Joseph Singleton
Also Known As: Joseph Edward Victor Fairfield Daveran Singleton, Joe E. Singleton, Joe Singleton, Joseph E. Singleton
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birthday: March 01, 1879
Deathday: October 24, 1946
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Midnight Man
Overview: Bob Gilmore, a young clubman, is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a birthday party. He overhears one of the men guests make a slurring remark about his mother's appearance, and proceeds to punish him then and there, throwing the entire gathering into an uproar. Later in the evening he assumes guilt for a check which had been in reality forged by his foster father, in order to save the mother's feelings, but obtains a written confession from the guilty man for future use if necessary. Learning that he had been adopted from a foundling asylum in infancy, Bob decides to go to New York to see if he cannot learn his real name, which he understands begins with "Mor."
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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Treasure Island
Overview: Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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The Bait
Overview: Crook Bennett Barton uses pretty Joan Granger as bait to blackmail millionaire John Warren.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-02
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The Miracle of Life
Overview: A young bride takes a drug that ends her pregnancy, and her husband divorces her. In the future, she is visited by the ghost of her "Child-That-Might-Have-Been" and taken to see her ex-husband (happily married with children), a land where the children of the future wait to be born, and her future damnation to hell.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-21
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Skin Deep
Overview: The plot concerns a war hero who returns home determined to give up his old ways as a crook. Bud Doyle (Milton Sills) is still being hounded by the cops, and both his wife (Marcia Nanon) and a former associate, a dishonest politician, want to do him in.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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His Lying Heart
Overview: His Lying Heart is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-20
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The Quest
Overview: John Douglas, a high-society playboy, is a cynic concerning the women of his social set, and has a pictured ideal of the girl of his dreams. Wising to avoid the upcoming social season, he hops a freighter bound for the Orient. It sinks in mid-ocean and he, as the sole survivor, is washed upon a island, where he is rescued by Nia, daughter of the tribal chief, Neto.John is puzzled as all of the tribe are white people, but he learns from the tribal chief they are descendant's of English-origin who also are on the island because of a ship wreck a few hundred years ago.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-22
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The Lady of the Dugout
Overview: Real life outlaw Al Jennings tells a "real" story about how he came to the aid of a woman who was abused by her alcoholic husband.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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The Fighting Lover
Overview: Andrew Forsdale bets his friend Ned Randolph $10,000 that Ned will fall in love with one of three girls within 30 days.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-13
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Secrets of the Night
Overview: Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
Genres: Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-12
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The Good Bad-Man
Overview: An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-21
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Overview: In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil alchemist al-Talib, her father's choice. Al-Talib consults his Evil Spirit, who advises him to find the magic lamp hidden in an underground cave. Unable to get it himself, al-Talib hires Aladdin, who secures the lamp but keeps it when he realizes al-Talib's wickedness. With wealth obtained through wishes, Aladdin courts the princess. After the lamp changes hands between al-Talib and Aladdin, al-Talib steals it and abducts the princess to the desert. Aladdin follows with only a gourd of water. Suffering from thirst and exhaustion, Aladdin nearly succumbs, but the horsemen of the Sultan, who learned of his daughter's abduction, ride up and rescue Aladdin.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-11
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The Mad Whirl
Overview: A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-02
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Jordan Is a Hard Road
Overview: A bandit reforms himself and gives up his baby into better hands. Years later, he attempts to reunite with his daughter without revealing who he is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-19
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The Great Redeemer
Overview: A murderer and a thief, imprisoned together, find their lives changed forever when the thief's drawing of Christ's crucifixion on the cell wall comes to life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-24
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The Diamond Makers
Overview: Bhadon, an aged chemist, actuated by the decree of Buddha that in America the secret of making artificial diamonds would be discovered, gives his life to the cause and succeeds. Elated at his titanic success. Bhadon sends his trusted Hindoo servant to the high priest in India, pleading that Shedah might be spared to assist in disposing of the product. Shedah, the powerful emissary for the cause, is dispatched with her two bodyguards to American soil, where, through her wiles and marvelous beauty, she is enabled to effect sale after sale to the wealthy. This monstrous flooding of the American market with gems of astonishing brilliancy and value alarms, to a marked degree, the Kimberly interests, who controlled this outlet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-10
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The Toll Gate
Overview: Outlaw Black Deering leads a band of desperadoes, but decides to give up the bandit life. Agreeing to go on one last job with his gang, he is captured when his henchman Jordan betrays the gang for the reward. Deering escapes and determines to avenge himself on Jordan.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-15
