Edward Connelly

Edward Connelly

Born: December 30, 1859
Died: November 21, 1928
in New York City, New York, USA
Edward Connelly was an American stage and Silent screen actor.

Movies for Edward Connelly...

The Desert Rider
Title: The Desert Rider
Character: Padre Quintada
Released: May 11, 1929
Type: Movie
Jack Hoxie pledges to take care of a prospector's son before the man dies from shooting wounds. Jack Hoxie must find the killer before he disappears with the prospector's gold. A young woman also searches the killer for motives of her own.
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Brotherly Love
Title: Brotherly Love
Character: Coggswell
Released: December 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.
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The Mysterious Lady
Title: The Mysterious Lady
Character: Colonel Eric von Raden
Released: August 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in danger.
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Forbidden Hours
Title: Forbidden Hours
Character: Prime Minister
Released: June 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.
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Across to Singapore
Title: Across to Singapore
Character: Joshua Crowninshield
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their return, convinces the townspeople that Joel abandoned his brother. Joel, determined to not only find Mark but to see justice done, returns the ship to Singapore.
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Title: The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Character: Court Marshal
Released: January 30, 1928
Type: Movie
A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
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Love
Title: Love
Character: Russian Orthodox Priest (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1927
Type: Movie
In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistress.
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Life in Hollywood No. 7
Title: Life in Hollywood No. 7
Character: Himself
Released: August 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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Lovers
Title: Lovers
Character: Don Severo
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Young José lives with his guardian, Don Julian, a middle-aged diplomat recently married to young Felicia. Society gossips in Madrid find the situation increasingly scandalous.
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The Show
Title: The Show
Character: The Blind Soldier
Released: January 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
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Winners Of The Wilderness
Title: Winners Of The Wilderness
Character: Gen. Contrecoeur
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
Title: Bardelys the Magnificent
Character: Cardinal Richelieu
Released: September 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: Ambassador
Released: September 27, 1926
Type: Movie
When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
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Brown of Harvard
Title: Brown of Harvard
Character: Professor Abbot
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
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The Only Thing
Title: The Only Thing
Character: King of Chekia
Released: November 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution erupts and the king is assassinated. Chief revolutionary Gigberto also falls in love with Thyra. The revolutionaries plan to drown Thyra and Gigberto in a boat, but the Duke takes Gigberto's place. And the loving couple are rescued.
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Sun-Up
Title: Sun-Up
Character: Pap Todd
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to kill the deserter who she learns is the son of a murderous revenue agent.
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The Unholy Three
Title: The Unholy Three
Character: Judge
Released: July 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
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So This Is Marriage?
Title: So This Is Marriage?
Character: Nathan
Released: November 26, 1924
Type: Movie
The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
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Revelation
Title: Revelation
Character: Augustin
Released: June 23, 1924
Type: Movie
Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful Joline Hofer. When one of Paul's paintings appears to result in a miracle, Joline's life is changed forever. She leaves her previous life to live one of service and piety, a decision that ultimately saves Paul's life.
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The Goldfish
Title: The Goldfish
Character: Count Nevski
Released: March 30, 1924
Type: Movie
A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.
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Scaramouche
Title: Scaramouche
Character: Minister to the King (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1923
Type: Movie
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
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Her Fatal Millions
Title: Her Fatal Millions
Released: April 9, 1923
Type: Movie
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Where the Pavement Ends
Title: Where the Pavement Ends
Character: Pastor Spener
Released: January 2, 1923
Type: Movie
South Seas romantic drama. This is a lost Silent film, that no negative of or print materials from are known to exist.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Title: Quincy Adams Sawyer
Character: Deacon Pettengill
Released: December 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
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Trifling Women
Title: Trifling Women
Character: Baron François de Maupin
Released: November 6, 1922
Type: Movie
Leon de Severac is fed up with his daughter Jacqueline, who is constantly seducing men. Hoping to discourage her from her flirtatious behavior, he tells her the story of Zareda, an attractive fortune teller who is having an affair with Ivan de Maupin.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Title: The Prisoner of Zenda
Character: Marshal von Strakencz
Released: September 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
