Charles West

Charles West

Born: November 29, 1885
Died: October 10, 1943
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
From Wikipedia

Charles West (November 30, 1885 – October 10, 1943) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1908 and 1937. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California.

Movies for Charles West...

The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Migrant (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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The Man Trailer
Title: The Man Trailer
Character: Gorman
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
When an ex-outlaw becomes Marshall he must face up to his old gang.
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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Police Car 17
Title: Police Car 17
Character: Harry
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop.
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The Man from Hell's Edges
Title: The Man from Hell's Edges
Character: Informant
Released: May 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working as a deputy in a distant town, hoping to ultimately find the outlaw who killed his father during a robbery years ago.
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Law of the West
Title: Law of the West
Character: Dad Tracy
Released: March 19, 1932
Type: Movie
For revenge the outlaw Morgan steals the Carruthers young son. Seventeen years later Carruthers arrives in the valley where Morgan, his gang, and the now grown Bob hide. After Morgan shoots Tracy, he tells Bob that Carruthers did it and sends Bob out after him. But unknown to Bob, Morgan has put blanks in his gun.
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Along Came Youth
Title: Along Came Youth
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1930
Type: Movie
An American sportsman stranded in London poses as a cook to remain near the aristocratic lady he would woo.
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For the Defense
Title: For the Defense
Character: Joe
Released: July 19, 1930
Type: Movie
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.
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Acquitted
Title: Acquitted
Character: McManus
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
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The Man from Headquarters
Title: The Man from Headquarters
Character: No. 1
Released: August 27, 1928
Type: Movie
A brilliant detective is trying to break up a notorious crime ring, using part of an intercepted message. While investigating, he meets a beautiful and mysterious countess.
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The House Without a Key
Title: The House Without a Key
Character: Bowker
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
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The Skyrocket
Title: The Skyrocket
Character: Edward Kimm (prologue)
Released: February 14, 1926
Type: Movie
In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. In the story we see Sharon as a young Hollywood star whose quick rise to fame leaves her self-centered, superficial, and a spendthrift. Ironically, the film that skyrocketed her to fame was written by Mickey. But her success is brief; and when it comes crashing to earth, Mickey is there to pick up the pieces.
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The Road to Yesterday
Title: The Road to Yesterday
Character: Watt Earnshaw
Released: November 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when he was a knight and she was a gypsy headed for burning at the stake. This becomes evident when their unconscious minds travel back from a train wreck in the American plains to Elizabethan England.
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The Talker
Title: The Talker
Character: Detective
Released: May 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells and his wife, Maud, have several boarders, among them Barbara Farley, who is Lennox's stenographer, and Lonnie Whinston, who is in love with Lennox's little sister, Ruth. Kate claims that women need more independence and less duty, and flirts with Ned Hollister, a car salesman.
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Held to Answer
Title: Held to Answer
Character: 'Spider' Welch
Released: November 22, 1923
Type: Movie
John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
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Red Lights
Title: Red Lights
Character: The Conductor
Released: September 30, 1923
Type: Movie
A mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Member of the Jury (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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Bob Hampton of Placer
Title: Bob Hampton of Placer
Character: Maj. Brant
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Former U.S. Army Capt. Bob Hampton joins a party of settlers and saves the life of a girl known as "The Kid" from a siege.
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Not Guilty
Title: Not Guilty
Character: Herbert Welch
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A drama of a fugitive from justice and a fugitive from love.
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Go and Get It
Title: Go and Get It
Character: Slim Hogan
Released: July 18, 1920
Type: Movie
Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.
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Polly of the Storm Country
Title: Polly of the Storm Country
Character: Oscar Bennett
Released: April 4, 1920
Type: Movie
Polly Hopkins belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at odds with the wealthy "hilltoppers," but Polly's grandmother has gone against popular opinion by teaching Polly to love everybody. Polly keeps the faith, even when her sister's husband is railroaded into jail.
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The River's End
Title: The River's End
Character: Peter Kirkstone
Released: February 22, 1920
Type: Movie
In the gold fields of the Canadian Northwest, a man is falsely accused of a crime and determines that a lookalike is responsible.
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The Phantom Melody
Title: The Phantom Melody
Released: January 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Count Camello lives on his fine estate in Italy, near the home occupied by Sir James Drake and his family. Gregory Baldi, a parasitical cousin of the count, is courting Mary Drake, and although the count also loves the girl, he conceals his feelings out of respect for his cousin. When war breaks out, Camello enlists while Gregory convinces Mary's brother Oliver that Oliver has killed an opponent in a duel and that the only way to escape a murder charge is to disguise himself by going to war under Gregory's name. Wounded, Count Camello returns from the front and, after Gregory is reported dead, proposes to Mary. On the eve of their wedding, Gregory returns unexpectedly and, in dire need of money, buries his cousin alive in the family vault.
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The Woman Michael Married
Title: The Woman Michael Married
Character: Harvey Kirkland
Released: July 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Mira Sacky (Bessie Barriscale) will inherit a fortune if she is able to come up with ten thousand dollars for lawyers' fees. Since she has no money of her own, the only way she can think of raising the funds is to marry someone wealthy. When she gets the attention of Michael Ordsay (Jack Holt), she quickly asks him to marry her. It seems to be a mismatch, so Mira obtains the needed money from his kindly father (Tom Guise), and heads for Rome, where she undergoes voice training and becomes an operatic star.
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Wife or Country
Title: Wife or Country
Character: Jack Holiday
Released: December 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Sylia Hamilton rehabilitates an alcoholic attorney and marries him. When World War I breaks out, she is persuaded to help the German cause and later commits suicide rather than compromise her husbands career.
