Charles Byer
Also Known As: Charles Beyer
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 28, 1893
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 28, 1953
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Headin' Home
Overview: The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-18
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Horseman of the Plains
Overview: Tom Mix plays a cowboy coming to the aid of a rancher who's on the verge of foreclosure. Falling in love with Sally Blane, the rancher's pretty daughter, our hero vows to win an important cross-country race.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-11
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Shanghai Bound
Overview: Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-15
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The Pace That Thrills
Overview: Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him. He wrestles them away from her, then falls down the stairs and stabs himself. Due to the perjured testimony of the maid and butler, Paula is convicted of murder and sent to jail. Her son, Danny, grows up to be a movie star. There is a controversy surrounding him because he refuses to do his own stunts. The reason he won't take any chances is that he is using all his money to get his mother out of jail. Finally, to redeem himself, he agrees to participate in a charity auto race, but his mother's hearing is scheduled for the race day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-18
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The Trail of the Law
Overview: In Maine, a girl masquerades as a boy during the day after her mother is killed by an unknown assailant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-25
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Romance of the Rio Grande
Overview: Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico, specifically fabulously wealthy Don Fernando. Intending to bequeath his vast fortune and estate to his long-estranged grandson Pancho, Don Fernando must contend with his ne'er-do-well nephew Juan.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-17
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Cabaret
Overview: Gloria Trask, who has risen from a squalid East Side environment to stardom in Costigan's nightclub, is admired by Tom Westcott, detective, and Sam Roberts, a gangster with whom her brother is involved. Andy, threatened by the gang, is forced to pay off, and in a showdown in Gloria's dressing room, Andy shoots Roberts in self-defense. Gloria helps her brother to leave on a South American liner, while Tom forces Roberts' girlfriend Blanche to admit to witnessing the crime. Blanche insists that it was murder, but Tom forces her to admit that Roberts had a gun by accusing her of the killing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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New York
Overview: A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart (and Regan's lifelong pal) Mike Cassidy is about to marry Marjorie Church, pays a visit to Mike to offer congratulations. Convinced that Angie is fooling around behind his back, Regan accidentally kills her. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-30
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Unseeing Eyes
Overview: The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-18
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The Delightful Rogue
Overview: A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-21
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Side Street
Overview: Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Taxi 13
Overview: A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-18
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Red Riders of Canada
Overview: Mountie does battle with half-breed trappers.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-04
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Clothes Make the Woman
Overview: A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-04
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Molly and Me
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-01
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The Shock Punch
Overview: Dan Savage prepares his son, Randall to fight in the business world by having him trained as a pugilist. Randall shows a flare for fisticuffs, so he is taken to the Ironworkers Ball to try out his infamous "shock punch."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-25
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Red Hot Speed
Overview: A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
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Dead Man's Curve
Overview: A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our hero discovers this only after losing an important race, his boss chalks up the loss to Fairbanks' supposed cowardice.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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How Women Love
Overview: silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-15
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A Man Must Live
Overview: Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company. Job Hardcastle, the hardened city editor of the paper, sends Jeff to get a story on "Mops" Collins, a society divorcée who has been reduced to dancing in a cabaret. Jeff takes pity on Mops, who is dying of consumption, and takes her into his apartment, telling Hardcastle that he could not find her. Afraid of losing his job, Jeff hunts for a big story, finding it when he discovers that Clive Ross-Fayne, a friend he thought lost in the war, has been arraigned on charges of narcotics peddling. (Pamela Short)
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-19
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The Man Who Paid
Overview: In the desolated wilds is a Trading Post, to which Oliver Thornton went to seek obscurity after being falsely convicted of a crime in the States. Fate brought him a wife, a girl from the wilds, and soon a child, and all was happy until his prison record became known to a villainous trapper who used this information to turn Thorton's wife against him. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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Lost in a Big City
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-30
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Ten Nights in a Bar Room
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-11
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