Douglas MacLean
Also Known As: Charles Douglas MacLean, Douglas Maclean, Douglas McLean, The Man With the Million Dollar Smile
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 10, 1890
Age: 135 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 09, 1967
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That's My Baby
Overview: On the eve of his wedding, businessman Alan Boyd gets a telegram notifying him that his "bride" has fallen in love with another man and eloped with him. Announcing that he is through with women, an hour he meets pretty Helen Raynor, who takes to him (and is also his business rival's daughter). Helen's mother, though, doesn't take to Alan at all. In addition, Schuyler Van Loon, who is also after Helen, comes up with a scheme to embarrass Alan in Helen's eyes and ruin his reputation in the bargain--he comes up with a "baby" he claims is Alan's illegitimate son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-19
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The Boss
Overview: A man rises from rags to riches, first by boxing, then as a saloon owner, freight contractor, and eventually dockyard boss. However, the man's brother-in-law complicates things with his dockworker union activism. The film is presumed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-24
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Let It Rain
Overview: Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-12
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Soft Cushions
Overview: Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-27
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Souls in Pawn
Overview: Chief of the German secret service in Paris has been ordered to secure for his government the service of the most clever and beautiful woman obtainable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-06
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The Rookie's Return
Overview: A young soldier is discharged from the service and has trouble making a living. However, when he inherits a great deal of money, he finds his troubles only beginning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-26
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Mary of the Movies
Overview: Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-27
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The Vamp
Overview: Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus girls the notion of winning a man by the seductive method of "vamping" him. She tries the method on the shy minister she loves, and it works.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-14
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Love's Crucible
Overview: WAS IT Better For Her To Have Loved and Sinned Than Never to Have Sinned At All? STOP--CONSIDER The girl he led astray was another man's sister. Yet-He protected the honor of his own sister with his life. IT'S ALL IN THE POINT OF VIEW.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-14
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Overview: A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-19
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One a Minute
Overview: An excellent silent comedy starring unjustly forgotten star Douglas MacLean. Its indictment of pharmaceutical entrepreneurs is far sharper than Side Effects'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-19
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23 1/2 Hours' Leave
Overview: Brash young Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can have breakfast with his commanding general. But a couple of enemy spies, intent on infiltrating the training camp, get in the way of Sgt. Gray's plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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The Hun Within
Overview: A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and America. The son becomes involved with German agents plotting against U.S., and the father must decide between his son and his adopted homeland.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-08
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The Carnation Kid
Overview: It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a Chicago hitman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-02
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Bell Boy 13
Overview: Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde. He causes so much confusion that Uncle Elrod buys the hotel so that he may fire Harry. But Harry induces the other employees to strike until Uncle Elrod consents to Harry's marriage to Kitty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-19
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Captain Kidd, Jr.
Overview: An old man wills a map to his grandson, with instructions showing a buried treasure, but it is accidentally sold to a book store. The owner and her granddaughter Mary discover it. Mary and her boyfriend an aspiring author, meet the desperate grandson and agree to share the treasure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-05
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The Home Stretch
Overview: Johnny Hardwick (Douglas MacLean) is the owner of the fastest horse in the next race. Although it's almost guaranteed that he will win big, Hardwick ruins his chance by saving a little girl who has run out onto the track. The child's father shows his gratitude later on when he offers Hardwick a job as a clerk in his hotel -- Hardwick has been forced to flee after a fight in a roadhouse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-23
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Johanna Enlists
Overview: A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-14
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A Man of Action
Overview: Wealthy Bruce MacAllister, goaded by his fiancée, Helen, into proving that he is a man of action rather than a pampered youth tells his estate administrator, Eugene Preston, that he is going east for a meeting. Instead, Bruce dons a disguise and infiltrates the San Francisco underworld. Mistaken for master criminal "The Chicago Kid", he finds himself leading the gang in a robbery of his own fortune in diamonds. Discovering Eugene's intention to steal the jewels for himself he engineers it so the loot changes hands many times. Getting wise, Helen summons the police, the criminals are apprehended, and she sees Bruce in a new light.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-03
