Clarence Geldart

Clarence Geldart

Born: June 8, 1867
Died: May 13, 1935
in New Brunswick, Canada
Clarence Geldart (June 9, 1867 – May 13, 1935) was a Canadian-American stage and film actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1915 and 1936. His Broadway credits include King Henry V (1900) and Beaucaire (1901). Geldart was born in New Brunswick, Canada and died in Calabasas, California, USA.

Movies for Clarence Geldart...

Go-Get-'Em, Haines
Title: Go-Get-'Em, Haines
Character: Henry Kent
Released: June 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Reporter Steve Haines, on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Stockbroker
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Border Vengeance
Title: Border Vengeance
Character: Sam Griswold
Released: June 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A rancher is murdered after discovering that 40 head of his cattle have been rustled. A neighboring family is accused of the crime and flees across the border, then tries to find the real killers to clear their name.
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Mississippi
Title: Mississippi
Character: Hotel proprietor
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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Our Daily Bread
Title: Our Daily Bread
Character: Community Member (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
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Among the Missing
Title: Among the Missing
Character: District Attorney (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Doctor
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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Twentieth Century
Title: Twentieth Century
Character: Colonel Merriweather in Play (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
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In Love with Life
Title: In Love with Life
Character: Barlow
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He meets a young boy, Laury and his mother, Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson, who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morleys daughter had eloped against her father's wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury's birth.
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The Man Trailer
Title: The Man Trailer
Character: Sheriff John Ryan
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
When an ex-outlaw becomes Marshall he must face up to his old gang.
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Broken Dreams
Title: Broken Dreams
Character: Dr. Fleming
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue his medical studies. Morley returns to his hometown six years later, now a successful doctor and engaged to be married to a beautiful socialite. He also feels differently about the boy and attempts to gain custody from his aunt and uncle.
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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Rusty Rides Alone
Title: Rusty Rides Alone
Character: Jim Martin
Released: May 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Bart Quillan and his sons are after Martin's ranch. Burke arrives to help Martin but being outnumbered he hopes to get help from Powers. But no one is sure which side Powers and his gang are on.
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The Lone Avenger
Title: The Lone Avenger
Character: Doctor Crandall
Released: May 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A prominent banker commits suicide. His son thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.
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Unknown Valley
Title: Unknown Valley
Character: Army Colonel
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village find him unconscious. Attracted to Sheilla O'Neill, the two plan an escape from the village where no one is allowed to leave. But then he learns his father is being held prisoner and finding him, he is also made a prisoner.
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Lucky Dog
Title: Lucky Dog
Character: Drunk #1
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.
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The Telegraph Trail
Title: The Telegraph Trail
Character: Army Captain (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A greedy businessman-turned-renegade foments an Indian uprising against the coming telegraph to perpetuate his economic stranglehold on the territory.
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Jungle Bride
Title: Jungle Bride
Character: Captain Andersen
Released: January 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she believes is responsible for the murder which her brother is in prison for.
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Reckless Decision
Title: Reckless Decision
Character: Deacon Cahill (as Clarence Geldart)
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The teenage daughter of a puritanical Reverend promises him she will not marry until she is older, but after a night of heavy drinking she wakes up to find she has a husband.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Third-Degree Doctor
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Thirteen Women
Title: Thirteen Women
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.
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The Stoker
Title: The Stoker
Character: Senor Valdez
Released: June 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Trial Judge (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
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Daddy Long Legs
Title: Daddy Long Legs
Character: Minister at Commencement (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
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Daddy Long Legs
Title: Daddy Long Legs
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
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Road to Paradise
Title: Road to Paradise
Character: Doctor
Released: July 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
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The Bishop Murder Case
Title: The Bishop Murder Case
Character: John F.-X. Markham
Released: December 31, 1929
Type: Movie
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Commissioner Grimshaw
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
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The Unholy Night
Title: The Unholy Night
Character: Inspector Lewis
Released: September 13, 1929
Type: Movie
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
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Sioux Blood
Title: Sioux Blood
Character: Miles Ingram
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
One of John Waters' two Tim McCoy westerns made with MGM in the last years of the silent era. A print is preserved at the George Eastman House in New York but it hasn't been made available to the public and there don't seem to be any plans for it.
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Square Shoulders
Title: Square Shoulders
Character: Maj. E.H. Williams - Commandant
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.
