Conway Tearle

Conway Tearle

Born: May 17, 1878
Died: October 1, 1938
in New York City, New York, USA
Conway Tearle (born Frederick Conway Levy) was an American stage actor who went on to perform in silent and early sound films.

Movies for Conway Tearle...

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
bee
Romeo and Juliet
Title: Romeo and Juliet
Character: Escalus
Released: September 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
bee
The Preview Murder Mystery
Title: The Preview Murder Mystery
Character: Edwin Strange
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
bee
Klondike Annie
Title: Klondike Annie
Character: Vance Palmer
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
bee
Desert Guns
Title: Desert Guns
Character: Kirk Allenby / Bob Enright
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Kirk Allenby is hired by the Cattleman's Association to track down and arrest a rancher who they believe is stealing cattle. Allenby finds his quarry but is astounded to discover that that man, Bob Enright, looks enough like him to be his twin. He is forced to shoot Enright, but as the man lay dying he gets Allenby to promise that he will help Enright's sister, who is being forced to marry the real boss of the cattle rustling operation, who has framed Enright in order to take over his ranch.
bee
The Headline Woman
Title: The Headline Woman
Character: Frank Desmond
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
bee
Sing Sing Nights
Title: Sing Sing Nights
Character: Floyd Cooper
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.
bee
Fifteen Wives
Title: Fifteen Wives
Character: Insp. Decker Dawes
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes investigates the case and although the cause of death is described as apoplexy, Dawes is convinced it as murder, especially after he learns that Humbolt had been married fifteen times.
bee
Stingaree
Title: Stingaree
Character: Sir Julian Kent
Released: May 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
bee
Should Ladies Behave
Title: Should Ladies Behave
Character: Max Lawrence
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.
bee
Day of Reckoning
Title: Day of Reckoning
Character: George Hollins
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
bee
Her Mad Night
Title: Her Mad Night
Character: Steven Kennedy
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter.
bee
The King Murder
Title: The King Murder
Character: Detective Chief Henry Barton
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
bee
The Hurricane Express
Title: The Hurricane Express
Character: The Railroad Attorney
Released: August 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
bee
Man About Town
Title: Man About Town
Character: Bob Ashley
Released: May 22, 1932
Type: Movie
In a plan to trap potential enemy spies in Washington, an American secret agent sets up a gambling house. He soon finds himself in a rivalry with his old friend the British ambassador over a beautiful Hungarian woman, and it leads to espionage, blackmail and murder.
bee
Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Rawdon Crawley
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
bee
The False Madonna
Title: The False Madonna
Character: Grant Arnold
Released: December 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.
bee
Morals for Women
Title: Morals for Women
Character: Van Dyne
Released: October 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
bee
Pleasure
Title: Pleasure
Character: Gerald Whitney
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A novelist and his younger brother fall in love with the same woman.
bee
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'
Title: How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'
Released: August 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Bobby Jones uses some unorthodox (some might say magical) methods to help a man with his drive.
bee
The Lady Who Dared
Title: The Lady Who Dared
Character: Jack Norton
Released: May 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A blackmailer falls in love with his female victim.
bee
Captivation
Title: Captivation
Character: Hugh Somerton
Released: May 19, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman meets a conceited young novelist aboard a yacht, and decides to teach him a lesson he won't forget.
bee
The Truth About Youth
Title: The Truth About Youth
Character: Richard Carewe
Released: November 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
bee
The Lost Zeppelin
Title: The Lost Zeppelin
Character: Commander Donald Hall
Released: December 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Explorers to the South Pole in an airship Zeppelin crash in the frozen Antarctic and must struggle for survival in the land of eternal snow and ice.
bee
Evidence
Title: Evidence
Character: Harold Courtenay
Released: December 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the profligate Major Pollock. Myra goes into seclusion while Pollock, intending to conceal Myra's innocence, goes to Burma. A few years later Myra sees Kenyon in the park with Mrs. Debenham, a widow with designs on Wimborne. Noting the resemblance between the lady in the park (whom he calls his "princess") and a photograph of his mother, Kenyon invites Myra to dinner at a time when his father, who has curtailed the visits to the park, plans to be away. At the same time Harold Courtenay, an old family friend, sees an opportunity to reunite the estranged couple.
bee
Gold Diggers of Broadway
Title: Gold Diggers of Broadway
Character: Stephen Lee
Released: August 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
bee
Smoke Bellew
Title: Smoke Bellew
Character: Kit 'Smoke' Bellew
Released: January 25, 1929
Type: Movie
A tale of the great Alaska gold rush in which a man falsely accused of murder tracks down the guilty man.
bee
Moulders of Men
Title: Moulders of Men
Character: Dr. William Matthews
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
In order to raise money for surgery for his crippled brother, Jim Barry accepts a job with Warner, leader of a gang of narcotics smugglers.
bee
Altars of Desire
Title: Altars of Desire
Character: David Elrod
Released: February 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Mae Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a frivolous fop by a monocled Andre Beranger. True-blue hero Conway Tearle prevents Murray from making a bigger fool of herself than she already is.
