Roy Stewart
Also Known As: John Roy Stewart
Biography: From Wikipedia Roy Stewart (October 17, 1883 – April 26, 1933) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 138 films between 1915 and 1933. He was born in San Diego, California and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA
Birthday: October 17, 1883
Deathday: April 26, 1933
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Gender: Male
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Liberty
Overview: A 20 part 2-reel Western film serial.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-20
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The Rustler's Roundup
Overview: Winters is after the Brand ranch, and his man Brett who is foreman there is rustling the Brand stock. But Tom is on to their game and breaks up their attempt to buy the ranch. When they plan to rustle their horses, Tom must not only rescue Danny Brand, who is their prisoner, but stop the rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-16
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The Smugglers of Santa Cruz
Overview: Langdon, a revenue officer in search of smugglers operating along the coast of Santa Cruz Island, Cal., meets Verna. the daughter of the lighthouse keeper and they fall deeply in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-28
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The Girl o' Dreams
Overview: After his young wife dies, Phillip Fletcher, a millionaire and sculptor, makes his home on an uncharted desert island. Harry LeRoy, a cad who is courting the widow Mrs. Hansen, desires the widow's convent-bred daughter Norma and persuades mother and daughter to accompany him on a sea cruise. When the ship catches fire, Norma, abandoned by LeRoy and her mother in the confusion, is washed ashore on Phillip's island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Prisoners of Love
Overview: Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-16
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With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
Overview: In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This time Gerty kills the Chief's son saying it was a white man and this sends the Indians on the warpath.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-01
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Follow the Girl
Overview: Orphan Hilda Swanson's prayers are answered when a Swedish-American colonization company agrees to send her to America. Aboard the steamer, she meets Olaf, a young Swede, and Donna, an enemy courier who is posing as a passenger. Learning that the secret service is on her trail, Donna sews secret documents into the hem of Hilda's skirt. She then sends a wire to her comrade Felix Martinez, notifying him to intercept the Swedish girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-06
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Fighting Caravans
Overview: Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson (Ernest Torrence) and Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice (Lili Damita) into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married her the previous night. Clint is released so he can accompany Felice on the wagon train heading west to California.
Genres: Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-01
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Willie Runs the Park
Overview: Willie Runs the Park is a 1915 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Greater Courage
Overview: The Greater Courage is a 1915 silent film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-21
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The Hungry Actors
Overview: The Hungry Actors is a 1915 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-17
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From Italy's Shores
Overview: Tony Gardella and his pretty wife, Angelica, sailed from Italy in the steerage of a Mediterranean liner for New York. They had a small sum saved up to give them a start in the new world. The ordeal of Ellis Island over and the trip to Battery Park on board the municipal ferry boat completed, Tony and Angelica found themselves in a little park in the shadows of the downtown scrapers
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-19
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The U.P. Trail
Overview: Civil engineer Warren Neale rescues a badly wounded Allie Lee after her family is killed in an Indian massacre. Falling in love after nursing her back to health, Warren must yet again save Allie when she is kidnapped by a dangerous bandit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Trimmed in Scarlet
Overview: Disapproving of the loose woman her father has married, Faith Ebbing leaves home and goes to work, but she later steals $5,000 in Liberty Bonds to pay off Duroc, a blackmailer threatening her mother, Cordelia Ebbing.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-09
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Rough Romance
Overview: Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-15
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Fargo Express
Overview: When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-20
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Come On, Tarzan
Overview: Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who gathers horses for slaughter, whose meat is sold to pet food manufacturers. The wild horse Tarzan frees the doomed horses from their corrals, and Frazer convinces the Sheriff that Tarzan is a threat and can be shot on sight. Local cowboy Ken Benson (Maynard) and rancher Pat Riley (Kennedy) work together to clear Tarzan's good name and put Frazier behind bars for his evil deeds.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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Sparrows
Overview: Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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The Devil to Pay
Overview: Small town politician and banker Brent Warren is responsible for a murder, but only George Roan is sent to the gallows for it. Roan, however, is resuscitated after he is hung and proceeds to secretly haunt Warren's life. District attorney Cullen Grant is sure that Warren was behind the killing and has him arrested. Warren's fiancee, Dare Keeling, also happens to the Grant's ex-sweetheart, and she believes in his innocence. Her brother, Larry, however, isn't so sure and he goes to work as Warren's secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-28
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Just Nuts
Overview: Just Nuts is a 1915 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd playing the character that preceded his glasses character. It is also the only surviving film featuring Lloyd as Willie Work
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-18
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Riders of the Dawn
Overview: A young soldier returns from the war to find his western homeland despoiled by conflict between the wheat farmers and a crooked lawyer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-01
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The Viking
Overview: In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman.
