Charles Ray

Charles Ray

Born: March 15, 1891
Died: November 23, 1943
in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA
From Wikipedia

Charles Edgar Ray (March 15, 1891 – November 23, 1943) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Ray rose to fame during the mid-1910s portraying young wholesome hicks in silent comedy films.

Ray was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and moved to Springfield as a child where he attended elementary school. He then moved to Arizona for a time before finally relocating to Los Angeles where he finished his education. He initially began his career on the stage before working for director Thomas H. Ince as a film extra in December 1912. He appeared in several bit parts before moving on to supporting roles. Ray's break came in 1915 when he appeared opposite Frank Keenan in the historical war drama The Coward.

Ray's popularity increased after appearing in a series of films which cast him in juvenile roles, primarily young hicks or "country bumpkins" that foiled the plans of thieves or con men. In March 1917, he signed with Paramount Pictures and resumed working with director Thomas H. Ince. By 1920, he was earning a reported $11,000 a week. Around this time, he left Paramount after studio head Adolph Zukor refused to give him a pay raise. Zukor later wrote in his autobiography The Public Is Never Wrong, that Ray's ego had gotten out of hand and that Ray "...was headed for trouble and  did not care to be with him when he found it." After leaving Paramount, Ray formed his own production company, Charles Ray Productions, and also used his fortune to purchase a studio in Los Angeles where he began producing and shooting his own films.

On November 23, 1943, Ray died of a mouth and throat infection at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles for which he had been hospitalized six weeks prior.

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Charles Ray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6355 Hollywood Boulevard.

Movies for Charles Ray...

