Alan Roscoe

Alan Roscoe

Born: August 23, 1886
Died: March 8, 1933
in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
From Wikipedia

Alan Roscoe (August 23, 1886 – March 8, 1933) was an American film actor of the silent and early talking film eras. He appeared in 108 films between 1915 and 1933. His interment was located in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Movies for Alan Roscoe...

The Thrill Hunter
Title: The Thrill Hunter
Character: Movie Cowboy Joe
Released: April 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
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Lucky Devils
Title: Lucky Devils
Character: Mr. Hacket - A Director
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
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The Cheyenne Kid
Title: The Cheyenne Kid
Character: Mark Hollister
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Chalmers
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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A Strange Adventure
Title: A Strange Adventure
Character: Stephen Boulter
Released: November 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.
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Breach of Promise
Title: Breach of Promise
Character: Committeeman
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A pre-Code drama.
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The Last Mile
Title: The Last Mile
Character: Kirby... Cell 7 (as Allan Roscoe)
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
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Hello Trouble
Title: Hello Trouble
Character: Gregg
Released: July 15, 1932
Type: Movie
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.
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Dynamite Ranch
Title: Dynamite Ranch
Character: Owens
Released: July 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Howell breaks up a train robbery only to find that it's a fake. However the money is missing and he is blamed. He escapes and sets out to find the real thieves. He must also avoid being caught visiting the Collins ranch to see Doris.
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Strangers of the Evening
Title: Strangers of the Evening
Character: Sutherland
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
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Hell-Fire Austin
Title: Hell-Fire Austin
Character: Mark Edmonds
Released: March 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Heading west, Ken and Bouncer end up at the Brooks ranch where Ken is to ride Tarzan in the big race. But both the Sheriff and Edmonds are after him and he must hide both himself and the horse until race time.
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Ladies of the Jury
Title: Ladies of the Jury
Character: Prosecutor Halsey Van Stye (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
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Hell Divers
Title: Hell Divers
Character: Captain - U.S.S Saratoga
Released: January 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
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High Stakes
Title: High Stakes
Character: Judge Hennessey
Released: August 18, 1931
Type: Movie
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray. It is based on a 1924 Broadway play that starred Sherman playing the same role he plays in this film.
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Character: Malcolm O'Neill
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
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Subway Express
Title: Subway Express
Character: Edward Tracy
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
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The Sin Ship
Title: The Sin Ship
Character: Crewman Dave
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
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Laugh and Get Rich
Title: Laugh and Get Rich
Character: Mr. Fetherstone - Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1931
Type: Movie
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
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The Royal Bed
Title: The Royal Bed
Character: Birten
Released: January 15, 1931
Type: Movie
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
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Danger Lights
Title: Danger Lights
Character: Jim
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
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The Pay-Off
Title: The Pay-Off
Character: District Attorney
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
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Rain or Shine
Title: Rain or Shine
Character: Dalton, the Ringmaster
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
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The Fall Guy
Title: The Fall Guy
Character: Detective Joe Keefe
Released: June 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
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Call of the West
Title: Call of the West
Character: Maurice Kane
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Nightclub entertainer Violet La Tour collapses during a performance in Sagebrush, Texas, and is taken to the ranch of Lon Dixon. They fall in love and are married. Feeling deserted when Lon joins a posse in search of rustlers, she returns to New York. There, she is wooed by her agent, Maurice Kane, but confirms her love for Lon when he comes to claim her.
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
Character: Bland
Released: December 25, 1929
Type: Movie
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.
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The Vagabond Lover
Title: The Vagabond Lover
Character: Jay Stein - Grant's Manager
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: The Loudmouth in Barber Shop
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
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Hurricane
Title: Hurricane
Character: Captain Black
Released: September 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Captain Black and his motley crew of pirates are shipwrecked on a South Sea island, where they hold several shanghaied sailors captive. Black observes the ship commanded by Hurricane Martin approaching and conspires to get his men aboard the vessel and seize the cargo.
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Flight
Title: Flight
Character: Major James D. Rowell
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Nicaragua. This early talkie from director Frank Capra, released in 1929, stars Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Lila Lee.
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Love In The Desert
Title: Love In The Desert
Character: Houdish
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Zarah, a beautiful Arabian played by Olive Borden, saves irrigation engineer Bob Winslow (Hugh Trevor) from being abducted by bandit leader Abdullah (Noah Beery).
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The Sideshow
Title: The Sideshow
Character: Ghandi
Released: December 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Melrose's circus is being threatened by his competitor, who's angry that Melrose has outmanuevered him in bookings; what he doesn't know is that the competitor has also planted a saboteur who creates accidents in hopes of reducing the value of the circus. Meanwhile, he's also hired a beautiful young woman as the magician's assistant, with eyes toward more - but he realizes that, as a midget, she won't have him.
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The Mating Call
Title: The Mating Call
Character: Lon Henderson
Released: July 21, 1928
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.
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The Sawdust Paradise
Title: The Sawdust Paradise
Character: Ward
Released: June 28, 1928
Type: Movie
She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then Regeneration. A Drama of Lights and Shadows.
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Long Pants
Title: Long Pants
Character: His father
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.
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The Texas Streak
Title: The Texas Streak
Character: Jefferson Powell
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.
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The King of the Turf
Title: The King of the Turf
Character: Tom Selsby
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to jail.
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Why Women Love
Title: Why Women Love
Character: Charley Watts
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Why Women Love (1925)
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The Girl of Gold
Title: The Girl of Gold
Character: Ned Loring
Released: February 16, 1925
Type: Movie
Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his daughter, Helen, has an endless number of suitors. Needless to say, she gets tired of being courted only for her money, so she attends a party under an assumed name. There she meets Schuyler Livingstone, and they are immediately attracted to each other. What Helen doesn't know is that her father has paid Livingstone to marry her.
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One Glorious Night
Title: One Glorious Night
Character: Kenneth McLane
Released: December 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 silent drama.
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The Chorus Lady
Title: The Chorus Lady
Character: Dan Mallory
Released: November 23, 1924
Type: Movie
When her latest show closes, Pat O'Brien returns home. The stable owned by her fiancé, Dan Mallory, catches fire, and Pat helps save his prize horse, Lady Belle, who is blinded. Because of the fire, Pat and Dan have to put their wedding plans on hold, and Pat returns to the stage.
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Flirting with Love
Title: Flirting with Love
Character: Franklyn Stone
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
When Wade Cameron, chairman of the Better Plays Society, stops the production of actress Gilda Lamont's first stage success, she attempts to revenge herself by affecting another personality and earning his confidence. He assigns her a role in an improvised production of a new play as an unknown actress, derails her attempt to expose him, and ends by winning her heart.
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Pal o' Mine
Title: Pal o' Mine
Character: Frank Travers (as Albert Roscoe)
Released: March 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford (Josef Swickard) loses his job...and then gives him work secretly paid for by herself. When a temperamental artist Babette Hermann (Pauline Garon) reveals the secret, Verdugo becomes disillusioned. Later, though, his faith in his wife is restored.
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The Net
Title: The Net
Character: The Man
Released: December 2, 1923
Type: Movie
The Net is a 1924 silent mystery drama.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Mexico Mullins (as Albert Roscoe)
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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Lovebound
Title: Lovebound
Character: John Mobley
Released: April 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Besse Belwin works as a stenographer for district attorney John Mobley. It doesn't take long for Mobley to fall in love with his cute little employee and he proposes. Besse doesn't reveal that her father has a criminal past which he has since renounced.
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Java Head
Title: Java Head
Character: Gerrit Ammidon (as Albert Roscoe)
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to China to "get away from it all". While in Shanghai he rescues a beautiful young woman being attacked by a gang of street toughs. She turns out to be Taou Yuen, a Manchu princess. Gerrit discovers that, unless she finds a husband, she will be put to death, and he agrees to marry her. They return to Java Head, the Ammidon family home in Salem, Massachusetts, but Gerrit's "homecoming" has some unexpected consequences.
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The Last Card
Title: The Last Card
Character: Ralph Kirkwood
Released: May 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Ralph Kirkwood is falsely tried for murder. He is found guilty after being represented by lawyer, Tom Gannell. Kirkwood's wife believes she knows the identity of the real killer and sets about trapping him.
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Her Unwilling Husband
Title: Her Unwilling Husband
Character: Homer Owen
Released: November 21, 1920
Type: Movie
In this farce, Mavis Jerome, is an actress who has just broken up with her fiancé, Homer Owen. She goes to her brother-in-law's island retreat, but her stay is interrupted by one of his pals, John Jordan. Her rest is further disturbed when Owen shows up on her doorstep during a storm.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Uncas
Released: November 21, 1920
Type: Movie
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.
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The Branding Iron
Title: The Branding Iron
Character: Rev. Frank Holliwell
Released: October 31, 1920
Type: Movie
Pierre Landis is insanely jealous of his beautiful young wife Joan, and his jealousy makes him take a branding iron to her to mark her as his property.
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Black Shadows
Title: Black Shadows
Character: Duncan Fordyce
Released: March 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A victim of hypnotism begins to have compulsions to steal.
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The Paliser Case
Title: The Paliser Case
Character: Lennox
Released: February 15, 1920
Type: Movie
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
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Evangeline
Title: Evangeline
Character: Gabriel
Released: August 19, 1919
Type: Movie
In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown Evangeline follows the exiled men in hopes of finding her beloved, but even after he and the other Acadians are released in Louisiana, she cannot find him, always arriving at some locale just after he has departed. But she dedicates her life to searching the continent for the man she loves.
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A Man's Country
Title: A Man's Country
Character: Ralph Bowen
Released: July 13, 1919
Type: Movie
Dance-hall queen Kate Carewe is the toast of the gold-mining camp of Huxley's Gulch. One day a minister, Ralph Bowen, arrives to "clean up" the town. He is scorned by the miners, gamblers and "loose women" of the place, especially Kate, who resents that Bowen calls her a "scarlet woman".
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The Siren's Song
Title: The Siren's Song
Character: Gaspard Prevost
Released: May 3, 1919
Type: Movie
Marie Bernais, a Breton village girl, possesses a wonderful voice which her father believes is a gift from the devil. Raoul Nieppe loves her, but fears marrying below his social status, and his rejection results in a suicide attempt by Marie. She is rescued by Hector Remey who was once a tenor but is now a showman. Because of his assistance, she becomes a famous singer.
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The She Devil
Title: The She Devil
Character: Maurice Taylor
Released: November 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Lolette an exotic and spirited peasant girl lives In the small Spanish village of Juanguera . Although ardently courted by the native swains, and particularly a bandit called The Tiger, Lolette prefers Maurice Tabor, a French artist who has come to Juanguera to paint. Because he refuses to take her to Paris, Lolette accepts a gift of stolen jewels from The Tiger and follows Maurice to France.
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When a Woman Sins
Title: When a Woman Sins
Character: Michael
Released: September 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Lilian is engaged to an older man in poor health when she meets his son Michael, whom she falls for. Due to a misunderstanding between the two, Lilian leaves after her fiance's death. Years later, Lilian becomes known around town for her "loose morals," but what happens when she runs into Michael again?
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Salome
Title: Salome
Character: John the Baptist
Released: August 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet John the Baptist, who publicly denounces the depravity of the royal family and proclaims the arrival of a new messiah. (Film presumed lost.)
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Her Body in Bond
Title: Her Body in Bond
Character: Harlan Quinn / Harlequin
Released: July 20, 1918
Type: Movie
The cabaret act of husband-and-wife dancing team Peggy and Joe Blondin is broken up when Joe becomes consumptive and is ordered West to recuperate. Peggy remains in New York to maintain the couple's income but gradually becomes desperate when letters sent her by her husband request more and more money. Joe's letters actually are being intercepted and rewritten by millionaire Harlan Quinn, who has designs on Peggy and wishes to portray Joe's situation as hopeless. After receiving a particularly alarming letter, Peggy consents to sell her honor to Harlan.
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Under the Yoke
Title: Under the Yoke
Character: Capt. Paul Winter (as Albert Roscoe)
Released: July 9, 1918
Type: Movie
As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez (Nye), he starts an insurrection among the native Filipinos. Maria's father Don Ramon is killed and Maria is held hostage. She gets word to Capt. Paul Winter (Roscoe) of the American troops in Manila and he comes to her assistance, but his troops are outnumbered and they are made prisoners by the revolting revolutionists. Maria and Paul attempt to escape, but they are caught and brought back. At the Manila headquarters, trouble is suspected and reinforcements are sent. Before long, the revolt is subdued and peace reigns over Maria's home, and happiness over the betrothal of Maria and Paul.
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The Doctor and the Woman
Title: The Doctor and the Woman
Character: Dr. Max Wilson
Released: March 4, 1918
Type: Movie
The mysterious "K" takes a humble job and falls in love with his landlady's daughter, Sidney Page. Sidney discourages her boyish admirer, Joe Drummond, and seeks training as a nurse. Infatuated with the head surgeon, Dr. Max Wilson, she accepts his proposal, which infuriates nurse Carlotta, who also loves Max. Carlotta lures Max to a roadhouse, where Joe, mistaking her for Sidney, shoots Max. K appears and, assuming his true identity as the famous Dr. Edwards, saves Max's life by performing his "Edwards operation."
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The Shuttle
Title: The Shuttle
Character: Lord Mount Dunstan
Released: February 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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A Soul for Sale
Title: A Soul for Sale
Character: Steele Minturn (as Albert Roscoe)
Released: November 30, 1917
Type: Movie
After Neila Pendleton's father dies, leaving his wife and daughter penniless, the avaricious Mrs. Pendleton decides to marry Neila to the highest bidder. At the cost of her daughter's reputation, Mrs. Pendleton accepts money from elderly broker Wilbur Simons, and later tries to force Neila into a marriage with a dissolute old millionaire named Hale Faxon.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Pharon (as Albert Roscoe)
Released: October 14, 1917
Type: Movie
The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony.
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Camille
Title: Camille
Character: Armand Duval (as Albert Roscoe)
Released: September 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hopes of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
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Heart's Desire
Title: Heart's Desire
Character: Paul Le Roque
Released: April 30, 1917
Type: Movie
A silent drama film directed by Francis J. Grandon
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The Mystery of the Silent Death
Title: The Mystery of the Silent Death
Character: Lewis Courtland
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Within less than five months after the mysterious death of her mother, Adene Maintland wakes in the early morning to learn that her father has also died silently and mysteriously. She suspects her step-father, Wainwright.
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Graustark
Title: Graustark
Character: Harry Anguish
Released: April 16, 1915
Type: Movie
While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through the mountains and finally catch it. They travel to Washington and have a great time, but they soon part. They meet again later in the small European country of Graustark, where Grenfall and his friend Harry rescue her from kidnappers, and they then discover that she is actually the country's Princess Yetiva. She is engaged to Prinze Lorenz of Asphan in order to pay off Graustark's enormous debt from the war, but Lorenz is murdered and Grenfall is framed for the crime. Complications ensue.
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A Pound for a Pound
Title: A Pound for a Pound
Character: Jack Thorpe
Released: February 16, 1915
Type: Movie
Starvation faces the little post of Red Gold. Jack Thorpe, in a final effort to obtain food for his wife and baby, offers all his gold for one pound of meat.