Lillian Walker

Lillian Walker

Born: April 20, 1887
Died: October 10, 1975
in Brooklyn, New York, USA
In the 1910's she became one of Vitagraph's top stars in silent films.

Movies for Lillian Walker...

Pusher-in-the-Face
Title: Pusher-in-the-Face
Released: March 28, 1929
Type: Movie
"A comedy drama of New York life of a restaurant proprietor and it's a scream from start to finish." - Sheffield Observer, 03/28/1929
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The Woman God Changed
Title: The Woman God Changed
Character: Lilly
Released: July 3, 1921
Type: Movie
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A Woman of No Importance
Title: A Woman of No Importance
Character: Hester Hasley
Released: July 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.
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A Marriage of Convenience
Title: A Marriage of Convenience
Released: December 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Billy Emerson and Mildred Girard are secretly engaged to be married after Billy graduates from West Point and becomes a lieutenant. A very serious setback to their tentative understanding occurs when Mr. Girard loses heavily in a stock transaction that places himself under obligations to his friend Morley, whose son Paul, is anxious to marry Mildred.
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The Princess of Park Row
Title: The Princess of Park Row
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
After Baron Alexis swindles the people of Bellaria out of rich mining lands, King Vladimir, who is told by his counselor Kronski that Alexis bought the land in good faith, sends Prince Niclos to America to negotiate a loan on the king's collateral so that the land can be bought and given back to the people.
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The Blue Envelope Mystery
Title: The Blue Envelope Mystery
Character: Leslie Brennan
Released: October 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of making her own living.
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A Keyboard Strategy
Title: A Keyboard Strategy
Character: Margaret Burton
Released: August 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Frank flirts with the pretty blonde stenographer in his hotel. She takes the conceit out of him then falls in love with him. A bellboy gets Frank in very wrong, but in an amusing manner he sets himself right, then, wedding bells.
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A Lily in Bohemia
Title: A Lily in Bohemia
Character: Lily
Released: May 4, 1915
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy directed by Wilfrid North.
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Lifting the Ban of Coventry
Title: Lifting the Ban of Coventry
Character: Mary Putnam
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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Lillian's Dilemma
Title: Lillian's Dilemma
Character: Lillian
Released: July 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Lillian dresses as a man to gain access to a boy's school. (from Performing Queer Female Identity on Screen: A Critical Analysis of Five Recent Films)
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Fanny's Melodrama
Title: Fanny's Melodrama
Character: Fanny
Released: April 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Although deeply in love with his wife, Smith is intensely jealous of her and when she receives a note from her cousin, Tom, to the effect that they have decided to give the melodrama, "The Wicked Earle," as a surprise to Mr. Smith on his birthday.
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The Feudists
Title: The Feudists
Character: Young Lover, Helen Smith
Released: August 23, 1913
Type: Movie
The Craigs and Smiths, next-door neighbors, are the best of friends until Smith builds a chicken house. Their two gardens are connected and their children fraternize as if all belonged to one large family. Sidney Craig manages to set loose Smith's chickens, who get into Craig's garden and work havoc among his pet seedlings.
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Those Troublesome Tresses
Title: Those Troublesome Tresses
Character: Mrs. Miller
Released: August 18, 1913
Type: Movie
Farce in which two neighbouring couples test each other's jealousy. The women decide to make the men jealous and vice versa. The men buy horse hair to make the women believe it is hair of another woman; the women pretend to have received love letters. Final match result: women seem more jealous than men.
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Bunny's Dilemma
Title: Bunny's Dilemma
Character: Sallie - Aunt Eliza's Cousin
Released: June 19, 1913
Type: Movie
John Bunny gets into an awful stew when he hears from his Aunt Eliza that she is coming to visit him and that she is bringing along her cousin, Jean, whom she wishes him to marry. He doesn't at all like the idea of abandoning his bachelor life and appeals to his friend, Jack Holmes, for aid. Jack is persuaded to masquerade as Bunny, whom his aunt has never seen, while Bunny himself gets into feminine garb and poses as the cook.
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A Lady and Her Maid
Title: A Lady and Her Maid
Character: Billy's Sweetheart
Released: May 21, 1913
Type: Movie
The photographer sends miss Ophelia a dozen photographs of her in different poses. Selecting the best one, she presents it to her favorite boarder, Billy, who does not think much of it and who gets very indignant when it is compared with the photo of his sweetheart. Miss Ophelia goes up to her room in tears and tells her faithful maid, Belinda, that her heart is broken. Belinda goes down and forcibly tells Billy what she thinks of him. Miss Ophelia resolves on suicide, because no one seems to love her. Belinda gets back in time to prevent this and, to divert her mistress, she suggests that they go together to a beauty specialist. Arriving there, both receive attention. Miss Ophelia gets a new complexion, while Belinda gets new teeth. Both invest in new gowns and dresses and the transformation is complete. At supper time, the boarders are all astounded.
