Frank Elliott
Biography: Frank Elliott (11 February 1880 – July 1970) was an English film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1915 and 1966. He was born in Cheshire, England.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 11, 1880
Deathday: July 01, 1970
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Take the Heir
1930-01-15
Take the Heir
Overview: A butler impersonates his tippler boss and falls for a beautiful young maid. However, a notorious gold-digger, who thinks the butler is the wealthy young man he's impersonating, sets her sights on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-15
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One Increasing Purpose
1927-01-02
One Increasing Purpose
Overview: Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-02
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The Last Card
1921-05-23
The Last Card
Overview: Ralph Kirkwood is falsely tried for murder. He is found guilty after being represented by lawyer, Tom Gannell. Kirkwood's wife believes she knows the identity of the real killer and sets about trapping him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-23
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937-01-22
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Overview: Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
1922-10-22
The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Overview: Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff that he shoots this family friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-22
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Garrison's Finish
1923-01-15
Garrison's Finish
Overview: Billy Garrison, a jockey, is framed and suspended for throwing a face. Depressed, he goes to a bar and eventually gets into a fight. He loses his memory, and is taken to the home of pretty young Sue Desha, who gets him a job as a jockey for her father, Col. Desha. Unfortunately, the man who framed Billy, named Crimmins, finds out he's working for the Sue's father and reveals Billy's past to the colonel. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-15
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Ruggles of Red Gap
1923-10-07
Ruggles of Red Gap
Overview: An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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Doctor Rhythm
1938-05-06
Doctor Rhythm
Overview: Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1915-12-02
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Overview: "Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter of Russia, whose incognito is Mr. Grex, an English Secret Service agent, Lord Huntersley and a young American millionaire on pleasure bent, Richard Lane. Mr. Grex and two other diplomats who unofficially represent France and Germany, plan to meet as if by chance in Monte Carlo for the purpose of arranging a secret pact.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-02
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It's No Laughing Matter
1915-01-14
It's No Laughing Matter
Overview: The story of a ruddy-cheeked rural postman who dabbles in poetry-writing on the side. He utilizes his hobby to spread a bit of sunshine throughout the village, at one point reuniting a long-estranged family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-14
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Nearly a Lady
1915-08-12
Nearly a Lady
Overview: Young Frederica Calhoun, naïve to the ways of the world, having grown up on her father’s Montana ranch, is swept off her feet by the arrival of Lord Cecil Grosvenor, a prospective buyer. He opens her eyes to a hitherto undreamed-of world of refinement and he by her unfailing sweet disposition and sunny bubbling good spirits. They are soon engaged, but during a trip to New York to visit his sister Frederica begins to let her doubts get the better of her and disguising herself as a man follows him to the French Ball, but all turns out well in the end.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-12
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Red Lights
1923-09-30
Red Lights
Overview: A mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-30
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The White Angel
1936-06-25
The White Angel
Overview: In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-25
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Playboy of Paris
1930-10-18
Playboy of Paris
Overview: Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-18
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I Married a Witch
1942-10-30
I Married a Witch
Overview: A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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The Fighting Demon
1925-05-24
The Fighting Demon
Overview: Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America. On the way to his new job, he gets into a fight with Dynamite Diaz (Dick Sutherland), a prize fighter who thinks that Drake has flirted with his wife (Peggy Shaw). Drake has found love on board, but it's with Dolores D'Arcy (Lorraine Eason), the daughter of a banker (Charles Hill Mailes). Once he lands in South America, however, he discovers the job was a fake and is robbed of his money and passport.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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The Glass Key
1942-09-08
The Glass Key
Overview: A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-08
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The Torrent
1924-08-01
The Torrent
Overview: Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard and falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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The Lodger
1944-01-19
The Lodger
Overview: In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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Pride and Prejudice
1940-07-26
Pride and Prejudice
Overview: Mrs. Bennet wishes to wed her five unmarried daughters and is overjoyed when a wealthy bachelor begins living nearby, but misunderstandings make happiness difficult.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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The Great Sinner
1949-06-29
The Great Sinner
Overview: A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-29
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New Moon
1940-06-28
New Moon
Overview: A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-28
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944-11-02
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Overview: In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-02
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The Dark Angel
1925-09-27
The Dark Angel
Overview: Alan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vilma Bánky) have grown up together, as close playmates When World War I starts, both Alan and Gerald enlist in the British Army as officiers, and Kitty sees them off to war. Many months later, Alan and Gerald come back to Kitty, on a short furlow. Alan and Kitty reveal their love for each other. Gerald (who's in love with Kitty, too) congratulates his friends. But before Kitty and Alan can arrange to be married the next day, the furlow is cut short and both men head back to the front lines. Weeks later, Gerald will not give Alan leave to marry Kitty. Still arguing, both men volunteer for a reconiscience raid into enemy lines, where a grenade goes off near Alan and appears to kill him. Gerald and Kitty mourn Alan's death. After the war ends, Gerald and Kitty become engaged to be married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-27
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Easy Virtue
1928-04-01
Easy Virtue
Overview: Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-01
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Zis Boom Bah
1941-12-07
Zis Boom Bah
Overview: "Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who's sent to college to spy on his bratty son.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-07
