Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Born: April 25, 1859
Died: March 27, 1928
in Lyon, New York, USA
Walt Whitman _(not to be confused with the poet, 1819-1892, of the same name)_ was an American stage and screen character actor, in films from 1915 to 1924.

Movies for Walt Whitman...

Long Live the King
Title: Long Live the King
Character: The Chancellor
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
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The Grub Stake
Title: The Grub Stake
Character: The Skipper
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 Love Letter
Title: The Love Letter
Released: February 9, 1923
Type: Movie
While working in an overall factory Mary Ann McKee sends mash notes in the overalls prepared for shipment. She is involved in a robbery perpetrated by her boyfriend, Red Mike, but escapes and goes to the town from which she has received an answer to one of her notes.
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A Question of Honor
Title: A Question of Honor
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Girl from Rocky Point
Title: The Girl from Rocky Point
Character: The Devil
Released: February 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Betty falls in love with Samuel Hayden, who was washed ashore after having survived a shipwreck. The self-acclaimed most religious man in town accuses a kindly man, whom he calls "The Devil," of robbing Samuel. Soon becoming bored with this slander, he attempts to break up the romance between Betty and Samuel, contriving to have her turned out by her stern father. Samuel is later discovered to be an escaped convict. This disclosure results in a series of escapades during which the true character of the village hypocrite and "The Devil" are revealed, showing the former to be vicious and the latter to be generous and benevolent.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Bellounds
Released: October 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Hell Bent Wade is the victim of an attack in which is wife is killed and daughter kidnapped. A couple of decades later, he is a sheriff known only as the "mysterious rider," because of his nighttime prowls in search of cattle rustlers.
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His Nibs
Title: His Nibs
Character: The Boy's Father
Released: October 21, 1921
Type: Movie
Shenanigans at a small town movie theater.
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The Ne'er to Return Road
Title: The Ne'er to Return Road
Character: The Father
Released: October 9, 1921
Type: Movie
The Ne'er to Return Road
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The Girl from God's Country
Title: The Girl from God's Country
Character: The Old Inventor
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 Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: D'Artagnan's Father
Released: August 28, 1921
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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The Northern Trail
Title: The Northern Trail
Released: July 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Short starring Lewis Stone and Wallace Beery.
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The Home Stretch
Title: The Home Stretch
Character: Mr. Warren
Released: April 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Johnny Hardwick (Douglas MacLean) is the owner of the fastest horse in the next race. Although it's almost guaranteed that he will win big, Hardwick ruins his chance by saving a little girl who has run out onto the track. The child's father shows his gratitude later on when he offers Hardwick a job as a clerk in his hotel -- Hardwick has been forced to flee after a fight in a roadhouse.
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The Mark of Zorro
Title: The Mark of Zorro
Character: Fray Felipe
Released: December 5, 1920
Type: Movie
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro.
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Darling Mine
Title: Darling Mine
Character: James McCarthy
Released: August 16, 1920
Type: Movie
Persuaded by a letter from her Aunt Agnes in America, Kitty McCarthy ( Olive Thomas ) travels from Ireland to New York City, there she meets Gordon Davis, a successful playwright, who directs her to her aunt's address on the East Side. Kitty soon discovers her aunt living in a tenement, a confirmed alcoholic. Through her niece's care, Agnes is cured, and one day Davis appears and offers Kitty a part in a comedy that he has written. She accepts, and once backstage meets Vera Maxwell, the victim of an unhappy affair with Oscar Savoy. Kitty brings the lovelorn couple back together but is unsuccessful in arranging her own romance with Davis' nephew Roger until Davis finally intervenes, and a happy ending prevails for all.
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Passion's Playground
Title: Passion's Playground
Character: Cure of Roquebrune
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mary Grant has a gambling father and a mother who has disappeared. Even though she has been raised in a convent she proves true to her ancestry by running away to Monte Carlo and spending her small inheritance at the gambling table.
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Dangerous Hours
Title: Dangerous Hours
Character: Dr. King
Released: December 17, 1919
Type: Movie
Idealistic young American falls under the influence of Communist agitators.
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John Petticoats
Title: John Petticoats
Character: Judge Clay Emerson Meredith
Released: November 2, 1919
Type: Movie
John Haynes is known as "Hardwood" in the Northwoods town where he is the boss lumberjack. But his uncle bequeaths him a store in Louisiana, which he discovers to his dismay is the modiste shop. When Judge Meredith needs a graduation dress for his granddaughter Caroline, but can't afford it, John comes to the rescue by offering to board at the judge's residence.
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The Heart of Humanity
Title: The Heart of Humanity
Character: Father Michael
Released: December 21, 1918
Type: Movie
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers. The war interrupts their romantic idyll, as everyone goes overseas to Belgium and France. Nanette becomes a Red Cross nurse and is terrorized by the evil Prussian Lt. von Eberhard.