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Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Title: Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Character: Dolly - the Dancer
Released: April 9, 1913
Type: Movie
Cutey tries to make an impression on a couple of chorus girls. He attends the burlesque show with his friends...
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The Mouse and the Lion
Title: The Mouse and the Lion
Character: Mamie, Hanks' Sweetheart and Accomplice
Released: March 17, 1913
Type: Movie
John Burling, a detective, rounds up some members of the Night Hawk gang. Bill Hanks, the chief, swears to get even with him. Tim, a little street waif, entering the saloon where the gang are consulting with Maime, a female accomplice, overhears some of their threats. He is discovered and kicked out of the place by Hanks. The next day, Tim, half starving, picks up a purse in the street which he has seen a lady drop. He is tempted to steal it, but in the end gives it back to her. Burling sees this, is struck with the boy's honesty, and being in need of a page boy, hires him and dubs him "Buttons."' Maime visits Burling and leaves him an address to come to investigate a robbery which has occurred at her home. Tim recognizes her as she goes out, follows her and has his suspicions confirmed by seeing her with one of the gang on the street. He goes to warn his master, but Burling has already gone.
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Stenographer Troubles
Title: Stenographer Troubles
Character: A Typist
Released: February 6, 1913
Type: Movie
A comic one-act film featuring the character Bunny, which takes place in an office.
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The Classmate's Frolic
Title: The Classmate's Frolic
Character: Classmate
Released: February 4, 1913
Type: Movie
A comedy about a group of school girls who bring a street musician to school with them.
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The Volunteer Strike Breakers
Title: The Volunteer Strike Breakers
Character: Harris's Fiancée's Chum
Released: January 22, 1913
Type: Movie
A strike among the hotel waiters is on. The papers are full of it. Chester Colton, and Harris Baldwin, young college chaps, read that waiters are needed in all the big hotels and restaurants. They apply for positions at Belfonte's restaurant. Harris secures a job as head-waiter and Chester is appointed as one of the regular staff. Harris's fiancée has an engagement with her chum to take dinner with her at the restaurant. They boys pay so much attention to the girls that they neglect the other patrons, who make a kick and complain to the proprietor.
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It All Came Out in the Wash
Title: It All Came Out in the Wash
Character: Gladys Cooper
Released: December 29, 1912
Type: Movie
A romance between Mr. Wall and the girl from the laundry, who encounter each other for the first time on a train station platform.
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The Reincarnation of Karma
Title: The Reincarnation of Karma
Character: Lillian White
Released: December 27, 1912
Type: Movie
In India, Leslie Adams dreams of a priestess who is turned into a snake by Karma, the high priest. While touring a ruined temple, he finds the snake, who is said to resume human form every 100 years. Assuming her human form, Qunitreea give Leslie's fiancée an amulet, causing her to fall into a permanent sleep. Leslie realizes he is the high priest Karma reincarnated, and that Qunitreea has had her revenge.
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Lessons in Courtship
Title: Lessons in Courtship
Character: Edna
Released: December 1, 1912
Type: Movie
A farce in which Dick Edna wants to learn the art of seduction, and takes lessons for this from the brother of his beloved.
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Romance of a Rickshaw
Title: Romance of a Rickshaw
Character: Mabel Lewis
Released: November 19, 1912
Type: Movie
Mabel, the beautiful daughter of General Lewis, has considerable variety of her love affairs when she finds herself loved by Lieutenant Graham, of her father's staff, and very much sought after by a rich Indian Rajah, whom she meets at a garden party. The Rajah proposes, but is refused. He abducts her. Dennis, Graham's servant, meets the abductors and picks up Mabel's locket, which she drops. He hastens to the Lieutenant and tells him what he saw.
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An Elephant on Their Hands
Title: An Elephant on Their Hands
Released: October 15, 1912
Type: Movie
While in his cups, an older gentleman buys a surprise for his family—one that eats peanuts and weighs 11,000 pounds. (MoMA)
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The Godmother
Title: The Godmother
Character: Sixth Girl
Released: October 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Everything is arranged by Dick and his college chums to have their sweethearts from the city, with their chaperone, visit them to spend the day. At the eleventh hour the boys receive a telephone message from the girls informing them that their chaperone has disappointed them, and they will not be able to come. The boys are disconsolate. While they are deploring the matter, their tailor, the ninth part of a man, enters. Struck with a sudden idea, they seize him and compel him to impersonate Dick's godmother.
