William Welsh

William Welsh

Born: February 8, 1870
Died: July 16, 1946
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for William Welsh...

Cavalry
Title: Cavalry
Character: General John Harvey
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Just after the Civil War, Captain Thorn is sent west to help protect the new telegraph line that is under construction. Leeds is out to establish an independent nation in the west and tries stop its construction and also incoming wagon trains by inciting the Indians to attack both of them.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Conductor
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Queen of the Jungle
Title: Queen of the Jungle
Character: John Lawrence
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A 12-chapter serial built around stock footage from a 1922 silent serial, "The Jungle Goddess",young David Worth and Joan Lawrence are children with a group of explorers that are seeking African radium deposits. They are playing in the basket of the party's air balloon when the bag takes off with Joan aboard, last seen sailing over the back-lot jungle. This puts a chill on the expedition and all hands return to whence they came. The end of chapter 1, "Lost in the Clouds", finds Marilyn's balloon being shot down by the flaming arrows of a native tribe. Chapter 2,"Radium Rays", reveals that Joan survived her descent and the tribe named "the child from the sky" as their queen and priestess.A flash forward of about 18 years finds that the now-adult David has returned to Africa to search for his long-lost childhood friend.He hits the trail and is quickly captured by the tribesmen and is brought to their sadistic ruler,who turns out to be a now-grown Joan. Unaware of his or her own true ...
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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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Beyond the Rockies
Title: Beyond the Rockies
Character: John Allen
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
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Freighters of Destiny
Title: Freighters of Destiny
Character: Dad Mercer
Released: October 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
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Sundown Trail
Title: Sundown Trail
Character: Pa Stoddard
Released: September 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
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The Love Trader
Title: The Love Trader
Character: Benson
Released: September 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
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Skinner Steps Out
Title: Skinner Steps Out
Released: November 24, 1929
Type: Movie
William Henry Skinner's young wife has great confidence in her husband's abilities and is ambitious for his success. He informs her of his importance at the office; but in reality he is an insignificant employee on a small salary, and when refused a raise, he hasn't the courage to tell his wife. Distressed at her husband's shabby appearance, "Honey" persuades him to buy a dress suit, and at a charity bazaar she pushes him to the front so that he dominates the affair and comes to the attention of the dignitaries. Skinner forces himself upon the attention of his employer and the employer's chief rival, whose admiration he wins when he bluffs him out of a poker pot. In spite of Skinner's efforts to prevent it, the rival companies are consolidated; and impressed by his spirit and enthusiasm, his superiors promote him to sales manager.
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The Mississippi Gambler
Title: The Mississippi Gambler
Character: Captain Weathers
Released: November 3, 1929
Type: Movie
He was a handsome gambler, living by his wits; yet when he played for the biggest stake of his life he threw away the winning hand; She was the beautiful daughter of a Southern gentleman; yet she fell in love with the gambler. How? Why? See the answer in this utterly charming, smashingly dramatic and colorful romance of river days fraught with adventure.
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Come and Get It!
Title: Come and Get It!
Character: Judge Elliott
Released: February 3, 1929
Type: Movie
When Breezy's father is accused of murdering his neighbor, the former Navy boxing champ takes to the street to clear his name.
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Companionate Marriage
Title: Companionate Marriage
Released: October 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Sally Williams (Betty Bronson) marries Donald Moore (Richard Walling) and have trials and tribulations and input from others but they demonstrate that the most successful marriages are usually based on trust and respect, rather than on sex alone. Released in the UK under the title of "The Jazz Bride".
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Lightning Speed
Title: Lightning Speed
Character: Governor Standish
Released: August 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Jack Pemberton, a cub reporter falls in love with Betty (Mary Mayberry), the governor's daughter. During an investigation into racketeering, Jack learns that gangster Velvet is attempting to kidnap Betty in order to force her father to pardon a relative on death row.
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The Head of the Family
Title: The Head of the Family
Character: Daniel Sullivan
Released: January 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Silent Comedy film directed by Joseph C. Boyle
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Daredevil's Reward
Title: Daredevil's Reward
Character: James Powell (as William Welch)
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Tom Mix portrayed a daredevil ranger on the trail of a gang of outlaws. To get close to the gang, Tom utilizes various cunning disguises, including donning the garb of a medicine man. Along the way, complications arise when Tom falls for the niece (Natalie Joyce) of the gang leader (William Welch).
