Frank Losee

Frank Losee

Born: June 12, 1856
Died: November 14, 1937
in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA

Movies for Frank Losee...

The Speed Spook
Title: The Speed Spook
Character: Sheriff West
Released: August 30, 1924
Type: Movie
An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it.
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Unguarded Women
Title: Unguarded Women
Character: George Castle
Released: June 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Unguarded Women is a lost 1924 silent film drama. In a battle during the World War, Douglas Albright has a moment of cowardice which causes the death of his friend, Captain Banning. When Albright comes back from the war, his fiancée, Helen Castle and her father, George, can see that something is bothering him. So Castle sends him to take care of business in China -- and to pull himself together. While in China, Albright runs across Bannings' widow, Breta, who has buried her sorrows behind a mask of revelry and fast living. Because he feels responsible for what she has become, Albright attempts to regenerate her and proposes marriage.
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Man Wanted
Title: Man Wanted
Character: James Westmore
Released: October 13, 1922
Type: Movie
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Missing Millions
Title: Missing Millions
Character: Jim Franklin
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
A girl seeks revenge after a Wall Street broker had falsely accused her father and sent him unjustly to prison.
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The Seventh Day
Title: The Seventh Day
Character: Uncle Jim Alden
Released: February 6, 1922
Type: Movie
A group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion are forced to put into a New England fishing village for repairs. The engaged couple Reggie and Patricia are taken with the quaint town and its quainter ways, but also with two locals, Betty Alden and her brother John. Patricia begins to fall for John while her fiancé takes a seemingly unworthy liking to Betty. The new infatuations lead to disharmony.
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Orphans of the Storm
Title: Orphans of the Storm
Character: Count de Linieres
Released: December 28, 1921
Type: Movie
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
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Civilian Clothes
Title: Civilian Clothes
Character: Walter Dumont
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has been killed, she returns home to her wealthy family without mentioning her brief marriage. But Sam turns up, alive but poorly dressed, and Florence is happy to see him but appalled at his clothing.
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Marshal
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.
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Lady Rose's Daughter
Title: Lady Rose's Daughter
Character: Lady Maude's Husband
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Julie le Breton is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Rose, whose own background resembles that of her daughter. Julie is buffeted by the ill treatment of her mother's family and nearly ruined by a fortune hunter, but her own resources and goodness stand her in good stead.
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The Fear Market
Title: The Fear Market
Character: Maj. Stone
Released: January 25, 1920
Type: Movie
A woman struggles to overcome a cabal of blackmailers, but learns that the boss of the blackmailers is none other than her own father. -from IMDB
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The Firing Line
Title: The Firing Line
Character: James Wayward
Released: July 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Sheila Cardross Malcourt shares only a loveless marriage with Louis Malcourt, but is unwilling to divorce him even to marry the man she really loves, for fear of hurting her foster parents. Instead, she stifles her feelings for Garry Hamil and strives to maintain her marriage. But when tragedy ensues, she finds herself faced with a new dilemma.
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Good Gracious, Annabelle
Title: Good Gracious, Annabelle
Character: William Gosling
Released: March 30, 1919
Type: Movie
When the father of sixteen-year-old Annabelle Leigh (Billie Burke) is killed in a fight, miner John Rawson (Herbert Rawlinson) snatches her away from the scene and takes her to his cabin for the night. In the morning, she insists she was "compromised" by the situation, so he marries her. But after a spat, he tells her to leave and she goes to another city. Annabelle doesn't even know the name of the man she married; however, he strikes it rich and sends her money, which she spends on frivolous entertainment.
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Marie, Ltd.
Title: Marie, Ltd.
Character: Col. Lambert
Released: March 23, 1919
Type: Movie
When Drina Hilliard (Alice Brady) finishes college, she heads home to New York, where her mother Marie (Mrs. Gertrude Hillman) runs a millinery shop. On the way, she meets the handsome Blair Carson (Leslie Austen), but the budding love affair gets sidetracked as Drina begins working for her mother. Marie has been running a petty scam -- when a man buys a hat for his wife or sweetheart, she overcharges him and splits the difference with the woman. The Archives Du Film Du CNC holds a complete copy.
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Paid in Full
Title: Paid in Full
Character: Captain Williams
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
A bookkeeper's embezzling scheme is discovered by his wife, while his boss's romantic feelings for her complicate matters further.
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His Parisian Wife
Title: His Parisian Wife
Character: Thompson Wesley
Released: January 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A beautiful young French girl falls in love with a handsome New Englander, but when they marry and return to his family home, she finds that she does not fit in at all.
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Here Comes the Bride
Title: Here Comes the Bride
Character: Robert Sinclair
Released: January 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.
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On the Quiet
Title: On the Quiet
Character: Judge Ridgeway
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.
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In Pursuit of Polly
Title: In Pursuit of Polly
Character: Buck Marsden
Released: August 19, 1918
Type: Movie
Pretty Polly Marsden is ardently pursued by three different Romeos, but she coyly refuses to choose between them. When they insist that she give them her answer, she arranges an impromptu automobile race: whichever one of the three can overtake her speeding roadster will be the man whom she will marry.
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The Song of Songs
Title: The Song of Songs
Character: Senator Calkins
Released: February 18, 1918
Type: Movie
When composer Anselm Kardos leaves his alcoholic wife, he gives his daughter Lily an unfinished love ode entitled "The Song of Songs" and warns her to keep her artistic temperament in check.
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Mrs. Dane's Defense
Title: Mrs. Dane's Defense
Character: Sir Danile Carteret
Released: January 7, 1918
Type: Movie