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She Cried
Title: She Cried
Character: Factory Worker
Released: October 2, 1912
Type: Movie
A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.
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The Indian Mutiny
Title: The Indian Mutiny
Character: Beatrice Wilson - Jack's Sister
Released: September 20, 1912
Type: Movie
Beatrice Wilson, visiting her brother, a British officer in India, is sought in marriage by a native prince. She refuses him and he plots revenge. He incites the Sepoys to mutiny and they set fire to Jack Wilson's home and endeavor to abduct Beatrice. She is defended by her brother, who in the midst of the excitement is taken captive.
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A Vitagraph Romance
Title: A Vitagraph Romance
Character: Lillian Walker
Released: September 17, 1912
Type: Movie
After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the Vitagraph Company as an actress. After waiting wistfully for her return, Senator Carter passes a theatre one day and sees his daughter featured in one the "Movies". He goes to the studio and after being shown through the plant he finds his daughter and reconciliation takes place. Besides being an interesting drama, the picture shows in detail the entire plant of the Vitagraph Company.
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Saving an Audience
Title: Saving an Audience
Character: Berta Barton - an Amateur Actress
Released: August 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Four young college students find themselves with no money and a lot of debts. Each has received a peremptory refusal from home to send any more money to them and they are in despair. Suddenly Claude has an idea. They will hire Susan B. Gabonthy to lecture for them, clear about one hundred dollars apiece, and have enough to tide them over into the next term.
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At the Eleventh Hour
Title: At the Eleventh Hour
Character: Mrs. Daley
Released: August 6, 1912
Type: Movie
Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Released: July 29, 1912
Type: Movie
A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad.
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Wanted, a Sister
Title: Wanted, a Sister
Character: A Ballerina
Released: July 22, 1912
Type: Movie
In the college play, Tom and his room-mate, "Bunch," take prominent and successful parts, Tom as the hero and "Bunch" as the heroine, in which he is an excellent female impersonator. The day after the performance, "Bunch" makes an engagement to take a real chorus girl to dinner. Unexpectedly his mother comes to college to visit him and he makes Tom take the girl.
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The Money Kings
Title: The Money Kings
Character: Helen Montepier - the Daughter
Released: July 15, 1912
Type: Movie
The Money Kings is a 1912 silent short film.
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The Troublesome Step-Daughters
Title: The Troublesome Step-Daughters
Character: A Step-Daughter
Released: July 6, 1912
Type: Movie
A widower with four grown daughters remarries and brings his new wife home to meet them. The girls set out to make life as difficult as possible for their new mother.
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The Cylinder's Secret
Title: The Cylinder's Secret
Character: Nell Lane
Released: June 17, 1912
Type: Movie
Employed as secretary to Howard Abele, Marjorie Abbott attracts the attention of Sydney, her employer's son, who falls desperately in love with her. Mr. Abele is strenuously opposed to their marriage and he quarrels with his son. Marjorie has a half-brother, Dave, who is of an inventive turn of mind.
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An Eventful Elopement
Title: An Eventful Elopement
Character: Dolly McGillicuddy - the Old Man's Daughter
Released: June 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Emphatically opposed to Jack Moss, old Mr. McGillicuddy puts the ban on his marriage to his daughter Dolly. The old gentleman is adamant to the appeals of the young lovers and interposes his interference on every occasion, when they get together. McGillicuddy is seized with an attack of the gout, which handicaps him, and it is then Jack arranges with Dolly to elope.
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Fortunes of a Composer
Title: Fortunes of a Composer
Character: Woman in Tavern (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1912
Type: Movie
A drama about a poor composer who is betrayed by his family and left alone.
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The Pink Pajama Girl
Title: The Pink Pajama Girl
Released: April 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Mrs. Wentworth and her daughter Cecile are living at one of the fashionable hotels in the city. James Davidson, who is engaged to Cecile, has agreed to join a theater party with them. At the last minute he sends word that business will detain him and he will be unable to go. Cecile is inconsolable and refuses to go to the theater with the rest of the party. She is so upset over the disappointment she gets a severe headache and decides to retire. In her pink pajamas she is about to go to bed when she decides to write "Jamsie," giving him to understand she is not at all pleased with his conduct. She sneaks out into the hall, puts her letter in the drop and hastens back to her rooms, to find the door has sprung locked.
