Fred J. Butler

Fred J. Butler

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Marriage in Transit
Title: Marriage in Transit
Character: Conspirator
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks led by Holden steals a government code, and Cyril Gordon, a Secret Service agent who bears a strong resemblance to the gang leader, is assigned to recover the stolen documents.
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Red Blood and Blue
Title: Red Blood and Blue
Character: Jim Lane
Released: February 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Red Blood and Blue is a 1925 silent Western.
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Gold Heels
Title: Gold Heels
Character: Kendall Sr.
Released: November 30, 1924
Type: Movie
A man tries to woo a woman, rescue an orphanage, and bet on the right horse.
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The Brass Bowl
Title: The Brass Bowl
Character: Bannerman
Released: November 6, 1924
Type: Movie
After arriving unexpectedly at his country home, Dan Maitland discovers a young woman attempting to open his safe. She mistakes him for Anisty, a notorious thief who is Dan's double, and he gives her the jewels from the safe. Anisty appears, and there follow confusion and thrilling episodes in which Anisty is captured, escapes, and poses as Dan. Dan finally brings Anisty to justice and declares his love for Sylvia, who confesses she was searching Dan's safe to recover papers that might incriminate her father.
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The Battling Fool
Title: The Battling Fool
Character: Hiram Chadwick
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
William Fairbanks stars in this fighting feature about a rural rube who enters the ring to earn prize money to help a crippled girl.
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Three Wise Fools
Title: Three Wise Fools
Character: Poole
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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Racing Hearts
Title: Racing Hearts
Character: Burton Smith
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Sam Travers
Released: June 25, 1922
Type: Movie
A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her home country and his adventures there. He ends up helping her father become dictator of the entire country, and is rewarded with marriage to her and he is named Minister of Finance!
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According to Hoyle
Title: According to Hoyle
Character: Dude Miller
Released: May 6, 1922
Type: Movie
"'Boxcar' Simmons, a tramp, represents himself as a mining millionaire in a small town. The population accepts him at his own valuation, and two of the town's 'slickers' make desperate efforts to 'take him for his roll.' One of their schemes is to sell him a worthless ranch, but he turns the tables on them by making them believe that the ranch is a veritable bed of silver ore, and then, after they buy it, he presents the major part of the proceeds to the girl who owns the place and with whom he had fallen in love." (Moving Picture World, 24 Jun 1922, p. 736.)
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Little Meena's Romance
Title: Little Meena's Romance
Character: Matthew Bauer
Released: April 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of a Mennonite family. Meena treats Jacob as a joke in spite of the arrangement their parents have made that they should wed. The Mennonite simplicity has no charms for Meena, who proceeds to fall in love with Count Fredrick von Ritz
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The Flying Torpedo
Title: The Flying Torpedo
Character: Chief of International Crooks
Released: March 12, 1916
Type: Movie
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders. Winthrop Clavering, a writer and inventor, hears of the reward and tells his friend Bartholomew Thompson, a scientist and inventor who has been working on developing flying torpedo. However, enemy agents have also heard about Thompson's project, and set out to kill him and steal his plans. This film is now considered lost.