Joseph Kilgour

Joseph Kilgour

Movies for Joseph Kilgour...

Let's Get Married
Title: Let's Get Married
Character: Billy's Father
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout old woman who deals in hymnals. She turns out to be devoutly drunk and a saloon brawler, leading to Billy's imprisonment. He tells his fiancée he's doing missionary work on a pacific island. He escapes and persuades her to marry him, all the while dodging the police who pursue him.
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The King On Main Street
Title: The King On Main Street
Character: Arthur Trent
Released: October 24, 1925
Type: Movie
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
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Percy
Title: Percy
Character: Jasper Rogeen
Released: April 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
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Capital Punishment
Title: Capital Punishment
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates a fairly serious melodrama to a timeless and profound social statement. Opening the film on death row where the handsome youth awaits the chair, a stirring test of the legal system evolves after two elite types conspire to expose its inadequacies. Elite, jaded society lawyer Gordon Harrington fabricates a murder, implicating an entirely "hired" fall-guy, one Dan O'Connor, while the bored playboy-type hides away on a yacht until the points are proven and the legal system has been disgraced. Naturally, something goes wrong, the playboy really turns up murdered, and O'Connor is now the accused, imprisoned murderer scheduled to be hanged.
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Janice Meredith
Title: Janice Meredith
Character: Gen. George Washington
Released: December 8, 1924
Type: Movie
It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington.
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The Torrent
Title: The Torrent
Character: Leed's Friend
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard and falls in love with her.
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Ponjola
Title: Ponjola
Character: Conrad Lypiatt
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Ponjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley and directed by Donald Crisp. The film stars Anna Q. Nilsson in a role in which she masquerades as a man. A print of Ponjola still exists and is held by a private collector.
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The Midnight Alarm
Title: The Midnight Alarm
Character: Silas Carrington
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Shortly after being made the executor of a wealthy man's estate, a man murders his benefactor. He then makes a play for the widow, who rebuffs him. To escape his arduous pursuit, she takes her little daughter on a trip but dies in an auto accident. The daughter is rescued but disappears. Her grandparents spend years looking for her, as does the executor who killed her father--if she's found she'll inherit the estate and he won't get a penny. He aims to see that she's never found, and if she is he plans to see that she doesn't live long enough to make a claim to the estate.
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The Woman with Four Faces
Title: The Woman with Four Faces
Character: Judson Osgood
Released: June 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The woman with four faces is a movie about a woman who happens to be both a thief and a con artist and who cannot be arrested because she is faceless.
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Within the Law
Title: Within the Law
Character: Edward Gilder
Released: April 28, 1923
Type: Movie
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.
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At the End of the World
Title: At the End of the World
Character: William Blaine
Released: August 14, 1921
Type: Movie
This dramatic adventure finds the flirtatious Cherry O'Day as the daughter of the Shanghai saloon keeper Terrence. She works in the dive and entertains the patrons, sending them away after they cease to amuse her. Cherry falls for Gordon Deane, the American writer and adventurer who barely notices her.
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I Am Guilty
Title: I Am Guilty
Character: Teddy Garrick
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Connie (Louise Glaum) is married to attorney Robert MacNair (Mahlon Hamilton). When he leaves town on a business trip, her friend from the old days, Molly May (May Hopkins), invites her to a party. Connie, who misses her old life, decides to go under an assumed name. Teddy Garrick, the host (Joseph Kilgour), makes a play for her and she burns her shoulder trying to get away from him. Dillon, a burglar who is hiding in the house (George Cooper), surreptitiously presses a gun into Connie's hand from behind a curtain. As Garrick comes toward her he is shot dead.
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Lying Lips
Title: Lying Lips
Character: William Chase
Released: January 30, 1921
Type: Movie
A spoiled rich girl from England encounters a wonderful young man who, unfortunately, has no money. Will love or money win out?
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Love
Title: Love
Character: Alvin Dunning
Released: December 5, 1920
Type: Movie
A young woman, Natalie Storm works in a sweatshop and struggles to support her mother and little sister, Beatrice. Their mother dies and Beatrice suffers from poverty. Because of her circumstances, Natalie rejects the marriage proposal of Tom Chandler, a self-educated mining engineer. He then leaves for South America, where he intends to make his fortune. To save her sister and herself, Natalie becomes the mistress of a wealthy Wall Street magnate, Alvin Dunning. When he publicly humiliates her, however, she becomes determined to free herself. Meanwhile, Chandler discovers a copper mine in South America and returns. He is invited to a party at Dunning's home. When he meets Natalie as Dunning's mistress he is heartbroken and abruptly leaves. Natalie is by now desperate to get away from Dunning. She then acquires enough money from a lucky stock tip to leave him.
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The Broken Gate
Title: The Broken Gate
Character: William Henderson
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an illegitimate child and with the earnings from her millinery shop, she has sent him away to be educated. When Don, her son (Arnold Gregg), returns from college, he finds he has to defend his mother constantly. He is accused of murdering a man who made a snide remark about Aurora and is put on trial.
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The Yellow Typhoon
Title: The Yellow Typhoon
Character: Karl Lysgaard
