Harry Lonsdale
Also Known As: Harry J. Lonsdale, Henry Gittus Lonsdale
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Worcester, England, UK
Birthday: December 05, 1865
Deathday: July 12, 1923
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Who Shall Take My Life?
Overview: A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-01
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The Vagabond Trail
Overview: Searching for his wayward brother, saddle tramp Donnegan (Buck Jones) gets in trouble with a bully and is thrown off a freight train
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-09
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The Mask
Overview: The Mask 1921 film
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-17
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Fighting for Gold
Overview: Tom Mix plays Jack Kilmeny, an Englishman who owns a gold claim in the U.S. Jack has two problems -- his worthless partner Curly (Jack Nelson), and the British company on the land next to his who hope to jump his claim.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-30
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Vanishing Trails
Overview: A 15-chapter Western serial. The serial involves the mystery of the murder of William Stillman (Wells) and the finding of the heir to his fortune. Silent Joe (Farnum) arrives in an effort to discover the murderer and prove that he is the true heir. He and the heroine Lou (Anderson) have their adventures in the mountainous terrain with its "vanishing trails." They are aided by The Shadow (Orlamond), a demented scientist with his trained dog, and several remarkable, death-dealing inventions.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-10
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The Millionaire Cowboy
Overview: In the mistaken belief that he has killed a cab driver, a dissipated Eastern scion flees West in this inventive silent Western starring former football hero Maurice "Lefty" Flynn and based on an original story by Darryl F. Zanuck. Charles Christoper Meredyth, Jr. -- known to his friends as "Gallop" -- arrives in a small Southwestern town owned by inventor Granville Truce (Charles Crockett). The only other inhabitants are Truce's pretty daughter, Pauline (Gloria Grey), and a gang of Mexican bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-03
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Beware of Strangers
Overview: Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-10
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Sweet Alyssum
Overview: The boss of iron worker Roanoke Brooks (Power), is having an affair with his wife (Kathlyn Williams). Eventually she commits suicide and her lover dies in an accident. Roanoke lavishes all his love and attention on his daughter (Edith Johnson). As a young woman she goes to the West where she meets the son of the man who broke up her father's marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-15
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When the West Was Young
Overview: Ned Halton and his young bride, Nellie, depart from the east in a prairie schooner to seek a home in the western wilds.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-07
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The Girl in His House
Overview: When his sweetheart jilts him, wealthy James Armitage leaves his family estate in the hands of attorney Samuel Bordman and heads for Burma. Six years later, Armitage discovers that his former girlfriend has just become a widow, thus he sails back to America in hopes of rekindling the romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-24
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All on Account of Checkers
Overview: Smith & Smith, publishers, in a letter, notify Professor Bernard that they will accept his latest story if he will alter the enclosed paragraph: "Marry me and I will do away with my wife as I did her father." The absent-minded professor leaves this paragraph on his study table while he goes to the store to secure some cloth for his wife. The Professor, however, is very absent-minded, and forgets his mission when he meets a group of firemen who induce him to play a game of checkers. In the meantime, Ellen, the cook, is having her troubles with the butcher boy, who brings liver instead of chops, as ordered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-29
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The Lost Inheritance
Overview: 1912 silent drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-13
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A Change of Administration
Overview: The story concerns the difficulties of a clerk in the war department, betrothed to the daughter of an ambassador, who loses his position by the change of administration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-05
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Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy
Overview: Pauline Cushman leaves the theater to become a Federal spy. Working with Henry Holmes of the Secret Service, she escapes execution twice and helps Gen. Rosencrans in battle against Confederate generals Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-24
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Dixieland
Overview: A minstrel troupe is embarking for a tour of the South. Henry Clay appears on the scene wearing the frayed coat of a Confederate General. He borrows a guitar from one of the minstrel men and begins singing "Way down South in Dixie," and the story unfolds.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-16
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The Post-Impressionists
Overview: Dick Carew, the son of a soap-maker, and Dorothy Wilton, the daughter of a lawyer, meet in Paris, where they have gone from America to imbibe an atmosphere sicklied with artistic buncomb by the Cubists. The young man, visiting a cabaret, the meeting place of frowsy post-impressionists, is impressed with their windy theories, mainly denunciations of everything that common sense and decency understand. Dick is just ignorant enough about art to be impressed with this buncomb, and takes Dorothy to the Cubist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-12
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The Suwanee River
Overview: The poetic and sentimental theme of the old Southland song is the moving crux investing an interesting story of love and comedy daring the reconstruction period, south of Mason and Dixon's Line.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-05
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The Devil and Tom Walker
Overview: Tom Walker, a miserly man, is much beaten and bullied by his Amazonian wife, Dame Walker. The action of the piece takes place in New England, early in the eighteenth century, when the Puritans were still in power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-04
