Frank Keenan
Also Known As: James Francis Keenan
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dubuque, Iowa, USA
Birthday: April 08, 1858
Deathday: February 24, 1929
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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National Red Cross Pageant
Overview: The National Red Cross Pageant (1917) was an American war pageant that was performed in order to sell war bonds, support the National Red Cross, and promote a positive opinion about American involvement in World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-01
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The Bells
Overview: A murderer is driven slowly insane by a sequence of coincidences and suggestive events which will not allow him to escape his own sense of guilt for his crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-15
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More Trouble
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-14
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Loaded Dice
Overview: Richard Gordon's lack of religious conviction prompts him to live a life of crime. When he demands to be included in a scheme to corner the food market, the conspirators agree to accept him as a partner provided that he contribute $100,000 to the operation. In order to obtain the money, Richard blackmails Harry Palmer with the aid of his girl
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-10
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Honor Thy Name
Overview: The pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young man's father then plots to rescue his unwitting son from "The Moth's" clutches, but at great sacrifice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-06
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The World Aflame
Overview: Wealthy businessman Carson Burr discovers first-hand the problem of social unrest when he loses his cook and his chauffeur and he is insulted by a waiter. Burr runs for mayor to improve the labor situation and is elected. The editor of The Red Messenger organizes the streetcar drivers to begin a general strike, but Burr manages to break up the strike
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-17
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Lorna Doone
Overview: In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-01
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The Coward
Overview: Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is terrified by the war and deserts during a battle. The film focuses on the son's struggle to overcome his cowardice.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-14
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The Public Defender
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-03
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The Gilded Butterfly
Overview: Left penniless after the death of her reprobate father Linda Haverhill procures a loan from John Converse, who is smitten with her. She squanders the money in an attempt to maintain her social position by going abroad. During the journey Linda falls in love with Army Captain Brian Anestry of the United States Army, but foolishly burns her possessions planning to file an insurance claim to tide her over. Arrested, she is involved in a wreck which just might provide an escape for both Linda and Brian from their troubles.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-03
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Todd of the Times
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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The Stepping Stone
Overview: Layabout Al Beresford is in a position of responsible in the brokerage film he works in only because of his smart and self-sacrificing wife Mary. While he dawdles and wastes his time she works behind the scenes to complete his work in order to save his position. One day when Al is out wandering Mary delivers important documents she's completed to Wall Street broker Elihu Jasper. He in turn is charmed by her and offers Al a job, though he recognizes his worthlessness. Jasper offers him many tips and with Mary's support Al prospers. Foolishly not realizing it is due to the work of others Al leaves Mary and is soon ruined, taking desperate measures he frees Mary to enjoy a life with Elihu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-27
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The Despoiler
Overview: Movie mogul Thomas H. Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the credits; but since Ince was known far and wide as a glory-hogger, it's also possible that one of his talented lieutenants wielded the megaphone. A Civil War drama, The Despoiler refuses to take sides, demonstrating that there are heroes and villains in both camps. Capturing a small town, Colonel Charles K. French orders his men to reclaim the funds raised for the enemy by the townsfolk. French's drunken, lacivious second-in-command Frank Keenan intends to extort money from the citizens by threatening the virtue of the town's female population.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-15
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Women Who Give
Overview: Jonathan Swift, stern Cape Cod businessman, has ambitions for his children, Emily and Noah, which are thwarted when they take romantic interests in Capt. Joe Cradlebow and Becky Keeler, respectively. Not realizing that Becky expects a child and has been promised marriage, Swift has Noah shanghaied, while Becky stows away on Cradlebow's vessel. There is a terrific storm; but Cradlebow rescues Noah, and the fleet returns safely to shore--thanks to lighthouse keeper Bijonah Keeler, Becky's father, who sets his house afire to give the sailors light. Realizing his foolishness Swift relents allowing his children marry whom they please.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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The Bride of Hate
Overview: Dr. Dudley Duprez is a well-known Louisiana physician. His beautiful but wayward niece, Rose Duprez, is abducted by Paul Crenshaw, a friend of the doctor, and to prevent her shame from becoming known, Rose kills herself. Dr. Duprez learns her secret and determines to make Crenshaw expiate his crime. While traveling on a Mississippi River steamer, the doctor wins Mercedes, a beautiful slave, at cards. He takes her home and, passing her off as a distant relative, arranges it so that Crenshaw falls in love with the girl.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-14
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When the Door Opened
Overview: "When the door opened" Clive Grenfel sees his wife in another man's arms. A tussle ensues leading Clive to believe he has killed the other man, and he flees to the Northwoods. There he becomes acquainted with an old gentleman and his lovely granddaughter but keeps his distance because of his past. A stranger’s arrival proves a catalyst to the whole fraught situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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Brass
Overview: With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-04
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Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Overview: A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Paris and New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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East Lynne
Overview: This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been filmed several times when it came to the screen once again in 1925. Director Emmett J. Flynn had an all-star cast and kept close to the original story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-23
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The Midnight Stage
Overview: In this Western, Frank Keenan has a dual role -- kind-hearted gambler John Lynch and evil bandit Big Rivers. The only person who realizes there is a resemblance between the two is dance hall girl Nita (Maude George), who was abused by the outlaw and cared for by Lynch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-12
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Scars of Jealousy
Overview: Scars of Jealousy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lloyd Hughes and Frank Keenan. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and distributed through Associated First National, later First National.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-05
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The Silver Girl
Overview: Jefferson Hunter (Frank Keenan) is a Western mining man. Anne Kepple (Catherine Adams) has inherited the mine next to his, but a loan shark steals it from her. Hunter helps her get it back, and out of gratitude Anne marries him, even though she is half his age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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The Thoroughbred
Overview: The Colonel is at a financial low ebb, and his only recourse is to get his horse safely to the big race and win. But obstacles appear at every turn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-10
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The Long Chance
Overview: Harley Hennage, a gambler, loves Marie but remains silent when he realizes that she is in love with Oliver Corblay, a prospector. After Corblay and Marie marry, Harley moves to the distant town of San Pasqual and does not see his old sweetheart until her husband is killed while staking a claim in the desert.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-01
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The Dixie Handicap
Overview: Tale of a man and his horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-29
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My Lady's Lips
Overview: A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-01
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Gates of Brass
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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