Theodore Roberts

Theodore Roberts

Born: October 8, 1861
Died: December 14, 1928
Theodore Roberts (October 8, 1861 – December 14, 1928) was an American movie and stage actor. He was a stage actor decades before becoming lovable old man in silents. On stage in the 1890s he acted with Fanny Davenport in her play called Gismonda (1894) and later in The Bird of Paradise (1912) with actress Laurette Taylor. He started his film career in the 1910s in Hollywood, and was often was associated in the productions of Cecil B. DeMille. He was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
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Uncle's Visit
Title: Uncle's Visit
Character: Uncle
Released: June 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Uncle comes on a visit.
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Ned McCobb's Daughter
Title: Ned McCobb's Daughter
Character: Ned McCobb
Released: December 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Carol runs a restaurant out of her house, while her husband George collects the ferry's tolls. Unbeknownst to Carol, George is allowing his bootlegger brother to use the house as a hiding place for his liquor.
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The Masks of the Devil
Title: The Masks of the Devil
Character: Count Palester
Released: November 17, 1928
Type: Movie
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months (TCM).
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The Cat's Pajamas
Title: The Cat's Pajamas
Released: August 29, 1926
Type: Movie
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Forty Winks
Title: Forty Winks
Character: Adam Butterworth
Released: February 2, 1925
Type: Movie
The Butterworth family attorney Gaspar Le Sage, and a suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth, persuades a beautiful adventuress, Annabelle Wu, to help him steal the official plans for the coastal defense of California from Eleanor's brother, Lieutenant Butterworth.
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Locked Doors
Title: Locked Doors
Character: Mr. Reid
Released: January 5, 1925
Type: Movie
A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid father and then feels the call of youth and falls desperately in love with a young man.
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To the Ladies
Title: To the Ladies
Character: John Kincaid
Released: October 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
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Stephen Steps Out
Title: Stephen Steps Out
Character: Stephen Harlow Sr.
Released: November 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Stephen Steps Out is a 1923 comedy short.
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The Ten Commandments
Title: The Ten Commandments
Character: Moses - The Lawgiver
Released: November 23, 1923
Type: Movie
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.
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Racing Hearts
Title: Racing Hearts
Character: John Kent
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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Prodigal Daughters
Title: Prodigal Daughters
Character: J.D. Forbes
Released: April 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her daughters, so they live among the flapper set. Lester Hodges, a songwriter, is enamored of Marjory, while Garside, who runs a card room, is interested in Swifty. While gambling at Garside's place, Swifty meets Roger Corbin, who works as an engineer at her father's business. Corbin falls in love with Swifty. When Mr. Forbes protests against both his daughters' behavior, they move out. Marjory marries Hodges, but eventually leaves him and returns to her parents. Swifty, who has gambled herself into debt, agrees to marry Garside. But when the couple are together in a café, prohibition agents raid the place.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Uncle Joshua Whitcomb
Released: October 8, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
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A Trip to Paramountown
Title: A Trip to Paramountown
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
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Across the Continent
Title: Across the Continent
Character: John Dent
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Jimmy Dent , son of John Dent, the maker of the reliable but plain Dent automobile, is dismissed from the firm after he refuses to drive a Dent. He goes west with the Tyler family, owners of a rival automobile firm, in one of their expensive high speed cars. 
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Saturday Night
Title: Saturday Night
Character: Uncle
Released: January 29, 1922
Type: Movie
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
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Hail the Woman
Title: Hail the Woman
Character: Oliver Beresford
Released: November 28, 1921
Type: Movie
Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than determine whether the stories are true, he bans her from his house. Her brother David, a pusillanimous reprobate, has secretly married and fathered, then abandoned, a child. Judith takes care of the child and finds a way to restore her family through the love for the babe.
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Miss Lulu Bett
Title: Miss Lulu Bett
Character: Dwight Deacon
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Theodore Roberts (as Dwight Deacon); running the house with an iron fist, he is both a dentist and a Justice of the Peace. As the latter, he accidentally marries Ms. Wilson to his visiting brother Clarence Burton (as Ninian Deacon) while they are out for dinner. Schoolteacher Milton Sills (as Neil Cornish) is also interested in Wilson...
