Guy Oliver

Guy Oliver

Born: September 25, 1878
Died: September 1, 1932
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Guy Oliver...

Sooky
Title: Sooky
Character: Mr. Moggs
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The Boone Boys, a boys' club that costs thirty dollars to join and has uniforms that Sooky admires, refuses to admit him because he is poor. Sooky and Skippy form their own club called the Beagle Boys.
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Rich Man's Folly
Title: Rich Man's Folly
Character: Dayton
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
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The Beloved Bachelor
Title: The Beloved Bachelor
Character: John Adams
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes jealous of Julie Stressman, an old friend of Michael's and one of his models, Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio. They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling. When Elinor also shows up at the site, Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation, but she is killed by some falling materials. Julie's dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi, whose father died years earlier. In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage, Michael lies and says he is her father. Elinor hears this, and without asking questions, leaves him and marries another man the same night.
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Caught
Title: Caught
Character: McNeill (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.
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Huckleberry Finn
Title: Huckleberry Finn
Character: Judge Thatcher
Released: August 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
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Murder by the Clock
Title: Murder by the Clock
Character: Watchman
Released: July 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A policeman (William Boyd) investigates a woman's (Lilyan Tashman) link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Sid
Released: June 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's wife, they agree to divorce and she returns back east to her family. However, she soon changes her mind and determines to get her husband back.
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Up Pops the Devil
Title: Up Pops the Devil
Character: Waldo, Handyman
Released: May 19, 1931
Type: Movie
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.
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Dude Ranch
Title: Dude Ranch
Character: Simonson
Released: May 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the West isn't wild anymore and most of Carr's guests are bored and about to leave. He is in despair when a caravan carrying a broke-down-and-out troupe of actors---Jennifer, Judd, Mrs. Merridew and her daughter, Alice---crashes down the hill and wrecks the hotel sign.
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Skippy
Title: Skippy
Character: Dad Burkey
Released: April 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
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Gun Smoke
Title: Gun Smoke
Character: Sheriff Posey Meed
Released: April 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
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The Conquering Horde
Title: The Conquering Horde
Character: Mayor of Abilene
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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Playboy of Paris
Title: Playboy of Paris
Character: Street Cleaner (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
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Love Among the Millionaires
Title: Love Among the Millionaires
Character: Bill - Telegrapher (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he and his family in Palm Springs.
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True to the Navy
Title: True to the Navy
Character: Watch Customer (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
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The Texan
Title: The Texan
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.
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The Devil's Holiday
Title: The Devil's Holiday
Character: Hammond
Released: May 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie is only interested in luring David in for a lucrative business deal. David easily falls in love, but older brother Mark brands Hallie a gold-digger. To get even with the straight-laced Stone family, Hallie accepts David's marriage proposal.
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The Light of Western Stars
Title: The Light of Western Stars
Character: Sheriff Grip Jarvis
Released: April 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
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The Benson Murder Case
Title: The Benson Murder Case
Character: Captain Hagedorn (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1930
Type: Movie
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find out who killed him.
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Burning Up
Title: Burning Up
Character: Townsman
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.
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The Kibitzer
Title: The Kibitzer
Character: McGinty
Released: January 11, 1930
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.
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Half Way to Heaven
Title: Half Way to Heaven
Character: Farmer at Railroad Station
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.
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Woman Trap
Title: Woman Trap
Character: Mr. Evans
Released: September 28, 1929
Type: Movie
In Woman Trap, Hal Skelly is hard-bitten police sergeant Dan Malone, whose mission in life is to rid his community of gangsters. The revelation that Dan's own brother Ray is the secret head of all local criminal activities does not weaken Dan's resolve in the least. The barely relevant title is a reference to "heroine" Kitty Evans, the wife of a minor gang functionary. Screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz, presumably on a dare, makes a brief appearance as a crime reporter.
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Stairs of Sand
Title: Stairs of Sand
Character: Sheriff Collishaw
Released: June 8, 1929
Type: Movie
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
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The Studio Murder Mystery
Title: The Studio Murder Mystery
Character: Hank MacDonald - the Studio Watchman
Released: June 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
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Sunset Pass
Title: Sunset Pass
Character: Clark
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
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Three Week Ends
Title: Three Week Ends
Character: Pa O'Brien
Released: December 8, 1928
Type: Movie
A sexy young nightclub singer sets her sights on a young man she believes to be a millionaire playboy, although he is in reality only an insurance agent.