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The Lie
Overview: Fisherman’s drama about a woman who thinks her husband has drowned while fishing, and then marries one of his colleagues after a while. Then her husband suddenly pops up again; it turns out that his colleague appears to have lied about his death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-18
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Brewster's Millions
Overview: The first movie adaptation of the famous novel where a young man has to spend a fortune on 60 days to inherit an even larger sum of money. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-14
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Reggie Mixes In
Overview: Reggie, a wealthy young man about town, is eager for excitement, so he takes to visiting the rougher sections of the city in search of thrills. He meets and falls for a cabaret singer, but she turns out to be the inamorata of the local gang boss. The gangster sends his men after Reggie, but eventually it comes down to a duel between the two men themselves.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-10
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Betsy's Burglar
Overview: Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a delivery boy for a local grocer. One day a mysterious character named Harry Brent takes a room at the boarding house. Harry, seeing that Betsy is falling for his rather shady charms, persuades her to help him get a box of jewels owned by the Jaspers, an elderly couple who lives across the hall. It turns out that Harry is not quite who he seems; neither, however, are the Jaspers.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-04
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A Girl of the Timber Claims
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-11
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Pillars of Society
Overview: Based on Henrik Ibsen's play from 1877.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-27
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Shark Monroe
Overview: In this 1918 film, newly restored by MoMA, Hart is a ship's captain in the Pacific Northwest who abandons his post to pursue a woman who does not love him (MacDonald) across the Klondike, eventually rescuing her from the grip of a white slaver.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-30
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Daphne and the Pirate
Overview: Philip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing that her family would never approve of their marriage, he takes her and hides her in a brothel, but is soon captured by pirates. Soldiers looking for women to bring with them to a settlement across the ocean in Louisiana raid the brothel and take the girls, including Daphne. Later on the trip to the new world their ship is attacked by pirates--and she discovers that her lover Philip is on board the pirate ship.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-04
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Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Overview: Impoverished Molly Hanlon is befriended by crooked gambler Lee Kirk, she marries him in a phony ceremony. While frequenting Kirk's gambling den, Molly meets Miles Rand, the dissolute son of Judge Rand, whose obvious attraction for her encourages Kirk to swindle him out of his money. Penniless, Miles accepts a loan from Molly and returns East to study law. On the day that Molly learns that her marriage is not legal, the gambling den burns down and Kirk is presumed dead. After escaping with Kirk's money, Molly goes East where she encounters Miles, now a district attorney. In spite of the objections of Judge Rand, Molly accepts Miles's proposal, but after Kirk arrives in town, she calls off the engagement. When Kirk enters her apartment through a window, Molly kills him in a panic and is arrested for murder. The still faithful Miles defends her in court, and after her acquittal, she confesses her past and reunites with her old love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-27
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Inside the Lines
Overview: A spy known as "1932" during World War I, is commissioned by the German Secret Service to trail English agent Captain Woodhouse to the Straits of Gibraltar and there effect the destruction of the British fleet. Before his departure, 1932 helps Jane Gerson, an American girl falsely accused of espionage, and later falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-26
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Cameron of the Royal Mounted
Overview: A young Scottish immigrant to Canada becomes a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-25
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The Law’s Decree
Overview: A shopgirl assumes the guilt of her mother and is sent to prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-13
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The Enchanted Barn
Overview: The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low price, transforming it into a house. The owner of the barn is not an ordinary landlord, as you will see, for he is a young man with fine ideals, and he is not content with establishing Shirley and her family in the quaintly beautiful old place, but makes the world a much happier place to live in for all of them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-27
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Wild and Woolly
Overview: A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now. The townsmen, not wanting to lose a rich potential resident, contrive to make over the town to suit the young man's fantasy.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-24
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Opened Shutters
Overview: When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and her uncle, Judge Trent, in New England, where she is unwanted and humiliated. Though she and John Dunham, her uncle's young law partner, fall in love, she believes he intends to marry the daughter of a wealthy neighbor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-12
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Out of the Deputy's Hands
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-21
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The Mayor of Filbert
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-25
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