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The Opening Night
Title: The Opening Night
Character: Fisherman
Released: November 14, 1927
Type: Movie
When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress wife Carol Chandler (Claire Windsor), thought to be a widow, marrying her leading man Jimmy Keane (John Bowers). Rather than mar her new-found happiness, he takes a job washing cars. New York City is a small town. Will Carol need her car washed?
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Chain Lightning
Title: Chain Lightning
Character: George Clearwater (as William Welch)
Released: August 14, 1927
Type: Movie
Steve Lannon is a retired gunman and reformed-outlaw who has left his ranch and is living in seclusion in San Francisco. He receives word that rustlers are on the rampage in the area of his ranch, and have stolen his horse, Silver. Steve returns to Nevada to take care of this matter.
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The Western Rover
Title: The Western Rover
Character: Alexander Seaton
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Returning to the family ranch after a spell as a circus performer, Art Hayes finds that a crooked ranch foreman has forced his father into bankruptcy.
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Hills of Peril
Title: Hills of Peril
Character: Grimes
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Sheriff is aided by Laramie who pretends to be an outlaw to infiltrate a gang of bootleggers. Laramie is attracted to Ellen, who is trying to activate an old mine. He helps her with the mine and captures the bootleggers.
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Paying the Price
Title: Paying the Price
Character: Thomas Gordon
Released: April 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Michael Donovan, a heavy loser at a gambling casino, confronts its owner with evidence of cheating and finds himself accused of murder, on circumstantial evidence, of the owner's murder.
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Benson at Calford
Title: Benson at Calford
Character: Abner Benson, Ed's Father
Released: November 8, 1926
Type: Movie
The first entry in the Collegians comedy short series, with 4th of July celebrations.
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Obey the Law
Title: Obey the Law
Character: The Father
Released: November 5, 1926
Type: Movie
When his old prison-friend's daughter is about to wed a wealthy man, the friend steals a valuable pendant and gives it to the girl's father. The father, in turn and not realizing it is stolen goods, gives it to his daughter as a wedding present. But the law shows up looking for the pendant.
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The Man from the West
Title: The Man from the West
Character: Bill Hayes
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Art Louden, foreman of the Bar H Ranch, is contemptuous of the masculine city flappers and effeminate city sheiks who are vacationing on the ranch, and when reproached by the owner, Bill Hayes, for discourtesy to a guest, Art complains that there are no "she-women" left. Seeing a newspaper photo of Iris Millard, he is attracted by her apparent innocence; then she arrives with her father, and Art is disillusioned to find her as snobbish and as jazzily dressed as the others. His disdain, however, causes Iris to play up to his ideas.
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Frenzied Flames
Title: Frenzied Flames
Character: Captain Meagan
Released: September 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Cullen Landis stars as rookie fireman Danny Grogan. Though well-liked by his colleagues, Danny is openly despised by one of the smoke-eaters, who has a yen for our hero's sweetheart.
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The Set-Up
Title: The Set-Up
Character: Sheriff Hayes
Released: May 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Cliff Barton, suspicious of the intentions of the local banker, Seth Tolliver, withdraws his money from the bank, hides it, and is later killed by two hirelings of the banker. Deputy Sheriff Art Stratton, who has trained Barton's horse and is in love with his daughter, Thora, is assigned to guard the ranch for the creditors; and Tolliver, who has designs on the property and wants his son to marry Thora, arranges to have the ranch auctioned.
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The White Outlaw
Title: The White Outlaw
Character: Malcolm Gale
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Jack Lupton loves three things in the world, Buck his dog, Scout his horse and the lovely rancher's daughter Mary Gale. But his beloved horse Scout was driven off by man's cruelty and finding freedom, now leads a big herd of horses to run wild! And Jack has his own problems with the cruelty of his fellow man, in the form of James Hill his brutal and jealous rival for Mary's affections!
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: Ben Hanfer
Released: August 2, 1925
Type: Movie
White Elk, a light-skinned Indian chief, incurs the enmity of Chief Black Panther, whom he prevents from looting a westbound wagon train. Although White Elk is betrothed to an Indian princess, he falls in love with Lucille Cavanagh, a white woman from the East. After her father, John Cavanagh, tricks White Elk into signing away the lands of his tribe, the young chief is condemned to be burned alive by Black Panther.
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The Fighting Ranger
Title: The Fighting Ranger
Character: John Marshall
Released: May 11, 1925
Type: Movie
After crashing his plane in the wilderness, a young airborne forest ranger is nursed back to health by a mountain man and his pretty daughter in this 18-chapter serial from Universal.
