Ernest Joy
Also Known As: Ernest C. Joy
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mitchell County, Iowa, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 20, 1878
Age: 147 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 12, 1924
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The White Man's Law
Overview: Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab chieftain. Entering into a business partnership with Sir Harry Falkland (Jack Holt), a notorious roue, Ghengle relocates to Sierra Leone, where he falls in love with French-Sudanese girl Maida Verne (Florence Vidor.) Upon proposing marriage, Ghengle is turned down and hotly demands to know why.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-06
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One More American
Overview: George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New York political boss Regan (H.B. Carpenter). Fed up with Riccardo's interference in his graft-grabbing, Regan pulls a few strings and arranges for Riccardo and his family to be shipped back to Europe. But our hero's cause is championed by muckraking newspaper reporter Bump Rundle (Raymond Hatton), who takes on and exposes the Regan political machine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-25
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The Inner Shrine
Overview: Bad woman turns good, but as a recent widow finds her past a roadblock in terms of accepting remarriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-14
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Forbidden Paths
Overview: Sato (Sessue Hayakawa) faithfully works for importer James Thornton (James Neill). When the old man dies, he leaves his daughter Mildred (Vivian Martin) in Sato's care. Sato loves the girl, but as he is Japanese he cannot hope to ever marry her (at least not in the racially prejudiced era of the early 1900s). Besides, Mildred loves Harry Maxwell (Tom Forman), who was raised alongside her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-12
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The Victoria Cross
Overview: Maj. Ralph Seton is a British army officer stationed in Cawnpore, India, when the Sepoy Rebellion--a mutiny of Indian soldiers in the Brtitish army in India--breaks out in 1857. He receives the prestigious Victoria Cross--the highest decoration that can be awarded to a British soldier--for his actions in battle. However, after a night of drunken debauchery, he is stripped of the honor and disgraced in front of his love, Joan Strathallen, the daughter of his commanding officer. When Indian rebel leader Azimoolah instigates an uprising by the natives and has Joan kidnapped, Seton sets out to redeem his honor and save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1916-12-14
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We Can't Have Everything
Overview: A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-07
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The Immigrant
Overview: Masha, a young Russian emigrant traveling to the U.S., is saved from an officer's advances by civil engineer David Harding. Upon landing in America, J. J. Walton, a self-made political boss and contractor, pursues Masha and hires her as his maid. She leaves after the first night, but becomes his mistress after Walton promises her an education and marriage. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-20
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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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The Firefly of France
Overview: The "Firefly of France" is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly disappears from view with a satchel of important government documents in his possession, his sister Esme Falconer is suspected of beings in cahoots with him. Dashing aviator Devereaux Bayne believes in Esme's innocence and accordingly dons civilian garb and heads to Paris' Latin Quarter to get the low-down on the Firefly's whereabouts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-23
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Rimrock Jones
Overview: Rimrock Jones is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already been cheated out of several valuable copper strikes, Rimrock nonetheless forges ahead optimistically, hoping to strike it rich just once more. Unfortunately, he can't find anyone to finance his latest expedition -- except for a pretty public stenographer who uses her life savings to grubstake our hero. When Rimrock finally hits pay dirt, he tries to repay the girl for her generosity, only to find that she wants to be a full partner in his copper mine. While he mulls this over, Rimrock's rivals try to bamboozle him out of his mine with the help of a sexy "vamp".
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-21
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The Squaw Man's Son
Overview: Hal, now fully grown, leaves his wife Edith and his estate in England to return to the land of his Indian mother.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-26
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Believe Me, Xantippe
Overview: George MacFarland, a wealthy young man who loves adventure, bets his friends Thornton Brown and Arthur Sole $20,000 that he can commit a crime and elude the police for a year. After he forges a check, George heads West and does escape arrest for nearly a year, despite the proliferation of police circulars bearing his name and his favorite expression, "Believe me, Xantippe." In a Colorado hunting lodge, he meets Sheriff Kamman's pretty daughter Dolly, who recognizes and tries to arrest him. According to the terms of the bet, however, he must be captured by a genuine officer of the law, which Dolly is not.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-02
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The Wild Goose Chase
Overview: Two American grandfathers in France try to arrange marriages for their grandson and granddaughter by promising them money. The young ones refuse and run off to join a theatrical group where they fall in love and marry as their grandparents had intended.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-27
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The Clue
Overview: Russian brothers Count Boris and Alexis Rabourdin obtain a Japanese coastline defense map and plan to sell it to German agents in London. In America, Alexis schemes to marry wealthy Eve Bertram, who loves him. Boris, meanwhile, falls in love with Christine Lesley, Eve's neighbor whom Eve's brother Guy, an amateur inventor experimenting with explosives, also loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-08
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The Heart of Nora Flynn
Overview: Nora is nursemaid to a wealthy family and in love with their chauffeur Nolan. When she hides her mistress' lover in her room, jealous Nolan shoots him and Nora, who refuses to tell about her mistress affair, is dismissed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-22
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The Dancin' Fool
Overview: Sylvester Tibble is a clerk in his uncle's restaurant. Sylvester dreams of becoming a famous dancer and tries to inject a little of the jazz life into his uncle's old-fashioned establishment. When dancer Junie Budd shows up at the restaurant, Sylvester sees a chance to make his dream come true.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-02
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Salomy Jane
Overview: When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangling with the man. Jack fights the ruffian and kills him. He escapes with the law on his trail, for it is (wrongly) presumed that he is also the man who held up the stagecoach. Salomy Jane comes to his rescue when he is captured and about to be lynched.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-02
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The Golden Chance
