William Lowery
Also Known As: William A. Lowery, W.A. Lowery
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 22, 1885
Age: 139 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 15, 1941
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Lightnin' Flashes
Overview: Lightnin' tries to save agent Eileen Sedgwick and her rich boyfriend from the infamous webs of the Spider.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-01
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Tricks
Overview: Collegian Angelica "Trix" Varden, willful daughter of William Varden, after a midnight spread of lobster and ice cream, has a dream about an adventure on her father's ranch involving her horse Beverly, one Jack Norton, and Buck Barlow's gang of rustlers. She is expelled from school and returns home to find a handsome new foreman, who is none other than Jack Norton. Trix's curiosity is aroused by her dream, and she finds evidence of rustlers. Barlow shows up, and she locks herself in a cabin and sends Jack's horse, Star, for help. Jack finally defeats Barlow in a fight, and the two horses "realize" that they now have both a master and a mistress.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-16
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The Tear That Burned
Overview: The Tear That Burned is a silent movie drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-08
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Another Chance
Overview: Mason, discharged from jail, promises his wife to lead a new life. While searching for work, he rescues Curly, a newsboy, from the clutches of a tramp, who, in trying to steal the boy's secret hoard, beats him up badly. Mason leaves the now helpless boy in care of his wife, and resumes his search for work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-24
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At Dawn
Overview: Sykes, an American engaged to a poor girl, goes to the Philippines as a teacher, and the girl stays behind to await their marriage. Sykes, after some time has passed, has succumbed to the tropic influences, and is living with a native girl, when one day he hears from the girl back home that she is coming to join him and that she will arrive at dawn next day. An aunt has died and left her a lot of money. Caring more for this coin that the girl, Sykes tries to get rid of the native girl, but she makes a row, and he in fear of losing his girl and her cash, poisons the native girl, who dies. He is about to get rid of the body when a young lieutenant of the U.S. Army shows up with his sergeant, inquiring the way to the trail of Indians, and becomes suspicious of Sykes' uneasiness and finds the dead girl.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-15
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The Niggard
Overview: The clerk has money to pay the last installment on his home, occupied by his old mother and himself, but meeting a fellow clerk and two girls is "forced" to treat in order to show that he really is no tightwad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-10
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The Exposure
Overview: Helen and Joe are in love. He receives a letter from his uncle offering him a good position in his law office. He shows Helen the letter and she shows him one from the Standard, also a check for a short story. They have a quarrel over a slight thing and he leaves for his uncle's place. Six years go by and Helen is now a very successful writer on a large daily.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-26
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Double Trouble
Overview: Double Trouble is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film written and directed by Christy Cabanne and stars Douglas Fairbanks in his third motion picture. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Herbert Quick. A print of the film is held by the Cohen Media Group.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-06
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The Better Way
Overview: Sunbeam's father is sent to prison, and on his release promises to remain honest. He secures a job as a night watchman, but his prison record being discovered, he is fired, and finds it impossible to secure work. Sunbeam gets a job in a a family as a "slavey" in order to support the father and herself, but her father chafes at the idea of his daughter working, although he does not know what her job is nor where. In desperation, he decides to turn crook again, and breaks into the house where his daughter is working.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-22
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Minerva's Mission
Overview: Minerva comes home from school filled with the idea that she has a great mission in life. All society needs reformation. She has her maiden aunt come to live with her as chaperon, and Minerva immediately starts in by reconstructing her. The trust company that has charge of her fortune is represented by young Mr. Grant, who looks on with dismay at the operations of Minerva and tries to dissuade her, but without success. She stops him from smoking and he compiles when she isn't looking. She discovers this and quarrels with him. A laborer making some repairs at the house attracts her attention when she finds him drinking a pail of beer with his lunch. She remonstrates with him and questions him about his home life. As a result she visits his mother's home and tries to educate the family, much against their will, lavishing money on them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-07
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The Burned Hand
Overview: Three college boys graduate. One is in love with a girl, whose mother and father have domestic difficulties. They go to court and are divorced. Father is refused the request for his daughter, and in turn kidnaps her and takes her to another state, where he becomes a great political factor. Bill, one of the graduated college boys who is in love with the girl, with his two companions, traces the girl and steal her away. In doing so his hand is burned with a poker and the father uses that as a means of identification in tracing him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-13
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The Lamb
Overview: Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His fiancée Mary, ashamed of Gerald's "yellow streak", leaves him and goes by train to visit some friends in Arizona, with Bill in tow. Gerald follows them, and before long he and Mary winds up captured by Yaqui Indians and Gerald must prove to Mary that he is not the "weakling" she thinks he is by coming up with a plan for them to escape their captors.
