Edwin B. Tilton

Edwin B. Tilton

Born: September 15, 1859
Died: January 16, 1926
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Edwin B. Tilton...

Taming the West
Title: Taming the West
Character: John P. Carleton (as Edwin Booth Tilton)
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
John Carleton is living a carefree jazz lifestyle, much to the annoyance of his father. When he can take it no longer, Carleton senior sends John to his ranch in the West, hoping that the experience will make a man of him. John's ability to ride a bucking bronco wins the friendship of the cowhands, but trouble's a-brewin' when he falls in love with Beryl King.
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Racing for Life
Title: Racing for Life
Character: David Danton
Released: August 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Jack Grant agrees to drive in the big race in order to save his brother Carl from being charged with embezzlement.
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The Midnight Express
Title: The Midnight Express
Character: James Travers (as Edwin Booth Tilton)
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard as a laborer. An escaped convict, Silent Bill Brachley, steals Jack's car, and the chase leads to a meeting between Jack, the engineer of the Midnight Express, and the engineer's pretty daughter, Mary. As he is led back to jail, Brachley swears revenge.
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Thundergate
Title: Thundergate
Character: James Sanderson (as Edwin Booth Tilton)
Released: October 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Robert Wells is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother. Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams build bridges in China. Williams is in league with Chinese reactionaries and he discredits Wells by turning him into a drug addict. Wells eventually becomes an outcast and is in a stupor when he is found by his half-brother, Kong Sue, the son of the Lord of Thundergate, a powerful Mandarin reactionary.
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Hungry Hearts
Title: Hungry Hearts
Character: Judge
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better their lives, but she finds that most of her efforts costs more then they are worth.
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The Primal Law
Title: The Primal Law
Character: Peter Webb
Released: September 11, 1921
Type: Movie
silent cowboy western starring Dustin Farnum as a rancher whose partner is killed by rustlers. He takes in his partner's young son, and begins to sell his ranch, but the boy finds oil on the land.
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While the Devil Laughs
Title: While the Devil Laughs
Character: Mr. Foreman (as Edwin Booth Tilton)
Released: February 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Mary Franklin has a drunken father, an invalid mother, and a kid brother and sister to support. To make ends meet she is works as a hostess in a sleazy cafe, where she steals jewelry from her dancing partners.
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Two Moons
Title: Two Moons
Character: Strayhorn
Released: December 19, 1920
Type: Movie
A fight breaks out between the cattle ranchers and the upstart sheep men, whose fences were seen as a threat to the freedom of the West.
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Just Pals
Title: Just Pals
Character: Dr. Stone (as Edwin Booth Tilton)
Released: October 21, 1920
Type: Movie
Bim (Buck Jones) seems to be his town's biggest loser, but when he takes a needy 13-year-old boy named Bill (George Stone) under his wing, it seems there may be some hope for Bim. After learning about Bill, a young teacher, Mary (Helen Ferguson), whom Bim secretly adores, helps get the young boy into school. And when Bim then helps Mary repay a loan, defaulted on by shifty boyfriend (William Buckley), it becomes evident that Bim can reform. As the plot in this captivating film twist and turns, the stakes get higher, the action gets more intense and hope for Bim bounds upward.
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Sunset Sprague
Title: Sunset Sprague
Character: Calico Barnes
Released: October 3, 1920
Type: Movie
When Sunset Sprague saves Calico Barnes from a bandit, the two men become friends. Barnes is heading out to protect his niece, Rose Loring, whose father was murdered right after his mine struck gold. Sprague goes to help and finds himself up against the villainous Mace Dennison.
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Curtain
Title: Curtain
Character: Jerry Coghlan (as E.B. Tilton)
Released: September 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Nancy Bradshaw (Katherine MacDonald) is a popular stage star who quits her career to marry millionaire clubman Dick Cunningham (Charles Richman). But after a few years of marriage, he starts seeing other women. Figuring that her public was more faithful to her than her husband, Nancy returns to the stage.
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The Skywayman
Title: The Skywayman
Character: Mr. Locke
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
Suffering from amnesia, Captain Norman Craig is embroiled in a doctor's plot to steal both a cache of jewels and Craig's own doting girlfriend. A lost film.
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Square Shooter
Title: Square Shooter
Character: Harold Montague Sr.
Released: August 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, because he is suspicious of his foreman Sam Curtis' activities, decides to proceed incognito. Disguised as Harold Montague, his partner's son, Chick works among the ranch hands and discovers that Curtis is rustling cattle and is responsible for driving Barbara Hampton and her aunt from their home.
