Charles Newton
Also Known As: Charles Lindner Newton
Biography: Charles Newton (October 8, 1874 – 1926) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1915 and 1926. He was born in Rochester, New York.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 08, 1874
Age: 150 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 1926
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The Rattler's Hiss
Overview: A range boss learns to imitate the hiss of a rattlesnake for humorous purposes, but has occasion to employ this accomplishment with more dramatic effect when seeking to rescue the heroine from some bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-22
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Colorado
Overview: While in an army camp waiting to be discharged, Lt. Frank Hayden sees a fellow officer, Capt. Kincaid, attacking a girl. He stops Kincaid, thrashing him soundly in the process. However, to avoid a court-martial for striking a fellow officer, Hayden deserts and flees to the desert. He comes across Tom Doyle, who is stranded and dying of thirst, and takes Doyle back to his home. He meets and falls in love with Doyle's daughter Kitty.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-14
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Sure Fire
Overview: The rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about to be foreclosed and is defended by hired men with guns.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-05
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Western Speed
Overview: Lorimer is wanted for a crime he didn't commit, and "Red" has his hands full keeping the old man safe from the sheriff and his posse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-23
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Hair Trigger Stuff
Overview: Hair Trigger Stuff is a 1920 silent Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-05
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Wolf Tracks
Overview: Wolf Tracks is a 1920 silent Western
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-07
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The Crow
Overview: The Crow is a 1919 Western short.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-15
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Double Danger
Overview: Mr. Dawson can't pay the balance of a note owned by the villain, so the villain demands his daughter as payment.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-13
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The Two-Fisted Lover
Overview: The hero befriends a young school teacher, who adopts a child at his suggestion. The real father of the child, who neglected its mother and allowed her to die, tries to make the teacher believe the hero is its father, which brings about an interesting complication.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-20
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The Loaded Door
Overview: Bert Lyons returns to the Grainger spread from the "outside world" to find his former employer dead and the ranch in the possession of Calvert, a narcotics smuggler, and Blackie Lopez, a rustler who has his eyes on Molly Grainger, Lyons' sweetheart.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-14
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Tipped Off
Overview: Ranchmen try to play a joke on one of their associates by signing his name to a letter addressed to Sarah Smith, who has advertised in a matrimonial journal. A mix-up occurs on the day of the arrival of the lady when a younger woman, sent to buy stock, also appears on the scene and is mistaken for the prospective bride.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-27
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Superstition
Overview: The hero is affected in his daily life by petty superstitious fears, which gives the heroine an idea he is cowardly. She returns his ring, but later events prove his real mettle and she is glad when a reconciliation comes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-04
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Fight It Out
Overview: Cowpoke Sandy Adams overhears a plot to frame rancher Duncan McKenna for a rash of cattle rustlings and methodically turns the members of the gang against each other.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-11
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The Man With The Punch
Overview: The inaptly named Peace City is held in a grip of fear by the corrupt Sheriff Sellers. The benevolent, black-hatted 'Stranger,' who unexpectedly arrives in town, is in actuality an undercover Texas Ranger determined to restore law and order.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-18
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The Trail of the Hound
Overview: The Trail of the Hound is a 1920 silent Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-25
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The Saddle King
Overview: A broken-down cowboy applies for work at one of the Western ranches. The boss agrees to hire the wanderer provided he can ride an unmanageable horse. He consents, rides the horse and gets the job. In accomplishing this "stunt," he arouses the jealousy of the foreman, for the latter learns that the ranchman's daughter has seen the new-comer subdue the wild animal and is beginning to fall in love with him. To prevent this the villain accuses his rival of many misdeeds, but in the end is a victim of his own folly.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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The Fightin' Fury
Overview: A villain robs a safe in the town bank and leaves evidence to convict the hero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-05
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The Cactus Kid
Overview: A slicker sells a fake oil lease to Gertrude's father. Later the villain discovers that the lease is valuable, and to get it back he kidnaps the girl. Hoot rescues her in a thrilling fight on top of an oil derrick.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-26
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Who Was the Man?
Overview: Hoot appears on a ranch as a tenderfoot whose father wants to make a man of him. He falls in love with the rancher's daughter, but when all the cowboys rough him up without any retaliation on his part, the girls passes him up. She is just about to marry the foreman of the ranch, when Hoot shows him up as the head of a band of cattle rustlers, and discloses that he is not a tenderfoot but a Texas Ranger. Then the girl wants him back but Hoot gives her the laugh.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-16
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Bandits Beware
Overview: Bandits Beware is a 1921 silent Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-25
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The Movie Trail
Overview: The Movie Trail is a 1921 silent Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-09
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Overview: A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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On Secret Service
Overview: Nell, the marshal's daughter, and Frank Ketchell, the young bank cashier, are sweethearts. The romance has progressed through years, and has reached the stage where Frank has purchased a diamond solitaire which he plans to place on Nell's finger that night. James Whitmore arrives in town, representing himself as a Secret Service man. He tells Marshal Bertram that he needs his assistance in locating a gang of counterfeiters who have flooded the country with spurious coin. Nell and Whitmore meet and the girl becomes infatuated with the affable stranger. Acting on Whitmore's suggestion, Bertram secures all the money from the local bank through Frank, takes it to his office for Whitmore to examine for counterfeit. Meanwhile Bertram confesses to Frank that it is he himself who is the counterfeiter, explaining that he transgressed the law in days gone by that he might send his daughter Nell through college.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-05
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$50,000 Reward
Overview: Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be registered the next day, offers a $50,000 reward for Tex's capture.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-02
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Red Courage
Overview: Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is being urged to leave by a gang of thugs led by Joe Reedly. The pair give the editor $100 and get a bill of sale for the newspaper, only to find out later that Reedly holds a mortgage of $200 against it. This they pay off and start a campaign to clean up the town. They meet with considerable opposition until they enlist the services of Judge Fay.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-10
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Action
Overview: Three Outlaws came across a stranded baby and must decide to save the child or escape from the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-12
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Vanity's Price
Overview: Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goal of having her own theater. She is introduced to Henri De Greve, a millionaire who might help her, but she recognizes him to be her former husband, the father of her son, Teddy, and therefore refuses to have anything to do with him. The shock of seeing him is hard on Vanna, and fearing the loss of her youthful beauty, she visits a physician in Vienna to be rejuvenated. Vanna returns thoroughly changed and even invites the attentions of De Greve when she realizes his interest in Sylvia Grayson, Teddy's sweetheart. Teddy turns against his mother, Sylvia attempts to drown herself, and Vanna lures De Greve to her boudoir, where she discloses his past and gives him a beating with a riding crop. Sylvia and Teddy are reunited and forgive Vanna, who now recognizes the folly of vanity and accepts the proposal of long-time admirer Richard Dowling. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-07
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Snap Judgment
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Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-19
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A Woman's Daring
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-05
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The Profligate
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-11
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The Suppressed Order
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-14
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The Happy Masquerader
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-29
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A Modern Sphinx
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-15
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Alice of Hudson Bay
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-06
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The Sting of It
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-08
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The Senor's Silver Buckle
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-13
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The Iron Horse
Overview: Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
Genres: Western Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-04
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