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The Affairs of Anatol
Title: The Affairs of Anatol
Character: Gordon Bronson
Released: September 25, 1921
Type: Movie
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
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Too Much Speed
Title: Too Much Speed
Character: Pat MacMurran
Released: June 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Egotistical race-car driver Dusty Rhoades learns that humility pays off even better than acclaim.
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Sham
Title: Sham
Character: Jeriamiah Buck
Released: May 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and her wealthy aunts and uncle refuse to give her any money. Katherine is desperate enough that she is considering marrying the wealthy Montee Buck (Hiers), although she is in love with the westerner Tom Jaffrey (Fillmore), who says he is poor. Finally, Katherine decides to sell the famous Van Riper pearls, pay off her debts, and marry Tom. However, upon examination the jewelry turns out to be paste, with her father having sold the genuine pearls several years earlier before his death. Montee is assured by the aunts that Katherine will marry him and tells this to Tom. Tom is about to leave town when Uncle James (Ricketts) steps in and pays off Katherine's debts, leaving the niece free to marry Tom.
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The Love Special
Title: The Love Special
Character: Railroad President Gage
Released: March 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Jim Glover is an engineer in charge of constructing a railroad to the sea. He gives the company president Gage a tour of the area of land coveted for its use as a short cut that can save hours on the journey. After the officials visit a recently constructed dam, the train makes a stop in a dull town, and Gage's daughter Laura throws a charity bazaar to combat the boredom. Jim puts together a mock-holdup that saves the event from financial ruin, endearing Laura to him. Later, an accident traps three workers in a cave, and Jim is called away to rescue the victims.
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Forbidden Fruit
Title: Forbidden Fruit
Character: James Harrington Mallory
Released: January 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with a rich man by the name of Nelson Rogers. The deal does not seem to be on the table, as Mr. Rogers is leaving town shortly and does not have the time to work out the details of such a deal. In an order to entice him to stay, Mrs. Mallory - wife of Mr. Mallory who is proposing the business deal - convinces Mary to be her guest at a dinner party with the intent of making Mr. Rogers fall for her and thus stay long enough for Mr. Mallory to make him agree to a business deal.
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The Furnace
Title: The Furnace
Released: November 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Something to Think About
Title: Something to Think About
Character: Luke Anderson
Released: October 16, 1920
Type: Movie
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
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Excuse My Dust
Title: Excuse My Dust
Character: J.D. Ward
Released: March 20, 1920
Type: Movie
A top race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't want him to race anymore. However, not long afterwards his wife takes their infant son and leaves him to go to San Francisco. The husband gets word that his son is seriously ill in San Francisco, but he has no way to get there. Just in the nick of time, however, the racer's father-in-law just happens to have developed a new car for a cross-country race--to San Francisco!
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Judy of Rogues' Harbor
Title: Judy of Rogues' Harbor
Character: Grandpap Ketchel
Released: February 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protector of little Denny, Ketchel's grandson, Judy is forced to accept the attentions of Jim Shuckles, whom she abhors and who has compromised her sister Olive.
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Double Speed
Title: Double Speed
Character: John Ogden
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Auto racer Speed Carr enters a marathon race across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles. He encounters numerous obstacles not related to the race and must switch identities and vehicles before he can finish.
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Suds
Title: Suds
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
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Everywoman
Title: Everywoman
Character: Wealth
Released: December 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne.
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Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Title: Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Character: Sen. Ballard
Released: November 30, 1919
Type: Movie
A light-hearted romantic adventure.
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Male and Female
Title: Male and Female
Character: Lord Loam
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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Secret Service
Title: Secret Service
Character: General Harrison Randolph
Released: June 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is planned. But Dumont falls in love with a Southern girl and when she proves useful to his plan, his conscience begins to tear at him.
