Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 20, 1882
Deathday: December 24, 1921
Popularity:
1916-10-16
Overview: While working in China for Nathan Goldberg, a New York Jewish importer, Chattfield Bruce comes to admire the Robin Hood philosophy of Wong Lee, who gives to the poor all the food, clothing and money that he steals from the rich. After Chattfield informs Wong Lee of a betrayal among his gang, Wong Lee gives him a ring that is guaranteed to give the wearer the allegiance of any Chinese throughout the world.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-16
Popularity:
1917-09-17
Overview: When Mrs. Harrison arrives in Harborsport for her vacation, she announces her plan to marry Gladsome, her daughter, to Vincent Bradshaw, the son of her financial advisor James Bradshaw. To keep Gladsome from socializing with the local fishermen, James drives them from his property, but they organize under her and force their way back. Arrested for rabble-rousing, Gladsome is bailed out of jail by James and later meets "Alphabet" Carter, a vacationing financial wizard, for whom she has an immediate attraction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-17
Popularity:
1919-10-10
Overview: Billy Porter sells his ranch and travels to San Francisco to try his hand in the business world. But he's barely off the ferryboat before he gets waylaid by a little newsboy and the boy's pugilist father, "Knockout" McClusky.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-10
Popularity:
1920-12-01
Overview: Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an island, are friends. When the doctor catches Nancy kissing the captain, known for kisses with a "heavenly kick," he breaks the engagement. In an effort to win back the doctor for Nancy, Nina pretends to be a bit "off" and becomes an inmate of the sanitarium.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-01
Popularity:
1916-06-27
Overview: Leila Hughes is the sole support of her aged grandmother. Tom Duane, a young contractor, has become acquainted with Leila and finds much to admire in her. Aggressive with his men, Tom becomes timid and embarrassed in the presence of a woman.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-27
Popularity:
1910-09-05
Overview: An actor in action that is not all acting is rather a remarkable sight, and when he loves both on the stage and off simultaneously, and when he is observed making love to the make-believe sweetheart on the stage, by the real, sure enough sweetheart who does not understand that love making in a play is only play, and very far removed from the sacred course of true devotion, there is quite a healthy complication. A young leading actor saves a youth's life, by catching him just in time to save him from what might reasonably he a fatal fall over a precipice, and to reward him the young man promises to intercede with the father of the girl who causes the actor chap sundry heart throbs and a little soul-anguish. But all good intentions do not materialize, and the young man falls in his ambassadorial mission.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-05
Popularity:
1914-06-10
Overview: Retired gem merchant Peter J. Martin hires detective Dan McRae to guard a large diamond which he plans to present to his daughter Ruth on her twenty-first birthday. Notorious jewel thief Gentleman Joe overpowers McRae, however, and takes his place at Ruth's party.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-10
Popularity:
1916-07-28
Overview: Kenneth Reynolds tells Nelly’s daughter the story of his love for Nelly. Kenneth was in love with Nelly, but the arrival of a stranger drove Nelly and Kenneth apart. Nelly and her lover absconded, and Nelly's father then died of grief. After some time, Nelly returned with a child, and took her last breath in Kenneth’s arms. The daughter had to cry upon hearing this story, told by the now somewhat older Kenneth, after all these years.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-28
Popularity:
1912-12-19
Overview: Small-town businessmen decide to establish a Fire Department; they lack polish, at first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-19
Popularity:
1917-12-31
Overview: In order to be admitted to his school fraternity, David Bruce is told to impersonate a Balkan prince. In that guise, Bruce leaves for the prince's tiny municipality. En route, he becomes involved with a gang of anarchists who order him to kill the prince he is supposed to be impersonating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-31
Popularity:
1918-10-14
Overview: Mary Thorne is the quarter-breed daughter of prospector Marshall Thorne. She has just returned from college and when a pair of hunters, Mark Hamilton and Chester Martin, come along, she decides it would be fun to dress in native garb and fool them. Both men find themselves attracted to her, even though Indians were taboo for whites in the racist days of the 1910s.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-14
Popularity:
1912-03-11
Overview: A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both love the same girl. She marries Crawford and they have a baby. Crawford is engaged in perfecting an invention and money is short leaving the wife dissatisfied. Robinson notes this fact and lures her away. She goes with him deserting the baby, leaving a note for her husband. While awaiting the train to leave the city they visit a picture house. The story thrown on the screen is identical to their own experience. Unable to witness the closing scenes and filled with remorse, Mrs. Crawford begs to leave and hurries home, hoping she may get there before her husband returns.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-11
Popularity:
1916-05-08
Overview: An unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of the sculptor Giovanni (Lon Chaney) and a reckless American millionaire, Cyrus Kirkham (Gilmore Hammond).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-08
Popularity:
1917-04-01
Overview: Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lust, Drink and Self Pity to the artist's home. Carillo succumbs to lust and sells his honor to the Devil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
Popularity:
1917-09-10
Overview: While relaxing in his cabin one stormy night, John Winton, a rising young businessman who has successfully resisted the institution of marriage, is interrupted by cries for help. Opening his door, he finds a soaking wet, pretty girl, who pleads with him to come to her aid.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-10
