Arthur Donaldson
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Biography: Swedish born classical stage star Arthur Donaldson born in Norsholm, Sweden in 1869. A well-known stage actor and a light opera baritone singer. Moved to the United States in 1883 and began his stage career in the 1890's, he originated the role of 'The Prince of Pilsen' in 1903. Handsome performer who often played high class gentlemen in more than 80 movies, making his film debut in 'A Lad from Old Ireland' for the Kalem Film Co in 1910. During the early 1910's he returned to Sweden, appearing in operettas at Oscarsteatern and also made two Swedish films (one as director) before going back to America. He became one of the best regarded character actors of the World War I era including as a German General in 'For France' at Vitagraph Film Co in 1917, one of his most memorable roles was that of George III in D.W. Griffith's 'America' in 1920. In 1925 he produced and directed 'Retribution' an experimental sound film intended for a Swedish-speaking audience, ironically, sound ultimately put an end to his screen career, he returned to the stage permanently in 1927, making his Broadway directorial debut in 1934 with 'The Green Stick'. He died in Long Island, New York in 1955 age 86.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Norsholm, Östergötlands län, Sweden
Birthday: April 05, 1969
Deathday: September 28, 1955
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Gender: Male
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For Woman's Favor
Overview: A modern love story is the framework for a costume love story, based on Boccaccio's "The Falcon."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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The Land of the Lost
Overview: John R. Bradley, a wealthy ship builder, seeks a title for his daughter, Miriam. Mr. Bradley introduces Baron de Coverly, a fortune hunter to Miriam. The baron becomes an ardent suitor and after a short courtship Miriam consents to be his wife. They start for a long cruise on Mr. Bradley's new schooner, Carpathia. Captain Hastings is taking his son, Gilbert, a rising young artist, on the cruise. Miriam and Gilbert become friends and the jealousy of the baron is aroused. During a drunken frenzy the baron sets fire to the schooner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-01
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Find the Woman
Overview: This whodunit bears no relation to the 1918 picture of the same name, but both films coincidentally had the same director, Tom Terriss. When sleazy theatrical agent Maurice Beiner (Arthur Donaldson) is found stabbed to death in his office, just about everybody is a suspect -- there's aspiring actress Clancy Deane (Eileen Huban), who was one of the last people to see him alive, and Sophie Carey (Alma Rubens) who knows he has some love letters she wrote to Judge Walbrough (George MacQuarrie) before she married her alcoholic husband, Don (Henry Sedley). Or is it Marc Weber (Norman Kerry), who had a falling out with Beiner, or Weber's devoted wife, Fay (Ethel Duray)?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-02
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Danger Trail
Overview: John Howland travels to the frozen North to build a branch of the Hudson Bay Railroad. There he meets and falls in love with Meleese Thoreau who warns him that her three bloodthirsty brothers, Max, Pierre and François, have sworn vengeance against a man named John Howland, the son of a man who killed their mother, and that torture and death await him along the route to his station.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-30
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Runaway June
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-13
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Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Overview: General Wolfe, appointed commander of the expedition against Quebec, comes to bid his mother goodbye. Before sailing, the general calls upon his sweetheart, Katherine Lowther. She presents him with a locket containing a miniature of herself. Wolfe places the jewel on a chain about his neck. Mignon Mars and her brother, Hubert, of a Canadian family, are captured by a body of men attached to the Royal Americans. Lieutenant Arleigh, the officer in charge, secures their release. Mignon loses her heart to the young officer. General Montcalm arrives at Quebec and takes command of the French forces.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-25
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The Blind Basket Weaver
Overview: Paul, a blind basket weaver, plies his trade at a small seaside village. Anna, a cripple, is madly in love with the handsome young man. He does not know of her deformity and Dolly, who also loves him, is too tender-hearted to tell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-25
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The Bribe
Overview: John Dickson, millionaire candidate for mayor, is in love with Dora Malcom, a society girl. He finds, however, that she is engaged to marry Frank Stevens. He hides his grief and promises to be best man at the wedding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-08
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The Padrone's Plot
Overview: Tony Vallenci, just over from Italy, is offered a job by Pietro Valli, an unscrupulous padrone. Ignorant of American money, Tony signs a contract calling for a wage of sixty cents a day. He goes to work in a quarry owned by Dodge. The following day Tony is knocked down by an auto containing Mrs. Dodge. He is uninjured, but the kind lady takes him to his home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-01
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Old Lace
Overview: Old Lace is a 1931 Musical short.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-04
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Babbling Tongues
Overview: When elderly Joseph Moreau and his young wife Therese offer refuge to starving young dramatist Paul Savary, gossips begin to spread rumors of a love affair between the wife and the writer. For the good of all concerned, Paul moves into separate quarters. One day Paul overhears the gossip again at a café and challenges the purveyor of the lie to a duel. Moreau, for his own satisfaction, takes Paul's place in combat and is mortally wounded. Moreau staggers to Paul's apartment where he discovers Therese, who has come to beg the writer to refuse to fight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-13
