Monroe Salisbury

Monroe Salisbury

Born: May 8, 1876
Died: August 7, 1935
in Angola, New York, USA

Movies for Monroe Salisbury...

The Jade Box
Title: The Jade Box
Character: John Lamar
Released: March 24, 1930
Type: Movie
Released in both sound and silent versions, this ten-chapter serial starred former cowboy ace Jack Perrin and chapterplay veteran Louise Lorraine. One of a group of Americans steals the Jade Box, which holds the secret of invisibility; a murderous Oriental cult wants it back and tracks them down.
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The Great Alone
Title: The Great Alone
Character: Silent Duval
Released: May 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Monroe Salisbury plays a man of the Northwoods. This time he's Silent Duval, of mixed-blood origin, who distinguishes himself as a football player at Stanford University. But his Indian blood makes him an outcast and when he is injured, only one white girl is there to comfort him. So he decides to return home where he'll get some respect.
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The Barbarian
Title: The Barbarian
Character: Eric Straive
Released: April 29, 1921
Type: Movie
Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign.
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The Renegade
Title: The Renegade
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A silent Western film
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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 Man in the Moonlight
Title: The Man in the Moonlight
Character: Rossingnol
Released: July 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Two mysterious strangers arrive uninvited at the wedding of Sergeant O'Farrell of the Royal Mounted Police and Rosine Delorme, the daughter of an innkeeper. After O'Farrell receives a message that Rosine's wayward brother Louis has escaped from prison with the notorious devil-may-care outlaw Rossingnol, O'Farrell postpones the wedding to find the convicts.
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The Sleeping Lion
Title: The Sleeping Lion
Character: Tony
Released: June 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Italian potter Tony adopts an Italian waif, little Tony, and takes him from New York to the West to realize a long-held dream of owning a ranch.
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The Blinding Trail
Title: The Blinding Trail
Character: Jim McKenzie
Released: May 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Flighty Helen Halverson decides that she wants to marry Big Jim McKenzie, the boss of the logging camp her father owns, after he is temporarily blinded after he crashes his toboggan into a tree in order to avoid hitting Helen. She convinces her cousin Adele--who is actually also in love with Jim--to get him to propose. Jim's sight returns and he and Helen marry, but on the day their child is to be born, he goes blind again. Frustrated by being married to a blind man, Helen falls in love with his assistant Jean Du Bray. Complications ensue.
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The Light of Victory
Title: The Light of Victory
Character: Lieutenant George Blenton
Released: March 17, 1919
Type: Movie
U.S. Navy Lieutenant George Blenton becomes drunk at an official reception, and his fiancee, Jane Ravenslee, the captain's daughter, breaks their engagement. After war is declared, George, entrusted with a secret code book to deliver to an English admiral, drinks and loses the book which German spies recover. During a private court-martial he is offered a pistol for suicide. After drinking again, he fires a shot, but still lives. Put ashore on the island of Tafofu "to rot," George, hating the U.S., moves in with Lehua, a half-white who tries to wean him from drink.
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The Millionaire Pirate
Title: The Millionaire Pirate
Character: Jean Lafitte
Released: February 10, 1919
Type: Movie
In the early eighteenth century, pirate captain Jean Lafitte fights a rival pirate and wins a treasure and a beautiful female captive. Although the girl offers herself to Lafitte to save her English lover, Lafitte makes him walk the plank. The girl then places a curse on Lafitte and his descendants, preventing them from ever knowing the true love of woman. Two hundred years later, in the West Antilles, painter Paul Winthrop poses Joe, a pearl diver, as a pirate. Upon seeing the completed painting, each envisions the earlier situation. Later, Joe finds the buried treasure and sails to New York, where he learns that the portrait has also attracted wealthy Lily Demorest and her suitor, Robert Spurr, a "financial pirate."
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Hugon, the Mighty
Title: Hugon, the Mighty
Character: Hugon
Released: November 23, 1918
Type: Movie
Hugon, a Canadian backwoodsman who is respected for his strength both of limb and of character, falls in love with Marie even though she has another sweetheart, a young man named Gabriel. Realizing that Marie favors Gabriel, Hugon good-naturedly offers to help the boy develop muscles and stamina but soon abandons the hopeless task. Meanwhile, Roque and his group of crooked surveyors have made plans to swindle the woodsman out of his property.
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That Devil, Bateese
Title: That Devil, Bateese
Character: Bateese Latour
Released: September 2, 1918
Type: Movie
After her romance with Martin Stuart shatters, Kathleen St. John leaves Montreal for the little village of Montrouge, where she plans to teach school. Kathleen loses her way between the station and the village and is attacked in the woods by the town bully, Louis Courteau. Seeing a pretty woman in distress, Bateese Latour, a warmhearted lumberjack whose drunken temper tantrums have earned him the sobriquet "That devil, Bateese," beats off her attacker. A short time later, Bateese falls in love with Kathleen, and promising to abandon his drinking, he carries her off and marries her.
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Winner Takes All
Title: Winner Takes All
Character: Alan MacDonald
Released: July 20, 1918
Type: Movie
Saul Chadron, a brutal cattle baron, is distressed that homesteaders are intruding on his domain and hires outlaws to drive them away.
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The Eagle
Title: The Eagle
Released: June 22, 1918
Type: Movie
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Hungry Eyes
