Frank A. Lyons
Also Known As: Frank Lyons, Frank Lyon, Frank A. Lyon
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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A Short Life and a Merry One
Overview: An imp makes a tramp change places with a scarecrow who is permitted to roam about changing other scarecrows into living beings and having merry times with them so long as he keeps the magic wand in his hand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-06
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The Title Cure
Overview: Mr. Clayworth, a wealthy American and self-made man, has a daughter Bessie, who is determined to marry a foreign title much against her father's wishes. She has an American suitor, William Brooks, who is deeply in love with her but he is given little encouragement. Mr. Clayworth plans to discourage his daughter with nobility and accordingly goes to an employment agency where he engages three foreign menials to impersonate noblemen, supplying them with evening clothes and arranging to have them call at his house that evening. Bessie is overjoyed when she learns from father that three noblemen are to honor them with their presence. Father incidentally suggests that if the noblemen do not come up to her expectations to patch up her little quarrel with Billy and say no more about marrying a title. The fun begins when the three bogus noblemen present themselves at Clayworth's house as Duke Macaroni, Lord Brien Berue and Baron Hasenpfeffer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-15
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The Upheaval
Overview: Young Jim takes over from his father, political boss Jim Gordon Sr. As ruthless and unfeeling as his dad, Young Jim blocks the efforts by a crusading newspaper to bring about reforms in the city's tenement district. But he comes to regret his intransigence when his father is ruined financially.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-28
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The Money Kings
Overview: Three part chronicle of how the rumor of war triggers greed in some men and the comeuppance they suffer because of hubris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-15
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Mr. Toots' Tooth
Overview: A short silent film in which Mr. Toots miraculously loses his tooth. Mister Toots tries everything to cure his toothache. He eventually succeeds with a string and a book. Furious with the staff, he throws the book towards them, and is then freed of his sore tooth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-30
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The Magic Skin
Overview: Ralph Valentine, a penniless pianist, goes to Paris to pursue his career. He is attracted to two women: Pauline, the sweet and innocent daughter of his landlady, and Flora Margot, a woman of loose morals who runs with a wild crowd. Because of his irrational passion for Flora, Ralph makes a bargain with Satan, who gives him a magic skin which gratifies every wish and shrinks, along with the well-being of its possessor, in proportion to the number of wishes realized. Ralph tries in vain to rid himself of the skin after Pauline commits suicide because of his vices. Just as the devil comes to lead him into hell, Ralph awakes with the skin in his hands in an antique store where he had gone to buy a necklace for Flora. He throws down the skin, and runs to Pauline and professes his love for her, happy that he had been only dreaming.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-13
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The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement
Overview: An amateur detective's automobile is stolen by a young woman who is determined to elope, leading to a complicated chase involving several vehicles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-21
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Vanity Fair
Overview: "Vanity Fair" is a historical drama, based on the classic English novel written by William Thackeray, featuring Shirley Mason. Shirley Mason was 15 y.o. and played the role of the young Becky Sharp. Directors obviously took notice of her performance, because in 1917 she appeared in 17 feature films, in many of them playing the star role.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-05
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A Serenade by Proxy
Overview: A farmer’s daughter helps a farmhand win the heart of a cook by convincing him to serenade her, with unexpected results.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-29
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All on Account of a Transfer
Overview: Herr Müller needs to travel across town, but he runs into difficulties because he cannot understand English.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-26
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Opportunity
Overview: When Mary’s father refuses to let her attend a prize fight because he thinks it’s undignified for a young lady she disgueses herself in her brother's clothes which sets in motion a series of misunderstandings that almost wreck a marriage and land Mary in jail but all works out in the end!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Just a Song at Twilight
Overview: Wealthy Lucy Winter falls in love itinerant gardener George Turner much to her father's chagrin. In flashback we find there is a deep seated reason for his truculence, one that caused great sorrow to all. In time things are resolved after much soul searching.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-01
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