Claude Gillingwater

Claude Gillingwater

Born: August 1, 1870
Died: November 2, 1939
in Louisiana, Missouri, USA
Tall, balding character actor in US films from 1921 until the year he died, usually portraying obstinate or irascible types.

A man so disagreeable on celluloid, Claude Gillingwater's characters seemed to subsist on a steady diet of persimmons. Fondly recalled as the cranky old skinflint whose seemingly cold heart could only be warmed by the actions of a cute little tyke, the tall and rangy Gillingwater invariably played much older than he was. He, with the omnipresent bushy brows, crop of silver hair and perpetually sour puss, had a much more versatile career than perhaps realized -- on both stage and in film. Most assuredly, this caustic screen image he perfected belied a softer, gentler off-screen demeanor for he was a kind and sympathetic gent and devoted husband to wife Carlyn Stiletz (or Stellith). Their only child, Claude Gillingwater Jr., briefly became an actor himself. Sadly, Gillingwater Sr.'s thriving character career ended on a grim and tragic note in 1939. A serious accident on the movie set of the picture Florida Special (1936) (he fell from a platform and injured his back) damaged his health and threatened his career, and the death of his long-time wife Carlyn left him irrevocably depressed. Fearing the possibility of becoming an invalid and wishing not to become a serious burden to anyone, the 69-year-old actor committed suicide at his Beverly Hills home with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Gillingwater left a fine Hollywood legacy and the fun of some of his old films is watching his vinegar turn to sugar.

Date of Birth 2 August 1870, Louisiana, Missouri

Date of Death 2 November 1939, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California  (suicide)

Movies for Claude Gillingwater...

