Charles Eldridge
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Biography: From Wikipedia Charles Eldridge was an American stage and screen actor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the film industry he appeared in over 100 films, although the majority of those were film shorts. He began on the stage during the 1870s, and appeared in at least one Broadway play, Charles Frohman's 1899 production of Because She Loved Him So. His first appearance in film was in a 1910 short, The Legacy, in which he starred. His first appearance in a feature film was in The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray. In addition to the over 100 shorts he was in, Eldridge appeared in 27 feature films between 1914 and 1922. In his roles in full-length films, he would usually appear in a supporting role, although occasionally be given a lead, as in 1917's Polly of the Circus, 1920's Broken Hearts, and 1922's Ashamed of Parents. Polly of the Circus was notable for being the first film released by Goldwyn Pictures, which was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, mostly at rented space at the studios owned by Universal Studios. His final screen appearance would be in a supporting role in the 1922 film, No Trespassing, which starred Irene Castle of the famous dancing team, Vernon and Irene Castle. No Trespassing was released on June 11, 1922, and Eldridge would die soon after, on October 29, 1922 in New York City.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 25, 1854
Age: 170 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 29, 1922
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The Wheels of Justice
Overview: Ralph Brooks, although engaged to Julia Dean, meets and becomes infatuated with Rita Reynolds. She gains his sympathy by telling untrue stories of her husband's brutality. They plan to run away together but while Rita is taking a large sum of money from her husband's safe, he returns early from a business trip and a fight ensues which results in her husband's death.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-22
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The Birth of a Soul
Overview: Mountain families feud.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Hearts and Spurs
Overview: Oscar has been sent to the plains to make a man of himself, is soon visited by his sister Sybil Estabrook, who travels west along with her maid in tow. Oscar, who has been losing at cards to Victor Dufresne, is forced by him to rob a stagecoach in order to pay off his gambling debts.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-07
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The End of the Tour
Overview: A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind. The boy, Byron Bennett, grows up, and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe. To make enough money to get out of town, they teach the local fire department how to put on a play. While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act, one of the troupe tries to seduce her. Byron, knowing what the lecher is up to, even if Grace doesn't, follows the pair and chokes the man senseless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-29
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A Reformed Santa Claus
Overview: The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until he is leaving his office in the evening. They try to state their case but he entirely ignores them. They attack him. In terror, he flees before them, escaping by entering the home of a poor widow with two children.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-22
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Made in Heaven
Overview: William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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Eye for Eye
Overview: The daughter of an Arab sheik falls in love with a French naval officer, thus breaking the strict rule of social law of her people, as well as her religion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-22
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A Cure for Pokeritis
Overview: This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-31
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His Father's Son
Overview: Thrown out of his dad's house without a penny to his name, playboy J. Dabney Barron is told not to return until he has proven that he can keep a job for an entire month. After several false starts, our hero is hired to keep flighty heiress Betty Arden out of trouble. He not only succeeds but manages to get his hands on a valuable jewel that has long been coveted by his father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-19
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Captain Jenks' Dilemma
Overview: Mrs. Brown, who is a widow, finds it a rather difficult matter to clothe and feed her large family of children, so when she becomes acquainted on the beach with Captain Jenks she is not slow in inviting him to her house. That evening the Captain calls with an engagement ring. He asks the widow to become his wife, but just as he is accepted Mrs. Brown's numerous offspring come running into the room. Upon being told that they are her children the Captain nearly faints and does not know how to break the engagement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-08
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The Life Boat
Overview: Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gambling and drinking, and determines to do better in the city. After a short absence he writes his people that he has secured a good position, is saving money, and will be home before long. A year or two later he arrives in town and on his way to his home passes the old saloon he used to patronize. He cannot resist the temptation, and goes in. He falls in with a lot of bad fellows and is robbed. Ashamed to go home, he ships on board a sailing vessel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-25
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The Younger Brother
Overview: When the two Werner brothers are called to the front it is not strange that the mother is very solicitous about the younger brother and enjoins the older boy to care for and defend him at all hazards. The English army is transported lo the Soudan and is now encamped in the midst of the activities of the campaign.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-26
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Hearts and Diamonds
Overview: Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-25
