Leo Delaney

Leo Delaney

Born: March 14, 1895
Died: February 4, 1920
in Swanton, Vermont, USA

Movies for Leo Delaney...

Just Show Folks
Title: Just Show Folks
Character: Piquet
Released: October 2, 2022
Type: Movie
A day in the life of a family of circus performers.
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Susie Snowflake
Title: Susie Snowflake
Character: David
Released: June 25, 1916
Type: Movie
When a young girl who has grown up as a music hall entertainer is brought to live in a stodgy New England town, the quiet town life is changed forever.
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The Helpful (?) Sisterhood
Title: The Helpful (?) Sisterhood
Character: Detective
Released: March 30, 1914
Type: Movie
Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.
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Sawdust and Salome
Title: Sawdust and Salome
Character: Walter Grey - John's Son
Released: February 16, 1914
Type: Movie
A rich swell travels out West to escape marrying a social climber. There, he meets and marries a bareback rider from traveling circus. Bringing her home, his family's pernicious double-standards are revealed.
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The Vavasour Ball
Title: The Vavasour Ball
Released: January 20, 1914
Type: Movie
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Father's Hatband
Title: Father's Hatband
Character: Sam - the Boyfriend
Released: October 29, 1913
Type: Movie
A short comic film in which Sam and Doris use the hat of Doris’ father (a manager) to send letters to each other.
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Under the Daisies
Title: Under the Daisies
Character: Robert Burton
Released: September 12, 1913
Type: Movie
There are many things to admire besides settings and acting in the feature play "Under the Daisies," and perhaps the foremost is the affecting poem on which it is based. It chiefly concerns the bad conduct of a dramatic critic-it is about time his villainy is shown up on the screen-who starts on his downward path by cynical observations on the agonizing efforts of an unsuccessful playwright. As nearly all well-known dramatists of to-day have found their way into one of the most trying of professions through channels of criticism, the selective taste of one serving to determine how much an what kind of creative work of the other will be suited to the tastes of a mixed audience, the playwright in this case is of a theatrical kind, one who uses a pen or pencil in writing and gazes at vacancy in search of inspiration. A very large proportion of authors in real life do nothing of the kind. Perhaps that is why the dramatist in the story failed to make a hit.
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Solitaires
Title: Solitaires
Character: Frank
Released: July 8, 1913
Type: Movie
Frank and Julia are very good friends, both being single, and live in adjoining apartments. Getting a letter from a friend who asks him to buy an engagement ring. Jack does not know what to do and fears lest he make a mistake. He asks Julia to help him and together they sally forth to the jewelry store, where the ring is purchased. At the store they are seen by Mrs. Gossip, who tells everyone that they are engaged, with the result that the couple are deluged with presents and congratulations. Julia is furious, blaming Jack for the occurrence, but he is more amused than anything else. Finally Julia is persuaded that a real engagement between them would not be so bad, after all. and they go out again to buy yet another solitaire.
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Bunny and the Bunny Hug
Title: Bunny and the Bunny Hug
Released: May 16, 1913
Type: Movie
Norman Winthrop, a surveyor, accidentally meets John Bunny, an Irish watchman of a building. He introduces him to Tom and Will Hawley, two of his friends, at a little poker game in which Bunny pockets all the winnings. Talking over the matter the next day, the three men agree that it would be a great joke to introduce Bunny into society.
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The Skull
Title: The Skull
Character: Mr. Jordan
Released: May 2, 1913
Type: Movie
Just as the bead clerk and his assistants are closing up the jewelry store for the day, a package containing a very costly necklace arrives by special messenger. The large safe deposit vault has been closed for the night and the time clock set. The head clerk is fearful to leave the necklace in the store and so decides to take it home. His actions have been closely watched by one of the junior clerks, with sinister and stealthy glances.
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A Window on Washington Park
Title: A Window on Washington Park
Character: The Old Man's Daughter's Husband
Released: April 29, 1913
Type: Movie
From his apartment, where he lives a cheerless widower's life, overlooking Washington Park, Alan Dale sees a refined, but poverty-stricken old gentleman on one of the park benches. Calling his butler, he instructs him to go down and tell the old man he would like to see him. When the butler approaches the elderly man the old fellow is somewhat skeptical, but finally consents to go with him. Alan receives his guest cordially and tells him why he has requested him to come and invites him to dinner. During the meal the old man tells his life's story: how he married a young woman, and after the birth of a little daughter, she died. How his daughter had married a young fellow and gone to live in New York, and how he had lost his money. The last news he had received of her was of her death.