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Avalanche
Title: Avalanche
Character: Mr. Mains
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.
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The Docks of New York
Title: The Docks of New York
Character: The Crimp
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
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The Vanishing Pioneer
Title: The Vanishing Pioneer
Character: Mr. Shelby
Released: June 23, 1928
Type: Movie
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople.
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Half a Bride
Title: Half a Bride
Character: Chief Engineer
Released: June 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new husband, Patience is marooned on a desert island with handsome Captain Edmunds. Her head full of notions that she's gleaned from radio dramas and pulp novels, Patience demands that she and Edmunds enter into an in-name-only marriage, observing the responsibilities and proprieties of matrimony without the sexual entanglements. Complications naturally arise.
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Title: Easy Come, Easy Go
Character: Conductor
Released: April 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets slip a few (fortuitously unheard) profanities. Fired from his job, Parker enters into an amusing series of misadventures with veteran bank robber Jim Bailey (Charles Sellon).
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The Last Command
Title: The Last Command
Character: Wardrobe Attendant (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1928
Type: Movie
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
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Love and Learn
Title: Love and Learn
Character: Detective
Released: January 14, 1928
Type: Movie
In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' reputation. At the risk of her own good name, Nancy decides to turn the tables on the crooked politicos by framing Cowles' opponent in a compromising situation. Things don't go quite as planned.
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Open Range
Title: Open Range
Character: Jim Blake
Released: November 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Hired ranch hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of Marco. Meanwhile, Indian chief Brave Bear despises the encroachment of white people and conspires with Sam Hardman to steal the town's cattle during a rodeo.
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Shootin' Irons
Title: Shootin' Irons
Character: Judge Mathews
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Story of a rancher clearing his girlfriend's father of a crime he didn't commit
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Nevada
Title: Nevada
Character: Sheriff of Lineville
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A once notorious gunfighter takes a respectable job on a ranch. "Nevada" is charged with protecting the ranch owner's pretty daughter, arousing the enmity of ranch foreman Clan Dillon, who is in love with the girl. The villainous foreman leaks a rumor of his rival's dark past to the sheriff, and the former outlaw is soon on the run again.
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Drums of the Desert
Title: Drums of the Desert
Character: Indian Agent
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.
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Arizona Bound
Title: Arizona Bound
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Dave Saulter, a rambling young cowboy drifts into a small western town the day a big gold shipment is leaving by stagecoach. Two different people plan to rob the stagecoach...Buck O'Hara, the driver who is very trusted, and a stranger, Texas Jack. Dave gets involved and is accused of being one of the robbers.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Jack Wilson
Released: March 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon).
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Man of the Forest
Title: Man of the Forest
Character: First Deputy
Released: December 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland) and his gang are determined to kidnap her before she reaches him.
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Old Ironsides
Title: Old Ironsides
Character: First Mate
Released: December 6, 1926
Type: Movie
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
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The Eagle of the Sea
Title: The Eagle of the Sea
Character: Beluche
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.
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North of 36
Title: North of 36
Character: Maj. McCoyne
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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A Woman of the World
Title: A Woman of the World
Character: Judge Porter
Released: December 28, 1925
Type: Movie
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
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The Air Mail
Title: The Air Mail
Character: Bill Wade
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Russ Kane obtains work as a pilot in the airmail service with the purpose of robbing the mails. However, during his training period at the Reno field, he becomes imbued with the spirit of the service and dedicates himself to getting the mail through.
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The Bedroom Window
Title: The Bedroom Window
Character: Detective
Released: June 8, 1924
Type: Movie
William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collaborator, scenarist Clara Beranger, for the 7-reel silent The Bedroom Window. Essentially a by-the-book mystery tale, the film is lifted from the ordinary by the expertise of DeMille and the charm of leading lady May McAvoy. She plays the daughter of a murder victim, while Ricardo Cortez co-stars as the Accused. Cortez is saved from the chair by his aunt Ethel Wales, a mystery writer. The real culprit is...well, keep your eye on the least likely, most cooperative member of the cast.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Judge Ballard
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
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To the Last Man
Title: To the Last Man
Character: Bill
Released: September 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: District Attorney
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexual favors in return.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Guy Oliver
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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The Woman with Four Faces
Title: The Woman with Four Faces
Character: Warden Cassidy
Released: June 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The woman with four faces is a movie about a woman who happens to be both a thief and a con artist and who cannot be arrested because she is faceless.
