Bertram Grassby
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lincolnshire, England, UK
Birthday: December 23, 1880
Deathday: December 07, 1953
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Rasputin, the Black Monk
Overview: The story of the rise and fall of Rasputin, the so-called "mad monk" who dominated the court of the Russian czar in the period prior to the Russian revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-05
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A Parisian Scandal
Overview: Without social or romantic interests, young Basil Hammond goes to Paris to study paleontology and to bring back a report to his guardian on the manners and moral character of her granddaughter, Liane. At first he is disgusted by her attempts to vamp him, but eventually, he falls in love with her.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-05
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The Prisoner
Overview: While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo Ravorelli, whom Philip recognizes as the man wanted for a murder in Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-18
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The Fighting Chance
Overview: Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing. Avarice is the only emotion that Sylvia feels towards her fiance, and when she meets Stephen Siward, a young man afflicted with alcoholism, she falls in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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Fifty Candles
Overview: Sentenced to be deported from Hawaii, Hung Chin Chung pledges twenty years of service to Henry Drew to escape the certain death that awaits him in China. Rage at his humiliation and inability to marry as a free man smolders in him throughout his servitude, near the end of which he sails to San Francisco with the Drew family. Also on board is Ralph Coolidge, who tries to retrieve from Drew his share of their gold mine, and who loves Drew's secretary, Mary-Will Tellfair. Shortly after their arrival, Henry Drew is murdered; suspicion falls on Ralph, the owner of the murder weapon, a curious Chinese dagger; but subsequent events lead Hung Chin Chung to confess to the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-11
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One Law for the Woman
Overview: A naive youngster is sold a phony mine.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-25
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The Dancer of the Nile
Overview: An Egyptian Princess is infatuated with Karmet, a Syrian prince who is disguised as a merchant. He, however, loves Arvia, a dancer. The Princess plots to sacrifice Arvia to the sacred crocodiles. Arvia is saved by her father and united to Karmet. The princess weds Prince Tut, who afterwards becomes King of Egypt.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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The Lone Wolf's Daughter
Overview: At a London auction, Princess Sonia bids against her husband, exiled Prince Victor, for a Corot landscape in which incriminating letters Sonia wrote are hidden, but it is bought by Michael Lanyard, suspected of being the mysterious, international thief "The Lone Wolf." After Lanyard gives Sonia the letters, she divorces Victor, marries Lanyard and dies after bearing their daughter Sonia. Years later, Sonia, who thinks she is the daughter of the Princess' maid, is found by Victor, now the leader of an underworld gang of Oriental crooks and Bolsheviks. Saying he is her father, Victor brings her to his home, hoping to entice Lanyard to make an appearance.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-21
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His Hour
Overview: Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia, is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except for a young but cold British widow, Tamara Loraine. While she's spurning his advances, Tamara is growing ever more fascinated with Gritzko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-29
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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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What Every Woman Wants
Overview: Poor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as a result she incurs great debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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Golden Dreams
Overview: Oil is discovered on the Countess de Elberca's estate in a mythical Spanish American country. Mercedes McDonald, her niece, falls in love with Sandy Buchanan, a young Scotch engineer hired by the countess. Don Felipe, a neighbor in need of money to avoid arrest for embezzlement, conspires with his nephew, the Duke of Othomo, for the latter to wed Mercedes. The aunt approves the suit. Felipe and Othomo attempt to kill Mercedes' sweetheart, but Buchanan, with the aid of her brother and a traveling American circus, foils their plans. Felipe and Othomo are killed by the circus animals, and the aunt consents to Mercedes' marriage to Buchanan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-11
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The Man from Brodney's
Overview: A drama of the India Seas that has Hollingsworth Chance, a young American, tangled in court intrigue to, is put to the supreme test to save the girl he loves, Princess Geneva
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-16
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Conscience
Overview: Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish them. In the main story, society girl Ruth Somers, a reincarnation of Serama, prepares to marry Cecil Brooke, the wealthiest man of her set. Her guardian, Dr. Norton, an incarnation of Lucifer, constantly accompanies her. Ruth is summoned to the Court of Conscience, where the witnesses, Lust, Avarice, Hate, Revenge and Vanity, testify about Ruth's history of seducing and abandoning men. This behavior resulted in the suicide of Madge, the lover of Ned Langley, whom Ruth enthralled and promised to marry, and also the deaths of two rivals for her love. Ruth is ordered back to earth to learn her sentence. When Ned interrupts the wedding, Ruth scorns him and he shoots himself. After Brooke leaves her, the Court dooms Ruth to live with the torment of remembrance. Ruth sends Norton away, and then kneels and repents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Mid-Channel
Overview: The story has been adapted from the Sir Arthur Wing Pinero play. The title means nothing more than the mid-channel of married life, through a character in the feature likening the roughness of the English channel in the center of the trip across from London to Paris to the woes married folks meet in their wedded life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-26
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The Beloved Rogue
Overview: François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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The Hope Chest
Overview: Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer's candy shop, where she delights the customers with her tomboyish antics. Tom Ballantyne, the proprietor's son realizes that Sheila is excessively fond of dancing, asks her out without the benefit of a proper introduction, and she indignantly refuses. Soon afterwards, however, the two fall in love and secretly marry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-29
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Serenade
Overview: In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When the town is captured by brigands led by Ramírez, the governor is deposed, and Don Domingo Maticas is appointed in his place. Ramón, son of the new governor, becomes infatuated with María. She repulses him, but he is encouraged by her mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-01
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Dangerous Days
Overview: Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-14
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Battling Jane
Overview: Jane is a rootless young lady who finds an abandoned child and adopts it as her own. The decision, however, leads to great conflict with the child's vicious outlaw father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-28
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Made for Love
Overview: A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-26
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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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The Delicious Little Devil
Overview: A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-01
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The Young Rajah
Overview: A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-11
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American Methods
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-30
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A Romance of Happy Valley
Overview: John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man. But his embittered father, not recognizing him for who he is, plans to murder the newly-arrived "stranger" for his money.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-26
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Her Social Value
Overview: A shop girl has ambitions of marrying up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-24
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When a Man Loves
Overview: A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-21
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Havoc
Overview: A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace it chronicles two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter McGrail) at the dawn of The Great War. Both men are in love with the same woman, Violet Deering (Margaret Livingston). Chappell, whose proposal has been accepted by Violet, enlists for the war in Europe hoping to distinguish himself and make his fiancé proud of him.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-27
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For the Soul of Rafael
Overview: Marta Estevan is ready to leave the convent where she has been reared. Dona Luisa Artega, mother of Rafael and the young girl's guardian, arranges a marriage between the two, because she thinks that Marta's influence will rescue her son from the wild life he is leading and make a man of him. Marta rescues the American Bryton, when he is attacked by Indians, and falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-01
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The Midnight Express
Overview: Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard as a laborer. An escaped convict, Silent Bill Brachley, steals Jack's car, and the chase leads to a meeting between Jack, the engineer of the Midnight Express, and the engineer's pretty daughter, Mary. As he is led back to jail, Brachley swears revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-01
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A Son of the Immortals
Overview: A general ousts the king of Kosnovia, and makes the king's idle son ruler. Unexpectedly, the new ruler begins instituting democratic reforms, angering the General.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-22
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Even as You and I
Overview: Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lust, Drink and Self Pity to the artist's home. Carillo succumbs to lust and sells his honor to the Devil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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The Gay Lord Waring
Overview: Though a spendthrift and a layabout, Lord Arthur Waring (J. Warren Kerrigan) is universally loved by his tenants. The same cannot be said for Arthur's half-brother Mark (Bertram Grassby), a tyrannical tightwad. Disowned by his family, Arthur finds himself strapped for cash when he promises to finance the operation of Helene von Gerald (Lois Wilson), whom he accidentally crippled in a riding mishap.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-24
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The Girl of Lost Lake
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-28
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The Mysterious Mrs. M
Overview: A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-05
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It Happened in Honolulu
Overview: Story of a pretty girl whose ambitious mother wants to marry her off to an English nobleman. The girl, however, loves a plain American, the son of a wholesale fish dealer. The girl's ineffectual father likes the young American too, but his wife overrides him and the family heads for Honolulu, where the matriarch hopes her daughter will wed the nobleman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-26
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The Pool of Flame
Overview: J. Warren Kerrigan plays the standard Vance hero, a devil-may-care Irish mercenary named Terrence O'Rourke. While knocking about in India, O'Rourke comes into possession of the Pool of Flame, a valuable ruby stolen from a Hindu temple. Typically, whosoever possesses this gem is marked for death, but O'Rourke hopes to beat the odds by utilizing the Pool of Flame to insure, rather than impede, his good luck.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-21
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Captain Blood
Overview: Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
Genres: War Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-21
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The Whirlpool of Destiny
Overview: George Bell, a wild young man, lives with his rancher father, Thomas Bell, in Paradise Valley, California. When George sells his father's favorite horse, Mr. Bell turns him out, and George becomes a grain salesman in St. Louis. Meanwhile, Polly Martin lives with her father Bill, an ex-businessman who has sunk to day-labor because of his addiction to alcohol. Bill frequently abuses Polly, and when he falls to his death from a high girder, Polly becomes a nurse in the Salvation Army in St. Louis. George falls in love with Polly after he saves her from the advances of a drunk, but she will not marry him because of his wild past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-10
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For the Defense
Overview: Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-04
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The Tiger's Claw
Overview: Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a fiancée, Harriet Halehurst (Eva Novak), back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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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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Pioneer Trails
Overview: Jack is orphaned as a young child when his wagon train is ambushed by Indians. Twenty years later, he rescues Rose from a runaway stagecoach. The two fall in love, much to the displeasure of Blaney. To put him out of the way, Blaney kills Jack's adoptive mother and frames Jack for the crime.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-01
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Straight from Paris
Overview: A young man takes a trip to Europe, and when he returns home he brings along the woman he fell in love with and became engaged to. However, his snooty mother finds out that she doesn't come from a "good" family and is, in fact, a clerk in a shoe store, and refuses to sanction the engagement. The young man's uncle disagrees and tries to convince the mother to accept the young girl--but then begins to realize he is developing feelings for her himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-09
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The Beautiful Cheat
Overview: A motion picture producer has press agent Jimmy Austin take Mary Callahan, a pretty shopgirl, to Europe. After an extensive publicity campaign, Mary returns to the United States as Maritza Callahansky, a Russian actress owning the crown jewels. To add support to her newly established identity, Maritza gives a party in a Long Island mansion in the rightful owner's absence. The owners return to find their home taken over by strangers and are about to call the police when it is discovered that they are the parents of one of the extras in the company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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The Shadow of the East
Overview: Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a wife, Lolaire, a native. In a jealous rage, Lolaire kills herself, freeing Craven, who returns to England and marries Gillian. His Indian servant, Kunwar Singh, casts a spell on Craven, causing him to leave Gillian and to go into the Algerian desert. There he joins Said, an old university friend who is the son of an Algerian sheik. Gillian follows, the servant is killed, and with him dies the spell, "The Shadow of the East."
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-27
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Cowardice Court
Overview: A feud in the Adirondack Mountains develops when Randolph Shaw will not give up a shack and its acreage adjoining the estate of Lord Cecil Bazelhurst, whose wife, the former Evelyn Banks of Jersey City, married him for his title and now wants to get rid of Randolph's ugly shack. When Randolph meets Cecil's sister Penelope, a romance begins which is furthered after one of the Bazelhurst servants shoots Randolph in the arm for trespassing and Penelope, who earlier had looked upon the feud as a joke, runs away to Randolph's house and accepts his engagement proposal. Cecil and his men pursue Penelope, but are frightened away by Randolph's men and are forced to spend a miserable stormy night in the woods. The next day everyone becomes reconciled when Lady Evelyn realizes that the desired property will now be in the family, and Randolph offers Cecil and his men dry, if ill-fitting, garments to wear.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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