Henry A. Barrows
Also Known As: Harry Arthur Barrows, H.A. Barrows, H. Barrows, Harry A. Barrows, Henry Barrows, H.E. Barrows, Harry A. Burrows, H.A. Burrows, Henry Arthur Barrows
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saco, Maine, USA
Birthday: April 29, 1875
Deathday: March 25, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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His Majesty, Bunker Bean
Overview: His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-14
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The Man from Downing Street
Overview: Someone in India is deciphering secret codes and passing information from London's Downing Street to the natives, so Captain Robert Kent comes down from London to investigate. He disguises himself as a Rajah, and Colonel Wentworth introduces him to the colony.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-02
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The Ventures of Marguerite
Overview: As heiress to a large fortune, Marguerite is able to satisfy her love for beautiful clothes and a taste for adventure, while confronted by a multitude of schemers and gangsters bent on reducing her to poverty.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Amazing Impostor
Overview: Rich young Joan Hope is ashamed of how her father made his money--as a chewing gum magnate. While taking a train trip, she meets the Countess of Crex, a member of the Russian nobility--who is, in reality, a jewel thief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-02
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Rent Free
Overview: A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Yellow Men and Gold
Overview: Parrish, a young author, leaves his study during a storm to answer a call for help. He discovers a dying man and is rewarded with a treasure map, which he shows to Carroll, a retired sea captain. They plan a quest for the treasure; but before Carroll's ship sails, Parrish is drugged, relieved of the map, and thrown from the dock.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-20
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The Sunset Derby
Overview: After suffering a fall during a race, rider Jimmy Burke loses his nerve. But with the help of his girlfriend Molly Gibson, Jimmy regains his confidence just in time to achieve victory during the Big Race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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Mary of the Movies
Overview: Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-27
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The Footlight Ranger
Overview: Cowboy Bill sells his prize dogs to pay Janet's way back to New York and, in love with the girl, follows her to Manhattan where he obtains a job as a construction worker.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-14
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The Man Who Laughs
Overview: Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-27
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Law and the Woman
Overview: Although Margaret and Julian Rolfe are deeply in love, Rolfe has a bit of a past. At one time he had befriended Clara Foster, a woman of the streets. When he discovers that his ward Phil Long is about to wed Clara, he tries to stop him. But he finds that Long and Clara have already married, so he heads back home. When Phil is found murdered, Rolfe is arrested and tried for the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-22
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The House of Silence
Overview: A wealthy young criminologist Marcel Leviget is seen forcibly dragging his fellow clubman Dr. Rogers into a House of Ill Repute. In one of the back bedrooms of the bawdy house, an old friend of Marcel's, a prominent attorney, lies near death. Dr. Rogers is also acquainted with the dying attorney, and while Marcel's back is turned, Rogers discovers a distinctively designed hatpin embedded in the patient's heart.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-08
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Fires of Conscience
Overview: George Baxter presents his new wife, Margery. Paul Sneed, Baxter's neighbor, knew Margery before the marriage. When Baxter returns home unexpectedly one night, he finds Sneed and his wife together. As Sneed runs away, Baxter shoots and kills him. Both Margery and Sneed's father, Judge Randolph Sneed, witness the shooting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-25
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The Reckless Age
Overview: Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-16
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The World Apart
Overview: Bob Fulton is the superintendent of a mine in the West. He wins the enmity of dancehall owner Jack King when he saves one of the girls, Rose De Braisy, from his unwanted advances. Fulton also wins Rose's love, which he does not return. The mine's owner sends his troublesome son, Roland Holt, out West to work at the mine. Before Holt leaves the East he secretly marries Beth Hoover. Upon Holt's arrival, Fulton tries to befriend him, but Holt prefers the company of bad-guy King.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-04
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Burning Bridges
Overview: Bob and Jim Whitely are twin brothers. Bob, an army veteran who suffered shell shock in the war, escapes from a sanitarium and holds up the Express train, for which Jim is mistakenly arrested. Jim soon escapes from jail in order to find his brother. However, his task is complicated by a crooked sheriff who pins a holdup and murder on him that the sheriff himself actually committed. To make matters worse, the murder victim was Tommy Wilkins, the brother of Jim's fiancee, who now thinks that Jim killed her brother.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-30
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The Temple Of Dusk
Overview: Japanese poet Akira living in Tokyo, loves American Ruth Vale, who was placed in the care of Akira's father when her missionary parents died. Ruth returns Akira's affections until she meets Edward, but the American proves an unfaithful husband. Three years later, Ruth is gravely ill while Edward amuses himself with his new lover, Adrienne Chester, but Akira comforts the dying woman with the promise that he will protect her little daughter Blossom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-20
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The Little Irish Girl
Overview: Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, gets suckered into the game and loses all his money. He asks his newfound "friends" to come back to his hometown to buy the hotel. They accept but are actually planning to swindle Johnny's grandmother out of her hotel. It turns out that Granny isn't quite the easy mark they thought she would be.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-06
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The Claws of the Hun
Overview: An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-08
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Cobra
Overview: Rodrigo, an impoverished Italian nobleman takes a job with a New York antique dealer he met overseas. Swearing off women, Rodrigo focuses on his job. But complications arise when he falls in love with his friend's secretary-- and his friend's wife looks to make a date with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-02
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The Kibitzer
Overview: In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-11
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Captain Blood
Overview: Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
Genres: War Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-21
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Women Who Dare
Overview: Film directed by Burton L. King
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-31
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Atta Boy
Overview: Monty Milde, would-be newspaper reporter, stumbles into a high-profile kidnapping mystery.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-10
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Guilty Hands
