Allan Forrest

Allan Forrest

Born: September 1, 1885
Died: July 25, 1941
in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA

Movies for Allan Forrest...

Doctor's Orders
Title: Doctor's Orders
Released: June 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy
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The Circus Show-Up
Title: The Circus Show-Up
Character: The Hypnotist
Released: February 17, 1932
Type: Movie
The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.
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Dangerous Nan McGrew
Title: Dangerous Nan McGrew
Character: Godfrey Crofton
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.
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Riding for Fame
Title: Riding for Fame
Character: Donald Morgan
Released: August 19, 1929
Type: Movie
A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from his boss. He has to clear his name and find the real thieves.
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The Winged Horseman
Title: The Winged Horseman
Character: Curly Davis
Released: May 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Skyball Smith is a Texas Ranger, assigned to investigate a series of ranch bombings.
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Sally of the Scandals
Title: Sally of the Scandals
Character: Steve Sinclair
Released: July 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Sally of the Scandals is a 1928 American silent crime drama film produced and released by Film Booking Offices of America. It was directed by Lynn Shores and starred Bessie Love.
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The Wild West Show
Title: The Wild West Show
Character: Alexander
Released: May 20, 1928
Type: Movie
"Rodeo" Bill is a hard-nosed, fun-loving cowboy who likes a lot of action and will go out of his way to create some if things are going too dull to suit him. He attends a circus/wild west show and stirs up some trouble with both the locals and the troupers but, after seeing Ruth Henson, the daughter of the show's operator/owner, he decides to join up and travel with the circus. He also manges to take care of some trouble not of his doing.
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The Desert Bride
Title: The Desert Bride
Character: Capt. Maurice de Florimont
Released: March 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.
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Ankles Preferred
Title: Ankles Preferred
Character: Hornsbee
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they announce that Nora may be given a trip abroad if she persuades their financer to lend the partners additional funds. The financer, Hornsbee, becomes presumptuous, leading to an encounter between him and Barney, Nora's young suitor; and she is ultimately glad to accept Barney's modest attentions.
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Summer Bachelors
Title: Summer Bachelors
Character: Tony Landor
Released: December 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
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The Phantom Bullet
Title: The Phantom Bullet
Character: Don Barton
Released: May 9, 1926
Type: Movie
When Click's father is killed by a phantom bullet, he returns home to find the killer. To put the killer off guard he poses as a dude with a camera. Unknown to Click, the camera will reveal the killer's identity.
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The Prince of Pilsen
Title: The Prince of Pilsen
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Frederick, Prince of Pilsen, rebelling against his coming marriage with Princess Bertha of Thorwald, meets Hans Wagner, a brewer, and his daughter Nellie. The brewer, mistaking the prince for the son of a friend, asks him to join in a banquet. Hans becomes intoxicated, dresses up in a uniform, and is then mistaken by a coachman for the prince and brought to the palace
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Two Can Play
Title: Two Can Play
Character: James Radney
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Dorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her fiance James Radley (Forrest), but her father disproves of him. He hires Robert McWorth (MacDonald), a former pilot, to discredit Radley by exposing indescretions in either his past or present contuct. McWorth leaves some valuable pearls for Radley to steal, but this plan fails, so he arranges for himself, Radley and Dorothy to become stranded on a desert island. Ultimately, Radley proves himself as the better man. After surviving both the elements and McWorth's scheming, he and Dorothy are married.
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Two Can Play
Title: Two Can Play
Character: James Radley
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Dorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her fiance James Radley (Forrest), but her father disproves of him. He hires Robert McWorth (MacDonald), a former pilot, to discredit Radley by exposing indescretions in either his past or present contuct. McWorth leaves some valuable pearls for Radley to steal, but this plan fails, so he arranges for himself, Radley and Dorothy to become stranded on a desert island. Ultimately, Radley proves himself as the better man. After surviving both the elements and McWorth's scheming, he and Dorothy are married.
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Fifth Avenue
Title: Fifth Avenue
Character: Neil Heffner
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find work as a fashion designer, staying with Mrs. Kemp, a woman she meets on the northbound train. In Mrs. Kemp's house, Barbara encounters Peter Heffner, a wealthy stockbroker, and discovers from him that she has taken up residence in a whorehouse. There is a police raid, but Barbara escapes arrest and returns home. Heffner's son, Neil, goes south to inspect some family property and there meets Barbara, with whom he falls in love. They decide to be married, and she accompanies him to New York, where she meets the elder Heffner for a second time. He denounces her as a whore, but Barbara goes to Mrs. Kemp, who explains the misunderstanding to everyone's satisfaction.
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Old Clothes
Title: Old Clothes
Character: Nathan Burke
Released: November 9, 1925
Type: Movie
Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love with him, but his mother feels she is beneath Nathan. Nathan faces disaster unless he can corner a particular stock, with which Timothy and Max's room happens to be entirely papered.
