Thomas Holding
Also Known As: Thomas J. Holding, Tom Holding
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: July 27, 1878
Age: 146 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 04, 1929
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Her Fighting Chance
Overview: Corporal Blake is sent to apprehend the murderer of François Breault. All evidence points to Jan Thoreau as the guilty man. Blake arrives at Thoreau's cabin while he is away and is greeted by his wife Marie. Posing as a friend of her husband, Blake learns that Thoreau and Breault had quarreled shortly before the murder. This, together with Breault's dying accusation that Thoreau was his murderer, seems undeniable evidence. Blake, fascinated by Marie, agrees to let Thoreau escape, providing that she become his mistress. After much anguish, she consents. When Thoreau arrives, Blake arrests him but during the night Marie helps him escape. Blake goes in pursuit.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-18
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Magda
Overview: Magda (Young) rebels against the harsh treatment she receives from her stern father (Edward Kimball). She ultimately escapes from home with aspirations to become a singer. She is betrayed by Kellner (Edward Fielding), a friend of the family, but she also becomes a great success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-01
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The Necessary Evil
Overview: Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-17
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The White Monkey
Overview: Two hundred fifty thousand have read this startling novel with its revelations on married life-its intimate story of the times and follies of new conventions that hurl their challenge to the old!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-07
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The Pace That Thrills
Overview: Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him. He wrestles them away from her, then falls down the stairs and stabs himself. Due to the perjured testimony of the maid and butler, Paula is convicted of murder and sent to jail. Her son, Danny, grows up to be a movie star. There is a controversy surrounding him because he refuses to do his own stunts. The reason he won't take any chances is that he is using all his money to get his mother out of jail. Finally, to redeem himself, he agrees to participate in a charity auto race, but his mother's hearing is scheduled for the race day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-18
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The Lone Wolf's Daughter
Overview: At a London auction, Princess Sonia bids against her husband, exiled Prince Victor, for a Corot landscape in which incriminating letters Sonia wrote are hidden, but it is bought by Michael Lanyard, suspected of being the mysterious, international thief "The Lone Wolf." After Lanyard gives Sonia the letters, she divorces Victor, marries Lanyard and dies after bearing their daughter Sonia. Years later, Sonia, who thinks she is the daughter of the Princess' maid, is found by Victor, now the leader of an underworld gang of Oriental crooks and Bolsheviks. Saying he is her father, Victor brings her to his home, hoping to entice Lanyard to make an appearance.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-21
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The Untamed Lady
Overview: A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-08-28
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
Overview: A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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Redeeming Love
Overview: Naomi Sterling and John Bancroft are lovers. The girl loves frivolous things and Bancroft, a divinity student, finally estranges himself from her by his continual efforts to preach to her. Attracted by Hugh Wiley, a gambler, from a nearby city, Naomi finally elopes with him and eventually becomes known as the gambling queen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-28
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Overview: An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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The Eternal City
Overview: Leone, a Papal guard, is devastated when his wife drowns herself after mistakenly thinking that he had abandoned her. He turns over his son David to be brought up by nuns, then enters a monastery. David is brought to London and is raised to be a beggar and thief until he is rescued by Dr. Roselli, an Italian political refugee, who raises David with his daughter Donna Roma. Years later David gets heavily involved in Italian politics and incurs the enmity of the corrupt Italian Prime Minister, which leads him to discover the hidden secrets of his family's past--and present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-12
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Sacred and Profane Love
Overview: Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz, a celebrated pianist, at a concert and spends the evening with him. Later, in London, she acquires fame as a novelist and is followed to France by married publisher Frank Ispenlove, who commits suicide when she spurns him. In Paris, Carlotta finds Diaz a physical wreck from drinking absinthe and devotes herself to his regeneration.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-22
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Daughter of Destiny
Overview: In the days before the U.S. enters World War I Marion Ashley, an American woman living in Paris, discovers that her husband, Franz Jorn, is a spy. So she leaves him and goes to the neighboring (and fictional) neutral nation of Belmark to stay with her father, an American Ambassador. After she hears her husband has been killed, she resumes an old romance with the Crown Prince and they go through a secret morganatic marriage ceremony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-23
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Sold
Overview: A successful artist and a struggling one both love the same woman; she chooses the poor one but as the years roll on and other choices she makes and her husband’s misunderstanding lead to a near breaking point for the couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-05
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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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The Great White Trail
Overview: A husband, mistakenly believing his wife has cheated on him and that he is now the father of their newborn son, throws both her and her child out of the house. Frantic to the point of madness, she abandons her baby, and when she gains her sanity she flees to Alaska to start a new life. However, her husband finds out and follows her there.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-13
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The Masked Menace
