James Young
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1872
Age: 153 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 09, 1948
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Twelfth Night
Overview: When Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and separated, Viola dresses in her brother's clothes and becomes a page in the palace of the Duke of Orsino. Thinking Viola is a boy, the Duke sends her with a message to Olivia, whom he loves. A series of complications begins when Olivia falls in love with the page 'boy'
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-02-04
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Heartsease
Overview: Eric Temple is a composer whose rival, both in romance and work, is Sir Geoffrey Pomfret , a nobleman with few scruples. The woman they both love is Margaret, the daughter of Lord Neville. To get rid of his competition, Pomfret tells Lord Neville that his wife, Lady Neville, is in love with Eric. Then, when Eric is attacked by thugs and lays unconscious in a hospital, he steals his opera too.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-27
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The Violin of M'sieur
Overview: During the Franco-Prussian War, a violin teacher gets separated from his daughter. He spends years wandering across Europe looking for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-11
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-25
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Some Steamer Scooping
Overview: The Baron Lafitte is in love with and proposes to Adelaide Burton, daughter of Andrew Burton, a wealthy manufacturer. Clara Lane, a newspaper reporter, has been assigned to watch the movements of the Baron. She is further instructed to make a scoop of their movements. Tom Drake is in love with Clara, and is her persistent follower throughout.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-12
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Lady Godiva
Overview: The story of how Lady Godiva came to ride naked through the streets of Coventry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-20
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The Irony of Fate
Overview: Virginia Jameson, a girl of lovely disposition, is wooed by a man much older than herself whom she very much dislikes, but who stands very high in the favor of her parents. She might have married another man had not fate decreed otherwise. She meets and accidentally escapes the man she could have loved and would have married; she stooped to tie her shoe-strings, diverting her attention from him. Had their eyes met, both their lives would have been different. Leroy Farley, the man favored by her parents, prevails and she marries him. Her life is unhappy, notwithstanding his great riches and social prominence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-28
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The Hindoo Charm
Overview: Advised by his friends to seek a second wife so that his children, Helen and Dolores, may know a mother's care, Sir Edward Tilbury marries Phyllis, the daughter of Lady Olivia Gower, a leading social light in Calcutta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-17
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A Vitagraph Romance
Overview: After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the Vitagraph Company as an actress. After waiting wistfully for her return, Senator Carter passes a theatre one day and sees his daughter featured in one the "Movies". He goes to the studio and after being shown through the plant he finds his daughter and reconciliation takes place. Besides being an interesting drama, the picture shows in detail the entire plant of the Vitagraph Company.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-17
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The Portrait
Overview: Keen competition is aroused among a group of young artists in New York City by the announcement of a valuable prize for the greatest portrait of the year, six months being given as the time limit of the competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-10
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The Mate of the 'John M'
Overview: Jim, the mate of the ship "John M.," is in love with Mandy, the daughter of Captain Dale. Before she leaves for boarding school, she hurries to the ship to say good-bye to it, her father and Jim. Six years have now passed, and Mandy has grown to a big and handsome girl. As Captain Dale is going to make another trip, Mandy asks him if she cannot go along. Mandy's school chum's brother wishes to go also, and the Captain gives his consent. Jim grows a little jealous at the young man's presence on board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-04
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A Marriage of Convenience
Overview: Billy Emerson and Mildred Girard are secretly engaged to be married after Billy graduates from West Point and becomes a lieutenant. A very serious setback to their tentative understanding occurs when Mr. Girard loses heavily in a stock transaction that places himself under obligations to his friend Morley, whose son Paul, is anxious to marry Mildred.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-21
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Wanted, a Sister
Overview: In the college play, Tom and his room-mate, "Bunch," take prominent and successful parts, Tom as the hero and "Bunch" as the heroine, in which he is an excellent female impersonator. The day after the performance, "Bunch" makes an engagement to take a real chorus girl to dinner. Unexpectedly his mother comes to college to visit him and he makes Tom take the girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-22
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The Little Minister
Overview: To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by her parents. Fifteen years later, Gavin Dishart, the Little Minister, receives an appointment, his first, at Thrums, Scotland. This was made possible through the self-sacrifices of his widowed mother, to educate him for the ministry. The community of Thrums is made up of weavers, who work hard, have little and accomplish much. They are ultra-religious and look upon their pastor with such reverence that he is a little lower than the angels. While naturally intelligent, they are grounded in dogma and intolerance. Just after the Little Minister takes charge of the "Auld Licht Kirk" and the Manse, the weavers resent a reduction, by the manufacturers, in their pay and a strike is declared.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-13
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Up in a Balloon
Overview: The Simpsons go for a picnic in the woods. After luncheon, while mother and father enjoy a nap, Betty, their beautiful daughter, strolls away, picking flowers. When near a hillside, Betty sees a snake and screams. She starts to run away, but bumps into Billy Gilwater. He kills the snake and Betty calls him a hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-16
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On Trial
Overview: Robert Strickland, the self-confessed murderer of Gerald Trask, refuses to defend himself on the witness stand. His attorney, however, cross-examines Strickland's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-23
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Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy
Overview: Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-02
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Jerry's Mother-in-Law
Overview: Using hypnosis and two agents, Jerry manages to get rid of his mother in law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-15
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The Old Guard
Overview: A short film directed by James Young and starring Charles Kent & Clara Kimball Young.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-28
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Put Yourself in Their Place
Overview: A comedy short directed by James Young and starring Clara Kimball Young and himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-09
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Delayed Proposals
Overview: It is sometimes decidedly difficult to get a little privacy on shipboard. Several times Jack Hardy almost reaches the proposal point with Marion Van Sickles, but each time the fates are against him. Marion and her mother are on their way home from a vacation in Europe and board the boat at Liverpool at the same time as Jack, who is very much struck by Marion's appearance. After a little flirtation on the boat, he believes that his feelings are returned and is about to propose. Just then mama comes along with Count Brainlesse, whom she wishes to marry Marion. The proposal is postponed. Again and again Jack tries to come to the point, being constantly interrupted by someone, either the count or mama, or the grouchy owner of the deck chair he has taken. First the grouch, then mama, and then the count, get sea-sick and at last Jack has Marion alone. Alas, the time has not yet come.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-19
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As You Like It
Overview: After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-06
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Cherry
Overview: A convivial evening at Hoag's Tavern is interrupted by a young companion, William Fentise, declaring to the assembled company that he is very much in love with Sylvia, known as "Cherry," the beautiful daughter of Mr. Gray, a wealthy resident of their town. He conspires with some of the bolder spirits of the company to hold up the stage in which Mr. Gray and his daughter are homeward bound to the King George Inn, he will then dash up, drive the "robbers" away single handed and claim the fair lady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-05
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Lola
Overview: A scientist resurrects his dead daughter, only to realize she now lacks a soul.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-23
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Beau Brummel
Overview: In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell was the most talked-of person in all the world, the extreme of fashion, the personification of elegance and the most pretentious individual imaginable.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-19
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The Eavesdropper
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-28
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