William H. Tooker
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 02, 1869
Age: 155 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 10, 1936
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A Bride for a Knight
Overview: While having dental work done, Jimmy inhales too much gas and begins believing that he is a detective. He sets out to capture a gang of thieves who robbed Jean's uncle's bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-15
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The Invisible Ray
Overview: A scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who soon finds herself hunted by criminals looking to steal the deadly mineral.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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Proxies
Overview: Carlotta Darley (Dean) is engaged to Homer Carleton (Crosby), but regrets that Homer is not as tall and handsome as the butler Peter (Kerry).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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Ambition
Overview: Jude Hunter (Katherine Hughes) is a committed musician who is in the middle of preparing for the biggest and most important performance of her life. When mysterious, unprecedented, and seemingly connected deaths occur as the competition draws near, she begins to feel unsafe, thinking that she might be the next target.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-25
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Soup to Nuts
Overview: Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-28
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Good Morning, Judge
Overview: Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a haven for reformed criminals. By telling her he is a hardened criminal, he is allowed to stay at the mission.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-29
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The Scarlet Letter
Overview: In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
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The Light in Darkness
Overview: Bank cashier Ramsey Latham is sentenced to prison for violation of the banking laws. On his way to the penitentiary, he encounters Hilary Kenyon, a young girl who speaks encouragingly to him. Later he is surprised to discover that Hilary is also a prisoner, having been found guilty of manslaughter for killing a man who attacked her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-09
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The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde
Overview: Judge Randolph Legarde becomes a dual personality when he is kicked in the head by a horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-01
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A Modern Magdalen
Overview: Although laborer Joe Mercer loves factory girl Katinka Jenkins, she agrees to become the mistress of Lindsay, the mill owner, in order to escape dire poverty and cruel parents. Katinka sends Lindsay's money to her family, but eventually, he finds himself unable to pay his employees, and only under Joe's influence are the men prevented from striking. Reformer John Strong, who loves Katinka's sister Olivia, visits Katinka to request that she cease her disgraceful dance performances, but he soon submits to her charms and is passionately embracing her when Olivia enters the room. Katinka then learns of the situation at the mill and realizes that the compromise of her honor has ruined more lives than her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-17
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The Devil Dancer
Overview: An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-03
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East Lynne
Overview: An adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady Isabel Carlisle cast in a modern setting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-18
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The Ordeal
Overview: During the Franco-Prussian War, Jean Renyea wins the love of Helene, thus incurring the enmity of Pierre, her hunchbacked suitor.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-01
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The Look Out Girl
Overview: The lookout girl for the notorious Mowbray gang tries to leave her gangster past by marrying a wealthy doctor, but her past catches up with her very quickly when the gang finds her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-02
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Draft 258
Overview: Mary Alden and her brothers Matthew and George have extremely different political views. Matthew is a committed pacifist, and is constantly giving speeches against war. George is notified that his draft number, 258, has been called and to report for induction, but he refuses. Mary, on the other hand, is intensely patriotic and comes up with a plan to shame him into reporting for induction. Meanwhile, Matthew is being set up for a patsy by a gang of German secret agents, led by Van Bierman, who are planning to blow up an airplane factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-15
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The Woman the Germans Shot
Overview: The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-27
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The Night of Love
Overview: Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duke de la Garda demands his right as feudal lord--to take the bride to his castle for a night. Rather than accede to the duke's advances, the girl chooses death by her own hand. Montero swears vengeance.....
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-22
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Murder by Television
Overview: James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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A Daughter of the Sea
Overview: Margot, the motherless daughter of a New England fisherman, dreams of a better life. After rescuing the wealthy Jack Rutledge's mother, Margot is taken in by the family. Jack and Margot fall in love against the will of his mother and must find a way to marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-22
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The Bellamy Trial
Overview: The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-23
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My Friend the Devil
Overview: George Dryden, an atheist since he saw his mother struck and killed by lightning as a kid, becomes a prominent surgeon and marries a woman who soon dies of heart disease. Years later, on his daughter's wedding day, he discovers that his wife had a serious love affair with an artist. Infuriated, he drives his daughter away. She becomes ill, suffering an emotional collapse. The doctor exhausts his knowledge trying to save her and finally, in desperation, he calls upon God. The girl is miraculously cured and George Dryden's faith is restored. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-19
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Her Surrender
Overview: A story of violence, deceit, deception and malfeasance among the rich set and the hoodlums with whom they unknowingly become involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-01
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Ladies Must Dress
Overview: Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him talking of this and breaks with him. Then, with the help of her friend, Mazie, she metamorphoses into a ravishing beauty. Joe is remorseful, but the situation is made more complex when he suspects Eve of questionable relations with her boss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-20
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Birds of Prey
Overview: Helen Wayne and Archie Crossley, two clever pickpockets, rob J. Hamilton Smith, a well-known metropolitan banker, and he is later recognized by one of their gang as a former prisonmate; they demand a price for their silence, and he is forced to accede.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-27
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Springtime
Overview: Madeline De Valette is betrothed to her father's cousin, Raoul De Valette, arrangements having been made when she was but a child. Valette requests his cousin's presence at his home to be presented to his fiancée. Raoul has been carrying on a love affair with L'Acadienne, a beautiful Creole who loves him devotedly. Much against his wishes, he is compelled to leave L'Acadienne. In spite of her pleadings and threats, he sets out for the Valette home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-28
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Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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How Molly Malone Made Good
