Al W. Filson

Al W. Filson

Born: January 26, 1857
Died: November 14, 1925
in Blufton, Indiana, USA

Movies for Al W. Filson...

Monte Cristo
Title: Monte Cristo
Character: Morrel
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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The Girl from God's Country
Title: The Girl from God's Country
Character: J. Randall Carslake (as Al Filson)
Released: September 18, 1921
Type: Movie
A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.
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Made in Heaven
Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Mr. Royce
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Bill Bones
Released: January 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Hands Down
Title: Hands Down
Character: Jack Dedlow (as Al Filson)
Released: February 11, 1918
Type: Movie
Miner Dan Stuyvesant finally strikes it rich, but on his way to report his claim, he is shot. When Jack Dedlow, the head of a gang of outlaws, hears this news, he rides to Stuyvesant's cabin intending to secure the claim for himself. There the outlaws find Stuyvesant's daughter Hilda, the sweetheart of Tom Flynn, and are about to draw cards for her when Dago Sam pulls out his guns and spirits her out the door. Because Tom is his only friend, Sam determines to protect Hilda from the gang, but when Tom suspiciously questions his intentions toward Hilda, Sam decides to live up to the town's poor opinion of him.
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The Scarlet Car
Title: The Scarlet Car
Character: Samuel Winthrop
Released: December 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.
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Who Shall Take My Life?
Title: Who Shall Take My Life?
Character: The governor
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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The Lad and the Lion
Title: The Lad and the Lion
Character: Shiek Ali-es-hadji
Released: May 14, 1917
Type: Movie
While on vacation from college, William Bankinton is shipwrecked. His mind a blank, he is picked up by a derelict ship upon which there are only a lion and a stowaway named Broot. After Broot commits suicide, Bankinton and the lion are cast adrift upon the shores of Africa where they exist in a primitive state for several months.
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Beware of Strangers
Title: Beware of Strangers
Character: J. Everett Kinkaid Wetworth, Millionaire
Released: February 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
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The Garden of Allah
Title: The Garden of Allah
Character: Lord Rens
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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Twisted Trails
Title: Twisted Trails
Character: Old Doc (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1916
Type: Movie
Ranch foreman Tom Snow is being hounded by sheriff Luke Fisher and his deputy, Brad Foster. The pair are really cattle rustlers, and they're trying to pin the blame on Snow. Snow escapes from them and leads them on a death-defying escape over a chasm.
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At Piney Ridge
Title: At Piney Ridge
Character: Zeb Lane
Released: May 1, 1916
Type: Movie
When Cindy Lane becomes pregnant, Mark Brierson, the father, refuses to marry her. Instead, Brierson romances Azalia Deering, whose father, General Deering, owns the town bank. Brierson misuses bank funds, but the bank is saved by Jack Rose, a wealthy farmer. Cindy's father Zeb vows to kill her lover, but she refuses to reveal the man's identity.
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Unto Those Who Sin
Title: Unto Those Who Sin
Character: Pierre Duprez
Released: March 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Nadia, a stenographer, must give her meager earnings to her drunken father. When he shoots his wife's lover, Nadia decides to move in with her flashy girl friend Mabel, who soon introduces her to the fast life.
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The Man with the Iron Heart
Title: The Man with the Iron Heart
Character: I.M. Mann - the Man with the Iron Heart
Released: September 2, 1915
Type: Movie
I.M. Mann, millionaire president of a large corporation, is known as "the man with the iron heart." James Boyd, cashier for Mann's corporation, is delayed one morning because of a dying mother, and is discharged. Then Boyd goes to Union headquarters with his story. The thousands of workmen employed by Mann finally reach the limit of endurance, and at a union meeting, resolve to demand increased wages, a cessation of child labor and other benefits, or strike. He refuses to hear a committee of workmen and says, "I'll close up the factories and let you starve."
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A Yankee from the West
Title: A Yankee from the West
Character: Whitney Mills, R.R. Superintendent
Released: August 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Billy Milford, Harvard graduate, goes west to seek his fortune. In Addertown he secures a position as stationmaster of the L. & R. Railroad, but is forced out because of his drinking habits. He accidentally meets Gunhild, an emigrant Norwegian girl, as she arrives in Addertown to take up her home with Jan Hagsberg, the town's saloonkeeper. Seeking revenge on the railroad, Milford joins Jim Dorsey in a scheme to hold up the road's paymaster on his way to pay the employees of the company's mine.
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Ghosts
Title: Ghosts
Character: The Family Doctor
Released: May 31, 1915
Type: Movie
Captain Alving, a notorious rake and financially irresponsible, seeks wealthy heiress Helen's hand in marriage. The family doctor protests to the marriage, on the grounds of Alving's hereditary illness, but both parties disregard all warnings; Urged on by her ambitious parents, Helen marries Alving. Later Helen discovers a liaison between her husband and a young, married woman. Soon the sins of the father are visited upon all members of the Alving clan. Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.
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The Truth Wagon
Title: The Truth Wagon
Released: December 14, 1914
Type: Movie
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A Mother's Influence
Title: A Mother's Influence
Character: Burton Sr. - The Father
Released: October 27, 1914
Type: Movie
The son falls in love with his millionaire father's stenographer, against the parental wishes. To get rid of her influence over Wallace, Burton, Sr., discharges Madge. But the young man follows her and they are married. By so doing he separates himself from his father altogether.
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For Her Father's Sins
Title: For Her Father's Sins
Character: John Ashton
Released: October 18, 1914
Type: Movie
Laura Bell runs away from her country home to the city, where she becomes a clerk in a department store. Her brother, Frank, follows her to New York, but is unable to place her. He becomes interested in a settlement house and obtains a position in social service work. Mary Ashton, daughter of the proprietor of the store where Laura works, is shocked to find that her father pays his clerks starvation wages.
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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 Cipher Message
Title: The Cipher Message
Character: Papa Kent
Released: December 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Two English crooks, Lionel Verker and his sister, Marie, come to America, where at a seaside resort Lionel makes a heroic rescue by saving Bob Kent, the son of a millionaire, from drowning. He is introduced to the Kent family. Learning that there is a position of lady's maid open in the house, he wires his sister to come at once. With the aid of false references she obtains the position. At a lawn fete Muriel, the daughter of the millionaire, wears a lot of jewelry. Lionel notices this and after a dance with him she misses one of her diamonds.
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The Flight of the Crow
Title: The Flight of the Crow
Character: Old John Morgan (as Al Filson)
Released: August 11, 1913
Type: Movie
Old Morgan, an eccentric millionaire in a western city, has a dissipated young son. He has also a very sweet adopted daughter, Edwina. One day the son is waylaid near the railroad yards, stripped of a big "roll" and thrown unconscious into a box car.
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Indian Summer
Title: Indian Summer
Character: Old Tucker
Released: May 22, 1913
Type: Movie
A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and to his sweetheart, Virginia.