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The Mouse and the Lion
Title: The Mouse and the Lion
Character: The Lion - John Burling, Detective
Released: March 17, 1913
Type: Movie
John Burling, a detective, rounds up some members of the Night Hawk gang. Bill Hanks, the chief, swears to get even with him. Tim, a little street waif, entering the saloon where the gang are consulting with Maime, a female accomplice, overhears some of their threats. He is discovered and kicked out of the place by Hanks. The next day, Tim, half starving, picks up a purse in the street which he has seen a lady drop. He is tempted to steal it, but in the end gives it back to her. Burling sees this, is struck with the boy's honesty, and being in need of a page boy, hires him and dubs him "Buttons."' Maime visits Burling and leaves him an address to come to investigate a robbery which has occurred at her home. Tim recognizes her as she goes out, follows her and has his suspicions confirmed by seeing her with one of the gang on the street. He goes to warn his master, but Burling has already gone.
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The One Good Turn
Title: The One Good Turn
Character: Luigi
Released: March 13, 1913
Type: Movie
A political crime film in which a militant, anarchist father allows his political ideals to prevail over human dignity. The father uses his young daughter to carry out an attack on Princess Louise. After his wife foils the attack and he is arrested by the police, he steps back from his fanaticism and repents.
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The Volunteer Strike Breakers
Title: The Volunteer Strike Breakers
Released: January 22, 1913
Type: Movie
A strike among the hotel waiters is on. The papers are full of it. Chester Colton, and Harris Baldwin, young college chaps, read that waiters are needed in all the big hotels and restaurants. They apply for positions at Belfonte's restaurant. Harris secures a job as head-waiter and Chester is appointed as one of the regular staff. Harris's fiancée has an engagement with her chum to take dinner with her at the restaurant. They boys pay so much attention to the girls that they neglect the other patrons, who make a kick and complain to the proprietor.
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The Awakening of Bianca
Title: The Awakening of Bianca
Character: Nicola, Bianca's Sweetheart
Released: December 7, 1912
Type: Movie
Angelo and his daughter Bianca are poor Italian immigrants. They sell fruit and vegetables on the street with the help of Nicola, who is in love with Bianca. To Nicola's dismay, a flirtatious barber by the name of Guiseppe begins to attract Bianca's attention. What Bianca does not realize is that Guiseppe is only interested in her hair, which a wig maker is willing to pay a considerable sum for. When Angelo falls ill and they find themselves without money for food or medicine, Bianca is left with little choice. - Harpodeon
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The Anarchist's Wife
Title: The Anarchist's Wife
Character: Luigi
Released: November 17, 1912
Type: Movie
In this Vitagraph short, anarchism threatens to ruin lives and families. Luigi and Rosa are a couple with an adorable child, but trouble is afoot – Luigi has become an anarchist!
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The Mills of the Gods
Title: The Mills of the Gods
Character: Miguel
Released: November 4, 1912
Type: Movie
A silent crime film in which the wealthy landowner Lorenzo, who has been taunting poor Miguel and his family for years, eventually gets his comeuppance.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Jacques De Bois
Released: October 6, 1912
Type: Movie
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
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The Signal Fire
Title: The Signal Fire
Released: September 25, 1912
Type: Movie
A short romantic drama in which a captain and his wife are separated by a shipwreck. The woman ends up on a desert island with another man, and they have a relationship. When they are saved by the captain, he decides to stay behind on the island, alone.
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The Adventure of the Italian Model
Title: The Adventure of the Italian Model
Released: September 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Master detective, Lambert Chase, unravels a case of poisoning
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The Light of St. Bernard
Title: The Light of St. Bernard
Character: The Lighthouse Keeper's Assistant
Released: July 27, 1912
Type: Movie
Marie, a self-dependent girl, compromises herself by associating with Petro Maquin. She asks him to keep his promise to marry her. He ignores her and leaves the village to join a band of wreckers. The gossips circulate scandal about her, bringing reproach upon her name.
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The Money Kings
Title: The Money Kings
Character: Roy's Valet
Released: July 15, 1912
Type: Movie
The Money Kings is a 1912 silent short film.
