William A. Carroll

William A. Carroll

Born: January 8, 1875
Died: January 26, 1928
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for William A. Carroll...

The Beauty Shoppers 1927
Title: The Beauty Shoppers 1927
Released: December 12, 1927
Type: Movie
This film was released in 1927
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Snowbound
Title: Snowbound
Character: Judge Watkins
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Assuming he is marrying a wealthy girl, Peter Foley passes a fraudulent check. To save him from jail, Julia Barry poses as his wife. Peter is actually in love with Alice Blake. He encounters complications with motorcycle cop Bull, who is engaged to Julia. A friend of Alice adds to the mix-up. All wind up snowbound together in a mountain lodge.
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Josselyn's Wife
Title: Josselyn's Wife
Character: Butler (as W.A. Carroll)
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Only six months of marital bliss and Lillian Josselyn is filled with dread at the return of Pierre Marchand, her former lover, who left her to marry Ellen Latimer.
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Born to the West
Title: Born to the West
Character: Nell's Father
Released: June 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Dare Rudd and Bate Fillmore have been enemies since early childhood, primarily over the affections of Nell Worstall. Dare, assuming the name of Holt, goes west to Colorado, as does most of his Kentucky friends and enemies. The feud between Dare and Bate is renewed, and Dare learns that Nell's father is in jail on a trumped-up charge made by Bate in order to force Nell to marry him.
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North of 36
Title: North of 36
Character: Sanchez
Released: March 20, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas, 1000 miles away. The crooked State Treasurer plans to attack the cattle drive and steal all of the stock so he can gain control of her ranch.
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The Ancient Highway
Title: The Ancient Highway
Character: Ambrose
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
When not cutting down trees and shouting "TIMMMM-BERRRRR!", Jack Holt has to deal with someone who's sabotaging the camp. The miscreant turns out to be the odious Montagu Love, whom Holt dispenses with in a climactic fisticuffs session. Billie Dove provides the toothsome romantic interest.
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The Unwritten Law
Title: The Unwritten Law
Character: Mr. Smart
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
The Unwritten Law is an extant 1925 silent film crime melodrama directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Elaine Hammerstein. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. In the UK distribution was handled by Film Booking Offices of America.
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I'll Show You the Town
Title: I'll Show You the Town
Character: Professor Goodhuee
Released: June 7, 1925
Type: Movie
British comedian Reginald Denny plays a professor who is escorting three different women and needs to make a choice.
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K - The Unknown
Title: K - The Unknown
Character: Dr. Ed Wilson
Released: November 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious fellow known as K, suddenly finds that the life of his rival for Sidney's hand depends upon his revealing the secret of his own past.
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
Title: Wanderer of the Wasteland
Character: Merryvale
Released: August 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 American color silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Jack Holt, Noah Beery, and Billie Dove.
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Sporting Youth
Title: Sporting Youth
Character: Scotland Yard Detective
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Rockford, daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer.
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Alimony
Title: Alimony
Character: Philip Coburn
Released: February 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Jimmy Mason lifts himself up from poverty to unlimited riches. The audience knows that he couldn't have done it without the help and support of his wife Marion. When Jimmy starts cheating on her, she divorces him, receiving an enormous settlement. Reduced to penury by various spendthrift mistresses, Jimmy is rescued once more by Marion, who once more guides him to success-and remarries him, this time on her terms.
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Remembrance
Title: Remembrance
Character: MacClune
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a number of department stores and his wife and children are well provided for. However, his family is completely ungrateful and takes him -- and his money -- for granted. Grout's attempts to keep them all happy are driving him to bankruptcy and he eventually becomes seriously ill. Eventually his wife and kids come to realize how badly they've treated Pops.....
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Yellow Men and Gold
Title: Yellow Men and Gold
Character: John
Released: May 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Parrish, a young author, leaves his study during a storm to answer a call for help. He discovers a dying man and is rewarded with a treasure map, which he shows to Carroll, a retired sea captain. They plan a quest for the treasure; but before Carroll's ship sails, Parrish is drugged, relieved of the map, and thrown from the dock.
