Charles Wellesley
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Adult: No
Birthday: November 17, 1873
Age: 151 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 24, 1946
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The Lost World
Overview: The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Horror Romance Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-02
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My Official Wife
Overview: This LOST film was Clara Kimball Young's first feature, and her last film for Vitagraph, where she had made all of her short films. It was a sensational success and launched her as the most popular star that year. Its Russian setting was drawn upon by Young for many more of her features. Two short clips of the film exists in Warner Brother's 1931 Vitaphone short "The Movie Album," and have been mounted on Internet Archive and Google Video. One scene shows the meeting of Helene's terrorist cell with an extra alleged to be Leon Trostky. The other clip appears to be when she and Lennox are visiting the Weletsky's. (cont. http://web.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/CKY/reviews/mow.htm)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-12
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Her Better Self
Overview: Even though society debutante Vivian Tyler (Pauline Frederick) is engaged to Count Belloto (Frank deRheim), she finds herself attracted to Dr. Robert Keith (Thomas Meighan). Keith works amongst the poor, and his wealthy benefactors include Vivian's father (Charles Wellesley). But when Vivian meets streetwalker Aggie May (Alice Hollister), she mistakenly believes that Keith is responsible for the woman's downfall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-21
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His Destiny
Overview: Wrongfully convicted rancher Jack Bowen (Neal Hart), imprisoned through the machinations of Dick Thompson (William Quinn), escapes from prison just as the warden (Charles Wellesley) is about to pardon him. Caught after rescuing the warden’s daughter, Betty (Barbara Kent) from her runaway carriage, Bowen is released despite the escape attempt and moves to Calgary to compete in the Stampede. Thompson tries to have Bowen killed during the competition but failing that takes Betty as a hostage and flees. Bowen, Betty’s father and others give chase.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-10
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The Rapids
Overview: Robert Fisher Clarke is a promoter who comes to a small Canadian town. He harnesses the power of the rapids and builds a pulp mill. One of his employees, Jim Belding, has a fiancée, Elsie Worden, with whom Clarke falls in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-30
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The Stolen Bride
Overview: The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-10
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Tangled Tangoists
Overview: John and Flora meet at a ball, but neither can do these modern dances, so they sit out… and run into each other later at a dance studio. Bunny exudes his usual Pickwickian charm. Miss Finch gets involved in a nice bit of physical comedy when her gawkiness makes the dance lesson less than successful.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-23
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The Song of Songs
Overview: When composer Anselm Kardos leaves his alcoholic wife, he gives his daughter Lily an unfinished love ode entitled "The Song of Songs" and warns her to keep her artistic temperament in check.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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His Greatest Sacrifice
Overview: Richard Hall is a successful writer, while his wife, Alice, is interested in pursuing a career as a singer. She meets James Hamilton, a musical agent, who arranges an opera engagement with Rimini, an impresario. Hall quarrels with his wife over this, and they separate, with Hall taking their daughter Grace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-17
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Don't Marry for Money
Overview: Don't Marry for Money is a 1923 silent drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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The Hero of Submarine D-2
Overview: Lieutenant Commander Colton, U.S.N., is in love with Caroline Austen, daughter of a prominent political power in Washington. Colton has a rival in James Archer, a journalist of prominence, unscrupulous and secretly in league with the Ruanian Ambassador, who is endeavoring to obtain for his country inside information as to the United States naval resources.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-13
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The Goddess
Overview: A young girl is reared on a desert island by natives and led to believe that she is a goddess. One day an outsider comes to the island, and persuades her to accompany him to preach about the kindness and love she has experienced. She agrees, but she's soon confronted by the problems and travails of the "outside" world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-09
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A Wireless Rescue
Overview: A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a disaster to an express train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-23
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A Fortune Hunter
Overview: When Rupert's uncle tells him he must quit his writing and offers him a real job in his tannery, the young man rises in his wrath and dramatically leaves his uncle's home, saying that he will go forth to the big city and carve out his fortune with his pen. After many hardships and cold rebuffs from the cruel publishers and editors he begins to despair
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-31
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
Overview: Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-05
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Cytherea
Overview: Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris. When he meets her married aunt, Savina Grove, she appears to be the woman he imagines whenever he gazes at a doll he has christened Cytherea, goddess of love -----Cytherea features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-04
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The Unholy Three
Overview: Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-20
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The Diver
Overview: Rita, who is in love, makes a false accusation against the “Nymph”, one of her rivals in love. But when the “Nymph” rescues Rita's daughter from the water, she has regrets, and retracts her accusation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-08
