Edward Cecil

Edward Cecil

Born: September 12, 1878
Died: December 13, 1940
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Edward Cecil...

Third Finger, Left Hand
Title: Third Finger, Left Hand
Character: Train Conductor
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Public Deb No. 1
Title: Public Deb No. 1
Character: Waiter
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Dawson
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Lackey
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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The Man from Tumbleweeds
Title: The Man from Tumbleweeds
Character: Wilson - Governor's Butler
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
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Westbound Stage
Title: Westbound Stage
Character: Jim Blake - Banker
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A wagon train crossing the plains comes across the remains of other wagon trains that have been attacked by looters. Soon they too are attacked.
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Port of Hate
Title: Port of Hate
Character: Wing Hi
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group is accused of the crime.
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Riders of the Frontier
Title: Riders of the Frontier
Character: Dr. Dolson
Released: August 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The Rancho Grande, a Texas border ranch, cut off from the law by a gang of outlaws led by ranch foreman Bart Lane, who is holding the elderly owner of the ranch, Sarah Burton, a prisoner. Tex Lowery, an undercover Texas Ranger, rescues Martha Williams, a nurse sent for by the ailing Sarah, from a stagecoach holdup by Lane's henchmen. He later convinces Laner that he is a wanted outlaw named Ed Carter, and gains entry to Rancho Grande. But the real Ed Carter shows up.
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Say It in French
Title: Say It in French
Character: Lift Boy
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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The Lady Objects
Title: The Lady Objects
Character: Waiter
Released: October 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Butler (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Butler (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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The Cattle Thief
Title: The Cattle Thief
Character: Doc Brawley
Released: May 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Ken, sent to investigate cattle rustlers, poses as a peddler during the day but the Masked Rider at night.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Second Butler
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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His Fighting Blood
Title: His Fighting Blood
Character: Prison Warden (as Ed Cecil)
Released: October 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his brother to kill him.
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The Girl Who Came Back
Title: The Girl Who Came Back
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
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Love Time
Title: Love Time
Character: Lackey (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Romaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Juryman (Uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Minor Role
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Ferocious Pal
Title: Ferocious Pal
Character: Sykes - Henchman
Released: April 3, 1934
Type: Movie
A stray German shepherd, a runaway teenage boy, and a runaway teenage girl end up at her uncle's place in Oregon, where an epidemic of sheep rustling is under way.
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Smelkoff the Merchant
Released: January 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
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Queen of the Northwoods
Title: Queen of the Northwoods
Character: Fergus
Released: May 21, 1929
Type: Movie
The villain of this serial, the "Wolf Devil", who's head covering amazingly looks to be a REAL wolf's head, is determined to eradicate the non native races from Alaska.
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Jazzland
Title: Jazzland
Character: Wilbraham
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Fighting the invasion of their small New England town by a big city--type nightclub, the Jazzland, a young newspaperman and his brother endeavor to learn the identity of the club's owner...
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The Desert of the Lost
Title: The Desert of the Lost
Character: Detective Murray
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into Mexico where he recuperates with the Wolfes. When Murray arrives again, Jim heads into the desert. But in the night his guide sneaks off and leaves him without water or his horse.
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Speed
Title: Speed
Character: Detective Bryce (as Ed. Cecil)
Released: October 9, 1927
Type: Movie
A suspense thriller with Lightning the Dog hunting down crooks.
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The Stolen Ranch
Title: The Stolen Ranch
Character: Lawyer James Morton
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Returning home from the Great War, "Breezy" Hart (Fred Humes) and his shell-shocked buddy Frank Wilcox (Ralph McCullough) discover the Wilcox property in the hands of evil Sam Hardy (William Norton Bailey). Frank, who is the rightful heir to the ranch, goes into hiding, while "Breezy" takes a job in the ranch kitchen. Learning of Frank's whereabouts, Hardy plots to have the young heir killed. Luckily, Breezy overhears the villain plotting with his henchmen and is able to rescue his friend. Hardy and his men are arrested, and Frank, now cured of his illness, is reunited with his girl, June Marston (Nita Cavalier). Breezy, meanwhile, is busy romancing his kitchen staff colleague, Mary Jane (Louise Lorraine).
