William Bechtel
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: June 12, 1867
Deathday: October 27, 1930
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Baby and the Stork
Overview: Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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Every Woman's Longing
Overview: Tony, a prosperous Italian vineyardist in California, advertises for a young wife, passing off a photograph of his handsome hired man, Buck, as himself. This film is the alternate German version of A Lady to Love (1930)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-05-17
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Spite Marriage
Overview: An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-24
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Meddling Women
Overview: Grace Ainsworth wants to return to her career as an opera singer, and her mother-in-law supports her. Grace's husband, Edwin, wants her to stay at home and to convince her, he relates the story of his latest play about a man who allows his wife to return to the stage. Edwin comes to believe that Grace is in love with Harold Chase, a manager, and the couple separates. Edwin has an affair with a dancer, Madeline, and he winds up in a fight with her dancing partner, Vincenti, which causes him to lose his memory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-15
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Love in a Hurry
Overview: The son of an American mine owner, traveling under the name of Charles Conant, tries to enter England in 1916 after masquerading as a muleteer, but the captain of his ship, suspicious when he sees Charles look through a spyglass, plans to take him back to the United States. Charles escapes and visits his relative, Lady Dartridge, where he falls in love with her daughter, Lady Joan Templar, who is loved by her cousin, the chief constable, George Templar. Templar, suspicious of Charles' manner and unexplainable meetings and activities, wants to arrest him as a spy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-13
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The Social Lion
Overview: Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-21
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The Portrait in the Attic
Overview: Viola Dana stars as the child of a widower who marries again, much to her dismay. Despite all attempts by the adults, the child refuses to accept her new step-mother
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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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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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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For His Son
Overview: A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a success, but the son becomes addicted to it, much to his father's regret. Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-21
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The Butler and the Maid
Overview: Jennie, a coquettish housemaid, flirts with the grocer's delivery boy and thereby incites the jealousy of her sweetheart, Frank, the butler. Frank goes to his station in the hall and, in his anger, tells the marble statue that is a part of the furnishings of the handsome home, that his sweetheart is as cold as the stone of which it is made. He quiets down, and as he is not very busy, soon becomes drowsy, and dreams that the statue comes to life and goes with him to a ball. While they are walking along the street, a policeman meets them and questions Frank. He gets frightened, they run and as they rush back into the hall, the statue falls and breaks into a thousand pieces. His sweetheart comes down the steps and wakes him up and tells him to answer the bell. Frank's surprise at seeing the statue whole is plainly shown and his delight that is has all been a dream causes him to make up with his sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-26
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The Old Guard
Overview: A veteran of the Napoleanic Wars recounts his memories and grants his blessings upon the marriage of his granddaughter and a young soldier.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-17
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An Absent-Minded Mother
Overview: Mrs Grayson accidentally leaves her baby son at a shop and flies into a panic when she returns home to find him missing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-28
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-23
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The House of Fear
Overview: On the advice of his friend Pendleton, Ashton Kirk, a scholar and amateur detective, pays a visit to a house whose occupants, Charles Cramp and his sister Grace, complain of strange happenings involving Mexicans. Discussions with Ashton's agent in Mexico reveal that Cramp's father was once an engraver, who, in desperate need of cash, had agreed to supply Alva, a notorious thief, with forged currency plates. After a change of heart, Cramp refused to deliver the plates to Alva, and now Cramp's aunt, Miss Hohenlo, has come to her brother's home to find them herself. The clever Ashton realizes that the Mexicans are cohorts of Alva's and eventually uncovers an elaborate signalling and tunnel system used by Miss Hohenlo and Alva to locate the missing plates. Deciphering a message announcing the time and place of the arrival of the Mexicans, Ashton and his aides hide themselves in the house cellar, capture the thieves and destroy the plates.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-03
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A Letter to Uncle Sam
Overview: Uncle Sam is mistaken for Marion's uncle Sam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-05
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The Sphinx
Overview: Unbeknownst to each other, Charles Macklin and his widowed father Arthur are having an affair with an exotic dancer called The Sphinx. When both come to see her at the same time, Charles gets upset, denounces the Sphinx, and is knocked out by Arthur. Arthur then decides to marry the Sphinx, while Charles then resumes his affair with Frances, to whom he was engaged before he met the Sphinx.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-14
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The Woman Next Door
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-01
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Ashes of Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-15
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Her Boy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-28
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One Day
Overview: An assassination attempt is made on the life of Paul I, the infant King of Veseria, by Stefan, a henchman of Pavlovitch, the Regent, who wishes to take over the kingdom. Paul's bodyguard, Dimitri, foils the plot, but Pavovitch is told the attempt was successful and proclaims himself King. Dimitri takes the boy king to England to the home of his rightful father, Paul Verdayne. Twenty years passes, and Pavovitch finds himself the ruler or a bankrupt and rebellious country. To save her father's throne, Opal, his daughter consents to becoming the bride of the Prince of Argone, an elderly man with a bad reputation.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-01
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The Echo of Youth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-16
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The Lurking Peril
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Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-15
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