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The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
Title: The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
Character: Jacques
Released: June 13, 1912
Type: Movie
During the French Revolution, the Duke and Duchess of Bérac are captured by a mob. The Duchess agrees to marry one of their leaders in order to save her husband’s life. But her husband finds out about this, and forbids the Duchess to do so. The girlfriend of this leader takes revenge when she learns the truth, and stabs him. The two Béracs then proceed to the guillotine with their heads held high.
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At Scrogginses' Corner
Title: At Scrogginses' Corner
Character: Lee Livingston - a Traveling Drummer
Released: April 9, 1912
Type: Movie
The general store at Scrogginses' Corner is the favorite lounging and meeting place for the citizens of the locality. On an eventful day a rich couple call at the store and ask Si Bunny, the storekeeper, permission to leave a bundle there, to be called for on their return. The storekeeper discovers that the bundle contains an infant.
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The Love of John Ruskin
Title: The Love of John Ruskin
Character: Sir John Millais
Released: February 20, 1912
Type: Movie
John Ruskin became acquainted with his wife through a loan which he made to her father, and his noted generosity no doubt appealed to her and it seems that she married him more out of gratitude than actual love. Be that as it may, the fact remains that when Millais met her, he and she fell desperately in love with each other.
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Her Boy
Title: Her Boy
Character: Harry Ballor - the Son
Released: February 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Far up in the mountains Mrs. Bailor's two sons, Tom and Harry, are engaged at their distilling, constantly in fear of being pursued by the revenue officers, and arrested as moonshiners.
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Where the Money Went
Title: Where the Money Went
Character: The Real Estate Agent
Released: January 29, 1912
Type: Movie
Fred Hart, a young businessman, unknown to his wife, draws their savings from the bank with the purpose of buying a home as a birthday surprise for his wife. He finds a real estate agent who has just the kind of a home he is looking for. He has to visit the agent's home during the course of his business transactions, he becomes well acquainted with the agent's family. The real estate man, a camera fiend, suggests to Fred his taking a picture of him and his family. Fred is agreeable and the agent gives him a copy of the picture. Fred puts it in his pocket and returns home to his wife.
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Love Finds the Way
Title: Love Finds the Way
Character: Jack Alger - the Lover
Released: January 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy about an overprotective father who locks up his daughters in order to 'protect' them from their two cowboy friends. The friends call in the help from a widow who knows Johan, in the hope she can mollify him. She can, and additionally steals his heart, so in the end there are three happy couples.
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The Meeting of the Ways
Title: The Meeting of the Ways
Character: Dick - Tom's Dissolute Brother
Released: January 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Tom and Dick are brothers and are being educated at the same college. Tom is a studious fellow and graduates with honors, while Dick is expelled from college through misbehavior. Dick is ashamed to go home, but before leaving Tom gives him a locket containing a picture of their mother. Ten years later Tom, who is a successful lawyer, is married and has two little children. Dick, who has now been reduced through personal neglect to a derelict, overhears a plan to rob his brother's house. Making up his mind to prevent it, Dick climbs through the nursery window, catches the burglars, but effects their escape. His two little nieces, who have been watching him, kiss and hug him before he makes his exit. When their parents return from the reception they attended, the children relate to them what had happened. Dick gets into a scrape with a gambler a month or two later, who laughs at the miniature of his mother that Dick puts up in lieu of cash.
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A Reformed Santa Claus
Title: A Reformed Santa Claus
Released: December 22, 1911
Type: Movie
The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until he is leaving his office in the evening. They try to state their case but he entirely ignores them. They attack him. In terror, he flees before them, escaping by entering the home of a poor widow with two children.
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Madge of the Mountains
Title: Madge of the Mountains
Character: Henry Brownlee Jr.
Released: October 31, 1911
Type: Movie
Harry Brownley, son of a rich New Yorker, reads a newspaper account of U.S. Revenue officers' plan to raid an illicit distillery in the Tennessee mountains. The young fellow asks his father's permission to join the forces under Sheriff Jackson, of Pikesville, Tennessee. The father reluctantly consents and the son starts out to satisfy his adventurous nature.
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By Woman's Wit
Title: By Woman's Wit
Character: The Clerk
Released: September 16, 1911
Type: Movie
A woman objects to her bachelor friend getting married, so she makes him appear so ridiculous that the other woman refuses to marry him.
