Ivan Linow
Also Known As: Jānis Linaus, Jack Linow
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Russian Empire [now Latvia]
Adult: No
Birthday: December 31, 1887
Age: 137 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 21, 1940
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The Story Without a Name
Overview: Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma wants to get his hands on the invention and he sends his henchmen to attack Holt in his laboratory.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-27
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Jewel Robbery
Overview: A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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Cappy Ricks
Overview: When seaman Matt Peasley and his friend, Murphy (Hugh Cameron), go ashore in San Francisco, they save Florrie Ricks (Agnes Ayers) from a couple of robbers. Matt falls in love with Florrie, whose father is ship owner Cappy Ricks (Charles S. Abbe).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-21
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Tillie and Gus
Overview: Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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The Far Call
Overview: A greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the governor's daughter who learns that the poacher is the estranged son of a prominent citizen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-28
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Dumb Dicks
Overview: Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-08
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Fury
Overview: Boy Leyton is second mate on board the Lady Spray, the ship on which his father is Captain Leyton. Boy is often chided by his father for his effeminacy and more often beaten. While in port Boy proposes to Minnie and suggests that she go to Glasgow to meet him there to be married. The ship sails and the Captain learns of his son's intention to marry. He calls him in and tells him about his mother, who deserted him, and tries to turn him away from all women, but Boy refuses to listen. The Captain is suddenly taken ill, but before he dies he makes Boy promise that he will not marry until he has found the man who wronged his mother. The Captain is buried at sea and the ship continues on its course. Upon reaching Glasgow Boy tells Minnie what happened. While at the bar, he meets an old woman who comes in begging. During the conversation he discovers that she is his mother, and he forces her to tell him who her betrayer was. A lost film.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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The Scarlet Empress
Overview: During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
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The Sport Parade
Overview: Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-11
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Goldie
Overview: Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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The Song of the Flame
Overview: This was a screen version of the 1925 operetta by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Herbert Stohart, and George Gershwin. The story of the movie is about a peasant who is known as "The Flame" who leads a revolution in Russia. This peasant who is in love with a Russian prince saves his life by agreeing to sacrifice her virginity to an evil fellow-conspirator. This was an all Technicolor musical which was had a sequence in Vitascope (a Warner Brother's wide screen process)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-24
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The Ship from Shanghai
Overview: On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-31
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Numbered Men
Overview: Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-07
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Zaza
Overview: Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-21
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Catch-As Catch-Can
Overview: Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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The Unholy Three
Overview: A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-12
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The Cock-Eyed World
Overview: Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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The Yellow Ticket
Overview: A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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The Daring Young Man
Overview: The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-17
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The River
Overview: Passion carried an innocent boy and a worldly woman beyond the barriers of conscience.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-06
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Temple Tower
Overview: The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile. Bulldog Drummond goes up against a group of jewel thieves led by Blackton and a Masked Strangler they double-crossed who wants revenge.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-12
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Scarlet Dawn
Overview: During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-12
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The Red Dance
Overview: Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-02
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The Shadow of the Eagle
Overview: The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-01
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Black Magic
Overview: On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the three are rehabilitated and everything turns out happily."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-06
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The Silver Horde
Overview: A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-24
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Waltzing Around
Overview: Two zany transients get jobs as vendors at a sports arena. One of them accidently knocks out one of the fighters, and must take his place, with his partner acting as referee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-13
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The Miracle Woman
Overview: After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind former aviator restore her faith and happiness?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-17
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Rackety Rax
Overview: Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-23
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Speakeasy
Overview: Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-08
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City Girl
Overview: A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-12
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The Merry Frinks
Overview: An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-26
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Newly Rich
Overview: Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-02
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Madonna of the Streets
Overview: Directed by John S. Robertson. With Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames, Ivan Linow, Josephine Dunn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-25
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In Old Arizona
Overview: Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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Wages of Virtue
Overview: A carnival strongman and his girlfriend flee to Algiers to escape a murder charge but there they are caught again in a web of jealousy, deceit and murder.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-10
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Lover's Island
Overview: Clemmy Dawson, the daughter of a sea captain, lives in a small fishing village, where, in the summer season, she meets Jack Avery, who is visiting a nearby resort. When Clemmy is later attacked by Sam Johnson, her father (who does not know the identity of the man who sought to force his attentions on Clemmy) vows that he will force the responsible man to marry her. Clemmy names Avery, and her father proceeds to make plans for a wedding. In the meantime, Clemmy discovers that Avery already has a fiancée and, with a change of heart, she runs off, taking refuge on Lover's Island. She makes plans to marry the villainous Sam, but Avery, realizing that he has come to love her, goes to Lover's Island, stops the wedding, and marries Clemmy himself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-30
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Vagabond Lady
Overview: Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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Enemies of Women
Overview: The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he resumes his life of debauchery while World War I ravages the fields of Europe… (Partially lost film; reels 3 and 9 of a total of 11 are missing.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-15
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