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Rose of the World
Title: Rose of the World
Character: Jack Talbot
Released: November 9, 1925
Type: Movie
In India, Rosamond English learns that her husband Capt. Harry English has been killed in battle. After a time, she marries Sir Arthur Gerardine but is unable to forget her first husband, and gradually her love for him is rekindled, especially when she contrasts him to the pompous and elderly Sir Arthur.
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The Dressmaker from Paris
Title: The Dressmaker from Paris
Character: Billy Brent
Released: March 30, 1925
Type: Movie
An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to put on a fashion show and find her long lost lover.
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The Great Divide
Title: The Great Divide
Character: Winthrop Newbury
Released: February 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation, she appeals to Stephen Ghent, the least degraded of the desperadoes, promising herself to him if he saves her from the others. Ghent buys off Shorty with a chain of gold nuggets and knocks Dutch senseless. Ghent then sends Dutch off with Shorty and takes Ruth to the next town, where he forces her to marry him. During the 3-day ride across the desert to Ghent's gold mine, the idealistic Ruth learns that he is a man of rough passions.
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Pampered Youth
Title: Pampered Youth
Character: Eugene Morgan
Released: February 1, 1925
Type: Movie
An silent adaptation of Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons."
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: Lord Julian Wade
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
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The Siren Of Seville
Title: The Siren Of Seville
Character: Gallito
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Young Gallito (Allan Forrest) wants very badly to become a matador. His sweetheart, Dolores (Priscilla Dean), does everything she can to help him and she wheedles Pedro, a renowned bullfighter (Matthew Betz), into helping him, too. Gallito becomes a success, but he is vamped by Ardita (Claire Delorez) after Pedro is killed in the ring.
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Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Title: Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Character: Sir John Manners
Released: May 24, 1924
Type: Movie
In the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George signs a contract, promising that the marriage will take place on Dorothy's 18th birthday, or else he will have to pay a large penalty to Rutland. But when the two children have grown older, rumors of John's wild behavior in France provoke Sir George to call off the engagement, and to pledge his daughter instead to her cousin Malcolm. Rutland now claims the forfeit from Sir George, and meanwhile, John has befriended Mary Stuart, the sworn enemy of Elizabeth, who is now Queen of England.
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Long Live the King
Title: Long Live the King
Character: Nikky
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
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Her Fatal Millions
Title: Her Fatal Millions
Released: April 9, 1923
Type: Movie
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Crinoline and Romance
Title: Crinoline and Romance
Character: Augustus Biddle
Released: February 5, 1923
Type: Movie
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The New Teacher
Title: The New Teacher
Released: August 20, 1922
Type: Movie
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Seeing's Believing
Title: Seeing's Believing
Released: May 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Heart Specialist
Title: The Heart Specialist
Character: Bob Stratton
Released: April 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Because he believes that romance is dead, the city editor wants to can the "advice to the lovelorn" column. Rosalie Beckwith, the column's author, naturally disagrees with him. The editor suggests that she prove him wrong by seeing if she can find romance within a 40-mile radius of the city.
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Tillie
Title: Tillie
Character: Jack Fairchild
Released: January 30, 1922
Type: Movie
Tillie Getz, the eldest daughter of Jacob Getz, a brutal, driving father, lives in a Pennsylvania Mennonite village. Her Mennonite aunt leaves a will by the terms of which Tillie will inherit a small fortune if she has joined the Mennonite church by age eighteen. A plot is hatched by the lawyer who drew up the will and an attempt is made to force Tillie into a marriage with Absalom Puntz, an undesirable young man, sharing her fortune being its end.
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The Hole in the Wall
Title: The Hole in the Wall
Character: Gordon Grant
Released: December 12, 1921
Type: Movie
When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
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Cheated Love
Title: Cheated Love
Character: David Dahlman
Released: May 16, 1921
Type: Movie
Sonya Schnoema, a Jewish girl, comes to the United States as an immigrant and works in her father's ghetto grocery store, where she gains the affections of a young settlement worker, David Dahlman. But she loves Mischa, a young doctor who soon arrives from Odessa, and to aid him financially, she distinguishes herself in the local Yiddish theater.
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Li Ting Lang
Title: Li Ting Lang
Character: Rob Murray
Released: July 24, 1920
Type: Movie
In a day and age when interracial marriages were considered taboo, film star Sessue Hayakawa rarely got the girl in his pictures. The issue of prejudice is broached here -- and Hayakawa still doesn't get the girl, who in this case is society girl Marion Halstead (Doris Pawn).
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The Great Air Robbery
Title: The Great Air Robbery
Character: Wallie Mason
Released: December 28, 1919
Type: Movie
A daredevil flyer delivers the night mail despite threats from weather and robbers.
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The Amazing Impostor
Title: The Amazing Impostor
Character: Kent Standish
Released: February 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Rich young Joan Hope is ashamed of how her father made his money--as a chewing gum magnate. While taking a train trip, she meets the Countess of Crex, a member of the Russian nobility--who is, in reality, a jewel thief.
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The Eyes of Julia Deep
Title: The Eyes of Julia Deep
Character: Terry Hartridge
Released: August 1, 1918
Type: Movie
The Eyes of Julia Deep is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mary Miles Minter, directed by Lloyd Ingraham. The film is based on the short story by the same name, written by Kate L. McLaurin. It is one of the few films starring Minter which are known to have survived.