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The Source
Title: The Source
Character: Paul Holmquist
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A young man of social standing chooses instead to live as a hobo. He gets work in a lumber camp, and there uncovers intrigue by German agents.
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The Ghost Flower
Title: The Ghost Flower
Released: August 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's hot-headed musician lover Tony (Francis McDonald), whereupon the heroine takes refuge in the villa of French playwright La Farge. Under La Farge's careful tutelage, Giulia develops into a famous actress, capturing the heart of the Duke De Chaumont. Though LaFarge himself has fallen in love with the girl, he does not stand in her way when she accepts the Duke's proposal. But Giulia has not reckoned with Tony, who is still crazy about her and still willing to kill any man who stands in his way. Tony murders LaFarge, then sets his sights on the Duke, intending to kill the poor fellow during the wedding ceremony. Hoping to save the Duke's life, Giulia pretends to have fallen out of love with him and returns to Tony.
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Shackled
Title: Shackled
Character: Walter Cosgrove
Released: May 20, 1918
Type: Movie
A destitute young woman named Lola Dexter falls in love with Walter Cosgrove, who establishes her in a luxurious apartment and promises to marry her. After his fortune has been squandered, however, he woos and marries wealthy Edith Danfield while her sweetheart, James Ashley, is fighting in the trenches overseas. Embittered, Lola decides that from now on she will use men to her own advantage and travels to Florida to seek her first victim. She soon loses heart, however, and is about to commit suicide when Edith's invalid father, Thomas Danfield, convinces her to begin her life anew. The two become close friends and together return home, where they find that Edith, neglected and abused by Walter, has realized her mistake and is longing for James. To provide Edith with grounds for divorce, Lola allows Walter to enter her room, but when he rushes to attack her in a drunken rage, he falls down the stairs and is killed.
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The White Man's Law
Title: The White Man's Law
Character: The Derelict
Released: May 6, 1918
Type: Movie
Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab chieftain. Entering into a business partnership with Sir Harry Falkland (Jack Holt), a notorious roue, Ghengle relocates to Sierra Leone, where he falls in love with French-Sudanese girl Maida Verne (Florence Vidor.) Upon proposing marriage, Ghengle is turned down and hotly demands to know why.
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Revenge
Title: Revenge
Character: Donald Jaffray
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Easterner Alva Leigh arrives in the mining town of Magnet just after her fiancé, Donald Jaffray, has been murdered. Because Alva has sworn vengeance, "Sudden" Duncan, the real murderer, accuses Donald's partner, Dick Randall, of the crime. Knowing that Dick is planning a journey across the desert, Duncan fills his canteen with poison, but Alva, who also is determined to kill Dick, drills a hole in the canteen so that the water will drain out. After Dick's departure, Alva learns from "Tiger Lil'," who is jealous of Duncan's attention to the Eastern newcomer, that it was Duncan who killed Donald. Frantic, Alva immediately mounts a horse and rides into the desert to save the man she now recognizes as her true love. Tiger Lil' shoots Duncan in a dance hall quarrel, and Alva marries Dick.
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The Flash of Fate
Title: The Flash of Fate
Character: Philadelphia Johnson
Released: February 18, 1918
Type: Movie
When his father commits suicide after being ruined by dishonest stockbroker Abner Hinman, Randolph Shorb resolves to gain revenge and rebuild his fortune by whatever means necessary.
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Society's Driftwood
Title: Society's Driftwood
Released: October 22, 1917
Type: Movie
When Judge Grant sentences Paul Rogers to jail on circumstantial evidence, Paul's sister Lena swears revenge.
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The Little Pirate
Title: The Little Pirate
Character: George Drake
Released: September 10, 1917
Type: Movie
In dire financial straits, businessman John Baird considers liquidating the bonds that are held in trust for his little daughter Margery. Failing to comprehend her husband's desperation, Virginia Baird refuses his request and, upon overhearing his lawyer advising him to utilize the bonds without consulting her, she decides to place them in the hands of George Drake, an old friend. Drake hijacks the securities, however, and their disappearance leads to the break up of the Baird's marriage, resulting in Virginia leaving the house. Attempting to console her father, Margery sets out on her pony to bring her mother home. But she is held up on the road by Captain Kidd Jr., who adopts her as his first mate, and the two children take up residence on a grass hut on a nearby island.
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The American Consul
Title: The American Consul
Character: Pedro Gonzales
Released: February 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Country lawyer Abel Manning is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his oratory, he helps elect James Kitwell to the U.S. Senate. Kitwell has promised to reward Manning an important post. No job is forthcoming until a scheme is offered to the unscrupulous Kitwell by Pedro Gonzales. Gonzales plans a revolution in Mexico and needs a corruptible American consul.
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The Dream Girl
Title: The Dream Girl
Character: 'English' Hal
Released: July 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in scheme to blackmail a wealthy girl. Meg is put on probation to Benjamin Merton, father of the girl to be blackmailed. When she discovers her father's plan she reveals all, risking expulsion from her new home and the company of its very attractive son Tom.
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The Heart of Nora Flynn
Title: The Heart of Nora Flynn
Character: Jack Murray
Released: April 22, 1916
Type: Movie
Nora is nursemaid to a wealthy family and in love with their chauffeur Nolan. When she hides her mistress' lover in her room, jealous Nolan shoots him and Nora, who refuses to tell about her mistress affair, is dismissed.