Title: Hungry Eyes
Character: Dale Revenal
Released: March 11, 1918
Type: Movie
Ex-convict Dale Revenal arrives at Dudley Appleton's ranch bearing a letter of introduction from John Silver, Appleton's old friend. Appleton hires Dale, who, through his winning manner, soon wins the respect of the ranch hands and the love of the ranch owner's daughter Mary Jane. Believing himself unworthy of her, Dale tells Mary Jane that he has a wife and child in Arizona, and she reluctantly agrees to marry Jack Nelda, a local rancher. Nelda realizes that Mary Jane is still in love with Dale and plots with Bessie Dupont and her brother Pinto to kill him.
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Hands Down
Title: Hands Down
Character: Dago Sam
Released: February 11, 1918
Type: Movie
Miner Dan Stuyvesant finally strikes it rich, but on his way to report his claim, he is shot. When Jack Dedlow, the head of a gang of outlaws, hears this news, he rides to Stuyvesant's cabin intending to secure the claim for himself. There the outlaws find Stuyvesant's daughter Hilda, the sweetheart of Tom Flynn, and are about to draw cards for her when Dago Sam pulls out his guns and spirits her out the door. Because Tom is his only friend, Sam determines to protect Hilda from the gang, but when Tom suspiciously questions his intentions toward Hilda, Sam decides to live up to the town's poor opinion of him.
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The Door Between
Title: The Door Between
Character: Anthony Ives Eckhart
Released: December 10, 1917
Type: Movie
The Door Between was based on Anthony the Absolute, a novel by Samuel Merwyn. The story begins in Japan, where American musicologist Anthony Eckert (Monroe Salisbury) is busily collecting records of authentic Japanese folk songs. While thus preoccupied, Eckert makes the acquaintance of a drunkard who has vowed to track down and murder his errant wife.
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Zollenstein
Title: Zollenstein
Character: Crown Prince, Zollenstein / John Mortimer
Released: November 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Through negotiations with the neighboring monarch, the King of Zollenstein arranges for his son to marry the Princess of Saxonia, but later discovers that the prince already has wed Lady Maulfrey Le Fay in secret.
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The Savage
Title: The Savage
Character: Julio Sandoval
Released: November 19, 1917
Type: Movie
When Marie Louise, the daughter of the town factor, returns home from school, Julio Sandoval, a reckless young half-breed ruled by his animal instincts, develops a passion for the girl, even though she is engaged to Captain McKeever of the mounted police. Meeting Marie when she is alone in the woods one day, the half-breed carries her to his cabin on the mountain top where he collapses from an attack of mountain fever brought on by overexertion.
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The Desire of the Moth
Title: The Desire of the Moth
Character: Christopher Roy
Released: October 22, 1917
Type: Movie
The Desire of the Moth is a 1917 American silent western film directed by Rupert Julian
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The Devil's Assistant
Title: The Devil's Assistant
Character: Dr. Lorenz
Released: April 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A physician enacts revenge on the woman he loves after she marries another by treating her exhaustion with maddening drugs. The film depicts her descent into madness in a red-tinted trip to hell itself.
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The Eyes of the World
Title: The Eyes of the World
Character: Conrad La Grange - Civilization
Released: January 27, 1917
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and the double-dyed villain who hopes to seduce the girl.
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Ramona
Title: Ramona
Released: April 5, 1916
Type: Movie
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Double Trouble
Title: Double Trouble
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: December 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Double Trouble is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film written and directed by Christy Cabanne and stars Douglas Fairbanks in his third motion picture. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Herbert Quick. A print of the film is held by the Cohen Media Group.
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The Lamb
Title: The Lamb
Character: Mary's Cousin
Released: November 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His fiancée Mary, ashamed of Gerald's "yellow streak", leaves him and goes by train to visit some friends in Arizona, with Bill in tow. Gerald follows them, and before long he and Mary winds up captured by Yaqui Indians and Gerald must prove to Mary that he is not the "weakling" she thinks he is by coming up with a plan for them to escape their captors.
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A Gentleman of Leisure
Title: A Gentleman of Leisure
Character: Stutten, Pitt's Friend
Released: March 1, 1915
Type: Movie
A young New York society man makes a bet that he can rob a house and get away without being caught by the police. Things turn out to be not as easy as they seem.
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The Goose Girl
Title: The Goose Girl
Character: King Frederick
Released: January 25, 1915
Type: Movie
Count Von Herbeck, the chancellor to the Grand Duke of Ehrenstein, is married but keeps the fact secret on account of his high ambitions. His wife, dying, writes him a letter urging him to make their little child a great lady.
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The Rose of the Rancho
Title: The Rose of the Rancho
Character: Don Luis del Torre
Released: November 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”
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The Man From Home
Title: The Man From Home
Character: Hon. Almerce St. Aubyn
Released: November 9, 1914
Type: Movie
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Ready Money
Title: Ready Money
Character: Sidney Rosenthal
Released: November 5, 1914
Type: Movie
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Mr. Ogden (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Sir Henry - Earl of Kerhill
Released: February 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.