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You're Fired
Title: You're Fired
Character: Gordon Rogers
Released: June 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Railroad magnate Gordon Rogers agrees to allow his daughter, Helen, to marry wealthy idler Billy Deering, Jr., but only if the latter can hold the same job for one month. Billy is hired for an array of jobs, including office clerk and xylophone player, but always quits just before being fired. He then finds work in a restaurant where he is required to dress as a knight in armor and pose as a statue. On one occasion, Gordon, Helen, and Billy's romantic rival, Tom, enter the restaurant, and Billy is nearly fired when Helen recognizes him. Meanwhile, Gordon plans to merge one of his railroads with a company that is in a dispute with Tom's uncle, an unprincipled financier. Acting on the promise of a generous cash reward, Tom is determined to steal documents relating to the merger.
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The Woman Thou Gavest Me
Title: The Woman Thou Gavest Me
Character: Daniel MacNeill
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (Jack Holt) in order to satisfy an old grudge. But Mary wants nothing to do with the dissolute Lord and tells him so on their wedding night. So he takes his mistress, Alma Lier (Fritzi Brunette), to India and passes her off as Lady Raa, while Mary disappears to a French village, where she spends time with the man she loved all along, explorer Martin Conrad (Milton Sills).
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The Roaring Road
Title: The Roaring Road
Character: J.D. Ward, the Bear
Released: April 26, 1919
Type: Movie
"Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quarrels with his boss; Ward will not let him enter the Santa Monica Grand Prize Road Race, or marry his daughter Dorothy.
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For Better, for Worse
Title: For Better, for Worse
Character: Hospital Head
Released: April 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
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The Winning Girl
Title: The Winning Girl
Character: Major Milligan
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his daughter Jamesina, or Jemmy for short. With the birth of her second child, Mrs. Milligan dies, and several years later, when Jemmy is about eighteen, the Major marries a widow with three children. Soon the family is deeply in debt. Jemmy gets work at a textile factory, gets jobs for the other children, and even inspires the Major to work. She falls in love with Stanley Templeton, an aviator on furlough, but because his mother disapproves, Jemmy refuses to marry him. After Stanley returns to the war, Jemmy captures a German spy in the plant who was soaking cloth for airplanes in acid. She receives a reward which allows the Milligans to pay off their mortgage. Mrs. Templeton apologizes, and when Stanley returns, she warmly approves of their engagement.
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Don't Change Your Husband
Title: Don't Change Your Husband
Character: The Bishop, Rt. Rev. Thomas Thornby
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
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The Only Way
Title: The Only Way
Released: January 1, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Big Bill
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
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Arizona
Title: Arizona
Character: Canby
Released: December 9, 1918
Type: Movie
A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not love her, so she contrives to marry his commanding officer, who is also his best friend.
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The Source
Title: The Source
Character: Big John Beaumont
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A young man of social standing chooses instead to live as a hobo. He gets work in a lumber camp, and there uncovers intrigue by German agents.
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We Can't Have Everything
Title: We Can't Have Everything
Character: The Sultan
Released: July 7, 1918
Type: Movie
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.
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Old Wives for New
Title: Old Wives for New
Character: Tom Berkeley
Released: May 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
Released: May 5, 1918
Type: Movie
M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
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Hidden Pearls
Title: Hidden Pearls
Character: John Garvin
Released: February 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in love with Enid Benton (Florence Vidor).
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The Devil Stone
Title: The Devil Stone
Released: December 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy American Silas Martin marries her, then sets her up for divorce. She kills him and weds his business manager Sterling, but a detective learns about Silas' death.
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Nan of Music Mountain
Title: Nan of Music Mountain
Character: Duke Morgan
Released: December 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Henry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider with Duke Morgan's gang, cattlemen, and outlaws. Nan, daughter of the head of the clan, secretly loves Henry and when he is wounded in a fight with the Morgan clan, she helps him escape. This angers her father and he declares that she shall marry her cousin. Nan dispatches a message to Henry for assistance and he brings her safely to his clan. Nan then learns that her father was the murder of Henry's father. She returns to her father to learn the truth and together they go to Henry and reveal the murder's name. After a thorough understanding and forgiving, Henry and Nan are married.
