Frank Whitson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 22, 1877
Age: 148 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 19, 1946
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The White Panther
Overview: Australian star Rex "Snowy" Baker stars in this military melodrama. This was the first of a series of four films Baker made for producer Phil Goldstone, and they were offered on a States' Rights basis. Irene Falliday (Gertrude McConnell) is the daughter of the British governor (William Bainbridge) who rules over an Indian province. She finds Yasmini (Lois Scott) wearing the shawl she believes she has lost and asks Tommy Farrell (Phil Burke) to get it back. Farrell is in love with Irene, but Yasmini loves him, and when he finally gets the shawl from her, the circumstances shame her in the eyes of her father Shere Ali, Sirdar of the Afghans (Frank Whitson), and his subjects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-22
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Gold and the Woman
Overview: The daughter of a Mexican aristocrat endures the travails of the Mexican revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-13
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The Price of Silence
Overview: A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-11
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Captain Blood
Overview: Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
Genres: War Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-21
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Show Boat
Overview: Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Genres: Music Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-17
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Hurry, Doctor!
Overview: Hurry, Doctor! is a 1925 comedy short
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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Social Briars
Overview: Iris Lee is reared in the small town of Dalton by her deceased mother's friend, Martha Kane, and when she reaches adulthood, Martha's son Jim falls in love with her. When Iris fails to return his affections, Mrs. Kane treats her so coldly that Iris decides to leave the stuffy little village for the metropolis. On her journey, she accepts a ride with Jack Andrews, but after he attempts to kiss her, she leaps from the car and walks the rest of the way. While singing in the choir of a large metropolitan church, she is discovered by Jack's wealthy father Peter, who recommends her as a soloist. Light opera star Helen Manning, who has helped Iris to cultivate her voice, quarrels with her theatrical manager, and Iris is offered her position.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-13
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Racing for Life
Overview: Jack Grant agrees to drive in the big race in order to save his brother Carl from being charged with embezzlement.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-08
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Headin' West
Overview: Bill Perkins, a war veteran bumming his way across the country with an airplane pilot, is forced to disembark via parachute when he arrives at a familiar spot. He lands in the midst of a cattlemen's dispute, gets a job as a dishwasher, and learns of a conspiracy to steal the ranch from its absent heir.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-13
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The Adventures of Tarzan
Overview: Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-01
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The Son-of-a-Gun
Overview: A young man is lured into a cardgame by a crooked dealer. He is about to lose all the money that was given to him to get medicine for his mother when a local cowboy comes to his rescue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-02
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Texas Tornado
Overview: Briscoe leases land from Latimer. When oil is found Latimer tries to stop Briscoe from renewing the lease. Tom arrives and fights off Latimer and his men to renew the lease. But Latimer is not done. Now he shoots Briscoe, kidnaps Buddy, and blames Tom who is arrested and put in jail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-24
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$50,000 Reward
Overview: Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be registered the next day, offers a $50,000 reward for Tex's capture.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-02
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Fighting Courage
Overview: Richard Kingsley, son of a financier, trying to aid Marjorie Crenshaw and her sister during a raid on a New York roadhouse, is arrested. His father, enraged by the bad publicity, threatens to disinherit him if he doesn't go to Colorado in search of a mine....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-12
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Restitution
Overview: The story of the perfect man and woman in Eden, and the temptation of Mother Eve by Lucifer. Many episodes are then presented showing how Satan, from the time of Eden until now, has sought to thwart God's purposes and how, ultimately, Satan will be overthrown, and how restitution blessings will then come to mankind.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-12
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Boston Blackie's Little Pal
Overview: While burgling a mansion, Blackie is interrupted by little Joey, who has been awakened from his slumbers. Blackie gently orders the kid to return to bed, but Joey refuses to do so unless Blackie helps him say his prayers. Thus is formed a strong friendship between Blackie and his "little pal," inspiring our raffish hero to rescue Joey's mother Rosemary Theby from a scandalous situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-26
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The Man from Hell's River
Overview: A girl engaged to a member of the Royal Mounted Police is forced to marry a vicious blackmailer after he gains incriminating evidence on her father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-01
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The Mark of Cain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-06
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Won by Law