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Daughter Angele
Title: Daughter Angele
Character: Anthony Brenton
Released: August 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Mary Brenton, daughter of wealthy Anthony Brenton, marries a man her father doesn't approve of, and they become estranged. When she tries to return home, her father refuses to let her in. Her daughter, Angele, disguises herself as a Belgian war refugee and her grandfather--not knowing who she really is--takes her into his house and, eventually, into his heart.
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Every Woman's Husband
Title: Every Woman's Husband
Released: July 17, 1918
Type: Movie
A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits suicide.
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The Price of Applause
Title: The Price of Applause
Character: Professor Arnold
Released: April 4, 1918
Type: Movie
In New York's Washington Square, a poet named Karl (Jack Livingston) is the king of art and artifice. But World War I breaks out and the spotlight on him begins to fade, so he dramatically declares his intention to enlist in the British Army. His friend Marcarson announces that he will go with him, keeping Karl to a promise which he hadn't planned to see through.
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Captain of His Soul
Title: Captain of His Soul
Released: February 10, 1918
Type: Movie
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The Girl, Glory
Title: The Girl, Glory
Character: Jed Wharton
Released: June 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Glory Wharton is the granddaughter of civil war veteran Jed Wharton. Jed entertains everyone with his war stories, but has a serious drinking problem. Glory is determined to help him overcome this. -from IMDB.com
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The Desert Man
Title: The Desert Man
Character: Old Burns
Released: April 22, 1917
Type: Movie
William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants. Jim meets and falls in love with Jennie (Margery Wilson), whose father (Walt Whitman) is gravely ill. Jim rounds up a reluctant doctor from another town to tend to the old man, but he dies anyway. The doctor, however, gains Jennie's trust and she runs off with him. Only then does he tell her he's already married. She leaves immediately, but is too proud to go home so she finds work as a dance hall girl at Tacoma Jake's saloon. Jim, meanwhile, finds gold near Broken Hope, which raises its inhabitants' attitudes considerably. But the bad element is still there, and Jim is chasing after a group of kidnappers when he enters Tacoma Jake's saloon and sees Jennie. Jim not only overcomes the bad guys, he gets the girl, too.
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The Boss of the Lazy Y
Title: The Boss of the Lazy Y
Character: Malcolm Clayton
Released: April 7, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Clifford Smith.
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The Dark Road
Title: The Dark Road
Character: Sir John Constable
Released: March 31, 1917
Type: Movie
Jim Morrison is an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family. He marries the ravishingly beautiful but unscrupulous Cleo, who has no qualms about using her sexual allure to get the luxuries her husband can't provide. When Jim is sent off to war, Cleo embarks on a series of affairs, one of which results in her becoming the love slave of a German spy, the very spy that her husband has been assigned to track down.
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The Last of the Ingrams
Title: The Last of the Ingrams
Character: Israel Spence
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
Jules Ingram ( William Desmond ), the sole survivor of an old Puritan family, seeks solace and forgetfulness in drink. Unable to pay his debts, Jules is driven from his house when banker Rufus Moore ( Robert McKim ) forecloses on the mortgage. Offered shelter by Mercy Reed ( Margery Wilson ), a woman who in her youth naively sinned and has remained rejected by the community ever since, Jules begins to reform. Climbing his way back to respectability, Jules attends church with Mercy, causing a storm of protest. Moore's wife Agnes urges the mob to violence, and as they attempt to tar and feather Jules and Mercy, Mercy delivers an eloquent speech condemning Moore as her betrayer. The mob then takes Moore as their victim, leaving Jules and Mercy in peace.
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Princess of the Dark
Title: Princess of the Dark
Character: James Herron
Released: February 18, 1917
Type: Movie
James Herron, a consumptive, has built a shack in the hope that the mountain air may prolong his life. With him dwells his daughter, Fay, whom he idolizes. Fay, who has been blind from her birth, has a wonderful imagination, even the town and its sordid inhabitants become invested with romance and take their part in the stories of adventures that her father reads to her.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Cardinal Richelieu
Released: February 6, 1916
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan leaves home travelling to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court.
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Tools of Providence
Title: Tools of Providence
Character: Rev. Austin
Released: June 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Dakota Dan, who runs the saloon and gambling hall, is refusing to take another drink with the boys, who commence to kid him, saying he's been scared to drink ever since he heard the new parson's daughter was going to convert him. Dakota flushes and replies half angrily that he has never seen the parson's girl and don't ever want to. However that afternoon Daisy goes to the saloon and invites Dakota to attend church. Dakota refuses her invitation. Daisy tells him she will make a bargain with him to tend his bar for five minutes if he will go to church the next day. Dakota is slightly startled, but he admires her grit and accepts the challenge. Daisy goes behind the bar. The men line up and she is about to serve a fresh guy when he suddenly reaches over and kisses her. Dakota immediately knocks him "cold," and, ashamed of his bargain with Daisy, grimly escorts her to the door. The next day he tells the men that if they don't accompany him to church he will close.