Released: May 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Hilda and Berta Nordstrom, although identical in appearance, are opposites in temperament. Berta weds naval engineer Robert Hallowell, deserts him in Europe, and travels to the Orient in search of the gay life where she becomes a notorious courtesan known as The Yellow Typhoon.
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The Heart of a Child
Title: The Heart of a Child
Character: Lord Fortive
Released: April 11, 1920
Type: Movie
A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.
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The Walk-Offs
Title: The Walk-Offs
Character: Murray Van Allan
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
After the divorce of Schuyler Rutherford from his rich wife Caroline, who was his meal ticket, Schuyler's sister Kathleen is so humiliated by the fact that her penniless condition was brought to light during the court proceedings that she seeks solace in her friend, sculptress Mary Carter. Mary offers her friend a job as her secretary and, while working, she becomes acquainted with Mary's wealthy cousin Robert Winston when she overhears him denouncing parasitic girls like Kathleen. Vowing revenge, Kathleen assumes a false name and obtains a position as Robert's secretary, determined to make him fall in love with her.
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Lombardi, Ltd.
Title: Lombardi, Ltd.
Character: Bob Tarrant
Released: October 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max Strohm, the manager of a musical review, has promised payment for his girls' lavish costumes as soon as the show makes money. To the dismay of Norah Blake, Lombardi's faithful assistant, who loves him, Lombardi proposes to Phyllis Manning, one of the showgirls, and presents her with his finest creations, while not even attempting to kiss her, as she puts off setting a wedding date and also accepts the attentions of wealthy bachelor Bob Tarrant.
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The Lion's Den
Title: The Lion's Den
Character: Grocer Stedman
Released: May 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy grocer in the process.
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The Divorcee
Title: The Divorcee
Character: Robert Montgomery
Released: January 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Based on the 1907 play 'Lady Frederick' by W. Somerset Maugham, this tells the story of Betsy O'Hara in her pursuit of romance and love.
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The House of Mirth
Title: The House of Mirth
Character: Augustus Trenor-Dorset
Released: August 5, 1918
Type: Movie
Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.
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Social Hypocrites
Title: Social Hypocrites
Character: Lord Royle Fitzmaurice
Released: April 6, 1918
Type: Movie
While playing cards, Col. Francis Fielding is unjustly accused of cheating by the Earl of St. Albans. The charges are considered so serious in that strata of society that Fielding is disowned by his parents and held in contempt by "proper" society. Fleeing to Paris, Fielding marries and fathers a baby daughter he names Leonore. His wife soon dies and he is forced to raise the girl on his own, alone and broke. He soon dies, and Leonore is adopted by his sister Lady Mountstephen, but it's not much of an improvement: the "lady" hates Leonore, treats her badly and finally disowns her. Things look grim for Leonore until Lord Fitzmaurice loans her a sum of money. Unfortunately, that deed arouses the anger of the wildly jealous Lady Norton, who is secretly married to him. Complications ensue.
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Runaway Romany
Title: Runaway Romany
Character: Theodore True
Released: December 23, 1917
Type: Movie
Press agent "Inky" Ames, in a quandary to publicize showgirl Anitra St. Clair, convinces her to paint a birthmark on her shoulder and pose as millionaire mine owner Theodore True's long-lost daughter.
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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Title: Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Character: Marshal Prince Dario
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American forces have prepared adequately for such an event, and hidden booby traps, trick fortifications, and remote-controlled bombs...
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The Easiest Way
Title: The Easiest Way
Character: Willard Brockton
Released: April 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A young actress seeks an engagement in New York but faces obstacles due to jealousy and politics. Her wealthy broker finances a production, demanding her best role. She resists, then moves to Denver for a stock engagement and falls in love with a newspaper writer.
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The Secret Kingdom
Title: The Secret Kingdom
Character: The Prime Minister
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The Secret Kingdom is a 1917 silent action movie serial.
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The Dawn of Freedom
Title: The Dawn of Freedom
Character: George Washington
Released: August 14, 1916
Type: Movie
"The Dawn of Freedom" is a stinging satire on the death of those ideals that prompted the founders of the United States.
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Writing on the Wall
Title: Writing on the Wall
Character: Irving Lawrence
Released: February 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Irving Lawrence owns some of the most decrepit tenements in town and is an all-around bad guy. He won't cooperate with the efforts of his wife, Barbara, to help the poor and sees other women behind her back. Muriel, one of his cast-offs, meets and marries Barbara's brother, Payne. Lawrence makes trouble for Muriel and fabricates a scandal involving his kindly brother Schuyler and Barbara.
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Who Killed Joe Merrion?
Title: Who Killed Joe Merrion?
Character: Sir Phillip Randall
Released: January 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Sir Philip Randall, a prominent judge, is fed up with the antics of James, his scapegrace son, and tosses him out of the house. The conflict between father and son leaves Mrs. Randall heartbroken, and when she dies, she makes her husband swear to help James if he ever needs it. When Joe Merrion, a bookmaker, is found dead, circumstantial evidence points to Squire William Rufford. Although Randall can't believe he committed the crime, he is forced to convict him and sentence him to prison. But later, when James, whose wild ways have left him penniless, comes to his father for help, Randall discovers that he was the killer.
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The Battle Cry of Peace
Title: The Battle Cry of Peace
Character: George Washington
Released: August 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.