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Martha's Vindication
Title: Martha's Vindication
Character: William Burton
Released: February 20, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 film directed by Chester M. Franklin.
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The Wood Nymph
Title: The Wood Nymph
Character: William Jones
Released: January 23, 1916
Type: Movie
A silent drama film directed by Paul Powell
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Old Offenders
Title: Old Offenders
Character: Crooked Joe
Released: July 10, 1915
Type: Movie
Under police espionage, Crooked Joe is living with his wife and baby when Norris, his former pal, tries to interest him in a job. He refuses, and subsequently earns his old pal's animosity when Norris makes advances to his wife. Norris "frames" Joe, and he is sent to prison on a charge of robbing his employers.
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Her Convert
Title: Her Convert
Character: The Old Inventor
Released: June 24, 1915
Type: Movie
The old inventors daughter is a mission worker. She makes a convert of a young crook and eventually becomes engaged to marry him. But her father does not approve of him, and shows him the door when he learns from a detective the record of his daughter's suitor. The inventor's plans are stolen by an unscrupulous manufacturer, and the crook volunteers to recover them.
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The Burned Hand
Title: The Burned Hand
Released: June 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Three college boys graduate. One is in love with a girl, whose mother and father have domestic difficulties. They go to court and are divorced. Father is refused the request for his daughter, and in turn kidnaps her and takes her to another state, where he becomes a great political factor. Bill, one of the graduated college boys who is in love with the girl, with his two companions, traces the girl and steal her away. In doing so his hand is burned with a poker and the father uses that as a means of identification in tracing him.
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Her Dormant Love
Title: Her Dormant Love
Character: The Attentive Husband
Released: June 4, 1915
Type: Movie
The discontented wife of the young rancher does not realize that the unsatisfactory state of things is her fault. She has not ceased to love her husband because she has not yet begun to love him. His tenderness and courtesy antagonize her.
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Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Title: Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Character: The Novelist
Released: May 29, 1915
Type: Movie
Hard pressed for money, the broker has appropriated funds of the firm, and dreads his partner's discovery of the deed. He tries in vain to borrow money, and determines to end his life after writing a confession. In the act of placing a pistol to his head, he is interrupted by a message informing him that oil has been discovered in the vicinity of his land
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A Day's Adventure
Title: A Day's Adventure
Character: Bentley
Released: May 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Over Bentley's shoulder, the crook read the lawyer's letter telling the young man of his inheritance. He immediately wired his pals. When Bentley arrived the girl scraped his acquaintance by the simple means of losing her bag, and decoyed him to the crooks' rendezvous, where he was overpowered, bound and gagged
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A Double Winning
Title: A Double Winning
Character: 1st Sportsman
Released: May 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Out of the talk at the Sportsmen's Club arises a wager between the globe-trotter and his friend, who bets that he will not be able, within a fixed time, to find his way out of an isolated mountain location to which he will lead him.
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The Gambler's I.O.U.
Title: The Gambler's I.O.U.
Character: Dick Smith
Released: April 12, 1915
Type: Movie
At the assay office in town, Jim Bevins turned his gold into dollars, then sat into a game because he felt lucky, and broke the gambler. On the way home two observers of his luck held him up. Badly wounded, he contrived to reach the mine and died in his partner's arms. Dick Smith found the gambler's I.O.U. in his pocket
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The Miser's Legacy
Title: The Miser's Legacy
Character: The Crook's Pal
Released: April 9, 1915
Type: Movie
Hiding from the police in an alley, two crooks see, through a window, the dying miser entrust to the doctor the fortune he bequeaths to his erring son. They trail the doctor home, overpower him, and in their search for the money, terrify his wife and child.
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The Sheriff's Dilemma
Title: The Sheriff's Dilemma
Character: The Minister
Released: April 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Dismissed from the church because of his seemingly undue intimacy with the schoolteacher, the young minister becomes an evangelist and, after an incident in which he thrashes the drunken sheriff, is appointed sheriff by the mayor. In the girl's home he sees a picture of her father, whom he recognizes as identical with that on a circular calling for the arrest of Idaho Mac, a notorious desperado. He promises the girl that he will never use his gun against her father, but sends his deputy, the ex-sheriff, to apprehend Idaho Mac at the border. The bandit, badly wounded by the deputy's bullets, reaches his daughter's house, and she thinks the sheriff false to his word.
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The Love Transcendent
Title: The Love Transcendent
Character: John Gage
Released: March 25, 1915
Type: Movie
John Gage loves Ruth West, but she marries his friend, Charles Grey. The young couple are apparently happy; a child is born to them. Suddenly Ruth discovers that her husband has been systematically robbing his employer. Threatened with imprisonment unless he refunds the money he has stolen, Grey is at his wits' end.
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His Desperate Deed
Title: His Desperate Deed
Character: Grant
Released: March 18, 1915
Type: Movie
The hero's mother is desperately ill and the young fellow, while going afoot for a doctor, stops a mail carrier and forces him- at the point of the pistol- to give up his horse.
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The Heart of a Bandit
Title: The Heart of a Bandit
Character: The Half-Breed
Released: February 22, 1915
Type: Movie
With a price upon his head. Texas Pete takes to the open country.
