Bobby Connelly

Bobby Connelly

Born: April 4, 1909
Died: July 5, 1922
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Robert Joseph "Bobby" Connelly (April 4, 1909 – July 5, 1922) was an American child actor of silent films. He is one of the first male child stars of American motion pictures, beginning his career in 1913 at the age of four.

Movies for Bobby Connelly...

The Greatest Love
Title: The Greatest Love
Character: Child
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Director Henry Kolker's silent romantic melodrama starred Vera Gordon, who was billed as "The 'Mother' of 'Humoresque'", Bertram Marburgh, Yvonne Shelton, Hugh Huntley, and William H. Tooker
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Humoresque
Title: Humoresque
Character: Leon Kantor (child)
Released: May 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player. But as an adult, Leon finds that people want more from him than just music.
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The Flapper
Title: The Flapper
Character: King Jr.
Released: May 10, 1920
Type: Movie
A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with a pair of jewel thieves.
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A Child for Sale
Title: A Child for Sale
Character: Walter Stoddard
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children to a childless rich woman. He soon comes his senses however, and tries to back out of the deal.
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The Unpardonable Sin
Title: The Unpardonable Sin
Character: Boy Scout
Released: April 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.
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The Road Through the Dark
Title: The Road Through the Dark
Character: Georges
Released: November 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent away from Paris to a small village, where her aunt lives with her sister and brother. The war comes and the Germans enter the town. She becomes the mistress of a German Kommandant.
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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Title: Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Character: Little Boy
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American forces have prepared adequately for such an event, and hidden booby traps, trick fortifications, and remote-controlled bombs...
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The Meeting
Title: The Meeting
Released: February 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Charming melodrama by the Vitagraph Company about the friendship between a boy (Bobby Connelly) and the grumpy Captain Barnacle(William Shea). This seems to be the first film in a short-lived Captain Barnacle series that Vitagraph started at the beginning of 1917. Young Bobby Connelly was one of the first star child actors and his character Sonny Boy links the two series he did for Vitagraph, the "Sonny Jim" series from 1914 to 1915 and the "Bobby" series in 1917.
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A Prince in a Pawnshop
Title: A Prince in a Pawnshop
Released: October 16, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Suspect
Title: The Suspect
Character: Jack
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The Suspect is a 1916 lost silent film directed by S. Rankin Drew. Set in France and Russia, the plot revolves around the cruelties of Russian Grand Duke Karatoff, known to friends and enemies alike as "the butcher." Sophie, leader of a band of revolutionaries, attempts to assassinate Karatoff but accidentally wounds his son Paul instead.
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The Law Decides
Title: The Law Decides
Character: Bobby Wharton
Released: May 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Mere years could not kill the overwhelming love which lay dormant in Lorenz's heart, though Florence was now the wife of another.
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Salvation Joan
Title: Salvation Joan
Character: Bobby Ellison
Released: April 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Joan, a refined young Salvation Army volunteer, fall in love with a gangster.
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Writing on the Wall
Title: Writing on the Wall
Character: Harry Lawrence
Released: February 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Irving Lawrence owns some of the most decrepit tenements in town and is an all-around bad guy. He won't cooperate with the efforts of his wife, Barbara, to help the poor and sees other women behind her back. Muriel, one of his cast-offs, meets and marries Barbara's brother, Payne. Lawrence makes trouble for Muriel and fabricates a scandal involving his kindly brother Schuyler and Barbara.
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A Case of Eugenics
Title: A Case of Eugenics
Character: The borrowed offspring
Released: October 29, 1915
Type: Movie
Mrs. Drew is so enamored with children that Mr. Drew decides to regress into infantilism so she'll pay more attention to him.
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The Third Party
Title: The Third Party
Character: Bobby Williams
Released: October 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Dr. Williams is so deeply immersed in his work he unconsciously neglects his wife. Newell Russell, a young society idler, becomes acquainted with them and Bobby, the doctor's son, takes a great fancy to him. Harmon, a former suitor of Mrs. Williams, sees an opportunity to make trouble and sends an anonymous note to the Doctor warning him to "watch his wife." This, followed by the discovery of an apparently compromising snapshot Bobby had taken, sends the Doctor in a rage. He demands an explanation from Newell at the point of an automatic, but Mrs. Williams saves the situation by proving the note was written by Harmon.
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Sonny Jim and the Amusement Company, Ltd.
Title: Sonny Jim and the Amusement Company, Ltd.
Character: Sonny Jim
Released: September 12, 1915
Type: Movie
A short comedy in which Jimmy organizes a show with cowboys and Indians. The highlight is the arrival of Buffalo Bill on a donkey. Jimmy goes to Sunday school, where he scares the teacher with a frog. As a punishment, he is not allowed to go to the picnic.
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The Little Captain
Title: The Little Captain
Character: Sonny Jim
Released: July 16, 1914
Type: Movie
While visiting General Forbes, a friend of his Daddy, Sonny Jim imitates the soldiers at the garrison and feels certain that he was cut out for one of them. The General tells him always to help a comrade in distress. Later, a convict escapes from prison and coming upon Sonny Jim playing sentinel, asks help and says he is a comrade in distress. Sonny Jim remembers the General's command, secures one of his father's suits, a large chicken and an apple pie, and finds the convict a hiding place in the cellar.
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Sonny Jim at the North Pole
Title: Sonny Jim at the North Pole
Character: Sonny Jim
Released: April 20, 1914
Type: Movie
Sonny's daddy reads in the morning paper an article concerning the Pole, and explains it to Sonny, who unfortunately has been reprimanded for some trivial mishaps at breakfast and told that if such things happen again Shep will be sent away. In desperation he and Shep start out for the North Pole.
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An Easter Lily
Title: An Easter Lily
Character: Sonny Jim
Released: April 9, 1914
Type: Movie
The third in the series, An Easter "Lily" takes on upstairs/downstairs race relations with childhood candor. Following his family’s African American maid to the laundry, Sonny Jim befriends her daughter Lily and shares his teddy bear. With Easter approaching, Mother Dear buys her boy a new outfit and readies her home for relatives. Sonny Jim talks about the coming festivities with his playmate. When he learns that she does not have holiday clothes, he appropriates the white frock of his visiting cousin and invites Lily to join his family for Sunday worship.
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An Officer and a Gentleman
Title: An Officer and a Gentleman
Character: Jack Smedley - the Sergeant's Son
Released: March 14, 1914
Type: Movie