Forrest Robinson

Forrest Robinson

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The Good Bad Boy
Title: The Good Bad Boy
Character: John Benson
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Billy Benson has a reputation as a "bad boy" largely due to his habit of winding up in fist fights. Billy is usually fighting to defend his dad's reputation. John Benson is the town ne'er-do-well: a failed inventor who has labored the past 20 years on what he believes is a revolutionary fire extinguisher. Wealthy businessman Walter Howe realizes that it really is a million-dollar idea, and plots...
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Adam's Rib
Title: Adam's Rib
Character: Kramer
Released: September 24, 1923
Type: Movie
Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda assumes her mother's guilt. Ramsay nearly goes broke but gets rich again; his wife returns.
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Ashes of Vengeance
Title: Ashes of Vengeance
Character: Father Paul
Released: August 6, 1923
Type: Movie
This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Rev. John Steddon
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Tess of the Storm Country
Title: Tess of the Storm Country
Character: Orn 'Daddy' Skinner
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on young Tess, and one of them, Ben Letts, frames Tess's father for murder. While maintaining her father's innocence, Tess must keep her love for Graves' son a secret, while caring for Elias' daughter's illegitamate child.
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Tol'able David
Title: Tol'able David
Character: Grandpa Hatburn
Released: December 31, 1921
Type: Movie
Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
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The Hidden Truth
Title: The Hidden Truth
Character: Judge Blake
Released: January 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Helen Merrill sings and dances in the rough Western mining town of Nugget City, where she befriends Myrtle Cadby, whose husband Jake cruelly abuses her. After a particularly vicious beating, Myrtle, seriously injured, shoots Jake. As she lies dying, she gives Helen a letter of introduction to a man she was to have married in the East, urging her to leave Nugget City. Before she leaves, Helen overhears Bill Sheridan and "Snipe" Roach scheming to sell Charles Taylor, a wealthy New Yorker, a salted mine, with the assistance of George Reed, Taylor's mining agent. Helen goes East and learns that Taylor is the man whom Myrtle was to have married, but because she immediately falls in love with him, she conceals her own identity and masquerades as Myrtle.
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Little Miss Hoover
Title: Little Miss Hoover
Character: Colonel William Craddock
Released: December 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Little Miss Hoover is a 1918 American silent romantic drama film directed by John S. Robertson and stars Marguerite Clark. The film is based on the novel The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Davies.
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From Two to Six
Title: From Two to Six
Character: John Stevens
Released: February 17, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, John Stevens invents an anti-submarine device, but the plans are stolen by two German spies, the Baron von Wiederholtz and Madame Elsa, who flee to a New York hotel. Stevens' daughter Alice pursues the spies hoping to retrieve the plans.
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Title: The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Character: Sir Oliver Holt
Released: June 7, 1915
Type: Movie
A young girl who lives in the slums of London, is in love with a thief. She persuades him to give up his life of crime. Meanwhile, an eccentric millionaire, who has been diagnosed with an incurable dementia, becomes so despondent, he decides to commit suicide. He disguises himself as a vagrant, and wanders into the slums. As he tries to find the courage to kill himself, he is encountered by the young girl. She rationalizes him out of the cowardly act. Her genuine sweetness and strong faith, effects him to such an extent, he begins to believe a recovery is possible. Now the girl's sweetheart has been falsely accused of murder and only the millionaire's licentious nephew can give him an alibi.