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Woman Against Woman
Title: Woman Against Woman
Character: Crooke
Released: June 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger, prettier and flightier of the two. While "doing the town," Miriam is lured into the apartment of a pair of letches named Crooke and Craven, who ply her with drugged liquor, then have their way with her. Holding Bessie's libertine friend, Rachel, responsible for all this, she heads to Rachel's flat and tries to strangle the life out of the woman. She also sees to it that Crooke and Craven are thrown out of their lodgings for their wanton behavior
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Lord Chumley
Title: Lord Chumley
Character: The Butler
Released: June 14, 1914
Type: Movie
After Gasper La Sage and his cohort, Blink Blunk, are released from prison, they make plans for another robbery. The scheme, which requires La Sage to pose as a gentleman, fails. Blunk is arrested, but La Sage goes free. Some time later, La Sage goes to England where he blackmails Lt. Hugh Butterworth, an officer who misappropriated money intended for the widow of a fellow officer, and who owes La Sage money for gambling debts. As payment, La Sage wants Hugh to arrange for him to marry Eleanor, Hugh's sister. Hugh tells his friend Lord Chumley about La Sage, however, and Chumley is able to learn about La Sage's past when he overhears Blunk, now out of jail, threaten his former friend. After La Sage intensifies his suit for Eleanor, Chumley is finally able to discredit him by tearing open his shirt and revealing the mark of the prison. With La Sage out of the way, Chumley and Eleanor announce their engagement as do Hugh and his faithful sweetheart, Jessie.
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The Wife
Title: The Wife
Character: Robert Grey
Released: May 28, 1914
Type: Movie
A 1914 film drama
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A Fair Rebel
Title: A Fair Rebel
Character: Steve Montieth
Released: May 21, 1914
Type: Movie
Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares to leave for his home in Virginia, and Mason and he exchange photographs before parting. General Abner Montieth, Steve's father, and his sister Clairette are overjoyed and surprised when Steve arrives. Aunt Margie and her adopted daughter, Joan Fitzhugh, who is very fond of Steve, join the family and give Steve a warm welcome. One year later the rumble of war is heard. Steve, now a major, and his father, General, leave at the head of separate companies with the Confederate troops.
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Beverly of Graustark
Title: Beverly of Graustark
Character: Lieutenant Quinnox
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Beverly Calhoun is invited by her friend, Princess Yestive of Graustark, to pay her a visit. On her journey, she is waylaid by bandits, and becomes entangled in the political problems of a neighboring country, whose ruler Prince Dantan, has been ousted by his evil half-brother Gabriel. Dantan, disguised as a simple goat hunter, has been driven into hiding in the mountains with his followers. Beverly is rescued by his band of rebels, but is mistaken for Princess Yestive. Beverly and Dantan fall in love, but their romance is complicated, not only by the hostilities between the two countries, but also because neither of them knows the true identity of the other.
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The Detective's Stratagem
Title: The Detective's Stratagem
Character: First Plotter
Released: November 20, 1913
Type: Movie
In his moment of weakness, the bank thieves prevented the young cashier from becoming that against which his heart rebelled, a thief. Evidence however, was against him. The detective's clever unwinding of threads saved both his own and his sweetheart's happiness.
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The Stopped Clock
Title: The Stopped Clock
Character: The Senior Clerk
Released: November 1, 1913
Type: Movie
No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was reported by the detective and he was discharged. In truth, he had gone to find the senior clerk, who owed him money which he needed for his mother, hovering close to the edge of life. By sharp detective work, the designs of the senior clerk were frustrated.
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A Tender-Hearted Crook
Title: A Tender-Hearted Crook
Character: James
Released: October 2, 1913
Type: Movie
The girl decided after what happened at the garden party that she did not want his love any longer, but could not live without it. She decided to leave this world. Her unexpected caller had something to say about that. He did not have to read "Sarah Hardcrab's Advice to the Lovelorn" to know what to do. Being a very human and sensible person, he brought two young people together in his own original way.
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For the Son of the House
Title: For the Son of the House
Character: The Son
Released: September 20, 1913
Type: Movie
In the home of ease and refinement a new life opens to the girl. She no longer is obliged to resist the sordid way of poverty and sin. The woman's indulged son, overcome by his weakness and debt, robs his mother. It is then the girl saves the home from disgrace.
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A Modest Hero
Title: A Modest Hero
Character: A Crook / Cleaning Man
Released: September 8, 1913
Type: Movie
It is house cleaning time. Mother-in-law leaves, but insists that husband must be put to work, but husband hires a man, while he goes fishing. Our hero substitutes himself for the cleaner and appears to rob the lady of her silver. He is kept too busy, and later proves a hero in spite of himself by rescuing the fair young housewife from the drunken cleaner, who walks in late.
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The Work Habit
Title: The Work Habit
Character: The City Son
Released: August 21, 1913
Type: Movie
After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young couple try to make him forget work. Ill at ease under his enforced idleness, he makes a deal with a disabled old street cleaner to keep his job. Finding him out, the young folks give in, and it's "back to the farm" for Dad.
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Father's Chicken Dinner
Title: Father's Chicken Dinner
Released: August 17, 1913
Type: Movie
Clarence Barr comes home to discover that Sylvia Ashton and Charles West are getting ready to butcher a chicken for his dinner… but he thinks they're talking about him and not a bird! Fortunately, Charles Murray has prepared his squad of policemen for rapid response by equipping them with roller skates…
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Under the Shadow of the Law
Title: Under the Shadow of the Law
Character: John Haywood - a Clerk
Released: August 7, 1913
Type: Movie
In this picture it is shown how a convict's life still remains under the ban of the law, even after the expiration of his term. With the detective continually on his track, he is able to save both a young woman's honor and her weak brother from the hands of a designing employer.
