Frederick Vroom

Frederick Vroom

Born: November 11, 1857
Died: June 24, 1942
in Clementsport, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Frederick Vroom (11 November 1857 – 24 June 1942) was a Canadian actor of the silent era. He appeared in 70 films between 1912 and 1939.

He was born in Nova Scotia, Canada and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Paine's Friend (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Minor Role
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Woman Against Woman
Title: Woman Against Woman
Character: Justice of the Peace
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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The General
Title: The General
Character: A Southern General
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
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Idaho!
Title: Idaho!
Character: David Cameron
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Frank Leon Smith's well-written story told of Carter's Creek, a bustling mining camp, and of how Beth Cameron (Rich) seeks to avenge the murder of her father (Frederick Vroom) by donning men's clothing and raiding the vicinity.
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His Hour
Title: His Hour
Character: English Minister
Released: September 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia, is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except for a young but cold British widow, Tamara Loraine. While she's spurning his advances, Tamara is growing ever more fascinated with Gritzko.
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The Navigator
Title: The Navigator
Character: John O'Brien
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.
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The Reckless Age
Title: The Reckless Age
Released: August 16, 1924
Type: Movie
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.
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Sporting Youth
Title: Sporting Youth
Character: John K. Walker
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Rockford, daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer.
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The Acquittal
Title: The Acquittal
Character: Carter Ames
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
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The Day of Faith
Title: The Day of Faith
Character: Marley Maynard
Released: October 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval. Anstell tries to undermine Jane's work by hiring reporter Tom Barnett to write an unfavorable story about the mission.
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The Tiger's Claw
Title: The Tiger's Claw
Character: Colonel Byng
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a fiancée, Harriet Halehurst (Eva Novak), back home.
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The Primitive Lover
Title: The Primitive Lover
Character: Mr. Graham
Released: April 30, 1922
Type: Movie
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
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The Fourteenth Lover
Title: The Fourteenth Lover
Character: Mr. Marchmont
Released: January 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Vi Marchmont (Viola Dana) is a spoiled rich girl who has thirteen lovers. Her Aunt Letitia (Kate Lester) wants her to halt her flirtatious ways and has picked Clyde Van Ness (Theodore Von Eltz) as the right one out of the bunch -- not that Vi agrees. Aunt Letitia sends her off to the country, along with Van Ness and the gardener, Richard Hardy (Jack Mulhall). Vi winds up falling for the gardener, much to her aunt's horror, and in spite of the class differences, he becomes her fourteenth lover.
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The Glorious Fool
Title: The Glorious Fool
Character: Mr. Lindley Grant
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.
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The Millionaire
Title: The Millionaire
Character: Delmar
Released: November 14, 1921
Type: Movie
Jack Norman is an office clerk who falls in love with co-worker Kate Blair, a stenographer. He gets fired from his job but before this can really sink in, he suddenly inherits 80 million dollars from a financier who once loved his mother. The financier, Glyde, was murdered, so Norman also inherits a load of troubles involving the blackmailers who want to killed him. In his attempt to outwit them, Norman poses as a valet, and has a friend impersonate him.
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White and Unmarried
Title: White and Unmarried
Character: Mr. Welter (as Fred Vroom)
Released: May 29, 1921
Type: Movie
When an underworld figure inherits a fortune, he goes straight and endeavors to become a respectable businessman. But on a trip to Paris, he encounters a few not-so-honest types who think he is ripe for picking.
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The Faith Healer
Title: The Faith Healer
Character: Matthew Beeler
Released: March 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost.
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The Great Lover
Title: The Great Lover
Character: Doctor
Released: November 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star. Carlo Sonino, also a member of the company, falls in love with Ethel and warns her against becoming infatuated with the amorous singer.
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813
Title: 813
Character: Prefect of Police
Released: November 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling force in Europe. Master crook Arsene Lupin becomes aware of Castleback's bid for power and, in the interests of France, begins a search for the plans.
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The Marriage Pit
Title: The Marriage Pit
Released: October 18, 1920
Type: Movie
When Wall Street dynamo Richard Strong rescues Edwin Rossiter from financial ruin, Rossiter is so grateful that he persuades his daughter Elinor to marry their benefactor, although she does not love him. Instead, Elinor favors her distant cousin, Charles Dalton, a dissipated member of the aristocracy who weds Zoldene, an actress, on the day of Elinor and Strong's wedding. Soon after, Dalton wearies of Zoldene and renews his attention to Elinor, now estranged from her husband.