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Gas, Oil and Water
Title: Gas, Oil and Water
Character: Philip Ashton
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
George Watson may seem like a harmless gas-station attendant, but in reality he is a secret government agent, intent on ferreting out a gang of smugglers on the Mexican border.
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Fifty Candles
Title: Fifty Candles
Character: Henry Drew
Released: December 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Sentenced to be deported from Hawaii, Hung Chin Chung pledges twenty years of service to Henry Drew to escape the certain death that awaits him in China. Rage at his humiliation and inability to marry as a free man smolders in him throughout his servitude, near the end of which he sails to San Francisco with the Drew family. Also on board is Ralph Coolidge, who tries to retrieve from Drew his share of their gold mine, and who loves Drew's secretary, Mary-Will Tellfair. Shortly after their arrival, Henry Drew is murdered; suspicion falls on Ralph, the owner of the murder weapon, a curious Chinese dagger; but subsequent events lead Hung Chin Chung to confess to the crime.
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The Screaming Shadow
Title: The Screaming Shadow
Character: Harry Malone
Released: January 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.
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The Trail of the Octopus
Title: The Trail of the Octopus
Character: Omar
Released: October 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!
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Bill Henry
Title: Bill Henry
Character: Burton Rogers
Released: August 17, 1919
Type: Movie
Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, including losing his sales job when his bicycle is lost. A bigtime poker game turns out to be the key to Bill Henry's success.
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The Blue Bonnet
Title: The Blue Bonnet
Character: Caleb Fry
Released: July 1, 1919
Type: Movie
As an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a young woman joins the Salvation Army in order to help the kinds of people she has seen--and was--growing up. When war breaks out in Europe, she volunteers to go to France
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Cheating Cheaters
Title: Cheating Cheaters
Character: Ruth's chauffeur
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other.
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Hands Up
Title: Hands Up
Character: Sam Killman / Omar - the High Priest
Released: August 18, 1918
Type: Movie
A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.
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A Woman's Fool
Title: A Woman's Fool
Character: Lusk
Released: August 17, 1918
Type: Movie
Cowboy Lin McLean's restlessness takes him to Denver, where he becomes enamored of a waitress named Katie. Intending to marry her, Lin accompanies Katie back to the ranch, but a traveling rainmaker arrives in the little town, and Katie departs with him after revealing that he is her husband. Visiting Denver for Christmas, Lin adopts Katie's abandoned son Billy, and soon afterwards, the cowboy meets and falls in love with the new station agent, Jessamine "Jessie" Buckner. Lin and Jessie marry, and the little family is happy until Katie, determined to be rid of her neglectful husband and marry Lin instead, appears and drives Jessie away. Realizing that Lin does not love her, Katie poisons herself, and Jessie returns to Lin and Billy.
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Danger Within
Title: Danger Within
Character: Tom Paulton
Released: May 11, 1918
Type: Movie
A ruthless, miserly millionaire wakes up one day and finds that a quarantine sign reading "Danger Within!" has been tacked onto the front door of his mansion, and guards have been stationed outside to make sure that no one enters or leaves the building. The only other person in the house is Dolly, his chief clerk's six-year-old daughter, who went into the house out of curiosity just before it was quarantined.
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The Magic Eye
Title: The Magic Eye
Character: Jack (as William Carroll)
Released: April 1, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, John Bowman, the captain of a tramp steamer, refuses to allow his wife and daughter Shirley to accompany him on a long voyage because he fears that the ship may be torpedoed. Before his departure, he entrusts his life insurance policy to shipping agent Sam Bullard, who, unknown to John, once courted Mrs. Bowman. Shirley, a clairvoyant, has a vision in which her father's ship is torpedoed, and the next day, Sam reports that the ship has been sunk and John killed.