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When Love Forgives
Title: When Love Forgives
Character: Harry - the Confidential Clerk
Released: August 2, 1913
Type: Movie
Bessie, the bookkeeper, and Harry, the confidential clerk, are sweethearts. Harry does not fully realize the strength of Bessie's affection, but later, on the eve of a false step, he is made to appreciate her devotion and grit.
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I Was Meant for You
Title: I Was Meant for You
Character: Theron
Released: August 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Theron is Lavina's natural choice, though she imagines herself in love with Luke, who is secretly loved by Lavina's sister, Susan. Susan sees that the couple are ill-suited to each other and adopts her own means to break the match. She is successful, but it is not until all have passed through a stirring and leavening experience that each couple realizes they were meant for each other.
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The Vengeance of Galora
Title: The Vengeance of Galora
Character: The Express Agent
Released: July 28, 1913
Type: Movie
In her own outraged sense of injury Galora sought to bring the young express agent into the justice that men might give, while the other woman sought to save his life from moral disaster and won. So the vengeance of Galora worked for the common good; one man was saved in a moment of weakness, while through many thrilling adventures the real offenders were brought to justice.
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A Misappropriated Turkey
Title: A Misappropriated Turkey
Character: The Striker
Released: July 27, 1913
Type: Movie
His mind perverted by the many lies forced upon him, Lang becomes an outcast from the Labor Union. In order to reinstate himself he conceives a plot to do away with the owner of the iron works, an infernal machine stuffed in a turkey's breast. The story tells how the turkey found its way to a table where there was more love than plenty.
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The Mirror
Title: The Mirror
Character: Second Tramp
Released: July 24, 1913
Type: Movie
The girl's lessons from the young station agent on the manipulation of the telegraph code served her in good stead. By it, hemmed in on all sides at the lonely farmhouse, she was able to save both herself and her father's money from desperate tramps, an experience which is grippingly illustrated in this Biograph melodrama.
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A Gamble with Death
Title: A Gamble with Death
Character: The Gambler
Released: June 30, 1913
Type: Movie
The stakes were to go to the one who outlived the other two. In a quarrel one ended the chance of another. In the mountain the two survivors of the bet came together again, one now an outlaw but through a woman's subterfuge the money fell to the less likely of them all, Reed, declared to be "on his last legs."
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In Diplomatic Circles
Title: In Diplomatic Circles
Character: The Lover
Released: June 26, 1913
Type: Movie
The reporter assigned to obtain a copy of the message from the Japanese Government unraveled the mystery of its disappearance in a clever manner. Every foreign government naturally was eager for a copy ahead, while the meeting of the Japanese Ambassador and Secretary of State was surrounded with greater risk than they imagined.
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The Switchtower
Title: The Switchtower
Character: Second Counterfeiter
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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Just Gold
Title: Just Gold
Character: The Third Brother
Released: May 24, 1913
Type: Movie
The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth chose to be a stay-at-home. He sought just love, and love was his reward: in the happiness of two old parents and the heart of a sweet girl. But those in the gold regions, each for himself, seeking just gold, found their ill rewards in the sordid earth of the Bad Lands.
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The Left-Handed Man
Title: The Left-Handed Man
Character: The Old Soldier's Daughter's Sweetheart
Released: April 21, 1913
Type: Movie
The thief was clever and he forged around the girl's sweetheart a chain of circumstantial evidence that seemingly had no flaw. The girl's faith was great and in unraveling the mystery the detective she engaged used the scientific methods of today, making a brilliant detective story.
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A Frightful Blunder
Title: A Frightful Blunder
Character: The Young Businessman
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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The Stolen Bride
Title: The Stolen Bride
Character: The Overseer
Released: April 7, 1913
Type: Movie
The Stolen Bride is a 1913 short drama.
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The Hero of Little Italy
Title: The Hero of Little Italy
Character: Joe
Released: April 3, 1913
Type: Movie
It was on the night of the Italian ball when Maria, to tease her sweetheart, Tony, indulged in a mild flirtation with Joe, his enemy. At first Tony's jealousy was aroused, but reasoning that it was no time nor place for anything but enjoyment, he smothered the feeling. However, Maria carried the flirtation too far and a tragedy was imminent. This tragedy, though, was averted through a small boy's daring, the girl fully realizing what might have been the result of her thoughtlessness.
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A Welcome Intruder
Title: A Welcome Intruder
Released: March 24, 1913
Type: Movie
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The Wrong Bottle
Title: The Wrong Bottle
Character: The Faithless Lover
Released: March 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Happy in her devotion to her unfortunate sister and the promise of honest love that had come into her life, the girl was perhaps blind to true values. She became indifferent to her life and its surroundings. Accordingly she accepted the stranger and his doubtful promises. Honest love and duty were forgotten, until, caught near life's uncertain edge, she was called back by her blind sister's peril. Thus was true love separated from blind infatuation and life's lesson learned.
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The God Within
Title: The God Within
Character: In Other Town
Released: December 26, 1912
Type: Movie
The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and does not return. Target of the camp's jeers, she lives alone until her child is born dead. The doctor fears for her reason if she discovers that all her shame and anguish have been in vain. He has another maternity case on the outskirts of the camp, where the Saint, as the trapper's wife is known, dies in giving birth to a child...
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The Massacre
Title: The Massacre
Character: Stephen's Ward's Husband
Released: December 19, 1912
Type: Movie
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
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A Sailor’s Heart
Title: A Sailor’s Heart
Character: On Street
Released: November 25, 1912
Type: Movie
A short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.