Genres: Western Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-06
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Crossed Signals
Overview: A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The counterfeiters have framed the station's manager for the crime, and she must work with the agent to clear her name and get the goods on the real counterfeiters.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-28
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The Man from Painted Post
Overview: In order to find out who's behind a cattle rustling operation that's hurting ranchers, a detective for the Cattleman's Protective Association pretends to be a tenderfoot from back east who's just arrived in the area and doesn't know how to ride, rope or shoot.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-29
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Red Hot Tires
Overview: The first time Al Jones sees Elizabeth Lowden, he becomes so distracted that he runs his car into a steamroller. The second time he sees her, Elizabeth's car frightens his horse, causing him to fall. ....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-31
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The Hop Smugglers
Overview: Short, silent movie about a female journalist who does a sensational article for the newspaper investigation opium smuggling.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-24
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Robin Hood
Overview: Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-18
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Three Foolish Weeks
Overview: A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge. There he hopes to have his way with her. She's actually the queen traveling incognito, which the loyal residents recognize. The cross-eyed baron keeps getting caught trying to get into the queen-then the inn keeper's wife's bedroom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-13
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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
Overview: Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation with drugs: consuming cocaine to increase his energy or injecting it in his opponents to incapacitate them. To help the police, he tracks down a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported within "leaping fishes", saving a "fish-blower" girl from blackmail along the way.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-11
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Her Moment
Overview: In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university eventually becoming a successful engineer. Unbeknownst to him, Katinka, whom he had to leave behind in the village, is sold into slavery by her cruel, dissolute father. Her owner, Victor Dravich, beats her into submission forcing her to become his mistress in his Syrian gambling den. When the house is raided, Dravich takes her on his travels around the world until they finally settle in a small Arizona mining camp. Broken, she sees Jan but is too ashamed to speak to him sending instead for her old tutor Boris. Upon arrival Boris kills Dravich but is shot by the sheriff. Katinka, now free, follows Jan to New York. After further travail the pair are finally reunited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Reggie Mixes In
Overview: Reggie, a wealthy young man about town, is eager for excitement, so he takes to visiting the rougher sections of the city in search of thrills. He meets and falls for a cabaret singer, but she turns out to be the inamorata of the local gang boss. The gangster sends his men after Reggie, but eventually it comes down to a duel between the two men themselves.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-10
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Sold for Marriage
Overview: A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her lover, an returning immigrant visiting Russia from the U.S., sails on the same ship. When they arrive he learns, to his surprise, that the American police, unlike those of his native country, are not oppressors of the poor, but friends that will aid in securing the release of his beloved Marfa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-15
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Thundering Hoofs
Overview: The border bandit Severn is after Estrada's money. He not only gets Estrada to promise his daughter to him in marriage but he also convinces him that Dave Marshall is the bandit. When Dave shows up to expose Severn, he is jailed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-25
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Dangerous Trails
Overview: A mounted police inspector battles not only a gang of opium smugglers but also a haughty society belle
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-10
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The Primal Law
Overview: silent cowboy western starring Dustin Farnum as a rancher whose partner is killed by rustlers. He takes in his partner's young son, and begins to sell his ranch, but the boy finds oil on the land.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-11
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The Lucky Transfer
Overview: Jim Dodson, a poor workman, has been in the habit of begging a streetcar transfer in town, in order to ride home each night from work. Ford and Ransom, a couple of crooks, rob a store and among the things taken are a quantity of stamped envelopes with the name and address of the firm printed thereon.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-10
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The Nut
Overview: Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to help children from poor neighbourhoods.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-06
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The Terror of the Mountains
Overview: Dan Melton is in love with Daisy Dale, who, being of a coquettish disposition, permits herself to become infatuated with Soapy Smith, gentleman gambler. Sheriff Melton is greatly worried by the continual holdups committed by Black Jack, a desperado, who has become the terror of the mountains. His excursions in quest of the bandit compel him to neglect Daisy somewhat. One day Daisy meets with an accident while riding and applies for assistance at a lonely shack in the hills. To her astonishment Soapy Smith opens the door. She accepts his invitation to enter. Once she is inside, however, Soapy betrays his real character and attacks her. Daisy's screams are heard by Morristette, a Mexican, who rushes in and intervenes. Smarting under the blow Soapy deals him, he gallops to town and informs the sheriff. On arriving at the shack to rescue his sweetheart Melton finds that Soapy Smith and the long-sought desperado. Black Jack, are one and the same.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-13
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The Hidden Message
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-18
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Bad Man Mason
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-14
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Where the Mountains Meet
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-30
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Faithful Wives
Overview: The title tells it all. Faithful wives perhaps but can the same be said for their husbands?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-25
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The Haunted Ship
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-01
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