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The Hope
1920-09-07
The Hope
Overview: An upper class melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-07
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966-10-16
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Overview: A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-16
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Alias Ladyfingers
1921-10-30
Alias Ladyfingers
Overview: When Rachel Stetherill's daughter marries a man of whom she disapproves, Rachel disowns her. Five years later her daughter, now widowed, is killed. Her young son comes under the influence of a professional safecracker and is soon on his way to becoming a hardened criminal. Twenty yeas later the Stetherill family lawyer learns that the infamous thief known as Ladyfingers bears a striking resemblance to Rachel's husband--and has fallen in love with Enid, Mrs. Stetherill's young ward. Complications ensue.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-30
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Once to Every Woman
1920-09-06
Once to Every Woman
Overview: Aurora Meredith is the daughter of the village blacksmith. Because she has a promising voice, her family does everything they can to develop her talent. A wealthy New York woman hears her sing and sends her to Europe to study. But the woman dies, and Aurora borrows money for her last year from a hot-blooded Italian man. Instead of being paid back financially, the Italian wants her love, and she rejects him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-06
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Sunshine Molly
1915-03-18
Sunshine Molly
Overview: A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee named "Bull" Forrest. (Note: multiple reels of this film were damaged beyond repair. Only three reels remain, two of which are also heavily damaged.)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-18
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Jewel
1915-08-30
Jewel
Overview: When her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Mrs. Lawrence Evringham moves in with her wealthy but grim father-in-law and schemes to marry Eloise, her daughter, to the rich Dr. Ballard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-30
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Home
1919-08-31
Home
Overview: A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-31
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Tearing Through
1925-04-12
Tearing Through
Overview: Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer. Madison's son, Bob, has become a hophead because of the ring, and Greer, Jones' rival for the hand of Madison's daughter, Constance, is the ring's leader. The district attorney himself is in league with Greer as well. Jones disguises himself as an Asian, leaps over tenement roofs, beats up a mob of Chinese gangsters, and performs several dozen other daredevil feats.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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This Woman
1924-11-02
This Woman
Overview: This Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and starring Irene Rich, Ricardo Cortez, Louise Fazenda, Frank Elliott, Creighton Hale, and Marc McDermott. Based on the 1924 novel This Woman by Howard Rockey, it was released by Warner Bros. on November 2, 1924.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-02
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Darling, How Could You!
1951-08-08
Darling, How Could You!
Overview: Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-08
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The Scarlet Shadow
1919-03-10
The Scarlet Shadow
Overview: Elena Evans is raised by her puritanical Aunt Elvira, who believes that because of Elena's mother, Elena possesses "the scarlet strain."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-10
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Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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What Would You Do
1920-01-01
What Would You Do
Overview: Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells fake stock and fakes his suicide. His wife remarries, but her new husband suffers a crippling accident, and wants to die, so she gives him a gun. The day he succeeds, her first husband returns, having made a fortune, and they are united.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Goldfish
1924-03-30
The Goldfish
Overview: A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-30
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The Speed Girl
1921-09-19
The Speed Girl
Overview: 20 year old Betty Lee becomes famous for her movie stunts with airplanes and high power roadsters. While horseback riding, she allows Ensign Tom Manley to believe that he has saved her from a runaway; then at the studio he meets her suitor, Carl D'Arcy. Betty evades Carl's marriage proposal and accepts Tom's luncheon invitation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-19
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Gentle Julia
1923-12-24
Gentle Julia
Overview: Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Rowland V. Lee, the film starred Bessie Love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-24
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The Scarlet Sin
1915-08-02
The Scarlet Sin
Overview: Against the wishes of Cecelia, his wife, the Reverend Eric Norton leaves his position in a fashionable New York congregation to preach in a poor mining town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-02
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John Needham's Double
1916-04-10
John Needham's Double
Overview: Although he has been appointed to guard the fortune of young Thomas Creighton, the unscrupulous Lord John Needham decides to spend all of it after Tom runs away. Then, however, an announcement comes that Tom is returning and that he plans to claim his money. Fearful of punishment, both from Tom and the authorities, John kills his cousin and exact double, Joseph Norbury, and takes Joseph's place, thereby making it seem as if the dead man is really John.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-10
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The Double Standard
1917-07-23
The Double Standard
Overview: Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting the dives and cabarets of the city, and promises equal justice for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-23
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The Painted Lady
1924-09-28
The Painted Lady
Overview: After being released from imprisonment for a crime committed by her sister, Violet is forced to become a woman of easy virtue, and on an excursion to a South Sea isle she meets Luther Smith, a sailor seeking vengeance for the death of his sister. She feels unworthy of his love, but their paths cross again when he rescues her from Captain Sutton, the man responsible for the other girl's tragedy. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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The Cry of the Weak
1919-05-04
The Cry of the Weak
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-04
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A School for Husbands
1917-04-05
A School for Husbands
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-05
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Parnell
1937-06-04
Parnell
Overview: Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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The Marriage of William Ashe
1921-01-17
The Marriage of William Ashe
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-17
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Cora
1915-05-09
Cora
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-09
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