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Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
Title: Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
Character: John D. Starbock
Released: March 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime is a silent comedy film.
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The Covered Wagon
Title: The Covered Wagon
Character: Kit Carson
Released: March 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Musician
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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Across the Continent
Title: Across the Continent
Character: Irishman
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Jimmy Dent , son of John Dent, the maker of the reliable but plain Dent automobile, is dismissed from the firm after he refuses to drive a Dent. He goes west with the Tyler family, owners of a rival automobile firm, in one of their expensive high speed cars. 
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The World's Champion
Title: The World's Champion
Character: Mooney
Released: March 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Young William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed when he pursues Lady Elizabeth Galton, and indeed he is not only beaten by her cousin but thrown out by his own father for the disgrace he has caused. He travels to the United States where he becomes a champion prizefighter. Upon his return to England, he finds circumstances quite changed for Lady Galton and he sets out to change her circumstances further.
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A Homespun Vamp
Title: A Homespun Vamp
Character: Duncan Craig
Released: February 12, 1922
Type: Movie
The story of Meg Mackenzie, the orphaned niece of two stingy Scotsmen, Donald and Duncan Craig. She's kept busy taking care of their home in the country, while they plan to marry her off to Joe Dobbs (Lincoln Stedman), the son of the village blacksmith. A wrench is thrown in the Craigs' plan when author Stephen Ware comes to the little hamlet in search of a quiet place to work. Meg immediately develops a crush on him and Ware's stay proves to be anything but quiet when there's a robbery and he is assumed to be the guilty party. A mob attacks him, and Meg steps in and saves his life. Her uncles happen to be away, and she takes him in while he recovers from his injuries. When they return, Donald and Duncan are infuriated to find Ware in their home, and they insist that he marry Meg to save her reputation.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Thomas Whammond
Released: December 25, 1921
Type: Movie
In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by increasing industrialization. When Lord Rintoul attempts to rout the rebellious weavers, Babbie always manages to send word in time to prevent their being taken by surprise. Gavin, new minister to the town, falls in love with Babbie, and his relationship with the young gypsy almost costs him his position. But what Gavin and his parishioners do not know is that Babbie is actually Lady Babbie, ward of Lord Rintoul.
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A Prince There Was
Title: A Prince There Was
Character: Bland
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A wealthy socialite poses as a magazine editor living in a boardinghouse to learn more about an intriguing woman who wants to publish her stories.
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The Affairs of Anatol
Title: The Affairs of Anatol
Character: Spencer's Butler
Released: September 25, 1921
Type: Movie
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
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Too Much Speed
Title: Too Much Speed
Character: 'Howdy' Zeeker
Released: June 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Egotistical race-car driver Dusty Rhoades learns that humility pays off even better than acclaim.
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What Every Woman Knows
Title: What Every Woman Knows
Character: James Wylie
Released: April 24, 1921
Type: Movie
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
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Always Audacious
Title: Always Audacious
Character: Martin Green
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: Hlangeli's Father
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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The Round-Up
Title: The Round-Up
Character: Uncle Jim Allen
Released: October 10, 1920
Type: Movie
A lovesick sheriff protects his town, embroiled in a feud between a crafty bandit leader and the family of the prospector he stole from.
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Excuse My Dust
Title: Excuse My Dust
Character: Darby
Released: March 20, 1920
Type: Movie
A top race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't want him to race anymore. However, not long afterwards his wife takes their infant son and leaves him to go to San Francisco. The husband gets word that his son is seriously ill in San Francisco, but he has no way to get there. Just in the nick of time, however, the racer's father-in-law just happens to have developed a new car for a cross-country race--to San Francisco!
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Double Speed
Title: Double Speed
Character: Pawn Broker
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Auto racer Speed Carr enters a marathon race across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles. He encounters numerous obstacles not related to the race and must switch identities and vehicles before he can finish.
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Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Title: Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Character: Count Henloe
Released: November 30, 1919
Type: Movie
A light-hearted romantic adventure.
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Male and Female
Title: Male and Female
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: George Sea Otter
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: Jonas
Released: June 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is planned. But Dumont falls in love with a Southern girl and when she proves useful to his plan, his conscience begins to tear at him.