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The Office Scandal
Title: The Office Scandal
Character: Capt. Day
Released: March 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy racetrack owner.
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The Overland Telegraph
Title: The Overland Telegraph
Character: Major Hammond
Released: March 2, 1929
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen. In response, Major Hammond, who oversees the troops, requests that President Abraham Lincoln send twenty thousand more soldiers to come to his aid. Lincoln grants Hammond's request, and sends along Capt. Allen, who is knowledgeable about Indians. At his new post, Allen discovers that a Confederate spy has been fomenting trouble with the Indians. Allen eventually uncovers the spy, makes peace with the Indians and wins the love of Dorothy, a young woman who lives at the post.
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Dress Parade
Title: Dress Parade
Character: Commandant
Released: October 26, 1927
Type: Movie
An amateur boxing champion stops at West Point to see a dress parade and falls for the commandant's daughter. He wins an appointment to the Academy and begins a rivalry for her affection.
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One Hour Married
Title: One Hour Married
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband.
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A One Man Game
Title: A One Man Game
Character: Jake Robbins
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
The efforts of crooked rancher Stephen Laban to force his local bank into an unsecured loan are foiled by Fred Hunter and Jake Robbins, and Laban vows vengeance on the pair; but he is temporarily thwarted by the arrival from the East of society girl Millicent Delacey. Knowing her weakness for social prestige, Hunter arranges to masquerade as the Duke of Black Butte, a visiting nobleman on a hunting expedition; Millicent and her social-climbing mother completely succumb to the duke's charm.
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The Flaming Forest
Title: The Flaming Forest
Character: Major Charles McVane
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming Forest stars Antonio Moreno as RCMP sergeant David Carrigan.
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Young April
Title: Young April
Character: Krutchki
Released: October 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
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Hands Across the Border
Title: Hands Across the Border
Character: Don Castro
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Cattle rancher John Drake sends his son, Ted, to the Mexican border to stop the smuggling that is using Drake's land as the crossing point. Ted meets Ysabel Castro, the daughter of the rancher just across the border-river, when he saves her from a mad-bull.
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North of 36
Title: North of 36
Character: Col. Griswold
Released: March 20, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas, 1000 miles away. The crooked State Treasurer plans to attack the cattle drive and steal all of the stock so he can gain control of her ranch.
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The Bandit's Baby
Title: The Bandit's Baby
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 17, 1925
Type: Movie
An American silent Western
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Oh, Doctor!
Title: Oh, Doctor!
Character: Doctor Seaver
Released: February 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order. Now an adult Rufus has learned his late father has left him $750,000 but he won't inherit the sum for three more years. Rufus is certain he is on death's door and will never last three years so his Doctor arranges for a loan of $100,000 to pay for a live in nurse. Rufus only has to sign over his inheritance to the greedy trio of Clinch, McIntosh and Peck who along with the doctor are confident he'll live long enough to pay his debt.
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The Fighting American
Title: The Fighting American
Character: Wm. A. Pendleton
Released: May 26, 1924
Type: Movie
On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned girl who is secretly in love with him…
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Love's Whirlpool
Title: Love's Whirlpool
Character: A Lawyer
Released: March 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Toughened criminal Jim Reagan tries to persuade his brother, Larry, to go straight, but Larry attempts to rob a banker, Richard Milton, and is arrested. Milton refuses to be lenient, and when Larry is killed trying to escape from prison, Jim and his wife, Molly, resolve to have vengeance.
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Leap Year
Title: Leap Year
Character: Scott Travis
Released: January 11, 1924
Type: Movie
A young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle, and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble when he gives advice on marriage to his girlfriends.
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Richard the Lion-Hearted
Title: Richard the Lion-Hearted
Character: Conrade
Released: October 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the previous year.
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Title: A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Character: Marie's Step-Father
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
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Adam's Rib
Title: Adam's Rib
Character: James Kilkenna
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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Rent Free
Title: Rent Free
Character: Count de Mourney (as Clarence Geldart)
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner.
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The Hell Diggers
Title: The Hell Diggers
Character: Silverby Rennie
Released: September 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Teddy Darman is the construction superintendent for the Continental Gold Dredging Company. But the farmers of the valley where the firm is doing its dredging are upset because it is ruining their land. Led by John Wade, the farmers form a fierce opposition. This doesn't bother Darman until he realizes that Dora (Lois Wilson), his sweetheart -- who is also Wade's daughter -- is siding with the farmers. This turns him around and the farmers mortgage their farms so that Darman can build a dredging machine that resoils the land.
