John Burton
Also Known As: J.W. Burton, John W. Burton
Biography: John Burton was an American actor in Silent films to 1920 (the year of his death).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wisconsin, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 07, 1853
Age: 172 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 25, 1920
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Hidden Pearls
Overview: Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in love with Enid Benton (Florence Vidor).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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Mile-a-Minute Kendall
Overview: Young Kendall struggles for acceptance in the eyes of his wealthy father, who sees him only as a layabout.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-13
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The World Apart
Overview: Bob Fulton is the superintendent of a mine in the West. He wins the enmity of dancehall owner Jack King when he saves one of the girls, Rose De Braisy, from his unwanted advances. Fulton also wins Rose's love, which he does not return. The mine's owner sends his troublesome son, Roland Holt, out West to work at the mine. Before Holt leaves the East he secretly marries Beth Hoover. Upon Holt's arrival, Fulton tries to befriend him, but Holt prefers the company of bad-guy King.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-04
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Big Timber
Overview: Stella Benton, a young society girl who has lost her beautiful voice through the death of her father, goes to live with her brother Charles, in the lumber camp. Charles Benton is having a struggle to make both ends meet, and when his cook quits, he makes his sister do the work for the hundred men in the lumber camp. Jack Fyfe, a neighboring lumber man, meets Stella and gradually falls in love with her, but love is not reciprocated. Seeing that she is being overworked, Fyfe offers to marry her, in spite of the fact that she does not love him. A child is born of this loveless marriage, and the couple are reasonably happy, until Walter Monahan, a wealthy lumberman, begins to make love to Stella.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-04
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In the Heart of a Fool
Overview: Laura Nesbit, daughter of old Dr. Nesbit and belle of the younger social set in the town of Harvey, plans to marry Grant Adams, the editor of the local paper, until she flirts with rising but unethical lawyer Tom VanDorn to arouse her beau's jealousy. A saddened Grant is drawn into an affair with town siren Margaret Muller, with whom he has an illegitimate son. On the rebound, Laura marries VanDorn and Margaret weds attorney Henry Fenn. History repeats itself when Laura's husband becomes infatuated with Margaret, which breaks up both marriages. Meanwhile, Grant has given up his newspaper to become a foreman in the mines. After he is injured in an explosion, Grant is taken to the Nesbit home, where Laura's care restores his health. When Grant's little son is shot and killed during a strike, he becomes so overwrought with grief that he confesses the boy's parentage to Laura, who forgives his past and they begin a new life together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-01
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The Bond Between
Overview: Pierre Duval is a night watchman at a museum of art who dotes on his art student son, Jacques. One evening at the museum, Pierre finds a highly valuable painting missing, and since Jacques had just left, he believes his son stole it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-02
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The Fair Barbarian
Overview: An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-17
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Huck and Tom
Overview: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-04
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Boston Blackie's Little Pal
Overview: While burgling a mansion, Blackie is interrupted by little Joey, who has been awakened from his slumbers. Blackie gently orders the kid to return to bed, but Joey refuses to do so unless Blackie helps him say his prayers. Thus is formed a strong friendship between Blackie and his "little pal," inspiring our raffish hero to rescue Joey's mother Rosemary Theby from a scandalous situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-26
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M'Liss
Overview: M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-05
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The Forbidden Room
Overview: Fulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an illegitimate child. His sister's mind has snapped and Gibson takes his sister and his baby niece home with him. The years pass and the niece has grown into a beautiful woman, while her mother is kept locked in a room that the young woman is forbidden to enter. Gibson and his wealthy neighbor, John Morris, are both interested in hypnotism, and one night the two men conduct an experiment by hypnotizing Gibson's niece. This film is presumed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-20
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Pinto
Overview: When Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the death of her parents decide that ranch life will never make a lady of her. Their old friend Pop Audry, formerly of Arizona and now a member of New York society, agrees to provide Pinto with the necessary education. Accordingly, Pinto and her cowboy nursemaid Looey are dispatched to New York where they lose Audry's address. ...
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-10
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The Whispering Chorus
Overview: John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-28
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The Tragedy of Whispering Creek
Overview: American silent short movie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-01
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The Scoffer
Overview: Dr. Stannard Wayne -- like all "good" men of the times -- is a God-fearing soul. He marries the former mistress of his friend, Dr. Arthur Richards, without knowing her past. Richards, an abortionist, resumes his affair with the woman and runs off with her. But before he leaves, he frames Wayne for one of the illegal operations he has done, and the innocent man is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out, Wayne has become angry and cynical.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Up Romance Road
Overview: An engaged couple, whose two fathers are millionaire ship owners, is determined to put a little life in their engagement by writing a threatening letter.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-24
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The Ghost Breaker
Overview: Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
Genres: Adventure Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-07
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The Making of Maddalena
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-08
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