Henry Victor

Henry Victor

Born: October 2, 1892
Died: March 15, 1945
in London, England, UK
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Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor. Raised in Germany, Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks. He originally was a leading figure in UK silent films. Later in his career, he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent. He died at 52 of a brain tumor. He is buried in Chatsworth, California's at the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery.

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Horrible Horror
Title: Horrible Horror
Character: Dr. Miklos Sangre in 'King of the Zombies'
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A collection of trailers and previews from various low-budget horror films of the '50s and '60s.
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Betrayal from the East
Title: Betrayal from the East
Character: Brunzman (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1945
Type: Movie
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
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A Royal Scandal
Title: A Royal Scandal
Character: Russian General (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: German Office (Uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Herr Schufeldt - Hamburg Official (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Title: Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Character: Heilrich
Released: April 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Character: Professor Frederic Hoffner (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shortly falls into the clutches of Professor Moriarty.
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Underground Agent
Title: Underground Agent
Character: Johann Schrode
Released: December 3, 1942
Type: Movie
In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: German Storm Trooper (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Desperate Journey
Title: Desperate Journey
Character: Heinrich Schwarzmueller
Released: September 26, 1942
Type: Movie
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Title: The Wife Takes a Flyer
Character: Col. Bosch
Released: April 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Capt. Schultz
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Blue, White, and Perfect
Title: Blue, White, and Perfect
Character: Rudolf Hagerman
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
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Dangerously They Live
Title: Dangerously They Live
Character: U-Boat Captain Horst (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Gestapo Agent
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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King of the Zombies
Title: King of the Zombies
Character: Dr. Miklos Sangre
Released: May 14, 1941
Type: Movie
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.
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The Mad Doctor
Title: The Mad Doctor
Character: Furber (Uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
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Charter Pilot
Title: Charter Pilot
Character: Faber
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Gestapo Officer with Hooked Nose (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Cmdr. Bulow
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Dutch Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Dutch Officer
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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The Mortal Storm
Title: The Mortal Storm
Character: Gestapo Official Confiscating Book on Train
Released: June 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
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Zanzibar
Title: Zanzibar
Character: Mate Simpson
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Title: Nick Carter, Master Detective
Character: Hammil - tall spy boss
Released: December 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Col. Schlager
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Foreign Official
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: German U-Boat Officer
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Nurse Edith Cavell
Title: Nurse Edith Cavell
Character: Jaubec
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Sultanov (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Wildebrandt
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Our Fighting Navy
Title: Our Fighting Navy
Character: Lt. d'Enriquo
Released: September 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Trouble is brewing in the banana republic of Bianco for both His Excellency, El Presidente, and the British Consul, Brant. Rebels, led by Diego De Costa, the trusted "Minister of the Marines and the Customs" and Lieutenant Enricquo, the gunnery officer of the small republic's one battleship, have taken over the battleship, and the town. Most of the British citizens have taken refuge at the Consulate or have been evacuated to the small cruiser in Bianco's port, the "H. M. S. Audacious." But there are two major issues; the Consul's daughter, Pamela, and Canadian Lieutenant Bill Armstrong have been kidnapped by the rebels and now held hostage on the battleship "El Mirante," and El Presidente was visiting the consulate when the war broke out and is now under the protective custody of the British Empire.
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The Great Barrier
Title: The Great Barrier
Character: Bulldog Kelly
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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The Conquest of the Air
Title: The Conquest of the Air
Character: Otto Lilienthal
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
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Fame
Title: Fame
Character: Actor
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
Comedy film...
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Can You Hear Me, Mother?
Title: Can You Hear Me, Mother?
Character: Father
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce
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The Way of Youth
Title: The Way of Youth
Character: M. Sylvestre
Released: May 7, 1935
Type: Movie
The manager of a gambling club tries to swindle the owner.
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Murder at Monte Carlo
Title: Murder at Monte Carlo
Character: Major
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
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Tiger Bay
Title: Tiger Bay
Character: Olaf
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
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I Spy
Title: I Spy
Character: KPO
Released: August 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
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The Scotland Yard Mystery
Title: The Scotland Yard Mystery
Character: Floyd
Released: January 3, 1934
Type: Movie
A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
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Luxury Liner
Title: Luxury Liner
Character: Baron von Luden
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
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Freaks
Title: Freaks
Character: Hercules
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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The Mummy
Title: The Mummy
Character: The Saxon Warrior (scenes deleted)
Released: January 1, 1932
Type: Movie
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
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Suicide Fleet
Title: Suicide Fleet
Character: Capt. Von Schlettow
Released: November 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
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Seas Beneath
Title: Seas Beneath
Character: Baron Ernst von Steuben (U-boat commander)
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.
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One Heavenly Night
Title: One Heavenly Night