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Title: The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 24, 1961
Type: Movie
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Opera patron (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Man getting on Bus (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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The Mad Martindales
Title: The Mad Martindales
Character: Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
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Rio Rita
Title: Rio Rita
Character: Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
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Appointment for Love
Title: Appointment for Love
Character: Butler (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Bit Role
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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The Man Who Lost Himself
Title: The Man Who Lost Himself
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Charlie Smith - Assistant Director
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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Just My Luck
Title: Just My Luck
Character: Homer Crow
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will be a success. Others are also, and Honer endures many obstacles, prat-falls and staged accidents while striving to protect his inventions.
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Character: Andrew Carr
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
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Ticket to a Crime
Title: Ticket to a Crime
Character: Courtney Mallory
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.
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By Your Leave
Title: By Your Leave
Character: Leonard Purcell
Released: November 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
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The Camera Speaks
Title: The Camera Speaks
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 11, 1934
Type: Movie
In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.
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Ladies Should Listen
Title: Ladies Should Listen
Character: Henri, the porter
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
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School for Girls
Title: School for Girls
Character: Duke
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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Stars of Yesterday
Title: Stars of Yesterday
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
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The House That Shadows Built
Title: The House That Shadows Built
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 8, 1931
Type: Movie
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
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The Garden of Eden
Title: The Garden of Eden
Character: Richard Dupont
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
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Vanity
Title: Vanity
Character: Lt. Lloyd Van Courtland
Released: May 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a visit to a colorful steamship captain aboard his ship.
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Getting Gertie's Garter
Title: Getting Gertie's Garter
Character: Ken Walrick
Released: February 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he must cover his indiscretion by getting the garter back before his fiancee finds out.
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The American
Title: The American
Character: Bill Smith
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Seref, who returns to his country after many years in America, as a dollar billionaire with a cowboy hat on his head, and with his Dallas-type boots has an interesting past: Twenty years ago he has lost his sweetheart Melek to his closest friend, and furthermore, has been put in prison. He found a way to escape from prison, going to America, the country of dreams. Here, he has become a businessman with boundless wealth, known as Seref The Turk. When he returns to his country as an American, even though he has some commercial aims in mind, his real desire is to take revenge. He will settle accounts with the friend who stabbed him in the back many years ago, and with Melek who is betrayed him. However, when he sets foot in Turkey with yearning, he meets 'Small America' in chaos. On top of that, while looking for Melek, he finds himself in the middle of a funny and exciting adventure where sexuality and violence mingle.
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The Fire Brigade
Title: The Fire Brigade
Character: Terry O'Neil
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.
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The Auction Block
Title: The Auction Block
Character: Bob Wharton
Released: July 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Bob Wharton marries Lorelei Knight, a beauty contest winner. While on their honeymoon, Bob is laughingly abducted by the flirtatious Bernice Lane, who keeps Bob out way past his bedtime.
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Paris
Title: Paris
Character: Jerry
Released: May 24, 1926
Type: Movie
The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.
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Sweet Adeline
Title: Sweet Adeline
Character: Ben Wilson
Released: January 14, 1926
Type: Movie
A shy and sensitive young man is disregarded by his parents and his older brother. Bill becomes jealous and schemes to send his brother away when Ben wins the affections of pretty neighbor Adeline. Ben wins out when the trip on which Bill has sent him becomes a great success.
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Bright Lights
Title: Bright Lights
Character: Tom Corbin
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city. There he will show Patsy that he can be just what he thinks she wants: a city slicker. But Patsy yearns for the simple pleasure of her country boy, Tom, and is shocked at what shows up at her door.
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Percy
Title: Percy
Character: Percival Rogeen
Released: April 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
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Dynamite Smith
Title: Dynamite Smith
Character: Gladstone Smith
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is equally frightened of her husband. But the murderer pursues them to the frozen north and Gladstone must overcome his cowardice in order to overcome his nemesis.
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
Title: The Courtship of Miles Standish
Character: John Alden
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower.
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The Girl I Loved
Title: The Girl I Loved
Character: John Middleton
Released: February 15, 1923
