J.H. Gilmour
Also Known As: John H. Gilmour
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1857
Age: 168 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 24, 1922
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The Naulahka
Overview: Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel known as the Naulahka, which he plans to present to Mrs. Mutrie, the railroad president's wife.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-14
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The Last of the Carnabys
Overview: The affluent Carnabys have now dwindled in fortune and family, leaving just Lucy and her brother, Gordon in financial straits. Situations escalate as they struggle to pay their bills and deal with Gordon's gambling debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-22
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A Crooked Romance
Overview: Mary's supposed father, Syd, trains her to believe theft is justifiable. Caught robbing a man's house, Mary escapes and Syd is jailed. Mary begins working as a locksmith. When she meets the man again, will he believe she's changed?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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Democracy: The Vision Restored
Overview: A powerful financial magnate is plotted against by his greedy son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-24
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The Witness for the Defense
Overview: Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-14
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The Man Without a Country
Overview: Convicted in a revolutionary conspiracy, a man rashly states that he wishes never again to hear the name of the United States of America. The judge grants him his wish, sentencing him to life aboard a ship always at sea, aboard with sailors under orders never to let him hear of his homeland in any way. The punishment nearly destroys him, while changing him thoroughly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-08
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The Hillcrest Mystery
Overview: During a party held in honor of his daughter Marion, Thomas Sterling announces that he will turn over his shipbuilding plant to the United States government for the duration of World War I. Sterling wants Marion to marry his partner, Hugo Smith, but she prefers Gordon Brett, who proposes to her after the party. Marion's father catches the two in an embrace and orders Gordon out of the house. Later that night, Sterling is found murdered. Gordon is the principal suspect, but Marion refuses to believe he is guilty and hides him in the house. Later she discovers Smith sending a message to the Germans on a wireless hidden in the attic.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-29
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The Firing Line
Overview: Sheila Cardross Malcourt shares only a loveless marriage with Louis Malcourt, but is unwilling to divorce him even to marry the man she really loves, for fear of hurting her foster parents. Instead, she stifles her feelings for Garry Hamil and strives to maintain her marriage. But when tragedy ensues, she finds herself faced with a new dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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The Mark of Cain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-06
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The Woman in White
Overview: The lead Florence La Badie plays dual roles. Clever editing is used for the scene where her two characters meet. La Badie, however, does appear twice within a scene via superimposition, but that's in a flashback-within-a-mirror scene. There are a couple such scenes where La Badie's reflection in the mirror reflects her reflective melancholy mood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-01
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The House of Hate
Overview: A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-02
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Mary Lawson's Secret
Overview: Mary Lawson, on the run from a false murder charge finds happiness in marriage to a simple man until the day a villain from her past emerges and threatens all she’s built.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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King Lear
Overview: Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-17
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The Return of Draw Egan
Overview: A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.
Genres: Western Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-14
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Impossible Catherine
Overview: The head of the Kimberly household rules it with an iron fist. Unfortunately the head of the Kimberly household isn't Grant (J.H. Gilmore), the father and wealthy Wall Street magnate -- it's his spoiled, headstrong daughter Catherine (Virginia Pearson). She is so willful that she has earned the name "Impossible Catherine," and her whole focus in life is to prove women's superiority over the masculine gender.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-05
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Divorce and the Daughter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-03
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The Yellow Ticket
Overview: Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to degrade herself in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. She obtains a yellow passport, signifying that she is a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-26
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The First Law
Overview: When her surgeon father loses his fortune, Norma Webb (Castle) turns her family home into a boarding house.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-28
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The Soul of Man
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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The Kentuckians
Overview: Boone Stallard, elected to the Kentucky Legislature by a mountain district, clashes with Randolph Marshall, a Blue Grass aristocrat who is engaged to Anne, the governor's daughter. When a feud breaks out in the mountains between the Keatons and the Stallards, Boone returns home and with the help of Marshall restores law and order; later, Marshall obtains a commutation of the sentence of Stallard's brother, who has been condemned to death. Boone, now realizing the differences between a rugged, simple mountaineer and an aristocrat, decides not to ask Anne to marry him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-20
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The Fugitive
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-12
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The Whispered Word
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-15
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School Days
Overview: A naive young man raised poor in a small town, comes to New York City to make his fortune. Overwhelmed by the city's hustle and bustle, and entranced by the rich and sophisticated high-society types he comes into contact with, he eventually finds himself caught up in the city's seedy underworld.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-25
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Such a Little Queen
Overview: Queen Anne of Gzbfernigambia, who is betrothed to King Stephen of Hetland, flees to the United States with Baron Cosaco when a revolution breaks out in her country.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-28
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Over the Hill
Overview: The spread of yellow journalism in a small town almost destroys the lives of several people and threatens the livelihood of the hamlet itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-30
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The Woman and the Beast
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-17
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The Reunion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-23
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The Key to Power
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Mark of Cain
Overview: After old Trowbridge is mysteriously murdered, his nephew, Kane Langdon, is accused of the crime. Trowbridge's adopted daughter Alice makes every effort to prove Kane's innocence, but to no avail. When Kane escapes from the clutches of the law, Alice works with him to investigate the crime. They soon discover that Judge Hoyt, a great friend of Trowbridge and an ardent admirer of Alice, killed Trowbridge after forging the old man's will to read that Alice would only inherit his fortune if she married the judge. The judge, confronted with the accusation, becomes so unnerved that he confesses to the crime, and all ends happily with Alice in Kane's arms.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-04
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Love's Conquest
Overview: As described in a film magazine, determined that her son Francesco (Verdi) will have every advantage of a successful reign when he grows to manhood, Duchess Gismonda refuses all offers of marriage. A sudden danger to her son prompts her to offer her kingdom to the man who rescues the child. Almerio (Foote) braves the dangers of the lion's den to save the child, but because he is a slave the Duchess refuses to fulfill her vow. Gradually, she learns to love him, and after he assumes the guilt for a murder that she committed, Gismonda confesses to the crime and in the presence of her people makes Almerio her consort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-21
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