Overview: A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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Footloose Widows
Overview: Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-19
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Three's a Crowd
Overview: Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his telescope and sends her by carrier pigeon a note that, alas, is received by the wrong party. The Girl marries and, poverty-striken, leaves her husband during a snowstorm. Harry takes her in, and minutes later her child is born. He works like a slave for the mother and child, pretending they are his own. Meanwhile, the husband finds her and comes to the shack on Christmas Eve as Harry is preparing to play Santa Claus. Not realizing the unhappiness she is causing him, The Girl thanks him profusely and leaves with her husband. Overcome, Harry sits overnight on the doorstep and the next morning is found frozen stiff except for his eyes--with amusing results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-28
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The Shock
Overview: A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-10
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Mistaken Orders
Overview: Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent at Bynes. He fires one of Tony Sharkey's henchmen, scheming against the railroad, and, as a result, a fight takes place and a switching order is overlooked which nearly results in a major wreck. Realizing the situation at Hynes, Helen Barton, Vincent's sister, dashes to Hynes in her roadster and puts together a severed telegraph wire to put the station back in communications with headquarters. Meanwhile, Helen's sweetheart, Tom Lawson, is fighting with Sharkey in a run-away engine and it is headed for an open bridge over a river.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-29
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The Lost Express
Overview: Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-28
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A Perfect Gentleman
Overview: Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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Jazzmania
Overview: The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-12
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Long Live the King
Overview: A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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Horse Shoes
Overview: A Monty Banks comedy that includes the 'Undressing in the Upper Berth' routine
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-17
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For Husbands Only
Overview: A sheltered young woman began a romance with a playboy, under the mistaken assumption that they'd get married. When she finds this isn't the case, she starts a feud with him which continues even after her marriage to somebody else.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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The Magic Eye
Overview: During World War I, John Bowman, the captain of a tramp steamer, refuses to allow his wife and daughter Shirley to accompany him on a long voyage because he fears that the ship may be torpedoed. Before his departure, he entrusts his life insurance policy to shipping agent Sam Bullard, who, unknown to John, once courted Mrs. Bowman. Shirley, a clairvoyant, has a vision in which her father's ship is torpedoed, and the next day, Sam reports that the ship has been sunk and John killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-01
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Crack O' Dawn
Overview: The Thompson-Thorpe automobile was once a great car but dissension between the owners led to the break-up of the company, and Thompson and Thorpe have each started their own car-manufacturing company. Not knowing his true identity, Earle Thorpe Jr. has been hired by Henry Thompson to drive his new car in an upcoming race. Unknown to Thompson has two crooked mechanic/engineers on his payroll who plan to make their own car, using Thompson's plans, and win the big race themselves. Etta, Thompson’s daughter, and Earle team up to re-unite Thompson and Thorpe Sr. by taking the best features of both cars and combine them into one super car.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-16
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The Right to Happiness
Overview: The story of twin sisters, one raised in Russia, the other in America, and how their lives diverge and re-entangle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-30
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Drusilla with a Million
Overview: Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. And someone else leaves another, and soon Drusilla, who always wanted a child of her, in now in charge of a large brood of children, and very happy about it. But there may be a problem; the real heir to the money shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-18
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Dangerous Waters
Overview: While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-10
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The Phantom Melody
Overview: Count Camello lives on his fine estate in Italy, near the home occupied by Sir James Drake and his family. Gregory Baldi, a parasitical cousin of the count, is courting Mary Drake, and although the count also loves the girl, he conceals his feelings out of respect for his cousin. When war breaks out, Camello enlists while Gregory convinces Mary's brother Oliver that Oliver has killed an opponent in a duel and that the only way to escape a murder charge is to disguise himself by going to war under Gregory's name. Wounded, Count Camello returns from the front and, after Gregory is reported dead, proposes to Mary. On the eve of their wedding, Gregory returns unexpectedly and, in dire need of money, buries his cousin alive in the family vault.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-27
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Hungry Eyes
Overview: Ex-convict Dale Revenal arrives at Dudley Appleton's ranch bearing a letter of introduction from John Silver, Appleton's old friend. Appleton hires Dale, who, through his winning manner, soon wins the respect of the ranch hands and the love of the ranch owner's daughter Mary Jane. Believing himself unworthy of her, Dale tells Mary Jane that he has a wife and child in Arizona, and she reluctantly agrees to marry Jack Nelda, a local rancher. Nelda realizes that Mary Jane is still in love with Dale and plots with Bessie Dupont and her brother Pinto to kill him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-11
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Sporting Youth
Overview: Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Rockford, daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-04
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The Wright Idea
Overview: A chipper young inventor seems to have a stroke of good luck when an eccentric millionaire gives him a yacht as a gift… but the “millionaire” is really an escapee from an asylum and the yacht is being used to smuggle illicit spirits by a gang of bootleggers. Can’t win ‘em all…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-05
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The Finger of Justice
Overview: To further his political ends and enrich himself, a political boss lets corruption run rampant in his city. A young couple sets out to expose him. This film is partially lost; only 34 minutes of 70 survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-21
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The Purple Cipher
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Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-11
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A Master Stroke
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-01
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Her Country's Call
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-01
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A Tailor-Made Man
Overview: A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-05
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