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Over the Top
Overview: The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an American volunteer with the British Army on the Western Front.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1918-03-31
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Miss Dulcie from Dixie
Overview: To receive the $5,000 promised in her Uncle Stephen's will, Dulcie Culpepper must live with her Uncle John in New York for six months so that her father, a Confederate colonel, will be reconciled with his brother whose marriage to a Northern woman long ago caused a breach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-24
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The Broadway Drifter
Overview: Bob Stafford, the wastrel son of a wealthy businessman, is disowned by his father for his reckless and irresponsible ways. He changes his name and opens a gym for wealthy young girls, hoping to land a rich and pretty wife. He meets and falls for pretty young Eileen, but a rival soon drives him out of the gym business. He gets a job in an airplane factory owned by Eileen's father, who is soon told by a rival that Bob is really out to steal a new airplane invention so he can give it to his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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Atonement
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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Mothers of Men
Overview: Young Austrian girl Marie Helmar, is left penniless by the death of her father and disgraced by Prussian officer Captain Von Pfaffen, she flees to the safety of her French cousins, the De La Mottes. There she falls in love with their eldest son Gerome. On the night before their wedding, Marie sends a letter to Gerome confessing her indiscretion with the Prussian, but the letter is returned unopened. Soon after, she recognizes a new household servant to be Von Pfaffen, who demands that Marie disclose war secrets in return for his silence about her past. Torn, she passes on false information, which disgraces the Prussian. In revenge, he attempts to kill Marie, but she shoots him in self-defense. Shaken by remorse, Marie presents Gerome with her confession, which, he then reveals, he had read the night of their wedding. Their life thus unclouded, Marie announces she is expecting Gerome's child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-10
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Who Goes There?
Overview: During World War I, Kervyn Guild, an American citizen who was born in Belgium, is captured with other Belgian refugees by the Germans. Brought before the commanding officer, General Von Reiter, Guild is offered his own freedom as well as that of the other refugees if he goes to London and returns with the officer's daughter, Karen Girard, who actually is his mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-24
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The ABC of Love
Overview: Romance between the playwright Harry Bryant and the homeless and illiterate Kate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-14
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The Swan
Overview: The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-16
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
Overview: Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-15
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Enlighten Thy Daughter
Overview: Lillian Stevens was raised without care, attention, or education on the ways of the world. When she becomes pregnant by the reckless Harold Winthrop, her mother takes her to an abortionist. Harold then falls for Ruth Stevens, raised by an attentive and loving mother, who is not so easily taken advantage of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-28
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Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Overview: Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps herself to everything of her sister's, be it her clothes or her men - even the money entrusted to her by fellow employees at the store they work at. Regardless, Mame can't break her promise. So when it comes to getting Janie out of trouble, big sister comes to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-19
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School for Wives
Overview: School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It provided an early role for the future star Brian Donlevy. Based on Leonard Merrick's 1907 melodramatic novel The House of Lynch, it was not well-received by critics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-05
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The Bandolero
Overview: When his wife is killed by the evil Marques de Bazan, Spanish army officer Dorando becomes a notorious outlaw known as El Bandolero. He kidnaps Bazan's son Ramon and has him raised by one of his own men. When Ramon grows up to be a man he meets and falls in love with El Bandolero's beautiful daughter Petra. Bandolero forbids his daughter from seeing Ramon, so Ramon leaves to become a bullfighter. A vengeful young woman he has spurned sets up Ramon to be gored by a vicious young bull. Complications ensue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-20
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The Moth and the Flame
Overview: A bride who discovers during her wedding ceremony that her husband-to-be has fathered a child out of wedlock with another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-13
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The Lad from Old Ireland
Overview: A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-23
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Fifty-Fifty
Overview: Shortly after his marriage, a millionaire begins an affair with another woman. His wife tries to win him back by starting an affair herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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The Colleen Bawn
Overview: A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he marries his rich cousin.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-16
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Yolanda
Overview: The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves, Prince Maximilian of Styria. But when the Swiss threaten war, the duke is compelled to take back his word and he arranges for Mary to wed the half-witted dauphin of France's King Louis XI .
