Bert Sprotte
Also Known As: B. Sprotte
Biography: From Wikipedia Bert Sprotte (9 December 1870 – 30 December 1949) was a German actor. He appeared in 77 films between 1918 and 1938. He was born in Chemnitz, Saxony and died in Los Angeles, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chemnitz, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: December 09, 1870
Age: 154 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 30, 1949
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One Night of Love
Overview: Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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The Prisoner
Overview: While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo Ravorelli, whom Philip recognizes as the man wanted for a murder in Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-18
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For Big Stakes
Overview: "Clean-Up" Sudden is a drifter restoring law and order to a small farming community run by a corrupt sheriff in this silent Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-18
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The Night Horsemen
Overview: Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale) after Dan is found wandering the desert as a youth. After he becomes a man, Dan wanders throughout the West, following the wild geese when they fly South every year. He finds trouble in a lawless town and wounds a rival gunman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-01
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Wild Bill Hickok
Overview: The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-18
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His Hour
Overview: Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia, is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except for a young but cold British widow, Tamara Loraine. While she's spurning his advances, Tamara is growing ever more fascinated with Gritzko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-29
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The Border Wireless
Overview: Cowhand Steve Ransom discovers that German spies are operating along Mexican border, relaying their radio messages into Mexico and thus on to Germany. The spies learn that Steve is a fugitive from American justice.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-06
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Two Moons
Overview: A fight breaks out between the cattle ranchers and the upstart sheep men, whose fences were seen as a threat to the freedom of the West.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-19
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Snowdrift
Overview: A Northwest melodrama about a mining engineer who loses his money gambling in the Yukon.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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The Stolen Bride
Overview: The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-10
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The Golden Trail
Overview: At the Golden Trail saloon in Alaska, Dave Langdon meets chorus girl Faro Kate who reminds him of his long-lost love, Jane Sunderlin. Meanwhile, back in the States, Harry Teal, scheming to steal a mine claim, hires Jane's brother Dick to do his dirty work in Alaska. After Jane accompanies her brother up North, Teal, who has designs on Jane, begins to fear that she will go back to Dave and so plots to discredit him by igniting the jealousy of Kate's admirer, Jim Sykes. Teal succeeds, and in the violent fight that erupts between Dave and Sykes, Sykes is shot by an unknown hand. While pursuing Sykes' assailant, Dave discovers Jane, but their reunion is cut short when Dave is arrested for the shooting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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The World Aflame
Overview: Wealthy businessman Carson Burr discovers first-hand the problem of social unrest when he loses his cook and his chauffeur and he is insulted by a waiter. Burr runs for mayor to improve the labor situation and is elected. The editor of The Red Messenger organizes the streetcar drivers to begin a general strike, but Burr manages to break up the strike
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-17
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Pass the Gravy
Overview: Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. He gives his young son, Ignatz, two dollars to buy a chicken but the boy pockets the money and kills Schultz' first place rooster instead. Once seated at the table all but Schultz discover what they are eating and desperately try to hide the bad news from Schultz who is sure to kill Davidson if he knows the truth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-07
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The Miracle Baby
Overview: Neil Allison is tricked into assaying some false samples from a young crook's mine. When Neil sees that he has been duped, a quarrel ensues, and Jim Starke, the youth, is stabbed by an unknown assassin. Neil runs away thinking he has committed murder and becomes the unwitting partner of the victim's father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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The Ropin' Fool
Overview: "Ropes" Reilly shows off his impressive roping skills, then runs afoul of the local townsfolk.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-29
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Vive la France!
Overview: A couple's suffering finally comes to an end when Jean, having lost his memory through shell shock, sees the cross of shame on Jenevieve's breast, gets his memory back and the two pledge their troth.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-15
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Captured!
