Lydia Knott

Lydia Knott

Born: September 30, 1866
Died: March 30, 1955
in Tyner, Indiana, USA

Movies for Lydia Knott...

Fair Warning
Title: Fair Warning
Character: Miss Willoughby
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
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After the Dance
Title: After the Dance
Character: Mrs. Davis
Released: June 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
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Rocky Rhodes
Title: Rocky Rhodes
Character: Mrs. Rhodes
Released: September 24, 1934
Type: Movie
Rocky Rhodes returns to find his father dead and his best friend Joe accused of the murder. The culprit is Murtch who now lets Joe break jail and then has him shot escaping. When Rocky starts to interfere with Murtch's plans, he has Rocky framed for murder. Rocky now has to prove Murtch is guilty while escaping the law.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Hospital Patient
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Idylwood Resident (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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The Conquering Horde
Title: The Conquering Horde
Character: Mrs. Hendricks
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and in order to do that he has to pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
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Men Without Law
Title: Men Without Law
Character: Mrs. Healy
Released: October 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble.
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Life of an Actress
Title: Life of an Actress
Character: Mother Dowen
Released: February 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Film directed by Jack Nelson
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Going Crooked
Title: Going Crooked
Character: Mother
Released: December 12, 1926
Type: Movie
A young women is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man gets killed in that operation and the district attorney convicts an innocent man.
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East Lynne
Title: East Lynne
Character: Mrs. Hare
Released: November 23, 1925
Type: Movie
This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been filmed several times when it came to the screen once again in 1925. Director Emmett J. Flynn had an all-star cast and kept close to the original story.
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Rose of the World
Title: Rose of the World
Character: Mrs. Kirby
Released: November 9, 1925
Type: Movie
In India, Rosamond English learns that her husband Capt. Harry English has been killed in battle. After a time, she marries Sir Arthur Gerardine but is unable to forget her first husband, and gradually her love for him is rekindled, especially when she contrasts him to the pompous and elderly Sir Arthur.
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The Primrose Path
Title: The Primrose Path
Character: Mrs. Armstrong
Released: September 14, 1925
Type: Movie
Alcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more responsible, after a drinking accident causes him to cripple little brother Pat Moore (as Jimmy Armstrong). Still, the lure of liquor makes him to sneak drinks at home, and go out partying with carefree showgirl Clara Bow (as Marilyn Merrill). He's promised Ms. Bow he'll quit drinking and gambling. Further complicating Mr. MacDonald's life are the bad checks he's been accumulating. Nasty Stuart Holmes (as Tom Canfield) and Tom Santschi (as "Big Joe" Snead) force MacDonald to join their diamond smuggling racket, in lieu of payment.
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Dynamite Smith
Title: Dynamite Smith
Character: Aunt Mehitabel
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is equally frightened of her husband. But the murderer pursues them to the frozen north and Gladstone must overcome his cowardice in order to overcome his nemesis.
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Chalk Marks
Title: Chalk Marks
Character: Mrs. Mary Kilbourne
Released: September 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Young Herbert Thompson, wanting to attain wealth and social status, marries Ann Morton, who comes from a rich and prominent family, throwing over pretty young Angelina Kilboure, who really loves him. Years later Herbert has become the local District Attorney and has two children, Bert and Virginia. One night Bert, a patron at a seedy roadhouse, defends his sister's honor from a ruffian and winds up killing the man. Angelina persuades Herbert to leave his post as D.A. to defend his son in his murder trial. Herbert wins the case, but it turns out to have unexpected consequences.
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Racing for Life
Title: Racing for Life
Character: Mrs. Grant
Released: August 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Jack Grant agrees to drive in the big race in order to save his brother Carl from being charged with embezzlement.
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The Perfect Flapper
Title: The Perfect Flapper
Character: Aunt Sarah
Released: May 25, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
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Those Who Dance
Title: Those Who Dance
Character: Mrs. Carney
Released: April 27, 1924
Type: Movie
A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
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The Man Life Passed By
Title: The Man Life Passed By
Character: John's Mother
Released: December 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The Man Life Passed By (1923)
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Held to Answer
Title: Held to Answer
Character: Mrs. Burbeck
Released: November 22, 1923
Type: Movie
John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Title: A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Character: Jean's Mother
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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St. Elmo
Title: St. Elmo
Character: Mrs. Thornton
Released: September 30, 1923
Type: Movie
St. Elmo is a man who killed his romantic rival in a brawl. Traveling the world as a confirmed misogynist, St. Elmo returns to home and hearth only to fall in love with the daughter of the local blacksmith. The film is based on the 1867 novel of the same name written by Augusta Jane Evans. Today, St. Elmo is a lost film.
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The Flirt
Title: The Flirt
Character: Mama Madison
Released: December 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
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Afraid to Fight
Title: Afraid to Fight
Released: July 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Former A. E. F. boxing champion Tom Harper, who suffered gas poisoning, is sent to the mountains to regain his health so that he can re-enter the ring and earn the money needed for his crippled sister's operation. Under strict orders not to exert himself, Tom allows himself to be beaten up by Phillip Brand, the town bully, in front of his girl, Harriet Monroe.
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Turn to the Right
Title: Turn to the Right
Character: Mrs. Bascom
Released: January 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Joe is the son of a poor widow and in love with the daughter of the town’s richest and meanest man. The couple is determined to marry and plan their “dream house.”
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Across the Dead-Line
Title: Across the Dead-Line
Character: Charity Kidder