Cafe Society
Title: Cafe Society
Character: Old Christopher West
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
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Just Around the Corner
Title: Just Around the Corner
Character: Samuel G. Henshaw
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Cyrus W. Butterfield
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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Little Miss Broadway
Title: Little Miss Broadway
Character: Judge
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
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A Yank at Oxford
Title: A Yank at Oxford
Character: Ben Dalton
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
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Conquest
Title: Conquest
Character: Stephan
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.
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Top of the Town
Title: Top of the Town
Character: William Borden
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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Can This Be Dixie?
Title: Can This Be Dixie?
Character: Col. Robert Peachtree
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
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Wives Never Know
Title: Wives Never Know
Character: Mr. Gossamer
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Title: Poor Little Rich Girl
Character: Simon Peck
Released: July 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
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Ticket to Paradise
Title: Ticket to Paradise
Character: Robert Forbes
Released: June 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
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Counterfeit
Title: Counterfeit
Character: Tom Perkins
Released: May 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
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Florida Special
Title: Florida Special
Character: Simeon Stafford
Released: April 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
Title: The Prisoner of Shark Island
Character: Colonel Dyer
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Jarvis Lorry
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.
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Together We Live
Title: Together We Live
Character: Dick
Released: August 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement in America.
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Calm Yourself
Title: Calm Yourself
Character: Col. Allenby
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
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Baby Face Harrington
Title: Baby Face Harrington
Character: Colton
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.
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Mississippi
Title: Mississippi
Character: Gen. Rumford
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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The Woman in Red
Title: The Woman in Red
Character: Grandpa Wyatt
Released: February 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust family in this horsy-set drama.
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Strange Wives
Title: Strange Wives
Character: Guggins
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
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The Captain Hates the Sea
Title: The Captain Hates the Sea
Character: Judge Griswold
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
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Green Eyes
Title: Green Eyes
Character: Steven Kester
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
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Back Page
Title: Back Page
Character: Sam Webster
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
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In Love with Life
Title: In Love with Life
Character: Morley
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He meets a young boy, Laury and his mother, Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson, who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morleys daughter had eloped against her father's wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury's birth.
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Unknown Blonde
Title: Unknown Blonde
Character: Papa Van Brunt, Sr.
Released: April 23, 1934
Type: Movie
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
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City Limits
Title: City Limits
Character: Tom Oliver
Released: April 14, 1934
Type: Movie
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible.
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The Show-Off
Title: The Show-Off
Character: J.B. Preston
Released: March 9, 1934
Type: Movie
Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent for a good price and an old railroad deal comes through, he's back on top and ready to marry Amy again.
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You Can't Buy Everything
Title: You Can't Buy Everything
Character: Asa Cabot - Banker
Released: January 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
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Before Midnight
Title: Before Midnight
Character: John Fry
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
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I Loved a Woman
Title: I Loved a Woman
Character: Banker (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
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Skyway
Title: Skyway
Character: John Beaumont
Released: August 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
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The Avenger
Title: The Avenger
Character: Witt
Released: August 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
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Ann Carver's Profession
Title: Ann Carver's Profession
Character: Judge Bingham
Released: June 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
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Tess of the Storm Country
Title: Tess of the Storm Country
Character: Frederick Garfield Sr
Released: November 20, 1932
Type: Movie
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.
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Running Hollywood
Title: Running Hollywood
Character: Claude Gillingwater
Released: January 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
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The Wide Open Spaces
Title: The Wide Open Spaces
Character: Judge
Released: December 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
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Compromised
Title: Compromised
Character: John Brock
Released: November 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
Title: How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Bobby Jones teaches an angry old man how to use the Brassie, while simultaneously freeing his daughter from his oppressive clutches.
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Gold Dust Gertie
Title: Gold Dust Gertie
Character: John Aberdeen Arnold
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
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Daddy Long Legs
Title: Daddy Long Legs
Character: Riggs
Released: June 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
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The Conquering Horde
Title: The Conquering Horde
Character: Jim Nabours
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and in order to do that he has to pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
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Illicit
Title: Illicit
Character: Richard Ives Sr.
Released: February 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
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Kiss Me Again
Title: Kiss Me Again
Character: Count de St. Cyr
Released: January 7, 1931
Type: Movie
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
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The Flirting Widow
Title: The Flirting Widow
Character: Faraday
Released: May 11, 1930
Type: Movie
An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.
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Dumb-bells in Ermine
Title: Dumb-bells in Ermine
Character: Uncle Roger
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
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Mexicali Rose
Title: Mexicali Rose
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1929
Type: Movie
The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.
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So Long Letty
Title: So Long Letty
Character: Uncle Claude Davis
Released: October 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
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The Great Divide
Title: The Great Divide
Character: Winthrop Amesbury
Released: September 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner. Ruth is vacationing in Arizona and Mexico with a fast set of friends, including her fiancé, Edgar. Manuella, a Spanish halfbreed hopelessly in love with Ghent, causes Ruth to return to her fiancé when she insinuates that Ghent belongs to her. Ghent follows Ruth, kidnaps her, and takes her into the wilderness to endure hardship. There she discovers that she loves Ghent, and she discards Edgar in favor of him.
