Charles Perley

Charles Perley

Movies for Charles Perley...

Playing the Game
Title: Playing the Game
Character: Hickey Trent
Released: April 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue.
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The Girl and the Crisis
Title: The Girl and the Crisis
Character: Oliver Barnitz
Released: February 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Lieut. Governor Oliver Barnitz accedes to the governorship when his predecessor, failing to call out the militia during a riot at the Wilmot plant, is shot and killed by terrorist Oliver Poole. Faced with the dilemma of whether or not to commute the assassin's death sentence, Barnitz falls into a troubled sleep and dreams of being forced to cast judgment on his father in a similar position.
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The Devil's Pay Day
Title: The Devil's Pay Day
Character: James Hanley
Released: January 29, 1917
Type: Movie
When Gregory Van Houten went to the country to recuperate, he intended to remain only a few weeks and then return to plunge into the swirl of city gaieties. But when Van Houten returned he brought with him a country-girl wife and set upon himself the seal of new duties and obligations.
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The Honeymoon Surprise
Title: The Honeymoon Surprise
Character: Mr. Hardman
Released: January 23, 1917
Type: Movie
Fred Brandon and Eileen Northcote are the two heirs of a million-dollar fortune, on the condition that they are united in marriage within twenty-four hours. Both are indignant over the will.
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The Man Who Took a Chance
Title: The Man Who Took a Chance
Character: The Duke of Cannister
Released: January 19, 1917
Type: Movie
Monty Gray returns to the US after spending 10 years building railroads in China. As he enters a hotel he runs into an old friend from college whom he hasn't seen in years, and they begin catching up on old times. Monty notices a picture of a young woman that his friend is carrying and, bowled over by her beauty, he instantly falls for her.
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Idle Wives
Title: Idle Wives
Character: Tough Burns
Released: September 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.
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More Than Friends
Title: More Than Friends
Character: The Secret Service Man
Released: July 30, 1915
Type: Movie
A Biograph short drama directed by George Reehm.
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The Wife
Title: The Wife
Character: Senator Rutherford
Released: May 28, 1914
Type: Movie
A 1914 film drama
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A Fair Rebel
Title: A Fair Rebel
Character: Ezra Mason
Released: May 21, 1914
Type: Movie
Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares to leave for his home in Virginia, and Mason and he exchange photographs before parting. General Abner Montieth, Steve's father, and his sister Clairette are overjoyed and surprised when Steve arrives. Aunt Margie and her adopted daughter, Joan Fitzhugh, who is very fond of Steve, join the family and give Steve a warm welcome. One year later the rumble of war is heard. Steve, now a major, and his father, General, leave at the head of separate companies with the Confederate troops.
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Beverly of Graustark
Title: Beverly of Graustark
Character: Prince Dantan
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Beverly Calhoun is invited by her friend, Princess Yestive of Graustark, to pay her a visit. On her journey, she is waylaid by bandits, and becomes entangled in the political problems of a neighboring country, whose ruler Prince Dantan, has been ousted by his evil half-brother Gabriel. Dantan, disguised as a simple goat hunter, has been driven into hiding in the mountains with his followers. Beverly is rescued by his band of rebels, but is mistaken for Princess Yestive. Beverly and Dantan fall in love, but their romance is complicated, not only by the hostilities between the two countries, but also because neither of them knows the true identity of the other.
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The Scarlet Letter
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: Arthur Dimmesdale
Released: May 17, 1913
Type: Movie
Poor Hester Prynne finds herself most unwelcome in England.
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Under Two Flags
Title: Under Two Flags
Character: Berkeley Cecil - Bertie's Brother
Released: July 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Ouida's novel made into a 1912 film -- released within days of another 2-reeler based on the same story.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Title: Edgar Allan Poe
Released: February 8, 1909
Type: Movie
As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.