Overview: The mill of an old woman and her ward, Faith Newton, is being terrorized by the masked menace of the title known as "Still Face". The women are helped by a man named Keats Dodd. The masked villain's identity is revealed in the final chapter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-12
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The White Pearl
Overview: A silent romantic drama film directed by Hugh Ford and Edwin S. Porter
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-10
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
Overview: A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-21
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The Dream Lady
Overview: Upon receiving an inheritance from her late uncle, a woman starts a fortune-telling business designed to make her dreams come true.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-29
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Without Benefit of Clergy
Overview: A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-19
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Silks and Satins
Overview: On the eve of her wedding to a man she does not love, young Felicite (Marguerite Clark) stumbles upon a diary written by one of her ancestors.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-12
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The Moment Before
Overview: The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following day, the duke falls off his horse and is mortally injured. Mourning the loss of her great love, the duchess collapses in church, and in the “moment before death” she reviews her own life. “It was in her youth that she had fractured practically all the Biblical commandments,” says the intertitle. In fact, when she was young, Madge the duchess was a seductive gypsy, engaged to the fiery gypsy John, but fascinated by Harold, the idle aristocratic son of the Maldons, who was prone to the family vice of excessive drinking. In love with the gypsy, Harold brings her home as a servant, scandalizing his older brother. A fight between the brothers and John’s jealousy lead to a fatal accident that forces both Harold and the gypsy couple to flee to Australia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-27
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The Trouper
Overview: Working as a wardrobe girl in a cheap traveling stock company, Mamie Judd secretly loves Jenks, the leading man, who scarcely notices the young girl. She saves Neal Selden, son of a small-town banker, from being accused of robbery and murder, acts committed by the company's manager and leading lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-23
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Vanity Pool
Overview: A candidate for governor, eager Gerald Harper persuades his equally ambitious wife Carol to enlist the aid of her friend Diana Casper, whose influence with political boss Jarvis Flint could help him win the election. Carol agrees to speak to Diana on condition that Gerald temporarily assume her work in the city's tenements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-07
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Bella Donna
Overview: Bella Donna ( Pauline Frederick ) a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine ( Thomas Holding ) into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi. To get rid of Nigel, she begins slowly poisoning him. However, Nigel's friend Dr. Isaacson arrives in time to save him. Now Baroudi wants nothing to do with Bella, and neither does her husband. Totally alone now, the distraught Bella wanders off into the desert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-15
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In Folly's Trail
Overview: At a party thrown by millionaire Max Goldberg, Charles Howard, an aristocratic young artist, succumbs to the charms of chorus girl Lita O'Farrell, Goldberg's erstwhile girl friend. After a whirlwind courtship, the two marry and then their incompatibilities begin to surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-06
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The Terrible People
Overview: Over ten episodes an heiress is threatened by the gang of a criminal who seems to have returned from the dead. Clay Shelton was executed for his crimes, but it seems he has returned to life to exact revenge on the people responsible for his death.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-05
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The Light Within
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-01
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Marriage
Overview: Neglected by her workaholic husband Jack, Eileen Spencer begins an affair with novelist Carter Ballantyne. Their planned elopement is halted when Eileen learns that Jack has lost both his money and his eyesight, and she feels compelled to return to care for him. With her friend Dolly Page, Eileen cheats at cards amassing a fortune to send Jack to France for treatment. Carter reappears, threatening to expose her unless she submits to him. Intending merely to reason with Carter, Eileen gives him a key to her apartment, but Jack returns home unexpectedly and finds him there. At her birthday dinner, Eileen, in anticipation of Carter's plan to expose her publicly, confesses her guilt, whereas her husband and her friends forgive her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-25
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The Spider
Overview: Valerie St. Cyr, seizes a chance for excitement and money, deserts her infant daughter Joan and her impoverished husband and runs away to Paris with the Count Du Poissy. Years later, without knowing that they are mother and daughter, both Valerie and Joan fall in love with artist Julian St. Saens, who rejects the former but becomes engaged to the latter. Enraged, Valerie convinces the count to kidnap Joan, but after she is captured, Joan stabs the count to death. When Valerie learns that Joan is her daughter, she takes the blame for the murder and goes to the guillotine while Joan, still unaware that Valerie is her mother, makes plans with Julian for their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-27
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The Lure of Jade
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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Rose o' the Sea
Overview: Tells of a waif from the sea, who on the death of her guardian and protector, is forced to make her own way in New York. Her lack of guile and sophistication wins her a place and esteem. Entering a romance which involves both father and son, the girl is the pivot around which revolve petty jealousies, aristocratic conventions and gambling affrays. She eventually casts aside the worthless son and marries the father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-01
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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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