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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Rory O'More
Overview: Based on the story of the real-life 17th Century Irish rebel and the eighteen century ballad about him, this one-reeler is one of the Kalem pictures shot by Olcott and his company on their second trip to the Emerald Isle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-03
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His Mother
Overview: An Irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son, a talented musician, to study in America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-25
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America
Overview: The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-21
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The Passionate Pilgrim
Overview: An innocent man goes to prison for obstruction of justice when his wife refuses to reveal that her father was killed by her mother (and it wasn't suicide). When he is finally released, he meets and becomes involved with a young woman who belongs to the town's influential elite. Once again, he finds himself caught up in intrigue - which eventually leads to his exposing the mayor of the town as corrupt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-02
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The Ghost of Twisted Oaks
Overview: Mary Randall, who has just lost her job, is taking care of her widowed mother. Mary learns that her late uncle has left her part of his estate. She and her mother move to Florida to live on the Twisted Oaks Plantation. Mary meets her neighbor, Jack Carleton, and the two fall in love. The workers on the plantation believe in voodoo. The Voodoo Priest incites the superstitious workers. Mary orders him off the plantation, and he vows revenge.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-11
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The Faded Flower
Overview: Lillian Hill, a poor stenographer, sacrifices her romance with an equally poor playwright, Henry Parker, to marry her boss Wilbur Mason. She does this only so that she will have the means to pay for surgery to restore her mother's sight. But the surgery is unsuccessful, and her coldness towards Mason arouses his jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-26
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The Winning Oar
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-01
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Three Weeks
Overview: A young English nobleman is sent to Switzerland by his parents, where he meets a mysterious older woman with whom he has a torrid three-week romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-08
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Should a Baby Die?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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Gilded Lies
Overview: When Keene McComb, a young explorer on an expedition to the North Pole, is given up for lost, his fiancée, Hester Thorpe, is coerced by an ambitious aunt into marrying Martin Ward, a man of reputed wealth. McComb survives, however, and returns to New York a few hours after the marriage. Later, Hester seeks his protection when Ward strikes her because of her refusal to ask McComb for money, and when it appears that Ward has committed suicide she and McComb are married. Ward is still alive, however, but he meets his death on a rocky precipice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-04
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Me and Captain Kidd
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-03
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Her American Prince
Overview: A young American doctor and his brother are involved in an auto accident in a foreign country. The doctor happens to catch a glance of a beautiful princess and falls immediately in love. Meanwhile, in a neighboring country, the princess' husband--a spoiled wastrel who happens to look just like the doctor--is in pursuit of a courtesan. The doctor overhears a group of army officers plotting to kill the king and put the prince on the throne. Unfortunately for the doctor, the plotters mistake him for the prince.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-13
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Mind the Paint Girl
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-10
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The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
Overview: Kathleen, the daughter of a fisherman meets Henry, the son of a Wall Street Broker, her father forbids their relationship, Kathleen defies her father, and travels to New York to be reunited with Henry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-17
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A Modern Salome
Overview: When her father's death leaves Virginia Hastings facing a life of poverty, she breaks her engagement to Robert Monti to marry millionaire James Vandam. Unaccustomed to wealth, she entertains lavishly and flirts with many men, although her husband's secretary remains immune to her wiles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-04
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The Undercurrent
Overview: Jack Duncan returns from the war in France to his wife and baby and learns that his job as a draftsman at the Loring Steel Mills has been taken. Given work in the machine shop, Jack becomes the prey of Red agitators who want him because of his popularity with soldiers. The Reds cause Jack's discharge just when his house payments come due, and when they convince him of the injustice of his situation, he joins their ranks. After learning of plans to burn the factory and Loring's home, and start a riot in the town, Jack is won over by a socialist's arguments advocating mild reforms. At a meeting of workingmen, Jack praises Americanism. He warns Loring and, with soldiers at a nearby camp, quells the riot. After a woman agitator kills her comrades and then shoots herself, Jack arrives home to save his wife from an attack by a Red ringleader. Jack is then made a foreman at the mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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