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The Chief's Blanket
Title: The Chief's Blanket
Character: The Outlaw
Released: October 10, 1912
Type: Movie
When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred blanket is covered over it and a sentinel left to watch that this, his last resting place, is not desecrated. The tribe has just departed for their village when a mountain outlaw appears and succeeds in stealing the blanket, having given the sentinel doctored whiskey. When the Indians discover this they exile the unfaithful sentinel until he can recover the blanket.
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With the Enemy's Help
Title: With the Enemy's Help
Character: The Prospector
Released: August 19, 1912
Type: Movie
A discouraged prospector is about to give up his search when he hears his two little children praying, "Please, God, help papa find gold." Their faith gives him new hope and their prayer is efficacious, for he does find it and so stakes the claim, intending to register it at his earliest opportunity. Meanwhile "Faro Kate" and her gambler husband ride by the claim and jump it, the husband urging Kate to go to the Claim Office and register it. When the prospector returns to his "diggings" he finds the gambler in possession and in a struggle the prospector falls and is hurt. The prospector's wife, arriving at the claim, realizes she must win the race to the Claim Office.
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The Would-Be Shriner
Title: The Would-Be Shriner
Character: Club Member
Released: July 25, 1912
Type: Movie
Hank Hopkins is a "rube" of the most extreme type, and on the morning of the great Shrine Parade in Los Angeles, he is met by a couple of friends, practical jokers, who make him believe that they can effect his participating in the grand pageant. He telephones his wife to be on the grandstand to see him march by. Mrs. Hopkins receives a great disappointment, but it is slight to what Hank receives when he attempts to get into line.
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The Speed Demon
Title: The Speed Demon
Character: Racing Spectator (as Charles H. West)
Released: July 14, 1912
Type: Movie
An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.
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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: Undetermined Role (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: Dick Logan
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
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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The Lesser Evil
Title: The Lesser Evil
Character: The Go-Between
Released: April 29, 1912
Type: Movie
A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
Title: One Is Business, the Other Crime
Character: Poor Husband
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 Female of the Species
Title: The Female of the Species
Character: The Miner (as Charles H. West)
Released: April 15, 1912
Type: Movie
A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town and travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her companion, whom the wife suspects had an affair with her deceased husband.
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A Siren of Impulse
Title: A Siren of Impulse
Character: Jose
Released: April 14, 1912
Type: Movie
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Title: The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Character: Blue Grass Pete
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 Engagement Ring
Title: The Engagement Ring
Character: The Waiter
Released: March 10, 1912
Type: Movie
Alice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich man pays cash, but the poor man must pay on installments. He has trouble making the payments, but then he's injured in an auto accident and the settlement allows him to pay off the ring and propose to Alice.
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Under Burning Skies
Title: Under Burning Skies
Character: Bartender
Released: February 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke. An angry Joe eventually gets his revenge.
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The Fatal Chocolate
Title: The Fatal Chocolate
Character: Jake
Released: February 19, 1912
Type: Movie
Upon the arrival of a young girl from the city, Zeke and Jake, brothers, each determine to win her. For a time these rival brothers are amusing to her, but when her real sweetheart appears, she is at a loss to know how to get rid of them. Her city beau, however, wants to have some fun with them, so is introduced to the rubes as her brother. He pretends to be interested in the condition of affairs, and decides they must prove their love by chancing fate for her sake. He places three chocolates on the table, stating that one of the candies contains deadly poison. To the amazement of all they take a chance, but for naught.
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The Mender of Nets
Title: The Mender of Nets
Character: Tom - The Little Mender's Sweetheart
Released: February 15, 1912
Type: Movie
A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.
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For His Son
Title: For His Son
Character: The Son
Released: January 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a success, but the son becomes addicted to it, much to his father's regret. Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope.
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The Baby and the Stork
Title: The Baby and the Stork
Character: Police
Released: January 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
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A Terrible Discovery
Title: A Terrible Discovery
Character: A Thug
Released: December 21, 1911
Type: Movie
A criminal designs a plan to get revenge on the district attorney who convicted his brother.
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Through Darkening Vales
Title: Through Darkening Vales
Character: Dave
Released: November 16, 1911
Type: Movie
Hard-working Dave loves Grace, but she rejects him for a flashier suitor. Grace is blinded in an accident, and her suitor abandons her. Meanwhile, Dave also goes blind from eye strain caused by overwork. Dave learns of Grace's misfortune and gives a doctor the money he was saving for his own operation, so her sight can be restored.
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The Battle
Title: The Battle
Character: The Boy
Released: November 6, 1911
Type: Movie
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
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Love in the Hills
Title: Love in the Hills
Character: The Shiftless Suitor
Released: October 30, 1911
Type: Movie
A pretty mountain girl has to decide between three suitors, an upright young man from the mountains, a shiftless fiddler, and a visitor from the city.
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The Long Road
Title: The Long Road
Character: Ned
Released: October 26, 1911
Type: Movie
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family.
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Italian Blood
Title: Italian Blood
Released: October 9, 1911
Type: Movie
In the little Italian home the wife feels she is neglected and apparently it seems that her husband's love is growing cold, for he has become decidedly indifferent. She, therefore, plans with her cousin to arouse his love through jealousy. At an Italian picnic, after repeated vain efforts to draw her husband's attentions toward her, she starts off with her cousin, passing in view of her husband. His fiery nature is violently aroused with jealousy, and rushing home in a towering rage, would have wreaked disaster to the entire family, for his terrible suspicion poisons his mind even against his two little children. He learns the truth, however, and realizes now to what extreme the result of his neglect would have driven him.
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Swords and Hearts
Title: Swords and Hearts
Character: The suitor
Released: August 27, 1911
Type: Movie
A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.
