Neva Gerber

Neva Gerber

Born: April 3, 1894
Died: January 2, 1974
in Argenta, Illinois, USA

Movies for Neva Gerber...

The Voice from the Sky
Title: The Voice from the Sky
Character: Jean Lowell
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A crazed scientist calling himself The Voice from the Sky broadcasts his voice all across the globe, and threatens to suspend all energy in the earth's atmosphere and turn day into night unless the world immediately destroys all arms and vehicles of warfare. U. S. Secret Service agent Jack Deering is sent to Arizona to investigate
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Thundering Thompson
Title: Thundering Thompson
Character: Marie Valerian
Released: October 7, 1929
Type: Movie
Using a false accusation of unlawful land-squatting, Bill Edwards (Al Ferguson) goes to the County Seat and has Sheriff Brown to swear out a warrant against sheep-herders Marie Valerian (Neva Gerber) and her father (Silver Tip Baker. The Sheriff sends a Deputy, "Thundering" Thompson (Cheyenne Bill_, back to serve the warrant. Thompson learns that Edwards is only trying to force the Valerians to sell their sheep to him at a cheap price, and comes back without serving the warrant. This enrages Edwards who enlists the aid of a local cattleman and his hands to drive off the sheep. Thompson sets out to keep this from happening.
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Hell Hounds of the Plains
Title: Hell Hounds of the Plains
Character: Esther Lawson
Released: May 7, 1927
Type: Movie
Horses are being rustled by outlaws known as the Hell Hounds. When the Sheriff is killed, his Deputy Yak takes over the search for the rustlers. John Lawson says Yak cannot marry his daughter until the murderer of the Sheriff is caught. But unknown to Lawson, the murderer is his own son.
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Officer '444'
Title: Officer '444'
Character: Gloria Grey
Released: May 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Heroic Officer 444 battles The Frog and his criminal gang for possession of Haverlyte, a powerful formula that, if it fell into the wrong hands, would give its owner enough power to control the world. And, taking no chances, The Frog sends his chief henchwoman, a seductive vamp named The Vulture, to tempt Officer 444 to stray from his sworn duty to save the world from The Frog's nefarious plans.
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The Fighting Stallion
Title: The Fighting Stallion
Character: Helen Gilmore
Released: April 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Yak arrives at the Gilmore ranch where rustling has occurred. Gilmore blames a wild horse when it is actually his foreman Mays. After Yak catches and tames the wild horse, Mays gets Yak out of the way by having him arrested for murder. Mays and his men can now make one last raid.
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The Power God
Title: The Power God
Character: Aileen Sturgess
Released: May 1, 1925
Type: Movie
In this movie serial Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
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Vic Dyson Pays
Title: Vic Dyson Pays
Character: Neva
Released: January 3, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent western
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Warrior Gap
Title: Warrior Gap
Character: Elinor Folsom
Released: January 2, 1925
Type: Movie
Against explicit orders, a vainglorious cavalry major insists on counterattacking a gang of hostile Sioux Indians. His captain refuses to comply and is arrested for insubordination and cowardice.
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California in '49
Title: California in '49
Character: Sierra Sutter
Released: November 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Feature version of Days of '49 (1924), a 15-chapter serial.
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A Yankee Go Getter
Title: A Yankee Go Getter
Character: Lucia Robilant / Vera Robilant
Released: July 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Popular action heroine Neva Gerber played the dual roles of Lucia and Vera Robilant in this low-budget silent melodrama produced by Benjamin F. Wilson, Gerber's frequent collaborator. Two almost identical women claim ownership to a pocketbook found by author turned adventurer Barry West (James Morrison). Barry is hired by nefarious Nicholas Lanza (Joseph W. Girard) to marry heiress Lucia, who surprisingly turns out to be one of the claimants. Meanwhile, Lucia's lookalike sister Vera is plotting to install herself as Lucia and claim the inheritance. After the wedding, Barry discovers a secret passage and finds the kidnapped Lucia. The villains are brought to justice and Barry and Lucia can finally plan a future together.
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Dangerous Paths
Title: Dangerous Paths
Character: Ruth Hammond
Released: July 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Dangerous Paths is a 1921 silent film
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The Screaming Shadow
Title: The Screaming Shadow
Character: Mary Landers
Released: January 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.
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The Trail of the Octopus
Title: The Trail of the Octopus
Character: Ruth Stanhope
Released: October 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!
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Pitfalls of a Big City
Title: Pitfalls of a Big City
Character: Marion Moore
Released: April 13, 1919
Type: Movie
Tenement dweller Molly Moore, trying to forget her crooked past and go straight, runs a cheap restaurant in the underworld district in order to educate her younger sister Marion.
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When a Woman Strikes
Title: When a Woman Strikes
Released: April 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A story of the West in the days when the sheriff was more powerful than the mayor or governor. It tells of the sacrifices made by a sister for a brother and the virile, big-hearted nature of a stage-driver who is made sheriff and solves a mystery that hangs over the lives of two innocent people.
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A Fight For Love
Title: A Fight For Love
Character: Kate McDougal
Released: March 24, 1919
Type: Movie
The Northwest Mounties are after Cheyenne Harry for the murder of an Indian boy, and the only witness to the crime is a priest - who can't tell what he saw because the real killer, Black Michael, has confessed to him.
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Roped
Title: Roped
Character: Aileen Judson-Brown
Released: January 3, 1919
Type: Movie
Wealthy ranch owner Cheyenne Harry decides he needs a housekeeper, but his cowboys decide he needs a wife and advertise in an eastern newspaper. The ad is answered by Aileen Judson-Brown, as dictated by her fortune-hunting mother. Harry marries Aileen and a baby is born a year later. Deciding to gain more money and social standing, Mrs. Judson-Brown then tries to break up the marriage so that Aileen can marry Ferdie Van Duzen. Mrs. Judson-Brown steals the baby and tells Harry the baby has died and Aileen no longer loves him. Harry goes out West in sorrow, but when Mrs. Judson-Brown's butler wires Harry the truth, Harry locates the baby and discovers Aileen still loves him. The reunited family goes West together, leaving Mrs. Judson-Brown behind.
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Three Mounted Men
Title: Three Mounted Men
Character: Lola Masters
Released: October 6, 1918
Type: Movie
Fellow convicts Cheyenne Harry and Buck Masters become even more bitter enemies when Buck agrees to tamper with the prison's books for the warden's greedy son. The latter secures Buck's release, but when Buck threatens to blackmail him, he decides that the best place for the outlaw is back in prison. Promising to deliver Buck to the warden's anxious son, Cheyenne Harry accepts a premature pardon and goes in search of the outlaw, hoping to catch him in the act of committing a crime. In a small Western town, Harry falls in love with a dance hall girl named Lola, not knowing that she is Buck's sister. Soon Harry learns that Buck is planning a robbery and informs the warden's son, whose deputies promptly arrest him. Lola's grief so moves Harry, however, that he and his two brothers decide to pursue the deputies and rescue Buck. Lola then promises to marry Harry, while her brother promises to reform.
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Hell Bent
Title: Hell Bent
Character: Bess Thurston
Released: July 5, 1918
Type: Movie
A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.
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The Spindle of Life
Title: The Spindle of Life
Character: Gladsome
Released: September 17, 1917
Type: Movie
When Mrs. Harrison arrives in Harborsport for her vacation, she announces her plan to marry Gladsome, her daughter, to Vincent Bradshaw, the son of her financial advisor James Bradshaw. To keep Gladsome from socializing with the local fishermen, James drives them from his property, but they organize under her and force their way back. Arrested for rabble-rousing, Gladsome is bailed out of jail by James and later meets "Alphabet" Carter, a vacationing financial wizard, for whom she has an immediate attraction.
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Mr. Opp
Title: Mr. Opp
Character: Guinevere Gusty
Released: August 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Optimistic in the face of failure, Daniel Webster Opp finally attains success as a traveling salesman for a shoe firm, but just when his prospects are best, he receives word that his stepfather is dead. He leaves at once to meet his brother Ben at Cove Junction, where they settle the estate according to Ben's demands. Ben takes the money, while Mr. Opp is given the homestead and custody of Kippy, his feebleminded half-sister. Sacrificing all to remain with his sister, Mr. Opp founds a newspaper, the Opp Eagle, and begins to promote the town.
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Like Wildfire
Title: Like Wildfire
Character: Nina Potter
Released: May 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Tommy Buckman, the ne'er-do-well son of dime store magnate John Buckman, is given one last chance to succeed by surveying a possible location in New England for the opening of another store in his father's chain. Arriving in the town of Winton, Tommy lands in jail and, disowned by his father, is bailed out by Nina Potter, whose father owns the only dime store in town.
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The Voice on the Wire
Title: The Voice on the Wire
Character: Polly Marion
Released: March 18, 1917
Type: Movie
A silent action movie serial.
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Idle Wives
Title: Idle Wives
Character: Mary Wells
Released: September 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.