Genres: History Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-02
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The Sagebrusher
Overview: A friend of a Montana sagebrusher advertises for a potential wife for him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Diamond from the Sky
Overview: This serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-03
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The Heart of the North
Overview: Early silent screen leading man Roy Stewart played a dual-role in this independently produced "Northwestern" about identical twins, separated at birth, who grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-09
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The Great Divide
Overview: Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner. Ruth is vacationing in Arizona and Mexico with a fast set of friends, including her fiancé, Edgar. Manuella, a Spanish halfbreed hopelessly in love with Ghent, causes Ruth to return to her fiancé when she insinuates that Ghent belongs to her. Ghent follows Ruth, kidnaps her, and takes her into the wilderness to endure hardship. There she discovers that she loves Ghent, and she discards Edgar in favor of him.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-15
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The Sagebrush Trail
Overview: Having banned the carrying of firearms in his jurisdiction, Larry Reid, the sheriff of Silvertown (Roy Stewart), pursues a trespasser of the strict law to the home of schoolmarm Mary Gray (Marjorie Daw). Noticing her evasive answers, Larry suspects the teacher of harboring the refugee. He finally captures the young man in question, Neil (Johnny Walker), who proves to be Mary's weakling brother.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-30
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The House Built Upon Sand
Overview: Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the factory town of Oreville, where he works as factory manager. He takes her to their home in the factory town and there orders his housekeeper to take away her useless clothes and to supply those befitting the wife of a factory manager. Trouble lies ahead.....
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-31
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Her Social Value
Overview: A shop girl has ambitions of marrying up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-24
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Kit Carson Over the Great Divide
Overview: When the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the heroism of the foremost Indian scout of the day...Kit Carson!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-02
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With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Overview: When Buffalo Bill Cody learns that the Union Pacific railroad is making its way through Kansas, he and other heroes of the Wild West join forces to build a town along the route.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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The Boss of the Lazy Y
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Clifford Smith.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-07
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A Daughter of the Poor
Overview: A young girl, Rose Eastmen lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house. Lacking education, both Rose and her Uncle are susceptible to the socialist ideas of writer Rudolph Creig. One day Rose encounters Jack Steven's the wealthy son of the publishing house, working on his car. She believes he is a common laborer, and begins seeing him. Through her exposure to Jack, Rose begins to realize the rich are not such an abominable people. Rudolph has also reached this conclusion after learning Steven's has published his book. Now with a hefty royalty check and success, Rudolph is able to marry Rose.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-17
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Come on Danger!
