John St. Polis

John St. Polis

Born: November 24, 1873
Died: October 8, 1946
in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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John M. St. Polis (November 24, 1873 – October 8, 1946) was an American actor.

St. Polis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before starting his film career, he made a name for himself on the Broadway stage, most notably in the role of Frederik in the original production of The Return of Peter Grimm (1911–12) and the play's revival in 1921, both performed at the Belasco Theatre.

He appeared in 126 films between 1914 and 1943. In all of his early roles, the actor is billed as John Sainpolis. His best-known performances are as Etienne Laurier in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and as Comte Phillipe de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera (1925).

St. Polis successfully made the transition from silent cinema to "talkies" with one of his most praised performances as Dr. John M. Besant, the father of Norma Besant (played by Mary Pickford) in Coquette (1929).

Movies for John St. Polis...

Crossroads
Title: Crossroads
Character: Professor (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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Haunted House
Title: Haunted House
Character: Simkins
Released: July 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
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On the Spot
Title: On the Spot
Character: Doc Hunter
Released: June 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, become involved when a wounded gangster starts to tell them where $300,000 in stolen loot is hidden, but he is murdered before he can give them all of the information. The search is on.
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Rocky Mountain Rangers
Title: Rocky Mountain Rangers
Character: Joseph Manners
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas. But the plan might fall apart when the real Laredo Kid arrives on the scene in this action-packed Western.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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They Shall Have Music
Title: They Shall Have Music
Character: Davis
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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Boys' Reformatory
Title: Boys' Reformatory
Character: Superintendent Keene
Released: May 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
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Mr. Wong, Detective
Title: Mr. Wong, Detective
Character: Carl Roemer
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Townsman
Released: September 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder. Unrecognized, he gets a job on the ranch and soon becomes involved in Folsom's cattle rustling and a chance to settle an old score.
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Phantom Ranger
Title: Phantom Ranger
Character: Pat Doyle
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
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International Crime
Title: International Crime
Character: Roger Morton
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.
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Saleslady
Title: Saleslady
Character: Crane
Released: January 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A young heiress moves away from home, takes a job in a Chicago department store and weds a co-worker who's unaware of his bride's wealthy background.
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The Shadow Strikes
Title: The Shadow Strikes
Character: Caleb Delthern
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.
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Jungle Menace
Title: Jungle Menace
Character: Chandler Elliott
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
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Paradise Isle
Title: Paradise Isle
Character: Coxon
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).
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Borderland
Title: Borderland
Character: Doctor
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.
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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Mr. Abrams
Released: June 7, 1936
Type: Movie
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
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Three on the Trail
Title: Three on the Trail
Character: Sheriff Sam Corwin
Released: April 14, 1936
Type: Movie
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.
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Call of the Prairie
Title: Call of the Prairie
Character: Jim
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.
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The Dark Hour
Title: The Dark Hour
Character: Dr. Munro
Released: February 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
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A Night at the Opera
Title: A Night at the Opera
Character: Opera Conductor (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
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The Lady in Scarlet
Title: The Lady in Scarlet
Character: Jerome T. Shelby
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.
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Death from a Distance
Title: Death from a Distance
Character: Prof. Trowbridge
Released: July 3, 1935
Type: Movie
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
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The President Vanishes
Title: The President Vanishes
Character: Attorney General Davis (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
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Guilty Parents
Title: Guilty Parents
Character: Defense attorney
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.
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Notorious But Nice
Title: Notorious But Nice
Character: John J. Martin
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!
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King of the Arena
Title: King of the Arena
Character: Governor
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
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The World Gone Mad
Title: The World Gone Mad
Character: Grover Cromwell
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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Terror Trail
Title: Terror Trail
Character: Colonel Charles Ormsby
Released: February 2, 1933
Type: Movie
A gang of horse thieves are able to operate because the crooked local sheriff is in cahoots with them. When Tom Mix's beloved horse Tony Jr. is stolen, he steps in to break up the gang.
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The Match King
Title: The Match King
Character: Banker (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Doctor Consoling Nasa (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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The Gambling Sex
Title: The Gambling Sex