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Faust (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Wild Horse Canyon
Title: Wild Horse Canyon
Character: Rodney Roland
Released: May 30, 1925
Type: Movie
The foreman of a ranch owned by a pretty young girl captures a herd of wild horses, but the herd's lead horse manages to break them free. The foreman blames a drifting cowboy, Yak, for the break-out. Yak, however, seems intent on provoking a confrontation with the foreman at every opportunity--and, as it turns out, for good reason.
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Secrets of the Night
Title: Secrets of the Night
Character: Alfred Austin
Released: November 12, 1924
Type: Movie
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.
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Wolves of the North
Title: Wolves of the North
Character: Henry Allardyce
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
The adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.
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The Eagle's Talons
Title: The Eagle's Talons
Character: Judson Steele
Released: April 30, 1923
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous gang attempts to corner the wheat market.
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The Love Gambler
Title: The Love Gambler
Character: Cameo Colby
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Drifter Dick Manners arrives at a ranch owned by Colonel Angus McClelland. When he wagers that he will be able to ride a wild bronco and kiss the ranchman's haughty daughter, Jean -- and wins -- he lands a job there. But Manners and Jean really fall in love and Colonel McClelland fires him. He then meets a woman who is dying, and she begs him to marry her so that her child will have a name. Manners obliges, and then Jean finds out about the situation.
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The Top of New York
Title: The Top of New York
Character: Gregory Stearns
Released: June 18, 1922
Type: Movie
Hilda lives in a tenement apartment with her aunt, Mrs. Brady, and her crippled younger brother Micky, and works in a department store where her boss lusts after her. But happiness comes into her life when she meets artist Emery Gray. Gray's wife deserted him long ago, leaving him with their daughter Susan (Mary Jane Irving) to raise. While Susan and Micky become playmates, Hilda restores Gray's faith in womanhood.
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There Are No Villains
Title: There Are No Villains
Character: George Sala
Released: November 14, 1921
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence against suspected opium smuggler George Sala. She then advises Detective Flint of her plan to develop a relationship with John King, an impoverished, disabled ex-soldier who Rosa met in George's office. After claiming to have lost her home in a fire, Rosa is invited to stay in John's modest flat. He receives money from a mysterious source, enabling them to afford a more expensive apartment, and they soon fall in love. Although Rosa secretly witnesses John receiving a package from George, she tells the skeptical Flint that her lover is above suspicion. John agrees to end his association with George if Rosa will marry him, and, realizing that a wife cannot legally testify against her husband, she agrees.
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Sink or Swim
Title: Sink or Swim
Character: Count Vortsky
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A silent comedy Sink or Swim edited from the 1917 film The Yankee Way (1917)
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Parted Curtains
Title: Parted Curtains
Character: Wheeler Masters
Released: April 2, 1920
Type: Movie
A young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. Broke and hungry, he steals money off of a painter. The painter, however, takes pity on him and decides to help him get his life back together.
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The Solitary Sin
Title: The Solitary Sin
Character: Mr. Meredith
Released: July 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently explains "the birds and the bees" to him, and even takes him to a hospital to see the effects of venereal disease.
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The Wildcat of Paris
Title: The Wildcat of Paris
Character: Jean Rovel
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A girl from Paris' underworld fights for love and survival during a time of international turmoil.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Tell
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Tell
Character: Eric Werner
Released: December 9, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, young Englishman Hawtrey Burke captivates New York society with his charming manner and his skill at polo, but he incurs the scorn of the woman he loves, Elinor Warden, who, having recently returned from war-torn Belgium, cannot understand why Hawtrey is not on the front lines.
