Joseph Burke
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: August 08, 1870
Age: 154 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 07, 1933
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Come on In
Overview: A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough for him to pass the height requirement. Meanwhile, his lady friend decides to become a Secret Service agent, though she is unable to keep the fact a secret, even from the German spies she hopes to apprehend.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-22
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Fascinating Youth
Overview: Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-17
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Independence, B'Gosh
Overview: A middle-aged couple find their rural lives in disarray when they inherit eighty-nine million dollars. One of James Montgomery Flagg's 'Sweethearts and Wives' series of short comedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-08
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The Pinch Hitter
Overview: Joel Parker is sent to college by his crabby farmer father only because it was his mother's dying wish that he get an education. At college, he's immediately pegged as a chump and is constantly victimized by the other students, headed by Jimmie Slater. Only Abbie Nettleton, who works at the campus bakery, has any sympathy for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
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Help! Help! Police!
Overview: While vacationing with his father Edward at a Palm Beach hotel, George Welston becomes smitten with Eve Pendleton, the daughter of Edward's business rival Judson. After George prevents Pendleton from getting an option on a deal by racing in his car with his father's $100,000 deposit, Pendleton favors Eve's other suitor, Arthur Trask, whose gentlemanly manner conceals his intent to rob Eve and her wealthy friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-27
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The Awakening of Ruth
Overview: Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop and Ruth fall in love, but Winthrop returns to New York, and after a year, has forgotten Ruth. After finding two chests in a cave, Ruth locates her father unconscious from a fall. She goes to the mainland for help, but returns with the Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot and Dr. William Strong, to find her father dead. Strong, out of kindness, offers to marry her, but Ruth declines, sure that Winthrop will return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-17
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Obey Your Husband
Overview: An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-15
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Life or Honor?
Overview: When retired merchant J. T. Manly is murdered, his son James, with whom he had quarreled, is arrested and finally convicted through the testimony of Manly's valet Aguinaldo. Shortly before James's execution, Sidney Holmes reveals to retired criminologist Martin Cross that on the night of the murder, he saw Aguinaldo commit the crime
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-01
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Chris and His Wonderful Lamp
Overview: A young man buys an Aladdin’s lamp at an auction and employs the genie to help him see his love.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-14
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The Royal Rider
Overview: Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance. The king is greatly impressed with the American cowboys and makes them his palace guard. The prime minister starts a revolution, and Dick and the Americans put it down. The boy king sanctions a romance between Scott and Ruth Elliott, the royal governess.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-17
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The Trap
Overview: A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises her hand in marriage to a rich prospector, but instead she marries his no-good brother. After her husband disappears and is reported dead, she marries a rich New York stockbroker, but doesn't tell him about her first marriage. Soon she is contacted by someone who threatens to tell her new husband all about her past if she doesn't pay up.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-10
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The White Rose
Overview: A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-21
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The City of Illusion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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Hangman's House
Overview: Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-13
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The Sleeping Beauty
Overview: Filled with jealousy, the evil witch Maleficent curses Princess Aurora to die on her 16th birthday. Thanks to Aurora's guardian fairies she only falls into a deep sleep that can be ended with a kiss from her betrothed, Prince Phillip. To prevent Phillip from rescuing Aurora, Maleficent kidnaps and imprisons him. The good fairies are the last hope to free Phillip so that he can awaken Aurora.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-26
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The Immortal Flame
Overview: Silent drama directed by Ivan Abramson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-01
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Another Bottle, Doctor
Overview: Carrie is a chorus girl traveling with a medicine show. They stop outside a sanitarium to peddle their elixirs, not knowing the bogus sanitarium is providing bodies for an enterprising mortician.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-30
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Opportunity
Overview: When Mary’s father refuses to let her attend a prize fight because he thinks it’s undignified for a young lady she disgueses herself in her brother's clothes which sets in motion a series of misunderstandings that almost wreck a marriage and land Mary in jail but all works out in the end!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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De Luxe Annie