Overview: While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-19
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Wagon Tracks
Overview: Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-28
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The Private Life of Helen of Troy
Overview: Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly underdressed coquette, oblivious to all the political turmoil she's causing when she allows the handsome Paris (Ricardo Cortez) to kidnap her. Meanwhile, poor King Menelaus (Lewis Stone), Helen's husband, stands by in stoic silence, just as he's done on previous occasions when his wife succumbed to the charms of various sexy suitors (one of whom is played by future cowboy star "Wild Bill" Elliot). Finally galvanized into action, Menelaus reclaims his bride, who seems none the worse for wear for her experiences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-09
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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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Bob Hampton of Placer
Overview: Former U.S. Army Capt. Bob Hampton joins a party of settlers and saves the life of a girl known as "The Kid" from a siege.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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A Passport to Hell
Overview: Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-25
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Jes' Call Me Jim
Overview: Happy-go-lucky Jim Fenton is in love with Miss Butterworth, the town milliner, who is taking care of little Harry Benedict while his father Paul, an inventor, is in the local insane asylum. Miss Butterworth convinces Jim that Belcher, one of the town's prominent citizens, has incarcerated Paul to steal the patents from his inventions. Jim breaks into the asylum and spirits away the enfeebled inventor......
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-23
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Guile of Women
Overview: A naive young Swede is repeatedly victimized by predatory women. When finally he meets a young woman who seems sincere and true, he wonders if he can trust her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Soul of the Beast
Overview: This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thomas H. Ince, and stars Madge Bellamy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-06
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The Fighting Streak
Overview: Andy Lanning, a peace-loving blacksmith, rescues Ann, the fiancée of Charles Merchant, from a runaway team. When the town bully picks a fight with Andy, he knocks him unconscious, and (thinking he has killed him) Andy rides into the hills. Merchant, jealous of Ann's admiration for Andy, bribes the sheriff to kill Andy, who has joined a band of outlaws in the wastelands. Forced to defend himself, Andy kills the sheriff, but later he saves the new sheriff's life and forces him to hear his story when he is placed in jeopardy by the outlaw band. Meanwhile, Ann, who has broken her engagement to Merchant, engages a lawyer to clear Andy, and he returns to find her awaiting him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-13
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White Oak
Overview: Gambler Oak Miller seeks revenge on the man who misused his sister Rose, who is ill and under the care of the woman Oak loves, Barbara. The man Oak seeks, Granger, is planning to rob a wagon train with the collusion of the Indians under Chief Long Knife. When Barbara is suspected of killing her lascivious stepfather, Oak takes the blame and is arrested just before he is needed to save the threatened wagon train.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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Rosita
Overview: The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.
Genres: Romance Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-03
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Dracula's Daughter
Overview: A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
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Confessions of a Queen
Overview: The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Turmoil increases as a revolution demands the abdication of the King and the Queen opposes this decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-30
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The Blazing Trail
Overview: Young doctor Bradley Yates has been trying to come up with a serum to counteract blood poisoning, with no results. Exhausted, he takes a rest in the Blue Ridge Mountains and stays in a small mountain community. When a young schoolteacher comes to town a romance develops between her and Bradley, but the local gossips have spread rumors that he has seduced Talithy, a local girl, and will abandon her for the teacher. Complications ensue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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Life of an Actress
Overview: The film explores the journey of Nora Dowen as she rises to fame and stardom, facing the challenges and temptations that come with the industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-15
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Trailin'
Overview: A Tom Mix classic! Tom is a devil-may-care aristocrat whose father has mysteriously concealed all info about his deceased mother. One day, an old man shows up and shoots Tom's father dead! The only clue Tom has is a picture of a far-away ranch in Idaho that was hidden away for years in a secret locked room in their mansion.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-11
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Shark Monroe
Overview: In this 1918 film, newly restored by MoMA, Hart is a ship's captain in the Pacific Northwest who abandons his post to pursue a woman who does not love him (MacDonald) across the Klondike, eventually rescuing her from the grip of a white slaver.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-30
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A Royal Romance
