Nigel Barrie
Also Known As: Roynon Cholmondeley Nigel-Jones
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
Birthday: February 05, 1889
Deathday: October 08, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Prince There Was
Overview: A wealthy socialite poses as a magazine editor living in a boardinghouse to learn more about an intriguing woman who wants to publish her stories.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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Husband Hunters
Overview: Marie Devere and Helen Gray are two sophisticated, gold-digging chorus girls on the look-out to marry a rich man, who measure the men they meet by their Bradshaw ratings. They befriend Lettie Crain, a country girl who comes near being deceived by Bartley Mortimer, a rich playboy. She is saved by another girl, Cynthia Kane, whose life Mortimer has ruined, and Lettie finds happiness with Bob Garrett, a poor but honest working man.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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Fires of Fate
Overview: In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-27
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Bab's Diary
Overview: Bab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary in which she describes and imaginary boyfriend named Harold Valentine. Imagine what happens when a real Harold Valentine shows up as her parents' house guest.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-07
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The Turning Point
Overview: Upon finding themselves in financial difficulties because of the failure of the Edgerton-Tennant Company, New York socialites Diana and Silvette Tennant decide to work as society hostesses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-01
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The Ringer
Overview: 'Scotland Yard hunt for a dangerous criminal who has returned to Britain after many years away.' (BFI)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-29
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The Cinema Murder
Overview: A 1919 movie directed by George D. Baker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-14
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Under the Greenwood Tree
Overview: A girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-05
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Passenger to London
Overview: A government agent is returning from France with secret blueprints that were stolen from his government. On the train ride home, thieves break into his compartment and murder him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Heroes and Husbands
Overview: Susanne Danbury and Walter Gaylord, the man she loves, are among the weekend guests of her publisher, Hugh Bemis, and his wife Agatha, who also loves Walter. Lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-21
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The Tower of Silence
Overview: Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian's famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his 'dead' partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée's hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva's own family history is not quite as she had always believed...
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-01-29
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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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Bab's Burglar
Overview: When Bab Archibald's father gives her $1,000 with the proviso that the gift will serve as her allowance for the year, our heroine proceeds to blow the dough on a brand new car. The car is subsequently totaled when Babs runs afoul of a milk truck, and paying for the damages leaves her with a measly 16 cents. Frustrated yet undeterred, Babs takes a job as a cabbie. One of her customers leaves something behind - a blueprint for the Archibald mansion. Could this customer be nothing more than a crook? Bab is on the case!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-28
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The Shield of Honor
Overview: Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-10
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The Fast Freight
Overview: Unreleased in America, this was one of Arbuckle's last starring roles in a feature film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-18
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Sunshine of Paradise Alley
Overview: A wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who lives there begins to persuade him otherwise.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-15
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Loose Ends
Overview: 'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-22
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Express Train of Love
Overview: Silent romantic comedy set on a train.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-05-06
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The Little Minister
Overview: In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by increasing industrialization. When Lord Rintoul attempts to rout the rebellious weavers, Babbie always manages to send word in time to prevent their being taken by surprise. Gavin, new minister to the town, falls in love with Babbie, and his relationship with the young gypsy almost costs him his position. But what Gavin and his parishioners do not know is that Babbie is actually Lady Babbie, ward of Lord Rintoul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-25
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Patria
Overview: Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S. Secret Service agent Donald Parr.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-14
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Diane of the Green Van
Overview: An heiress takes a road trip in a green van. Unbeknownst to her, she has four pursuers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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Beatrice Fairfax
Overview: Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include exciting and fun stories of baby-napping, blackmail, jewel thievery, disguise, counterfeiting, and the long-unseen episode featuring entrancing cult starlet Olive Thomas and the real New York Yankees and Giants playing a game in the Polo Grounds.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-07
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Cocktails
Overview: The guardian of an heiress tries to destroy the reputation of her lover by planting drugs on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-04
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Dreyfus
Overview: In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-18
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Old Soldiers Never Die
Overview: A comedy film directed by Monty Banks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-25
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The Better Wife
Overview: Charmian Page has developed a great affection for the child of Sir Richard. When the child is seriously hurt in a car crash that has killed his mother Lady Beverly, who was on her way to see her lover, Charmian persuades her wealthy father to pay for the operation that saves the child. Sir Richard marries Charmian for his child's sake, but remains aloof towards her for the memory of Beverly. When he learns the truth about his late wife's infidelity, he begs for Charmian's forgiveness, realizing she is the better wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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Charge It
Overview: A woman's excessive spending brings difficulty to her family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-11
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Peg o' My Heart
Overview: PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead. While a bit too old for the character supposedly in her late teens or early twenties, Laurette was tailor made for it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-17
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The Amateur Gentleman
Overview: Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair lady himself. Barnaby becomes friend with Viscount Devehon, buys a horse from him and enters it in the big steeplechase. Sir Mortimer takes steps to rid society of the presence of this non-gentleman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-14
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East Is West
Overview: She'd wink till hearts went on the blink. And staid professors couldn't think. And everywhere they'd stop to stare. And say "Some Chink!" when Ming Toy winked.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-15
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The Plaything
Overview: A Scot acquires sophistication in order to spurn the socialite who spurned him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-29
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Josselyn's Wife
Overview: Bessie Barriscale and Nigel Barrie play Ellen and Gibbs Josselyn, a young married couple who have spent several years in Europe while Gibbs, an artist, developed his talent. When they return to the States, they stay with Gibbs' father (Tom Guise) and stepmother (Kathleen Kirkham). Gibbs had never cared much for his stepmother, Lillian, but now he warms up to her -- a lot. Lillian is much younger than her husband and begins spending a suspicious amount of time with her stepson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-05
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The Climbers
Overview: The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy, and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-03
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Comedy of the Heart
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-09-19
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Anything to Declare?
Overview: John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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The Lone Eagle
Overview: During WWI to prove his mettle against a charge of cowardice to everyone including his girl Mimi, American pilot Lieutenant Billy Holmes accepts an assignment with the Royal Flying Corps. He downs a German aircraft piloted by the brother of squadron leader Lebrun. Out of bitterness Lebrun challenges him to a dogfight from which Billy emerges victorious restoring his lustre and reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-18
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The Love Thief
Overview: To avert war between their countries an official marriage is arranged between Crown Prince Boris of Moraine and Princess Flavia of Norvia. Prince Karl of Norvia sees in the alliance an opportunity to gain control of both kingdoms but upon visiting Boris finds him unyielding and independent. Flavia, shedding her stately dignity in the palace garden, is accosted by the flirtatious Boris, who believes her to be the princess' cousin; and falling in love, he realizes that he cannot go through with the planned marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-13
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Girl in the Web
Overview: A woman decides to take money from her wealthy mother to pay her gambling debts, but discovers that the contents of her mother's safe has already been stolen.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-05
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Behind the Counter
Overview: Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-03
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Lights of London
Overview: An heir, framed by his cousin for killing his father, breaks jail and saves his wife from a fire.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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The Honey Bee
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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