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Glad Rag Doll
Title: Glad Rag Doll
Character: Sam Underlane
Released: May 4, 1929
Type: Movie
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
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Stolen Kisses
Title: Stolen Kisses
Character: H.A. Lambert Sr.
Released: February 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
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Stark Mad
Title: Stark Mad
Character: James Rutherford - Expedition Leader
Released: February 2, 1929
Type: Movie
An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
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Oh Kay!
Title: Oh Kay!
Character: Judge Appleton
Released: August 26, 1928
Type: Movie
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.
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Women They Talk About
Title: Women They Talk About
Character: Grandfather Mervin
Released: August 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is considered to be a lost film.
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The Gorilla
Title: The Gorilla
Character: Cyrus Townsend
Released: November 13, 1927
Type: Movie
An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
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Barbed Wire
Title: Barbed Wire
Character: Jean Moreau
Released: September 9, 1927
Type: Movie
During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Judge J. R. Altewood
Released: June 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: Smithfield
Released: June 12, 1927
Type: Movie
When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield… When he meets Ethel, Mr. Smithfield's beautiful daughter, Tom falls in love with her at first sight…
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Title: 45 Minutes from Hollywood
Character: Old Man in Hotel Bed (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
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Into Her Kingdom
Title: Into Her Kingdom
Character: Ivan
Released: August 8, 1926
Type: Movie
In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow the royal family. The entire royal family is condemned to death when fighting ceases.
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That's My Baby
Title: That's My Baby
Character: John Raynor
Released: April 19, 1926
Type: Movie
On the eve of his wedding, businessman Alan Boyd gets a telegram notifying him that his "bride" has fallen in love with another man and eloped with him. Announcing that he is through with women, an hour he meets pretty Helen Raynor, who takes to him (and is also his business rival's daughter). Helen's mother, though, doesn't take to Alan at all. In addition, Schuyler Van Loon, who is also after Helen, comes up with a scheme to embarrass Alan in Helen's eyes and ruin his reputation in the bargain--he comes up with a "baby" he claims is Alan's illegitimate son.
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We Moderns
Title: We Moderns
Character: Sir Robert Sundale
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A 1925 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Pious Joe McDowell
Released: November 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act. They all pretend to be members of the household when locked in by a well meaning police officer.
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Winds of Chance
Title: Winds of Chance
Character: Tom Linton
Released: August 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
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A Thief in Paradise
Title: A Thief in Paradise
Character: Noel Jardine
Released: June 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a precarious living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San Francisco millionaire. When Philip is killed by a shark, his half caste common-law wife, Rosa, informs Maurice that Philip had been forgiven by his father, and she persuades him to assume Philip's identity and return to the States - The film is now considered a lost film.
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Cheaper to Marry
Title: Cheaper to Marry
Character: Riddle
Released: February 9, 1925
Type: Movie
Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partner, Jim Tyler, than it's cheaper to be married than to continually "play the field". The main reason he's doing that is because Jim is obsessed with the beautiful Evelyn, a gold-digger on whom Jim is spending prodigious amounts of money. Things take a turn for the worse when his spending on her gets to the point where it's placing the firm dangerously close to bankruptcy. Something has to be done.
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Madonna of the Streets
Title: Madonna of the Streets
Character: Lord Patrington
Released: October 19, 1924
Type: Movie
Rev. John Morton, who is determined to follow as closely as possible the teachings of Jesus, inherits a considerable fortune when his uncle dies. Shortly thereafter he succumbs to the wiles of Mary Carlson and marries her. To Mary's dismay, John uses his money for charitable work. When John learns that not only has Mary been unfaithful to him but she was also his uncle's mistress and became Mrs. Morton in order to share the inheritance she believed to be rightfully hers, he sends her away with his secretary.
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How to Educate a Wife
Title: How to Educate a Wife
Character: Henry Bancks
Released: May 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Business failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms as a means of winning customers.
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Daddies
Title: Daddies
Character: James Crockett
Released: February 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for adopted orphans when six orphaned children are suddenly foisted on them.
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Tiger Rose
Title: Tiger Rose
Character: Hector McCollins
Released: December 9, 1923
Type: Movie
Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading post In the peaceful Loon River Valley, deep in the Canadian Northwest comes a story of love, vengeance and sacrifice. Having lived at the trading post following the death of her father, Rose will soon fall in love. But when her new love is in trouble, Rose will discover that she is capable of much more than she thought in order to keep him safe.
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A Chapter in Her Life
Title: A Chapter in Her Life
Character: Mr. Everingham
Released: September 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love. Complete copies are held by many film archives in Europe and the United States.
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Dulcy
Title: Dulcy
Character: Mr. Forbes
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Dulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by inviting two of his business prospects to dinner. Though at first thoroughly confusing the deal, she does get her husband a bigger share than he bargained for.The film is now considered to be lost.
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Three Wise Fools
Title: Three Wise Fools
Character: Theodore Findley
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 (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Crinoline and Romance
Title: Crinoline and Romance
Character: Col. Charles E. Cavanaugh
Released: February 5, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Christian
Title: The Christian
Character: Lord Storm
Released: January 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory's friend, Polly Love, incites the London populace against John....
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The Strangers' Banquet
Title: The Strangers' Banquet
Character: Uncle Sam
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
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Remembrance
Title: Remembrance
Character: John P. Grout
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a number of department stores and his wife and children are well provided for. However, his family is completely ungrateful and takes him -- and his money -- for granted. Grout's attempts to keep them all happy are driving him to bankruptcy and he eventually becomes seriously ill. Eventually his wife and kids come to realize how badly they've treated Pops.....
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Fools First
Title: Fools First
Character: Denton Drew
Released: May 27, 1922
Type: Movie
Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he gets out of prison, he finds his girl, Ann Whittaker, waiting for him -- and she's got a scheme. She is working in a bank and wants to pull an inside heist.
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My Boy
Title: My Boy
Character: Captain Bill
Released: December 1, 1921
Type: Movie
An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character: Earl of Dorincourt
Released: September 15, 1921
Type: Movie
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.