Overview: Wanda Wiley stars as a very slow and lazy daughter in this excellent Century short. She gets servants to feed her and even plays tennis sitting in a chair. One day she decides to wake up to win the man she loves by going on an outdoor adventure that involves skunks and moonshiners!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-19
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Walloping Kid
Overview: A handsome boxer is sent out to manage his father's ranch. This is no easy task, as the ranch foreman's a no-good louse!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-05
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Soldier Man
Overview: After the armistice, one U.S. soldier remains unaccounted for: he's wandering the fields of Bomania, hungry, thinking the war is still on.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-01
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There He Goes
Overview: 1925 Mack Sennett Comedies production three-reel short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-29
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The Tango Cavalier
Overview: Don Armingo, a member of the Secret Service, is inspired while dancing the tango to join a group of smugglers at the Mexican border. As he is about to make the arrest, they take flight, kidnapping Don's sweetheart. Following in his airplane, he circles above the getaway car and plucks the girl from the tonneau cover just as it speeds over an embankment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-15
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Hidden Aces
Overview: Larry 'Hutch' Hutchdale, gentleman thief, is keeping an eye on the newly-arrived Princess Orloff of Russia...and not just because of her curvaceous figure. The woman's jewel necklace is worth a fortune. But her secretary, Natalie Knowles, is secretly a famed cat burglar, and wants the necklace for herself. The two thieves outwit each other at every turn, all the while realizing they're a perfect match. But the star-crossed lovers have a surprise on their hands when they realize the jewels are a fake, and the princess an imposter! Hidden Aces was Charles Hutchison's seventh and final appearance as 'Hutch' Hutchdale, the character he originated in 1921's Hurricane Hutch.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-06
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If My Country Should Call
Overview: A doctor is called to the home of a young man who wants to enlist in the Army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-25
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After the War
Overview: Madame Gerve is a famous opera singer at the prime donna at the Opera Comique in Paris. When the French Prime Minister proposes marriage, however, she refuses and then sings at a benefit for war orphans. It's there that she encounters two men from her past--Karl Wertz, the German ambassador to France whom she knew during the war when he was a German officer and his unit occupied her village, and Phillippe Sardonia, a Frenchman who is her former lover. Both men try to rekindle their past relationships with her, but she has a secret that she doesn't want either man to know about. A lost film.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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The Clock
Overview: A 1917 American silent comedy film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-30
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Her Man
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-10
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3 Kids and a Queen
Overview: An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Square Deal Sanderson
Overview: Square Deal Sanderson is in pursuit of a horse thief, but someone else shoots the varmint before Sanderson can offer him a "square deal."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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Valley of Hate
Overview: A city visitor falls for a mountain girl and collides with her family of rustic moonshiners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-20
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The Morals of Hilda
Overview: Recent immigrants August and Hilda cannot understand the American emphasis on weddings, because in their country, couples never get married. Fearing that he will be arrested for living with a woman who is not his wife, August stows away on a ship and dies in a wreck at sea. Afterward, Hilda tries to commit suicide, but the wealthy Esther Grail saves her, and then adopts her infant son Stephen. Years later, Esther tells him the circumstances of his birth, and so Stephen goes on a crusade for the rights of illegitimate children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-11
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The Isle of Life
Overview: Living up to a reputation for disregarding rules, author Sebastian Maure, having fallen in love with Ghirlaine Bellamy, kidnaps her to get her away from her fiancé, Vincent Pamfort. Sebastian takes Ghirlaine to a small island where, because of the force of his personality, he is treated almost as a god by the natives. During her captivity, Ghirlaine exerts a strong influence on Sebastian, and he vows to make himself into a better man.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-30
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Gilded Lies
Overview: When Keene McComb, a young explorer on an expedition to the North Pole, is given up for lost, his fiancée, Hester Thorpe, is coerced by an ambitious aunt into marrying Martin Ward, a man of reputed wealth. McComb survives, however, and returns to New York a few hours after the marriage. Later, Hester seeks his protection when Ward strikes her because of her refusal to ask McComb for money, and when it appears that Ward has committed suicide she and McComb are married. Ward is still alive, however, but he meets his death on a rocky precipice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-04
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The House with Nobody in It
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-22
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Hearts Asleep
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-31
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