Overview: A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be Countess von Baden, hiding in a secret chamber with her son, whom the court has awarded to her divorced husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-17
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It Could Happen to You
Overview: A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
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Demon of the Sea
Overview: Ahab pursues a whale that chewed off a leg when his brother, vying with him for the hand of a minister's daughter, pushed him overboard. When he has caught the monstrous whale he will then deal with his brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-03-12
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Why Women Love
Overview: An oil tanker burns at sea, and Molla Hansen, the captain's daughter, is the only survivor. Her rescuer, lighthouse-keeper Silas Martin, is fatally burned, and begs Molla to look after his daughter, Pearl. Meanwhile, Captain Rodney O'Malley, Molla's grief-stricken fiancé, departs on a long cruise. Two years later, Pearl is seduced by rum-runner Charley Watts, although she blames engineer Ira Meers. Molla learns of Pearl's pregnancy and holds Ira at gunpoint in the lighthouse. When Pearl discovers that Charley is already married, she locks him in the lighthouse tower, floods it with gas, and hurls a lighted lantern at him. Pearl and Charley are killed, but Ira recovers. The explosion signals Rod's ship, and he and Molla are reunited. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-10-18
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Selfish Yates
Overview: The story is set in Arizona, where the aptly nicknamed Yates is the proprietor of the local saloon. Unable to find any other work, pretty Mary Adams is forced to scrub floors in Yates' establishment. At first treating her with the same disdain that he extends to the rest of the townsfolk, Yates slowly but surely falls in love with Mary.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-12
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Breed of Men
Overview: Boss rider "Careless" Carmody is made sheriff of an Arizona frontier town by Chicago swindler Prentice. The naive Carmody actually believes Prentice to be on the up and up and vouches for him in a land deal with Ruth Fellowes. Taken to the cleaners, so to speak, Ruth blames Carmody, who, in love with the girl, follows Prentice back to Chicago.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-02
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O'Malley of the Mounted
Overview: Sergeant O'Malley of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police gets himself into a gang of outlaws in order to detect and capture a wanted murderer. He finds the killer, but falls in love with the man's sister. In the meantime, one of the outlaws uncovers O'Malley's true identity.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-06
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Singer Jim Mckee
Overview: Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is killed, but Jim and the daughter escape. Fifteen years later, Jim finds that he must turn robber again to continue to provide for Buck's daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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A Question of Honor
Overview: Wealthy Anne Wilmot vacationing along with her aunt Katherine at her fiancé Leon Morse's (Hull) Arizona mountain lodge discovers his plot to destroy a nearby hydroelectric engineering project in order to obtain the land for his railway. She thwarts the sabotage but find herself in a life and death struggle.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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Song of the Eagle
Overview: This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-27
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Manhattan Melodrama
Overview: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Hungry Hearts
Overview: A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better their lives, but she finds that most of her efforts costs more then they are worth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-26
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Wild Geese
Overview: Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-15
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Little Robinson Crusoe
Overview: Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, but he is shipwrecked and stranded on an island inhabited by cannibals who worship him as a war god.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1924-08-25
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The Deceiver
Overview: The story of a man who seeks self-aggrandizement regardless of the sacrifice of friends, sweetheart and honor, but who is finally made to realize the futility of an ambition founded on false principles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-01
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The Purple Dawn
Overview: The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and directed by Charles R. Seeling. Starring Bessie Love, Bert Sprotte, and William E. Aldrich. The film is presumed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-10
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Below the Deadline
Overview: Wharf-master Buck Elliot is the leader of a band of murderous crooks. The gang shoots down a policeman in a wharf side scuffle, and Detective Donovan swears revenge on the murderer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-06
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Silver Spurs
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-01
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The Ace of Spades
Overview: 15 chapter serial. Gideon Trask and his henchmen at the saloon in Arkansas City covet the mineral survey of the Louisiana Territory made for Napoleon before the sale of the Territory to the United States. This is in possession of the Heath Brothers, who seek to use it in staking their land when the Oklahoma territory, last of the Louisiana tract to be released by the Government, is opened to Homesteaders.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-19
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