Character: John Tracy
Released: November 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Glidden Associate (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: Dr. McDonald
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
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The Crusader
Title: The Crusader
Character: Robert Henley
Released: October 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
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Symphony of Six Million
Title: Symphony of Six Million
Character: Dr. Schifflen
Released: April 29, 1932
Type: Movie
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
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Lena Rivers
Title: Lena Rivers
Character: John Nichols
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
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Alias the Doctor
Title: Alias the Doctor
Character: Dr. Niergardt
Released: February 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When Stephan's actions causes the death of Anna, Karl is the one who takes the wrap and three years in prison. When he gets out, he finds Stephan is dead and a sick child needs an operation and he does brilliant surgery. This gets him noticed and his mother tells them that he is Stephan Brenner, not Karl Brenner. She tells Karl that he must cure sickness in the world. But, being that he is Stephan, he can no longer marry Lottie, as she is now his sister.
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Heartbreak
Title: Heartbreak
Character: U.S. Ambassador
Released: November 8, 1931
Type: Movie
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The Yellow Ticket
Title: The Yellow Ticket
Character: Passport Official at Airport
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
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The Gay Diplomat
Title: The Gay Diplomat
Character: General
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
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Their Mad Moment
Title: Their Mad Moment
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: July 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
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Transgression
Title: Transgression
Character: Serafin, Arturo's Butler
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
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Men of the Sky
Title: Men of the Sky
Character: Madeleine's Father
Released: June 20, 1931
Type: Movie
In the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack Ames and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert. Madeleine leaves her American fiancé to join her father, another French spy, at an estate in Germany. Her father instructs her to accept the invitation of a Prussian officer, Eric von Coburg, to live at his estate for a month.
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Doctors' Wives
Title: Doctors' Wives
Character: Dr. Mark Wyndram
Released: March 14, 1931
Type: Movie
The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
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Beau Ideal
Title: Beau Ideal
Character: Judge Advocate (as John M. St. Polis)
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
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The Criminal Code
Title: The Criminal Code
Character: Dr. Rinewulf
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
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Captain Thunder
Title: Captain Thunder
Character: Pedro
Released: December 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: The Imam Mahmud
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
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A Devil with Women
Title: A Devil with Women
Character: Don Diego
Released: October 17, 1930
Type: Movie
Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
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The Bad One
Title: The Bad One
Character: Judge
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
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The Three Sisters
Title: The Three Sisters
Character: Judge
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola and Kenneth MacKenna. It was distributed by Fox Film Corporation five years before they would become Twentieth Century Fox. It is unknown whether a print of the film still exists.
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The Melody Man
Title: The Melody Man
Character: Von Kemper
Released: January 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A Viennese composer Von Kemper (John St.Polis), who after murdering both his unfaithful wife and royal lover, flees to America with his young daughter Elsa (Alice Day).
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: John Rountree
Released: January 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
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Fast Life
Title: Fast Life
Character: Andrew Stratton
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.
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Coquette
Title: Coquette
Character: Dr. John M. Besant
Released: March 30, 1929
Type: Movie
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
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Why Be Good?
Title: Why Be Good?
Character: Pa Kelly
Released: February 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
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The Power of Silence
Title: The Power of Silence
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Would An Innocent Woman Keep Silent? Would the fear of a murderer's death shake her from the Sphinx-like silence that shielded- who?
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A Woman's Way
Title: A Woman's Way
Character: Mouvet
Released: February 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean.
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The Unknown
Title: The Unknown
Character: Surgeon (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1927
Type: Movie
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
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Too Many Crooks
Title: Too Many Crooks
Character: Erastus Mason
Released: April 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
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The Lily
Title: The Lily
Character: Comte de Maigny
Released: October 3, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Greater Glory
Title: The Greater Glory
Character: Prof. Leopold Eberhardt (as John Sainpolis)
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Comte Philip de Chagny
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Paint and Powder
Title: Paint and Powder
Character: Mark Kelsey (as John Sainpolis)
Released: September 16, 1925
Type: Movie
Elaine Hammerstein stars in this independently produced drama. She plays Mary Dolan, a dancer at a Bowery café, who is in love with co-worker Jimmy Evarts (Theodore Von Eltz). Jimmy gets in a fight with an East Side tough and finds a wallet on him belonging to a big theatrical manager. Jimmy, however, is accused of being the one who stole it and is thrown in jail.
