Darwin Karr

Darwin Karr

Born: July 25, 1875
Died: December 31, 1945
in Almond, New York, USA

Movies for Darwin Karr...

The Sin Flood
Title: The Sin Flood
Character: Charlie
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof doors as a safeguard against an overflow of the river; when a flood comes, it appears that the entire town will be submerged. Trapped in Stratton's cafe, amongst others, are Billy Bear, a young broker, and Poppy, a chorus girl with whom he has been in love.
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Suds
Title: Suds
Character: The Archduke
Released: January 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
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The Unbeliever
Title: The Unbeliever
Character: “Lefty”
Released: February 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
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Lifting the Ban of Coventry
Title: Lifting the Ban of Coventry
Character: Worth Stuyvesant
Released: March 27, 1915
Type: Movie
Even though his widowed mother and sweetheart, Mary Putnam, disapprove, Worth Stuyvesant insists on going to West Point and becoming a soldier. Ultimately, Mary breaks off their engagement and Stuyvesant goes on a bender. His conduct is reported to the commander, who sends him to the sub post of Del Rio for 60 days of tour duty. There, Stuyvesant meets Lola Montez, an adventuress. With the help of a couple of her pals, Lola gets him drunk and marries him. But Stuyvesant lives up to his duties as a husband and surprisingly, Lola renounces her old ways and becomes a model wife.
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An Officer and a Gentleman
Title: An Officer and a Gentleman
Character: Sgt. Smeadley
Released: March 14, 1914
Type: Movie
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Mr. Bruce Wins at Cards
Title: Mr. Bruce Wins at Cards
Character: Mr. Bruce
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Mr. Bruce wins at cards but spends the night desperately trying to protect his winnings from the crooked casino owners.
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A Prisoner in the Harem
Title: A Prisoner in the Harem
Character: The Rajah
Released: October 6, 1913
Type: Movie
A woman sold as a bride to the local Rajah is saved by her lover and his loyal tiger.
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Title: The Pit and the Pendulum
Character: Alonzo
Released: July 9, 1913
Type: Movie
Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.
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Burstup Homes' Murder Case
Title: Burstup Homes' Murder Case
Character: Reggie Jellybone
Released: March 26, 1913
Type: Movie
A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company.
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The Thief
Title: The Thief
Released: February 14, 1913
Type: Movie
Three wartime friends, two wealthy, and one poor, reunite at an upscale dinner party. Things take a turn when the poor man is accused of stealing something.
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The Coming of Sunbeam
Title: The Coming of Sunbeam
Character: Major Neal
Released: January 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Proud old Major Neal disowns his only child, a beautiful girl, because he considers her marriage a misalliance. Years pass. The old major becomes a recluse feared by all. One morning, a hamper is found beneath the Major's covered driveway.The hamper contains a baby girl.
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Beasts of the Jungle
Title: Beasts of the Jungle
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
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The New Love And The Old
Title: The New Love And The Old
Character: Man
Released: November 6, 1912
Type: Movie
The boy Is a bachelor of thirty who by diligence and perseverance is on the road to success. The boy's success gains him introduction into fashionable and aristocratic circles. He meets the girl and falls In love with her. She Is selfish, proud, snobbish, and has a great contempt for her social inferiors. The girl treats the mother like a servant, and rebukes her severely when she accidentally spills some sugar on her dress. The old mother bursts into tears. The boy resents his fiancee's treatment of his mother. She is furious that he should take sides against her, and In a rage demands that he choose between them. He hesitates a moment between the old love and the new, and then folds his old mother in his arms.
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Canned Harmony
Title: Canned Harmony
Character: Billy's Friend Dick
Released: October 9, 1912
Type: Movie
The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to give up, Billy’s roommate suggests bluffing his way into the Professor’s favor with the aid of a suitably musical disguise and a well-hidden phonograph player.
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The Detective's Dog
Title: The Detective's Dog
Character: James Harper
Released: October 3, 1912
Type: Movie
When Kitty's family adopts a homeless dog they couldn't guess how much it would be of help in her fathers detective work.
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Playing Trumps
Title: Playing Trumps
Released: August 30, 1912
Type: Movie
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His Double
Title: His Double
Released: August 28, 1912
Type: Movie
A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.
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Broken Oath
Title: Broken Oath
Character: Sergeant Karr
Released: July 24, 1912
Type: Movie
Vinnie, Colonel Beggs' daughter, complains to her father that Lieutenant Sterling is paying her unwelcome attentions. The Colonel assures his daughter that she has no cause for fear. He immediately forgets the incident, as important military developments occupy his time. But soon Vinnie has a more serious complaint, and the Colonel is forced to act.
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Fra Diavolo
Title: Fra Diavolo
Character: Lorenzo
Released: July 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.
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In the Year 2000
Title: In the Year 2000
Character: Ravishing Robert
Released: May 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.
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The Sewer
Title: The Sewer
Character: John Stanhope
Released: April 24, 1912
Type: Movie
A noted philanthropist is captured by a rowdy gang, but one of the children involved resists the gang's insistence that he turn to a life of crime.
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Falling Leaves
Title: Falling Leaves
Character: Mr. Griswold Thompson
Released: March 15, 1912
Type: Movie
It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.
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God Disposes
Title: God Disposes
Character: Charles Knight Sr.
Released: February 23, 1912
Type: Movie
A young man of high social position sacrifices his home and family for a girl of the stage. Cast off by his family, the young man finds that he is not qualified to earn his living. In the meanwhile his wife grows ill, a child is born, and several years after, the man finds himself in narrow straits. He prepares to go out and burglarize a place. His child enters when he leaves his revolver on the table. The child plays with it as with a toy and then innocently removes the bullets. The father comes back and takes the revolver and goes out. Accidentally, the son breaks into his own father's office. The father happens to be working late that night. The son breaks in, tries to shoot his own father. By the intervention of God, the son is saved from a patricide.
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A Terrible Lesson
Title: A Terrible Lesson
Character: Frank Chance
Released: February 16, 1912
Type: Movie
The story involves a man who goes to a gambling den regardless of the protestations of his wife. He is extremely lucky and his luck attracts attention. Strangers become friendly with him and he being a "good feller," "sets up" the crowd. After the night's playing, he is advised by the owner of the den that it would be hazardous for him to attempt going home alone with so much cash on his person. Chance decides to remain over night. He is shown to a room. During the night, he not only finds that he has been trapped, but an attempt is made on his life. (Moving Picture World)
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Parson Sue
Title: Parson Sue
Character: Lucky Bill
Released: January 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road when they suddenly run into the one-horse shay of a female parson, they keel over in surprise. Right after her arrival the boys begin to lay plans to get in right, while the parson loses no time in starting a campaign for the defeat of Satan. She begins by posting a sign near the town horse trough to the effect that "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." Of course the boys see the sign and immediately there is a sudden disposition among them to make use of soap, water and brush. One cowboy in particular is very much in love with the parson. He shows his affection only too plainly, and so the boys decide to play a trick on him. Their practical joke unintentionally is not only the means of frustrating a plot against the parson, but it brings the parson and her lover together.
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A Modern Cinderella
Title: A Modern Cinderella
Released: November 7, 1911
Type: Movie
This 20th-century retelling of the classic fairy tale keeps all the familiar elements — a selfish step-sister, a put-upon beauty, a Prince Charming, and, of course, a lost slipper — but shifts the action to a contemporary boarding house. Cinderella, played by Mary Fuller, befriends an elderly resident, who buys a party outfit for her favorite when Cinderella’s elder sister preens for a dance. The new clothes transform the unassuming maiden into the toast of the ball. Finding Cinderella’s missing shoe, a dashing young man follows the clue to his grandmother, Cinderella’s friend at the boarding house, who works her magic to reunite the couple.