David Kirby
Also Known As: David D. Kirby, Dave Kirby
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Birthday: July 16, 1880
Deathday: April 04, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The West~Bound Limited
Overview: The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more importantly, to tie all the thrillingly on-the-spot railroad footage together. Railroad buffs will enjoy all the atmospheric detail director Johnson has obtained by filming in real freight yards and inside and alongside real steam engines and rolling stock.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-14
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The White Lie
Overview: Gordon Kingsley lives happily with his wife Dorothy and little daughter Mary Jane. On visiting the home of San Francisco architect Frank Mason, he is shocked to discover a portrait of his own wife and daughter. Suspecting the worst of Dorothy, he hires a private detective....
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-02
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Lightning Romance
Overview: Jack Wade is the son of a wealthy father who runs a successful ship-building company. He uses his athletic prowess to defeat the villainous competitors who are out to financially ruin his father.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-15
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Ann Vickers
Overview: After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-26
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The Sunset Derby
Overview: After suffering a fall during a race, rider Jimmy Burke loses his nerve. But with the help of his girlfriend Molly Gibson, Jimmy regains his confidence just in time to achieve victory during the Big Race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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Shame
Overview: William Fielding, a young widower, is living in Shanghai with his little boy, David. A young Chinese woman looks after the child, and Foo Chang, a trader, lusts after her. Because he believes she is David's mother, he kills Fielding. Fielding's faithful secretary, Li Clung, takes the boy to San Francisco to be raised by his grandfather. As an adult, David (also played by Gilbert) fights against opium trafficking with Li Clung's help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-31
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The Man Who Played Square
Overview: Rancher Matt Black is willed half of a Nevada gold mine. Arriving there, he learns that the heir of the other half is a young girl named "Bertie." Realizing that there may be some dirty work and theft going on at the mine, he conceals his identity and gets a job as a miner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-23
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The Bandit's Baby
Overview: An American silent Western
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-17
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The King of the Turf
Overview: Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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Burning Bridges
Overview: Bob and Jim Whitely are twin brothers. Bob, an army veteran who suffered shell shock in the war, escapes from a sanitarium and holds up the Express train, for which Jim is mistakenly arrested. Jim soon escapes from jail in order to find his brother. However, his task is complicated by a crooked sheriff who pins a holdup and murder on him that the sheriff himself actually committed. To make matters worse, the murder victim was Tommy Wilkins, the brother of Jim's fiancee, who now thinks that Jim killed her brother.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-30
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The Man Who Came Back
Overview: Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father sends him to San Francisco to work in the family shipyards and, to make a man out of him, he is told he will have to start at the bottom and work his way up. Henry decides this is not a good idea and resents it to the point he will indeed start at the bottom but will work his way down from there, and disgrace the family name in San Francisco.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-17
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The Last Edition
Overview: A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promotion at the same time his son is accused of graft and involved in scandal. The historical landmarks of old San Francisco are present: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, City Hall and the Pickwick Hotel-- but they don't distract from the dramatic and emotional perforamces at the film's center.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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The Royal American
Overview: Story of a young shanghaied sailor. Forced to work as a deckhand on a rough-and-tumble transport vessel, the sailor ends up in South America, where his brutish captain intends to sell guns and ammo to a band of revolutionaries. Besting the villains, Jack gets into the thick of things himself, ultimately rescuing the heroine -- likewise "shanghaied" by the captain -- from Certain Doom.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-01
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The Greatest Menace
Overview: A DA's son gets involved in a drug-related murder, and it's up to his father and sister to get him out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-19
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The Shield of Honor
Overview: Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-10
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Marked Men
Overview: Three outlaws rescue a baby in the desert and with barely any water left try to return to the town in which they just robbed a bank. Lost film. A remake of 1916's "The Three Godfathers," which also starred Harry Carey.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-21
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The Girl in the Checkered Coat
Overview: When Mary and Fannie Graham, daughters of a good mother but a father with criminal instincts, are left motherless, Mary flees from her unhappy surroundings while Fannie, inheriting her father's disposition, remains and is raised as a thief.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-23
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Danger Ahead
Overview: Produced by low-budget entrepreneur Phil Goldstone, this silent action melodrama starred Richard Talmadge, a German-born former stunt double for Douglas Fairbanks.Talmadge played Bruce Randall, a wealthy young man supposedly killed during a robbery in his home. But Bruce has survived and is instead wandering about in a state of amnesia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-21
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Ridin' the Wind
Overview: 1920's cowboy superstar Fred Thomson stars in this western comedy adventure.
Genres: Comedy Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-09
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The Poppy Girl's Husband
Overview: A silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama about a man who gets out of prison after ten years and discovers that his wife has divorced him and married the man who sent him to prison. Worse yet, she fears he will want to exact revenge, so she sets up her new husband to frame her first husband, so he will be sent back to prison!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-16
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The Lawful Cheater
Overview: Disguised as a boy, a young woman gets an inner-city street gang back on the straight and narrow path.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-17
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The Fighting Edge
Overview: Juan de Dios O'Rourke, an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, who have been driving large herds north-to-south from Texas into Mexico, and smuggling illegal, no-passport Chinese aliens south-to-north from Mexico into Texas, operating from a rambling mansion on the Texas side of the border, aided by his sweetheart, a rancher's daughter, Phoebe Joyce.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-08
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