Charles Lane
Also Known As: Charles Willis Lane
Biography: Charles Willis Lane (January 25, 1869–October 17, 1945) was an American stage and film actor, active in movies from 1914 to 1929. Like many film performers born before 1900, Lane had extensive prior Broadway stage or regional theatrical experience. Lane can be seen in silent films usually as a silver-haired other man or confidant. Two of his best-known roles are Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) and Dr. Angus McPhail in Sadie Thompson (1928). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Madison, Illinois, USA
Birthday: January 25, 1869
Deathday: October 17, 1945
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Gender: Male
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-18
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The Blind Goddess
Overview: Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife walked out on him 20 years before and his daughter, Moira, believes she is dead. Moira falls in love with Hugh Dillon, a handsome young attorney, and Devens gets him a job in the district attorney's office. One night, Devens' wife, now an old, decrepit woman known as Aileen Clayton, returns to ask forgiveness.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-04
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Away Goes Prudence
Overview: Prudence, a young society woman and aviatrix, is forbidden to continue flying by her fiancé Hewitt and her father. In defiance, she stages her own kidnapping, but Hewitt discovers the ruse and arranges a real abduction to teach her a lesson. His plan backfires, and the kidnappers rob him and capture Prudence. In order to save herself, Prudence pretends to join the gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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Sadie Thompson
Overview: A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-07
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The Canary Murder Case
Overview: A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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Romola
Overview: In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-06
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The Great Adventure
Overview: An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-06
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The Winning of Barbara Worth
Overview: While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-14
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Overview: Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-ready westerner and taken to Red Gap ultimately to become its social mentor and chief caterer, and there is sheer delight in the story of how the Earl, brought over to save his younger brother from the vampirish clutches of Klondike Kate, makes the lady his Countess and once more stands Red Gap upon its somewhat dizzy head.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-25
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Broadway Scandals
Overview: Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-10
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Married Alive
Overview: James Duxbury (Lou Tellegen) is an exponent of polygamy, which may not be legal but certainly provides him with several evenings of entertainment. Professor Charles Orme (Matt Moore) falls in love with Duxbury's fourth wife Amy (Margaret Livingston). Things get dicey indeed as Orme tries to figure out whether Amy is still married to Duxbury or not -- in fact, Duxbury isn't sure either.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-17
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Saturday's Children
Overview: Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-10
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Broadway Rose
Overview: Rosalie Lawrence, a dancing star on Broadway, falls for rich Hugh Thompson. His parents disapprove and want him to marry Barbara Royce, so he and Rosalie marry secretly. However, Hugh isn't quite the man he seems, as Rosalie is soon to find out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-22
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Service for Ladies
Overview: Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foster, an American heiress, though he is convinced that she will never admire a waiter.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-06
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The Marriage Whirl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-19
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Second Youth
Overview: 1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-06
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Barbed Wire
Overview: During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-09
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The White Sister
Overview: Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-05
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Fascination
Overview: Fascination is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring his then wife Mae Murray. The film is based on an original story by Edmund Goulding, soon to be a prolific film director. The story capitalizes on Murray's continuing forays into outlandish costume dramas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-09
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The Dark Angel
Overview: Alan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vilma Bánky) have grown up together, as close playmates When World War I starts, both Alan and Gerald enlist in the British Army as officiers, and Kitty sees them off to war. Many months later, Alan and Gerald come back to Kitty, on a short furlow. Alan and Kitty reveal their love for each other. Gerald (who's in love with Kitty, too) congratulates his friends. But before Kitty and Alan can arrange to be married the next day, the furlow is cut short and both men head back to the front lines. Weeks later, Gerald will not give Alan leave to marry Kitty. Still arguing, both men volunteer for a reconiscience raid into enemy lines, where a grenade goes off near Alan and appears to kill him. Gerald and Kitty mourn Alan's death. After the war ends, Gerald and Kitty become engaged to be married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-27
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The Restless Sex
Overview: A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-12
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The Branded Woman
Overview: A 1920 film directed by Albert Parker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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Stella Dallas
Overview: An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy man, and the problem gets worse when their daughter starts growing up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-16
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Without Limit
Overview: Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son of a clergyman (Frank Currier), is seduced by the earthly delights of drinking and gambling. While intoxicated he proposes to Ember Edwards (Nilsson), and she accepts because he has told her he is rich and she is sick of her poverty-stricken life. At a gambling house run by Clement Palter (Charles Lane), David takes a 25 dollar check from Bunny Fish (Robert Schable), changes the amount to 2,500 dollars, and proceeds to lose the whole sum at faro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-20
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How Women Love
Overview: silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-15
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The Outsider
Overview: 1926 film starring Jacqueline Logan, Lou Tellegen, and Walter Pidgeon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-17
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Marriage License?
Overview: When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his mother, reject her because of her outsider status. Lady Heriot engineers a scandal that ruins their marriage and after has Wanda’s child declared illegitimate. Years pass during which Wanda and her son Robin rebuild their lives through toil. Now grown Robin enters the military, and Marcus reenters their lives wanting to give the young man his name.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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Padlocked
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-02
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The Whirlwind of Youth
Overview: 18-year-old Nancy Hawthorne, a young English girl is raised in seclusion by her artist father, but finally goes to Paris to study and meets Cornelia Evans, an American art student. At a party for Cornelia's brother Nancy meets Bob Whittaker and falls hard for him. They spend a weekend together at the beach, where their feelings for each other intensify, but Bob feels unworthy of her and contrives to be seen in an affectionate pose with another girl, Heloise, which demolishes Nancy's illusions. Heartbroken Nancy enlists as an ambulance driver at the outbreak of war eventually reuniting with Bob on the battlefields of France. They marry before his regiment leaves for the front.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-30
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Pearl of Love
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-01
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Guilty of Love
Overview: When governess Thelma Miller falls in love with her employer's brother, Norris Townsend, they have a brief affair. Soon after, Thelma discovers that she is pregnant and demands that Norris marry her so that their child can have a name. Norris' wealthy family objects to the marriage on the grounds of social equality, but Thelma forces the union at gunpoint. After the ceremony, Thelma leaves her husband and seeks employment in a country town. Years pass as Norris searches for his wife and son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-22
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