G. Raymond Nye
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: April 13, 1889
Deathday: July 23, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Drag Harlan
Overview: William Farnum is Drag Harlan, a tough cowboy vigilante. After learning about a gold mine from a dying man, he seeks his daughter (Jackie Saunders) as well as the gold. He falls in love with her, but the same gang that shot the old man is after the gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-24
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The Devil's Skipper
Overview: The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-01
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The Deadline
Overview: On parole from prison for a murder he did not commit, and not allowed to carry a gun, Buck sets out to find the real killer. His clue is a corner torn off a wanted poster with some handwriting on it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-03
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The Last of the Duanes
Overview: Buck Duane guns down the man who killed his father and flees from the law. He rescues a girl he once loved from outlaws, but the wife of outlaw chief has her own designs on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-14
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The Lone Star Ranger
Overview: In this western, William Farnum plays yet another Zane Grey character. Duane Steele (Farnum) is a Texas Ranger who is determined to get the outlaws out of his part of the Lone Star state for good.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-29
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While the Devil Laughs
Overview: Mary Franklin has a drunken father, an invalid mother, and a kid brother and sister to support. To make ends meet she is works as a hostess in a sleazy cafe, where she steals jewelry from her dancing partners.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-13
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A Man's Land
Overview: Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and he has Triple X hand Joe let his men rustle their cattle. Tex not only has to fight the rustlers, he must also contend with Easterner Peggy's idea of what a ranch should be.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-10
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Pardon My Nerve!
Overview: A drifter falls for the daughter of a rancher, an alcoholic old coot whose ranch is on some very valuable land. When the old man is found murdered, the drifter is accused of the crime. He didn't do it, but he has to find who the real killer is and clear his name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-05
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Let 'er Buck
Overview: A young cowboy falls in love with the daughter of a rich rancher, and they plan to marry. However, the cowboy winds up getting in a fight with the girl's cousin and is forced to shoot him. Believing that he has killed the man and will be prosecuted for murder, the cowboy flees and ends up working on a ranch in Oregon, where his cowboy skills impress the owner to the extent that he is picked as the ranch's entrant in the World Rodeo Championships held in nearby Pendleton--a competition in which his fiancé's ranch is also entered.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-22
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The Devil Bear
Overview: A ship's captain keeps a tame gorilla as a pet. During a mutiny the captain is injured by a blow and the gorilla saves him by hiding him in a cave. As others try to get close things get heated.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-19
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True Blue
Overview: True Blue begins with the marriage of black-sheep British nobleman Gilbert Brockhurst to the daughter of a Western rancher. When he learns that he has inherited his father's title and estate, Brockhurst deserts his wife and young son Bob. Upon attaining adulthood, Bob becomes the boss of his grandfather's ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-05
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To a Finish
Overview: A small Western community is terrorized by an unscrupulous empire-builder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-21
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Straight from the Shoulder
Overview: Played mostly for laughs, this silent Western featured the"The Mediator," a drifter who manages to restore peace both within a family and between miners and their powerful employer.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-19
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The Boss of Camp 4
Overview: To fulfill a contract entered into by his boss, Chet Fanning agrees to finish the construction within a certain amount of time. However, Andrew Paxton has an enemy in the camp's boss, Dave Miller, who is determined to see the job fail.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-26
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Snowdrift
Overview: A Northwest melodrama about a mining engineer who loses his money gambling in the Yukon.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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Salome
Overview: Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet John the Baptist, who publicly denounces the depravity of the royal family and proclaims the arrival of a new messiah. (Film presumed lost.)
