Robert Brower

Robert Brower

Born: July 14, 1850
Died: December 8, 1934
in Point Pleasant, New York, USA

Movies for Robert Brower...

The Invisible Man
Title: The Invisible Man
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley's daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion's Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He's prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.
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Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
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Beggars of Life
Title: Beggars of Life
Character: Blind Sims
Released: September 22, 1928
Type: Movie
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Title: Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Character: Stage Manager (uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1928
Type: Movie
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Title: The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Character: Minister to the King (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1928
Type: Movie
A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
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The Gay Defender
Title: The Gay Defender
Character: Ferdinand Murrieta
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt politicians out of Spanish California.
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The Last Trail
Title: The Last Trail
Character: Sam Beasley
Released: January 23, 1927
Type: Movie
The robberies on Jasper Carrol's stages have been so frequent that the stage line plans to hold a stagecoach race with the winner getting the new contract. Tom foils Cal Barker's attempt to kill him and gets a confession from him that Kurt Morley is behind the robberies. But first Tom must win the race for Carrol although Morley's stages have him greatly outnumbered.
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The Honeymoon Express
Title: The Honeymoon Express
Character: Dick Donaldson
Released: September 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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Home Cured
Title: Home Cured
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Johnny is a hypochondriac and he spends all of his time fussing over his health instead of paying attention to his lovely wife. The wife and the family doctor pretend he is going to die -- and behave in a heartless fashion that gets him to lose his temper and get out of his sickbed forever.
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The Movies
Title: The Movies
Character: The Father
Released: October 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent comedy about a poor country bumpkin who goes to Hollywood to make good.
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Fifth Avenue Models
Title: Fifth Avenue Models
Character: Art Salesman
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
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Long Live the King
Title: Long Live the King
Character: The King
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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Adam's Rib
Title: Adam's Rib
Character: Hugo Kermaier
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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Racing Hearts
Title: Racing Hearts
Character: Horatio Whipple
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.
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Thirty Days
Title: Thirty Days
Character: Professor Huxley
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
John Cadwalader Floyd gets himself into a lot of trouble when hot-headed Italian Giacomo Polenta finds him in the arms of his wife, Rosa.
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Singed Wings
Title: Singed Wings
Character: Don José della Guerda
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
Singed Wings 1922
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Fools First
Title: Fools First
Character: Butler
Released: May 27, 1922
Type: Movie
Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he gets out of prison, he finds his girl, Ann Whittaker, waiting for him -- and she's got a scheme. She is working in a bank and wants to pull an inside heist.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Hendry Munn
Released: December 25, 1921
Type: Movie
In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by increasing industrialization. When Lord Rintoul attempts to rout the rebellious weavers, Babbie always manages to send word in time to prevent their being taken by surprise. Gavin, new minister to the town, falls in love with Babbie, and his relationship with the young gypsy almost costs him his position. But what Gavin and his parishioners do not know is that Babbie is actually Lady Babbie, ward of Lord Rintoul.
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The Lost Romance
Title: The Lost Romance
Character: Butler
Released: May 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
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What Every Woman Knows
Title: What Every Woman Knows
Character: Scotch Lawyer
Released: April 24, 1921
Type: Movie
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
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Peck's Bad Boy
Title: Peck's Bad Boy
Character: The Minister
Released: April 21, 1921
Type: Movie
This portrayal of small town life before the War is based on a small boys determination to get to see the circus, over all obstacles. Escaped lions, lightheaded blackmail of his father, and playfully planting stolen papers on his sisters boyfriend are all in a days work for little Henry Peck.
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The Faith Healer
Title: The Faith Healer
Character: Dr. Martin
Released: March 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost.
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Held by the Enemy
Title: Held by the Enemy
Character: Uncle Rufus
Released: October 24, 1920
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.
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A City Sparrow
Title: A City Sparrow
Character: Parson Neil
Released: October 17, 1920
Type: Movie
A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walter Hiers), who lives in the same boarding house as she does, but she turns down his marriage proposal. During a performance, Milly is injured and can't get her strength back to get another gig. Hughie Ray (William Boyd), a pal of Tim's, comes to town and offers to take Milly back to the country to recuperate. She takes him up on his offer and after she has been there a while he proposes. But Milly has been told that her injury makes it impossible for her to bear children; since she knows that Ray loves kids she tries to leave him.
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Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Title: Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Character: King Augustus III
Released: November 30, 1919
Type: Movie
A light-hearted romantic adventure.
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The Tell-Tale Step
Title: The Tell-Tale Step
Character: Doctor Oppenheim
Released: May 28, 1917
Type: Movie