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The Rose of Kentucky
Title: The Rose of Kentucky
Character: The partner
Released: August 24, 1911
Type: Movie
A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband. When the younger brother proves to be a coward, she chooses the older brother instead.
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The Last Drop of Water
Title: The Last Drop of Water
Character: Jim
Released: July 26, 1911
Type: Movie
A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
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The Manicure Lady
Title: The Manicure Lady
Character: Waiter
Released: May 18, 1911
Type: Movie
The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.
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Teaching Dad to Like Her
Title: Teaching Dad to Like Her
Character: Outside Theatre
Released: March 20, 1911
Type: Movie
Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father. The father is so charmed when he meets Dolly that he wants to win her for himself.
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What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Title: What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Character: Supporting Character
Released: February 13, 1911
Type: Movie
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's condition getting worse, he soon becomes desperate.
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Fate's Turning
Title: Fate's Turning
Character: John Lawson Jr.
Released: January 22, 1911
Type: Movie
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the matter.
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His Trust
Title: His Trust
Character: Man at Farewell
Released: January 16, 1911
Type: Movie
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust.
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The Italian Barber
Title: The Italian Barber
Released: January 9, 1911
Type: Movie
Tony, the barber, on his way to the shop meets little Alice, the newsgirl, who runs a stand on a neighboring corner. He at once becomes smitten and can think of nothing else. Later they are betrothed and little Alice fancies she has made a good catch. However, clouds gather when Alice's sister Florence, who is a vaudeville artist, returns from her road tour with her sketch partner Bobby Mack, for the moment Tony sees Florence he transfers his affections to her. Poor Alice becomes aware of the waning of Tony's love for her and the heavy blow falls when on the night of the Barbers' Ball Tony escorts Florence thither. Alice being excessively romantic reasons that life without Tony is impossible so she is about to emulate the heroine of a novel she has been reading by terminating her unendurable existence with a pistol when Mack enters. The bullet she intended for her own lovelorn head passes through Mack's hat, scaring him stiff.
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When a Man Loves
Title: When a Man Loves
Character: John Watson
Released: January 5, 1911
Type: Movie
Mr. Bach, a wealthy man, visits the scenes of his boyhood days in his auto and meets farmer Brown, his boyhood friend. Brown is the father of a very pretty daughter named Tessie. Bach becomes deeply smitten with the artless little country lass, and secretly hopes to win her. Tessie, however, has a host of admirers in the little village, the favored one being John Watson.
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Winning Back His Love
Title: Winning Back His Love
Released: December 25, 1910
Type: Movie
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
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The Lesson
Title: The Lesson
Character: In First Bar
Released: December 19, 1910
Type: Movie
Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".
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The Golden Supper
Title: The Golden Supper
Character: Lionel - Julian's Rival
Released: December 12, 1910
Type: Movie
Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after the ceremony he departs heartbroken to his own house. Utopian was the existence of Lionel and Camilla, until some time later Camilla is seized with a serious illness, and Lionel's grief knew no bounds when he heard "That low knell tolling his lady dead." "She had lain three days without a pulse all that look'd on her had pronounced her dead, So they bore her, for in Julian's land they never nail a dumb head up in elm, bore her free-faced to the free airs of heaven, and laid her in the vault of her own kin." Julian learns of the death of Camilla, and hastens to the house, arriving in time to see the funeral cortège moving slowly towards the sepulcher. Following in its wake he exclaims, "Now, now, will 1 go down into the grave; I will be all alone with all I love."
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Sunshine Sue
Title: Sunshine Sue
Character: Harry - the Summer Boarder
Released: November 14, 1910
Type: Movie
A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.
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Waiter No. 5
Title: Waiter No. 5
Character: The Chief of Police's Son (as an adult)
Released: November 3, 1910
Type: Movie
After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined the revolutionaries. Out of loyalty to his wife, the officer resigns his commission and escapes with her to America. Several years later, the ex-officer is gainfully employed as a waiter in a Russian restaurant. For the sake of his grown son, who is engaged to marry a wealthy socialite, our hero pretends to be a man of great wealth and prestige. The truth is revealed in the final scene, but "Waiter Number 5" is saved from disgrace by the timely arrival of his former superior officer.
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A Salutary Lesson
Title: A Salutary Lesson
Released: August 11, 1910
Type: Movie
During a stay at beach resort Mr. and Mrs. Randall neglect their daughter and follow their own interests. Mrs. Randall entertains the local minister, while Mr. Randall agrees to take his daughter on a walk along the beach. However, he is attracted by a flirtatious young woman, and the little girl wanders off on her own. She clambers onto a seaside rock where she falls asleep, unmindful of the incoming tide. Her parents at last notice her absence and begin searching for her. However, the incoming tide has by this time surrounded her rock, cutting her off from land. A lifeguard hears her cries and swims to the rescue just as the rising tide is about to engulf her. The child is returned to her parents, who receive from their near tragedy a salutary lesson in the importance of being more careful parents.
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The House with Closed Shutters
Title: The House with Closed Shutters
Character: Agnes's First Suitor
Released: August 8, 1910
Type: Movie
During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's place in the battle, and is killed. Their mother, not wanting the shameful truth to become known, closes all the shutters (hence the film's title) and keeps her son's presence a secret for many years, though two boyhood chums stumble upon the truth...
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A Flash of Light
Title: A Flash of Light
Character: John Rogers
Released: July 17, 1910
Type: Movie
An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place.