Overview: A 1918 film directed by Roland West.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-19
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Through the Toils
Overview: Author Noel Graham goes to the little village of Mondon, where his ancestors lived, for solitude to write. While searching for a lost puppy, Noel meets Rhona Allerton, who is visiting her guardian, Lewis Moffat, a writer in his declining years. Realizing that he needs inspiration to write a passionate romance, Moffat, with the help of old Benson, a former derelict now in his service, encourages the blossoming love affair between Rhona and Noel, while planning to destroy it later and analyze their suffering.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-08
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Pied Piper Malone
Overview: Pied Piper Malone (1924)
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-04
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Kidnapped
Overview: In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-07
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His Children's Children
Overview: Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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The Perfect Woman
Overview: Mary Blake can charm any man, young or old, with her winning ways -- except for the one she really wants. James Stanhope is a misogynist who won't give her the time of day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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'Morning, Judge
Overview: After Uplift Society-champion Crabbine Hicks has the musical revue shut down, her son Buster hides the out-of-work chorus girls in their home, while Crabbine is out of town. While cooking sausage, Buster starts a fire...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-01
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The Lucky Devil
Overview: Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner's son, a soul seemingly always in trouble with cops and women. Well, suddenly Dix begins to have the same problem, only he also gets mixed up in the life of Esther Ralston and her Aunt Edna May Oliver. Hilarious misunderstandings and undertakings become the fodder for the day!
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-13
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South Of Panama
Overview: South of Panama is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Charles J. Hunt and starring Carmelita Geraghty, Edward Raquello and Lewis Sargent
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-14
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Cecilia of the Pink Roses
Overview: Cecilia is a spunky Irish girl from a struggling family, faced with the imminent death of her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-02
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Too Many Kisses
Overview: Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral. When the son gets to Spain, he runs afoul of the local police chief - who has a secret that he tries to keep the young man from discovering.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-11
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The Adventurous Sex
Overview: A young man spends so much time at work on his airplane that he neglects his girl. She goes out on her own to live the high life, but her reputation is soiled by an adventurer. The young woman resolves to kill herself, and throws herself into the water rushing towards Niagara Falls, but is saved at the last minute by her former sweetheart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-12
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Clarissa's Charming Calf
Overview: Clarissa spins the tale for her children of how when she was a young girl, she was the belle of the small town of Cherry Pit Siding. Winning the title of “the most popular young lady” at the annual fireman’s ball she is awarded the prize of a beautiful calf. Loved by artist Josh Jiggers she poses for a painting to be known as "Clarissa's Charming Calf." Unfortunately for the lovers New York variety manager Omar Commerstein espies the portrait and yearns to make Clarissa a roof-garden attraction. When she spurns him, he takes desperate measures to ensnare her but thanks to the efforts of Josh and the firemen the villainous manager and his confederates are soon thwarted. Reunited Clarissa and Josh marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-04
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Blow Your Horn
Overview: Musty Suffer finds a bicycle and gets a job as a messenger; hilarity ensues, of course.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-20
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Outwitted
Overview: Duplicity and double crosses run thick and fast when Ben Farraday forces Nan Kennedy to steal documents from Ben’s enemy John Lawson in exchange for his silence about her escapee brother’s whereabouts. Betrayed by all around her Nan resorts to deception to regain control of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-12
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West of the Water Tower
Overview: Young marrieds Guy & Bee are ostracized by their supposed friends in town when Bee discovers she is expecting but the legitimacy of their union is called into question. Eventually the squire who performed their ceremony becomes aware of the scandal and produces the necessary certificate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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Princess Jones
Overview: Princess Jones, the niece of a country store keeper, dreams of being a wealthy, glamorous lady. While at an luxurious nearby resort she meets the wealthy Arthur Forbes, who falls in love with her and buys her an expensive coat. This leads her to be mistaken by the other guests as a Balkan princess and attracts the eye of a gang of kidnappers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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