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By Right of Purchase
Overview: A 1918 film directed by Charles Miller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-01
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The Perfect Flapper
Overview: A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-25
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Outcast
Overview: A down-on-her luck streetwalker is ultimately redeemed by the love of a decent man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-07
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The Acquittal
Overview: When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-19
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Redemption
Overview: An actress with a wild reputation finally settles down to a sedate and pleasant marriage. One of her former lovers, an architect, arrives to disrupt her happiness by renewing their affair. She humiliates this suitor in public with her rejection, and he seeks revenge, revenge that catapults her into tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-02
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The Girl from Rio
Overview: 1927 picture starring Carmel Myers and Walter Pidgeon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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An Officer and a Gentleman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-14
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The Wolf Man
Overview: Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). But Stanley's personality changes whenever he drinks, and his brother (who also loves Beatrice) uses this to his advantage.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-17
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The Daring of Diana
Overview: To assuage his grief over the death of his wife during childbirth, newspaper publisher John Briscoe resettles in Paris. Twenty-five years pass, during which time Briscoe's estranged son Jason has taken charge of his dad's newspaper. When Jason refuses to support crooked politician Stange in an upcoming election, he receives a cablegram from Briscoe Sr., who overrides his son's decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-24
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Writing on the Wall
Overview: Irving Lawrence owns some of the most decrepit tenements in town and is an all-around bad guy. He won't cooperate with the efforts of his wife, Barbara, to help the poor and sees other women behind her back. Muriel, one of his cast-offs, meets and marries Barbara's brother, Payne. Lawrence makes trouble for Muriel and fabricates a scandal involving his kindly brother Schuyler and Barbara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-14
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The American Way
Overview: English hellraiser Richard Farrington is sent by his wealthy titled parents for a visit to his aunt and uncle in Long Island, New York. On the ocean voyage, Richard meets Betty Winthrop, the ward of the wealthy Van Allen family. Introducing himself he mistakenly gives her the card of John Smithers, a conman who cheated him at cards in London. He follows Betty to the Van Allen estate, where he hears her declare that she would rather marry an American criminal than a weakling English aristocrat. Determined to win her over, he pretends to be Smithers, but things don't turn out exactly the way he planned.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-07
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The Richest Girl
Overview: A girl needs to marry by a year to get her aunt's money but her fiancé has left. After getting permission from her godfather for a "white wedding," she realizes she loves the godfather instead.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-08
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The Island of Surprise
Overview: Robert Lovell falls in love with his father’s secretary Dorothy Arden and marries her in secret despite his father and his business partner Daniel Casselis’s attempts to arrange a match for him with Daniel’s daughter, also named Dorothy. When circumstances lead to the three young people ending up stranded on a lonely island in the Pacific, complications ensue, especially when Bob suffers a blow which temporarily wipes out his memory and he cannot remember which Dorothy is his wife! All ends happily, however.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-24
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Her Mistake
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-01
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Just a Song at Twilight
Overview: Wealthy Lucy Winter falls in love itinerant gardener George Turner much to her father's chagrin. In flashback we find there is a deep seated reason for his truculence, one that caused great sorrow to all. In time things are resolved after much soul searching.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-01
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Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath
Overview: Tells the tale of the Grand Duke of Transcaspia, a Russian province, and his son Feodor who loves an American girl named Evelyn Burnham. Episode six in a series of seven films dealing with the Seven Deadly Sins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-05
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The Unforgiven
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-28
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Does It Pay?
Overview: John Weston leaves his wife and kids to marry adventuress Doris Clark and loses his mind when he realizes his mistake. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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The Half-Way Girl
Overview: When her traveling theatrical group goes broke, Poppy, an actress in the troupe, finds herself stranded in Singapore. She's reduced to working in a bar in the seedy part of town as a "hostess", where she meets a down-on-his-luck Englishman. While drunk he gets into a fight, and is forced to kill his opponent in self-defense. The girl helps him escape and goes to Sam, a shady plantation owner, to try to get them out of Singapore. However, Sam has his own plans for Poppy, and they don't include potential rivals for her affections.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-16
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Hearts Ablaze
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-31
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Life's Yesterdays
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-10
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