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The Red Warning
Title: The Red Warning
Character: George Ainslee
Released: December 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Phillip Haver, who, along with his friend Toby Jones, finds David Ainslee dying in the desert. After rustlers stole his cattle, Ainslee went off in search of a lost mine and fell victim to a killer. Before he kicks the bucket, Ainslee hands Haver a poke of gold dust to pay off the mortgage on the ranch.
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The Ramblin' Kid
Title: The Ramblin' Kid
Character: Lafe Dorsey
Released: October 14, 1923
Type: Movie
The Ramblin' Kid, a cowboy, falls in love with Carolyn June, a beautiful easterner, and wins her after he triumphs in a rodeo in spite of having been doped by his enemy, Sabota the Greek, a crafty racetrack tout.
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Shadows of the North
Title: Shadows of the North
Character: Jeffrey Neilson
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Edison Marshall
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Shootin' for Love
Title: Shootin' for Love
Character: Bill Randolph
Released: June 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Duke Travis returns from the war suffering from shell shock and an inordinate fear of guns. His father, a ranch owner, refuses to accept Duke's disability and considers him a coward.
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The Shock
Title: The Shock
Character: Mischa Hadley
Released: June 10, 1923
Type: Movie
A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
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Dead Game
Title: Dead Game
Character: Harlu
Released: April 23, 1923
Type: Movie
"Katy" Didd holds up the stage in which his sweetheart, Alice Mason, is traveling to her wedding to Prince Tetlow, to whom her guardian insists that she be married. Katy hides her at his ranch, but Tetlow finds her and abandons Katy in the desert.
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The Flirt
Title: The Flirt
Character: George Carroll
Released: December 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
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Ridin' Wild
Title: Ridin' Wild
Character: John Henderson
Released: November 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeople when he tries to act tough to impress Grace Nolan, who is allowing Art Jordan, the town bully, to occupy her time so as to pique Cyril. The murder of Andrew McBride, who holds the mortgage on the Henderson's property, is blamed on the elder Henderson, and Cyril unsuccessfully tries to take the blame.
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The Lone Hand
Title: The Lone Hand
Character: Al Sheridan
Released: October 16, 1922
Type: Movie
Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, but before he can relax, he meets Jane Sheridan and her father, Al Sheridan, who are fighting off a group of swindlers who want the old man's mining property.
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Top o' the Morning
Title: Top o' the Morning
Released: September 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Jerry O'Donnell arrives from Ireland to be with her father in America. However, she soon finds living with her stepmother unpleasant, Jerry leaves home and encounters John Garland, a millionaire, now a widower, whom she knew in Ireland.
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Crossed Clues
Title: Crossed Clues
Released: April 30, 1921
Type: Movie
Crossed Clues is a 1921 silent Western.
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Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Title: Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Character: Pa Benton
Released: September 17, 1920
Type: Movie
The mother of a large family is abandoned by her children and faces consignment to the poorhouse. But one of her offspring, the one no one had faith in, returns to rescue her.
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Trailed by Three
Title: Trailed by Three
Character: Aboto
Released: April 4, 1920
Type: Movie
The story of a girl who for months was in perpetual peril; on land, on sea, everywhere, Orient, Occident, and the Antipodes.
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The Heart of Humanity
Title: The Heart of Humanity
Character: Prussian Officer
Released: December 21, 1918
Type: Movie
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers. The war interrupts their romantic idyll, as everyone goes overseas to Belgium and France. Nanette becomes a Red Cross nurse and is terrorized by the evil Prussian Lt. von Eberhard.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Character: Charles Denver
Released: December 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away.
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The Foolish Virgin
Title: The Foolish Virgin
Character: Jim's father
Released: September 26, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 film.
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The Narrow Path
Title: The Narrow Path
Released: September 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Bessie Allen, a girl of the slums, dances in the streets of the Lower East Side of New York to the delight of the crowds. She becomes an orphan when her father, in a drunken stupor, kills her mother, and then himself. Bessie is knocked down by the car of Mrs. Latham, a society matron, who takes an interest in the girl and procures her a job as a dress model.
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Elusive Isabel
Title: Elusive Isabel
Character: Chief Campbell
Released: May 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle.