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Forbidden Trails
Title: Forbidden Trails
Character: Judge Butterfield
Released: May 15, 1920
Type: Movie
"Squint" Taylor owns a ranch and has a much older mining partner. When the partner is fatally wounded, he makes Taylor promise to take care of his daughter Marion. Taylor is more than happy to do his bidding, but Marion and her uncle are both involved with William Carrington, who is trying to cheat them out of her share of the mine.
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Black Shadows
Title: Black Shadows
Character: John Fordyce
Released: March 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A victim of hypnotism begins to have compulsions to steal.
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What Would You Do
Title: What Would You Do
Character: Le Roi Andrews
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells fake stock and fakes his suicide. His wife remarries, but her new husband suffers a crippling accident, and wants to die, so she gives him a gun. The day he succeeds, her first husband returns, having made a fortune, and they are united.
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The Lincoln Highwayman
Title: The Lincoln Highwayman
Character: The Governor
Released: December 29, 1919
Type: Movie
Marian Calvert becomes infatuated with the infamous Lincoln Highwayman ....
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
Title: Her Kingdom of Dreams
Character: The Minister
Released: September 21, 1919
Type: Movie
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.
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The Splendid Sin
Title: The Splendid Sin
Character: Doctor Kent
Released: September 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Although they have a happy marriage, Sir Charles Chatham, an explorer, and his American wife, Lady Marion, have been unable to have children. After Charles goes to Egypt, his sister Gertrude and her sweetheart Stephen Hartley, an American consulate attaché, take refuge from a storm in a deserted tower. Frightened, Gertrude yields to Stephen's advances. Although he intends to marry Gertrude, Stephen suddenly is called to deliver supplies to starving women and children in Russia. Marion takes the pregnant Gertrude away to have her child, and notifies Stephen, who, because he is shot during Bolshevik rioting, returns too late to marry Gertrude, who dies after childbirth. To honor Gertrude's dying request, and to provide Charles with a much desired child, Marion telegraphs Charles that the baby is theirs.
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The Best Man
Title: The Best Man
Character: Holman
Released: May 4, 1919
Type: Movie
The Library of Congress lists this as a ‘lost’ film, however a copy exists in the UK. Gordon, disguised as Hayne, meets with the criminals and manages to purloin the stolen code but the real Hayne, who the police have failed to apprehend, gives chase. Gordon escapes in a taxi that had been pre-booked to take Hayne to church to marry Celia. Arriving at the church, and remembering his instructions ‘Let Nothing Hinder You’, Gordon allows himself to be married to Celia while planning how he will escape.
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A Midnight Romance
Title: A Midnight Romance
Character: Roger's Father
Released: March 10, 1919
Type: Movie
Marie, a hotel maid, falls in love with millionaire's son Roger, but Roger cannot marry her because of her inferior station and his unwillingness to make his family unhappy thereby. They separate. When next they meet, Roger discovers that Marie is actually a princess. Now their renewed romance cannot continue because Roger is a mere commoner. But the Bolshevik revolution provides complication and at last resolution to their dilemma.
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Riddle Gawne
Title: Riddle Gawne
Character: Colonel Harkness
Released: August 3, 1918
Type: Movie
When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's wife, he swears revenge.
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Under the Yoke
Title: Under the Yoke
Character: Don Ramon Valverde
Released: July 9, 1918
Type: Movie
As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez (Nye), he starts an insurrection among the native Filipinos. Maria's father Don Ramon is killed and Maria is held hostage. She gets word to Capt. Paul Winter (Roscoe) of the American troops in Manila and he comes to her assistance, but his troops are outnumbered and they are made prisoners by the revolting revolutionists. Maria and Paul attempt to escape, but they are caught and brought back. At the Manila headquarters, trouble is suspected and reinforcements are sent. Before long, the revolt is subdued and peace reigns over Maria's home, and happiness over the betrothal of Maria and Paul.
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The Shuttle
Title: The Shuttle
Character: Reuben Vanderpoel
Released: February 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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Cupid's Round Up
Title: Cupid's Round Up
Character: James Kelly
Released: January 13, 1918
Type: Movie
The film's highlight was a scene in which Mix, hoping to escape a pursuing posse, jumps towards a moving train and crashes neatly through one of the passenger windows.
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The Seekers
Title: The Seekers
Character: Undetermined Role (as Edwin Booth)
Released: July 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The quiet life style of Ruth Heck and her brother Lem, who belong to a religious sect called the Seekers, is disrupted when a judge imprisons Lem for a crime he did not commit.