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Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Title: Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Character: Belle Oakley - a Maid
Released: March 23, 1912
Type: Movie
The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the reception. She arrives at the reception and discovers that she is without her dancing shoes. She announces her loss and immediately all the young men volunteer to go in search of them. Harry Brown, who was not as quick as the others, is left behind and sits dejectedly on the curb while the others drive away.
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Mr. Bolter's Infatuation
Title: Mr. Bolter's Infatuation
Character: Nina Celeste - an Actress
Released: March 22, 1912
Type: Movie
Mr. Bolten is hoping to woo the dancer Céleste and invites her for coffee. Her answer is that she will wait for him in hotel "Des imbeciles' in New York. He obviously cannot find the hotel, and to make matters worse he is robbed by a pickpocket. As a consequence he cannot pay his restaurant bill and is arrested. Luckily for him, a friend pays his bill so he can return home. There he picks up a dictionary and sees what "imbécile" means.
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Irene's Infatuation
Title: Irene's Infatuation
Character: Irene, One of Frangiapani's Fans
Released: March 6, 1912
Type: Movie
Irene and Helen are worshipers at the shrine of Frangiapani, the tenor of the hour. When he sings at a concert, they meet in Irene's room, take the printed program of the concert, and one of them plays the accompaniment of the song he is actually singing. Irene sees an advertisement for a maid and waitress at Madame Frangiapani's home. The wild thought enters her brain that if she applies and gets the position, she will be nearer her adored. She puts the plan into execution, gets the position, and is waiting for the signor to appear. He does appear in a towering rage, at an adverse criticism in a paper which he is holding in his hand. His wife tries to soothe him and treats him like a little, unreasonable, bad-tempered child.
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Stenographer Wanted
Title: Stenographer Wanted
Character: The Blonde Stenographer
Released: February 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Two businessmen need to hire a stenographer, but their wives get suspicious when they notice a parade of beautiful young women entering and leaving their husbands' office.
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Alma's Champion
Title: Alma's Champion
Character: Alma Randall
Released: January 10, 1912
Type: Movie
Henry Talbot, the son of the president of the V.C.A.R.R., desiring to get a more comprehensive knowledge of the railroad, accepts a position as engineer on his father's road. Alma Randall, the niece of Stephen Bradish, general manager of the railroad, is reluctant in recognizing him in his position and he in turn makes it very unpleasant for her, so much so that she leaves his home. Going to the railroad station, she enters the cab of the engine driven by her sweetheart and there tells him her story. In the meantime Bradish, missing the girl and learning that she is on the express, orders a special, which overtakes the train driven by Talbot. Bradish is informed by the conductor that Alma is not aboard. At a reception given by her friends in honor of Alma's birthday, Henry is invited. As a surprise Henry's father and Bradish are also present. Bradish assumes the authoritative with Alma.
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Cherry Blossoms
Title: Cherry Blossoms
Character: The Ambassador's Daughter - Dollie's Rival
Released: September 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Billie and Dollie are very much in love with each other, and they declare their love under the cherry trees. In later years Billie receives news of his appointment as a cadet at West Point: he promises to return to Dollie as soon as he graduates and claim her for his wife.
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A Friendly Marriage
Title: A Friendly Marriage
Character: Lillian Colton
Released: September 4, 1911
Type: Movie
A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her and is determined to support himself financially so they can have a real marriage.
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The Show Girl
Title: The Show Girl
Character: A Show Girl
Released: May 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Audrey, a charming actress, but classed among the show girls, is invited with some of her stage companions, to have lunch with an old friend, by the name of Dr. Renfrew. The doctor and Audrey, eating together, talk over old times and renew their friendship; she takes his attentions seriously and becomes very much impressed with his pleasant companionship. Night after night the doctor attends the performance in which she appears as the "headliner," and never fails to greet her with generous applause and a bouquet of flowers as marks of admiration. To emphasize his friendship or infatuation he sends her a string of pearls, begging her to accept it as a souvenir of happy days gone by. Through a member of the company in which she is playing, she learns that Dr. Renfrew is married, and at her friend's suggestion redirects his note back to his wife.
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The Inherited Taint
Title: The Inherited Taint
Character: The Coquette
Released: March 31, 1911
Type: Movie
Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another man. Warning takes to drinking. When he meets Kathleen Holt, a nurse, he falls in love and asks her to marry him. She promises to do so if he can give up drinking for one year.