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The Girl o' Dreams
Title: The Girl o' Dreams
Character: Jack Leonard (as William Carroll)
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
After his young wife dies, Phillip Fletcher, a millionaire and sculptor, makes his home on an uncharted desert island. Harry LeRoy, a cad who is courting the widow Mrs. Hansen, desires the widow's convent-bred daughter Norma and persuades mother and daughter to accompany him on a sea cruise. When the ship catches fire, Norma, abandoned by LeRoy and her mother in the confusion, is washed ashore on Phillip's island.
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John Ermine of the Yellowstone
Title: John Ermine of the Yellowstone
Character: Crooked Bear (as William Carroll)
Released: November 5, 1917
Type: Movie
As a baby, John Ermine is stolen from a wagon train by the Crow Indians and is adopted by Chief Fire Bear. John grows to manhood, ignorant that he is a white man until his parentage is disclosed to him by Crooked Bear, a white hermit who is on friendly terms with the Crows. Crooked Bear teaches John the language and customs of the white man's civilization, impressing upon him that it is his sacred responsibility to keep peace between the white men and the Indians.
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A Dream or Two Ago
Title: A Dream or Two Ago
Released: November 27, 1916
Type: Movie
During a jewelry-store holdup, 6-year-old Millicent Hawthorne, the neglected daughter of a wealthy socialite, falls on her head and is carried home to be reared by Mother Gumpf, the leader of the thieves. The fall cost Millicent her memory, but at night she dreams of her former high-society existence, while during the day she works for Gumpf as a pickpocket and later becomes a cabaret dancer. A friend of the Hawthornes sees Millicent perform, recognizes her, and reports back to Mrs. Hawthorne, who has vowed to be a devoted mother should she ever find her daughter. Finally, after the Hawthornes rescue Millicent from Kraft, the lecherous cabaret manager, an operation restores her memory, and she delights in the love of her long-lost mother.
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Purity
Title: Purity
Character: Evil / Luston Black
Released: July 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Purity, a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modelling to publish his poetry. (IMDb)
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Revelation
Title: Revelation
Released: March 30, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Mender
Title: The Mender
Character: The Mender
Released: December 30, 1915
Type: Movie
Parents are fighting and their little girl runs away. The worrying brings them closer together and when she returns all is well with their relationship again.
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The Quest
Title: The Quest
Character: The Tribal Priest
Released: March 22, 1915
Type: Movie
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.
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The Conscience of Hassan Bey
Title: The Conscience of Hassan Bey
Character: Timur - the Bey's Slave
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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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Title: The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Character: The Mexican
Released: December 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
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The Adopted Brother
Title: The Adopted Brother
Character: The Drunk
Released: August 29, 1913
Type: Movie
A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who betrayed them. Harry’s actions ensure that William and his friend get sent to prison. They escape, and want to take revenge on Harry. Harry's wife warns the sheriff, and as William and his friend are chasing Harry on horseback, they are shot by the sheriff.
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An Indian's Loyalty
Title: An Indian's Loyalty
Character: The Accomplice
Released: August 15, 1913
Type: Movie
Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's suspicions against the hand were confirmed in time to reinstate the Indian. In gratitude the Indian captured the thief with the ranchero's money and saved the girl as well.
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During the Round-Up
Title: During the Round-Up
Character: The Mexican
Released: July 19, 1913
Type: Movie
Called away on a deal, the ranchero left the foreman in full charge of the round-up. That was the opportunity the stranger and his accomplice were seeking. The girl's determination to recover the money at all costs resulted in a daring rescue on the part of the young foreman, who registered another triumph at the final round-up.
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The Switchtower
Title: The Switchtower
Character: First Federal Agent
Released: June 15, 1913
Type: Movie
"He was a regular boy and his father a switchman. The boy determined to be like his dad and spent his play hours around the switch-tower. Thus at the crucial moment he was able to save his father's honor as a switchman, when the struggle between love and duty came and later to come to the aid of his parents in the hands of the desperate counterfeiters, eventually causing their capture." —Moving Picture World synopsis.
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His Mother's Son
Title: His Mother's Son
Character: The Steamer Captain
Released: May 31, 1913
Type: Movie
The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the little pretty things which her daughter liked. Lack of attention made her son dissolute, but later the sturdy stock of his mother showed in him and the cozy home he provided for dad and sister made them forget the past.
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The Stolen Loaf
Title: The Stolen Loaf
Character: At Dinner (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1913
Type: Movie
A poor man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, not knowing there's a stolen diamond hidden inside.
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The Tenderfoot's Money
Title: The Tenderfoot's Money
Character: The Tenderfoot
Released: May 5, 1913
Type: Movie
The tenderfoot came into camp with his ill-gotten money intending to purchase a claim. The faker salted a claim, hoping thereby to secure the money. But the gambler got ahead of him through cheating at cards. Later the tenderfoot sought to regain his money and in the struggle it fell into worthier hands.
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A Frightful Blunder
Title: A Frightful Blunder
Character: A Customer
Released: April 17, 1913
Type: Movie
An eye strain was really the cause of making the young business man realize that he loved the young typist and a wrongly compounded remedy for the same eye strain placed the girl in grave danger, the danger being averted merely through the ingenuity of the young business man with the help of his friend, the power superintendent of the city's street-car lines.
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When Dreams Come True
Title: When Dreams Come True
Character: The Policeman
Released: February 28, 1913
Type: Movie
The young owners of a California orange grove loved each other, but they were unhappy because their lives were so narrow and circumscribed. Each dreamed of wealth and prayed continually that it might come. Sometimes dreams come true and in this particular case they did. Wealth came to the couple and they were in a position to gratify their every fancy.
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What Is the Use of Repining?
Title: What Is the Use of Repining?
Released: January 30, 1913
Type: Movie
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Sharps and Chaps
Title: Sharps and Chaps
Character: Prof. De Risque
Released: November 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Professor De Risque, anxious to escape for a time the too solicitous attention of Madame De Risque, arrives at Roaring Gulch and, noting that the town numbers some very pretty girls amongst its population, he hangs out his shingle announcing the fact that he teaches the piano and violin. The professor is charming and the young ladies are impressionable, they readily desert the constant cowboys for the professor. The cowboys get their heads together and plan a counter-move.
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The Lady Barber of Roaring Gulch
Title: The Lady Barber of Roaring Gulch
Character: Si Squiggs
Released: October 25, 1912
Type: Movie
Violet De Ray opens up a barber shop at Roaring Gulch. Violet not only does a ripping good business, but she unconsciously has a hand in hurrying along several matrimonial affairs which have hung fire. This is notably the case with Si, who has loved bashfully and at a respectable distance for years. He is lured into Violet's shop, and after his chin whiskers have been clipped he emerges elated; and this coupled with Mandy's desire to protect him from such evil influences, cements a long drawn out romance.
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Hearts and Skirts
Title: Hearts and Skirts
Character: Second Cowboy
Released: October 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Mabel Russell, on her return from Europe, is informed by James Leonard, administrator of the Russell Estate, that it was her father's dying wish that she should marry Billy Jones, the son of William Jones, her father's schoolmate and lifelong friend. Mabel, however, has ideas of her own and rather resents being disposed of like a parcel of goods, so when Billy calls upon her, she takes advantage of the fact that he has not seen her since she was a child, and induces her maid (a young woman who has a good figure and passable manners, but is extremely homely), to impersonate her, while she dresses up as the maid.
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The Girls and the Chaperone
Title: The Girls and the Chaperone
Character: Phil, the Colonel's Son
Released: September 6, 1912
Type: Movie
Dick Martin, foreman of the Circle E ranch, tells Colonel Gray that his mother is coming to visit them for a short time. The Colonel thinks it's a fine opportunity to invite his three nieces from the city, as Dick's mother could act as their chaperone.