Overview: Molly, an Irish girl just hired by a New York newspaper, is assigned as a test a chain interview of celebrities that must be accomplished within a set amount of time. She goes through innumerable paths and obstacles to achieve the goal.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-25
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No Defense
Overview: No Defense is a 1929 romantic drama directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue. It was a silent film with part talking and sound-effects by the Vitaphone Company. It was distributed by Warner Brothers.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-05
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A Woman of Experience
Overview: It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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The Purple Highway
Overview: Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they pool their talents and produce a smash hit Broadway musical. Edgar ( Monte Blue ), the playwright, is in love with April ( Madge Kennedy ), the ex- leading lady, but she doesn't discover that she loves him until it's almost too late.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-05
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The Greatest Love
Overview: Director Henry Kolker's silent romantic melodrama starred Vera Gordon, who was billed as "The 'Mother' of 'Humoresque'", Bertram Marburgh, Yvonne Shelton, Hugh Huntley, and William H. Tooker
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-01
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The Average Woman
Overview: Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and eventually falls in love with her. Her father, Judge Whipple, doesn't like it; he has Jimmy arrested and allows him to see Sally only once a week. Meanwhile, disreputable businessman Van Alten is after Sally, and tries to pressure her into marrying him by threatening to release letters he says will embarrass her father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Night Watch
Overview: Night Watch is a 1928 American drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, and Donald Reed. It was an adaptation of the dramatic 1921 play In the Night Watch, written by Michael Morton. The film is set almost entirely on a French warship at the beginning of the First World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-09
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Peacock Alley
Overview: A young man brings his new worldly Parisian wife back home to Pennsylvania.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-23
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Red, White and Blue Blood
Overview: A hard-core socialite turns over a new leaf after spending time with a less fortunate family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-24
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The Net
Overview: Allayne Norman's husband Bruce is a gambler and drunkard who kills her artist cousin in an argument. Bruce flees the studio with Allayne and their son, and places his identifying documents in the pockets of an amnesiac man. To avoid the consequences of his actions, Allayne identifies the man as her husband. When Bruce returns, he tries to kill the man but is shot instead. The man regains his memory and is cleared of wrongdoing.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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Woman's Man
Overview: A man almost loses his fortune, not to mention his fiancée, to a society scion.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-02
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God's Country and the Law
Overview: God's Country and the Law is a 1921 American silent drama film produced by Pine Tree Pictures and distributed by Arrow Films. It was directed by Sidney Olcott with Fred C. Jones and Gladys Leslie in the leading roles. It was adapted from the 1915 novel God’s Country and the Woman by James Oliver Curwood,which had been previously filmed under that title in 1916.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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Heliotrope
Overview: A prison inmate obtains his release from prison in order to rescue his daughter from the clutches of her unscrupulous mother's plot to implicate the girl in a blackmail scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-28
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The Stealers
Overview: Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pickpockets masquerading as religious workers who ply their trade in the wake of a traveling carnival company. He tries to keep the true nature of his work secret from his daughter Julie, but she learns the truth while traveling with his band for a week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-03
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Romance of the Underworld
Overview: When a gangster's speakeasy is raided by the police, one of the people picked up is the gangster's pretty young girlfriend. A kind-hearted cop takes pity on her and helps her get out of that life. While waitressing to earn money for college, she meets a wealthy and handsome young man and they fall in love--but he doesn't know about her somewhat shady past and her relationship with the gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-10
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Virgin Lips
Overview: In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is willing to deliver, and she finds herself a prisoner in a notorious dance-hall/brothel. But her American aviator boyfriend, Barry Blake (John Boles), is flying to her rescue. He does just that but, alas, they are quickly captured by a gang of outlaws. Possibly the many expensive pieces of jewelry she has gathered from the many male friends she has made along the way, including El Presidente, captured the outlaws' attention.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-25
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Two Girls Wanted
Overview: Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is hired as secretary to duplicitous businessman Philip Hancock.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-11
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Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health. Marion doesn't have the money for that, but Mallory, who has made no secret of his intentions towards her, does. She resigns herself to submitting to his advances in order to get the money in order to keep her brother alive. However, circumstances arise in which she may possibly get the money without having to debase herself with her boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-19
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The Woman in Chains
Overview: A disloyal wife abandons her husband and child to become a cabaret dancer. Her lover goes to jail to protect her. In his absence she marries an artist whom she deserts when her lover is released from prison. Aware of the futility of awaiting her return, the second husband returns to his birthplace, Martinique, and to his childhood sweetheart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-20
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The Devil's Playground
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-01
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Who's Cheating?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-07
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Worlds Apart
Overview: Having been rejected by Phyllis Leigh in favor of wealthier suitor Peter Lester, Hugh prevents Elinor Ashe from drowning herself. Hugh recklessly marries Elinor, but they occupy different wings of his house. Lester and Phyllis arrive as guests, and a new manservant favored by Elinor is hired. When Lester is murdered, the servant is charged with the crime, and Elinor admits to Hugh that he is indeed her father, recently released from prison. While in the company of Marcia Marshall, Hugh discovers her husband Harley dying in a Chinese opium den. He confesses that, victimized by Lester, he killed him. Elinor's father is released, and she reconciles with Hugh.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Alias Mrs. Jessop
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-10
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Woman, Woman!
Overview: Alice Lindsay arrives in New York from a small town and becomes part of Greenwich Village Bohemian life. Alice resists the advances of Gwenne Stevens, an advocate of free love, and marries civil engineer Samson Rathbone
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-21
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Men
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-15
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