Joseph Striker
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Biography: From Wikipedia Joseph Striker (December 23, 1898 – February 24, 1974) was an American actor. He appeared in 28 films between 1920 and 1929. Later in the 1930s he appeared on Broadway. He was born in New York City. A resident of Cranford, New Jersey, Striker died at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, New Jersey on February 24, 1974. He was 75.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 22, 1898
Age: 126 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 24, 1974
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A Harp in Hock
Overview: A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love, and was based on the short story by Evelyn Campbell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-10
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The Best People
Overview: Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "within their class". They, however, have different plans--Bertie is in love with chorus girl Sally O'Neil and Marian loves Henry Morgan, the family chauffeur. The family finds out about the impending marriages and determines to stop them. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-09
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I Am the Man
Overview: A jealous politician tries to force a woman to marry him by framing her father for a crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-15
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The Wrecker
Overview: The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-16
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The Wise Wife
Overview: John Blaisdell, a stolid businessman married for 10 years, concludes that romantic love is a thing of the past for him. His wife, Helen, a very domestic and conservative woman, invites Jenny Lou, a young southern girl, as her houseguest, and the girl flirts with John; she is conspicuously unsuccessful until she pretends to faint on the golf course and the unsuspecting victim finds her in his arms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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Cradle Snatchers
Overview: To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college boys-- Henry Winton, Oscar, and Joe Valley-- to flirt with them at a house party. Joe Valley, who poses as a hot-blooded Spaniard, is vamped by Ginsberg in female attire, and Oscar, a bashful Swede, uses caveman methods when aroused. During a rehearsal of the party, the three husbands arrive, followed by their flapper friends, leading to comic complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-28
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The House of Secrets
Overview: A young American man arrives in London to claim an estate he has inherited. One of the conditions is that he signs a paper stating he will never sell the estate. When he arrives at the estate he now owns, he runs into a ring of American gangsters there and discovers that the estate is the site of some buried pirate treasure.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-26
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Friendship
Overview: A short drama film Directed by Eugene Walter to publicize the new talkie craze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-19
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The King of Kings
Overview: The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-19
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Queen of the Moulin Rouge
Overview: Queen of the Moulin Rouge is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Ray C. Smallwood and starring Martha Mansfield, Joseph Striker and Jane Thomas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-10
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Annie Laurie
Overview: The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-10
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The Gigolo Racket
Overview: As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is a gigolo, with whom she eventually falls in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-15
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Painted People
Overview: Ellie Byrne and Don Lane, chums, living in the poor section of a factory town, go away to make their fortunes. Ellie wishes to become a lady so that she can marry Preston Dutton, a society chap, and Don becoming infatuated with Stephanie Parrish, daughter of a wealthy man. Ellie becomes a leading actress and Don the author of her first play. Ellie refuses Dutton’s suit when she learns he is after her money, and Stephanie returns Don’s engagement ring. Ellie and Don go back to the factory town disillusioned. They realize that they love each other and in reality had not bettered themselves for someone else but for each other. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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Paradise
Overview: The daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-10
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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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Daughters Who Pay
Overview: Immediately after the October revolution, in Russia, stir unrest and propaganda against the Government of the United States. Serge Oumansky is a Communist agent trying to organize terrorist actions against the same United States.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-10
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The Broadway Peacock
Overview: A cabaret hostess falls for a young aristocrat, ignoring her friend's warning that the affair will end in heartache.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-19
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The Matrimonial Web
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-02
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The Bromley Case
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-01
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The Woman in Chains
Overview: A disloyal wife abandons her husband and child to become a cabaret dancer. Her lover goes to jail to protect her. In his absence she marries an artist whom she deserts when her lover is released from prison. Aware of the futility of awaiting her return, the second husband returns to his birthplace, Martinique, and to his childhood sweetheart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-20
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