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Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Overview: The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the reception. She arrives at the reception and discovers that she is without her dancing shoes. She announces her loss and immediately all the young men volunteer to go in search of them. Harry Brown, who was not as quick as the others, is left behind and sits dejectedly on the curb while the others drive away.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-23
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The First Violin
Overview: Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from the theater the old musician finds little Helen sleeping on the steps of the stage door. He picks her up and takes her to his comfortably furnished home. The old man even grows childish, he is so pleased with the little tot's presence and he gives her the love with which his heart abounds. The next day he learns from the morning papers that Helen's mother and father were lost in a fire. He spends many happy hours with her, playing with her toys. He takes her to rehearsals with him, where she is the pet of the musicians. One year later Helen shows an aptness for the stage. This delights the old musician and the child grows nearer and dearer to his heart. A sad blow, however, comes to him when the Children's Society take the little girl away from him and once more he finds himself a lonely old man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-02
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Captain Jenks' Diplomacy
Overview: Sir Brian, an irascible old gentleman, who suffers from gout, receives a note saying his son Gerald is very ill at college, and asking him to come to Dublin. He is too ill to go so he gets his friend, Captain Jenks, to go instead of him. Jenks finds Gerald being nursed by a pretty girl and soon discovers that Gerald is in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-13
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The Reincarnation of Karma
Overview: In India, Leslie Adams dreams of a priestess who is turned into a snake by Karma, the high priest. While touring a ruined temple, he finds the snake, who is said to resume human form every 100 years. Assuming her human form, Qunitreea give Leslie's fiancée an amulet, causing her to fall into a permanent sleep. Leslie realizes he is the high priest Karma reincarnated, and that Qunitreea has had her revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-27
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The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
Overview: A gang of crooks are employed to get possession of valuable papers of international importance, held by the French Ambassador, Vicomte de Jarlais. They are also instructed to get the Ambassador out of the way and make it appear that he has committed suicide. His mysterious disappearance arouses the United States Secret Service officers
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-10
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An Eventful Elopement
Overview: Emphatically opposed to Jack Moss, old Mr. McGillicuddy puts the ban on his marriage to his daughter Dolly. The old gentleman is adamant to the appeals of the young lovers and interposes his interference on every occasion, when they get together. McGillicuddy is seized with an attack of the gout, which handicaps him, and it is then Jack arranges with Dolly to elope.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-01
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Following the Star
Overview: Helen Winthrop has ambition for the stage and when, during his summer sojourn at her home town, she is introduced to De la Marre, a popular star and dramatic favorite, she is elated and asks him to give her a part in one of his plays. He consents and from that moment she becomes restless, and longs to shake the dust of her village home from her feet. Her old sweetheart, John Tobin, is no longer in her class and receives a very cold goodbye when she leaves to shine in the limelight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-20
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Two Stepchildren
Overview: Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a small farm and longs to get away from it. Jabez, his uncle, who owns the farm, is a hard, matter-of-fact man, utterly out of sympathy with his nephew's ambitions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-02
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The Pickpocket
Overview: A John Bunny comedy short featuring his usual leading lady Flora Finch. Confusion over a stolen ticket puts Finch in jail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-21
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The Little Minister
Overview: To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by her parents. Fifteen years later, Gavin Dishart, the Little Minister, receives an appointment, his first, at Thrums, Scotland. This was made possible through the self-sacrifices of his widowed mother, to educate him for the ministry. The community of Thrums is made up of weavers, who work hard, have little and accomplish much. They are ultra-religious and look upon their pastor with such reverence that he is a little lower than the angels. While naturally intelligent, they are grounded in dogma and intolerance. Just after the Little Minister takes charge of the "Auld Licht Kirk" and the Manse, the weavers resent a reduction, by the manufacturers, in their pay and a strike is declared.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-13
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The Woman Game
Overview: To please her once wealthy mother, Amy Terrell fraternizes with members of high society who find her entertaining because of her beauty and charm. At one of Mrs. Van Trant's house parties, Amy is requested by her hostess to amuse Andrew Masters, an influential businessman who has an aversion to society women. Impersonating an old-fashioned girl, Amy wins Masters until he learns of her deception and denounces her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-05
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The Butler's Secret
Overview: After a serious quarrel with his father concerning his debts, Wallace Dixon leaves the house in anger, declaring that he will live his life as beat pleases him. That night, Alfred Dixon, the father, hears a noise by the safe in his bedroom, where he is sleeping, and shoots at the intruder who escapes unharmed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-06
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Up in a Balloon