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The Lords of High Decision
Title: The Lords of High Decision
Released: February 28, 1916
Type: Movie
Even though he disapproves of the harshness with which his father, the Colonel, treats his employees, Wayne Craighill joins the old man's mining business. Adding to the strain between father and son, Wayne soon falls in love with Jean, the daughter of a small mine owner whom the Colonel wants to put out of business.
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The Primrose Path
Title: The Primrose Path
Released: December 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Too poor to pay for medicine, Ned Templeton, a struggling young artist living in Paris, lapses into a prolonged illness. To save her husband's life, Joan Templeton sells herself to a rich art dealer, then tells Ned that the money came from her father. After the couple emigrates to America, Ned encounters Cartwright, a millionaire who commissions a portrait of his daughter Helen. The heiress becomes infatuated with Ned who, enjoying the money and attention, neglects Joan more each day, sending her away and finally forcing her to work as a model to support herself. While posing for an art class, Joan meets Helen, and Helen recognizes her rival from one of Ned's paintings.
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The Eleventh Dimension
Title: The Eleventh Dimension
Character: Professor Singleton
Released: July 16, 1915
Type: Movie
A professor seeks to prove life after death by reviving a dead body.
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Conscience
Title: Conscience
Character: John Benson
Released: June 25, 1915
Type: Movie
Inventor George Grant and his partner, financier John Benson, accept an offer of $200,000 for the rights to an invention. After Grant breaks up a fight in a bar between drunken Dave Wilson and an old man reprimanding him, Dave is told by his mother to apologize to Grant. He meets Benson, who witnessed the fight, outside Grant's apartment and tells him his purpose, but during Dave's conversation with Grant, Grant suddenly drops dead. The police find Dave hiding, and after a pistol is found outside and Benson tells them about the fight but says he knew nothing about Dave's apology, Dave is convicted of murder and electrocuted.
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The White Terror
Title: The White Terror
Character: David Duncan
Released: June 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Self-made man Emerson Boyd of Every-town owns the Boyd Mills, which uses child labor and disregards health regulations, and the Boyd Chemical Company, which manufactures harmful patent medicines. Crooked politician David Duncan, the mills's general manager, misinforms Boyd about factory conditions. After Boyd's beloved daughter postpones accepting the proposal of Matthew Brand, an unambitious rich young man, until he does something for humanity, Matthew reads an exposé of the mills by editor Clifford Cole. He buys Cole's newspaper when Boyd attempts to stifle it and supports the National Tuberculosis Society's proposal to build a sanitarium in Every-town to combat the rise of tuberculosis.
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Courtmartialed
Title: Courtmartialed
Released: May 21, 1915
Type: Movie
Jules, the son of French General Bleriot, agrees to give a masked blackmailer his father's secret military papers when threatened with exposure of his gambling debts. Masked, Jules steals the papers, but during a struggle with his father, Jules receives a knife wound in his arm.
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Neptune's Daughter
Title: Neptune's Daughter
Character: King Neptune (as William Welch)
Released: April 25, 1914
Type: Movie
The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love with the king, the man she holds responsible.
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The Conscience of Hassan Bey
Title: The Conscience of Hassan Bey
Character: Hassan Bey
Released: December 20, 1913
Type: Movie
From the dungeon where the lean beasts prowled, Hassan Bey summoned from her young lover's arms the old rug maker's daughter. Still she was obdurate. In his madness, he had poisoned his other love with the deadly sting of a serpent. His fury spent, he fell from bey to man, and sought to atone according to his light.
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Traffic in Souls
Title: Traffic in Souls
Character: William Trubus
Released: November 24, 1913
Type: Movie
A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
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His Hour of Triumph
Title: His Hour of Triumph
Character: Leonard Dare - the Actor / Manager
Released: October 30, 1913
Type: Movie
Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip Dawany, one of the important characters of the cast. His company is temporarily dismissed and he returns home. Derwent Hall calls for an interview with Dare. Hall's wife is sick: the doctor has instructed Hall to give her better food and medical attention. Hall, desperate, takes the opportunity of urging Dare to allow him to read his play. Spellbound, Dare listens to the most absurd line of talk he has ever heard, but is very much surprised by the magnificent acting of the author. Dare writes out a check for the play and while the hungry man looks on, calmly throws the manuscript on the fire. Dare says he will make him the greatest actor living. Hall is cast in the part of PhiIip Dawany. At first Hall is treated with distinct coldness by the audience, but at last cheer after cheer rolls out as the curtain falls. In this moment, his hour of triumph, a message reaches him from home.