Max Davidson

Max Davidson

Born: May 22, 1875
Died: September 4, 1950
in Berlin, Germany

Movies for Max Davidson...

Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Man in Library (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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Kitty Foyle
Title: Kitty Foyle
Character: Flower Man (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
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The Great Dictator
Title: The Great Dictator
Character: Jewish Man (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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No Census, No Feeling
Title: No Census, No Feeling
Character: Storekeeper (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1940
Type: Movie
The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit.
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The Mortal Storm
Title: The Mortal Storm
Character: Old Postman
Released: June 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
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The Great Commandment
Title: The Great Commandment
Character: Old Man
Released: October 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the Good Samaritan.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Tailor
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Mr. Shelman (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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Roamin' Wild
Title: Roamin' Wild
Character: Abe Wineman
Released: April 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Trouble has been reported in Placerville where Tom Barton's brother is the Marshal. Arriving Tom finds a phoney Marshal in his brother's place. Learning that Clark is behind the all the trouble and that he is after the Madison stage line, Tom joins up with Mary Madison to fight Clark while he also looks for his missing brother.
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Southern Exposure
Title: Southern Exposure
Character: Man Saluting Charley in Restaurant (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Connie Chase receives a letter from Chaseville in Chase County, Kentucky, informing her that her lawyer husband, Jimmie, is a descendant of the Blue Grass State Chases. Assuming that they are now aristocratic heirs, they take a trip to visit their wealthy relations. They soon discover that Chaseville is a back-country hick town, and that their kin are dirt-poor illiterates who ambulate in bare feet. Nevertheless, Pappy (Charley Chase) could use Jimmie to defend him in a breach of promise lawsuit. Miss Lavinia Watkins sued him for not tying the knot, after pledging to marry her. The case is resolved as the courtroom becomes a dance floor, and everyone celebrates.
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: $100 Recipient (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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The World Gone Mad
Title: The World Gone Mad
Character: Cohen the tailor
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
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The Trial of Vince Barnett
Title: The Trial of Vince Barnett
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Mr. Schwartz (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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Docks of San Francisco
Title: Docks of San Francisco
Character: Max Ranovich
Released: February 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Barbary Coast, San Francisco. The gangster moll Belle gets deeply entangled with gangsters led by her boyfriend Vance. The professional writer John Banning understands why Belle got involved with these criminals. Banning tries to help her get out of that seedy life. However, It is not easy. A lot of action and violence ensues before Belle eventually succeeds.
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Blondes Prefer Bonds
Title: Blondes Prefer Bonds
Character: Wife's Father
Released: May 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Louise Fazdenda decides to get a make-over to rekindle the romance in her marriage. Somehow the rejuvenation process takes them back to the time of their courtship...the big hats and big bustles. Neither does much to rekindle the husband's dying flame but does attract the attention of a couple of other men.
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The Itching Hour
Title: The Itching Hour
Character: Max Davidson
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Comedy spoof of THE CAT AND THE CANARY. A female athlete and her entourage take refuge on a stormy night in a strange hotel that seems to be haunted.
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Boarding House Blues
Title: Boarding House Blues
Character: Max
Released: October 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.
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The Shrimp
Title: The Shrimp
Character: Professor Schoenheimer (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
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Great Gobs!
Title: Great Gobs!
Character: The Saloon Keeper
Released: December 28, 1929
Type: Movie
Charley and Edgar on shore leave in Mexico, fight for the affection of a pretty senorita.
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Moan & Groan, Inc.
Title: Moan & Groan, Inc.
Character: The Lunatic (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1929
Type: Movie
The gang goes digging for treasure in an old abandoned house against Kennedy the Cop's wishes.
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So This Is College
Title: So This Is College
Character: Moe
Released: November 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
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Hurdy Gurdy
Title: Hurdy Gurdy
Character: Papa Ginsberg
Released: May 10, 1929
Type: Movie
A heat wave sends the residents of a New York City tenement to their fire escapes for whatever breeze is stirring. The tenants are a cross section of melting-pot culture: Irish, Jewish, German, and Italian dialetcs create a rich aural mix on the sound track. As small talk is exchanged among the residents of different floors, an off-camera hurdy-gurdy supplies an often ironic counter-point to the action
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Going Ga-Ga
Title: Going Ga-Ga
Character: Detective Davidson
Released: January 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again. This film survives only in very fragmentary form.
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Feed 'em and Weep
Title: Feed 'em and Weep
Released: December 8, 1928
Type: Movie
Anita and Marion take a temporary job as waitresses in Max's diner, next to a train station. When the train stops off, pandemonium erupts when the passengers fill the diner and all want meals immediately. This film only survived in parts.
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The Boy Friend
Title: The Boy Friend
Character: Papa Davidson
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
The pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance her. Due to the comical nature of the two kids meeting, the father suspects the student to be of ill repute and he and his wife conspire to scare him away by acting crazy.