Type: Movie
John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But with the passage of time, John discovers (long after everyone else has) that he loves Mary. But by now it's too late. She plans to marry his friend Willie.
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A Tailor-Made Man
Title: A Tailor-Made Man
Character: John Paul Bart
Released: August 5, 1922
Type: Movie
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
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The Deuce of Spades
Title: The Deuce of Spades
Character: Amos
Released: May 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Amos, a Boston beanery owner inherits a restaurant out West and goes out to make his fortune. Unfortunately, the local card sharps take his last dime and show him up for a tenderfoot. So Amos sets out to become a gunslinger.
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Gas, Oil and Water
Title: Gas, Oil and Water
Character: George Oliver Watson
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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The Old Swimmin' Hole
Title: The Old Swimmin' Hole
Character: Ezra Hull
Released: February 26, 1921
Type: Movie
The normal life of a young farm boy as he goes to school and as he relaxes in the country is depicted.
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An Old Fashioned Boy
Title: An Old Fashioned Boy
Character: David Warrington
Released: October 31, 1920
Type: Movie
David Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals their betrothal. But when he finds out that she has other ideas, David tries a trickier method of winning her for his bride.
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A Village Sleuth
Title: A Village Sleuth
Character: William Wells
Released: September 12, 1920
Type: Movie
A bumbling would-be detective always seems to reach the wrong conclusion, but one day accidentally stumbles across a real crook, guilty of a real crime.
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45 Minutes from Broadway
Title: 45 Minutes from Broadway
Character: Kid Burns
Released: August 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his friend's housemaid.
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Homer Comes Home
Title: Homer Comes Home
Character: Homer Cavender
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.
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Paris Green
Title: Paris Green
Character: Luther Green
Released: June 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Alarm Clock Andy
Title: Alarm Clock Andy
Character: Andrew Gray
Released: March 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Andy is a timid young man who lives his life completely in the power of his friends, his boss, and his family. But fortune suddenly smiles on him, and he becomes the forthright man he always dreamed of being, but with unexpected consequences.
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The Egg Crate Wallop
Title: The Egg Crate Wallop
Character: Jim Kelly
Released: September 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Assistant to freight express agent Dave Haskell in the town of Pitt's Junction, Jim Kelly develops strong biceps lifting egg crates onto the daily train. Jim soon falls in love with Dave's lovely daughter Kitty, who, he worries, is interested in city slicker Perry Woods. When Woods steals $2,000 from the station safe, Jim, thinking that Dave took the money, confesses the crime and leaves for Chicago.
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Bill Henry
Title: Bill Henry
Character: Bill Henry Jenkins
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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Hay Foot, Straw Foot
Title: Hay Foot, Straw Foot
Character: Ulysses S. Grant Briggs
Released: June 22, 1919
Type: Movie
Silent military romantic love triangle comedy (based on the story by Julien Josephson), about a soldier named Ulysses S. Grant Briggs, who comes from the south and enlists in the army. He and his best friend, who is from the north, compete for a beautiful stage actress, and risks court-martial to win her.
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The Busher
Title: The Busher
Character: Ben Harding
Released: May 17, 1919
Type: Movie
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.
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Greased Lightning
Title: Greased Lightning
Character: Andy Fletcher
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.
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The Sheriff's Son
Title: The Sheriff's Son
Character: Royal Beaudry
Released: March 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Sheriff's son Royal Beaudry is thought a coward, even by the young woman he has his heart set on. But he disproves cowardice when he rescues his father's friend from kidnappers.
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String Beans
Title: String Beans
Character: Toby Watkins
Released: December 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Farmer Toby Watkinsm whose fanciful poetry does not impress his exasperated uncle, leaves the farm to become a subscription solicitor for the "Sawbert Weekly Clarion." In Sawbert, Toby meets Mayor Lot Morris' daughter Jean, and the shy young people fall in love. Crooked stock promoter Kendall Reeves arrives in town and unveils his plan to open a string-bean cannery. - From IMDB
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The Claws of the Hun
Title: The Claws of the Hun
Character: John Stanton
Released: July 8, 1918
Type: Movie
An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.
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His Own Home Town
Title: His Own Home Town
Character: Jimmy Duncan
Released: May 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manager. He takes on the criminal element in town with great vigor, until he realizes that his own father is in league with those devils. - From IMDB
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Playing the Game
Title: Playing the Game
Character: Larry Prentiss
Released: April 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue.
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The Family Skeleton
Title: The Family Skeleton
Character: Billy Bates
Released: March 31, 1918
Type: Movie
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The Hired Man
Title: The Hired Man
Character: Ezry Hollins
Released: January 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Ezry is a hardworking hired man who saves his money carefully in the hopes one day of going to college. But when his girlfriend's brother gets in trouble for bank robbery, Ezry tries to help out by offering his savings in exchange for the stolen funds.
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Staking His Life
Title: Staking His Life
Character: Frank Hamilton
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