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The Hottentot
Overview: Mistaken for a famous jockey, a young man uses it to his advantage -- until he actually has to race a horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-25
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Introduce Me
Overview: Jimmy Clark, sightseeing in France with his friend Algy Baker, falls in love, at first sight, with Betty Perry at the railroad station. The destination for all: Switzerland. There, Jimmy is mistaken for an expert mountain climber, J.K. Roberts. Betty is introduced to Jimmy and believes him to be the champion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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Mary's Ankle
Overview: Three young men, struggling to find their next meal, encounter a young lady with an injured ankle. One of the men is a doctor, who maintains a charade of success with his wealthy uncle, in which the uncle believes the young man to be well-off and married to a (fictitious) wife named Mary Jane Smith. The young doctor falls in love with the girl of the injured ankle and discovers that her name is Mary Jane Smith.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-29
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Passing Through
Overview: Passing Through is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film, directed by William A. Seiter and written by Agnes Christine Johnston, and Joseph F. Poland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-14
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Going Up
Overview: Going Up (1923)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-30
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The Sunshine Trail
Overview: When good-natured James Henry MacTavish comes into an inheritance, he travels East to claim it with the determination that he will "scatter sunshine" along the way. But MacTavish almost immediately lands himself in hot water.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-23
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The Yankee Consul
Overview: A whale of a comedy thriller. It's a Niagra of roaring laughter Faster Than the Wind!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-24
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What's Your Husband Doing?
Overview: Insecure Beatrice Ridley lets her jealousy of her husband get the better of her when he begins receiving letters each morning from the Honeysuckle Inn, a roadhouse frequented by sportsmen. Consulting young attorneys, Widgast and Pidgeon, she finds their wives also suspicious about the goings on at the Honeysuckle Inn. Madcap complications ensue when all the characters meet there before everything is straightened out for all three couples.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-25
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The Jailbird
Overview: Shakespeare Clancy is a jailbird who walks out with a crowd of visitors about the time "Skeeter" Burns, the prison printer, is discharged. Learning that a legacy awaits them in Dodson, the pair depart for the small Western town. Discovering that the bequest consists of a failing county newspaper and a plot of barren land, they hatch a plan to fleece the townspeople by selling shares in a bogus oil well. Problems arise when Clancy falls in love with society editor Alice Whitney. Clancy is conflicted but then they do strike oil! Concluding that his destiny is to be an honest man, Clancy returns to jail to finish serving his term. Slipping into the crowd of visitors, he dons his prison clothes and resumes work as though nothing had happened.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-10
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A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
Overview: A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920) presents a fascinating glimpse into the Thomas H. Ince studios at Culver City.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-15
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The Fair Barbarian
Overview: An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-17
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Divorce Made Easy
Overview: When his aunt disapproves of his marriage to Mabel Deering and threatens to disinherit him, Percy elicits the aid of his buddy Billy Haskell, who is engaged to Eileen Stanley. It is arranged that Billy and Mabel be found together in compromising circumstances by Percy and his aunt, but matters are complicated by the arrival of Billy's uncle in the city, and Aunt Emma becomes very fond of him. All is subsequently explained and thoughts of "divorce" are smoothed away as Uncle Todd couples up with Aunt Emma, and Billy and Eileen, and Percy and Mabel, reinstitute their carefree engagements.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-06
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Happy Though Married
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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A Woman's Power
Overview: Ever since Henry Falkins had caused Newt Spooner to be sentenced to prison, Newt has nursed a red-hot hatred for him and a desire to see Henry dead. That is until he meets and falls in love with Minerva Rawlins who makes him reevaluate his obsession. When fate throws the two men together in the Philippines during wartime and the opportunity to slay Henry occurs Newt realizes that he has resolved his inner torment. He returns to Minerva a man at peace with himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-21
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Let's Be Fashionable
Overview: A nice young couple moves to a community where the bonds of matrimony are not held in much respect and where it is fashionable to carry on with one that is not one's spouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-13
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