Cyril Chadwick
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Biography: From Wikipedia Cyril Chadwick (11 June 1879 – 3 November 1955) was an English actor of the silent era. He appeared in 70 films between 1913 and 1938. He was born in Kensington, London.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kensington, London, England, UK
Birthday: June 10, 1879
Deathday: November 03, 1955
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Gender: Male
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Is Zat So?
Overview: A rich man hires a pair of brothers, one to teach him to box and the other to manage him. Meanwhile, the rich man must fend off his brother-in-law, who is after the family inheritance. The film is lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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The Heart Buster
Overview: Rose Hillyer, the sweetheart of cowboy Tod Walton, is about to marry Edward Gordon a slick con-man and a bigamist. Tod has proof of Gordon's bad deeds but it is late in arriving and he has to resort to many tricks to keep the marriage from happening... including kidnapping the minister.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-06
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On the Quiet
Overview: Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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The Hunted Woman
Overview: Joanne Gray goes North to find out whether her husband is dead or alive and to attempt to obtain the release of her innocent brother from jail. She becomes enamored of a youth who has staked out a gold claim but remains chaste until her husband is found and killed, meeting death in a fight with the youth's partner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-22
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The Actress
Overview: A theatrical troupe from the west end of London loses its leading lady when she goes off to marry a rich young man from the other side of town. The rest of the play deals with the budding romance and trials and tribulations of their love, as well as the changing face of late-19th-century theatre.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-27
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The Iron Horse
Overview: Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
Genres: Western Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-04
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Thirty Days
Overview: John Cadwalader Floyd gets himself into a lot of trouble when hot-headed Italian Giacomo Polenta finds him in the arms of his wife, Rosa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-10
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The Mating Call
Overview: A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-21
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The Misleading Lady
Overview: Jack Craigen, an engineer who has just finished a construction job in South Africa, returns to New York. There, at the home of his Uncle Cannell, he meets stage-struck society girl Helen Steele and her playwright fiancé Tracey. Scheming to win the lead in their new production, The Siren , Helen wagers Cannell and Tracey that she can vamp Jack--a notorious woman-hater--and have him propose to her in a week.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-20
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Peter Pan
Overview: Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.
Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-29
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The Black Watch
Overview: Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First World War.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-22
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The Cat's Paw
Overview: In this adventure the diplomatic free-lance and his brilliant aid in war, Nan Tremain, are again pitted against their relentless enemy, Pfaff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-16
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The Big Bluff
Overview: In order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be from British royalty who is an "old friend".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-02
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Don't Marry for Money
Overview: Don't Marry for Money is a 1923 silent drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Overview: There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. Webley, Fay is again the center of attention for Arthur and Elton with her leaning towards stuffy old Elton. When Arthur sees Charles, Fay's Butler, lurking in the gardens, he remembers that Charles was a thief caught in Monte Carlo and he figures that Fay may be more interested in the pearls of Mrs. Webley, which she is. After Fay takes the pearls, but before she can toss them out the window, she is caught by Arthur who is very disappointed in how things are turning out.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-06
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The Thirteenth Chair
Overview: Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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The Lady of Scandal
Overview: A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-24
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The Christian
Overview: Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory's friend, Polly Love, incites the London populace against John....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-14
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Gigolo
Overview: The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who's married her for her money. After he returns from service in World War I, he finds his mother, now broke and abandoned by her gigolo husband....
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-03
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The Strangers' Banquet
Overview: In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-31
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Out Yonder
Overview: Flotsam (Thomas) is the daughter and helper of crusty old lighthouse keeper Joe Clark (Edward Ellis, in fine form). The reason why Clark lives 'out yonder' is because he's a fugitive from justice: years ago, he killed a man under complicated circumstances. Clark's official assistant is Amos Bart, but Flotsam does much of the work of maintaining the lighthouse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-21
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Three Live Ghosts
Overview: Adapted from a popular Broadway play and concerns three veterans who return to London from the War only to discover that they have been officially listed as dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Excess Baggage
Overview: Excess Baggage is a lost 1928 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze and distributed by MGM. The film was based on the play of the same name by John McGowan. The film starred William Haines, Josephine Dunn and Kathleen Clifford.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-28
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The Best Bad Man
Overview: Visiting his vast properties incognito, Hugh Nichols (Tom Mix) discovers that his land agent (Cyril Chadwick) is forcing Peggy Swain (Clara Bow) and her dad (Frank Beal) off their neighboring ranch. When decent-minded Nichols demands that the agent cease harassing the farmers, the nasty villain blows up the nearby dam, flooding the valley.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-29
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Foreign Devils
Overview: Capt. Robert Kelly holds off the foreign mob single-handed and makes good his escape during the Boxer rebellion.