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A Little Princess
Title: A Little Princess
Character: Cassim
Released: November 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
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All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
Title: All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
Released: October 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Short film with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford & W.S. Hart promoting war bonds.
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The Cost of Hatred
Title: The Cost of Hatred
Character: Justus Graves
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he returns home from a business trip, he finds his wife Elsie (Kathlyn Williams) in the arms of another man (J.W. Johnston). Graves shoots and wounds the man, then hides with his little daughter in Mexico.
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The American Consul
Title: The American Consul
Character: Abel Manning
Released: February 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Country lawyer Abel Manning is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his oratory, he helps elect James Kitwell to the U.S. Senate. Kitwell has promised to reward Manning an important post. No job is forthcoming until a scheme is offered to the unscrupulous Kitwell by Pedro Gonzales. Gonzales plans a revolution in Mexico and needs a corruptible American consul.
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Joan the Woman
Title: Joan the Woman
Character: Cauchon
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
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Common Ground
Title: Common Ground
Character: James Mordant
Released: July 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Crusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged to Mordant's daughter, Doris. Hearing of Evan's plan, Mordant devises a scheme of his own and `frames' Evans with five teenage girls and a prostitute.
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The Dream Girl
Title: The Dream Girl
Character: Jim Dugan
Released: July 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in scheme to blackmail a wealthy girl. Meg is put on probation to Benjamin Merton, father of the girl to be blackmailed. When she discovers her father's plan she reveals all, risking expulsion from her new home and the company of its very attractive son Tom.
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The Thousand-Dollar Husband
Title: The Thousand-Dollar Husband
Character: Uncle Sven Johnson
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
A now lost film directed by James Young and starring Blanche Sweet
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Character: Judd Tolliver
Released: February 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Jack Hale, a revenue agent, is sent into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to track down illegal alcohol producers.
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The Immigrant
Title: The Immigrant
Character: J.J. Walton
Released: December 20, 1915
Type: Movie
Masha, a young Russian emigrant traveling to the U.S., is saved from an officer's advances by civil engineer David Harding. Upon landing in America, J. J. Walton, a self-made political boss and contractor, pursues Masha and hires her as his maid. She leaves after the first night, but becomes his mistress after Walton promises her an education and marriage.
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Temptation
Title: Temptation
Character: Otto Mueller
Released: December 15, 1915
Type: Movie
Opera singer Renee Dupree is in love with struggling composer Julian who falls very seriously ill. She goes to impresario Mueller for the money Julian needs but is saved from sacrificing her virtue when a jealous lover kills Mueller.
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The Unknown
Title: The Unknown
Character: Capt. Destinn
Released: December 9, 1915
Type: Movie
Richard Farquhar, the ne'er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted "good time" finds himself penniless in an Algerian hotel. He expects money from England, but instead receives a cablegram stating his allowance has been stopped and that his uncle will have nothing further to do with him.
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Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Title: Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Character: Mr. Grex, alias of Grand Duke Augustus Peter
Released: December 2, 1915
Type: Movie
"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter of Russia, whose incognito is Mr. Grex, an English Secret Service agent, Lord Huntersley and a young American millionaire on pleasure bent, Richard Lane. Mr. Grex and two other diplomats who unofficially represent France and Germany, plan to meet as if by chance in Monte Carlo for the purpose of arranging a secret pact.
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The Case of Becky
Title: The Case of Becky
Character: Balzamo
Released: September 13, 1915
Type: Movie
When a young girl is placed under hypnotism, it's discovered that she has a split personality.
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The Woman
Title: The Woman
Character: The Hononorable Jim Blake
Released: August 23, 1915
Type: Movie
William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille's father Henry and David Belasco. The story is set in Washington D.C., courtesy of the Lasky Studio's scenic department. Lois Meredith plays the title character, a woman of questionable morals currently involved with young politician James Neill. Political boss Theodore Roberts hopes to ruin Neill by making public the young man's romantic entanglements.
