Ben F. Wilson
Also Known As: Benjamin Wilson
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Corning, Iowa, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 05, 1876
Age: 148 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 25, 1930
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The Desert Hawk
Overview: A cowboy is falsely accused of killing the local sheriff. Fleeing the law, Wilson obtains a job on a ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-25
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Dangerous Paths
Overview: Dangerous Paths is a 1921 silent film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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Who Will Marry Mary?
Overview: Six part adventure serial starring Mary Fuller as the sought after heroine. Episodes: 1) A Proposal From The Duke; 2) A Proposal From The Spanish Don; 3) A Proposal From The Sculptor; 4) A Proposal From Nobody; 5) A Proposal Deferred; 6) A Proposal From Mary
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-26
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The Blue Bonnet
Overview: As an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a young woman joins the Salvation Army in order to help the kinds of people she has seen--and was--growing up. When war breaks out in Europe, she volunteers to go to France
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-01
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The Ladder of Fortune
Overview: Wandering minstrel Louis d’Angelo must flee his homeland to America after a duel over the hand of his beloved, Delicia. Finding hardship and deceit at first, he eventually also finds success. Because another suitor, Colonel Navarro, has been intercepting his letters Delicia fears Louis has forsaken her and journeys to America to discover the truth followed by her parents and Navarro. By chance all gather at the same restaurant and the lovers are reunited.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-22
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The Voice on the Wire
Overview: A silent action movie serial consisting of 15 chapters.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-18
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Overview: A heroic lawman rescues Midge Blair from a runaway stage. Returning to town, Jerry is assigned to safeguard a valuable shipment of platinum.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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The Brass Bowl
Overview: Resemblance of a society man to a notorious crook forms the basis of this dramatic, thrilling romance. the crook is after the other's jewels and a young girl is searching for an important paper. All three are involved in a Tango which reaches a sensational climax in the death of the other crook.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-27
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When a Woman Strikes
Overview: A story of the West in the days when the sheriff was more powerful than the mayor or governor. It tells of the sacrifices made by a sister for a brother and the virile, big-hearted nature of a stage-driver who is made sheriff and solves a mystery that hangs over the lives of two innocent people.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-01
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The Twelfth Juror
Overview: A play based on a famous English case of a man being executed wrongfully on circumstantial evidence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-19
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Hulda of Holland
Overview: A Dutch romance. Hulda and Heintz are bashful, giggling lovers, hut their spooning opportunities are few, as well as being forbidden. One day they get a chance to spoon, but the village gossip sees them and hastens to Hulda's mother, exaggerating what she saw.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-21
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Girls Who Dare
Overview: Golden-hearted chorus girl Sally Casey is in love with wealthy Chet Randall and the feeling is mutual. Randall's snobbish father staunchly opposes the romance. Sally saves the day -- and her impending marriage -- when she reveals that Randall Sr. is himself carrying on with nightclub hostess "Alabam" Kenyon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Warrior Gap
Overview: Against explicit orders, a vainglorious cavalry major insists on counterattacking a gang of hostile Sioux Indians. His captain refuses to comply and is arrested for insubordination and cowardice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-02
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China Slaver
Overview: The Chinese Secret Service sends an undercover agent to investigate reports of an island ruled by a Chinese criminal named The Cobra who holds the residents in virtual slavery while running his illegal narcotics and white-slavery empire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-25
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The Screaming Shadow
Overview: Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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Idle Wives
Overview: Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-16
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The Relief of Lucknow
Overview: The story of the siege and eventual relief of British soldiers garrisoned at Lucknow during the 1857 Indian Rebellion. Only a fragment of the original film remains.
Genres: War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-26
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: Silent film drama of the famous incident..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-11
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A Proposal from the Duke
Overview: Episode of a romantic serial starring Mary Fuller. Mary is looking for a man, and this time she wants an aristocratic gentleman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-22
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The Doctor's Duty
Overview: A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-11
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The Trail of the Octopus
Overview: Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!
Genres: Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-19
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The Power God
Overview: In this movie serial Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-01
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Officer '444'
Overview: Heroic Officer 444 battles The Frog and his criminal gang for possession of Haverlyte, a powerful formula that, if it fell into the wrong hands, would give its owner enough power to control the world. And, taking no chances, The Frog sends his chief henchwoman, a seductive vamp named The Vulture, to tempt Officer 444 to stray from his sworn duty to save the world from The Frog's nefarious plans.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-14
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Even as You and I
Overview: Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lust, Drink and Self Pity to the artist's home. Carillo succumbs to lust and sells his honor to the Devil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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The Spindle of Life
Overview: When Mrs. Harrison arrives in Harborsport for her vacation, she announces her plan to marry Gladsome, her daughter, to Vincent Bradshaw, the son of her financial advisor James Bradshaw. To keep Gladsome from socializing with the local fishermen, James drives them from his property, but they organize under her and force their way back. Arrested for rabble-rousing, Gladsome is bailed out of jail by James and later meets "Alphabet" Carter, a vacationing financial wizard, for whom she has an immediate attraction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-17
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Out of the Deep
Overview: The beginning of the film deals with the love romance of a deep-sea diver and the daughter of an old curio collector, whose past life takes up a good part of the film and reveals to the spectator his younger days as he tells them the story of his romance and marriage.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-03
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In A Japanese Tea Garden
Overview: Looking for love in the tea garden
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-24
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The Mainspring
Overview: Finding himself penniless, Lawrence Ashmore, whose late father was ruined on the stock exchange, obtains a position as a reporter. Ashmore is assigned to investigate the reported fatal illness of Jesse Craven, one of Wall Street's financial monarchs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-27
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Vic Dyson Pays
Overview: Silent western
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-03
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The Old Monk's Tale
Overview: A monk tells a tale about a woman who can only surrender her heart to a man who can offer her jewels. A poor man falls in love with her and steals jewels off a statue of the Madonna to give to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-15
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A Chase Across the Continent
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-23
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A Seashore Romeo
Overview: Dolly’s father disapproves of her boyfriend Ben, thinking he is only interested in athletics and not being able to provide for his daughter. Ben heads to the seashore to find work. Dolly convinces her father he isn’t feeling well and needs to get away to the beach. Once there she’s reunited with Ben much to her father’s chagrin but when he thinks Dolly is drowning and Ben saves her, he softens towards the lad.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-22
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Rene Haggard Journeys On
Overview: Rene, condemned to execution for murder in the first degree tells his mother the story of the crime. His sister had been lured from home and abandoned by the villain. Desolate at first after some time she married a man who became governor but when the villain shows up again and threatens her happiness Rene kills him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-06
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