Ashton Dearholt
Also Known As: Richard Holt
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Birthday: April 04, 1894
Deathday: April 27, 1942
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Brass Bullet
Overview: Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-10
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The New Adventures of Tarzan
Overview: A feature film. Tarzan, who has returned to Africa after living in England, sets off to Guatemala in search of an old friend who may have survived a plane crash there. Also in Guatemala are Ula Vale and Major Martling who are out to find the riches of the Green Goddess. They join forces after they learn that a competitor, Raglan, has already set out ahead of them. Tarzan has to rescue everyone after they are taken prisoner. When they get to the hidden city, Tarzan finds his friend alive and the fabulous treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-21
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A Yankee Go Getter
Overview: Popular action heroine Neva Gerber played the dual roles of Lucia and Vera Robilant in this low-budget silent melodrama produced by Benjamin F. Wilson, Gerber's frequent collaborator. Two almost identical women claim ownership to a pocketbook found by author turned adventurer Barry West (James Morrison). Barry is hired by nefarious Nicholas Lanza (Joseph W. Girard) to marry heiress Lucia, who surprisingly turns out to be one of the claimants. Meanwhile, Lucia's lookalike sister Vera is plotting to install herself as Lucia and claim the inheritance. After the wedding, Barry discovers a secret passage and finds the kidnapped Lucia. The villains are brought to justice and Barry and Lucia can finally plan a future together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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A Racing Romeo
Overview: When Red Walden loses out in the annual town motor race, Aunt Hattie Wayne and her niece Sally advise him to pay more attention to his garage.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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Souls in Pawn
Overview: Chief of the German secret service in Paris has been ordered to secure for his government the service of the most clever and beautiful woman obtainable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-06
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Cupid's Rustler
Overview: Story of a cowboy who falls for a notorious dance-hall girl. The girl is brought back home to the farm, where a crooked ranch foreman who knew the girl before, tries to seduce her. Gilbert, alas, is reformed and remains faithful to her benefactor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-01
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Pitfalls of a Big City
Overview: Tenement dweller Molly Moore, trying to forget her crooked past and go straight, runs a cheap restaurant in the underworld district in order to educate her younger sister Marion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-13
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Tarzan and the Green Goddess
Overview: Tarzan retells the story of a trip to Guatemala in which the ape-man had gone to aid a friend in searching for a very valuable totem pole called the Green Goddess. Second of two feature versions of the 1935 serial film "The New Adventures Of Tarzan", culled from the serial's last 10 episodes.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-14
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The Calendar Girl
Overview: Mildred Manning, known as Middy, is an apprentice in Madame Lizette's fashionable shop. Her beauty is discovered by Madame's brother, George Martin, and she is made a model. One afternoon, she tries on a rejected bathing suit and by adding a touch here and there, makes it into a beautiful creation. Madame then sends her to the beach to carry out a clever advertising scheme. At the shore, Middy is pursued by a reporter and photographer, who have been commissioned by Madame to photograph the girl for calendar advertising. In her flight from the publicity men, Mildred takes refuge in a car owned by lawyer Philip Gordon, who gets into the vehicle and drives off with Middy. Middy has him drop her off where she doesn't live, and he ends up having to try to track her down.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-15
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The Innocence of Lizette
Overview: Lizette (Mary Miles Minter) is an orphan girl who is known to be very innocent. One day, the wealthy Henry Fauer (Eugene Forde) adopts her after seeing her selling news papers. She is now raised in his enormous mansion and is introduced to the posh life. Lizette, however, doesn't know how to deal with it and has no idea about acting like a real society woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-24
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The Cabaret Girl
Overview: Ann Reid moves to the city to study opera but is discouraged by her teachers and so becomes a cabaret singer instead. At Balvini’s cabaret, Ann’s friend Dolly introduces her to Ted Vane, who asks Ann to be his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-30
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The Bride's Awakening
Overview: A husband orders his wife to keep their marriage a secret, in order to better continue his affair with a married woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Boaster
Overview: Angered by his son Dick's boastful ways, which in one incident lead him to lose a business deal, an automobile manufacturer challenges him to complete four difficult missions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-14
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The Two-Soul Woman
Overview: Two men, one of them a villainous hypnotist, contend for the same woman, unaware that she suffers from dual personality disorder.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-06
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The Girl in the Dark
Overview: Lois Fox, upon whose shoulder is branded a Chinese idiograph resembling the letters "A. Y.," is rescued from a gang of Chinese ruffians by Brice Ferris. His servant Ming, in attempting to steal from her finger a ring that bears a mysterious green seal, is killed, and soon afterward a stranger named Strang arrives, also in search of the girl. Despite Brice's efforts to protect her, Lois is abducted and taken to the headquarters of Lao Wing, the leader of a secret Chinese society known as the Tong.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-04
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Easy Going Gordon
Overview: Gordon Palmer is a lazy and cowardly rich man's son. When he and his fiancée, Aileen Merton, are held up by two crooks, Slug Williams and Beef O'Connell, he passively allows them to take whatever they want. At least he comes to life when they try to steal Aileen's engagement ring -- he scares them into giving that back. Aileen, however, is pretty fed up with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-06
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A Modern Knight
Overview: Percival Cadwallader Perkins was so bashful that whenever a woman would look at him he would blush like a beet, and this brought the "Happy Family," the cowboys of the Flying U, to calling him "Pink."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-23
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The Masked Heart
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-02
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Lash of the Whip
Overview: "Hurricane" Smith (Francis Ford), head of a steamship company, plots to keep the railroad from entering the city. The map of the proposed route becomes the instrument by which Blake (Frank Baker) and Florence (Florence Gilbert) become targets of Smith's gang. Smith, however, didn't account for Pinto Pete (Ashton Dearholt), he of the spotted hand-- A wanted, whip-wielding rogue who comes to Florence's rescue.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-01
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The New Adventures of Tarzan
Overview: A serial in 12 chapters. Tarzan goes to Guatemala to find his lost friend, D'Arnot. On the way he helps Major Matling search Mayan ruins for hidden jewels and an idol containing the formula for a powerful explosive. D'Arnot and the idol are rescued, but the idol falls into the clutches of the explorer Raglan.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-21
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The Silk Lined Burglar
Overview: Gentleman crook Boston Blackie answers a want ad for an expert safecracker placed by Doris Macon, who claims a moral right to the safe's contents. She hires Blackie, and they break into the house where the safe is kept. Blackie blows up the safe just as owner Captain von Hoffmeier returns home. Doris disappears with papers from inside the safe, while Blackie takes phonograph records, which, when played with a special needle, reveal secrets that implicate von Hoffmeier as a German political spy.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-31
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Ten Days
Overview: Dick Van Buren, a wealthy young man with a penchant for breaking traffic laws, is arrested for speeding and sentenced to 10 days in jail. He is given the option to work out his sentence and becomes a lifeguard at a public beach, where he rescues a mysterious woman from several perils. The woman, with whom he begins a romance, turns out to be a famous film actress caught up in the frenetic antics of a publicity campaign.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-05
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The Extra Man and the Milk-Fed Lion
Overview: When cowboy actor Buck Parvin gets his friends Ben and Tommy jobs on the set, all three run into trouble. Ben stealing a prop for the set, Tommy spoiling the seen with the heroine taming a lion, and Buck when he fights a kangaroo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-04
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Snap Judgment
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Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-19
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Her Country's Call
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-01
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