An Englishwoman misbehaves in Canada, driving a traveling companion to suicide and bearing a secret child whom she whisks away. When she returns to England to receive an inheritance, her bad deeds catch up to her. The film is presumed lost.
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Bab's Burglar
Title: Bab's Burglar
Character: Mr. Archibald
Released: October 28, 1917
Type: Movie
When Bab Archibald's father gives her $1,000 with the proviso that the gift will serve as her allowance for the year, our heroine proceeds to blow the dough on a brand new car. The car is subsequently totaled when Babs runs afoul of a milk truck, and paying for the damages leaves her with a measly 16 cents. Frustrated yet undeterred, Babs takes a job as a cabbie. One of her customers leaves something behind - a blueprint for the Archibald mansion. Could this customer be nothing more than a crook? Bab is on the case!
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
Character: Hall Bentley
Released: October 16, 1917
Type: Movie
A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his Baldpate Inn, which has been closed for the winter, so he can write in complete seclusion. Things start heating up, though, when a succession of people who also have keys to the inn begin showing up.
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Bab's Diary
Title: Bab's Diary
Character: Mr. Archibald
Released: October 7, 1917
Type: Movie
Bab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary in which she describes and imaginary boyfriend named Harold Valentine. Imagine what happens when a real Harold Valentine shows up as her parents' house guest.
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Sapho
Title: Sapho
Character: Caoudal
Released: March 11, 1917
Type: Movie
The classic story of a flower girl from the slums who becomes Sapho.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Able Magwitch, alias Provis
Released: January 8, 1917
Type: Movie
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Less Than the Dust
Title: Less Than the Dust
Character: Capt. Bradshaw
Released: November 4, 1916
Type: Movie
Young Hindu woman Radha, becomes best friends with Captain Raymond Townsend during his service in India, but he soon goes back to England to tend to the estate of an uncle who has just died. Then, Ramlan, the sword maker who raised Radha, is arrested for taking part in an anti-British uprising, and before he goes to jail, he decides to tell Radha the story of her birth, her real father, Captain Brooke, died of a drug overdose, and her destitute mother then entrusted her to Ramlan. After learning about her background, Radha goes to England to claim her rightful inheritance from the estate of her late grandfather, who is also Raymond's uncle. Raymond is delighted to discover that his Hindu friend is really a white woman, and after dividing the estate with Radha, he brings the fortune back together by marrying her.
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Hulda from Holland
Title: Hulda from Holland
Character: John Walton
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
Hulda, a plucky Dutch girl, brings her three little brothers from Holland to America to live with their rich Uncle Peter. Hulda finds love with a poor artist.
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Under Cover
Title: Under Cover
Character: Dan Taylor
Released: July 20, 1916
Type: Movie
A woman returning from a trip to Paris must help U.S. customs inspectors find a valuable necklace suspected to be in the possession of a fellow traveler. The film is presumed lost.
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The Evil Thereof
Title: The Evil Thereof
Character: The Broker
Released: June 5, 1916
Type: Movie
A manicurist gives up the honest love of a barberr to become the mistress of a wealthy broker. But she comes to hate the man who has caused her downfall, and her loathing peaks during a dinner party he is holding. Other guests include three other men and their mistresses. Each young lady gets a $100 bill as a party favor, tucked away in one of the meal's several courses. The broker proudly brags about how each bill was obtained by giving the screws to the lower classes.
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The Moment Before
Title: The Moment Before
Character: the elder Duke of Maldon
Released: April 27, 1916
Type: Movie
The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following day, the duke falls off his horse and is mortally injured. Mourning the loss of her great love, the duchess collapses in church, and in the “moment before death” she reviews her own life. “It was in her youth that she had fractured practically all the Biblical commandments,” says the intertitle. In fact, when she was young, Madge the duchess was a seductive gypsy, engaged to the fiery gypsy John, but fascinated by Harold, the idle aristocratic son of the Maldons, who was prone to the family vice of excessive drinking. In love with the gypsy, Harold brings her home as a servant, scandalizing his older brother. A fight between the brothers and John’s jealousy lead to a fatal accident that forces both Harold and the gypsy couple to flee to Australia.
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The Innocent Lie
Title: The Innocent Lie
Character: Mr. Winters
Released: April 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Nora O'Brien leaves Ireland to visit her brother in America. On the trip she suffers a concussion, and soon is mistaken for another Irish girl named Nora who is on her way to visit her aunt in the US, Mrs. Watson, who has not seen her niece in many years. Nora, still somewhat dazed from her injury, is taken to the Watsons' home, and when Mrs. Watson's son Jack returns from college, he falls in love with her but cannot express it to her because he believes she is his cousin. Complications ensue.
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Diplomacy
Title: Diplomacy
Character: Henri Beauclerc
Released: February 27, 1916
Type: Movie
The story takes place in Monte Carlo, where the impoverished Julian proposes marriage to the wealthy Dora, only to be turned down by the girl's mercenary mother. Several years later, Julian manages not only to obtain a huge fortune, but also a prominent position in the British diplomatic service. Now a suitable husband for Dora, Julian marries the girl. Alas, their happiness is short-lived.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Josiah Whitcomb
Released: December 16, 1915
Type: Movie
When Josiah Whitcomb's son gets into trouble with bad companions in New York City, Josiah leaves the farm and goes into the city to find the boy. There he finds that his country ways are not at all respected in the sophisticated city.
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The Eternal City
Title: The Eternal City
Character: Baron Bonelli
Released: April 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Leone, a Papal guard, is devastated when his wife drowns herself after mistakenly thinking that he had abandoned her. He turns over his son David to be brought up by nuns, then enters a monastery. David is brought to London and is raised to be a beggar and thief until he is rescued by Dr. Roselli, an Italian political refugee, who raises David with his daughter Donna Roma. Years later David gets heavily involved in Italian politics and incurs the enmity of the corrupt Italian Prime Minister, which leads him to discover the hidden secrets of his family's past--and present.