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The Roaring Road
Title: The Roaring Road
Character: Tom Darby
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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Alias Mike Moran
Title: Alias Mike Moran
Character: Jim Day
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Department-store clerk Larry Young is determined to marry a rich girl. He falls for Elaine Debaux, whom he believes to be the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder. However, when war breaks out Larry is drafted into the army. Before he is taken in, though, he and Elaine are rescued from gangsters by an ex-con named Mike Moran. It turns out that Moran wants to join the army but they won't take him because of his record. Larry, who doesn't want to go into the army because it will interfere with his plans to marry Elaine, comes up with an idea he thinks will work out for all concerned. Complications ensue.
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Venus in the East
Title: Venus in the East
Character: Doc. Naylor
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Buddy McNair is so enchanted by the newspaper photos of New York society beauty Mrs. Pat Dyvenot that he decides to leave Colorado with his newly inherited fortune, travel to New York, and win her heart. On the train, some gamblers, apparently aided by a pretty girl named Martha, cheat Buddy out of a large sum, and in New York, his lack of eastern polish makes him appear foolish.
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The Dub
Title: The Dub
Character: Robbins
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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Under the Top
Title: Under the Top
Character: Jay Trimmer
Released: January 4, 1919
Type: Movie
Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus passing through town. he falls in love with Pansy, the daughter of the circus' tightrope walker, after he saves her from a gang of thugs...
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Kid Clarke
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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Less Than Kin
Title: Less Than Kin
Character: Peters
Released: July 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Lewis Vickers accidentally kills a man and goes to Central America. Here he meets Robert Lee, who bears a remarkable resemblance to him. Lee is a worthless young chap whose father is anxious to have him return to the United States. On his death bed Lee turns his papers over to Vickers and begs him to assume his name. Arriving in New York, Vickers goes to the Lee home as Robert Lee, and discovers that the dead man has willed him a badly blotted past that includes a wife and two children and a large collection of debts. He also finds a beautiful adopted daughter in the Lee household and promptly falls in love with her. The only way he can stand any chance of winning the girl is by telling the truth about himself.
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The Bravest Way
Title: The Bravest Way
Character: The Lawyer
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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Old Wives for New
Title: Old Wives for New
Character: Berkeley's Butler (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: Snakebit Saunders
Released: May 5, 1918
Type: Movie
M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
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The Whispering Chorus
Title: The Whispering Chorus
Character: Chief McFarland
Released: March 28, 1918
Type: Movie
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a child.
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Rimrock Jones
Title: Rimrock Jones
Character: Andrew McBain
Released: January 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Rimrock Jones is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already been cheated out of several valuable copper strikes, Rimrock nonetheless forges ahead optimistically, hoping to strike it rich just once more. Unfortunately, he can't find anyone to finance his latest expedition -- except for a pretty public stenographer who uses her life savings to grubstake our hero. When Rimrock finally hits pay dirt, he tries to repay the girl for her generosity, only to find that she wants to be a full partner in his copper mine. While he mulls this over, Rimrock's rivals try to bamboozle him out of his mine with the help of a sexy "vamp".
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Nan of Music Mountain
Title: Nan of Music Mountain
Character: Bull Page
Released: December 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Henry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider with Duke Morgan's gang, cattlemen, and outlaws. Nan, daughter of the head of the clan, secretly loves Henry and when he is wounded in a fight with the Morgan clan, she helps him escape. This angers her father and he declares that she shall marry her cousin. Nan dispatches a message to Henry for assistance and he brings her safely to his clan. Nan then learns that her father was the murder of Henry's father. She returns to her father to learn the truth and together they go to Henry and reveal the murder's name. After a thorough understanding and forgiving, Henry and Nan are married.
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The Call of the East
Title: The Call of the East
Character: Cadger
Released: October 15, 1917
Type: Movie
While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while wearing a Japanese kimono. There she meets the wealthy Arai Takada, who is taken by the mysterious woman. Alan has dishonored and betrayed O'Mitsu, and her brother Arai plans a terrible revenge.
