Warburton Gamble
Also Known As: Evelyn Charles Warburton Gamble
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 16, 1882
Age: 142 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 27, 1945
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La belle Russe
Overview: In this film, her next-to-last picture for Fox, it was Theda Bara's turn to tackle a double role. Bara's characters are twin sisters La Belle Russe, the wicked one, and Fleurette, the nice one. They're Parisian dancers, and Fleurette marries Philip Sackton (Warburton Gamble). However, Sackton is a member of Britain's snooty aristocracy, and his family disinherits him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-21
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The Silver King
Overview: When British gentleman Wilfred Denver weds the beautiful Nellie, he earns the undying hatred of Nellie's former sweetheart, Geoffrey Ware. After several years of cozy matrimonial contentment, Denver finds himself heavily in debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-12
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A Study in Scarlet
Overview: In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-14
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Child of Manhattan
Overview: Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-11
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Tonight Is Ours
Overview: A princess is torn between her royal obligations and her love for a handsome Frenchman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
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A Society Exile
Overview: Nora Shard, a young American girl living in England, is ostracized from society for her presumed part in a scandal which culminated in a murder-suicide by a nobleman and his wife. Nora disguises her identity and goes to Italy, where she finds happiness - until the spectre of the past is raised.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-07
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Fast Life
Overview: Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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The Paliser Case
Overview: A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-15
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Tonight or Never
Overview: A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-04
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As You Desire Me
Overview: Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
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By Candlelight
Overview: A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-18
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Thirty a Week
Overview: Although she is engaged to the wealthy Freddy Ruyter, Barbara Wright prefers her father's handsome Irish chauffeur, Dan Murray, and marries him. The newlyweds struggle to survive on Dan's meager income, but Barbara's father, furious with them both, nearly destroys their happiness by securing Dan's dismissal from several jobs. ...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-12
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The Unforseen
Overview: On the eve of her elopement with Henry Traquair, Margaret Fielding is accidentally discovered in Traquair's apartments by his friends, Captain Richard Haynes and Walter Maxwell.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-21
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Spare a Copper
Overview: George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-02
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Lonely Road
Overview: Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-23
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Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
Overview: John Kirby is in desperate financial straits so when his wife Margaret refuses his request to help him obtain a loan from her guest, Gordon Pell, he attempts suicide and failing that becomes seriously ill. Margaret grudgingly takes in boarders mixing with people outside her social set. As her resentment grows Lucille, John's former flame, forges telegrams to drive a wedge further between them, but Gordon steps in the clear the air and the pair work through their difficulties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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Fine Feathers
Overview: Bob Reynolds, a construction engineer, is constructing a dam. Finding himself in financial trouble, he is persuaded by John Brand to use a cheaper--but far inferior--cement to replace the cement he's been using. Brand, who is determined to ruin Reynolds, then talks him into buying worthless stock. Finding himself in desperate straits, Reynolds forges a check using Brand's name. Unfortunately the finished dam breaks and many people are killed. Under suspicion by the authorities, Reynolds desperate searches for a way out of his worsening situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-20
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Dangerous Lies
Overview: A widow's husband returns after her second marriage, and dies while assaulting her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-18
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Lights of London
Overview: An heir, framed by his cousin for killing his father, breaks jail and saves his wife from a fire.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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The Law of the Yukon
Overview: A young newspaper man from San Francisco arrives in the Yukon to start a newspaper and conflict ensues. Based on the poem by Robert W. Service.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-20
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The Cost
Overview: Against her father's wishes, Pauline Gardner marries John Dumont, a young philanderer, on his promise that he will reform.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-11
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As a Man Thinks
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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The Two Brides
Overview: The Two Brides is a lost 1919 silent film drama produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Edward José and starred Opera singer Lina Cavalieri in her last motion picture. An original story for the screen was written by Alicia Ramsey
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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The Invisible Bond
Overview: Seductress Leila Templeton lures Harleth Crossley into a supposed assignation at his wife Marcia’s dinner party making a fool of them both. Following other compromising situations and his declaration of needing “personal liberty” Marcia divorces him. Still enamored of Leila, he marries her, but she remains a selfish flirt and Otis Vale, whom Leila has driven insane with her teasing, abducts her. In the mad dash away their automobile tumbles over a cliff, killing them both. When Harleth learns that "Mrs. Crossey" has died, he imagines it to be Marcia, and rushes to her. The relief he shows convinces her that their "invisible bond" is intact, and they reconcile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-23
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