Clyde Benson

Clyde Benson

Born: July 20, 1881
Died: October 15, 1947
in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA

Movies for Clyde Benson...

The Primitive Lover
Title: The Primitive Lover
Character: Attorney
Released: April 30, 1922
Type: Movie
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Title: The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Character: The Butler
Released: June 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to rescue a young woman from some thugs on a country road. It includes a gag featuring an exploding football. The rest of the cast includes Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana, Josie Sedgwick and Herschel Mayall.
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The Virgin of Stamboul
Title: The Virgin of Stamboul
Character: His emissary
Released: March 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.
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The Best Man
Title: The Best Man
Character: George Hayne
Released: May 4, 1919
Type: Movie
The Library of Congress lists this as a ‘lost’ film, however a copy exists in the UK. Gordon, disguised as Hayne, meets with the criminals and manages to purloin the stolen code but the real Hayne, who the police have failed to apprehend, gives chase. Gordon escapes in a taxi that had been pre-booked to take Hayne to church to marry Celia. Arriving at the church, and remembering his instructions ‘Let Nothing Hinder You’, Gordon allows himself to be married to Celia while planning how he will escape.
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The Sheriff's Son
Title: The Sheriff's Son
Character: Dan Meldrum
Released: March 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Sheriff's son Royal Beaudry is thought a coward, even by the young woman he has his heart set on. But he disproves cowardice when he rescues his father's friend from kidnappers.
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The Romance of Tarzan
Title: The Romance of Tarzan
Character: Lawyer
Released: October 17, 1918
Type: Movie
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes to their ranch near San Francisco. Tarzan shows up in a tuxedo and rescues Jane from outlaws...
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Green Eyes
Title: Green Eyes
Character: Jim Webb
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her down to his home. There, she finds an acquaintance, Alexander Chapman (Robert McKim), and the fact that she knows him rouses her new husband's jealousy. This is fanned even further when Pearson's younger brother, Morgan (Emory Johnson) returns from college. His fiancee, Margery (Doris Lee), believes there is something going on between Shirley and Morgan and complains to Pearson.
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The Human Target
Title: The Human Target
Character: Lieutenant Bertram
Released: August 3, 1918
Type: Movie
Harrison Craig, with the aid of a woman who has lost her husband through the sinking of a ship, uses her wiles on a member of Saxonia's royal family and obtains valuable drawings. The Prince and his lieutenant plot to demolish the block house in which Craig is a prisoner, but one of the artillery shots frees his bounds and he escapes.
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Triumph
Title: Triumph
Character: Rupert Vincent
Released: September 2, 1917
Type: Movie
This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera.
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The Clean-Up
Title: The Clean-Up
Character: Joe Byers
Released: August 6, 1917
Type: Movie
A publicist for a racy burlesque troupe romances the daughter of the head of The Purity League, an organization that wishes to see such shows banned.
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The Flashlight
Title: The Flashlight
Character: Deputy
Released: May 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a camera with a trigger -- when the trigger is stepped on by a passing animal, a flash goes off and the camera shoots the picture. Lane goes up to the mountains to try out his new contraption. When a recluse refuses to let him spend the night in his cabin, Lane goes to sleep out of doors, with the camera set up near by. In the middle of the night, he is awakened by the flash and the sound of gunshots. Trekking back to his own cabin the next day, he develops the picture, which is of a girl holding a rifle. He returns to the recluse's cabin where he is arrested for murder.
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Perils of the Secret Service
Title: Perils of the Secret Service
Character: Saxonian Chief (Episode #1)
Released: March 9, 1917
Type: Movie
A 9-part movie serial
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Little Partner
Title: Little Partner
Character: Bill Lewis
Released: December 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Agnes Vernon is the daughter of an old prospector whose hard luck leads him to turn holdup. The father is hanged and the girl, unknowing the real truth, becomes the ward of two young and successful miners.
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The Mainspring
Title: The Mainspring
Character: William Ramsdale
Released: November 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Finding himself penniless, Lawrence Ashmore, whose late father was ruined on the stock exchange, obtains a position as a reporter. Ashmore is assigned to investigate the reported fatal illness of Jesse Craven, one of Wall Street's financial monarchs.
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Manning's Secretary
Released: July 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Mildred Manning wants to experience the Wild West firsthand with her beau, Sir Charles Beverly. While Charles is gambling, Mildred is saved from two drunken cowboys by Del Burton. Del falls in love with Mildred and follows her back east.
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Civilization's Child
Title: Civilization's Child
Character: Jacob Weil
Released: April 23, 1916
Type: Movie
After an idyllic mountain life in Russia, Berna goes to live with her uncle in the Jewish section of Kiev, arriving just as Cossacks massacre most of the Jews in the city. Berna escapes to New York and works at a sweatshop controlled by Boss Jim McManus, but he seduces her, then throws her out on the street, and she becomes a prostitute. Berna later marries Nicolay Turgenev, a young musician,
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The Long Chance
Title: The Long Chance
Character: Sam - an Indian (as Mr. Benson)
Released: November 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Harley Hennage, a gambler, loves Marie but remains silent when he realizes that she is in love with Oliver Corblay, a prospector. After Corblay and Marie marry, Harley moves to the distant town of San Pasqual and does not see his old sweetheart until her husband is killed while staking a claim in the desert.
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The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle
Title: The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle
Character: Robert Wayne
Released: June 30, 1915
Type: Movie
A fisherman discovers a young woman on a long-uninhabited island who gives him the ominous warning that those who land on Dead Man's Isle don't have long to live.