Overview: The Simpsons go for a picnic in the woods. After luncheon, while mother and father enjoy a nap, Betty, their beautiful daughter, strolls away, picking flowers. When near a hillside, Betty sees a snake and screams. She starts to run away, but bumps into Billy Gilwater. He kills the snake and Betty calls him a hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-16
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The Man, the Mission and the Maid
Overview: Living in adjoining homes at Oakdale, Hal Oilman and Alice Blanchard are childhood friends and playmates. Some years later. Hal goes to college, and while there makes a bitter enemy of Bert Peyson by exposing him as a card cheat and a thief.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-17
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As in a Looking Glass
Overview: Scandalous European temptress Lila Despard, travels to America to escape her lover, criminal Jack Firthenbras. On the ship, she meets Andrew Livingston, a United States Navy planner, and Senator and Mrs. Gales. Her new friends host a party for Lila in Washington, D.C., where a spy named Dromiroff threatens to expose her past unless she steals Andrew's secret naval plans. In order to secure the papers, Lila makes love to Andrew, but the plan backfires when she falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-06
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The Picture Idol
Overview: A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her parents want to teach her a lesson, and invite the actor to their home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-31
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An Elephant on Their Hands
Overview: While in his cups, an older gentleman buys a surprise for his family—one that eats peanuts and weighs 11,000 pounds. (MoMA)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-15
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Bunny Backslides
Overview: While Flora Winslow, a widow is engaged to Bunny, she attends a lecture on eugenics and decides that her intended husband is too fat. She tells him he must reduce, and as she wishes to become stouter, they agree to attend Dr. Sweatem's Sanitarium.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-30
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The Spider's Web
Overview: Banker Graham Lawlor is convinced to invest in Silver Shield Mines and becomes president, unaware that promoters Harris, Brennen, and Lester are frauds. He asks his son, Trevor, a small-town lawyer, to join as secretary. Trevor suspects foul play, warns his father, and returns to his practice after a disagreement. Lester, one of the promoters, woos and abandons his stenographer, Brenda Wray. When rumors surface about the mine’s instability, the promoters attempt to place blame on Lawlor. Knowing he holds documents to clear his name, they bribe his servant to steal them. Brenda, seeking justice from Lester, overhears the plan and informs Trevor. Lawlor’s servant, Thompson, is caught, confesses, and clears Lawlor’s name, leading to the arrest of Harris, Brennen, and Lester.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-14
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Half a Hero
Overview: A little country village comedy in which Mr. Costello plays a young grocer's clerk. This clerk and the daughter (Clara Kimball Young) of a G.A.R. fire-eater (Mr. Eldridge) are in love, much to the old man's disgust. He wants his daughter to marry a brave man, a soldier. AN unexpected denouement makes the clerk seem to be a hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-07
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The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton
Overview: An old doctor hires a young new doctor to join his practice, particularly to attract women for more business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-20
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The Cross Roads
Overview: A melodrama about a girl who has to marry the landlord in order to save her parents’ home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-06
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Mr. Bolter's Infatuation
Overview: Mr. Bolten is hoping to woo the dancer Céleste and invites her for coffee. Her answer is that she will wait for him in hotel "Des imbeciles' in New York. He obviously cannot find the hotel, and to make matters worse he is robbed by a pickpocket. As a consequence he cannot pay his restaurant bill and is arrested. Luckily for him, a friend pays his bill so he can return home. There he picks up a dictionary and sees what "imbécile" means.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-22
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As You Like It
Overview: After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-06
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Fortune's Turn
Overview: A short social drama about an unemployed young man who begins to steal, but then repents and performs a heroic deed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-09
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Under the Daisies
Overview: A critic, John Mears, retreats to the countryside to recover his health and learns of a legacy tied to his bachelorhood. There, he meets and falls in love with Viola, the daughter of a local farmer. Over time, Mears' broken promises and neglect lead to Viola's heartbreak. As she struggles with her emotions, a tragic event unfolds, and her heartfelt writing finds its way into the hands of playwright Robert Burton. Inspired by her story, Burton creates a successful play, unknowingly drawing from Viola’s pain. Mears, upon recognizing the truth behind the play, is left to confront the consequences of his actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-12
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Bunny's Honeymoon
Overview: Bunny's niece has a beau who is so addicted to drink that her father will not permit her to marry him. He has given the lad a chance, but when he comes upon him drink again, he orders his daughter to break it all off. She goes to Uncle Bunny, who thinks up a scheme to cure the drunkard. In pursuance of this, he brings the lad, so drunk that he can't see straight, to his home and by dressing up in woman gear, and by borrowed kids, makes him think he has married a fat widow with many children. The poor lad is so greatly worried that when he wakes up next morning, he really swears off. So. in the end, the lovers are happy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-06
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The Meeting of the Ways