In this re-edited, re-titled version of 'Conversion of Frosty Blake, The (1915)', some character names are changed but the story, of a New England pastor who goes out west for his health and encounters a gun-toting dance-hall owner and a beautiful dancer, remains fairly intact.
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His Mother's Boy
Title: His Mother's Boy
Character: Matthew Denton
Released: December 24, 1917
Type: Movie
After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to discover the truth. But he has been spoiled by his mother and he has a hard time adjusting to his rough surroundings.
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The Son of His Father
Title: The Son of His Father
Character: Gordon Carbhoy
Released: October 22, 1917
Type: Movie
A young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means of financial support from his father. But the young man becomes involved in a shady railroad deal which threatens to destroy his own father.
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Sudden Jim
Title: Sudden Jim
Character: James Ashe, Jr.
Released: July 22, 1917
Type: Movie
James Ashe sends his son James Jr. off to manage a family-owned logging mill. While attending to his duties, James Jr. falls in love with a beautiful girl.
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The Clodhopper
Title: The Clodhopper
Character: Everett Nelson
Released: June 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to the big city. There he encounters a showman who decides Everett is perfect for the part of a bumpkin in his new play. Everett takes the role and becomes a big star. But there are complications...
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The Millionaire Vagrant
Title: The Millionaire Vagrant
Character: Steven Du Peyster
Released: May 27, 1917
Type: Movie
Wealthy young man Steven du Peyster encounters more adventures than he might have expected when he accepts a wager that he can live successfully on six dollars a week.
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The Pinch Hitter
Title: The Pinch Hitter
Character: Joel Parker
Released: April 28, 1917
Type: Movie
Shy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her prodding, Joel goes from timid nobody to a baseball star with bravura.
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Back of the Man
Title: Back of the Man
Character: Larry Thomas
Released: March 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Larry Thomas works as a minor employee in a large insurance company. He loves Ellen Horton, who has great faith in him. When Larry is falsely accused of murder, it is Ellen who saves the day. She also manages to help him achieve the position in the business he deserves.
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The Weaker Sex
Title: The Weaker Sex
Character: Jack Harding
Released: January 7, 1917
Type: Movie
Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, Jack is falsely accused of the crime and must turn for help to his lawyer--his wife.
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Plain Jane
Title: Plain Jane
Character: Mr. 'John Sophomore Adams'
Released: October 8, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Wolf Woman
Title: The Wolf Woman
Character: Rex Walden
Released: September 17, 1916
Type: Movie
An narcissistic woman with the ability to charm, Leila Aradella reaps delight from preying upon weak men. Her first victim is John Morton, a talented lawyer, whom she ruins both morally and financially. Her second victim, Rex Walden, the generous son of society matron Mrs. Walden, becomes her complete slave. Mrs. Walden sends her elder son Franklin to try to dissuade Leila from toying with Rex's affections. Franklin, however, also falls under Leila's spell, and Rex is driven to suicide by her callous behavior. Desperate, Mrs. Walden enlists Adele Harley, a girl of strong moral character, to fight Leila for Franklin's affections. Adele's determined victory causes Leila to lose her confidence, and in a drunken state, she cuts her own face with a shard from her shattered mirror. Permanently disfigured, Leila ends a broken and lonely woman.
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Home
Title: Home
Character: Bob Wheaton
Released: August 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Bessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find her nouveau riche family has adopted and magnified the worst characteristics of the upper class. Her father spends all of his time at the club, her mother cultivates snobbishness, and her sister thinks only of marrying into royalty. To shake them out of their aristocratic poses, Bessie decides to reflect all of their faults, becoming as lazy as her father and as status conscious as her mother. She even rejects her own sweetheart, Allan Shelby, to lure Count d'Orr away from her sister. Finally, the members of the family confront Bessie, and she angrily tells them that she was only mirroring their behavior. Bessie then runs away, but Allan, with whom she quickly reconciles, brings her back, just as her family acknowledges its recent burlesque of the upper crust.
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Honor Thy Name
Title: Honor Thy Name
Released: August 6, 1916
Type: Movie
The pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young man's father then plots to rescue his unwitting son from "The Moth's" clutches, but at great sacrifice.
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The Deserter
Title: The Deserter
Character: Lieutenant Parker
Released: July 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer. But when Barbara rejects him, Parker fights with another soldier and deserts. An Indian attack gives him a chance to redeem himself.
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The Dividend
Title: The Dividend
Character: Frank Steele
Released: June 18, 1916
Type: Movie
Wealthy John Steele has a handsome young son, Frank, on whom he pins his hopes. But riches lead Frank not into social standing and duty, but into depravity, drug-addiction, criminal activity, and finally to tragedy.
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Peggy
Title: Peggy
Character: Colin Cameron
Released: January 2, 1916
Type: Movie
The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a public spectacle of herself once too often, Peggy is bundled off to Scotland, where she is to be looked after by her no-nonsense uncle Andrew Cameron (William H. Thompson). If Peggy's family had hoped that she would straighten up and behave herself in Scotland, they were sorely mistaken. Restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive with restoration funding provided by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.
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The Forbidden Adventure
Title: The Forbidden Adventure
Character: Cecil Weatherby
Released: December 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Cecil Weatherby, travelling in the Arabian desert, comes upon a hidden and secret city. There he finds love in the form of a beautiful priestess, Ameera. Their love results in their being condemned to death, but even in the City of Death, love will find a way.
