Howard Davies
Also Known As: Howard O. Davies, Howard Davis, Mr. Davies, Mr. Davis
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK
Birthday: May 18, 1879
Deathday: December 30, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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One Hour Before Dawn
Overview: When a hypnotist named Norman Osgood mesmerizes a man named Harrison Kirke without his consent, Kirke threatens to kill him. Afraid for his life, Osgood hypnotizes another man named George Clayton and tells him he must murder Mr. Kirke one hour before the arrival of the dawn. Kirke is found murdered the next day, and Clayton starts to believe he was the murderer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-11
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The Rug Maker's Daughter
Overview: Bob Van Buren's rescue of an upper-class Turkish girl and her duenna in Constantinople when they are waylaid by robbers paves the way for a romance between them. The romance progresses rapidly despite the hullabaloo raised by Demetra's father and by the Turk fiancé he is trying to force upon her; but the very thought of a girl, so highly educated, so gifted with needle and loom, so famously graceful as a dancer ending up in a harem instead of a respectable home, drives Bob Van Buren to desperation.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-05
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Madame la Presidente
Overview: Mademoiselle Gobette, a pretty young actress, visits the offices of the Minister of Justice, Cyprienne Gaudet. Simultaneously, Madame Galipaux arrives to speak to the Minister on behalf of her husband. Gaudet mistakes Madame Galipaux for the new cleaning woman, and Mademoiselle Gobette for Madame Galipaux, leading to farcical complications when Monsieur Galipaux arrives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-06
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The Sin Flood
Overview: Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof doors as a safeguard against an overflow of the river; when a flood comes, it appears that the entire town will be submerged. Trapped in Stratton's cafe, amongst others, are Billy Bear, a young broker, and Poppy, a chorus girl with whom he has been in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-12
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The Parson of Panamint
Overview: A tough preacher comes to the rip-roaring gold town of Panamint in hopes of reforming it. But disaster awaits.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-03
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Auction of Souls
Overview: A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.
Genres: Drama Romance War History
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-01-19
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
Overview: An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Sapho
Overview: The classic story of a flower girl from the slums who becomes Sapho.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-11
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Davy Crockett
Overview: The story of the famous Tennessee frontiersman, soldier, scout, and Congressman who fought and died at the Alamo.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-16
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Lassie Come Home
Overview: Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling to remain apart from young Carraclough son Joe and sets out on a long and dangerous journey to rejoin him.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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It's a Bear
Overview: As an entomologist and all-around wimp, Orlando Winthrop gets little respect from his wealthy parents. But when business needs to be taken care at the Winthrop sheep ranches out West, Orlando is raring to go. Upon his arrival, the ranchers see Orlando as an easy mark, but it turns out they're wrong. They try to take Orlando's money in a poker game -- and wind up broke themselves.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-16
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The Spanish Jade
Overview: In a provincial Spanish town, during the mid-nineteenth century, Manuela is sold as a dancing girl to a strolling musician. In their wanderings, she meets Don Bartolome, who left his poor father Don Luis to become a highwayman. Bartolome falls in love with Manuela and takes her with him after killing the musician. When they meet Osmund Manvers, an English squire, Bartolome wants to use Manuela to rob him, but Manvers rescues Manuela from a gang of drifters and carries her into the country. Later, Manuela stabs and kills Bartolome after he threatens her. Manuela flees and Manvers searches for her. When Don Luis learns about Bartolome's death, he challenges Manvers to a duel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-11
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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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The Two Fister
Overview: Cobb plays a Mountie called Field, who protects a girl from Jackson Rasker, the leader of an outlaw gang. Field falls for the girl, but her father's dying wish is that she should marry Rasker, who will stop at nothing to get the gal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-07
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Cavalcade
Overview: A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-08
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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The Gentleman from Indiana
Overview: After a spectacular college football career, John Harkless leaves the university to pursue a place in Indiana politics. He buys the failing Plattville Herald and, using the newspaper to expose various illegal activities, sets out to rid the county of all mobsters and corrupt officials.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-28
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The Verdict
Overview: After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-23
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The Call of the Cumberlands
Overview: An aspiring New York painter returns home to the Kentucky mountains to settle a feud between two rival families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-23
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His Birthright
Overview: Yukio is illegal in the United States and is used by a gang of spies for their plans. Yukio must steal secret documents from an admiral. When he's submitting the documents to the gang, he realizes what he has done and claims the documents back. A struggle follows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-08
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The Lady Objects
Overview: A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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My Son, My Son!
