Donald Hall

Donald Hall

Born: August 13, 1867
Died: July 25, 1948
in Morree, North West Province, East India

Movies for Donald Hall...

Government Girl
Title: Government Girl
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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Oh, for a Man!
Title: Oh, for a Man!
Character: Carlotta's Backstage Admirer
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchanted himself at being known as the husband of a diva and itches to get back to his life of crime and manliness.
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The Younger Generation
Title: The Younger Generation
Character: Minor Role
Released: March 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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Her Love Story
Title: Her Love Story
Character: Court Physician
Released: October 6, 1924
Type: Movie
When Princess Marie of the Balkan kingdom of Viatavia falls in love with Captain Rudi of the King's Guards, her father quickly arranges her marriage with the king of a neighboring country. Although Marie and Rudi are secretly wed by a Gypsy, the duke ignores the marriage and exiles Rudi. When a child is born to Marie, she declares to the king that it is Rudi's and is thereafter banished to a convent; however, Rudi returns and helps Marie retrieve her child from the palace, and they find happiness in another land.
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Unguarded Women
Title: Unguarded Women
Character: James Craig
Released: June 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Unguarded Women is a lost 1924 silent film drama. In a battle during the World War, Douglas Albright has a moment of cowardice which causes the death of his friend, Captain Banning. When Albright comes back from the war, his fiancée, Helen Castle and her father, George, can see that something is bothering him. So Castle sends him to take care of business in China -- and to pull himself together. While in China, Albright runs across Bannings' widow, Breta, who has buried her sorrows behind a mask of revelry and fast living. Because he feels responsible for what she has become, Albright attempts to regenerate her and proposes marriage.
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The Last Moment
Title: The Last Moment
Character: Mr. Winthrop
Released: June 7, 1923
Type: Movie
The Last Moment is a silent film now considered lost.
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A Woman's Woman
Title: A Woman's Woman
Character: Rex Humberstone
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son.
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The Greatest Love
Title: The Greatest Love
Character: Richard Sewall
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Director Henry Kolker's silent romantic melodrama starred Vera Gordon, who was billed as "The 'Mother' of 'Humoresque'", Bertram Marburgh, Yvonne Shelton, Hugh Huntley, and William H. Tooker
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A Woman's Business
Title: A Woman's Business
Released: June 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Great Shadow
Title: The Great Shadow
Character: Donald Alexander
Released: April 21, 1920
Type: Movie
Jim McDonald, the foreman of a shipbuilding plant and head of the labor union, strives to combat the anarchistic propaganda being put forth by Klimoff, the leader of a Bolshevik gang whose goal is to disrupt the country with strikes and anarchy.
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The Broken Melody
Title: The Broken Melody
Character: Howard Thornby
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Stewart, an art student in the "bohemian" Greenwich Village in New York City, lives next door to his girlfriend Hedda, who wants to be a singer. One night while they are dining at their favorite cafe, a wealthy woman, Mrs. Trask, comes up to them with a proposition: she knows he is an artist and wants to go to Paris in order to study and develop his talent, and she will pay all his expenses to allow him to do that. He refuses because he doesn't want to leave Hedda, but she eventually persuades him to agree. It turns out that she as an ulterior motive for what she's doing--as does Mrs. Trask.
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The Carter Case
Title: The Carter Case
Character: Shelby Carter (as Don Hall)
Released: March 17, 1919
Type: Movie
Science fiction serial.
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The Great Adventure
Title: The Great Adventure
Character: Mr. Sheen
Released: March 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams of stardom on Broadway.
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The Raggedy Queen
Title: The Raggedy Queen
Released: December 3, 1917
Type: Movie
Violent labor disputes surround a girl living in a mining town.
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The Moth
Title: The Moth
Character: Ned Cunningham / Lawyer
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she falls in love with a man who loves only her money. She marries him, and after their child is born, she is confronted with life's harsh realities after her husband demands more and more money with which to support his mistress.
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The Awakening of Ruth
Title: The Awakening of Ruth
Character: Dr. William Strong
Released: September 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop and Ruth fall in love, but Winthrop returns to New York, and after a year, has forgotten Ruth. After finding two chests in a cave, Ruth locates her father unconscious from a fall. She goes to the mainland for help, but returns with the Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot and Dr. William Strong, to find her father dead. Strong, out of kindness, offers to marry her, but Ruth declines, sure that Winthrop will return.
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The On-the-Square Girl
Title: The On-the-Square Girl
Character: Richard Steel
Released: July 29, 1917
Type: Movie
Anne Blair is a model at a modiste's shop who accepts the attention of wealthy Thomas Brockton so she can help support her invalid mother. One day Brockton tries to force himself on her and she stabs him. Later that day Anne finds out that her mother has died, and delirious from the shock, she wanders out into the snow where she is found, unconscious, by artist Richard Steel.
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The Sex Lure