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The Great Moment
Title: The Great Moment
Character: Bronson
Released: September 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Russian Gypsy, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip to Nevada with her father, she meets engineer Bayard Delavel, who saves her life when she is bitten by a snake; when her father finds her with Bayard in his cabin, he forces them to marry. Believing that Nadine does not love him, Delavel leaves her and prepares to sue for divorce.
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The Lost Romance
Title: The Lost Romance
Character: Police Lieutenant
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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The House That Jazz Built
Title: The House That Jazz Built
Character: Mr. Estabrook
Released: April 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Cora and Frank Rodham are happily married until Frank lands a lucrative position. He doesn't want to see his pretty wife slaving away at domestic chores so he hires servants to do the work for her. As a result, Cora becomes fat and lazy. Frank is very unhappy with his wife's change in attitude and appearance and starts to take an interest in her friend, Lila Drake, who is secretly just as lazy.
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All Souls' Eve
Title: All Souls' Eve
Character: Dr. Sandy McAllister (as Clarence Geldart)
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
The wife of sculptor Roger Heath is killed by a maniac because of Roger's madly jealous admirer Olivia Larkin. To care for his home and son Peter, Roger hires Irish immigrant Nora O'Hallahan as a nursemaid whom he realizes is possessed by the soul of his departed wife.
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Always Audacious
Title: Always Audacious
Character: Theron Ammidown
Released: November 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Reckless heir of an influential San Francisco family, Perry Danton must prove his worth by taking a job with the family lawyer before he is entrusted with the Danton fortune.
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The Sins of Rosanne
Title: The Sins of Rosanne
Character: Leonard (as C.H. Geldart)
Released: November 7, 1920
Type: Movie
Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse, Rachel Bangat (Fontaine La Rue) promised to cure her. That she did, but she also worked some voodoo on the child, who, as a grown up now displays a powerful desire for diamonds and the ability to throw evil curses on those who displease her.
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Held by the Enemy
Title: Held by the Enemy
Character: Maj. Gen. Stanton
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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The Fourteenth Man
Title: The Fourteenth Man
Character: Major McDowell
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Crooked Streets
Title: Crooked Streets
Character: Silas Griswold
Released: August 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Gail Ellis, a secretary, accompanies Professor Silas Griswold and his wife to China on an expedition to acquire antique vases. Curiosity draws her to the Shanghai slums where, unknown to Gail, her driver is participating in a scheme to abduct her. Gail escapes, but in the process is accosted by drunken sailors. Luckily, Rupert O'Dare, a young Englishman, is nearby and rescues Gail. He escorts her back to the hotel where he discloses his identity as a British secret service agent and proceeds to arrest the Griswolds for smuggling opium in antique vases. Gail then reveals herself as a member of the United States Secret Service and the two agents fall in love.
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Sick Abed
Title: Sick Abed
Character: Dr. Macklyn
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
When showing a woman customer some ranch property, real estate agent John Weems's car is disabled by a terrible storm, and he and his client are forced to take refuge in a roadhouse. Weems's wife Constance finds out about her husband's adventure and, bored with her marriage, determines to file for divorce. Constance calls upon Reginald Jay to testify about the roadhouse incident, and Jay, reluctant to testify, feigns illness and is hospitalized, promptly falling in love with one of his nurses.
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A Lady in Love
Title: A Lady in Love
Released: May 30, 1920
Type: Movie
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Why Change Your Wife?
Title: Why Change Your Wife?
Character: The Doctor
Released: May 21, 1920
Type: Movie
Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
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Too Much Johnson
Title: Too Much Johnson
Character: Joseph Johnson (as Charles H. Geldert)
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he takes a trip, claiming that he is going off to check on Mexican oil investments. But he's really going on a cruise with Mrs. Dathis, who has purchased his yacht. To throw everyone off track, he uses the name Mr. Johnson. When he decides to repeat the trip, however, all hell breaks loose -- the jealous Mr. Dathis is out to get his hands on this Johnson character, while a real Mr. Johnson shows up in Mexico, and Mrs. Billings shows up with her mother, and the confusion continues from there.
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The Lottery Man
Title: The Lottery Man
Character: Business Manager
Released: October 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.