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All Parts
Title: All Parts
Released: October 27, 1928
Type: Movie
All Parts is a silent comedy short
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Came the Dawn
Title: Came the Dawn
Character: Papa Gimplewort
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Papa, Mama, Daughter and Son Gimplewort move into their new house. Two movers are talking to each other about the murder of a saxophone player that took place in the house. They say his ghost still roams the house. Night comes and every noise and creak in the house scares the papa, mama and son (the daughter is out on a date). The Mover gives the daughter a parrot saying "It's a religious parrot – I bought it from a sailor". At any rate, the parrot gets into the act by yelling scaring Papa and Son who have come down looking for the source of the noise. Later Daughter and Remover return from a costume party and sneak into the house. The young man is dressed in a skeleton outfit and the fun continues. There has been film reconstruction in a number of places, particularly the last third of the film. In many cases there is a photograph depicting the scene being described.
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Dumb Daddies
Title: Dumb Daddies
Character: The Father
Released: February 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Max mistakes his son's acting for reality. When the play calls for the son to commit a murder (on a mannequin), Max winds up trying to hide the body from the police.
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Pass the Gravy
Title: Pass the Gravy
Character: Father
Released: January 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. He gives his young son, Ignatz, two dollars to buy a chicken but the boy pockets the money and kills Schultz' first place rooster instead. Once seated at the table all but Schultz discover what they are eating and desperately try to hide the bad news from Schultz who is sure to kill Davidson if he knows the truth.
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Flaming Fathers
Title: Flaming Fathers
Character: Papa Gimplewart
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Papa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.
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Love 'em and Feed 'em
Title: Love 'em and Feed 'em
Character: 'Cherokee' Cohen
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A pair of gold prospectors (Max Davidson, Oliver Hardy) try to make their way in the big city. *Only reconstructed fragments exists.
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My Best Girl
Title: My Best Girl
Character: Night Court Spectator (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.
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Should Second Husbands Come First?
Title: Should Second Husbands Come First?
Character: Mr. Ethan Wattles
Released: October 23, 1927
Type: Movie
A woman's two sons pretend to be insane in order to de-rail their mother's plans to remarry.
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Call of the Cuckoo
Title: Call of the Cuckoo
Character: Papa Gimplewart
Released: October 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
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Life in Hollywood No. 3
Title: Life in Hollywood No. 3
Character: Self
Released: August 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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Don't Tell Everything
Title: Don't Tell Everything
Character: Papa Ginsberg
Released: July 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Max and his son Asher are invited to a party, where Max meets a rich widow, but Asher keeps annoying all of the guests, so Max refuses to speak to him. 10 days later he has married the widow, but hasn't told her about Asher. Asher doesn't like the situation either, and enters the home disguised as the new maid, that leeds to a growing suspicion of his step mother, who has her own little secret.
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Jewish Prudence
Title: Jewish Prudence
Character: Papa Gimplewart
Released: May 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.
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Why Girls Say No
Title: Why Girls Say No
Character: Papa Whisselberg
Released: February 21, 1927
Type: Movie
A short comedy by Leo McCarey about a Jewish father who is worried about his daughter.
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Anything Once!
Title: Anything Once!
Character: Granville
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
ANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and dreaming of a better life. We're told that she's taken a lot of bumps in life and doesn't know where the next bump is coming from, which sounds uncomfortably close to the leading lady's real-life situation. Her boss is Jimmy Finlayson, but instead of playing the expected sourpuss Finn is quite benign here, and doesn't even punish Mabel when she accidentally sets his toupee on fire.
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Elias Butterman
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
During World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge in a small hotel, where he is hidden by the establishment's chambermaid. The two fall in love, but a Russian general makes the hotel his headquarters and sets his sights on the maid. In addition, the Austrian must find out the identity of a spy who is feeding the Russians military information that could lead to the destruction of the Austrian army.
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Kitty from Killarney
Title: Kitty from Killarney
Character: Papa Levy
Released: December 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Kitty from Killarney is a 1926 comedy short.
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Sunshine of Paradise Alley
Title: Sunshine of Paradise Alley
Character: Solomon Levy
Released: December 15, 1926
Type: Movie
A wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who lives there begins to persuade him otherwise.
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Raggedy Rose
Title: Raggedy Rose
Character: Moe Ginsberg
Released: November 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.
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Get 'Em Young
Title: Get 'Em Young
Character: Isaac Goldberg, a lawyer
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars.
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Into Her Kingdom
Title: Into Her Kingdom
Character: Shoestring Salesman
Released: August 8, 1926
Type: Movie
In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow the royal family. The entire royal family is condemned to death when fighting ceases.
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Long Fliv the King
Title: Long Fliv the King
Character: Warfield
Released: June 13, 1926
Type: Movie
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man--but the man is pardoned.
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Don Key (Son of Burro)
Title: Don Key (Son of Burro)
Character: Mr. Browning - Movie Producer
Released: May 23, 1926
Type: Movie
The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
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The Johnstown Flood
Title: The Johnstown Flood
Character: David Mandel
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.
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Old Clothes
Title: Old Clothes
Character: Max Ginsburg
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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The Rag Man
Title: The Rag Man
Character: Max Ginsberg
Released: February 16, 1925
Type: Movie
Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York freely. He meets Max Ginsberg, an old Jewish junk dealer with rheumatism, and the two strike a partnership and a close friendship.
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Three Women
Title: Three Women
Character: The Pawnbroker
Released: August 18, 1924
Type: Movie
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
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Fools Highway
Title: Fools Highway
Character: Old Levi
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
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The Darling of New York
Title: The Darling of New York
Character: Solomon Levinsky
Released: December 3, 1923
Type: Movie
Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their stolen jewels in her ragdoll. In New York, Big Mike, finding Santussa a nuisance, dumps her and the doll in a trash can, where a newsboy finds her. After several adventures, Santussa finds her grandfather, the jewels are handed over to customs officials, and the gang of crooks is reformed.
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Plumb Crazy
Title: Plumb Crazy
Released: June 2, 1923
Type: Movie
Bobby Vernon comedy produced by Al Christie.
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Scars of Jealousy
Title: Scars of Jealousy
Character: French peasant
Released: March 5, 1923
Type: Movie
Scars of Jealousy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lloyd Hughes and Frank Keenan. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and distributed through Associated First National, later First National.
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The Ghost Patrol
Title: The Ghost Patrol
Character: Raspushkin
Released: January 21, 1923
Type: Movie
With his understanding manner policeman Donald Dorgan wins respect on his tough beat in "Little Hell." He tries to help Terry Rafferty "go straight" so that he may receive Rudolph Kugler's permission to marry Effie, but Terry gets into a fight and is sentenced to prison.
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Remembrance
Title: Remembrance
Character: Georges Cartier
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a number of department stores and his wife and children are well provided for. However, his family is completely ungrateful and takes him -- and his money -- for granted. Grout's attempts to keep them all happy are driving him to bankruptcy and he eventually becomes seriously ill. Eventually his wife and kids come to realize how badly they've treated Pops.....
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Second Hand Rose
Title: Second Hand Rose
Character: Abe Rosenstein
Released: May 8, 1922
Type: Movie
The adopted Irish daughter of the Rosensteins, Second Avenue pawnshop owners, Rose is much sought after by Tim McCarthy, a wealthy Irish contractor many years her senior. Meanwhile, Nat, her adopted brother, is accused of stealing from his firm and is arrested and put in jail; Rosenstein, heartbroken, becomes seriously ill.
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The Right That Failed
Title: The Right That Failed
Released: February 20, 1922
Type: Movie
The Right That Failed
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No Woman Knows
Title: No Woman Knows
Character: Ferdinand Brandeis
Released: September 19, 1921
Type: Movie
In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two children, Fanny and Theodore, run a modest dry goods store.
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The Hoodlum
Title: The Hoodlum
Character: Abram Isaacs
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.
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The Hun Within
Title: The Hun Within
Character: Max
Released: September 8, 1918
Type: Movie
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and America. The son becomes involved with German agents plotting against U.S., and the father must decide between his son and his adopted homeland.
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A Daughter of the Poor
Title: A Daughter of the Poor
Character: Joe Eastman
Released: March 17, 1917
Type: Movie
A young girl, Rose Eastmen lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house. Lacking education, both Rose and her Uncle are susceptible to the socialist ideas of writer Rudolph Creig. One day Rose encounters Jack Steven's the wealthy son of the publishing house, working on his car. She believes he is a common laborer, and begins seeing him. Through her exposure to Jack, Rose begins to realize the rich are not such an abominable people. Rudolph has also reached this conclusion after learning Steven's has published his book. Now with a hefty royalty check and success, Rudolph is able to marry Rose.
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The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
Title: The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
Character: Shorty Olson
Released: December 23, 1916
Type: Movie
"Waffles," the waitress at "Coffee Dan's" hash-house, is selected by Bert Gallagher and Clara Johnstone, a pair of crooks, to be represented as a missing heiress whose story they have read about in the papers. "Waffles" herself believes the story, as she was orphaned early and remembers little of her childhood, and by adroit coaching is able to convince the estate's none too bright lawyers of the validity of her claim. With this unlimited money, poor little "Waffles" nevertheless has only three desires: to buy the little restaurant for her old benefactor, Shorty Olson, to publish the music written by her lover, Carl Miller, a young, eccentric, absent-minded musical genius, and to adopt the baby that a Mrs. O'Shaughnessy is too poor to care for.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Kindly Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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The Two O'Clock Train
Title: The Two O'Clock Train
Released: May 28, 1916
Type: Movie
short subject comedy
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Sunshine Dad
Title: Sunshine Dad
Character: Mystic Seer
Released: January 1, 1916
Type: Movie
The theft of a sacred diamond band from a Hindoo shrine starts the action.
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Bill Joins the W.W.W.'s
Title: Bill Joins the W.W.W.'s
Character: Police Chief
Released: October 24, 1914
Type: Movie