Alfred Hickman
Also Known As: Alfred Scott Devereux Hickman, Alfred D. Hickman
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: February 25, 1873
Deathday: April 09, 1931
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Erstwhile Susan
Overview: Barnabetta Dreary's grim life of slaving for her Pennsylvania Dutch father Barnaby and her two brothers, is surprisingly changed when Barnaby marries Juliet Miller. Known as Erstwhile Susan, she becomes fond of Barnabetta, and because she retains control of her fortune, induces the other Drearys to relieve Barnabetta of some of her drudgery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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The Master Key
Overview: A movie serial from 1914
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-16
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In Pursuit of Polly
Overview: Pretty Polly Marsden is ardently pursued by three different Romeos, but she coyly refuses to choose between them. When they insist that she give them her answer, she arranges an impromptu automobile race: whichever one of the three can overtake her speeding roadster will be the man whom she will marry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-19
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The Make-Believe Wife
Overview: Several young couples have gathered at a vacation home in the mountains. The group of friends go climbing, but Phyllis Ashbrook and John Manning leave the others behind. They get lost and have to spend the night in a cabin. When they are brought back the next day, appearances compel them to marry, even though they are already engaged to others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-17
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Are You a Mason?
Overview: Frank Perry's wife Helen is away visiting her mother, and he uses this "free time" for a night of drinking at a nightclub. Unfortunately, when he tries to return home, he enters the wrong house and is nearly arrested When Helen comes back he tells her that the "incident" was actually an initiation rite of the Masons, knowing that his wife has always wanted him to join the group. She excitedly tells her father about Frank's becoming a Mason, since her father is also a Mason. What neither she nor Frank know is that her father has actually been doing the same thing Frank is--pretending to be a Mason when he actually isn't. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-15
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Here Comes the Bride
Overview: A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-19
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On the Quiet
Overview: Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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The Chain Invisible
Overview: James Wadsworth sets his sights on the lovely society girl Anna Dalton and determines to marry her. To achieve that goal, he follows her everywhere she goes, including on a ship to South America. He comes up with a plan to make her love him--he throws her overboard, follows her over the side and swims with her to a deserted island. His somewhat unorthodox method works and he wins over Anna, but problems arise when Richard Towne, Anna's fiancé who has been searching for her, finds the island and discovers the two.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-24
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Piccadilly Jim
Overview: American newspaper reporter Jim Crocker's madcap escapades in London earn him notoriety and the nickname "Piccadilly Jim." When he overhears his American cousin by marriage, Ann Chester, giving her candid opinion of him, he decides to return to America to try to reform. He meets Ann on the boat, using another name. Unable to find work in New York, he goes to his step aunt Mrs. Peter Pett's home to be near Ann. Jim then helps Ann kidnap pampered cousin Ogden Pett whose overindulgence has created disruption in the household.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-01
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Seven Deadly Sins: Greed
Overview: Eve Leslie and Adam Moore become interested in the stock market. Eve decides to try to add to her fortunes by plunging. Tempted by the sin of greed, Eve becomes reckless. At first she wins, then she begins to lose, and desperately tries to recover her losses.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-12
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Mrs. Balfame
Overview: Mrs. Balfame is a 1917 Mystery Drama
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-09
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The Rescue
Overview: The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-12
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The Iron Woman
Overview: Steel mill owner Sarah Maitland has raised her two children, Blair and Nannie, to be honest and caring, however Blair disappoints her when he seduces the wife of his best friend and breaks up her marriage. No one is happy but it takes a near fatal accident to set things right.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-02
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The Witch
Overview: A young woman uses her hypnotic powers to destroy the potential marriage of her crush.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-27
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The Last of the Lone Wolf
Overview: In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His Majesty learns that his wife has given the ring he gave to her to her lover, the King plans a large ball and demands the she wear the token. As her lover is a military attache, he is not in the palace, and the queen must send her lady-in-waiting to bring it back. En route, the lady meets a thief and they team up. She does not know that he has been dispatched by the King to steal ring from the attache.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-26
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The Enchanted Cottage
Overview: The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds in solitude, he meets a young woman named Laura (May McAvoy). They fall in love and agree to marry, but unexpected and magical events occur inside The Enchanted Cottage where they have agreed to spend their wedding night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-23
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The Fear Market
Overview: A woman struggles to overcome a cabal of blackmailers, but learns that the boss of the blackmailers is none other than her own father. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-25
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The Phantom of Paris
Overview: Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-12
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A Woman of Experience
Overview: It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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The Venus Model
Overview: A young lady designs a wonderfully received bathing suit and saves her employer from financial disaster. In the course of this, she falls in love with her employer's son, who is in danger of ruin from a romantic scandal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-16
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The Fall of the Romanoffs
Overview: The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Little Miss Hoover
Overview: Little Miss Hoover is a 1918 American silent romantic drama film directed by John S. Robertson and stars Marguerite Clark. The film is based on the novel The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Davies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-29
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Civilian Clothes
Overview: During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has been killed, she returns home to her wealthy family without mentioning her brief marriage. But Sam turns up, alive but poorly dressed, and Florence is happy to see him but appalled at his clothing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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The Lone Wolf
Overview: Based on a character created by Louis Joseph Vance
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-30
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Trilby and Little Billee
Overview: Trilby lounges on a table with her shoes off, smoking, laughing, enjoying a piece of cake, and kissing her friend in a scene from the popular eponymous novel and stage play. Now lost, it is considered the first book-to-film adaptation.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1896-09-14
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The Love Cheat
Overview: Henry, a struggling Greenwhich Villiage artist, accidentally finds an invitation to Louise Gordon's coming out party. He goes to the party, falls in love with the pretty socialite, but soon decides to leave as he realizes his financial situation is not up to standards. An old friend recognizes him and encourages Henry into lying that he is a successful businessman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-24
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