Title: The Sex Lure
Character: Clinton Reynolds
Released: November 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Wealthy capitalist, Clinton Reynolds, and his wife, Laura, have lost their son, Arthur, kidnapped and possibly dead. Attempting to write a wrong in his factory, he adopts the daughter of one of his workers who is killed on site. The girl, Rose, grows up resentful of her adoptive father and as she grows older, seduces him in order to break up his marriage. Long lost Arthur returns and, finding his parents' married life in disarray, becomes romantically involved with Rose in order to end the relationship she has forged with his father. Reynolds comes to his senses and makes amends with Laura, at which point Arthur leaves Rose.
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The Law Decides
Title: The Law Decides
Character: John Wharton
Released: May 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Mere years could not kill the overwhelming love which lay dormant in Lorenz's heart, though Florence was now the wife of another.
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Salvation Joan
Title: Salvation Joan
Character: Robert Ellison
Released: April 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Joan, a refined young Salvation Army volunteer, fall in love with a gangster.
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The Third Party
Title: The Third Party
Released: October 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Dr. Williams is so deeply immersed in his work he unconsciously neglects his wife. Newell Russell, a young society idler, becomes acquainted with them and Bobby, the doctor's son, takes a great fancy to him. Harmon, a former suitor of Mrs. Williams, sees an opportunity to make trouble and sends an anonymous note to the Doctor warning him to "watch his wife." This, followed by the discovery of an apparently compromising snapshot Bobby had taken, sends the Doctor in a rage. He demands an explanation from Newell at the point of an automatic, but Mrs. Williams saves the situation by proving the note was written by Harmon.
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From Out of the Big Snows
Title: From Out of the Big Snows
Character: Dr. Brandon
Released: September 25, 1915
Type: Movie
Harris, a young adventurer into the big snows of the Northwest, through an accident, becomes a great friend of Dr. Brandon, who warns him against his fascination for Marie, woman of the dance hall. He tells him of Jean, her half-breed lover, and that he is a bad man. Harris disregards this and Jean, returning from a trapping expedition, finds Marie in his arms. Concealing his hatred, he contrives a fiendish plan, and in pursuance of this, wins the friendship of Harris.
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Mortmain
Title: Mortmain
Character: Gordon Russell
Released: September 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-grafting, and shows proofs. Among those deeply interested is Mortmain, a musician and a friend of the surgeon.
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In the Days of Famine
Title: In the Days of Famine
Character: John Strang
Released: May 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Jan De Bar, a young French-Canadian, is sent out from the Hudson Bay Company's post at God's Lake to perform the perilous task of burning the plague-stricken cabins of those who have died of the dreaded smallpox. In one of them he finds Jeanette, a little girl, who, by some miracle, has escaped the plague.
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Uncle Bill
Title: Uncle Bill
Character: Uncle Bill
Released: July 13, 1914
Type: Movie
On his way to New York to visit his relatives, the Masons, for the first time, Uncle Bill meets "Oiley" Curley, a crook. John Mason, Uncle Bill's nephew, is candidate for Governor and, on the eve of Uncle Bill's arrival, Mason and his political constituents are in secret conference with Murray of the money powers. Meantime, Julia, Mason's wife, goes on a little joy ride with Jack Trent, husband of Vivien, her friend who is on a joy ride with Mason's father, a delightful old rogue. Gladys, Julia's hoydenish sister with whose photo Uncle Bill has previously fallen in love, is left home alone.
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A Million Bid
Title: A Million Bid
Character: French Artist
Released: April 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Agnes Belgradin is in love with a young doctor, Loring Brent. When Agnes' father dies, her mother takes her on a trip abroad. She insists that the young couple separate before they set sail, and promises that if they still love each other after a year they can reunite. But Mrs. Belgradin intercepts all the letters Agnes and Brent write one another, and convinces her daughter to marry a wealthy Australian millionaire.
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The Christian
Title: The Christian
Character: Francis Horatio Drake
Released: March 16, 1914
Type: Movie
Glory Quayle, a natural-born mimic, leaves her country home, reaches London, goes on the stage, gains fame and affluence. John Storm, her country sweetheart, believing he has lost Glory forever, enters a monastery, tries to forget her, cannot kill his love, returns to the world, becomes a famous slum worker and friend of the poor.
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An Officer and a Gentleman
Title: An Officer and a Gentleman
Character: Capt. Sutherland
Released: March 14, 1914
Type: Movie
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The Portrait
Title: The Portrait
Character: Hoyt
Released: March 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Keen competition is aroused among a group of young artists in New York City by the announcement of a valuable prize for the greatest portrait of the year, six months being given as the time limit of the competition.
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The First Endorsement
Title: The First Endorsement
Released: February 19, 1914
Type: Movie
An adjutant comes in and lays before Colonel Allen, the charges against John Wild, a young soldier accused of theft. When the adjutant goes out, the Colonel remembers about his own wayward son, how he had left his home one evening, after a quarrel, never to return, shipping as a stoker on a big liner, and how, later, he had received word of his death in a shipwreck.