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The Roaring Road
Title: The Roaring Road
Character: Fred Wheeler
Released: April 26, 1919
Type: Movie
"Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quarrels with his boss; Ward will not let him enter the Santa Monica Grand Prize Road Race, or marry his daughter Dorothy.
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Captain Kidd, Jr.
Title: Captain Kidd, Jr.
Character: David Grayson
Released: April 5, 1919
Type: Movie
An old man wills a map to his grandson, with instructions showing a buried treasure, but it is accidentally sold to a book store. The owner and her granddaughter Mary discover it. Mary and her boyfriend an aspiring author, meet the desperate grandson and agree to share the treasure.
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The Highest Trump
Title: The Highest Trump
Character: Von Klem
Released: February 3, 1919
Type: Movie
Secret Service officer Richard Paget receives a letter from his twin brother John imploring him to take over his identity after he commits suicide, so that Richard can subvert the plans made by the airplane company which John had financed, to make defective planes for the United States to use in the war.
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The Dub
Title: The Dub
Character: Craig's Clerk
Released: January 19, 1919
Type: Movie
John Craig is a struggling young contractor who falls into a crooked business scheme. A trio of unsavory partners on the verge of dissolving their company have hired him for a job, assuming that he will fail.
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The Secret Garden
Title: The Secret Garden
Character: Dr. Warren Craven
Released: January 12, 1919
Type: Movie
A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's estate. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected.
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Solicitor (as Clarence Geldart)
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
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Till I Come Back to You
Title: Till I Come Back to You
Character: U.S. Colonel
Released: August 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Yvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry, and her spirited little brother Jacques in a farmhouse on the Belgian countryside. With the German invasion of Belgium, Karl joins the German forces, and Jacques is taken to a reformatory to be trained as a munitions worker. When Karl is taken prisoner, Capt. Jefferson Strong, an American engineer, assumes the German's identity and discovers an underground supply of explosives near the von Krutz farm. By means of a tunnel, the Americans plan to mine the explosives. To save Jacques and a group of children from the munitions factory, however, Jefferson sends them across the American lines through the tunnel, but they lose their way, and he is forced to disable the mine. Jefferson is court-martialed, but King Albert of Belgium, who has befriended little Jacques, intercedes on his behalf. Learning that Karl has been killed, Jefferson pursues his budding romance with Yvonne.
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The Firefly of France
Title: The Firefly of France
Character: Aide to Von Blenheim
Released: June 23, 1918
Type: Movie
The "Firefly of France" is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly disappears from view with a satchel of important government documents in his possession, his sister Esme Falconer is suspected of beings in cahoots with him. Dashing aviator Devereaux Bayne believes in Esme's innocence and accordingly dons civilian garb and heads to Paris' Latin Quarter to get the low-down on the Firefly's whereabouts.
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The Bravest Way
Title: The Bravest Way
Character: The Minister (as Clarence Geldart)
Released: June 16, 1918
Type: Movie
Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the most popular leading men in American silent films-this despite the fact that orientals were traditionally (and stereotypically) cast as villains at the time. In The Bravest Way, Hayakawa carries self-sacrifice to the nth degree. He is so devoted-in a perfectly platonic manner-to the widow of his best friend (Tsuri Aoki) that he loses the love of his American fiancee (Florence Vidor). Lost film.
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Believe Me, Xantippe
Title: Believe Me, Xantippe
Character: Williams
Released: June 2, 1918
Type: Movie
George MacFarland, a wealthy young man who loves adventure, bets his friends Thornton Brown and Arthur Sole $20,000 that he can commit a crime and elude the police for a year. After he forges a check, George heads West and does escape arrest for nearly a year, despite the proliferation of police circulars bearing his name and his favorite expression, "Believe me, Xantippe." In a Colorado hunting lodge, he meets Sheriff Kamman's pretty daughter Dolly, who recognizes and tries to arrest him. According to the terms of the bet, however, he must be captured by a genuine officer of the law, which Dolly is not.
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Hidden Pearls
Title: Hidden Pearls
Character: Captain A. Todd (as Clarence Geldart)
Released: February 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in love with Enid Benton (Florence Vidor).
