Robert Brower
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Point Pleasant, New York, USA
Birthday: July 14, 1850
Deathday: December 08, 1934
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Home Cured
Overview: Johnny is a hypochondriac and he spends all of his time fussing over his health instead of paying attention to his lovely wife. The wife and the family doctor pretend he is going to die -- and behave in a heartless fashion that gets him to lose his temper and get out of his sickbed forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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Fifth Avenue Models
Overview: A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-26
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The Cossack Whip
Overview: Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he believes to be infested with rebels. The Cossacks attack the village and massacre almost everyone, and the young Katerina is whipped to death. Before escaping to England, her sister Darya swears to avenge her sister's death. Years later--now one of the world's most famous prima ballerinas--she returns to Russia. Turov falls in love with her and manages to secure a meeting. She coyly asks him to take her to see a prison first. As it turns out, what he has planned for her is nothing compared to what she has planned for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-13
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The Truth About Helen
Overview: Helen Moore (Grace Williams) runs off with the nephew of Senator Foote, but when their car breaks down, they go to a hotel. A conference is going on there, and the boss politico is choosing his candidate for district attorney. Hugh Graham is the boss's favorite, and also Helen's ex-fiancee. The nephew tries to force himself on her and Graham hears her cries for help. When he rescues her, he is seen by his rival, Gregory, who assumes they are having an affair. He threatens to expose this, and to protect Helen, Graham withdraws from the nomination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-12
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A City Sparrow
Overview: A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walter Hiers), who lives in the same boarding house as she does, but she turns down his marriage proposal. During a performance, Milly is injured and can't get her strength back to get another gig. Hughie Ray (William Boyd), a pal of Tim's, comes to town and offers to take Milly back to the country to recuperate. She takes him up on his offer and after she has been there a while he proposes. But Milly has been told that her injury makes it impossible for her to bear children; since she knows that Ray loves kids she tries to leave him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-17
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The Invisible Man
Overview: After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-03
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Fools First
Overview: Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he gets out of prison, he finds his girl, Ann Whittaker, waiting for him -- and she's got a scheme. She is working in a bank and wants to pull an inside heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-27
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Racing Hearts
Overview: Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-15
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The Gay Defender
Overview: Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt politicians out of Spanish California.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-10
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Overview: A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-14
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Thirty Days
Overview: John Cadwalader Floyd gets himself into a lot of trouble when hot-headed Italian Giacomo Polenta finds him in the arms of his wife, Rosa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-10
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The Mystery of the Double Cross
Overview: Originally written for Pearl White, this silent serial is a great action-packed adventure starring Molly King and Leon Bary. This serial had fifteen chapters, each one two reels in length. The chapters were: 1. The Lady in Number '7' 2. The Masked Stranger 3. An Hour to Live 4. Kidnapped 5. The Life Current 6. The Dead Come Back 7. Into Thin Air 8. The Stranger Disposes 9. When Jail Birds Fly 10. The Hole-in-the-Wall 11. Love's Sacrifice 12. Riddle of the Double Cross 13. The Face of the Stranger 14. The Hidden Brand 15. Mystery of the Double Cross.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-17
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The Tell-Tale Step
Overview: Giovanni Pallazzi, a former member of the Black Hand, an Italian criminal organization, comes to America with his blind daughter Lucia and prospers. Hearing of his success, his former associates demand that he aid in their support
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-28
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Through Turbulent Waters
Overview: The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane's intimate friend, enters with a letter from an erstwhile associate, advising her to go to New York and accept a place in the chorus. A word from Temple, and Alice has made up her mind. She leaves for New York. Temple and Jane have been married some time and are living unhappily, apart from the old folks. The former's reputation as a heavy actor is wide, but drink has degraded him. Subsequently, Jane dies, due to Temple's abuse of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-25
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The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Overview: An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-31
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The Faith Healer
Overview: A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-13
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The Usurer's Grip
Overview: Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-04
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The Lost Romance
Overview: Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-08
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Overview: A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-30
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Vanity Fair
Overview: "Vanity Fair" is a historical drama, based on the classic English novel written by William Thackeray, featuring Shirley Mason. Shirley Mason was 15 y.o. and played the role of the young Becky Sharp. Directors obviously took notice of her performance, because in 1917 she appeared in 17 feature films, in many of them playing the star role.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-05
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The Movies
Overview: Silent comedy about a poor country bumpkin who goes to Hollywood to make good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-07
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Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Overview: A light-hearted romantic adventure.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-30
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Thirty Days at Hard Labor
Overview: Jack must prove himself before Beatrice's father will allow him to continue seeing his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-09
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Overview: The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-21
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The Totville Eye
Overview: A printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-27
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Adam's Rib
Overview: Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda assumes her mother's guilt. Ramsay nearly goes broke but gets rich again; his wife returns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-24
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The Little Minister
Overview: In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by increasing industrialization. When Lord Rintoul attempts to rout the rebellious weavers, Babbie always manages to send word in time to prevent their being taken by surprise. Gavin, new minister to the town, falls in love with Babbie, and his relationship with the young gypsy almost costs him his position. But what Gavin and his parishioners do not know is that Babbie is actually Lady Babbie, ward of Lord Rintoul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-25
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Peck's Bad Boy
Overview: This portrayal of small town life before the War is based on a small boys determination to get to see the circus, over all obstacles. Escaped lions, lightheaded blackmail of his father, and playfully planting stolen papers on his sisters boyfriend are all in a days work for little Henry Peck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-21
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A Proposal from the Duke
Overview: Episode of a romantic serial starring Mary Fuller. Mary is looking for a man, and this time she wants an aristocratic gentleman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-22
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The Doctor's Duty
Overview: A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-11
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The High Cost of Living
Overview: Forbidden from marrying the man she loves by her wealthy businessman father because he is too poor Mildred Lord determines to find a solution. Attempting to live within the means her fiancée could afford, she finds the cost of food exorbitantly high and begins a campaign to force the prices down including taking on her father’s own company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-04
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The Honeymoon Express
Overview: The members of the Lambert household do not get along with each other, so Margaret and her youngest daughter Mary leave their home. Margaret becomes an interior director, resulting in her regaining her happiness. Margaret's son Lance becomes angry at his father, John, due to the people who are invited over to their home, and Lance starts a career with the help of his mother. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-02
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Jack Straw
Overview: Jack Straw (Warwick) is an iceman who becomes a waiter to be closer to the girl (McComas) he is interested in. Later, to impress her, he impersonates an Archduke from Pomerania. A Count from Pomerania (Brower) who is the ambassador arrives and learns of the long-missing son of royalty. The girl's mother (Ashton) learns of the trick being played by Jack. Just when Jack is exposed as being a fraud, it turns out that he is the genuine article.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-14
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The Innocence of Ruth
Overview: The young Ruth Travers, left an orphan after the death of her father financially ruined by Mortimer Reynolds, is welcomed at home by Jimmy Carter, a young millionaire who becomes her guardian. Ruth's winsome qualities gradually win Jimmy's heart. Meanwhile at a Charity Ball, Ruth meets Mr. Reynolds, who is contriving to ruin her virtue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-26
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Singed Wings
Overview: Singed Wings 1922
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-26
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What Every Woman Knows
Overview: Alick Wylie agrees to give railroad porter John Shand $300 to help him secure his education and political ambitions on condition that his daughter Maggie has the option of marrying him within five years. Though not in love they marry, and John becomes successful, thanks to Maggie’s input on his speeches, in time being elected to Parliament. Eventually John strays with Lady Sybil and Maggie diplomatically arranges for them to be together. However his next speech without her assistance is a failure and Sybil leaves him out of boredom, it’s then he sees Maggie’s true worth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-24
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Long Live the King
Overview: A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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Abraham Lincoln
Overview: A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-08
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The Voice of the Violin
Overview: The Voice of the Violin: A Drama (1915) is a half-hour tragic romance of Marjorie (Helen Fulton) & Jack (Pat O'Malley). Marjorie's at the piano. Jack's shaving & giving some affection to the terrier when he hears Marjorie's music. Herbert McClean Sr (Robert Brower) is Jack's father & Marjorie's legal guardian; he is likewise moved by her playing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-05
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What Could She Do?
Overview: The death of her father brought Sylvia Fairfax face to face with conditions which she was unequipped to handle, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to fill the position of governess in the Windermere home, caused her to go to New York. (Note: Only 2 of 3 reels exist)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-20
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Held by the Enemy
Overview: During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-24
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Beggars of Life
Overview: After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
Genres: Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-22
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The Last Trail
Overview: The robberies on Jasper Carrol's stages have been so frequent that the stage line plans to hold a stagecoach race with the winner getting the new contract. Tom foils Cal Barker's attempt to kill him and gets a confession from him that Kurt Morley is behind the robberies. But first Tom must win the race for Carrol although Morley's stages have him greatly outnumbered.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-23
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Bread on the Waters
Overview: A son, down and out on liquor, finds redemption.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-25
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An Old Fashioned Elopement
Overview: Short comedy
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-23
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A Letter to Uncle Sam
Overview: Uncle Sam is mistaken for Marion's uncle Sam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-05
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Tim
Overview: It's time for Tim to get a job.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-18
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With The Eyes Of The Blind
Overview: Short silent drama
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-01
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The Bells
Overview: At the express wish of her father, Lucy Martin marries Leo Noakes, a stingy man and one twice her age. When they are at church one Sunday a fire breaks out and everybody manages to escape with the exception of Lucy, her husband and her former sweetheart, Walter. While Noakes sinks tremblingly upon the floor, Walter seizes Lucy and brings her to safety. Regardless of his many burns, he dashes back into the roaring flames and drags out old Noakes, But upon investigation it is discovered that he is dead. Even though he had been cruel and harsh to her, Lucy bewails his loss. Some time after the obsequies Lucy succumbs to the wooing of her former sweetheart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-31
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When Love Is King
Overview: Felix, the King of Wallonia, has to marry Louise, Princess of the neighboring State of Trebizond. The old Prince, her father, craves the elixir of youth, and gets drunk so often that Trebizond is in bad shape. Thus, it is up to Felix to be King of both States. But Louise has a love affair with Stepan, the heir presumptive to his throne, and Felix flees to America in disguise. By a strange twist of circumstance he takes a job as butler in the home of J.P. Morton, multi-millionaire. There he meets Marcia, Morton's daughter, and the jig is up. He loves her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-09
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The Last Sentence
Overview: George Crosby, a New York lawyer, with a passion for painting, wearied of his legal duties, sails for Brittany, where he meets Renée Kerouac, a fisher-maiden, and sketches her as a Corregan, a fairy who destroys the men who refuse her love. Hoel Kalloc, her betrothed, becomes jealous, and George marries her, after saving her from Hoel's brutality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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