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Bread
Title: Bread
Character: Arnold Train
Released: August 31, 1918
Type: Movie
Bread is a socially engaged drama which follows the fate of a woman struggling to pull herself out of poverty as she’s ruthlessly exploited by a string of men.
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The Girl from Bohemia
Title: The Girl from Bohemia
Released: August 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Alice Paige lives the Bohemian life in New York's Greenwich Village until she receives a letter informing her that she soon will inherit a fine country estate, provided that she live on the property with her maiden aunt. Alice reluctantly leaves New York for the provincial Southern town of Mayport, where she shocks the local inhabitants with her unconventional ways.
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After the War
Title: After the War
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
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The Kaiser's Shadow
Title: The Kaiser's Shadow
Character: Clement Boyd
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
French scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray and ultra violet rays, called a "Ray Rifle." Miss Dalton played the girl that would protect it from German spies.
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The Risky Road
Title: The Risky Road
Character: Miles Kingston
Released: April 8, 1918
Type: Movie
Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Park would direct films with actress and producer Dorothy Phillips for the company’s Bluebird brand. Park’s films often had a strong female perspective and The Risky Road is no exception. The story of a country girl who comes to the city to work, but falls for a rich man and undeservedly gets a bad reputation, the film was marketed as “the drama every woman should see”. The surviving fragment, showing the despair of Phillips’s character, is a real cinematic gem that leaves one yearning for more material of the film to be discovered. In 2008, a tinted nitrate fragment, with Swedish intertitles at the opening of the second reel, was deposited at the Archival Film Collections of the Svenska Filminstitutet. From the fragment, a 35mm B&W duplicate negative was made, from which this print was struck using the tinting of the nitrate as color reference.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Character: Richard Barnaby
Released: April 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Lawrence Percival Van Huyler, a society fop, protests against the necessity of living up to his snobbish family's blue-blooded traditions. His fiancée, Alicia Vanderveldt, abandons him for Richard Barnaby, who ridicules the pampered Lawrence and brags of his own daring exploits in foreign countries. While the Van Huyler estate is undergoing renovation, Lawrence uncovers a box containing a confession written by the family's founder, Peter Van Huyler. In it, the patriarch admits that he was actually an Irishman of humble birth who made his fortune engaging in piracy on the high seas. Delighted, Lawrence takes a construction job and adopts a fighting attitude, challenging those who had previously made fun of him.
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The Yankee Way
Title: The Yankee Way
Character: Count Vortsky
Released: September 15, 1917
Type: Movie
Dick Mason is arrested for defending a girl's honor in a Chicago restaurant brawl, and his father sends him to Lithuania where his family owns a share in a cattle concession. By chance, the girl from the restaurant is also bound for the Balkans. While on board, Dick undertakes to renew his acquaintance with this attractive foreigner, but encounters considerable resistance. In Lithuania, Dick meets with Count Vortsky, the Minister of Finance, who presses him to sell his cattle concession, hoping to clinch a coup attempt he is planning with the Bulgarian Ambassador. Somewhat suspicious, Dick agrees to announce his decision only in the presence of Princess Alexia, who turns out to be the girl from the restaurant.
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Conscience
Title: Conscience
Character: Alan Mackay
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
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.
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The Love Thief
Title: The Love Thief
Character: Costa
Released: December 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Sir Charles Beverly
Released: July 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Mildred Manning wants to experience the Wild West firsthand with her beau, Sir Charles Beverly. While Charles is gambling, Mildred is saved from two drunken cowboys by Del Burton. Del falls in love with Mildred and follows her back east.
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Under Two Flags
Title: Under Two Flags
Character: Baroni
Released: July 21, 1915
Type: Movie
Tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the Foreign Legion.
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The Burglar and the Lady
Title: The Burglar and the Lady
Character: Rev. John Banfield
Released: November 6, 1914
Type: Movie
A gentleman burglar is a detective, which acts as a shield to his more shady pastime.