Released: January 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John, and the hedonistic branch led by Enoch's brother Aaron. Aaron plans to sway John to come over to his side by using a young girl who has lost her memory to lure him over, but when he kidnaps her John sets out to free her. Complications ensue.
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Playing with Fire
Title: Playing with Fire
Character: Miss Seraphina
Released: December 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
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Beating the Game
Title: Beating the Game
Character: Madame Fanchette
Released: September 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow safecracker. Out of "professional courtesy" he informs Lawson of what he has done. Instead of calling the police, Lawson--who believes in the philosophy of "honor among thieves"--makes a deal with Charlie: to show Charlie that it's actually more profitable to be a legitimate businessman then a crook, he'll give Charlie some money if Charlie will use it to establish a legitimate business in the small town of Plumfield, and at the end of a year they will divide up whatever profits Charlie is able to make honestly. Charlie agrees, but soon discovers that things aren't going to be quite as easy as he thought.
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The Isle of Love
Title: The Isle of Love
Character: Clifford Townsend's mother
Released: April 10, 1920
Type: Movie
The original film featured the then unknown Rudolph Valentino. To cash in on his rise to stardom, it was re-edited to feature more of him. Various shots were repeated several times; long shots were blown up into close-ups and inter-cut with other footage; some scenes were projected on a loop, so that Rudolph Valentino repeated the same motions several times over; one scene was used as a flashback; and out-takes from the original were inserted into the new film. In addition, the locale of the new picture was switched from World War 1 Germany to a desert island by the simple expedient of inserting shots of bathing beauties on a palm-fringed beach throughout the film.
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Should a Woman Tell?
Title: Should a Woman Tell?
Character: Clarissa Sedgwick
Released: December 29, 1919
Type: Movie
A village girl, on a visit to the city of Boston, is taken advantage of by a man there, and returns to her home feeling sullied and ashamed. A young man who had once sought her hand returns from years away in Europe and reiterates his suit.
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The Pointing Finger
Title: The Pointing Finger
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Mary Murphy, the oldest waif in an orphanage, steals a dress and three dollars, then escapes to the city. Grosset, the superintendent of the institution, steals $10,000 on the same night, and Mary is suspected of the theft.
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Luck in Pawn
Title: Luck in Pawn
Character: Mrs. Lee
Released: November 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her to go to the city so she can study. Annabel works hard, but she sells only one painting. She discovers that a renowned artist is spending the summer at a nearby resort, so she sends him her best work for a critique. A friend recommends that she see him in person, so Annabel pawns a piece of jewelry and heads for the resort. The artist informs her that she doesn't have enough talent to achieve much.
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In Wrong
Title: In Wrong
Character: Johnny's Ma
Released: October 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't get her to look his way. Things get even worse when a city boy comes to town and boards at the Fields' home.
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Home
Title: Home
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
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The Hushed Hour
Title: The Hushed Hour
Character: Mrs. Appleton
Released: May 18, 1919
Type: Movie
Judge Robert Appleton (Winter Hall) has led an exemplary life. His four children, however, fell short once they grew up and had to fend for themselves. When Appleton dies, his widow (Lydia Knott) explains that his last request was that each child spend one hour of contemplation with his body. The first is the youngest daughter, Daisy (Rosemary Theby), an artist of note who was betrayed and left with a son to raise out of wedlock. Next is Luke (Milton Sills), a wild young man who ran away at 19, and even though he is now married and a father, he still can't quite settle down. The eldest son, Bob (Wilfred Lucas), is next -- he wed a wealthy woman, but the marriage has no love.
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Danger, Go Slow
Title: Danger, Go Slow
Character: Aunt Sarah
Released: December 16, 1918
Type: Movie
Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "the Eel," the leader of the gang of crooks with whom she works, is arrested. In the village of Cottonville, Muggsy befriends Aunt Sarah, whom she later discovers is Jimmy's mother. When Muggsy learns that the greedy Judge Cotton, who holds the mortgage on Aunt Sarah's property, is planning to foreclose, she threatens to blackmail him, and he relents.
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The Marriage Ring
Title: The Marriage Ring
Character: Mrs. Heathe
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brute. When the two struggle over a gun, Hugo is shot. Anne, thinking he is dead, flees to Hawaii, where she falls in love with Rodney Heathe (Jack Holt), who owns a sugar plantation.
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In Judgment of...
Title: In Judgment of...
Character: Mrs. Manners
Released: August 12, 1918
Type: Movie
Debutante Mary Manners has inherited the power of mind-reading from her gypsy ancestors.
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His Mother's Boy
Title: His Mother's Boy
Character: Mrs. Glenny
Released: December 24, 1917
Type: Movie
After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to discover the truth. But he has been spoiled by his mother and he has a hard time adjusting to his rough surroundings.
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The Clodhopper
Title: The Clodhopper
Character: Mrs. Nelson
Released: June 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to the big city. There he encounters a showman who decides Everett is perfect for the part of a bumpkin in his new play. Everett takes the role and becomes a big star. But there are complications...
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The Dark Road
Title: The Dark Road
Character: Lady Mary 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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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
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Paying the Price
Title: Paying the Price
Character: Mrs. Towne
Released: July 9, 1916
Type: Movie
While developing a powerful explosive, naval officer Paul Towne introduces his friend Richard Tracy to Judith Corbin, his friend since childhood. For years, Paul had assumed that he would marry Judith, but when Richard proposes, Judith, tired of waiting for Paul, accepts. Soon after the marriage, Richard becomes more interested in the new explosive than in his new wife, and to pay off gambling debts, he agrees to steal the formula and sell it to a foreign government.
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Courtmartialed
Title: Courtmartialed
Character: His mother
Released: May 21, 1915
Type: Movie
Jules, the son of French General Bleriot, agrees to give a masked blackmailer his father's secret military papers when threatened with exposure of his gambling debts. Masked, Jules steals the papers, but during a struggle with his father, Jules receives a knife wound in his arm.