Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 22, 1878
Deathday: May 02, 1939
Popularity:
1920-09-05
Overview: During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has been killed, she returns home to her wealthy family without mentioning her brief marriage. But Sam turns up, alive but poorly dressed, and Florence is happy to see him but appalled at his clothing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
Popularity:
1919-06-15
Overview: Elderly millionaire James Rance, whose only passion is chess, warns his grandson Tommy, who missed the previous evening's game because he played poker with his uncle Gilbert, that should he miss another game, Gilbert will gain the boy's inheritance. During another poker game the next night, Gilbert provokes a fight between Tommy and another player that results in the other player's supposed death. Meanwhile, Terrence Redmond, the guardian of an orphan he found while fighting in France, falls in love with Dawn Moyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
Popularity:
1916-04-09
Overview: The wife of attorney John Blair (T. Jerome Lawler), heroine Helene (Kalich) finds herself in an untenable position when two of Blair's clients, Harry Carson (Robert Rendel)) and Richard Tremaine (Eugene Ormonde), both fall in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-09
Popularity:
1922-06-01
Overview: Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social secretary, but is reluctant to tell her about his past.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-01
Popularity:
1917-01-07
Overview: Donald MacTavish, the last chieftain of his clan on an island off the coast of Scotland, dies at sea. This leaves his only daughter, Marget, to assume the responsibilities of leadership. Marget's burden is partially eased by her blossoming romance with Jamie Campbell. But there is a secret from Jamie's past that neither of them know about.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-07
Popularity:
1917-12-31
Overview: Lumberjack Gaston Olaf is newly arrived in the lumber camp of Havens Falls, but it isn't long before he finds himself coming to the rescue of the lovely Rose Havens, who is being pursued by the nasty Lefty Red.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-31
Popularity:
1918-10-27
Overview: A series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-27
Popularity:
1919-12-21
Overview: Unhappily married to Sir Robert Grimwood, an older man whose only passion is chess, Lady Marion finds solace in the arrival of her old suitor, John Heritage.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-21
Popularity:
1920-08-29
Overview: Julie le Breton is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Rose, whose own background resembles that of her daughter. Julie is buffeted by the ill treatment of her mother's family and nearly ruined by a fortune hunter, but her own resources and goodness stand her in good stead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-29
Popularity:
1922-02-13
Overview: The first film in the first "Leather Pushers" series from Universal.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-13
Popularity:
1917-09-01
Overview: Vincento Perez, the governor of the Portuguese colony of Exile, is an unscrupulous and brutal man who is hated by the natives. Furthering his schemes, Perez tries to force silk dealers out of business, and reveals his plans to government engineer Richmond Harvey in a letter appealing for the American's help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-01
Popularity:
1919-08-03
Overview: The Great Gamble is a 1919 movie serial.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-03
Popularity:
1925-09-05
Overview: "Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small harbor who has never had a boyfriend. Connie is instantly smitten. She invites Smith to dinner, where he dances with her and gives her a kiss. Connie has a hard time letting him go, and makes him promise that he will come back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-05
Popularity:
1914-01-31
Overview: An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-31
Popularity:
1918-01-01
Overview: Shortly after Dr. Allen Forrest, who is involved with aircraft production for the United States government, invites his young nephew and business partner, Leonard White, to live in his home, idle gossips begin to spread rumors about Leonard and the doctor's pretty wife Madelyn. At first, Allen refuses to believe the stories, but gradually he becomes suspicious. One night, the doctor hears a noise in Madelyn's room, and when he rushes in, he is shot in the arm. The young man jumping from Madelyn's balcony resembles Leonard, and the doctor, deeply hurt, accuses his wife of infidelity. Madelyn is on the verge of killing herself when a secret service agent appears, reporting that the German spy who attempted to steal secret documents from the doctor's home the night before had been apprehended.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
Popularity:
1920-09-27
Overview: Upon leaving prison, an ex con vows to go straight, but circumstances force him to return to crime. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks kidnaps a visiting British aristocrat, but the ex-con has an incredible likeness to the Englishman, and his intended hosts take him home to their mansion.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-27
Popularity:
1919-04-26