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The Hostage
Title: The Hostage
Character: Vanvoyd
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 Little American
Title: The Little American
Character: Frederick von Austreim
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 Bottle Imp
Title: The Bottle Imp
Character: Rollins
Released: March 25, 1917
Type: Movie
Lopaka, a poor Hawaiian fisherman, falls in love with Kokua, a young girl of royal blood. Her father refuses to let him marry her, though, unless Lopaka can bring him two feather cloaks from a rare bird. While searching the mountains for the bird, Lopaka encounters a dying priest of Pele who sells him a wishing bottle in which Kono, the god of the volcanos, is confined.
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Those Without Sin
Title: Those Without Sin
Character: Henry Melon
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: Edson
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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The Valiants of Virginia
Title: The Valiants of Virginia
Released: June 26, 1916
Type: Movie
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Into the Primitive
Title: Into the Primitive
Character: Thomas Blake
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
American heiress Jennie Leslie, the Honorable Cecil Winthrope, and the alcoholic Thomas Blake are washed ashore on a deserted island after a shipwreck. At first, Jennie sticks close to Cecil, preferring his upper-class British breeding to Thomas' man-of-the-people approach.
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Thou Shalt Not Covet
Title: Thou Shalt Not Covet
Character: My Neighbor
Released: February 7, 1916
Type: Movie
A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first envying their happiness, the scientist eventually falls in love with his neighbor's wife. When her husband goes on a business trip to Africa, the scientist also goes abroad to avoid temptation but finds himself sailing from Cairo aboard the same ship as his neighbor's wife
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The Circular Staircase
Title: The Circular Staircase
Released: September 20, 1915
Type: Movie
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The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan
Title: The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan
Character: Philip Hyde
Released: April 11, 1915
Type: Movie
A silent American short drama
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A Just Punishment
Title: A Just Punishment
Character: Bob Preston - the Husband
Released: September 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Uncle Preston, a financial "wizard," discovers that his nephew, Bob Preston, is a rogue, a gambler and a swindler, who is promoting a mythical mining property, the "Battle Axe." He decides to teach his nephew a lesson.
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When the Night Call Came
Title: When the Night Call Came
Character: Karl Kreidt
Released: June 12, 1914
Type: Movie
When the night call came, it found a young woman struggling with great emotions, the better impulses of her sex battling against the perverted sordid side of her nature. It was the culmination of the biggest game Nell Delaney and her gang had ever undertaken. The girl, in order to land an over-cautious victim, had actually married Karl Kreidt, an unsophisticated young man, who had just come into possession of a large amount of money. He was thoroughly infatuated with the woman, could do naught but plan for her comfort, and so fell into the trap she had devised.
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Title: Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Released: March 12, 1914
Type: Movie
A serio-comic tale shows wherein the East and the West strangely mingle despite Kipling's declaration that: "Never the twain shall meet."
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The Woman of the Mountains
Title: The Woman of the Mountains
Character: Herbert - Stella's Sweetheart
Released: October 17, 1913
Type: Movie
"In thirty minutes Granite Mountain will crumble," echoed the deep determined voice of Brice, the Trust agent, who broke the silence of the gulch, speaking to Slocum, the treacherous employee of the Independent Power Co., who had come to the way of doing disreputable business by the cash route.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Much
Released: August 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century. The movie's costumes feature enormous versions of the familiar hats of Robin and his merry men, and uses the unusual effect of momentarily superimposing images different animals over each character to emphasize their good or evil qualities. The film was directed by Étienne Arnaud and Herbert Blaché, and written by Eustace Hale Ball. A restored copy of the 30-minute film exists and was exhibited in 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Saved from the Titanic
Title: Saved from the Titanic
Character: Jack's pal
Released: May 13, 1912
Type: Movie
A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic and her experiences as a passenger during the disaster. Her intended marriage now faces a new hazard because her fiance is a sailor and her parents have just been reminded of the dangers of the sea. Premiering in the United States just 29 days after the event, it is the earliest dramatization about the tragedy.
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Oh, You Ragtime!
Title: Oh, You Ragtime!
Character: The Pianist
Released: April 17, 1912
Type: Movie
The famous pianist Tenorini has moved into the neighbourhood. He plays a song (a spring waltz from "Alexander's Ragtime Band") on the piano; it is such a joyful tune that everyone in the neighborhood starts to dance. When he finally stops everyone is exhausted.
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The Lucky Holdup
Title: The Lucky Holdup
Character: Father Number One
Released: April 11, 1912
Type: Movie
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The Judge's Ward
Title: The Judge's Ward
Released: September 30, 1909
Type: Movie
A formerly lost Lubin short film.