Burr McIntosh
Also Known As: William Burr McIntosh
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Burr McIntosh (21 August 1862 – 28 April 1942) had an eclectic career. He was known, at different points in his life, to be a lecturer, photographer, movie studio owner, silent film actor, author, publisher of Burr McIntosh Monthly , reporter and a pioneer in the early movie and radio business. He was born in Wellsville, Ohio, the son of William Ambrose and Minerva McIntosh. His father was the president of a public utility, New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, and a member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. The club's activities were blamed (but the members were not held legally responsible) for the failure of the South Fork Dam, which caused the Johnstown Flood in 1889 that resulted in the loss of over 2,200 lives in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His sister Nancy McIntosh, an operatic soprano, was the protégée, adopted daughter and heiress to the estate and royalties of W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan. McIntosh graduated from Lafayette College in 1884, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He began as a stage actor and then moved into silent films. His most enduring role was Squire Bartlett, who banished the character played by Lillian Gish from his home and into the cold Maine winter in D.W. Griffith's classic film, Way Down East (1920). Miss Gish described McIntosh as a gentle giant, "always apologizing for having to treat me so cruelly…". He appeared in 53 films between 1914 and 1934. He died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack. Description above from the Wikipedia article Burr McIntosh , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wellsville, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 21, 1862
Age: 162 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 28, 1942
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The Richest Girl in the World
Overview: Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-21
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Way Down East
Overview: A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-03
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The Fourflusher
Overview: Young and ambitious but so far unsuccessful shoe clerk Andy Whittaker meets June Allen and tries to impress her by pretending to be an important businessman, she discovers his deception but before too long because of complications and luck good fortune finds its way to the pair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-08
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Sailors' Wives
Overview: Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride. When Hughes catches up with her and demands an explanation, Astor pretends to have fallen out of love with him and further convinces him that she has turned into a shameless hussy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-22
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Lilac Time
Overview: In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-18
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That Certain Thing
Overview: Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Camille of the Barbary Coast
Overview: For the sake of a woman, Robert Morton serves a prison sentence and is disowned by his father, Henry. He is freed after several years and arrives in San Francisco, California, where he meets Camille Balishaw in a Barbary Coast saloon. She offers Robert shelter and aids in his rehabilitation, but his prison record prevents him from holding a job. After Camille and Robert are married, he finds another job and gradually regains his self-respect. Henry has a change of heart and seeks out Robert, asking him to return home, but without Camille. Robert remains loyal to his wife, forcing Henry to relent as he realizes the depth of their love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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The Adorable Cheat
Overview: The daughter of a wealthy industrialist wants to take over the company when her father retires, but the father--an old-fashioned sort who doesn't believe that "girls" belong in business--is planning on leaving the company to her wastrel playboy brother. In order to prove to her dad that she can handle the job, she disguises herself as an ordinary "working girl" and gets a job in her dad's plant. There she meets and falls in love with a clerk. She brings the young man home to meet her folks, but during the evening the family safe is robbed, and all signs point to her new boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-14
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A Private Scandal
Overview: There is a sensational jewel robbery at the home of one of the leaders of the Boston Back Bay aristocracy, and a Count d'Alencourt is arrested on the basis of a long police record involving jewel thefts and later convicted. The story follows the activities of his accomplices who escape, led by Daniel Treve. Daniel and a gang-member hide out in a small Connecticut town, where Danny marries a local girl, Mary Gate, when her guardians try to railroad her in a reform school when she refuses to marry their son. She is the innocent means by which Danny gets the stolen jewels to New York. Danny tells her he only went through with the marriage to save her, and gives her money to live on until she can obtain a position. He them leaves New York determined to quit the rackets and make himself worthy of her. She then provides the way in which he can.
