Hector Dion

Hector Dion

Movies for Hector Dion...

The Jungle Princess
Title: The Jungle Princess
Character: Gagga
Released: June 5, 1920
Type: Movie
Feature version of The Lost City (1920), a fifteen episode serial.
bee
The Lost City
Title: The Lost City
Character: Gagga
Released: January 2, 1920
Type: Movie
This 15-chapter serial was produced by Colonel William N. Selig, the former mogul whose large assortment of wild animals became the nucleus of today's Los Angeles Zoo. Selig's ferocious fauna added authenticity to a story about yet another white goddess, Princess Elyata of Tirzah (Juanita Hansen), who comes to the rescue of Stanley Morton (George Chesebro) and his sidekick Mike Donovan (Frank Clark), a couple of Americans who foolishly wander into a village ruled by slave trader Gagga (Hector Dion).
bee
Ravished Armenia
Title: Ravished Armenia
Released: January 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.
bee
One More American
Title: One More American
Character: Dr. Ross
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
George Beban plays feisty Italian immigrant Luigi Riccardo, the eternal thorn in the side of New York political boss Regan (H.B. Carpenter). Fed up with Riccardo's interference in his graft-grabbing, Regan pulls a few strings and arranges for Riccardo and his family to be shipped back to Europe. But our hero's cause is championed by muckraking newspaper reporter Bump Rundle (Raymond Hatton), who takes on and exposes the Regan political machine.
bee
Painted Lips
Title: Painted Lips
Character: Andrew Solman
Released: February 4, 1918
Type: Movie
The daughter of a sea captain, the heroine falls in with a bad crowd and is soon working as a "hostess" (wink! wink!) in a cheap waterfront dive.
bee
The Wolf and His Mate
Title: The Wolf and His Mate
Character: 'Snaky' Burns
Released: January 7, 1918
Type: Movie
When Donald Bayne, known in the North as The Wolf, loses his cabin to Steve Nolan in a backwoods court, he threatens and thrashes the new owner, then leaves him to tend to his traps. Upon his return, he discovers that Nolan has been killed in a shooting accident and that Bess Nolan, his niece, has moved into the cabin with Rose, her sister's child. Unable to evict her, The Wolf camps out next to the cabin, but soon realizes that this act has compromised her honor in the town. To correct the situation, he forces her into marriage, but she maintains a safe distance from him. When Bess's sister and "Snaky" Burns, her brother-in-law, kidnap Rose for use in their criminal activities, Bess implores Donald to intervene.
bee
Fighting Mad
Title: Fighting Mad
Character: Clean-Up West
Released: November 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon dumps her, and she comes back and dies giving birth to a baby girl. Lambert, out of his mind with rage, leaves the baby on a doorstep and vows to never have faith again. He returns to the mining town fifteen years later a drunkard. He meets young, kind Lily Sawyer and is greatly impressed by her compassionate nature. Meanwhile, the gambler has returned and decides to abduct Lily, but his partner recognizes Lambert and tells him Lily is his daughter. He kills the gambler before he can harm Lily and soon his faith returns.
bee
King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: Edmund
Released: December 17, 1916
Type: Movie
Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear
bee
The Return of Draw Egan
Title: The Return of Draw Egan
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1916
Type: Movie
A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.
bee
The Fugitive
Title: The Fugitive
Character: William Cleves, a villain
Released: August 12, 1916
Type: Movie
bee
Silas Marner
Title: Silas Marner
Character: Dunstan
Released: February 18, 1916
Type: Movie
After having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser. Originally a seven-reel picture, a three-reel re-release survives.
bee
The Stopped Clock
Title: The Stopped Clock
Character: The Doctor
Released: November 1, 1913
Type: Movie
No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was reported by the detective and he was discharged. In truth, he had gone to find the senior clerk, who owed him money which he needed for his mother, hovering close to the edge of life. By sharp detective work, the designs of the senior clerk were frustrated.
bee
A Tender-Hearted Crook
Title: A Tender-Hearted Crook
Character: The Minister
Released: October 2, 1913
Type: Movie
The girl decided after what happened at the garden party that she did not want his love any longer, but could not live without it. She decided to leave this world. Her unexpected caller had something to say about that. He did not have to read "Sarah Hardcrab's Advice to the Lovelorn" to know what to do. Being a very human and sensible person, he brought two young people together in his own original way.
bee
The Crook and the Girl
Title: The Crook and the Girl
Character: The Butler
Released: August 25, 1913
Type: Movie
In the guise of a gardener he came to steal the paper telling the whereabouts of the second will. That was so the nephew might enjoy the inheritance alone. Then the girl learned his true mission, but in the end he restored her confidence and beat her enemies at their own game.
bee
The Wrong Bottle
Title: The Wrong Bottle
Character: The Faithful Lover
Released: March 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Happy in her devotion to her unfortunate sister and the promise of honest love that had come into her life, the girl was perhaps blind to true values. She became indifferent to her life and its surroundings. Accordingly she accepted the stranger and his doubtful promises. Honest love and duty were forgotten, until, caught near life's uncertain edge, she was called back by her blind sister's peril. Thus was true love separated from blind infatuation and life's lesson learned.
bee
A Man's Duty
Title: A Man's Duty
Character: Lt. John Wilson Jr. - Confederate Soldier
Released: July 3, 1912
Type: Movie
When the Civil War was declared, it caused great consternation in the home of John Wilson, as he was of Southern birth, while his wife was a Northern woman, and she favored the Federal cause.
bee
A Lodging for the Night
Title: A Lodging for the Night
Character: The Porter
Released: May 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to steal it. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl by stopping her uncle from beating her for having broken a water jar. Retiring to his room, he is awakened by the two tramps breaking into his room. He steals out and gets lodging at a nearby house, which happens to be the home of the Mexican girl and her uncle. The tramps follow him and try again. The girl, however, saves him from harm, and it looks as if Dick had found a real heroine for a real romance.
bee
Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers
Title: Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers
Released: January 2, 1908
Type: Movie
Francesca, surrounded by ladies-in-waiting at the palace. Her father enters, and together they read a letter from Lanciotto, asking for the hand of Francesca. Both are overjoyed at the union of the two great houses in marriage, and the daughter retires to dress for Lanciotto's arrival.
bee
The Gipsy's Warning
Title: The Gipsy's Warning
Released: October 4, 1907
Type: Movie
The story centers on a gregarious but rather undependable man whose attentions to a young gypsy woman lead to complications for them both.
bee
The Mill Girl
Title: The Mill Girl
Released: January 2, 1907
Type: Movie
A girl who works in a textile mill suffers unwanted advances from her boss. Her boyfriend, who also works there, sees it and knocks the boss down. In retaliation, the boss hires two thugs to beat up the boyfriend, but he outwits them. Instead, the boss fires him. As the boss is forcing his attentions on the girl again, a fire breaks out in the mill...