Kingsley Benedict

Kingsley Benedict

Born: November 14, 1878
Died: November 27, 1951
in Buffalo, New York, USA

Movies for Kingsley Benedict...

Terry of the 'Times'
Title: Terry of the 'Times'
Released: August 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Terry Macy (Reed Howes), the son of a newspaper's founder, is assigned to investigate a mysterious warning signed '30' (newspaper term for 'The End)that has been sent to a local politician. Terry is captured at a clandestine meeting of the 'Mystic Medicants", an outlaw band, where he overhears the plans of a plot to kill his uncle, Robert Macy, publisher of the newspaper. Terry must also, according to his father's will, get married within a short period of time is he is to inherit the newspaper.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: 'Shorty'
Released: June 12, 1927
Type: Movie
When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield… When he meets Ethel, Mr. Smithfield's beautiful daughter, Tom falls in love with her at first sight…
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Arizona Sweepstakes
Title: Arizona Sweepstakes
Character: Cowhand
Released: January 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Arizona cowboy Coot Cadigan travels to San Francisco and runs into Stuffy McGee, a small-time crook who stages phony "fights" to amuse the tourists. During one of those frights a man is killed and Coot gets blamed for it. Stuffy hides him out, but when he gets arrested Coot hightails it back to Arizona. with Stuffy's three children. To earn some money, he enters the Arizona Sweepstakes, a horse race with a large purse and one on which Col. Savery--the father of the girl Coot loves--depends on to save his ranch.
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White Thunder
Title: White Thunder
Character: Rev. Norris
Released: May 23, 1925
Type: Movie
The son of a sheriff is caught in the eternal battle between sheepmen and cattle ranchers.
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Riders of the Plains
Title: Riders of the Plains
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
B-Western regulars Jack Perrin and Marilyn Mills starred in this obscure, low-budget Western serial released in 15 chapters.
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The Kentucky Derby
Title: The Kentucky Derby
Character: Joe
Released: December 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon's Kentucky mansion, hoping to marry Helen to the colonel's son, Donald. The colonel agrees, but Donald balks at the suggestion, then reveals his secret marriage to Alice Brown. The colonel turns them out, and Ralph conspires with Bob Thurston to frame Donald for theft of Colonel Gordon's wager money and to shanghai him. After 3 years Donald discovers the source of his misfortune, returns, finds his wife, hears of a plot against his father's best racehorse, wrings a complete confession from Thurston, and saves the Derby for his repentant father.
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Gay and Devilish
Title: Gay and Devilish
Character: Second Detective
Released: May 14, 1922
Type: Movie
Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.
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The Stampede
Title: The Stampede
Character: Beauty Anders
Released: October 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Easterner Robert Wagner has been lured West by the Government's announcement of new land grants. As he prepares for the approaching land rush he make the acquaintance of Westerner Jim Henderson and his wild daughter, Tex. Tex is a true daughter of the frontier unhampered by conventions or skirts and while she finds herself smitten with Wagner, he however is hampered by his New England sensibilities and can't abide a woman that behaves as Tex does. It takes a truly grim turn of events before Tex can prove herself to this reserved New Englander.
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Who Will Marry Me?
Title: Who Will Marry Me?
Character: Richard Carr
Released: January 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Rosie Sanguinetti's parents arrange her marriage, against her will, to Antonio Mosconi, "Tony the Barber." At the wedding ceremony in her Little Italy, New York neighborhood, Rosie flees to the settlement house where she meets Jerry Van Tyne, a wealthy young man who agrees, in a drunken state, to marry her. The next day Jerry realizes the consequences of the situation.
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The Human Target
Title: The Human Target
Character: Harrison Craig
Released: August 3, 1918
Type: Movie
Harrison Craig, with the aid of a woman who has lost her husband through the sinking of a ship, uses her wiles on a member of Saxonia's royal family and obtains valuable drawings. The Prince and his lieutenant plot to demolish the block house in which Craig is a prisoner, but one of the artillery shots frees his bounds and he escapes.
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The Plow Woman
Title: The Plow Woman
Released: July 2, 1917
Type: Movie
After her mother's death, Mary not only becomes the household slave of her overbearing father, Scottish American Andy MacTavish but also becomes a mother to her little sister Ruth at their home on the Dakota plains.
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Man and Beast