Overview: A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-21
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The Woman Disputed
Overview: An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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Infatuation
Overview: Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Viola Morgan falls madly in love with professional soldier Sir Arthur Little at a dinner party. The two marry, and before long Viola has relocated to Egypt with her husband. Soon bored by her hothouse existence, Viola succumbs to the attentions of young British attache Ronald Perry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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The Heart of Paula
Overview: When mining engineer Stephen Pachmann (Jack Livingstone) is sent to Mexico to investigate a mine, his wife Paula (Velma Lefler) is so miserable that her brother, Bruce McLean (Forrest Stanley) offers to go in his place. While south of the border, Bruce gets involved with an aristocratic Spanish girl, Paula Figueroa (Leonore Ulrich).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-03
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A Sporting Chance
Overview: A young lady takes on a convict as her chauffeur, believing him to be a burglar. In reality, however, he is an innocent broker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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The Intrigue
Overview: A sci-fi/espionage film in which world powers vie for control of a death ray during World War I as an undercover countess infiltrates enemy ranks to prevent them from getting their hands on the weapon.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-09
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Devotion
Overview: In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-05
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Kilmeny
Overview: Little Doris Calhoun, of a wealthy English family, makes a playmate of Pierre, a crippled gypsy boy, and drifts away with him and the gypsy band on their wanderings and is seen no more. In twelve years she becomes a great favorite with the gypsies, who have named her Kilmeny, but rather than be married to a brutal fellow, Barouche, she flees the camp.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-22
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The Man Who Laughs
Overview: Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-27
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He Fell in Love with His Wife
Overview: A widowed farmer, failing in his efforts to find a woman capable of running his household, decides to marry a young woman he believes can fill the bill. Wat he doesn't know is that she is running away from a brutish and violent husband, whom she has discovered is also a bigamist, and that her angry and vengeful husband is looking for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-17
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Hearts or Diamonds?
Overview: Wealthy diamond collector Larry Hanrahan is given the opportunity to assist the beautiful, jewel-bedecked woman he admires in a Broadway café when she and her guardian are attacked by robbers. Larry is invited to visit the grateful pair, Col. Paul Gascoyne and his ward Adrienne, at the colonel's laboratory, where he is introduced to Wintermute, a chemist who produces imitation diamonds. In return, Larry asks them to view his priceless diamond collection. Although he has fallen in love with Adrienne, Larry is forced to believe that she is a thief when he is robbed by a woman wearing Adrienne's scarf. Larry finds his jewels in Gascoyne's house, but before he can escape, a group of thugs overpowers him. Adrienne assists him in contacting the police, who arrive in time to capture Gascoyne and his gang. Badly wounded, the colonel confesses that Adrienne has been his innocent dupe, whereupon Larry happily takes her to his heart.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-29
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War on the Plains
Overview: The emigrants are seen fighting the hordes of redskins. The hero rides to the settlement for help and engages in a thrilling duel with pursuing Indians. The settlers swoop down on the unprotected Indian village and burn it up. The savages seeing the flames, hurry back and fall into an ambush. They are attacked from the rear by the emigrants and from the front by the settlers. In a wild scene of carnage the surprised Indians are mowed down by the hail of bullets, horses and riders falling in tangled masses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-23
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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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You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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His Punishment
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-14
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A Sorority Initiation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-10
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The Lady Killer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-24
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The Wheel of Fortune
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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