John Lancaster
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Birthday: January 01, 1857
Deathday: October 11, 1935
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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An Embarrassing Predicament
Overview: Billy Quill, a bashful bookkeeper, loves Marjorie Keyes, the pretty stenographer. Anatole, the French barber, is also in love with Marjorie, but he is not at all bashful and makes himself a pest by declaring his love for her at every opportunity. Marjorie reciprocates Billy's love, and gives him every opportunity to express his feelings and "pop" the question, but Billy lacks nerve to say the fatal words.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-02
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A Day Off
Overview: Con Ology and Hi Flyer, two henpecked husbands, hit upon a plan whereby they can escape from their domineering spouses for a day in order to enjoy the company of two chorus girl affinities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-19
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The Cloud Puncher
Overview: It hasn't rained for week and there are no symptoms of coming rain to be found. An itinerant artist carrying a huge canvas rambles along a country road. He reaches the hut of a hermit inventor who is dying of thirst. The artist paints a picture of a reservoir so realistically that the water overflows and fills a cup which he holds in his hand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-15
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Chased Into Love
Overview: The will of T.W. Glutz provides that his bashful nephew, Hank, will inherit the entire estate if married by 2 P.M. of a certain date. Hank loves a girl who lives fifty miles away, but his uncle's executor, a lawyer, arranges a marriage with a somewhat antiquated home product. At 1 P.M. on the appointed day, Hank is sleeping off the effects of the night before. He wakens with a fever, a raging thirst, and an awful taste, when the lawyer enters and tells him the bride is waiting. "And my heart is fifty miles away," sadly muses Hank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-12
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How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home
Overview: Percival, a master-mind in the army of the deliberately unemployed, visits a fashionable restaurant and piles up a large meal by impertinent orders, but, before he gets a chance to eat he is detected and thrown out. He breaks a store window and so loudly proclaims his guilt that the police do not believe him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-27
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The Gold Brick
Overview: Reporter Jones, a hustler, discovers a gold-brick displayed in a jeweler's window and sees a fine "feature story" in trying to sell this real gold-brick to farmers at $2.00 per.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-19
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Sweeney's Dream
Overview: While many men think they can manage a hotel, a theater, or a newspaper, they are in the minority compared with those low-browed addle-pates who believe they could run the government.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-16
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The Hobo's Rest Cure
Overview: Bill Grogan, a happy hobo, having successfully eluded all sorts of allurements to go to work and having discharged himself from several easy jobs after numerous attempts to get painlessly injured, frightens a chauffeur into believing that he had been injured by a baby carriage. Eventually he reaches the limit of his restful ambition by getting a cot in a hospital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-27
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Alas! Poor Yorick!
Overview: A mentally deranged sanatorium patient imagines that he is the world's greatest actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-21
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A Freight Train Drama
Overview: Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want to derail an express train.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-05
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