bee
My Official Wife
Title: My Official Wife
Character: Alexander, aka Sascha
Released: October 16, 1926
Type: Movie
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.
bee
The Sporting Lover
Title: The Sporting Lover
Released: June 16, 1926
Type: Movie
Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.
bee
The Greater Glory
Title: The Greater Glory
Character: Count Maxim von Hurtig
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
bee
Dancing Mothers
Title: Dancing Mothers
Character: Jerry Naughton
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
An unfaithful husband and his daughter go on nightly club outings, leaving the mother at home. The mother rebels against her lonesome life and attempts to prevent a man from pursuing her daughter.
bee
The Dancer of Paris
Title: The Dancer of Paris
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
bee
Morals for Men
Title: Morals for Men
Character: Joe Strickland
Released: December 1, 1925
Type: Movie
bee
The Mystic
Title: The Mystic
Character: Michael Nash
Released: September 26, 1925
Type: Movie
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high society.
bee
The Heart of a Siren
Title: The Heart of a Siren
Character: Gerald Rexford
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut.
bee
The Great Divide
Title: The Great Divide
Character: Stephen Ghent
Released: February 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation, she appeals to Stephen Ghent, the least degraded of the desperadoes, promising herself to him if he saves her from the others. Ghent buys off Shorty with a chain of gold nuggets and knocks Dutch senseless. Ghent then sends Dutch off with Shorty and takes Ruth to the next town, where he forces her to marry him. During the 3-day ride across the desert to Ghent's gold mine, the idealistic Ruth learns that he is a man of rough passions.
bee
Flirting with Love
Title: Flirting with Love
Character: Wade Cameron
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
When Wade Cameron, chairman of the Better Plays Society, stops the production of actress Gilda Lamont's first stage success, she attempts to revenge herself by affecting another personality and earning his confidence. He assigns her a role in an improvised production of a new play as an unknown actress, derails her attempt to expose him, and ends by winning her heart.
bee
The White Moth
Title: The White Moth
Character: Robert Vantine
Released: May 11, 1924
Type: Movie
When a girl tries to drown herself in the Seine, she is rescued by dancer Gonzalo Montrez. She then becomes a famous dancer known as the White Moth.
bee
Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Louis Willing
Released: February 29, 1924
Type: Movie
A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
bee
The Next Corner
Title: The Next Corner
Character: Robert Maury
Released: February 18, 1924
Type: Movie
While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.
bee
Black Oxen
Title: Black Oxen
Character: Lee Clavering
Released: December 29, 1923
Type: Movie
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.
bee
The Dangerous Maid
Title: The Dangerous Maid
Character: Capt. Miles Prothero
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
bee
The Common Law
Title: The Common Law
Character: Louis Neville
Released: August 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Valerie West, a beautiful artist's model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his aristocratic family doesn't approve of the relationship and persuades Valerie to promise that she won't marry him. She does, however, tell Louis that she will become his common-law wife on a certain date the following summer. Complications ensue.
bee
Ashes of Vengeance
Title: Ashes of Vengeance
Character: Rupert de Vrieac
Released: August 6, 1923
Type: Movie
This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
bee
The Rustle of Silk
Title: The Rustle of Silk
Character: Arthur Fallaray
Released: May 13, 1923
Type: Movie
Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together -- he is England's Colonial Secretary and married, while she is merely a working class maiden. But when she is given a maid's position in his household, it brings her that much closer to her idol. She puts on a fancy gown and heads to the Ritz in hopes of getting a formal introduction. After being fired from the household, she follows Fallaray to his country home and nurses him when he falls ill. Lord Fallaray's wife Lady Feo doesn't love him and is having an affair with Paul Chalfont. When it looks like he will be faced with scandal, Fallaray contemplates giving up politics and marrying Lola.
bee
Bella Donna
Title: Bella Donna
Character: Mahmoud Baroudi
Released: March 31, 1923
Type: Movie
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
bee
One Week of Love
Title: One Week of Love
Character: Buck Fearnley
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Spoiled society girl Beth Wynn agrees to stake her marriage to Francis Fraser on the outcome of an airplane race with him.
bee
The Eternal Flame
Title: The Eternal Flame
Character: Général de Montriveau
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
bee
Society Snobs
Title: Society Snobs
Character: Lorenzo Carilo / Duke d'Amunzi
Released: February 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Lorenzo Carilo selects more-or-less menial jobs at which to make a living, other more "select" jobs not paying enough, and then he meets and falls in love with Vivian Forrester the daughter of a new-rich family. What's a poor boy to do? He might pose as a French Duke.
bee
April Folly
Title: April Folly
Character: Kerry Sarle
Released: March 20, 1920
Type: Movie
April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr. Sarle and his partner Ronald Kenna (Frank) and reads her latest story to them. She has made Sarle the hero, Kenna the villain, and herself the heroine. In the story, April changes places with Lady Diana Mannister (Marshall), who is being sent to South Africa to separate her from her lover, a young artist. A famous diamond that Lady Diana is to deliver at the end of her journey is given to April. Thieves trail her during her journey. With efforts by Kenna to steal the diamond prevented by the intervention of Sarle, the story comes to a close.
