Harry Lonsdale

Harry Lonsdale

Born: December 5, 1865
Died: July 12, 1923
in Worcester, England, UK

Movies for Harry Lonsdale...

The Last of the Duanes
Title: The Last of the Duanes
Character: Bland
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Buck Duane is on the run after killing his father's murderer. He rescues a beautiful young woman from an outlaw, but the outlaw's wife has eyes for the young cowpoke and makes trouble for him.
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The Vagabond Trail
Title: The Vagabond Trail
Character: Colonel Macon
Released: March 9, 1924
Type: Movie
Searching for his wayward brother, saddle tramp Donnegan (Buck Jones) gets in trouble with a bully and is thrown off a freight train
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Monte Cristo
Title: Monte Cristo
Character: Dantes, Father of Edmond
Released: September 3, 1922
Type: Movie
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
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A Fool There Was
Title: A Fool There Was
Character: Parks
Released: June 18, 1922
Type: Movie
A respectable businessman leaves his wife and daughter for the clutches of a cold, heartbreaking female.
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The Night Horsemen
Title: The Night Horsemen
Character: Old Joe Cumberland
Released: October 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale) after Dan is found wandering the desert as a youth. After he becomes a man, Dan wanders throughout the West, following the wild geese when they fly South every year. He finds trouble in a lawless town and wounds a rival gunman.
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The Mask
Title: The Mask
Character: Winthrop Parker
Released: June 17, 1921
Type: Movie
The Mask 1921 film
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Vanishing Trails
Title: Vanishing Trails
Character: Grandon
Released: September 10, 1920
Type: Movie
A 15-chapter Western serial
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Fighting for Gold
Title: Fighting for Gold
Character: Bobyan Verinder (as H. Lounsdale)
Released: March 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Tom Mix plays Jack Kilmeny, an Englishman who owns a gold claim in the U.S. Jack has two problems -- his worthless partner Curly (Jack Nelson), and the British company on the land next to his who hope to jump his claim.
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Little Orphant Annie
Title: Little Orphant Annie
Character: Annie's Uncle
Released: December 31, 1918
Type: Movie
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor and tough cow-poke sees this and comes to her aid. Dave becomes her protector. Eventually Annie goes to live with Squire Goode and his large family. There, she entertains the children of the household with her stories, but sees her abusive aunt and uncle as her chief tormentors. She tells stories of how the goblins will take away the children if they are not good. Each story she tells is illustrated. War breaks out and Dave, who Annie adores, enlists. Uncle Thomp, hearing that Dave has been killed in action, takes pleasure in telling Annie the news. Broken-hearted, Annie falls ill and dies in bed, surrounded by family.
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The Girl in His House
Title: The Girl in His House
Character: Bob Burlington
Released: June 24, 1918
Type: Movie
When his sweetheart jilts him, wealthy James Armitage leaves his family estate in the hands of attorney Samuel Bordman and heads for Burma. Six years later, Armitage discovers that his former girlfriend has just become a widow, thus he sails back to America in hopes of rekindling the romance.
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Who Shall Take My Life?
Title: Who Shall Take My Life?
Character: Honorable James Munroe
Released: December 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
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Beware of Strangers
Title: Beware of Strangers
Character: John DeLacy
Released: February 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
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Conscience
Title: Conscience
Character: Rupert Cowdray
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish them. In the main story, society girl Ruth Somers, a reincarnation of Serama, prepares to marry Cecil Brooke, the wealthiest man of her set. Her guardian, Dr. Norton, an incarnation of Lucifer, constantly accompanies her. Ruth is summoned to the Court of Conscience, where the witnesses, Lust, Avarice, Hate, Revenge and Vanity, testify about Ruth's history of seducing and abandoning men. This behavior resulted in the suicide of Madge, the lover of Ned Langley, whom Ruth enthralled and promised to marry, and also the deaths of two rivals for her love. Ruth is ordered back to earth to learn her sentence. When Ned interrupts the wedding, Ruth scorns him and he shoots himself. After Brooke leaves her, the Court dooms Ruth to live with the torment of remembrance. Ruth sends Norton away, and then kneels and repents.
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The Garden of Allah
Title: The Garden of Allah
Character: Father Roubier
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah
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The Man with the Glass Eye
Title: The Man with the Glass Eye
Character: Victor St. Aubyn
Released: August 27, 1916
Type: Movie
A society cracksman is caught when his dying victim pulls out his glass eye. There's a hint of Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty to the criminal mastermind of this WWI crime entertainment.
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Into the Primitive
Title: Into the Primitive
Character: Honorable Cecil Winthrope
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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Sweet Alyssum
Title: Sweet Alyssum
Character: Thurlow
Released: November 15, 1915
Type: Movie