Popularity:
1919-12-26
Overview: Penniless aristocrat Yvonne Dupré ekes out a living selling her paintings to a crooked dealer, Leon Naisson, who passes them off as other more famous artists. Leon confides to his unscrupulous model Romildo, that he is attracted to Yvonne. Romildo drugs his lover, fiery Apache dancer Juliette who closely resembles Yvonne, then tries to extort money from Leon to have his way with her. Leon discovers the duplicity but convinces the artist's sweetheart, Dick Gray, that she has been unfaithful. As police close in on Leon, he frames Yvonne by planting forged paintings in her studio. Following Yvonne's arrest, Juliette is informed by her foster sister that she was stolen by gypsies as a child and is actually Yvonne's twin sister. Juliette exposes Leon's operation to the police, reuniting Yvonne and Dick.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-26
Popularity:
1919-03-16
Overview:
Genres: Western Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-16
Popularity:
1917-12-24
Overview: Naive Eileen Rodney (Dorothy Dalton) is duped by the high-minded talk of Raymond Moreland (William Conklin). But when she discovers that he wants to take her to India without the benefit of a marriage license, she balks and instead weds her guardian, John Harland (Thurston Hall). However, she had written some letters to Moreland, and these come back to haunt her when he tries to use them for blackmail.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-24
Popularity:
1917-05-14
Overview: At the death of Count de Beaulieu, his daughter Jeanne learns that her father had been the arch-criminal known as The Phantom. The only other person who knew her father's identity was his lieutenant, Franz Leroux, who now demands that Jeanne marry him in return for his silence.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-14
Popularity:
1911-09-11
Overview: A wicked queen casts a spell over a prince and steals his heart.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-11
Popularity:
1921-12-19
Overview: Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-19
Popularity:
1912-04-12
Overview: A short silent comedy in which Billy, who has lied to his wife so that he can go out on the town with a friend, gets caught by her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-12
Popularity:
1916-04-02
Overview: Montgomery Seaton, one of the idle rich, pays more attention to his friends' business than to his marital situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-02
Popularity:
1916-02-28
Overview: In pre-Civil War days, a woman dies in childbirth. Her sister, believing the child to be illegitimate, leaves the baby in the care of one of her sister's slaves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-28
Popularity:
1917-01-15
Overview: William Newman, a notorious shyster lawyer, in return for a cut of the jewels, agrees to take the case of Morris, a man convicted of stealing diamonds. After gaining possession of the gems, Newman appropriates all of them and then refuses to carry out his share of the deal. Subsequently, Newman, who is attracted to Georgianna, a maid at his boardinghouse, frames the girl on charges of theft and then arranges for her freedom, thus appearing to be her savior.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-15
Popularity:
1917-06-18
Overview: James Gordon, Sr., owner of the Gordon syndicate, dispatches his roughneck son Jimmy to investigate why production has fallen off in his opal mine on an island off the coast of lower California. After an argument with his fiancée, socialite Lucy Andrews, Jimmy leaves for the island where he is met by Juan, McCool's servant who, along with Jasper Sneedham, has been cheating the company. On the launch, Juan tries to eliminate Jimmy by hitting him over the head, but the lad escapes and swims to shore where he is rescued by Sneedham's stepdaughter Nadine. Nadine takes Jimmy to the hut of mine foreman Fred Haimer, the only honest man on the island.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-18
Popularity:
1916-10-30
Overview: Living up to a reputation for disregarding rules, author Sebastian Maure, having fallen in love with Ghirlaine Bellamy, kidnaps her to get her away from her fiancé, Vincent Pamfort. Sebastian takes Ghirlaine to a small island where, because of the force of his personality, he is treated almost as a god by the natives. During her captivity, Ghirlaine exerts a strong influence on Sebastian, and he vows to make himself into a better man.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-30
Popularity:
1920-08-05
Overview: A woman decides to take money from her wealthy mother to pay her gambling debts, but discovers that the contents of her mother's safe has already been stolen.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-05
Popularity:
1914-05-01
Overview: Falsely accused of the theft of a million dollars in securities from the safe of his wealthy employer, an honest young private secretary finds himself powerless to prove his innocence because of the perjury of an unprincipled butler who has been bribed to testify against him. For 23 chapters/adventures he and his boss's daughter set out to clear his name and catch the real culprit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-01
Popularity:
1915-02-01
Overview: Nell Gwyn and King Charles II fall in love after meeting at a fox hunt. Nell soon learns the jealous Duchess of Portsmouth is a spy and conspiring with the Duke of Buckingham to place Charles at the mercy of the King of France. Nell boldly disguises herself as a fashionable young blade and wins the confidence of the Duchess. Now entrusted with the delivery of important documents, she makes sure they go to the King of England rather than the King of France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
Popularity:
1919-08-17
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-17
Popularity:
1919-01-27
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-27
Popularity:
1916-02-20
Overview: James Fairfax, editor of the scandalous Morning Argus, stops at nothing for a juicy story, much to the disdain of his staff—especially reporter Dolly Clare.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-20
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