Clifford Bruce

Clifford Bruce

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Devil-May-Care
Title: Devil-May-Care
Character: Gaston
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
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Black Is White
Title: Black Is White
Character: Baron Demetrius Strakosch
Released: March 7, 1920
Type: Movie
A man's jealousy of his wife ruins their marriage. She leaves, taking a new name and beginning anew. Years later, they meet, but the husband does not know it is she. They marry, with the wife hoping that time has changed her husband for the better.
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The Racing Strain
Title: The Racing Strain
Character: Jim De Luce
Released: December 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Lucille Cameron, the spirited daughter of a Kentucky colonel, discovers that her father is nearly bankrupt as a result of his dealings with New York horseman and stock promoter Jim De Luce....
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Riders of the Night
Title: Riders of the Night
Character: John Derr
Released: October 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was set in Kentucky hill country. Collins' wifeViola Dana stars as Sally Castleton, a country girl in love with a brooding and idealistic aristocrat. When her sweetheart joins a night-riding vigilante organization, Sally is temporarily dismayed but resolves to hide the man from the authorities.
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Breakers Ahead
Title: Breakers Ahead
Character: Eric Pixley
Released: March 25, 1918
Type: Movie
After young Ruth Bowman's mother dies, the child is raised by Agatha Pixley, and in time, the girl falls in love with Agatha's son, Eric. While Eric is at sea with Captain Scudder on a boat owned by Jim and Hiram Hawley, a jealous villager spreads the tale that Ruth is illegitimate, and the townspeople inevitably snub her. Jim Hiram sets his boat on fire after its arrival in port so that he can collect insurance money, and Ruth, believing that Eric is on board, tries to rescue him. When Ruth and Eric escape safely, Captain Scudder reveals that he, Ruth's long-lost father, was legally married to her mother, which re-establishes Ruth's good name and enables her to marry Eric. - From IMDB
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A Weaver of Dreams
Title: A Weaver of Dreams
Character: Carter Keith
Released: March 2, 1918
Type: Movie
A Weaver of Dreams is a lost silent film directed by Edison's John H. Collins
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The Marriage Trap
Title: The Marriage Trap
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
The Marriage Trap is a 1918 silent film
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Blue Jeans
Title: Blue Jeans
Character: Ben Boone
Released: December 10, 1917
Type: Movie
June, a young orphan, is befriended by Perry Bascom when he shares his lunch with her on the road to Rising Sun. They soon fall in love and marry, only to find out that a woman in Perry's past has come to town to make trouble. Teaming up with the local political bully, the schemers set out to make Perry's life miserable, but June sticks by her husband to the end.
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The Siren
Title: The Siren
Character: Derrick McClade
Released: July 1, 1917
Type: Movie
After being unfaithful to "The Stranger", who committed a murder on her account, Cherry Millard, known as "The Siren", leaves to work in a dance hall in the Western town of Nugget. When Burt Hall arrives in town to deliver a will to the heirs of Bruce McClade, he is captivated by Cherry, who learns of Burt's mission. Discovering that the will dictates that Dr. Langdon, a friend of the family, is to receive $25,000, Cherry decides to impersonate Langdon's daughter Rose and thus gain possession of the money. In the meantime, The Stranger, who has been freed from jail, returns, recognizes Cherry as The Siren and kills her. This frees Burt from her evil spell, and The Stranger, now insane, follows The Siren's spirit into the desert.
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The Barricade
Title: The Barricade
Character: John Cook
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Debutante Hope Merrill (Mabel Taliaferro) returns home one day to find her financier father Amos Merrill (Frank Currier) on the verge of committing suicide. Rather than reveal the truth -- that he has misappropriated funds from his own company -- Merrill claims that he has been ruined by young John Cook (Clifford Bruce), Hope's sweetheart.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Passion
Title: Seven Deadly Sins: Passion
Released: February 26, 1917
Type: Movie
One in a series of seven films with the subject of the Seven Deadly Sins. The film makers decided not to use the title "Lust"
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The Weakness of Strength
Title: The Weakness of Strength
Character: Bill Jackson
Released: August 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Through a real estate purchase Daniel Gaynor acquires all rights in the waterway leading from Moose River to the mill. The original owner has never made use of his rights, but Gaynor, whose one thought is to get power, refuses to allow logs to be floated down the river running through his property. The men resent this injustice, and there is a fight between Gaynor and Bill Jackson, Bill representing the lumbermen.
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The Devil at His Elbow
Title: The Devil at His Elbow
Character: John Ashton
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
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Lady Audley's Secret
Title: Lady Audley's Secret
Character: George Talboys
Released: August 4, 1915
Type: Movie
Theda Bara melodrama is considered lost
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The Devil's Daughter
Title: The Devil's Daughter
Released: June 16, 1915
Type: Movie
"My heart is ice, my passion consuming fire. Let men beware," exclaimed Theda Bara (via an inter-title, of course) in this "Vamp" melodrama based on Grabriele D'Annunzio's 1898 story La Gioconda.
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A Fool There Was
Title: A Fool There Was
Character: The Friend
Released: January 12, 1915
Type: Movie
John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come along with him. On the ship to England, Schuyler meets the notorious Vampire - a relentless gold digger who causes the moral degradation of those she seduces, first fascinating and then draining the very life from her victims.
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When Rome Ruled
Title: When Rome Ruled
Character: Caius
Released: August 20, 1914
Type: Movie
Nydia, an Early Christian girl seemingly singled out for exclusive persecution by the despotic empress of Rome. The empress' ire seems to have been aroused by the fact that her erstwhile sweetheart, handsome centurion Caius (a very young Ernest Truex) is in love with Nydia.
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The Perils of Pauline
Title: The Perils of Pauline
Character: Gypsy Leader
Released: March 31, 1914
Type: Movie
The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring the actress Pearl White playing the title character. Pauline has often been cited as a famous example of a damsel-in-distress, although viewers will find her character more resourceful and less helpless than the classic 'damsel' stereotype. Nine episodes (from a condensed 1916 re-release) survive to this day.