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The Child Crusoes
Title: The Child Crusoes
Released: September 13, 1911
Type: Movie
Jack, a little orphan, is anxious to become a sailor, and although Captain Rhines refuses to take him aboard his ship, manages to sneak in as a stowaway. When out to sea a few days, he is discovered, and is about to be disciplined, when the captain's daughter, May, intercedes. A terrific storm strikes them, and the ship is dashed to pieces. The captain, with the assistance of Jack, builds a little raft, and with little May, they set out for an island which they can hardly discern, as it is so many miles away. After drifting for many hours, they at last reach the island, which is inhabited by a savage tribe.
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Cherry Blossoms
Title: Cherry Blossoms
Character: Billie - Dollie's Beau
Released: September 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Billie and Dollie are very much in love with each other, and they declare their love under the cherry trees. In later years Billie receives news of his appointment as a cadet at West Point: he promises to return to Dollie as soon as he graduates and claim her for his wife.
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The Stumbling block
Title: The Stumbling block
Released: June 20, 1911
Type: Movie
A man is rejected by a woman, and then decides to have her dog stolen. The dog is very approachable, and although he at first wants nothing to do with the man, they ultimately become good friends. Finally, he gives the dog back to the woman.
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Betty Becomes a Maid
Title: Betty Becomes a Maid
Released: March 14, 1911
Type: Movie
Margaret is the older and Betty the younger of two sisters. Their brother Jack brings a young unmarried millionaire friend to spend a few days with them. Margaret gets in line for the young visitor and warns Betty not to be too presumptuous, for Betty has the advantage in winsomeness. In order to give her sister every change, Betty plays waitress. Jack's friend is so smitten with the pretty maid, that he can see nothing else. Margaret loses, Betty wins. Her identity is made known and the young fellow proposes there and then, the father's consent is gained and Margaret joins in with all the rest offering congratulations.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Darnay
Released: February 20, 1911
Type: Movie
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
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The League of Mercy
Title: The League of Mercy
Released: February 10, 1911
Type: Movie
Helen, an heiress and the ward of Martin Talbot, is interested in charity and rescue work; she is vice president of the League of Mercy. Talbot's son makes love to her and her riches. In her visitations among the sick and poor she finds a young girl with a child. She takes the young mother to her home, aid and comforts her; tries to restore her to health. While she is thus engaged young Talbot, to whom she becomes affianced, enters. The young mother recognizes him as the father of her child. Helen gives back her engagement ring, denounces him and orders him from her home. The sick woman falls back dead. Helen adopts the child and brings it up as a member of her own household.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: George Osborne
Released: January 2, 1911
Type: Movie
A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.
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Where the Winds Blow
Title: Where the Winds Blow
Released: December 31, 1910
Type: Movie
Hugh gives his dog to Nancy while he goes to sea. When Nancy's father runs out of money, he must return to the sea with Hugh.
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A Tin-Type Romance
Title: A Tin-Type Romance
Character: Phil
Released: December 6, 1910
Type: Movie
Two nice young people become acquainted at the beach; A romance develops.
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The Telephone
Title: The Telephone
Character: Husband
Released: October 29, 1910
Type: Movie
An impressive Vitagraph short, one of many popular firemen-to-the-rescue films of the time.
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Auld Robin Gray
Title: Auld Robin Gray
Character: Jaimie
Released: October 18, 1910
Type: Movie
Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry old Robin Gray.
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Ransomed; or, A Prisoner of War
Title: Ransomed; or, A Prisoner of War
Character: Captain Jack
Released: October 4, 1910
Type: Movie
Making his departure from home. Captain Jack of the Confederate army, leaves to rejoin his regiment, but before doing so promises his boy that he will return to celebrate the little fellow's fifth birthday. One month later the Captain gets a leave of absence for three days and goes back to keep faith with his son.
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Rose Leaves
Title: Rose Leaves
Released: August 27, 1910
Type: Movie
Mrs. String, sitting under the rose bushes with her baby, Helen, on her knee, is approached lovingly by her husband, who lovingly speaks to his family and then shakes the rose bushes over their heads, causing the white leaves to fall upon their heads in a shower of rarest sun tints.
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The Men Haters Club
Title: The Men Haters Club
Character: Follow the Girls Club Member
Released: August 26, 1910
Type: Movie
When a letter from another woman falls from her boyfriend's pocket, she and her friends form the Men Haters Club. The boys quickly arrange into the Follow the Girls Club in the hopes of winning them back.