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The Spirit of '17
Title: The Spirit of '17
Character: Adjutant Blidden
Released: January 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Davy Glidden is the son of the adjutant general in charge of an old soldier's home in a small town near the Top Copper mine. Davy idolizes Capt. Jerico Norton, an aged veteran of the home who entertains the boy with stories of his exploits in the Civil War. When Mrs. Edward and her daughter Flora come to visit Mrs. Glidden, Davy is smitten by Flora but she ignores him. Davy is bursting with patriotism by the stories told to him by the captain and is eager of doing something noble to attract Flora's attention. He finds the opportunity to accomplish both goals when he overhears two German spies, Carl Bender and Frank Schmale, plotting to create havoc in the mine by calling a strike and then dynamiting the mine. Enlisting the aid of his friend Capt. Norton, Davy provides the means for the old soldiers to serve their country once again.
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The Fair Barbarian
Title: The Fair Barbarian
Character: Martin Bassett
Released: December 17, 1917
Type: Movie
An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England.
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The Hostage
Title: The Hostage
Character: Brigadier
Released: September 10, 1917
Type: Movie
The Highlanders and Lowlanders are sworn enemies until Lieutenant Kemper, the son of Brigadier Kemper, the leader of the militaristic Lowlanders, is held hostage by the Highlanders until his father's army has retreated to its own boundaries. Much to his surprise, the lieutenant is treated with kindness and consideration by his captors, especially by Boyadi and his beautiful daughter Nathalia, whom he learns to love. Thus, instead of obeying his father's command to escape at an appointed time when the Lowlanders plan to violate their pledge and storm the fortress, he keeps his promise to his captors and remains a prisoner.
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The Squaw Man's Son
Title: The Squaw Man's Son
Character: David Ladd
Released: July 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Hal, now fully grown, leaves his wife Edith and his estate in England to return to the land of his Indian mother.
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The Little American
Title: The Little American
Character: Submarine Commander U-Boat 21 (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1917
Type: Movie
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
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The Prison Without Walls
Title: The Prison Without Walls
Released: March 15, 1917
Type: Movie
Helen Ainsworth, a young philanthropist, who is interested in a prison reform movement, is engaged to Norman Morris, administrator of the Ainsworth millions and the undiscovered "man higher up," grafting through his influence with prison wardens. He is also having an "affair" with Felice, Helen's maid, an ex-convict.
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Those Without Sin
Title: Those Without Sin
Character: Richard Landry
Released: March 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Melaine is captured by a northern soldier while she is carrying secret southern messages. She falls into the hands of her father's former superior who attempts to compromise her. She is saved by a successful Confederate attack.
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The Golden Fetter
Title: The Golden Fetter
Character: Flynn
Released: January 25, 1917
Type: Movie
Faith Miller, a school teacher, inherits ten thousand dollars. Edson, McGill and Slade, three enterprising crooks, own the Moonflower, a worthless mine. Slade goes east to unload and hearing of Faith's good fortune, she falls an easy prey, buying a share in the mine for nine thousand dollars. Advised by friends to take a rest, Faith goes to inspect her mine.
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Lost and Won
Title: Lost and Won
Released: January 21, 1917
Type: Movie
A newswoman meets a man who has bet his colleagues he can make her beautiful.
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The Yellow Pawn
Title: The Yellow Pawn
Character: Mr. Turner
Released: November 23, 1916
Type: Movie
An artist is in the countryside, painting, when he meets a girl in a roadster. They fall in love, but the girl marries a lawyer for his money. She should have waited -- the artist becomes a huge success, commanding a thousand dollars for a portrait sitting. The girl convinces her husband to let the artist paint her, but one night while she is visiting his studio, a thieving relative of his enters and is killed by a servant. To protect the girl, the artist allows himself to be accused of the murder. Her husband happens to be the prosecuting attorney, and when she reveals she was at the artist's home the night of the murder, he prepares to shoot the artist himself. But before he can raise his gun, the servant stabs him to death.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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The Fall of a Nation
Title: The Fall of a Nation
Character: Gen. Arnold (as C.H. Geldart)
Released: June 6, 1916
Type: Movie
A sequel to DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, by the same author, and now lost. It is considered the first film sequel ever made and recounts a fictional invasion of America by a united army from Europe.
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Jordan Is a Hard Road
Title: Jordan Is a Hard Road
Released: December 19, 1915
Type: Movie
A bandit reforms himself and gives up his baby into better hands. Years later, he attempts to reunite with his daughter without revealing who he is.