Overview: Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An eye for an eye, signed Joan Stanton". Danger follows for Larry, a Texas Ranger. Will his sense of chivalry allow him to bring in a woman to face the charge of murder? Along the way, several cowboy tunes and fine locations contribute to the picture's Texican atmosphere.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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One Woman to Another
Overview: One Woman to Another (1927)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-17
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General Custer at the Little Big Horn
Overview: One of the bloodiest battles in American history is brought to life in this rarely-seen silent blockbuster. Over 3,000 extras were employed to recreate General George Custer's last stand against the Indian forces led by Crazy Horse.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-16
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The Lone Star Ranger
Overview: After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which he committed. In order to prove his innocence, he joins the Texas Rangers, and also hopes to win the approval and hand of Mary Aldridge, a girl from the East. He is assigned to round up a gang of cattle rustlers who are, unknown by Mary. led by her father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-05
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Just a Wife
Overview: Businesswoman Eleanor Lathrop becomes an advisor to Richard Emerson, an ambitious young engineer. He becomes very successful with her help, and to avoid the talk that surrounds their relationship, she suggests that he marry Mary Virginia Lee, a Southern girl from an aristocratic but impoverished family. Mary is happy to wed Emerson since she is tired of being poor. On their honeymoon, she reveals that she got married only to have luxuries, and Emerson admits that he was looking for social standing. After their confessions, they decide it's best to lead separate lives. Emerson stays at his club in New York, while Mary lives at his country home. Eleanor becomes jealous of Mary's position, even though she's the one who spends her time with Emerson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-23
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Bond of Fear
Overview: When stern Judge McClure gets into an argument with his younger brother John, a physical fight ensues in which the judge apparently kills John. In fear of the consequences, he runs off to the West and hires guide Cal Nelson to take him far into the desert. Along the way they meet Mary Jackson, and the judge, overcome by heat prostration, babbles out his secret.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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The Mistress of Shenstone
Overview: The husband of Lady Myra Ingleby is off fighting in the World War. She is devastated when Sir Derysk Brand tells her that her husband has been killed. The War Office gives her the details - Lord Ingleby was killed, not by enemy fire, but because of an error committed by one of his fellowmen, whose name is never to be disclosed. The grieving widow retreats to her Cornwall estate for a rest. Staying at the inn is a man known as Jim Airth, who carries a grief of his own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-27
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You Never Know Women
Overview: On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who persists in his efforts to win the girl. Foster engages the troupe to perform at his home, and Vera, stunned by a fall, awakens to find Foster pleading his love, while Norodin, her partner who loves her, sees them embrace. Norodin, who performs an underwater stunt, asks Vera not to be present for his act and causes her to believe him dead; heartbroken, Vera tells Foster of her mistake; and enraged, he attempts to seize her. The magician appears, pins Foster to the wall with knives, and advises him to leave before the last blade is thrown.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-20
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Come Through
Overview: From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentleman burglar.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-01
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Mixed Blood
Overview: For Nita Valyez, who is half-Spanish and half-Irish, Carlos represents potential violence and danger, two things to which she is both attracted and repelled. In contrast, she has only a passing interest in Big Jim, the town's honest, good-hearted sheriff. Then, after Carlos kills a faro dealer, he forces Nita to make an escape with him.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-18
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The Devil Dodger
Overview: A gambler runs a frontier town with an iron fist.
Genres: Drama Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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The Woman on the Jury
Overview: The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who refused to condemn her when eleven men had voted guilty...a woman brave enough to defy public opinion, brave enough to lose the loss of the love of her husband by baring her soul to the world in order to save the girl on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-20
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Sundown
Overview: Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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The Double Standard
Overview: Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting the dives and cabarets of the city, and promises equal justice for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-23
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The Bruiser
Overview: Athletic star William Russell puts on his boxing gloves for this waterfront drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-23
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Where the Worst Begins
Overview: Jane Brower wants nothing more than to leave behind her ranch life in the West and go East. When she happens upon a party in the private railroad car of wealthy August Van Dorn, Jane gets the idea to finance her trip by kidnapping his son, Donald, for ransom. While Jane is negotiating with the senior Van Dorn, his son is kidnapped by two bandits. Donald soon escapes and seeks out Jane, with whom he has fallen in love. After Donald rescues Janes from the bandits, they decide to marry and spend their honeymoon in New York City.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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The Secret Code
Overview: A lost silent Western short.
Genres: Western Thriller
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-02-28
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The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
Overview: A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke Worne, and starring Roy Stewart in the title role; each episode in the series was a story complete in itself. They are all presumably lost.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-28
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The Showdown
Overview: The plot of this silent western short is unknown and it is presumably lost.
Genres: Western
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-05-14
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One of Three
Overview: An adventuress traps Norroy into her apartment, then, with the aid of several men, gets the new secret code from him. He turns the laugh on all of them by staging their capture and proving that he had only a fake code with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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The Midnight Watch
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Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-01
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Stormy Waters
Overview: Silent drama film based on the story "Yellow Handkerchief" by Jack London.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-01
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