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The Wild Goose Chase
Title: The Wild Goose Chase
Character: Horatio Brutus Bangs
Released: May 27, 1915
Type: Movie
Two American grandfathers in France try to arrange marriages for their grandson and granddaughter by promising them money. The young ones refuse and run off to join a theatrical group where they fall in love and marry as their grandparents had intended.
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Stolen Goods
Title: Stolen Goods
Character: German surgeon major
Released: May 14, 1915
Type: Movie
The lives of a poor orphan and a rich kleptomaniac intertwine after the former is framed for a robbery by the latter.
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The Captive
Title: The Captive
Character: The burgomaster
Released: April 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm when older brother Marko goes off to battle. Unable to handle the day-to-day tasks following her brother’s tragic death, help comes in the form of Mahmud Hassan, a captured Turk nobleman, now a prisoner of war. Tasked with helping Sonia, their initial frosty relationship soon melts into love. As the war rages on Sonia, Mahmud and Milos will face near-insurmountable obstacles in their quest for a better life amidst the hell of war.
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The Unafraid
Title: The Unafraid
Character: Dual Empire Secret Agent
Released: April 1, 1915
Type: Movie
In Montegro brothers Stefan and Michael kidnap American heiress Delight Warren. Stefan marries her so he can claim her wealth, but then they fall in love.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Jack Rance
Released: January 4, 1915
Type: Movie
A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…
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The Ghost Breaker
Title: The Ghost Breaker
Character: Prince of Aragon
Released: December 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
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The Circus Man
Title: The Circus Man
Character: Thomas Braddock
Released: November 19, 1914
Type: Movie
David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling circus.
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The Man From Home
Title: The Man From Home
Character: The Grand Duke Vaseill
Released: November 9, 1914
Type: Movie
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Ready Money
Title: Ready Money
Character: Mike Reardon
Released: November 5, 1914
Type: Movie
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.
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What's His Name
Title: What's His Name
Character: Character Man
Released: October 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years of poverty-stricken marriage to Nellie. After a musical comedy troupe comes through, Nellie becomes an actress. When she then falls for a millionaire and goes to Reno for a divorce, Harvey takes their child Phoebe home where her later illness brings her parents back together.
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Where the Trail Divides
Title: Where the Trail Divides
Character: Colonel William Landor
Released: October 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an Indian uprising. When the children are grown, How proposes to Bess, whom he has loved since his childhood. She accepts his proposal, thus angering Clayton Craig, Lander's nephew who also wants to marry her. After Lander's death, How is exiled from the ranch, so he and Bess buy new land. One day, after he has been away, How returns to his cabin to see Bess and Craig embracing. How grants Bess her freedom after which she marries Craig and moves to New York. Some time later, How discovers oil on the land that he gave Bess, so he follows them to New York. There he finds that Craig has been unfaithful to Bess. In the end, Bess rejects Craig so that she and How can remarry and find "a trail to happiness together." -From TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
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The Making of Bobby Burnit
Title: The Making of Bobby Burnit
Character: Sam Stone
Released: September 17, 1914
Type: Movie
Bobby Burnit, a naïve young man, inherits $300,000 from his father, a hard-working entrepreneur. Because the will specifies that the money must be invested, Agnes Elliston, Bobby's sweetheart, suggests that he take over his father's chain of stores. Soon Bobby becomes the dupe of various swindlers and charlatans, among them Sam Stone and Bobby's shady lawyer. With the help of Bobby's friend Biff Bates and Daniel Johnson, a loyal employee of Bobby's father, the swindlers are exposed in the newspaper and Bobby's inheritance is saved. Finally, after rescuing Agnes from Stone's advances, Bobby proposes to her, thus complying with all of his late father's wishes. -From TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
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The Call of the North
Title: The Call of the North
Character: Galen Albert
Released: August 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Graehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to avenge his father, but got captured and sent to the long journey to death "la longue traverse".