The boss of iron worker Roanoke Brooks (Power), is having an affair with his wife (Kathlyn Williams). Eventually she commits suicide and her lover dies in an accident. Roanoke lavishes all his love and attention on his daughter (Edith Johnson). As a young woman she goes to the West where she meets the son of the man who broke up her father's marriage.
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When the West Was Young
Title: When the West Was Young
Character: The Saviour
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Ned Halton and his young bride, Nellie, depart from the east in a prairie schooner to seek a home in the western wilds.
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Her Way
Title: Her Way
Character: Gates - the Faro King
Released: September 12, 1913
Type: Movie
A good mother, dying, bequeaths to her daughter a well-worn Bible, beseeching her to follow its teachings day by day. Her father, a brutal inebriate, comes home and finds her reading the old book, snatches it from her, stamps upon it, and falls to the floor in a drunken fury.
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The Devil and Tom Walker
Title: The Devil and Tom Walker
Character: Tom Walker
Released: August 4, 1913
Type: Movie
Tom Walker, a miserly man, is much beaten and bullied by his Amazonian wife, Dame Walker. The action of the piece takes place in New England, early in the eighteenth century, when the Puritans were still in power.
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The Suwanee River
Title: The Suwanee River
Character: Colonel Lukas
Released: June 5, 1913
Type: Movie
The poetic and sentimental theme of the old Southland song is the moving crux investing an interesting story of love and comedy daring the reconstruction period, south of Mason and Dixon's Line.
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The Ex-Convict's Plunge
Title: The Ex-Convict's Plunge
Character: Detective Doolittle
Released: May 29, 1913
Type: Movie
Elton Gates, having served seven years for submitting to temptation with a bank's funds, is released. His uncle John sends him $500.00, with which to start life anew. He has hardly rested in a cheap lodging house when Detective Doolittle spies him and commences to make him an object of special scrutiny.
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The Post-Impressionists
Title: The Post-Impressionists
Character: Professor Le Marex
Released: May 12, 1913
Type: Movie
Dick Carew, the son of a soap-maker, and Dorothy Wilton, the daughter of a lawyer, meet in Paris, where they have gone from America to imbibe an atmosphere sicklied with artistic buncomb by the Cubists. The young man, visiting a cabaret, the meeting place of frowsy post-impressionists, is impressed with their windy theories, mainly denunciations of everything that common sense and decency understand. Dick is just ignorant enough about art to be impressed with this buncomb, and takes Dorothy to the Cubist.
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Dixieland
Title: Dixieland
Character: Belle's Father
Released: April 16, 1913
Type: Movie
A minstrel troupe is embarking for a tour of the South. Henry Clay appears on the scene wearing the frayed coat of a Confederate General. He borrows a guitar from one of the minstrel men and begins singing "Way down South in Dixie," and the story unfolds.
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A Change of Administration
Title: A Change of Administration
Character: The Mexican Ambassador
Released: April 5, 1913
Type: Movie
The story concerns the difficulties of a clerk in the war department, betrothed to the daughter of an ambassador, who loses his position by the change of administration.
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Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy
Title: Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy
Character: Gen. Bragg
Released: March 24, 1913
Type: Movie
Pauline Cushman leaves the theater to become a Federal spy. Working with Henry Holmes of the Secret Service, she escapes execution twice and helps Gen. Rosencrans in battle against Confederate generals Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan.
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The Sands of Time
Title: The Sands of Time
Character: The Minister
Released: March 14, 1913
Type: Movie
A sorrowing mother, bereft of her infant, visits a foundling asylum and adopts a baby girl. The young window lavishes her love and care on the adopted infant and her environment is the finest. Father Time present the baby with an hour glass containing "The Sands of Time" which are all in the upper part of the glass.
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The Millionaire Cowboy
Title: The Millionaire Cowboy
Character: A.G. Dow - the Lawyer
Released: February 3, 1913
Type: Movie
In the mistaken belief that he has killed a cab driver, a dissipated Eastern scion flees West in this inventive silent Western starring former football hero Maurice "Lefty" Flynn and based on an original story by Darryl F. Zanuck. Charles Christoper Meredyth, Jr. -- known to his friends as "Gallop" -- arrives in a small Southwestern town owned by inventor Granville Truce (Charles Crockett). The only other inhabitants are Truce's pretty daughter, Pauline (Gloria Grey), and a gang of Mexican bandits.
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The Lost Inheritance
Title: The Lost Inheritance
Character: D'Orsey - the Bogus Duke
Released: November 13, 1912
Type: Movie
1912 silent drama
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All on Account of Checkers
Title: All on Account of Checkers
Character: Professor Bernard
Released: March 29, 1912
Type: Movie
Smith & Smith, publishers, in a letter, notify Professor Bernard that they will accept his latest story if he will alter the enclosed paragraph: "Marry me and I will do away with my wife as I did her father." The absent-minded professor leaves this paragraph on his study table while he goes to the store to secure some cloth for his wife. The Professor, however, is very absent-minded, and forgets his mission when he meets a group of firemen who induce him to play a game of checkers. In the meantime, Ellen, the cook, is having her troubles with the butcher boy, who brings liver instead of chops, as ordered.