Giovanni Pallazzi, a former member of the Black Hand, an Italian criminal organization, comes to America with his blind daughter Lucia and prospers. Hearing of his success, his former associates demand that he aid in their support
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The Mystery of the Double Cross
Title: The Mystery of the Double Cross
Character: Herbert Brewster
Released: March 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Originally written for Pearl White, this silent serial is a great action-packed adventure starring Molly King and Leon Bary. This serial had fifteen chapters, each one two reels in length. The chapters were: 1. The Lady in Number '7' 2. The Masked Stranger 3. An Hour to Live 4. Kidnapped 5. The Life Current 6. The Dead Come Back 7. Into Thin Air 8. The Stranger Disposes 9. When Jail Birds Fly 10. The Hole-in-the-Wall 11. Love's Sacrifice 12. Riddle of the Double Cross 13. The Face of the Stranger 14. The Hidden Brand 15. Mystery of the Double Cross.
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The Cossack Whip
Title: The Cossack Whip
Character: Andre Lukovsky
Released: November 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he believes to be infested with rebels. The Cossacks attack the village and massacre almost everyone, and the young Katerina is whipped to death. Before escaping to England, her sister Darya swears to avenge her sister's death. Years later--now one of the world's most famous prima ballerinas--she returns to Russia. Turov falls in love with her and manages to secure a meeting. She coyly asks him to take her to see a prison first. As it turns out, what he has planned for her is nothing compared to what she has planned for him.
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The Truth About Helen
Title: The Truth About Helen
Character: The Boss
Released: November 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Helen Moore (Grace Williams) runs off with the nephew of Senator Foote, but when their car breaks down, they go to a hotel. A conference is going on there, and the boss politico is choosing his candidate for district attorney. Hugh Graham is the boss's favorite, and also Helen's ex-fiancee. The nephew tries to force himself on her and Graham hears her cries for help. When he rescues her, he is seen by his rival, Gregory, who assumes they are having an affair. He threatens to expose this, and to protect Helen, Graham withdraws from the nomination.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Mr. Osborne
Released: October 5, 1915
Type: Movie
"Vanity Fair" is a historical drama, based on the classic English novel written by William Thackeray, featuring Shirley Mason. Shirley Mason was 15 y.o. and played the role of the young Becky Sharp. Directors obviously took notice of her performance, because in 1917 she appeared in 17 feature films, in many of them playing the star role.
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Through Turbulent Waters
Title: Through Turbulent Waters
Character: James Montrose
Released: June 25, 1915
Type: Movie
The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane's intimate friend, enters with a letter from an erstwhile associate, advising her to go to New York and accept a place in the chorus. A word from Temple, and Alice has made up her mind. She leaves for New York. Temple and Jane have been married some time and are living unhappily, apart from the old folks. The former's reputation as a heavy actor is wide, but drink has degraded him. Subsequently, Jane dies, due to Temple's abuse of her.
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The Voice of the Violin
Title: The Voice of the Violin
Released: March 5, 1915
Type: Movie
The Voice of the Violin: A Drama (1915) is a half-hour tragic romance of Marjorie (Helen Fulton) & Jack (Pat O'Malley). Marjorie's at the piano. Jack's shaving & giving some affection to the terrier when he hears Marjorie's music. Herbert McClean Sr (Robert Brower) is Jack's father & Marjorie's legal guardian; he is likewise moved by her playing.
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What Could She Do?
Title: What Could She Do?
Character: John Atkinson
Released: November 20, 1914
Type: Movie
The death of her father brought Sylvia Fairfax face to face with conditions which she was unequipped to handle, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to fill the position of governess in the Windermere home, caused her to go to New York. (Note: Only 2 of 3 reels exist)
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The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Title: The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Character: Director of Union Realty
Released: January 31, 1914
Type: Movie
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
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The Doctor's Duty
Title: The Doctor's Duty
Released: November 11, 1913
Type: Movie
A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.
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A Proposal from the Duke
Title: A Proposal from the Duke
Character: Mr. Reed - President of the Occidental Trust Co.
Released: July 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Episode of a romantic serial starring Mary Fuller. Mary is looking for a man, and this time she wants an aristocratic gentleman.
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With The Eyes Of The Blind
Title: With The Eyes Of The Blind
Character: Dr. Burnett
Released: April 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Short silent drama
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Bread on the Waters
Title: Bread on the Waters
Character: John Wilson
Released: March 25, 1913
Type: Movie
A son, down and out on liquor, finds redemption.
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A Letter to Uncle Sam
Title: A Letter to Uncle Sam
Character: The General
Released: March 5, 1913
Type: Movie
Uncle Sam is mistaken for Marion's uncle Sam.
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Title: The Ambassador's Daughter
Character: The ambassador
Released: January 21, 1913
Type: Movie
The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.
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An Old Fashioned Elopement
Title: An Old Fashioned Elopement
Released: December 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Short comedy
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The Totville Eye
Title: The Totville Eye
Character: Thomas Adams, the editor
Released: November 27, 1912
Type: Movie
A printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away.
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Tim
Title: Tim
Character: Tim's Father
Released: November 18, 1912
Type: Movie
It's time for Tim to get a job.
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The Usurer's Grip
Title: The Usurer's Grip
Character: The Enlightened Employer
Released: October 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama.
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Thirty Days at Hard Labor
Title: Thirty Days at Hard Labor
Character: Mr. Langdon
Released: January 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Jack must prove himself before Beatrice's father will allow him to continue seeing his daughter.