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What the Daisy Said
Title: What the Daisy Said
Character: A Farmer (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1910
Type: Movie
Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals off of a flower, while the other has her fortune told by a gypsy. When the gypsy tells the fortune so as to serve his own purposes, complications soon develop.
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A Child's Impulse
Title: A Child's Impulse
Character: Raymond Hartley
Released: June 27, 1910
Type: Movie
Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the several professions, actors, artists, musicians, etc. Surrounded by these men and women of art and letters, she was at first entertained, but they soon palled and bored. On this evening in particular, she is especially possessed of ennui, until the appearance of Raymond Hartley, a wealthy young bachelor, who is introduced into the circle by a newspaper man. An attachment immediately springs up between the widow and Raymond.
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As the Bells Rang Out!
Title: As the Bells Rang Out!
Released: June 18, 1910
Type: Movie
If a Wall Street financier is to escape arrest, he must flee his house at once. He chooses instead to stay in order to watch his daughter get married. Thanks to kindhearted police, he is permitted to take part in the wedding while they wait discreetly in the next room, ready to take him away.
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In the Border States
Title: In the Border States
Character: Young father
Released: June 13, 1910
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his daughters. The father himself is wounded on a hazardous mission and must run for his life, pursued by Confederate soldiers.
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A Child of the Ghetto
Title: A Child of the Ghetto
Character: The Proprietor's Son
Released: June 6, 1910
Type: Movie
After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and hides in the country where she meets a young farmer.
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A Midnight Cupid
Title: A Midnight Cupid
Character: Perry Dudley
Released: June 3, 1910
Type: Movie
Perry Dudley, a rich eligible bachelor, is bored with his life and longs for a change. Nick, a penniless tramp, has received a letter from the town where he lived as a child, asking him to return home. Through a fluke Perry finds the letter, takes Nick’s place and goes to the little town himself. The townspeople accept him as Nick, he falls in love with a farmer’s daughter, and all is going well until the real Nick shows up. When the farmer finds he has been duped he orders Perry to leave; Perry not only leaves but takes the girl with him. The farmer follows in angry pursuit, but when he learns that his daughter’s abductor is rich and has marriage in mind, he becomes much more agreeable.
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In the Season of Buds
Title: In the Season of Buds
Character: Steve
Released: June 2, 1910
Type: Movie
It is springtime when little Mabel arrives at her Uncle Zeke's farm. Henry and Steve, two farmhands, are chums, having spent the years of their adolescence together on Uncle Zeke's farm. They have never experienced any love but brotherly love, until the day they first meet Mabel, when both become deeply smitten.
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Ramona
Title: Ramona
Character: Man in Chapel
Released: May 23, 1910
Type: Movie
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the greed and injustice of the white landowners.
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The Two Brothers
Title: The Two Brothers
Character: A Suitor / A Mexican
Released: May 12, 1910
Type: Movie
In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother noble in both station and character, they were vastly different morally. Jose was a dutiful son and upright young man, while Manuel was the black sheep. It was on Easter Sunday morning during the processional that Manuel appears in an intoxicated condition and foully ridicules the priests and acolytes as they enter the chapel of the old mission. At this the mother's pride is hurt beyond endurance and she exiles her profligate son from her forever. Manuel is shunned as a viper and while making his way along the road, meets Pedro, the notorious political outlaw, who sympathizes with him and offers him inducements to join him, and so takes him to his camp. Meanwhile, Jose woos and wins the Red Rose of Capistran and the day for the wedding is set.
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Love Among the Roses
Title: Love Among the Roses
Character: Footman
Released: May 8, 1910
Type: Movie
In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through his estate and coming to the border of his own land he is struck by the entrancing beauty of the contiguous estate, so like his own, that the inclination to intrude is irresistible. His peregrination is halted by the appearance of the great Lady, who is indeed as fair as the flowers that clothe her land. He introduces himself and invites her to stroll with him in his gardens. She is in like manner entranced by the beauty of his possessions. How alike in beauty are they; a veritable fairyland. If they were only one, for it seems they should be. This thought is mutual, and the Lord proposes a way, a marriage, and so a betrothal of convenience ensues. They know nothing of love and so are content in the anticipation of being Lord and Lady of all Never-Never Land.
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The Unchanging Sea
Title: The Unchanging Sea
Character: The Daughter's Sweetheart
Released: May 5, 1910
Type: Movie
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.
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The Newlyweds
Title: The Newlyweds
Character: Harry
Released: March 3, 1910
Type: Movie
A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid has other ideas.
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The Last Deal
Title: The Last Deal
Character: Bank Teller
Released: January 27, 1910
Type: Movie
Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwood, his brother-in-law, shows up and cures him of his gambling fever.
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Her Terrible Ordeal
Title: Her Terrible Ordeal
Released: January 10, 1910
Type: Movie
A young secretary is locked in an airtight vault by a robber. Only her boss knows the combination, and he is off on a journey. Can the boss's son locate his absent-minded father before it is too late for the girl?
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The Redman's View
Title: The Redman's View
Character: Conqueror
Released: December 9, 1909
Type: Movie
An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus separated from her sweetheart, whose elderly father needs his help on the journey ahead
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The Peachbasket Hat
Title: The Peachbasket Hat
Released: June 24, 1909
Type: Movie
Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby, and everyone assumes it's been kidnapped-- until the baby is found under a hatbox.
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The Son's Return
Title: The Son's Return
Character: Will
Released: June 14, 1909
Type: Movie
A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.
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The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
Title: The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
Released: January 21, 1909
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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Love Finds a Way
Title: Love Finds a Way
Released: January 11, 1909
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett appears as a footman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.