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The Coward
Title: The Coward
Character: Frank Winslow
Released: November 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is terrified by the war and deserts during a battle. The film focuses on the son's struggle to overcome his cowardice.
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The Conversion of Frosty Blake
Title: The Conversion of Frosty Blake
Character: Reverend Horace Brightray
Released: June 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Rev. Horace Brightray, pastor of a New England village church, is ordered by his physician to seek another climate. He goes to Agua Caliente, where he attempts to hold services in the hotel dining room, but nobody attends excepting the hotel clerk and maid, and a dance hall girl, Bubbles. The proprietor of the Legal Tender saloon is very bitter toward Horace and commands them not to attend services. Horace is soon out of funds and is ejected from the hotel. Sick and hopeless, he goes to the Legal Tender and slaps Frosty across the face with his hat, feeling sure it will mean death to him.
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The Renegade
Title: The Renegade
Character: Captain Marley
Released: April 28, 1915
Type: Movie
A white slaver impersonates the heir to an English estate, but the rightful heir reappears and exposes the imposter.
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The Cup of Life
Title: The Cup of Life
Character: John Ward
Released: April 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Ruth is satisfied with her "regular fellow," a mechanic, Helen yearns for fine clothes, wealth, and attention. Ruth marries the mechanic and they struggle for a modest existence. Helen leaves her squalor to be the mistress of wealthy John Ward, despite Ruth's pleas. As the years pass, Helen goes from one man to the next, looking for more luxuries. When James Kellerman, who really loves her, proposes, she laughs at him.
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The Grudge
Title: The Grudge
Character: Dick Wayne
Released: February 24, 1915
Type: Movie
A Western tale of revenge and redemption.
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In the Tennessee Hills
Title: In the Tennessee Hills
Character: Jim Carson
Released: February 12, 1915
Type: Movie
In an impoverished Tennessee hill town, Jim cares for his dangerously ill mother in a run-down shack he rents from the ruthless landlord John Calhoun. When Calhoun comes for the rent, Jim goes out to borrow the money. While he is away, Calhoun forcibly evicts Mother from the shack and leaves her dying in the dusty road. Jim, on his return, takes up his gun and begins to track down John Calhoun. - Harpodeon
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The Gangsters and the Girl
Title: The Gangsters and the Girl
Character: Detective John Stone
Released: August 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Molly Ashley, a child of the slums, is charged with being an accomplice to a shoplifter. Although innocent, she is convicted of shoplifting and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Jim Tracy, the leader of a band of gangsters, rescues Molly. The following morning Detective Stone is assigned the task of locating and running down Jim Tracy's gang. In order to secure evidence against the gang, he disguises himself as one of the gangsters, runs into their place and pretends that the "cops" are after him. Tracy and the gang take him in. Molly falls in love with Stone and discovers his true identity. One of the crooks gets sore at Jim Tracy and betrays them to the police. Jim accuses Molly of betraying them. Stone resents his accusation.
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For Mother's Sake
Title: For Mother's Sake
Released: November 11, 1913
Type: Movie
For Mother's Sake is a 1913 silent film.
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The Quakeress
Title: The Quakeress
Character: John Hart - the Schoolmaster
Released: August 12, 1913
Type: Movie
The setting is an early American village, where a young Quaker woman, Priscilla, is in love with the schoolmaster, John Hart. The local minister, Rev. Cole, who calls on her at her cabin with flowers, is an unwelcome suitor. In revenge, he has "blue laws" passed, among them is one requiring attendance at church on Sunday. Priscilla refuses to comply with the law and is arrested. After being plunged in and out of water and pilloried, she is banished from the colony. John goes with her. They are attacked by Indians and John is badly wounded. Priscilla manages to get back to the village in time to warn the Puritans of an impending attack. They defeat the Indians after a desperate battle. The Rev. Cole, who has been mortally wounded, begs Priscilla's forgiveness and the Puritans make amends for their harsh treatment of her.
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Old Mammy's Secret Code
Title: Old Mammy's Secret Code
Character: David
Released: July 16, 1913
Type: Movie
Jim Black, learning that his rival, David Durard, son of Colonel Durard, wealthy Southern wholesale grocers, has won the heart of Marion, plans to separate the lovers before war breaks out.
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The Transgressor
Title: The Transgressor
Character: Jim
Released: June 25, 1913
Type: Movie
A story of Puritan village life. The son of a minister wins a girl away from her devoted fisherman. Orphaned, she is adopted by the minister, and when her child is born refuses to reveal the father's name. She is cast out by the minister and scorned by the people. When her child is dying the fisherman comes back to her with unfaltering love, and the minister's son meets a tragic death at the hands of the Indians.
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The Boomerang
Title: The Boomerang
Character: Lt. Calhoun
Released: June 13, 1913
Type: Movie
Virginia Chester visits her Aunt Betty who resides near an army post. Lieut. Calhoun falls in love with Virginia, and after a whirlwind courtship persuades her to marry him secretly. Helen Brassey, the daughter of the Colonel, is in love with Calhoun, and gets her father to help her win the lieutenant's affections.
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The Grey Sentinel
Title: The Grey Sentinel
Character: Hal Peters
Released: April 9, 1913
Type: Movie
Tom Carson, a southerner, with his daughter, Grace, is the keeper of the Grey Sentinel Lighthouse. John Adams, the sweetheart of Grace, returns from West Point and joins the southern cause; he, however, spying for the Union Army. A fierce battle takes place between the Confederate and Union forces in which the former are victorious. Hal Peters, a southern officer and an admirer of Grace, is surprised to find among his captives. John Adams.