Character: Almady, the Officer
Released: December 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A poor but basically honest flower woman agrees to impersonate a wicked opera star.
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Song of Soho
Title: Song of Soho
Character: Henry
Released: March 14, 1930
Type: Movie
An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.
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The Hate Ship
Title: The Hate Ship
Character: Count Boris Ivanoff
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
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After the Verdict
Title: After the Verdict
Character: Mr. Sabine
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen
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L'Argent
Title: L'Argent
Character: Jacques Hamelin
Released: December 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
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Tommy Atkins
Title: Tommy Atkins
Character: Victor
Released: May 18, 1928
Type: Movie
A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
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The Guns of Loos
Title: The Guns of Loos
Character: John Grimlaw
Released: February 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
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The Luck of the Navy
Title: The Luck of the Navy
Character: Lt. Clive Stanton
Released: November 22, 1927
Type: Movie
A spy has his son steal an Admiral's submarine plans.
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Topsy and Eva
Title: Topsy and Eva
Character: Augustine St. Claire
Released: July 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel.
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The Fourth Commandment
Title: The Fourth Commandment
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Following a reversal in the Graham family fortune, a childhood love affair between Gordon Graham and Marjorie Miller is frustrated by the socially ambitious Mrs. Miller.
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The Beloved Rogue
Title: The Beloved Rogue
Character: Thibault d'Aussigny
Released: March 12, 1927
Type: Movie
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
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Crossed Signals
Title: Crossed Signals
Character: Jack McDermott
Released: September 28, 1926
Type: Movie
A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The counterfeiters have framed the station's manager for the crime, and she must work with the agent to clear her name and get the goods on the real counterfeiters.
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Braveheart
Title: Braveheart
Character: Sam Harris
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how to handle the threat. Standing Rock's son, Braveheart, is sent to college to study law so that he can protect their rights, but others in the tribe, led by the hot-tempered Ki-Yote, want to provoke a more violent confrontation.
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The White Monkey
Title: The White Monkey
Character: Wilfrid Desert
Released: June 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Two hundred fifty thousand have read this startling novel with its revelations on married life-its intimate story of the times and follies of new conventions that hurl their challenge to the old!
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The Sins Ye Do
Title: The Sins Ye Do
Character: Ronald Hillier
Released: September 30, 1924
Type: Movie
A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
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The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
Title: The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
Character: Ronald Cavendish
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
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The White Shadow
Title: The White Shadow
Character: Louis Chadwick
Released: May 5, 1924
Type: Movie
The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked on it as assistant director and also handled the writing, editing, and art direction. The film was long thought to be lost. In August 2011, it was announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in a garden shed and donated to the NFPF. The film cans were mislabled Two Sisters and Unidentified American Film and only later identified. The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive.
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His Grace Gives Notice
Title: His Grace Gives Notice
Character: George Berwick
Released: May 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
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Slaves of Destiny
Title: Slaves of Destiny
Character: Ralph Warriner
Released: March 31, 1924
Type: Movie
In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband.
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Henry, King of Navarre
Title: Henry, King of Navarre
Character: Duc de Guise
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan.
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The Royal Oak
Title: The Royal Oak
Character: Charles I / Charles II
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. The royal entourage is disguised, and the king's sweetheart masquerades as Charles. Only when she is brought before Cromwell is it discovered the switch has been made.
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A Bill of Divorcement
Title: A Bill of Divorcement
Character: Grey Meredith
Released: August 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Meg Fairfield secures a divorce from her husband Hilary, and is about to marry Gray Meredith when Hilary returns cured. Sydney, daughter of Hilary and Meg, is engaged to Kit Pumphrey, son of the parish rector who refuses to permit his son to marry Sydney when he learns her mother is divorced....
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Diana of the Crossways
Title: Diana of the Crossways
Character: Hon. Percy Dacier
Released: May 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A sensuous woman trapped in a loveless relationship has an affair with a leading politician which threatens to bring down the government.
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A Romance of Old Baghdad
Title: A Romance of Old Baghdad
Character: Horne Jerningham
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.
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Bentley's Conscience
Title: Bentley's Conscience
Character: Fletcer
Released: February 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A secretary takes the blame when his fiancée's father ruins his oil company.
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The Old Wives' Tale
Title: The Old Wives' Tale
Character: Gerald
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.
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Beyond the Dreams of Avarice
Title: Beyond the Dreams of Avarice
Character: Dr. Lucien Calvert
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A doctor inherits a fortune, his wife leaves him and he becomes a miser.
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John Heriot's Wife
Title: John Heriot's Wife
Character: John Henriot
Released: July 14, 1920
Type: Movie
A usurer cancels a woman's debt in return for wresting a financial secret from a minister's wife.
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As God Made Her
Title: As God Made Her
Character: Seward Pendyne
Released: May 13, 1920
Type: Movie
A Lady persuades her son's lowly wife to desert him.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Character: Dorian Gray
Released: June 1, 1916
Type: Movie
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She
Title: She
Character: Leo Vincey
Released: February 1, 1916
Type: Movie
An explorer is the reincarnated lover of a 2000-year-old queen. First adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's novel, unfortunately lost.
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The King's Romance
Title: The King's Romance
Released: July 1, 1914
Type: Movie