Carl Gerard
Also Known As: Carl Gerhard Petersen, Carl Gerrard
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Adult: No
Birthday: September 28, 1885
Age: 139 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 06, 1966
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Uncharted Seas
Overview: After her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the abuse and turns to Arctic explorer Frank, who has long loved her and promised to come back to her whenever she needs his help. A lost film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-25
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Leathernecking
Overview: Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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The Hole in the Wall
Overview: When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-12
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The Public Defender
Overview: A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Wild Bill Hickok
Overview: The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-18
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The Roadhouse Murder
Overview: After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-28
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The Vixen
Overview: In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond. She wooed Wall Street businessman Martin Stevens (A. H. Van Buren) away from his interest in her sweet sister Helen (Mary G. Martin). She continued to seek after rich men, eventually marrying young statesman Knowles Murray (Herbert Heyes) (again stolen from Helen) - but still willing to be unfaithful with Stevens who had since regained his fortune. (filmsite.org)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-03
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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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Up in Mabel's Room
Overview: Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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The Voice from the Minaret
Overview: Lord Carlyle governs a province in India. Although he weds the beautiful Adrienne, he can't make her love him. And no wonder -- he's not only cruel, he's unfaithful. Adrienne leaves him and boards a ship with the intention of returning to England. But on the boat she meets Andrew Fabian, who is studying for the clergy. They fall in love, and he convinces her to accompany him on a pilgrimage to Damascus.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-28
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The Little American
Overview: A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-12
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Sharp Tools
Overview: The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-12
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So This Is Love
Overview: So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-06
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The Love Piker
Overview: Hope Warner, a wealthy young woman, is arrested for speeding in her roadster and meets Martin Van Huisen, a young civil engineer who helps her. Hope falls in love with Martin, but when their wedding is approaching, she is self-conscious about Martin's father's poverty and doesn't invite him to the ceremony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-22
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: Dramatization of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel transplanted to America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-25
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The Secret Gift
Overview: Jan Saxe and Peter Harlingen, two young men from Holland, arrive in America with little orphan Bertha Kruger whom they have befriended during the trip and whom they both love. Bertha has come to live with her blind Aunt Sophie, and when Jan secretly raises $500 for an operation to restore her aunt's sight, Bertha marries Peter, believing that he was the donor of the "secret gift."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-20
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The Silver Horde
Overview: A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-09
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The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds
Overview: During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite sides, this time about compensation for the properties of Tories--colonists who sided with the British--during the war. Hamilton falls for Maria Reynolds, who it turns out is secretly the wife of prominent pawnbroker Jacob Clingman, a friend of Burr's. The pair conspire to destroy Hamilton, who is now Secretary of the Treasury and married to the daughter of a prominent army general, by making public several love letters Hamilton had written to Mrs. Reynolds.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-21
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The Great Reward
Overview: In the mythical kingdom of Lyria, two young Americans get mixed up in a plot to get rid of the rightful king, who at times loses his reason.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-09
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Too Much Business
Overview: Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes editor Matt Hayward's ( James Corrigan ) partner; and brings about a reconciliation between Hayward and his long time enemy, Mayor Gorham ( Lloyd Ingraham ).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-09
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