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Red Hot Romance
Title: Red Hot Romance
Character: Colonel Cassius Byrd
Released: February 13, 1922
Type: Movie
After his father's death, Roland Stone learns that his will stipulates that he must go to the South American country of Bunkonia and sell life insurance.
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Turn to the Right
Title: Turn to the Right
Character: Deacon Tillinger
Released: January 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Joe is the son of a poor widow and in love with the daughter of the town’s richest and meanest man. The couple is determined to marry and plan their “dream house.”
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Conflict
Title: Conflict
Character: John Remalie
Released: October 23, 1921
Type: Movie
A society girl goes to live in the woods with her evil uncle and his wicked housekeeper.
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The Conquering Power
Title: The Conquering Power
Character: Notary Cruchot
Released: July 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Young playboy Charles Grandet is sent to live with his miserly uncle after his father loses his fortune. He and his cousin Eugenie fall in love, but his uncle sends him away and tries to arrange a marriage more to his liking (and profit!). Will true love triumph?
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Character: Lodgekeeper
Released: March 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
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The Saphead
Title: The Saphead
Character: Mr. Musgrave
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich. His son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making him take the blame for Mark's illegitimate daughter. Mark also nearly ruins the family business by selling off Henrietta stock at too low a price. Bertie, of all people, must come to the rescue on the trading floor.
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The Willow Tree
Title: The Willow Tree
Character: Tomotada
Released: January 31, 1920
Type: Movie
After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself so that her lover will go off to battle. When he makes a purchase from Tomotada, an image maker, he meets his pretty daughter O-Riu, and they recreate the events of the legend.
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In Old Kentucky
Title: In Old Kentucky
Character: Col. Sandusky Doolittle (as Edward Connolly)
Released: December 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Illiterate Blue Ridge Mountain girl Madge Brierly falls in love with vacationing Blue Grass aristocrat Frank Layson, when he stops Horace Holten from defrauding her of her coal-rich lands. For revenge, Holten tells moonshiner Joe Lorey, who loves Madge, that Frank is a revenue officer. After Madge rescues Frank from Joe's attack, they go to Frank's home, where he teaches her reading and writing, and she rescues his racehorse, Queen Bess, from a fire set by Holten. Because Frank has nearly all of his family's money riding on the big Kentucky race, Holten gets Frank's jockey drunk. Madge, discovering this, disguises herself and rides Queen Bess to victory. She leaves for home unnoticed, and comes across the Night Riders chasing Lorey. After she persuades them that Holten killed her father years earlier, and was responsible for Lorey's attack, they chase Holten who falls from a mountain and dies. Years later, Madge's and Frank's children play at feuding.
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The World and Its Woman
Title: The World and Its Woman
Character: Robert Warren
Released: September 6, 1919
Type: Movie
A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and find their way to America.
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The Lion's Den
Title: The Lion's Den
Character: Grocer Jarvis
Released: May 19, 1919
Type: Movie
A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy grocer in the process.
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The Red Lantern
Title: The Red Lantern
Character: Gen. Jung-Lu
Released: May 4, 1919
Type: Movie
Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, Mahlee of the Englishman and his Chinese mistress. Mahlee rejects her people and attempts to find a life for herself among the Europeans. But she finds the color line impossible to pass and returns to lead her Chinese people in rebellion.
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False Evidence
Title: False Evidence
Character: Sandy MacTavish
Released: April 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Promised in marriage to wealthy Lot Gordon , Scottish lassie Madelon MacTavish prefers Lot's poor relation Burr Gordon. The wisdom of her choice is proven later on, when a vengeful Lot tries to rape the girl.
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The First Law
Title: The First Law
Character: Detective (as Edward J. Connelly)
Released: July 28, 1918
Type: Movie
When her surgeon father loses his fortune, Norma Webb (Castle) turns her family home into a boarding house.
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Toys of Fate
Title: Toys of Fate
Character: Howard Belmont
Released: May 12, 1918
Type: Movie
A gypsy girl whose mother committed suicide after being seduced and abandoned by a rich man finds herself twenty years later being wooed by the same man.
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The Fall of the Romanoffs
Title: The Fall of the Romanoffs
Character: Grigori Rasputin
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.
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The Great Secret
Title: The Great Secret
Character: Dr. Eulph
Released: January 8, 1917
Type: Movie
A wealthy young athlete comes to the aid of a beautiful heiress, whose fortune is being threatened by two arch villains, The Great Master and Doctor Zulph.
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The Devil
Title: The Devil
Character: The Devil
Released: April 1, 1915
Type: Movie
The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good. The Devil, taking this as a challenge, decides to bring about the couple's downfall.
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A Good Little Devil
Title: A Good Little Devil
Character: Old Nick, Sr.
Released: March 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.