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-10
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The Curse of Eve
Overview: When young Eva Stanley comes home from college, she finds that her mother is deeply involved in the movement to rescue "wayward" girls. Eva's boyfriend John Gilbert is sent west on a government job, and Eva finds herself lonely and neglected. She is lured onto the yacht of lecherous Leo Spencer, the dissolute brother of the district attorney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-10
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The Passing of Hell's Crown
Overview: Hell's Crown, a town where law and order are as scarce as preachers, is ruled by "Chuck" Wells, a former gun man. He has a dupe in Blaze, the terror of the town, and holds him by keeping him well supplied with money. A sheriff is appointed at Carson City on account of the horse rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-22
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Driftin' Thru
Overview: A drifter hobo is falsely accused of killing a saloon owner
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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The Hard Hombre
Overview: When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he is in trouble when his mother arrives and exposes the hoax.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-20
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The Sawdust Trail
Overview: Clarence, an eastern college youth masquerading as a mild, inoffensive dandy, joins a Wild West show where he clashes with the leading lady, "Calamity" Jane, a man-hater.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-10
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Play Straight or Fight
Overview: Helen is a strong-minded, upright, two-handed gunwoman and the protector of a younger brother who has fallen under the evil influence of unscrupulous companions. The climax of the story comes when Helen learns that her brother is to take part in a stage hold-up. To save him she dons male attire and holds up the stage at a point several miles in advance of her brother's attempt.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-15
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The Midnight Flyer
Overview: One of two former convicts is the brother of a girl station agent. The second ex-convict tries to blackmail the youth and drag him back to a criminal life, but the sister intervenes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-29
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The Branded Man
Overview: A group of law-abiding cowboys work together to drive cattle rustlers off their range.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-13
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The Ramblin' Kid
Overview: The Ramblin' Kid, a cowboy, falls in love with Carolyn June, a beautiful easterner, and wins her after he triumphs in a rodeo in spite of having been doped by his enemy, Sabota the Greek, a crafty racetrack tout.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-14
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The Boiling Point
Overview: Jimmy's uncle gives him 30 days probation on Kirk's ranch to control his temper or lose his inheritance. There he gets tangled up with a gang of robbers whose boss is his rival for Kirk's daughter. With one day left in his probation, they goad him into a fight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-15
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Man in the Saddle
Overview: A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-02
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The Painted Desert
Overview: Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-18
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Tenderloin
Overview: Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another toy to play with. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-14
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Sand
Overview: Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by the girl he loves, Margaret , Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of bandits preying on the trains.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-19
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The Last of the Duanes
Overview: Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of the outlaw Bland. In rescuing Ruth, he becomes entangled with Bland's amorous wife.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-31
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The Saddle Hawk
Overview: Ben Johnson, a sheepherder who hates sheep, is instructed by his employer, Vasquez, to escort beautiful Rena Newhall to her father's ranch. On the journey, Rena is abducted by Zach Marlin, who takes her to Buck Brent, an outlaw who has sworn vengeance on Jim Newhall, Rena's father, for sending him to jail years before. Ben later poses as an outlaw, joins Brent's band, and takes a hand in rustling the elder Newhall's cattle. On that raid, Ben contrives to get himself captured and convinces Rena's father both of his own good intentions and of the treachery of Marlin. Ben rejoins Brent's gang, but he is soon exposed as a fraud by Marlin.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-08
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Heroes of the West
Overview: Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-19
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The Reckless Rider
Overview: Disguising himself as an outlaw, a marshal comes to the aid of a man and his daughter who are being terrorized by a criminal gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-01
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The Road to Paradise
Overview: Third episode in the New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke series of 2-reel shorts.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-06
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Do It Now
Overview: At the urging of his sweetheart, Rosemary Smith, a man (William Fairbanks) leaves his soft job in the east and goes west to settle a dispute over oil lands owned by Rosemary's father. This man evicts the wrong party and later must return west in order to set things right, protecting the honor of a girl from the advances of the crooked foreman.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-01
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When Men Desire
Overview: A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-09
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Tiger Love
Overview: The Wildcat, a Robin Hood of the Spanish hills and son of an aristocrat, falls in love with Marcheta, who is pledged to marry Don Ramón to save the family fortune. On her wedding day The Wildcat abducts her and reveals his aristocratic identity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-30
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The Fighting Coward
Overview: Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-14
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Mother, I Need You
Overview: A young woman who became pregnant from an assault faces legal trouble and scandal after having an abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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Under the Yoke
Overview: As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez (Nye), he starts an insurrection among the native Filipinos. Maria's father Don Ramon is killed and Maria is held hostage. She gets word to Capt. Paul Winter (Roscoe) of the American troops in Manila and he comes to her assistance, but his troops are outnumbered and they are made prisoners by the revolting revolutionists. Maria and Paul attempt to escape, but they are caught and brought back. At the Manila headquarters, trouble is suspected and reinforcements are sent. Before long, the revolt is subdued and peace reigns over Maria's home, and happiness over the betrothal of Maria and Paul. This film is lost.
Genres: Romance Action Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1918-07-09
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The Scuttlers
Overview: The Scuttlers is a lost 1920 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by J. Gordon Edwards. William Farnum and Jackie Saunders star in this adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-12
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Liberty
Overview: A 20 part 2-reel Western film serial.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-20
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The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring
Overview: The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring is a 1916 American drama film serial directed by Francis Ford and Jacques Jaccard. It is now considered to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-02
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Eyes in the Night
Overview: Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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Is Any Girl Safe?
Overview: The danger of modern "white slavery" is preached by a minister, who tells a story of one such case in his sermon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-03
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Overview: Ali Baba, a poor Turkish wood chopper, discovers that a robbers' cave, concealed in the mountains that surround his house, opens to the magical phrase, "Open Sesame." Learning that the cave is filled with stolen treasure, he takes home as much as he can carry, but his greedy brother forces him to reveal the cave's location. After gaining admittance to the cave, Ali Baba's brother is seen by the thieves and killed. Meanwhile, Ali Baba falls in love with Morgianna, a slave girl forced to dance in the local inn, and by securing her freedom, he wins her love and loyalty. The leader of the band of robbers suspects that Ali Baba knows the secret of the treasure cave, and in the guise of an oil merchant, he visits Ali Baba with his forty thieves concealed in oil jars. When Morgianna discovers the robbers, she fills the jars with boiling oil, thereby killing them all. Ali Baba defeats the robber chief in combat and then marries his beautiful Morgianna.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-24
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