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The Ghost of Rosy Taylor
Title: The Ghost of Rosy Taylor
Character: Jacques Le Clerc
Released: July 8, 1918
Type: Movie
George Periolat plays a dual role in this film, initially as Joseph Sayles a sickly old man who has taken his daughter, Rhoda (played by Mary Miles Minter), overseas after a quarrel with his family. She yearns to return home, but he has disowned his past. After his death, Rhoda ventures to America on her own. She nearly becomes destitute for a lack of money but happens upon some questionable fortune as she takes on the chores of Rosy Taylor after inadvertently finding an envelope with money in it. Rosy had been hired as a housekeeper (thus the money), but has passed away before actually showing up for employment.
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Social Briars
Title: Social Briars
Character: Jack Andrews
Released: May 13, 1918
Type: Movie
Iris Lee is reared in the small town of Dalton by her deceased mother's friend, Martha Kane, and when she reaches adulthood, Martha's son Jim falls in love with her. When Iris fails to return his affections, Mrs. Kane treats her so coldly that Iris decides to leave the stuffy little village for the metropolis. On her journey, she accepts a ride with Jack Andrews, but after he attempts to kiss her, she leaps from the car and walks the rest of the way. While singing in the choir of a large metropolitan church, she is discovered by Jack's wealthy father Peter, who recommends her as a soloist. Light opera star Helen Manning, who has helped Iris to cultivate her voice, quarrels with her theatrical manager, and Iris is offered her position.
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Powers That Prey
Title: Powers That Prey
Character: Frank Summers
Released: March 4, 1918
Type: Movie
Publisher Burton exposes politician Jarvis as a crook and is run out of town. He asks his daughter Sylvia to turn the newspaper over to his editor Frank. Instead, Sylvia fires Frank and takes the publisher’s duties herself.
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Beauty and the Rogue
Title: Beauty and the Rogue
Character: Richard Van Stone
Released: January 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Humanitarian Roberta induces her father to hire former convict, Bill, as his gardener. When she leaves on vacation, Bill steals her jewelry and eventually sells a brooch to her boyfriend, Richard, who unknowingly gives it to her as a present.
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The Mate of the Sally Ann
Title: The Mate of the Sally Ann
Character: Hugh Schuyler
Released: November 26, 1917
Type: Movie
A crusty old sea captain, who hates society, lives in the hulk of his ship with his granddaughter whom he prevents from meeting people.
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Peggy Leads the Way
Title: Peggy Leads the Way
Released: October 28, 1917
Type: Movie
A small-town girl returns home from schooling in the East to find that her father's small store and indeed the whole town are in danger of being eliminated by a ruthless land developer. The developer has a son who falls for the young girl, and together they try to come up with a plan to save her father's store and the town.
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Heritage
Title: Heritage
Character: Guy Melton
Released: July 29, 1915
Type: Movie
Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs. McMahon, after her mother, a woman of refinement, dies. At ten, the ill-nourished girl, who has grown up watching her drunken foster father fight with her overworked foster mother, goes to work in a factory after Mr. McMahon loses his job. During the next eight years, Kate's stepbrother, Big Bill McMahon, becomes her friend, sweetheart and protector.
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Captivating Mary Carstairs
Title: Captivating Mary Carstairs
Released: July 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A 1915 film directed by Bruce Mitchell.
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The Silent Command
Title: The Silent Command
Character: Ella's Sweetheart - a Lawyer (as Alan Forrest)
Released: June 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Unable to pay for the operation that cured his daughter, a man promises to surrender her to the doctor on her eighteenth birthday. Knowing that the physician wishes to make her the subject of his experiments with hypnotism, the distressed father ultimately reneges on his promise, whereupon the doctor attempts to hypnotize the girl from afar.
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The Master Key
Title: The Master Key
Character: George Crane (as Alan Forrest)
Released: November 16, 1914
Type: Movie
A movie serial from 1914
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The Little Sister
Title: The Little Sister
Character: The Crook
Released: September 24, 1914
Type: Movie
The brother, a ne'er-do-well, is strongly influenced by the crook, who in turn has designs on Little Sister who works in a factory.
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Discord and Harmony
Title: Discord and Harmony
Character: The Artist
Released: March 16, 1914
Type: Movie
Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing at the grand opera house the members of the colony turn out en masse. Too poor for orchestra seats, they gather in the gallery around the old composer. The old composer is happy almost to tears, and when the last note has died away there is a cry for the composer. Felix attempts to utter a few words of thanks, but is smothered with flowers. At his studio his friends have prepared for his welcome, and it is upon his arrival there that be feels the happiness which comes of success. However, at the other end of the hall another different drama is being enacted. A girl sits beside her stricken mother, and as the merriment in the studio reaches its height, the soul of the mother departs from the body.
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When Joe Went West
Title: When Joe Went West
Character: Joe
Released: December 1, 1913
Type: Movie