bee
The Forbidden Woman
Title: The Forbidden Woman
Character: Malcolm Kent
Released: February 22, 1920
Type: Movie
A beautiful French actress is the unwitting force behind the suicide of one of her admirers. A scandal erupts, threatening to destroy her reputation.
bee
Two Weeks
Title: Two Weeks
Released: January 25, 1920
Type: Movie
bee
She Loves and Lies
Title: She Loves and Lies
Character: Ernest Lismore
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
When Marie Callender is left a fortune by a wealthy old admirer on the condition that she marry the man she loves, Marie targets Ernest Lismore but is too shy to ask him to marry her. Instead, Marie disguises herself as an elderly woman of considerable wealth and offers to bail Ernest out of his impending bankruptcy in exchange for marriage, with the understanding that if Ernest ever falls in love with another woman she will grant him a divorce. Then Marie disguises herself as June Dayne in order to make her husband fall in love with her. She succeeds, and when Ernest confesses his love for another woman, Marie discards her disguise and Ernest discovers that the woman with whom he is in love is his own wife.
bee
A Virtuous Vamp
Title: A Virtuous Vamp
Released: November 16, 1919
Type: Movie
A flirtatious young woman takes a job in a busy office, where her presence is terribly disruptive. None of the men in the office can concentrate on their jobs while her charms are on display. Of course, she sets her eye on the one man who seems oblivious to her.
bee
Human Desire
Title: Human Desire
Character: Robert Lane
Released: October 31, 1919
Type: Movie
The orphan Bernice (Stewart) is raised almost to womanhood by the good sisters in an Italian convent. Worshiping a picture of the Madonna and Child, she is seized by a great desire to have a child she can call her own. Running away to America, where she has been told babies are plentiful, she is taken in by Robert Bruce, an artist whose wife has refused to divorce him, and poses for his projected masterpiece, a Madonna. Bernice falls in love with the baby borrowed for this posing and is filled with sorrow when the child is taken away. Robert, who has become sincerely but honorably in love with the girl, adopts a baby for her. His wife meets Bernice and the baby, believes the worst, and insults her. Bernice takes the child and leaves the house, becoming lost in the city and finally finding refuge in a hospital where the child dies. Robert learns from his wife the reason for Bernice's departure, locates the girl, and, after divorcing his wife, marries her.
bee
Atonement
Title: Atonement
Character: Theodore Proctor
Released: September 1, 1919
Type: Movie
bee
The Way of a Woman
Title: The Way of a Woman
Character: Anthony Weir
Released: July 27, 1919
Type: Movie
A 1919 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
bee
Stella Maris
Title: Stella Maris
Character: John Risca - also spelled John Riska
Released: January 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. Unity Blake is a poor orphan all too familiar with the harsh realities of the real world. These two young women both fall in love with John, love which is complicated by the fact that he is still married to (though separated from) a bad wife.
bee
The Fall of the Romanoffs
Title: The Fall of the Romanoffs
Character: Prince Felix Yussepov
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.
bee
The Heart of the Hills
Title: The Heart of the Hills
Character: Redgell
Released: October 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Natali, a Hindu, marries an Englishman, Sir Christopher Madgwick. They have a daughter who is kidnapped by Natali's former suitor Sani. The girl is handed over to be trained as a vestal virgin. Natali dies and Madgwick returns to England, taking with him the precious ruby that Natali had snatched from Sani in a struggle. Years pass; Sir Christopher remarries and has two more children who mistreat him and Sani dies, revealing to the priests the location of the ruby, which he stole from them in the first place.
bee
The Common Law
Title: The Common Law
Character: Neville
Released: October 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Based on the Novel by Robert W. Chambers of New York City life among the upper-crust, Valerie West , artist/model and philosopher, undergoes much sorrow and joy, many trials and tribulations, and final triumph on her journey to become the living personification of sweet and noble womanhood.
bee
The Foolish Virgin
Title: The Foolish Virgin
Character: Jim Anthony
Released: September 26, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 film.
bee
The Seven Sisters
Title: The Seven Sisters
Character: Count Horkoy
Released: July 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Mici is the middle of seven sisters, who all believe if a younger sister marries first, the oldest sisters all doomed to be old maids. The elder sisters conspire to have the younger, pretty Mici sent away to a convent school. Mici manages to slip away and attend a fancy party, where she meets Count Horkoy. They fall in love and to the delight of Mici's sisters, the Count also finds suitable husbands for all of them.
bee
The Nightingale
Title: The Nightingale
Character: Charles Marden
Released: October 5, 1914
Type: Movie
Franti, an organ grinder of the poor districts of New York, has a daughter, Isola, who sings to his street piano's accompaniment.
bee
The School for Wives
Title: The School for Wives
Character: Richard Keith
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It provided an early role for the future star Brian Donlevy. Based on Leonard Merrick's 1907 melodramatic novel The House of Lynch, it was not well-received by critics.