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Her Way
Overview: A good mother, dying, bequeaths to her daughter a well-worn Bible, beseeching her to follow its teachings day by day. Her father, a brutal inebriate, comes home and finds her reading the old book, snatches it from her, stamps upon it, and falls to the floor in a drunken fury.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-12
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The Ex-Convict's Plunge
Overview: Elton Gates, having served seven years for submitting to temptation with a bank's funds, is released. His uncle John sends him $500.00, with which to start life anew. He has hardly rested in a cheap lodging house when Detective Doolittle spies him and commences to make him an object of special scrutiny.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-29
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Into the Primitive
Overview: American heiress Jennie Leslie, the Honorable Cecil Winthrope, and the alcoholic Thomas Blake are washed ashore on a deserted island after a shipwreck. At first, Jennie sticks close to Cecil, preferring his upper-class British breeding to Thomas' man-of-the-people approach.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-29
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The Garden of Allah
Overview: When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-25
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Conscience
Overview: Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish them. In the main story, society girl Ruth Somers, a reincarnation of Serama, prepares to marry Cecil Brooke, the wealthiest man of her set. Her guardian, Dr. Norton, an incarnation of Lucifer, constantly accompanies her. Ruth is summoned to the Court of Conscience, where the witnesses, Lust, Avarice, Hate, Revenge and Vanity, testify about Ruth's history of seducing and abandoning men. This behavior resulted in the suicide of Madge, the lover of Ned Langley, whom Ruth enthralled and promised to marry, and also the deaths of two rivals for her love. Ruth is ordered back to earth to learn her sentence. When Ned interrupts the wedding, Ruth scorns him and he shoots himself. After Brooke leaves her, the Court dooms Ruth to live with the torment of remembrance. Ruth sends Norton away, and then kneels and repents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Monte Cristo
Overview: A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-03
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The Man with the Glass Eye
Overview: A society cracksman is caught when his dying victim pulls out his glass eye. There's a hint of Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty to the criminal mastermind of this WWI crime entertainment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-27
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Little Orphant Annie
Overview: Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor and tough cow-poke sees this and comes to her aid. Dave becomes her protector. Eventually Annie goes to live with Squire Goode and his large family. There, she entertains the children of the household with her stories, but sees her abusive aunt and uncle as her chief tormentors. She tells stories of how the goblins will take away the children if they are not good. Each story she tells is illustrated. War breaks out and Dave, who Annie adores, enlists. Uncle Thomp, hearing that Dave has been killed in action, takes pleasure in telling Annie the news. Broken-hearted, Annie falls ill and dies in bed, surrounded by family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-31
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A Fool There Was
Overview: A respectable businessman leaves his wife and daughter for the clutches of a cold, heartbreaking female.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-18
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The Sands of Time
Overview: A sorrowing mother, bereft of her infant, visits a foundling asylum and adopts a baby girl. The young window lavishes her love and care on the adopted infant and her environment is the finest. Father Time present the baby with an hour glass containing "The Sands of Time" which are all in the upper part of the glass.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-14
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The Last of the Duanes
Overview: Buck Duane is on the run after killing his father's murderer. He rescues a beautiful young woman from an outlaw, but the outlaw's wife has eyes for the young cowpoke and makes trouble for him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-24
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The Night Horsemen
Overview: Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale) after Dan is found wandering the desert as a youth. After he becomes a man, Dan wanders throughout the West, following the wild geese when they fly South every year. He finds trouble in a lawless town and wounds a rival gunman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-01
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The Carpet from Bagdad
Overview: Horace Wadsworth (played by Guy Oliver), one of a gang of criminals also planning a bank robbery in New York, steals the titular prayer rug from its Baghdad mosque. He sells the carpet to antique dealer George Jones (Wheeler Oakman) to fund the robbery scheme. But the theft places both men and Fortune Chedsoye (Kathlyn Williams), the innocent daughter of another conspirator, in danger from the carpet's guardian.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-03
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Ivanhoe
Overview: A disowned knight rescues an heiress and a Jewish woman from a charge of sorcery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-01
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Cowardice Court
Overview: A feud in the Adirondack Mountains develops when Randolph Shaw will not give up a shack and its acreage adjoining the estate of Lord Cecil Bazelhurst, whose wife, the former Evelyn Banks of Jersey City, married him for his title and now wants to get rid of Randolph's ugly shack. When Randolph meets Cecil's sister Penelope, a romance begins which is furthered after one of the Bazelhurst servants shoots Randolph in the arm for trespassing and Penelope, who earlier had looked upon the feud as a joke, runs away to Randolph's house and accepts his engagement proposal. Cecil and his men pursue Penelope, but are frightened away by Randolph's men and are forced to spend a miserable stormy night in the woods. The next day everyone becomes reconciled when Lady Evelyn realizes that the desired property will now be in the family, and Randolph offers Cecil and his men dry, if ill-fitting, garments to wear.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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