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A Tokyo Siren
Title: A Tokyo Siren
Character: Mr. Chandler
Released: June 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Dr. John Niblock is conducting research in Japan when he is called to revive Asuti Hishuri, who has fainted during her wedding ceremony. Upon learning that Asuti is being forced into a loveless marriage, the chivalrous John offers to marry the girl in name only and take her to America where she can be free. When John and his Japanese bride arrive in San Francisco, California, the doctor's former sweetheart appears heartbroken, and Asuti realizes that she is in love with Ito, her husband's secretary.
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The Six Best Cellars
Title: The Six Best Cellars
Character: Mrs. Teak
Released: February 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Henry Carpenter and his wife Millicent are the envy of their exclusive suburban set because of their abundant wine cellar, a blessing in the face of the recent prohibition against alcohol initiated by the Volstead Act. In reality, Henry is down to his last few bottles, and, faced with an impending dinner party, he decides to save face by denouncing the evils of drink. His impassioned speech earns him the support of the Prohibition party for a Congressional seat. Henry is relishing his popularity when his aunt discovers twenty-one cases of rare wine in the cellar, forcing the candidate to choose between political and social success.
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One of the Finest
Title: One of the Finest
Character: Robert Fulton Hudson
Released: June 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Traffic cop Larry Hayes takes care of four-year-old Mary Jane, the daughter of Gus Andrews, a criminal sent to prison because of Larry, and Nellie, a shop girl who visits often.
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Where the West Begins
Title: Where the West Begins
Character: Luther Caldwell
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
William Russell plays Cliff Redfern, a hard-ridin' Westerner who takes a liking to Easterner Ned Caldwell (Cullen Landis), the dissolute son of a wealthy cattle rancher. Certain that all Caldwell needs to become a "real man" is a dose of frontier life, Cliff kidnaps Ned and brings him back to the wide open spaces.
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Little Red Decides
Title: Little Red Decides
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
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Betty Takes a Hand
Title: Betty Takes a Hand
Character: Peter Marshall
Released: January 6, 1918
Type: Movie
Discovering that her father, Peter Marshall, had been defrauded by a business partner named James Bartlett, Betty goes to Los Angeles to visit her aunt, Mrs. Hamilton Haines, whose late husband had a hand in ruining Peter. Tom, Bartlett's son, has arranged a yachting trip for Mrs. Haines and her daughter Ida, and Ida, deciding that her cousin is too pretty to come along, persuades Betty to stay behind. Tom, on the way to the yacht after a quarrel with his father, passes the Haines mansion and, noticing a sign advertising room and board, stops. Meeting Betty who is posing as Miss Haines, Tom moves in and falls in love with his landlady. When Betty accidentally meets Tom's father, the old man is so captivated that he offers her $5,000 to marry his son. After Tom and Betty are married, when both fathers discover their in-laws' true identities they are first indignant but later are reconciled.
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The Serpent's Tooth
Title: The Serpent's Tooth
Character: Matthew Addison-Brown
Released: May 28, 1917
Type: Movie
Four lifelong friends share one very special summer. They develop an enduring bond despite their distinctly different emerging personalities.
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The Jungle Child
Title: The Jungle Child
Character: Seqor Grijalva
Released: October 1, 1916
Type: Movie
After her family dies in the jungle, Ollante is raised by Brazilian Indians, and, from her rugged lifestyle, she grows into a woman of uncommon strength and courage. Then, she rescues Ridgeway Webb, an explorer.....
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A Gentleman of Leisure
Title: A Gentleman of Leisure
Character: Macklin, Pitt's Friend
Released: March 1, 1915
Type: Movie
A young New York society man makes a bet that he can rob a house and get away without being caught by the police. Things turn out to be not as easy as they seem.
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Ruy Blas
Title: Ruy Blas
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
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The Woman Who Did Not Care
Title: The Woman Who Did Not Care
Character: The Father
Released: April 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life. She accepted his attentions willingly until a young engineer came along and paid court to her. She then dismissed her first suitor. Her father made a lucky strike, and they moved to the city to enjoy their wealth. This sealed the fate of the second suitor for a rich man became smitten with the girl and she accepted his advances. Perhaps she would have married him in time had it not been that she aroused the enmity of an old witch, deeply skilled in magic.
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The Forest Rose
Title: The Forest Rose
Character: Albert Maywood (Part I)
Released: November 29, 1912
Type: Movie
Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out. Forester was made colonel of his regiment, while Maywood became a captain. The men mortgaged their plantations and gave the benefits to the government, which was hard pressed for funds. Colonel Forester was mortally wounded at the battle of Cowpens, but before he passed away, Captain Maywood promised that he would care for Forester's motherless little girl.