Title: Man and Beast
Character: Eitel van Haagen
Released: June 25, 1917
Type: Movie
During the great drought on the South African veldt, bitterness erupts between the von Haagen and Townsend families when they quarrel over a cattle spring. Nevertheless, a romance grows between Gretel von Haagan and Ned Townsend, who, to escape their families' opposition, marry and leave for the interior.
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The Clash of Steel
Title: The Clash of Steel
Character: Yorke Norroy
Released: March 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Princess Seraphina, taking her small son, Paul, flees from Yulania to the village of Champ Fleury in Normandy, because of the debauchery of her husband, Prince Feodor. The agent of Saxonia, Count Stefan, calls to convince Feodor he should divorce his wife and marry Princess Sofia Anoria with her fifty million francs, for Saxonia needs Yulania as a buffer state in case of war. Prince Feodor consents and agrees to the conspiracy of the agent to gain reason for divorce.
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Perils of the Secret Service
Title: Perils of the Secret Service
Character: Yorke Norroy
Released: March 9, 1917
Type: Movie
A 9-part movie serial
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The Bugler of Algiers
Title: The Bugler of Algiers
Character: Anatole Picard
Released: November 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village in the early 1870s; Gabrielle's brother Anatole (Kingsley Benedict) is Pierre's best friend. The two young men are called to service by their country and go to Algiers. Anatole becomes the bugler and one day when he is commanded to sound the retreat, he sounds for the troops to charge instead. Anatole becomes a hero because of his action, but when the two men make their victorious return home, they find the Picard home ransacked and Gabrielle gone.
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Love Never Dies
Title: Love Never Dies
Character: Monsieur Lecoq
Released: October 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Love Never Dies was set in France, and convincingly so (which was not often the case in American-made films of this period). It is established in the first reel that hero Felix and heroine Cecile have been sweethearts since childhood. Later on, Fate forces Felix and Cecile to separate, but viewers could take heart in the positive sentiments expressed by the film's title.
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The Love Girl
Title: The Love Girl
Character: Betty's Sweetheart
Released: July 9, 1916
Type: Movie
A girl is hypnotized and kidnapped by the swami her aunt is devoted to.
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What Love Can Do
Title: What Love Can Do
Character: 'Brad' Hamilton
Released: June 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Widower Calvert Paige leaves his baby daughter Johnnie in New York and goes West where he becomes wealthy as a mine owner and newspaperman. Lil Magill, who came to work on his newspaper, becomes infatuated with Paige, as he is with her, and they become lovers. After several years Lil has become a successful author but Paige has tired of her. Their estrangement grows when Lil takes the side of striking miners against him.
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The Crippled Hand
Title: The Crippled Hand
Character: The Cripple
Released: May 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Diminutive heroine Ella Hall dreams that she's Cinderella, and that a wealthy gentleman of her acquaintance (played by Leonard) is her Prince Charming. All of this takes place during a musical stage production of Cinderella, a sequence distinguished by its authentic backstage atmosphere.
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Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Title: Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Character: Clarence Van Dyne
Released: September 27, 1915
Type: Movie
Impoverished Molly Hanlon is befriended by crooked gambler Lee Kirk, she marries him in a phony ceremony. While frequenting Kirk's gambling den, Molly meets Miles Rand, the dissolute son of Judge Rand, whose obvious attraction for her encourages Kirk to swindle him out of his money. Penniless, Miles accepts a loan from Molly and returns East to study law. On the day that Molly learns that her marriage is not legal, the gambling den burns down and Kirk is presumed dead. After escaping with Kirk's money, Molly goes East where she encounters Miles, now a district attorney. In spite of the objections of Judge Rand, Molly accepts Miles's proposal, but after Kirk arrives in town, she calls off the engagement. When Kirk enters her apartment through a window, Molly kills him in a panic and is arrested for murder. The still faithful Miles defends her in court, and after her acquittal, she confesses her past and reunites with her old love.
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Vagabond Love
Title: Vagabond Love
Character: Vitturo Caggoni - the Vagabond
Released: September 3, 1915
Type: Movie
Vitturo Caggoni is a gay-hearted, rollicking Italian troubadour. He meets a young woman, Marjorie Holbrook, and falls in love with her, serenades her, and courts her in the old romantic troubadour way.