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My Lady's Lips
Title: My Lady's Lips
Character: Inspector
Released: July 1, 1925
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
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The Dixie Handicap
Title: The Dixie Handicap
Character: Dexter
Released: December 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Tale of a man and his horse.
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Folly of Vanity
Title: Folly of Vanity
Character: Ridgeway (modern sequence)
Released: December 21, 1924
Type: Movie
This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert are already having differences over money. He gets angry at her extravagances, especially when she spends more than they can afford on an imitation pearl necklace. Ridgeway, a client of Robert's, invites the couple to a party. Robert wants to decline, but Alice insists that they go. Ridgeway loans Alice a real pearl necklace, to "restore their lustre," and everyone heads for his yacht. Ridgeway pays Alice a lot of attention, while a young widow tries to vamp Robert.
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The Rose of Paris
Title: The Rose of Paris
Character: André du Vallois
Released: November 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured to Paris by one of the heirs who does know who she is; he plans to swindle her out of her inheritance so he can have everything.
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The Alaskan
Title: The Alaskan
Character: Rossland (as John Sainpolis)
Released: September 14, 1924
Type: Movie
An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.
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Those Who Dance
Title: Those Who Dance
Character: Monahan
Released: April 27, 1924
Type: Movie
A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Title: Mademoiselle Midnight
Character: Colonel de Gontran (Prologue)
Released: April 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
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Three Weeks
Title: Three Weeks
Character: The King
Released: February 10, 1924
Type: Movie
A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
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Held to Answer
Title: Held to Answer
Character: Hiram Burbeck
Released: November 22, 1923
Type: Movie
John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
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Woman-Proof
Title: Woman-Proof
Character: Milo Bleech (as John Sainpolis)
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
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The Social Code
Title: The Social Code
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Untameable
Title: The Untameable
Character: Dr. Copin
Released: September 9, 1923
Type: Movie
The Most Shocking Film of 1923! Directed by Herbert Blache, The Untameable dramatizes the then-sensational subject of dual personality, with Gladys Walton in the dual role of Joy and her whip-toting, brutal, sadistic alter-ego Edna, and Etta Lee as her faithful Asian lesbian maid.
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Three Wise Fools
Title: Three Wise Fools
Character: John Crawshay
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor their former sweetheart's last request by becoming Sydney's guardians.
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Self - Celebrity Actor in Commissary
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Shadows
Title: Shadows
Character: Nate Snow
Released: November 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathen', only to reveal hypocrisy amid the self-righteous township.
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Cappy Ricks
Title: Cappy Ricks
Character: Skinner (as John Sainpolis)
Released: August 21, 1921
Type: Movie
When seaman Matt Peasley and his friend, Murphy (Hugh Cameron), go ashore in San Francisco, they save Florrie Ricks (Agnes Ayers) from a couple of robbers. Matt falls in love with Florrie, whose father is ship owner Cappy Ricks (Charles S. Abbe).
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Character: Etienne Laurier
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 Great Lover
Title: The Great Lover
Character: Jean Paurel
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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Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Title: Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Character: Kaiser
Released: October 1, 1918
Type: Movie
The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.
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Laughing Bill Hyde
Title: Laughing Bill Hyde
Character: Black Jack Burg
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Convict Bill Hyde and his friend, Danny Dorgan, break out of prison, but in running from the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor, Evan Thomas, tries so hard to save Danny that later, when Bill and the doctor meet in Alaska, the two become friends. A dying man gives his mine to the doctor, but upon discovering that it is worthless, Bill sells it to a crook named John Wesley Slayforth...
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All Woman
Title: All Woman
Character: Sam Tupper
Released: June 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be not the palatial resort she believed, but a run-down inn with an attached saloon. As she struggles to make something of her new operation, she becomes involved in the life and difficulties of her new community....
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Released: November 3, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Love That Lives
Title: The Love That Lives
Character: Harvey Brooks
Released: July 9, 1917
Type: Movie
When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children.
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Sapho
Title: Sapho
Character: Dejoie
Released: March 11, 1917
Type: Movie
The classic story of a flower girl from the slums who becomes Sapho.
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The Fortunes of Fifi
Title: The Fortunes of Fifi
Character: Duvernet
Released: February 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Fifi is an actress in Napoleon-era France. She wins a lottery and leaves Cartouche, the man she loves to go live with a rich family. The conniving Louis Bourcet tries to woo her because he wants her money. But Fifi wants nothing to do with him, and ultimately she gives up her money and returns to Cartouche. But Cartouche, believing he is too old, refuses to marry her until Napoleon himself orders him to do it.
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The Salamander
Title: The Salamander
Released: January 23, 1916
Type: Movie
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Wormwood
Title: Wormwood
Released: January 1, 1915
Type: Movie
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Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors
Title: Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie