Harry Carter
Also Known As: Harry Benjamin Carter
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Birthday: September 14, 1879
Deathday: July 22, 1952
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Hope Diamond Mystery
Overview: The true story of Lord Francis Hope who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe. Lord Francis Hope gambles away the family fortune and May Yohe leaves him. Another suspected curse of owning the Hope Diamond.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-19
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The Master Key
Overview: A movie serial from 1914
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-16
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Sure Fire
Overview: The rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about to be foreclosed and is defended by hired men with guns.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-05
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The Torrent
Overview: Velma is unhappily married to Sam Patton, a millionaire roué. Aboard his yacht bound for the South Seas, Sam pays more attention to his guests than to his wife, and she flees when he attempts to force liquor on her. A sudden paralytic stroke renders him helpless, and she believes him dead. A storm comes up, and Velma is washed ashore on a desert isle. She is later joined by Lieut. Paul Mack, whose hydroplane has run out of fuel. They fall in love, but their idyll is broken when they are captured by a band of moonshiners.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-22
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The Little Sister
Overview: The brother, a ne'er-do-well, is strongly influenced by the crook, who in turn has designs on Little Sister who works in a factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-24
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Bavu
Overview: An illiterate, uncouth brute rises to power during the Russian Revolution, plots to wreak vengeance on all who cross him, and incites the peasantry to burn the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-07
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Jackie
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-11-27
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Dead Game
Overview: "Katy" Didd holds up the stage in which his sweetheart, Alice Mason, is traveling to her wedding to Prince Tetlow, to whom her guardian insists that she be married. Katy hides her at his ranch, but Tetlow finds her and abandons Katy in the desert.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-23
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The Right to Be Happy
Overview: Considered to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-25
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The Kentucky Derby
Overview: Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon's Kentucky mansion, hoping to marry Helen to the colonel's son, Donald. The colonel agrees, but Donald balks at the suggestion, then reveals his secret marriage to Alice Brown. The colonel turns them out, and Ralph conspires with Bob Thurston to frame Donald for theft of Colonel Gordon's wager money and to shanghai him. After 3 years Donald discovers the source of his misfortune, returns, finds his wife, hears of a plot against his father's best racehorse, wrings a complete confession from Thurston, and saves the Derby for his repentant father.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-04
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Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Overview: Impoverished Molly Hanlon is befriended by crooked gambler Lee Kirk, she marries him in a phony ceremony. While frequenting Kirk's gambling den, Molly meets Miles Rand, the dissolute son of Judge Rand, whose obvious attraction for her encourages Kirk to swindle him out of his money. Penniless, Miles accepts a loan from Molly and returns East to study law. On the day that Molly learns that her marriage is not legal, the gambling den burns down and Kirk is presumed dead. After escaping with Kirk's money, Molly goes East where she encounters Miles, now a district attorney. In spite of the objections of Judge Rand, Molly accepts Miles's proposal, but after Kirk arrives in town, she calls off the engagement. When Kirk enters her apartment through a window, Molly kills him in a panic and is arrested for murder. The still faithful Miles defends her in court, and after her acquittal, she confesses her past and reunites with her old love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-27
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A Son of the Immortals
Overview: A general ousts the king of Kosnovia, and makes the king's idle son ruler. Unexpectedly, the new ruler begins instituting democratic reforms, angering the General.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-22
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The Silent Battle
Overview: Inheriting his father's alcoholism, Lawyer Tom Gallatin goes into the woods to rehabilitate himself. Once there, he loses his way and then meets Jane Loring, who is also lost. They are attracted to each other, but when Jane offers him a drink from a flask, Tom takes more than just a few sips, and then tries to rape her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-24
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Beans
Overview: Brewster, the bean king, has an option of renewal on a certain bean canning plant owned by Ellis. Ellis does not want to renew so hires shyster lawyer Wingate to help him. Brewster sends Betty to renew the contract but Ellis declines. Later Brewster sends his lawyer along with Ellis' man to persuades her that he isn't crooked. There follows plot and counter-plot, but innocent Betty carries the day.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-16
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The Bugler of Algiers
Overview: Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village in the early 1870s; Gabrielle's brother Anatole (Kingsley Benedict) is Pierre's best friend. The two young men are called to service by their country and go to Algiers. Anatole becomes the bugler and one day when he is commanded to sound the retreat, he sounds for the troops to charge instead. Anatole becomes a hero because of his action, but when the two men make their victorious return home, they find the Picard home ransacked and Gabrielle gone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-27
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The Measure of a Man
Overview: Divinity student John Fairmeadow likes his liquor and as a result is expelled from the seminary. He travels out West and lands in a camp where lumberman Batch has just died. He reads the funeral service and befriends the dead man's daughter Pattie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-20
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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 Pool of Flame
Overview: J. Warren Kerrigan plays the standard Vance hero, a devil-may-care Irish mercenary named Terrence O'Rourke. While knocking about in India, O'Rourke comes into possession of the Pool of Flame, a valuable ruby stolen from a Hindu temple. Typically, whosoever possesses this gem is marked for death, but O'Rourke hopes to beat the odds by utilizing the Pool of Flame to insure, rather than impede, his good luck.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-21
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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 Circus of Life
Overview: A man is tormented by the thought that his wife's child might not be his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-04
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A Kentucky Cinderella
Overview: After the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle's shrewish wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-25
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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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The Lure of the Circus
Overview: Lure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-18
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Somebody Lied
Overview: Perfect angel Willie declines to accompany his doting wife Dolly to a mask ball, but instead of a quiet evening at home among his books, Willie spends the night at an underground casino, and instead of being chaperoned at the party, Dolly is out flirting with another man.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-05
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The Marriage Lie
Overview: Left alone and penniless after her father dies, Eileen Orton attempts suicide. Douglas Seward, who must be married to obtain the position he seeks, befriends Eileen and offers to support her if she will pose as his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-27
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The Social Buccaneer
Overview: While working in China for Nathan Goldberg, a New York Jewish importer, Chattfield Bruce comes to admire the Robin Hood philosophy of Wong Lee, who gives to the poor all the food, clothing and money that he steals from the rich. After Chattfield informs Wong Lee of a betrayal among his gang, Wong Lee gives him a ring that is guaranteed to give the wearer the allegiance of any Chinese throughout the world.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-16
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The First Degree
Overview: Sam Bass receives a summons to testify before a grand jury, and not realizing that the matter concerns sheep-stealing he assumes it to concern the murder of his brother, Will.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-30
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The Beckoning Trail
Overview: Carter Raymond is a New York playboy who squanders his inherited fortune. All he has left is an abandoned mine in California, so Carter goes West to work it. "Big Jim" Helton and his daughter Mary have been squatters on the mine for years, and "Placer" Murray, from an adjoining camp, has been trying to run them off. When Carter arrives, Mary shoots him, thinking he works for Murray. Mary soon realizes her mistake, and she and her father agree to nurse Carter back to health.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-21
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Secret Love
Overview: In an English mining town during the 1870's, Joan Lowrie falls in love with Fergus Derrick, the new chief engineer who vows to improve working conditions. Joan's father Don, however, runs the mine and likes conditions just as they are. As a result, he quickly learns to detest the crusading Fergus, even to the point of trying to murder him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-31
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The Frame-Up
Overview: Richard Sears, "The Power" of the city, arranges for alderman Luke Simms to be elected mayor so that he can control him, but Simms refuses to go against the public interest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-08
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A Youth of Fortune
Overview: At the urging of his wealthy grandfather, Willie O'Donovan is sent to boarding school by his preoccupied parents, neither of whom shows much interest in the lad. At school, where he falls in love with Mary, a country girl, Willie hears that his grandfather has died and left him $50,000,000 to be managed by whomever Willie is living with on his eighteenth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. O'Donovan, who are in the midst of divorce, both hire private detectives to bring Willie back to them, but after a series of close calls, Willie manages to avoid the detectives and take refuge at the home of Mary's mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-15
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Go Straight
Overview: Young minister Keith Rollins comes to a backwoods community in Kentucky and finds that lawless and political elements are against him and threaten his position with the congregation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-17
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Kiss or Kill
Overview: Henry Warner (Herbert Rawlinson) is so broke that he has sold his overcoat and now his landlady won't leave him alone about the rent. When he sees a wallet sticking out of a rich man's pocket, he's desperate enough to steal it. The police give pursuit, and Henry winds up in someone's study. The man who lives there, Middleton (Alfred Allen) has been looking for someone with Henry's nerve and offers him a job (along with an overcoat and some cash): He must steal back a will that Middleton's nephew, Craig (Harry Carter) stole from him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-21
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The Silent Command
Overview: Unable to pay for the operation that cured his daughter, a man promises to surrender her to the doctor on her eighteenth birthday. Knowing that the physician wishes to make her the subject of his experiments with hypnotism, the distressed father ultimately reneges on his promise, whereupon the doctor attempts to hypnotize the girl from afar.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-02
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Up and at 'Em
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-06
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The Fast Express
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Genres: Action Drama Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-10
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