Overview: Despite her well-bred upbringing, Mary had disobeyed her family’s wishes and married Steve Denby, a petty thief whose penchant for booze has left them destitute. Mary answers an ad to be a society woman’s seamstress and is hired by Mrs. Hillary. Mr. Hillary is trying to close a deal with Roger Manning and entices him by inviting him, as a dinner guest, to meet the “prettiest girl in the world.” Upon learning that the “prettiest girl” is indisposed, Mrs. Hillary, realizing that Mary had good upbringing, enlists Mary as a substitute. Naturally Mary and Manning fall in love, and, since the deal still isn’t signed, the Hillary’s hire Mary’s services for the weekend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-30
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The American Consul
Overview: Country lawyer Abel Manning is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his oratory, he helps elect James Kitwell to the U.S. Senate. Kitwell has promised to reward Manning an important post. No job is forthcoming until a scheme is offered to the unscrupulous Kitwell by Pedro Gonzales. Gonzales plans a revolution in Mexico and needs a corruptible American consul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-02
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Cameo Kirby
Overview: Cameo Kirby is a 1914 American drama silent film directed by Oscar Apfel and written by Clara Beranger and William C. deMille. The film stars Dustin Farnum, Fred Montague, James Neill, Jode Mullally, Winifred Kingston and Dick La Reno. It is based on the play Cameo Kirby by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. The film was released on December 24, 1914, by Paramount Pictures.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-24
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The Call of the East
Overview: While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing a Japanese kimono. There she meets the wealthy Arai Takada, who is taken by the mysterious woman. Alan has dishonored and betrayed O'Mitsu, and her brother Arai plans a terrible revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-15
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Joan the Woman
Overview: A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-25
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The Woman
Overview: William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille's father Henry and David Belasco. The story is set in Washington D.C., courtesy of the Lasky Studio's scenic department. Lois Meredith plays the title character, a woman of questionable morals currently involved with young politician James Neill. Political boss Theodore Roberts hopes to ruin Neill by making public the young man's romantic entanglements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-23
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Chimmie Fadden
Overview: Bowery hooligan Chimmie is saved from false arrest by socialite dogooder Fanny. She takes in him, his brother and mother as servants. His brother schemes to steal the good lady's silver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-28
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Chimmie Fadden Out West
Overview: Chimmie is sent to Death Valley CA as part of a railroad scheme. He's to pretend to have discovered gold there, then set a new transcontinental record heading east. It doesn't quite work out that way.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-21
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The Devil Stone
Overview: Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy American Silas Martin marries her, then sets her up for divorce. She kills him and weds his business manager Sterling, but a detective learns about Silas' death.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-16
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Maria Rosa
Overview: Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fisherman Pedro, so Andreas goes to jail for ten years. Maria will wait for him, but Ramon convinces her Andreas dies in prison so she agrees to marry him. On their wedding day Ramon is paroled. Maria then stabs Ramon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-07
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Nan of Music Mountain
Overview: Henry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider with Duke Morgan's gang, cattlemen, and outlaws. Nan, daughter of the head of the clan, secretly loves Henry and when he is wounded in a fight with the Morgan clan, she helps him escape. This angers her father and he declares that she shall marry her cousin. Nan dispatches a message to Henry for assistance and he brings her safely to his clan. Nan then learns that her father was the murder of Henry's father. She returns to her father to learn the truth and together they go to Henry and reveal the murder's name. After a thorough understanding and forgiving, Henry and Nan are married.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-12
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The Country Boy
Overview: Tom, a young man in a small town, wants to marry his sweetheart Jane, but Jane's father won't allow it until Tom proves he can support her. Tom heads to New York City to make his fortune and prove to Jane's father that he has what it takes, but he meets and falls in love with Amy, a chorus girl who already has a wealthy suitor. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-18
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Armstrong's Wife
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-18
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Snobs
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-12
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
Overview: A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-31
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The Clown
Overview: Severely injured after saving the son of Judge Jonathan Le Roy from a team of runaway horses circus clown, Piffle is taken to recover at the Le Roy home where he falls in love with the judge’s daughter, Millicent. She however loves another, Dick Ordway and is secretly carrying his child. When he is reported to have perished in the desert Piffle steps forward to save Millicent’s reputation by being husband and father. Millicent agrees but the judge insists Piffle leave the circus and become a banker. Piffle acquiesces but when Dick reappears many complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-19
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His Punishment
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-14
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The Thief and the Book
Overview: Young thief “The Bat” to distract an old bookseller, while his partner, “The Fly,” robs the till, purchases a book at random. Later, after a chase and escape to the Devil's Roost, Old Meg's refuge for thieves, he takes the book from his pocket and is about to throw it aside when the title attracts him, "Electricity Made Simple." Intrigued, the volume opens a new life to him and in time enables him to rescue the bookseller’s daughter Bess when she falls into trouble.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-24
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A Sorority Initiation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-10
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Each to His Kind
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-05
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A Lady in Love
Overview: After Barbara Martin, a naïve young convent girl, elopes with her guardian's degenerate brother, Barton Sedgewick, she discovers that Barton already has a wife and child. Barton then deserts both wives, leaving Barbara to turn to her guardian George Sedgewick for advice. George advises an immediate divorce, but Barbara takes no action until she meets John Brent and falls in love. Upon requesting that George arrange her divorce from Barton, Barbara discovers that Brent is her guardian's lawyer. Panicked for fear of Brent discovering her marriage, Barbara's quandary is resolved when she discovers Barton in his partner Rhodes' apartment. Through Barton's carelessness, Barbara is able to obtain documents which prove that his first marriage was valid, thereby nullifying their marriage and freeing her to marry Brent.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-30
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The Goat
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-22
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