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The School Teacher and the Waif
Title: The School Teacher and the Waif
Character: The Street Fakir's Assistant
Released: June 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.
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Lena and the Geese
Title: Lena and the Geese
Released: June 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same age. The two children grow up as sisters. Later, upon her deathbed, the noble lady repents and sends for her child to reinstate her. Gretchen takes this opportunity to make a great lady of her own daughter Lena, the goose girl, by sending her to court instead of the real heiress. Hence Lena is taken before the noble lady, happy in the belief that she has made reparation. Lena is now a great lady, but the title does not fit well-- She longs to be back with Gretchen and her "geeses".
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A Temporary Truce
Title: A Temporary Truce
Character: In Bar / Among Rescuers (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1912
Type: Movie
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian; The son, a brave, vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. When the Indians attack both prospector and Mexican, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.
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A Beast at Bay
Title: A Beast at Bay
Released: May 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Mary Pickford as "The Young Woman", is quite taken with Edwin August; in fact, he is her "ideal". But Mr. August's refusal to get mixed up in a street brawl makes him look like a coward to Ms. Pickford. Meanwhile, convict Alfred Paget has escaped from prison; and, he is "A Beast at Bay". While Pickford and August go for a ride in her automobile, criminal Paget ambushes one of his guards, taking the man's clothing and gun. Pickford drops off August, still arguing he is a coward, and drives off. Alone, Pickford gets out of her car to retrieve a fallen garment; then, on-the-lam Paget moves in to carjack her. From a distance, August witnesses Pickford being taken at gunpoint - can he save his girl, and prove he's not a coward?
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A Lodging for the Night
Title: A Lodging for the Night
Character: A Tramp
Released: May 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to steal it. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl by stopping her uncle from beating her for having broken a water jar. Retiring to his room, he is awakened by the two tramps breaking into his room. He steals out and gets lodging at a nearby house, which happens to be the home of the Mexican girl and her uncle. The tramps follow him and try again. The girl, however, saves him from harm, and it looks as if Dick had found a real heroine for a real romance.
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The Old Actor
Title: The Old Actor
Character: The Stage Manager's Assistant
Released: May 6, 1912
Type: Movie
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the theatre he panics at the thought of telling his family the bad news and decides to disguise himself as a beggar. His daughter's beau accidentally gives him a five dollar gold piece, thinking that it was a smaller coin. A chase ensues with a policeman, the daughter, and her beau in hot pursuit. When caught he is recognized by his shocked daughter, but is quickly forgiven by all. Meanwhile the actor hired to replace him has already been fired and a messenger is dispatched to rehire the Old Actor to the delight of his wife, daughter, and fellow actors.
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
Title: One Is Business, the Other Crime
Character: The Rich Man's First Foreman
Released: April 24, 1912
Type: Movie
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Title: The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Character: A Villain (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1912
Type: Movie
The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her. His chances, however, are slim for Blue-grass Pete has won her affections, he having at an opportune moment saved her from the fangs of a snake which was about to attack her. Pete's affections turn to the Goddess's sister, while Pete's friends plot to rob.
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The Immortal Alamo
Title: The Immortal Alamo
Character: Lieutenant Dickenson
Released: May 25, 1911
Type: Movie
A lost silent film depicting the battle of the Alamo. Filmed in San Antonio.
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Bessie's Ride
Title: Bessie's Ride
Character: Crazy Joe
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
John Burton met Bessie Fields on her way home one day, and was for making love to her right then and there, but for the interruption of Crazy Joe, a half-witted boy, who always seemed to get in wrong. Burton was incensed, and, although Bessie protested, applied his whip to the demented boy, when Steve Ross, Bessie's sweetheart, happened along and rushed to the boy's rescue. Steve saw that Burton's attentions were not welcomed and ordered him off the scene. Next day, both went to Mr. Fields, and proposed for Bessie's hand. When Burton learned that Steve had been accepted, he rushed from the house, fired back upon it, and fled. Of two shots spent, one hit and killed Mr. Fields.