Overview: Doris Parker, the daughter of an American Marine Officer, becomes Harry Townsend's pen pal. Harry is a young American soldier with no family who has gone to fight in France. As they exchange letters, Doris falls for Harry, despite advances made by Jack Tims, a captain of the Royal Navy training with the American Marines. On the front in France, Harry's face is wounded. Overwhelmed by the news, Doris asks Jack Tims to take Harry onboard a ship he is taking to France. During the voyage, Jack foils an attack from an enemy submarine but is wounded in the battle and dies.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-26
Popularity:
1923-01-21
Overview: Ruth Rutherford, crippled as a result of being thrown from a horse, breaks her engagement to Lord Wallington. Dejected, he returns to his regiment in Egypt and sinks into dissipation. Ruth hears of his plight and also goes to Egypt, where she meets Dr. Mohammed Ali. Ali cures her lameness in return for Ruth's agreeing to become his wife, but Biskra, Ruth's servant, kills Ali before he can collect. Even from death Ali's power over Ruth returns her to her wheelchair until she jumps up to save Wallington from an attack feigned by Biskra.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-21
Popularity:
1917-03-25
Overview: The story of the training of a racehorse, the Whip, of the amnesiac nobleman who loves the horse, and of the villains who attempt to keep it from racing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-25
Popularity:
1915-11-10
Overview: An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a significant connection to the cold-hearted factory owner.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-10
Popularity:
1925-08-04
Overview: Wealthy New York girl, Susan Van Dusen, in search of thrills and laughter, leaves home and finds work with a private detective agency. She meets Tod Waterbury, who, under another name, is working as a cab driver (in search of story material for a novel), and the two fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-04
Popularity:
1920-03-20
Overview: April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr. Sarle and his partner Ronald Kenna (Frank) and reads her latest story to them. She has made Sarle the hero, Kenna the villain, and herself the heroine. In the story, April changes places with Lady Diana Mannister (Marshall), who is being sent to South Africa to separate her from her lover, a young artist. A famous diamond that Lady Diana is to deliver at the end of her journey is given to April. Thieves trail her during her journey. With efforts by Kenna to steal the diamond prevented by the intervention of Sarle, the story comes to a close.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-20
Popularity:
1917-10-16
Overview: A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his Baldpate Inn, which has been closed for the winter, so he can write in complete seclusion. Things start heating up, though, when a succession of people who also have keys to the inn begin showing up.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-16
Popularity:
1921-05-10
Overview: At a reception given at the Rogers mansion in his honor, Somerset Carroll surprises the guests by saying he would aid a female convict reported to have escaped. Later he does just that when he finds the girl in the library, taking her to his own house. There she reveals herself to be socialite Helen Rogers, playing a game with him on the advice of her guests. He then declares himself a crook, holding the real Carroll prisoner, with the intention of robbing the Rogers mansion. She follows and shields "The Magnet" from the police, the real Carroll having escaped and notified them, and through her interference he eludes his would-be captors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-10
Popularity:
1924-03-16
Overview: A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a notorious, knife-wielding bootlegger's roadhouse. Originally a 5-reel feature (50min), now only 2 reel edit exists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-16
Popularity:
1916-05-08
Overview: John Wheeler (Warren Cook) gets himself in some financial hot water and needs to prove that he is half owner of some land in Canada. But the only person with a copy of the deed is Jean Corteau (Edwin Carewe, who also directed), and Corteau has gone up to the property and decided to claim all of it for himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-08
Popularity:
1919-11-16
Overview: Carlotta has been brought up in an Italian convent, unaware that she is the illegitimate child of American architect J. Winthrop Drake. When her mother, an Italian opera singer, dies, Drake finally learns of Carlotta's existence and brings her back to New York with him without revealing the truth of their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
Popularity:
1925-08-23
Overview: A Lambert Hillyer silent romantic love triangle boxing sports lumberjack logging melodrama about a world champion boxer who must retire due to an arm injury. He becomes a lumberjack, and becomes involved with the daughter of the owner, but rivals sabotage their operation, and the boxer has to return to the ring to save the owner from bankruptcy and win the hand of the daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-23
Popularity:
1920-05-10
Overview: A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with a pair of jewel thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-10