Genres: Action History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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Sensation Hunters
Overview: Dale Jordan is first accepted by the aristocratic first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a member of a troupe of cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-30
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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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Thank You
Overview: Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay on a chicken farm in the small village of Dedham. On the day he arrives there pretty Diane Lee, the niece of local Rev. David Lee, arrives from Paris. A few days later Kenneth, reverting back to his wild ways, gets drunk and makes a spectacle of himself, but rather than reproving him, Rev. Lee gives him a heart-to-heart talk and gets Kenneth to turn his life around. Meanwhile, the reverend--barely able to get by on the pittance the local vestrymen pay him--asks for a raise but is denied it, being told that he must send Diane away before they'll even consider giving him any extra money. Soon afterward Kenneth falls gravely ill. His father, hearing of Kenneth's condition and of his infatuation with Diane, arrives at the village to see his son and isn't ready for what he finds.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-05
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Happiness
Overview: The adventures of a young shopgirl who learns that having money is not the key to happiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-09
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His Supreme Moment
Overview: John Douglas, a down-on-his-luck engineer, takes his sweetheart, Sara Deeping, to a play starring Carla King, and he falls in love with the actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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Little Church Around the Corner
Overview: A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-09
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Sporting Life
Overview: A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can save his fortunes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-29
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The Social Code
Overview: Babs Van Buren saves her lover from the electric chair and at the same time extricates her older sister, Connie from a trying situation.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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Women Men Marry
Overview: When he loses both his wife and child, Montgomery Rogers adopts his servants' little girl and raises her as his own. Completely unaware of her origins, Emerie grows up to be a first class snob. Her socially ambitious aunt takes her to Europe to become engaged to Brooks Fitzroy, an impoverished lord (Cyril Chadwick). On the voyage back she encounters a young man, Dick Clarke who is working for his passage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-27
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The Rustle of Silk
Overview: Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together -- he is England's Colonial Secretary and married, while she is merely a working class maiden. But when she is given a maid's position in his household, it brings her that much closer to her idol. She puts on a fancy gown and heads to the Ritz in hopes of getting a formal introduction. After being fired from the household, she follows Fallaray to his country home and nurses him when he falls ill. Lord Fallaray's wife Lady Feo doesn't love him and is having an affair with Paul Chalfont. When it looks like he will be faced with scandal, Fallaray contemplates giving up politics and marrying Lola.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-13
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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 Smugglers
Overview: While honeymooning in Paris, wealthy John Battleby Watts is persuaded to purchase a $20,000 necklace for his capricious young wife. When the jeweler refuses to accept his check, John heads to the bank for the necessary funds. En route, he passes a little shop specializing in imitation jewelry. Figuring his wife will never know the difference, he buys a cheap duplicate of the 20-grand bauble. Later on, however, he reconsiders and purchases the genuine article. But before he can reach his hotel, John is detained by saucy chorus girl Rita Bori, whom he presents with what he thinks is the imitation necklace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-06
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Forty Winks
Overview: The Butterworth family attorney Gaspar Le Sage, and a suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth, persuades a beautiful adventuress, Annabelle Wu, to help him steal the official plans for the coastal defense of California from Eleanor's brother, Lieutenant Butterworth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-02
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The Richest Girl
Overview: A girl needs to marry by a year to get her aunt's money but her fiancé has left. After getting permission from her godfather for a "white wedding," she realizes she loves the godfather instead.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-08
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Till We Meet Again
Overview: Swindler Arthur Montrose has tricked Marion Bates into getting committed to an insane asylum, after cheating her and her friends out of all of their money. She escapes and winds up with a criminal gang headed by Jim Brennan. Complications ensue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-15
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Clothes
Overview: Mistakenly believing that she has inherited a large estate from her father, Olivia Sherwood spends money wantonly. In reality, her funds are supplied by unscrupulous attorney Arnold West, whose ulterior motive is to possess her. When she falls in love with wealthy Richard Burbank, West becomes enraged. At a party, West confronts Olivia with the truth and threatens to expose her unless she marries him. Olivia frantically attempts to escape his advances and as West pursues her, he falls down the stairs and breaks his neck. Burbank overhears the entire confrontation and forgives Olivia, and they marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-19
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His Wife's Money
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-01
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Brass
Overview: With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-04
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