George Berrell

George Berrell

Born: December 16, 1849
Died: April 20, 1933
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
George Berrell was an American stage and screen actor.

Movies for George Berrell...

Black Jack
Title: Black Jack
Character: Judge
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Phil Dolan (aka Black Jack because of his talent at cards), Nancy Dolan, and a rustler all have a piece of a silver dollar with each piece having a portion of an indented map of an ore mine. Phil has to rescue Nancy from the rustlers to keep their portions of the silver dollar from the rustlers. The sheriffs's pose captures the gang of rustlers just as they reach the ore mine ensuring their claim to the mine.
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The Sea Beast
Title: The Sea Beast
Character: Perth (as George Burrell)
Released: January 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
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The Everlasting Whisper
Title: The Everlasting Whisper
Character: Old Honeycutt
Released: November 10, 1925
Type: Movie
Cowboy Mark King (Tom Mix) comes to the aid of an old miner, Honeycutt (George Berrell) who, in gratitude, reveals the location of a secret gold mine. To get to the mine, however, King must fight an evil claim jumper, Gratton (Robert Cain), whose fiance, Gloria (Alice Calhoun), he once saved from falling off a cliff.
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The Trail Rider
Title: The Trail Rider
Character: Uncle Boley
Released: February 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Story of a cowboy who saves an old cobbler from being abused by a nasty banker. The banker does not take kindly to Hartwell's interfering and orders his henchman to kill the upstart.
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The Spanish Dancer
Title: The Spanish Dancer
Character: Gypsy (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1923
Type: Movie
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Maritana wishes to be a Countess. Her ambitions are realized when she meets the handsome Count Don Cesar de Bazán, if only the King of Spain would stay out of their way!
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Crimson Gold
Title: Crimson Gold
Character: Jake Higgins
Released: June 30, 1923
Type: Movie
A low-budget silent comedy Western
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The Grub Stake
Title: The Grub Stake
Character: Malamute Mike
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
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The Fire Eater
Title: The Fire Eater
Character: Day McCarthy
Released: December 24, 1921
Type: Movie
Partners "Smilin' Bob" Corey and Jim O'Neil are forest rangers sent to peacefully "penetrate" Paradise Valley, which is scheduled to become part of a national park. Although the townspeople are sullen about their presence, they manage to befriend Marie Roselli, an Italian girl whose brother Wolf owns a cattle ranch and from they obtain supplies. Before they; know it, Bob and Jim get caught up in a kidnapping, an illegal logging ring, and a murder.
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The Girl from God's Country
Title: The Girl from God's Country
Character: Pierre Le Mort
Released: September 18, 1921
Type: Movie
A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.
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The Barbarian
Title: The Barbarian
Character: Elliott Straive
Released: April 29, 1921
Type: Movie
Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign.
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Society Secrets
Title: Society Secrets
Character: Amos Kerran
Released: February 18, 1921
Type: Movie
Amos Kerran and his wife live a traditional, old-fashioned life on a Connecticut farm, while their son and daughter, Arthur and Maybelle, are successes in New York society. The children want to invite their parents to the city at Christmastime but are ashamed of their unrefined appearance.
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The U.P. Trail
Title: The U.P. Trail
Character: Slingerland
Released: November 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Civil engineer Warren Neale rescues a badly wounded Allie Lee after her family is killed in an Indian massacre. Falling in love after nursing her back to health, Warren must yet again save Allie when she is kidnapped by a dangerous bandit.
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Pollyanna
Title: Pollyanna
Character: Old Tom
Released: January 18, 1920
Type: Movie
When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna's incurable optimism - exemplified by her "glad game", in which she looks for the bright side of every situation - brings a change to the staid old community.
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Hell-Roarin' Reform
Title: Hell-Roarin' Reform
Character: Jenkins, Her Father
Released: February 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Tom Mix plays Tim, a goodhearted cowpuncher who, while riding down a trail, gets robbed of the money he was carrying for the Belgian Babies' Milk Fund.
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Straight Shooting
Title: Straight Shooting
Character: Sweet Water Sim
Released: August 27, 1917
Type: Movie
Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.
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The Lair of the Wolf
Title: The Lair of the Wolf
Character: Old Man Taylor
Released: August 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Widow Margaret Dennis, unaware of the abusive nature of Oliver Cathcart, agrees to become his wife. Among other cruelties, Cathcart has ruined the Taylor family in a bad business deal, causing the death of Mrs. Taylor, turning Mr. Taylor into a worthless drunk and embittering their son Raymond, who swears revenge on Cathcart. Margaret's son Jim, learning of all this, forces his mother to choose between him and Cathcart.
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The Wrong Man
Title: The Wrong Man
Character: Ben Bostwick
Released: July 7, 1917
Type: Movie
A stagecoach robbery leads to a desperate attempt to round up the bandits.
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The Golden Bullet
Title: The Golden Bullet
Character: Jack's Father
Released: June 26, 1917
Type: Movie
A bandit tries to incriminate an innocent man for his own crimes.
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The Flashlight
Title: The Flashlight
Character: Barclay (as George Burrell)
Released: May 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a camera with a trigger -- when the trigger is stepped on by a passing animal, a flash goes off and the camera shoots the picture. Lane goes up to the mountains to try out his new contraption. When a recluse refuses to let him spend the night in his cabin, Lane goes to sleep out of doors, with the camera set up near by. In the middle of the night, he is awakened by the flash and the sound of gunshots. Trekking back to his own cabin the next day, he develops the picture, which is of a girl holding a rifle. He returns to the recluse's cabin where he is arrested for murder.
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Somebody Lied
Title: Somebody Lied
Character: At Gambling House (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Perfect angel Willie declines to accompany his doting wife Dolly to a mask ball, but instead of a quiet evening at home among his books, Willie spends the night at an underground casino, and instead of being chaperoned at the party, Dolly is out flirting with another man.
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The People vs. John Doe
Title: The People vs. John Doe
Character: Wealthy Farmer
Released: December 10, 1916
Type: Movie
A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.
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Bettina Loved a Soldier
Title: Bettina Loved a Soldier
Character: Abbé Constantin
Released: August 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Very wealthy Bettina is also very reluctant to get married. She changes her mind in a hurry when she meets Reynaud, the nephew of Abbe Constantin, the poverty-stricken religious leader of the small French village of Longueval.
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The Committee on Credentials
Title: The Committee on Credentials
Character: Don Bleeker
Released: July 8, 1916
Type: Movie
Gambler Ballrat Bob tries to halt Clem, a squatter, from gambling away all his money.
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The Three Godfathers
Title: The Three Godfathers
Character: Tim Gibbons
Released: June 18, 1916
Type: Movie
Three outlaws fleeing a posse through the desert come upon a dying woman and her baby in a wagon. Before she passes away, she makes the men promise to take care of her baby and get it safely through the desert.
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Where Are My Children?
Title: Where Are My Children?
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.
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Drugged Waters
Title: Drugged Waters
Released: March 20, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Long Chance
Title: The Long Chance
Character: Marie's Father (as Mr. Berrill)
Released: November 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Harley Hennage, a gambler, loves Marie but remains silent when he realizes that she is in love with Oliver Corblay, a prospector. After Corblay and Marie marry, Harley moves to the distant town of San Pasqual and does not see his old sweetheart until her husband is killed while staking a claim in the desert.
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Hypocrites
Title: Hypocrites
Character: A Monk (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.