Popularity:
1923-05-27
Overview: Silent film directed by Irvin Willat
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-27
Popularity:
1918-06-09
Overview: Differing considerably from Henrik Ibsen's classic play, the basic story of a woman who forges her father's name and comes to grief therefore is retained.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-09
Popularity:
1927-01-02
Overview: Offering a ride to a millionaire, Sam Smith (Leon Errol) agrees to trade places with his passenger for financial reasons. Only when the men in the white coats put the collar on him does Sam realize that the "millionaire" was actually an escaped mental patient.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-02
Popularity:
1921-05-20
Overview: Headstrong Mavis Cole defying her grandfather runs away with the wealthy but caddish Herbert Whitman. Proving he’s no good Herbert plants a stolen necklace on Mavis and attempts to have her arrested when he comes under suspicion, so Mavis flees to a hunting lodge then entering into a marriage of convenience with Jimmy Ryder to hide her identity. Meanwhile, Herbert bribes ex-convict Steve La Marche to steal a jewel from Dorothy Grosscup but Jimmy captures the thief, though he claims innocence. Dorothy accuses Mavis of the theft, but she is cleared by Steve, resulting in Herbert's arrest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-20
Popularity:
1918-12-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-01
Popularity:
1921-11-10
Overview: Capt. Deering, a British war hero whose exploits in the Arabian desert have earned him the nickname "The Man of Stone", returns home to London to discover that his fiancé, the wealthy Lady Mary Fortescue, has left him for another man. Devastated, he returns to the desert and begins to drink heavily, which results in his becoming gravely ill. He is cared for by the lovely Laila, an Arab woman who falls in love with him. Meanwhile, Lady Mary has broken up with the man she dumped Deering for and travels to the desert, determined to get him back and to let nothing stand in her way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-10
Popularity:
1916-09-03
Overview: Ellinor, who was unofficially adopted as an orphan by 'Old Peter,' who maintained a lighthouse on a virtually deserted beach, has grown up wild and nearly silent. As she blossoms into full womanhood, she longs to know more about the world. One day a mutinous sailor swims to shore and declares that they are married, after tossing a pair of rings into the sea. He soon flees, but promises to return for her. Wealthy widower George Hudson, the richest man in the nearby port village, also falls for the fascinating, attractive young woman. He convinces her to go to a finishing school for a year and then marry him. They both find that the sea still holds a powerful pull on the soul. Which is stronger: love or the sea's magic spell?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-03
Popularity:
1917-09-29
Overview: Opal, who knows nothing about her ancestors, falls in love with G. D. Stanley, the strange young man who is her closest neighbor in the Canadian wilderness. One day, Opal is informed that she is really the princess of a small country and must return to her native land to marry the neighboring king to save her people from invasion.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-29
Popularity:
1919-06-01
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
Popularity:
1923-05-10
Overview: Elderly Jeremy Ellsworth decides to settle his fortune on John and Beatrice, the children of his disinherited son. He sends a message for them to come live with him. Beatrice arrives safely, but James Gault, Ellsworth's secretary, intercepts the letter to John and engages Phil Carter to pose as the heir. Lumber camp foreman John hears of the plot and heads to the Ellsworth home to squash it but is overpowered by thugs who also kidnap Beatrice. Escaping his captors, John rescues his sister from a speedboat with the aid of a hydroplane and finds love with Beatrice's governess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-10
Popularity:
1920-05-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-01
Popularity:
1918-12-29
Overview: In the Blue Ridge Mountains Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston loves Steve Carey, but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. Steve is unhappy at the training camp Steve argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. When Steve deserts to visit Sally she takes him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, home on leave, rescues her and announces that he is leaving for Europe to fight for democracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-29
Popularity:
1921-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
Popularity:
1917-11-15
Overview: Mary Alden and her brothers Matthew and George have extremely different political views. Matthew is a committed pacifist, and is constantly giving speeches against war. George is notified that his draft number, 258, has been called and to report for induction, but he refuses. Mary, on the other hand, is intensely patriotic and comes up with a plan to shame him into reporting for induction. Meanwhile, Matthew is being set up for a patsy by a gang of German secret agents, led by Van Bierman, who are planning to blow up an airplane factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-15
Popularity: