William H. Brown
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 16, 1866
Age: 158 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 03, 1924
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The Bad Boy
Overview: Small town youth Jimmie Bates is a well-intentioned, but troubled youth. Jimmie is a rowdy boy who is always getting into trouble and playing pranks on his friends and neighbors. Although deeply in love with young Mary, he eventually spurns Mary's affection for the more outgoing and worldly young Ruth.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-18
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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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Little Eva Ascends
Overview: When an itinerant performing troupe that specializes in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” return to the owner and her son’s hometown for a show the younger brother Roy is nervous and unhappy because he plays Little Eva in the play. Sure that his sweetheart and her family will jeer along with the rest of the town he stumbles during the performance wrecking the set and bringing the show to a grinding halt. All is well though when the town’s hotel proprietor throws a big dinner for the troupe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-08
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A Yankee from the West
Overview: Billy Milford, Harvard graduate, goes west to seek his fortune. In Addertown he secures a position as stationmaster of the L. & R. Railroad, but is forced out because of his drinking habits. He accidentally meets Gunhild, an emigrant Norwegian girl, as she arrives in Addertown to take up her home with Jan Hagsberg, the town's saloonkeeper. Seeking revenge on the railroad, Milford joins Jim Dorsey in a scheme to hold up the road's paymaster on his way to pay the employees of the company's mine.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-19
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The Wolf-Man
Overview: Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-09
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The Whispering Chorus
Overview: John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-28
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The Valley of the Giants
Overview: Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-31
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Back to the Kitchen
Overview: The ranchman's daughter is in love with Jack of the Rancho and becomes engaged to him, but Pa comes on their lovemaking and rudely separates them. Following an idea which he worked on during a visit to New York, Pa writes to a Frenchman, a lawyer there, and tells him he will marry his daughter to a count the lawyer will provide. The lawyer accordingly looks up an Italian cook, decks him out with a red sash, etc., and sends him west for the easy money.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-16
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The Little Catamount
Overview: Hattie, a moonshiner's daughter, plays with her weird dog, Fanny, and rules her father with a rod of iron. To their mountain cabin comes Neighbor Dawson, another moonshiner, and arranges with Hattie's father to marry her. This does not agree with Hattie's ideas at all.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-23
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Little Meena's Romance
Overview: Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of a Mennonite family. Meena treats Jacob as a joke in spite of the arrangement their parents have made that they should wed. The Mennonite simplicity has no charms for Meena, who proceeds to fall in love with Count Fredrick von Ritz
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-09
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The Dancin' Fool
Overview: Sylvester Tibble is a clerk in his uncle's restaurant. Sylvester dreams of becoming a famous dancer and tries to inject a little of the jazz life into his uncle's old-fashioned establishment. When dancer Junie Budd shows up at the restaurant, Sylvester sees a chance to make his dream come true.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-02
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M'Liss
Overview: M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-05
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The House Built Upon Sand
Overview: Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the factory town of Oreville, where he works as factory manager. He takes her to their home in the factory town and there orders his housekeeper to take away her useless clothes and to supply those befitting the wife of a factory manager. Trouble lies ahead.....
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-31
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Overview: The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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Cheerful Givers
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-21
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Hoodoo Ann
Overview: A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door; Her luck seems to have changed. But the idyll is broken up after a trip to the movies-- It seems the 'hoodoo' has returned after she tries to replicate what she'd seen on the screen.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-26
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The Courting of Mary
Overview: A lost film. Mary the tomboy, and Owen, the sportsman, have an equal aversion to the opposite sex. . Meeting at the trout stream one day, Owen orders Mary off his side of the stream, where she has comfortably ensconced herself. But alas! Cupid has not lost his opportunity and the die is cast. Mary's uncle, although seemingly severe, has a tenderness for an interesting spinster of uncertain age and plans to get Mary married off at the behest of the spinster lady.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-26
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Her Buried Past
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-14
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Faithful Wives
Overview: The title tells it all. Faithful wives perhaps but can the same be said for their husbands?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-25
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The Tree of Knowledge
Overview: The wicked Belle gets her hands on Nigel Stanyon, a young man who was about to embark on a career as a minister. She seduces him, empties his bank account and tosses him aside. In the depths of despair, Nigel is discovered by Brian, a wealthy old friend, who secures him a job as an overseer on his family estate. One day Brian embarks on a trip abroad, and Nigel is astounded when he returns home with a new wife—Nigel's old flame, Belle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-18
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