with his manager, who is broke, because of Johnny's defeat. They arrive in Arizona and Johnny beats up a big bully there named Mason, because he has stolen from an old character called Nutty Ike, his bag of nuggets. Nutty Ike introduces the two men to his daughter and makes them his partners in a gold mine he has discovered in the desert. Mason trails them and there is a big fight at the mine, also in the interior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-04
Popularity:
1921-07-17
Overview: Grace Merrill works as a shill in a gambling hall. Her five roommates are even less honestly employed. One of them, Elsie Brown commits suicide because her main squeeze, Frank Norwood has left her. Elsie's small town mother comes to the city and meets Elsie's roommates. But Mother Brown's faith and purity are so compelling that the ladies of the night reform. Grace, in fact, gives up her affair with a married man -- even though she really loves him -- to go live with Mrs. Brown in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-17
Popularity:
1923-11-18
Overview: In order to escape from the police after a small car accident, Bobby dresses as a girl and a sailor in a boat ride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-18
Popularity:
1929-05-19
Overview: Once again, diminutive hero Red tries to help the adult characters in their fight against the villains.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-19
Popularity:
1914-04-14
Overview: Directed by Ulysses Davis, the screenplay was based on a story by Marc Edmund Jones. Long thought to have been a lost film, a copy was found and put on YouTube. The film is the only known surviving film in which director William Desmond Taylor appears as an actor. In 1964 Taylor's co-star Margaret Gibson, shortly before her death, reportedly confessed to having murdered him in 1921.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-14
Popularity:
1918-04-08
Overview: An adventure serial released in 1918
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-08
Popularity:
1918-03-25
Overview: Tom Evans, the fearless range boss of the Double X Ranch, falls in love with a romantic schoolteacher from the East named Clara. They marry and for a time are happy, but in Tom's absence, his partner Blackie persuades the restless young wife to run away with him. Blackie soon deserts Clara, and she is forced to earn her keep at a disreputable dance hall. After robbing a stage, Blackie returns, and Tom, who has been waiting for his former friend, goes after him. In a gun battle with Tom and his posse, Blackie kills Clara and escapes, but Tom follows him into the desert and takes his horse, leaving him to die of thirst.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-25
Popularity:
1918-04-15
Overview: Geoffrey Hampden, a Texas oil millionaire living in New York, seeks revenge against Philip Armond, the man who caused his sister to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-15
Popularity:
1918-07-29
Overview: Allen Spargo, a mining engineer who is betrothed to Theresa Kane, goes West to make his fortune and is seriously injured in an accident. Kate Leonard, who falls in love with him while nursing him to recovery, jealously intercepts his fiancée's letters and then writes Theresa that Allen is dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-29
Popularity:
1923-03-19
Overview: Mr. Billings Spends His Dime is a silent comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-19
Popularity:
1920-06-19
Overview: Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by the girl he loves, Margaret , Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of bandits preying on the trains.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-19
Popularity:
1919-05-24
Overview: Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-24
Popularity:
1914-04-22
Overview: Terrorized by Guido, her drunken and brutal father, Marie receives assurance from her dying mother that the Madonna will always protect her. The father reels in just after the mother has expired, too drunk to realize the woman is dead, and finding the whiskey bottle empty, abuses the child. Marie appeals to the image of the Madonna and Guido, in a frenzy of rage, smashes it on the floor. Horrified at the sacrilege, Marie screams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-22
Popularity:
1922-05-21
Overview: A wealthy father tries to discourage his daughter's taste for stories of the Mounted; her imagination conjures up the ideal lover as one who wears that red coat and whose slogan is "get your man." She arrives at her father's camp in the frozen North the victim of a frameup: her father had planned that his employees must discourage her in every manner possible. The idea is if she sees him she will be disillusioned. A few hunters spying the "wolves" shoot with intent to kill, and a real bear enters the hut and scatters the plotters. The scheme works well, even with all these inconveniences, until a genuine Mountie appears on the scene and administers punishment to the arch-villain and his dwarf-like henchman. As a result the girl's romantic imagination vindicates her beau ideal. The two lovers are last seen standing chest-deep in the snow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-21
Popularity:
1915-11-14
Overview: Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is terrified by the war and deserts during a battle. The film focuses on the son's struggle to overcome his cowardice.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-14
Popularity:
1922-02-15
Overview: Andy Fowler is made a member of a gang of rustlers after rescuing one of their number from a fire, but he finds his freedom threatened by the local sheriff, who is actually the gang's leader and wants Andy's girlfriend for his own.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-15
Popularity:
1922-04-15
Overview: Larry Connell arrives in a border town run by Sheriff Bull Weyman and Branch Doughty. Connell wins the sheriff's ranch at draw poker, but Weyman uses his influence with Judge Hyland to have Larry declared bankrupt. Larry attempts to fight foul with fair, but the sale of his cattle pushes him over the edge. Larry holds up Doughty and subsequently gets arrested, but escapes, intending to blow up the sheriff's office.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-15
Popularity:
1922-05-01
Overview: "Hadley, owner of a nearby ranch, had fenced off a water hole belonging to Miss Dunlap, thus depriving her stock of water. Undaunted, the young Eastern woman and her two-fisted fighting foreman fought back...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-01
Popularity:
1924-03-01
Overview: A cattle rustler decides to reform, and helps a rancher battle a gang of notorious rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
Popularity:
2024-10-15
Overview: When a woman dies of an inexplicable disease, her widower, a greedy landlord and her sister, obsessed with her house, must survive a sinister psychic and supernatural force that sickens everyone who lives in the house.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-10-15
Popularity:
1924-05-24
Overview: When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-24
Popularity:
1927-04-15
Overview: The Jazz Age rages in this comedy film starring Viola Dana as the madcap title character madly dashing through a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-15
Popularity:
1919-04-20
Overview: Cowhand Lem Beason wins a shooting contest at a Western rodeo, and as a result is hired by railroad president Gregory Collins to return to Chicago with Collins to take charge of security for Collins' vaults. Lem is reluctant to go, but Collins' pretty niece Rose changes his mind. In Chicago, Lem finds a great deal of criminal activity, but none of it can get the best of him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
Popularity:
1916-01-24
Overview: Tired of poverty, Jane finally accepts the advances of Ambrose, the wealthy owner of the factory in which she works, and becomes his mistress. Years later, long after she has left Ambrose, Jane falls in love with Richard Newton, whose own past, like hers, hardly stands out as scrupulous. They get married and have a child, but then Richard finds out that Jane had been a kept woman, and insists on a separation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-24
Popularity:
1916-01-22
Overview: Margot is the pawn in a game set up by her father, "Old Bill" Prewitt, and her husband, Tom Sloan. They use her to fleece gamblers until a gun fight results in serious injuries for both Tom and Bill. Bill thinks Tom is dead and takes Margot across country. He finally collapses from exhaustion and they are found by a trapper.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-22
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