Overview: Tom and Dick are brothers and are being educated at the same college. Tom is a studious fellow and graduates with honors, while Dick is expelled from college through misbehavior. Dick is ashamed to go home, but before leaving Tom gives him a locket containing a picture of their mother. Ten years later Tom, who is a successful lawyer, is married and has two little children. Dick, who has now been reduced through personal neglect to a derelict, overhears a plan to rob his brother's house. Making up his mind to prevent it, Dick climbs through the nursery window, catches the burglars, but effects their escape. His two little nieces, who have been watching him, kiss and hug him before he makes his exit. When their parents return from the reception they attended, the children relate to them what had happened. Dick gets into a scrape with a gambler a month or two later, who laughs at the miniature of his mother that Dick puts up in lieu of cash.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-12
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The Red Barrier
Overview: A short romantic drama about a woman who is worshiped by both a lieutenant and a Russian diplomat; the latter wins, but later turns out to be a brute. A duel in the snow ensures that the lieutenant gets the woman, but both of them suffer from visions in which the deceased appears as soon as they try to get together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-04
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She Cried
Overview: A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-02
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Stenographer Wanted
Overview: Two businessmen need to hire a stenographer, but their wives get suspicious when they notice a parade of beautiful young women entering and leaving their husbands' office.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-26
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Fixing Their Dads
Overview: Both deadly rivals for the hand of the Widow Hathaway, Kirkland and Livingston, gentleman farmers, are so bitter, they do all possible to break up the love match between Dick and Florence, their respective children, causing great unhappiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-18
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The Vanishing Vault
Overview: While stopping at the Bronzegilt Hotel, Slick and Slim, two high-class and well-dressed burglars, overhear Baroness Vodka tell the manager she wishes to place her million-dollar box of jewels in the hotel vault, which is set into the wall at the end of the hallway. The manager accordingly escorts her to the big safe, and she watches him place the little box inside. Next morning the manager goes to cash a check for the Baroness, and finds the whole vault has completely vanished.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-07
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The Pretenders
Overview: Upon striking oil on his farm, Silas T. Pettingill (Charles Eldridge) moves to Park Avenue at the behest of his social-climbing wife Maria (Kate Blancke) and daughter Helen (Emmy Wehlen). But like Jiggs in the comic strip, Pettingill never loses his common touch, and one evening he goes out on a toot with his new chauffeur Hubert Stanwood (Paul Gordon).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-21
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Ashamed of Parents
Overview: A poor shoemaker struggles to send his son to college, where he becomes a football star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-25
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The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray
Overview: Loose adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s “Frankenstein”.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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The Spirit of Evil
Overview: Nick Carter investigates the mysterious death of a man attending a Spiritualistic seance held in the home of a psychic scientist, friend of the man who suddenly died.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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Unseen Foes
Overview: Nick Carter, called to a prominent New York hotel room by a wealthy mine owner, finds him dead when he arrives. His investigation involves a number of supposed reputable business men, but he solves the mystery and brings all to justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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Broken Hearts
Overview: Lost silent melodrama was actress Florence Hackett's final film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-01
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The Challenge Accepted
Overview: In the Blue Ridge Mountains Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston loves Steve Carey, but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. Steve is unhappy at the training camp Steve argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. When Steve deserts to visit Sally she takes him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, home on leave, rescues her and announces that he is leaving for Europe to fight for democracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-29
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The Wheel of the Law
Overview: Broadway star Mona Mainard retires from the stage for marriage to rising attorney John Norton and watches his career climb. Over time she becomes concerned with his at times unscrupulous ways of getting convictions. When her brother is accused of murder Norton refuses to give up the case despite being aware of his innocence because a victory could land him the governorship. Mona takes extreme steps to bring him to his senses and exonerate her brother.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-18
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The Sea Raiders
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Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-15
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The Surprises of an Empty Hotel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-07
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The Locked House
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-07
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Ignorance
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Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-01
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The Man Under the Bed
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-18
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Sporting Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-15
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