Charles Craig

Charles Craig

Born: August 13, 1877
Died: May 1, 1972
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Charles Craig...

A Bride for a Knight
Title: A Bride for a Knight
Released: December 15, 1923
Type: Movie
While having dental work done, Jimmy inhales too much gas and begins believing that he is a detective. He sets out to capture a gang of thieves who robbed Jean's uncle's bank.
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The Blonde Vampire
Title: The Blonde Vampire
Character: Simon Downs
Released: April 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Marcia Saville, thought to be a hopeless flirt by her sweetheart, Martin Kent, shows him that she prefers Tom Smith, a man from the underworld, because Tom is more authoritative. Tom is induced to enter a scheme to rob Marcia's father in a crooked deal instigated by Simon Downs. Downs plans to have Tom marry Marcia and divide the spoils, as she is to receive a sum of money when she marries. Tom is too smart for them and refuses to get involved. Meantime, Kent proves his strength of character, and Marcia is won over. Downs is exposed to her father and discharged.
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Back Pay
Title: Back Pay
Character: Speed
Released: January 8, 1922
Type: Movie
This 1922 Frank Borzage film is a masterwork waiting to be rediscovered. Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life. There she becomes the lover of a wealthy and unscrupulous businessman. But when Jerry returns blinded and dying from the war, Hester must choose between her new life and the man whose loyalty to her has never failed.
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The Wonderful Thing
Title: The Wonderful Thing
Character: General Lancaster
Released: November 7, 1921
Type: Movie
A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.
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The Last Door
Title: The Last Door
Character: Freddie Tripp
Released: May 10, 1921
Type: Movie
The Last Door (1921)
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The Flapper
Title: The Flapper
Character: Reverand Cushil
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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Youthful Folly
Title: Youthful Folly
Character: Reverend Bluebottle
Released: March 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Nancy is a restless young girl tired of living on a plantation with her three old-maid aunts. Her life brightens when her cousin Lola comes visiting from New York. What she doesn't know is that Lola is fleeing a scandal that erupted when she was caught running around on her husband with her lover, David. It's not long before David comes looking for her, and Nancy falls in love with him. Lola sees a way out of her problem--if she can get Nancy and David to hook up, it will take the heat off of her. Nancy's aunts, who want to get rid of her, are all for the plan, and soon Nancy and David get married. However, things don't quite work out for everyone the way they planned.
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Nothing But the Truth
Title: Nothing But the Truth
Character: Mr. Clarence
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Robert Bennett, an idle socialite, wagers $30,000 with his three friends that he can tell nothing but the truth for a period of one week. His troubles begin at a party where his friends' wives question Robert about their husbands' outside activities. Forced to tell the truth, Robert's veracity results in domestic disharmony. Consequently, his vengeful trio of friends pursue Robert for the next five days, intent upon silencing him until the week is over. They finally resort to committing Robert to an insane asylum where he escapes with the aid of Dolly, who is in love with him because she believes that Robert is a society thief.
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Sadie Love
Title: Sadie Love
Character: Butler
Released: October 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Society miss Sadie Love has just wed Prince Luigi Pallavincini when she gets a phone call from Jimmie Wakely, a suitor she has not seen in a year. She allows him to come by and declare his love but doesn't bother telling him she has just gotten married. Without giving it much thought, she decides she likes Wakely better and runs off with him.
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Under the Greenwood Tree
Title: Under the Greenwood Tree
Character: Hurrell Hutton
Released: December 8, 1918
Type: Movie
Acting on her love of nature and loathing of titled fortune hunters, heiress Mary Hamilton leaves home with her secretary, Peggy Ingledew, to join a band of roving gypsies. One of Mary's suitors, Sir Kenneth Graham, follows the two young women into the woods, dressed in gypsy garb, but when Jack Hutton decides to rid his forested land of gypsies, Sir Kenneth is thrown into jail.
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The Fall of the Romanoffs
Title: The Fall of the Romanoffs
Character: Grand Duke Nicholas
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.
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A Rich Man's Plaything
Title: A Rich Man's Plaything
Character: Lawyer Sharp
Released: September 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Marie Grandon may have seen more of the world than any nice girl ever would, but her motives remain pure. Marie labors in a New England oyster cannery and dreams of someday crushing the slumlords who prey upon the poor. While on a cruise, "Iron" Lloyd, a millionaire financier and tenement owner, decides to visit the town where Marie lives. Under the name Strange, he gets in a fight and is injured. While recuperating, he meets Marie and she tells him of her dream. Lloyd is intrigued by this and decides to test her. He has his lawyer transfer a huge sum of money to her and makes it look like she inherited it from a distant relative. Marie takes the money, goes to New York, and does exactly what she had planned. Her main target happens to be Lloyd. His business rival, Ogden Deneau, even aligns with her, pretending interest in her cause, but really wanting to ruin Lloyd. Marie, however, had dealings with Deneau a long time ago and plans to crush him too.
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A Royal Romance
Title: A Royal Romance
Character: Lord Fitzroy
Released: April 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Princess Sylvia refuses to marry the Emperor Maximilian of Rhaetia because his proposal has been offered for diplomatic rather than romantic reasons. Learning that Maximilian is traveling to a hunting lodge in a small village, Sylvia follows him, disguised as an untitled English girl, and the emperor immediately falls in love with her.
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Under Two Flags
Title: Under Two Flags
Character: Rockingham
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is sentenced to a firing squad, she heroically takes the bullet herself.
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The Serpent
Title: The Serpent
Character: Grand Duke Valanoff
Released: January 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.
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A Lucky Toothache
Title: A Lucky Toothache
Character: One of the Boys
Released: October 13, 1910
Type: Movie
Bessie, the new school teacher, arrives at the little western village, and on her way to the school she meets a gang of cowboys who bestow boxes of candy and other little offerings. Not long after the girl is seized with a jumping toothache. Each boy suggests a cure, but without success. Tom, however, now appears and offers a cure. He leaves her a note stating if she will submit to his treatment he will guarantee to cure her toothache. She is in such agony that she is inclined to submit to anything, and so, though not knowing what the cure may be, consents. After great preliminaries Tom administers a resounding kiss upon her cheek..
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Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Title: Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Released: September 1, 1910
Type: Movie
Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends Muggsy a note asking him to meet her after the service so he may walk home with her. Muggsy is there on time, however, the old ladies are afraid to make the return trip unaccompanied. The pastor asks that a man escort them home. Poor Muggsy gets chosen, and when the trio reach the deserted part of the road, the tramps again appear.
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The Usurer
Title: The Usurer
Character: At Luncheon
Released: August 15, 1910
Type: Movie
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
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A Salutary Lesson
Title: A Salutary Lesson
Character: The Wife's Visitor
Released: August 11, 1910
Type: Movie
During a stay at beach resort Mr. and Mrs. Randall neglect their daughter and follow their own interests. Mrs. Randall entertains the local minister, while Mr. Randall agrees to take his daughter on a walk along the beach. However, he is attracted by a flirtatious young woman, and the little girl wanders off on her own. She clambers onto a seaside rock where she falls asleep, unmindful of the incoming tide. Her parents at last notice her absence and begin searching for her. However, the incoming tide has by this time surrounded her rock, cutting her off from land. A lifeguard hears her cries and swims to the rescue just as the rising tide is about to engulf her. The child is returned to her parents, who receive from their near tragedy a salutary lesson in the importance of being more careful parents.
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A Flash of Light
Title: A Flash of Light
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: July 17, 1910
Type: Movie
An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place.
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Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Title: Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Character: Uplift Man
Released: June 30, 1910
Type: Movie
A scrappy lad from the skids attempts to court a well-to-do maiden. During his visits to her family estate, he upsets the Uplift committee that's weaseled their way into the home.
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A Child of the Ghetto
Title: A Child of the Ghetto
Character: In Sweatshop
Released: June 6, 1910
Type: Movie
After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and hides in the country where she meets a young farmer.
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The Impalement
Title: The Impalement
Released: April 21, 1910
Type: Movie
Bored by a doting wife who is too eager to please (she even puts a cigar in his mouth and lights it), Mr. Avery falls for a dancer, and is invited to a party she is throwing in his honor. Over her husband’s shoulder, the wife reads a letter from the dancer, with the telltale salutation "My dear boy", and threatens to poison herself if he goes. To show that he is not to be deterred by such a melodramatic trick, Avery takes the vial and pours the poison into a wine glass, saying if she decides to do this, why not do it with style? He then leaves, but not without misgivings. At the party the dancer offers him wine in a glass which looks exactly like the one he had handed to his suicidal spouse. This triggers an attack of conscience, and Avery rushes home, to find his wife in a swoon which he takes for her threat fulfilled. Madly, he bursts into the dancer’s party, confesses assisted suicide, and dies.
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His Last Dollar
Title: His Last Dollar
Character: The Man
Released: March 31, 1910
Type: Movie
A young man with a beer budget learns a hard lesson when he takes out a young lady with champagne tastes.
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The Englishman and the Girl
Title: The Englishman and the Girl
Character: Albert Wilberforce
Released: February 17, 1910
Type: Movie
A small-town drama group's rehearsal is interrupted when one of their members receives a letter telling him his English relative is arriving for a visit. The Englishman turns out to be stuffy and humorless, and is the butt of several pranks. The drama group dresses as Indians and threatens him, but he turns the tables, pulls out a gun and chases them away.
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The Converts
Title: The Converts
Character: Bystander
Released: February 8, 1910
Type: Movie
A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?
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The Honor of His Family
Title: The Honor of His Family
Character: Man at Farewell
Released: January 24, 1910
Type: Movie
An old colonel is proud as a peacock: his son leads a group of volunteers in the American Civil War. Untill one day his son returns home as a deserter.
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Her Terrible Ordeal
Title: Her Terrible Ordeal
Character: Jack's Rival
Released: January 10, 1910
Type: Movie
A young secretary is locked in an airtight vault by a robber. Only her boss knows the combination, and he is off on a journey. Can the boss's son locate his absent-minded father before it is too late for the girl?
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To Save Her Soul
Title: To Save Her Soul
Character: Bumpkin
Released: December 27, 1909
Type: Movie
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.
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A Trap for Santa Claus
Title: A Trap for Santa Claus
Character: Man in Bar (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1909
Type: Movie
The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.
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A Corner in Wheat
Title: A Corner in Wheat
Released: December 13, 1909
Type: Movie
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
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The Suicide Club
Title: The Suicide Club
Released: May 3, 1909
Type: Movie
One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself. Presumed to be a lost film.