Genres: Adventure Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-30
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The Yankee Clipper
Overview: A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-07
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Command Performance
Overview: Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-19
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Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
Overview: The crotchety dean of Pinkham University blames the "bad behavior of the school's female students on a dress shop owned by Helene, and informs her he's shutting her shop down. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Napoleon has invented a plaster that restores youth. The dean accidentally sits on the plaster and reverts back to his younger days when he himself used to chase college girls. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-02
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The Buckaroo Kid
Overview: Mulford sends Ed Harley to manage Radigan's rundown ranch. He makes a success of it but when called to return, he asks Radigan for a loan. Radigan says he can have the loan but not his daughter, but Ed wants both.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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Skinner Steps Out
Overview: William Henry Skinner's young wife has great confidence in her husband's abilities and is ambitious for his success. He informs her of his importance at the office; but in reality he is an insignificant employee on a small salary, and when refused a raise, he hasn't the courage to tell his wife. Distressed at her husband's shabby appearance, "Honey" persuades him to buy a dress suit, and at a charity bazaar she pushes him to the front so that he dominates the affair and comes to the attention of the dignitaries. Skinner forces himself upon the attention of his employer and the employer's chief rival, whose admiration he wins when he bluffs him out of a poker pot. In spite of Skinner's efforts to prevent it, the rival companies are consolidated; and impressed by his spirit and enthusiasm, his superiors promote him to sales manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-24
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Overview: A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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Naughty But Nice
Overview: Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-25
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Fancy Baggage
Overview: In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-26
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Driven
Overview: Essie, a mountain girl, moves in with a family of neighboring bootleggers when her father, also a bootlegger, is killed by federal agents. She falls in love with Tom, one of the family's brothers, but another brother, the violent and brutal Lem, decides he wants her for himself, and beats Tom badly. What the girl doesn't know is that it wasn't the feds who killed her father--it was Lem. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-11
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The Last Warning
Overview: A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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Breakfast at Sunrise
Overview: While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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Once and Forever
Overview: Silent romantic drama starring Patsy Ruth Miller who suffers along with her beloved after he loses his sight during WWI.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-15
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The Average Woman
Overview: Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and eventually falls in love with her. Her father, Judge Whipple, doesn't like it; he has Jimmy arrested and allows him to see Sally only once a week. Meanwhile, disreputable businessman Van Alten is after Sally, and tries to pressure her into marrying him by threatening to release letters he says will embarrass her father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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The Green Archer
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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Me, Gangster
Overview: Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-20
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On the Banks of the Wabash
Overview: An inventor, David Hammond is the son of a ship's captain. He leaves his sweetheart, Lisbeth Bixler, and goes to the city to promote his invention. Lisbeth's father, an unsuccessful artist, deserts his family, secretly intending to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-22
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The Golden Stallion
Overview: The search for a lost gold mine hinges on a secret branded onto the neck of a great horse, White Fury.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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The Lilac Splash
Overview: A 1915 silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-01
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The Exciters
Overview: Ronnie Rand, Required to marry before she is 21 or lose her inheritance, Ronnie Rand meets Pierre Martel, member of a gang of thieves, and, convinced that he is a "real man," she marries him. Pierre's confederates attempt to blackmail Ronnie, and when she refuses to sign a check they try to kill Pierre; but police arrive in time to save him. Pierre is revealed to be a U. S. Intelligence Service agent. Ronnie, though somewhat disappointed that her husband is not at all a crook, accepts the situation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-03
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Restless Wives
Overview: 1924 picture directed by Gregory La Cava.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Overview: A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-25
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Across the Atlantic
Overview: Brothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter pilot. He is shot down in a dogfight, crashes and loses his memory and drifts around Europe. Years go by, and Phyllis decides to try to find him in France before consenting to marry Dan, who still loves her. Complications ensue.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-18
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A One Mama Man
Overview: Charley Chase on a boat with girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-06
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Pearl of Love
Overview: Adventures of a youth saved from a shipwreck. He is adopted and grows to love foster sister. A band of smugglers take foul means to connect him with their nefarious enterprises, but the exposure of the leader of the smugglers by another saved from the ship from which Moses was rescued brings a happy conclusion to the romance.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-01
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Fire and Steel
Overview: Terry O'Farrell pulls off several rescues in the course of the plot, whose locale is a steel mill, and Ann McGreagor uses her common sense to expose the villain's trickery and save the day for her sweetheart.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-12
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