Ruth King

Ruth King

Born: September 10, 1898
Died: February 27, 1946
in Sioux City, Iowa, USA

Movies for Ruth King...

Driftin' Thru
Title: Driftin' Thru
Character: Stella Dunn
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A drifter hobo is falsely accused of killing a saloon owner
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The Dixie Handicap
Title: The Dixie Handicap
Character: Mrs. Bosworth
Released: December 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Tale of a man and his horse.
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He Who Gets Slapped
Title: He Who Gets Slapped
Character: Marie Beaumont
Released: December 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming scientist Paul Benedict is betrayed by his mentor, the Baron Regnard, who not only steals discoveries but also his wife Marie. Benedict, reeling from his pain, joins a circus sideshow in order to become the most famous clown in France. He becomes infatuated with Consuelo, a showgirl, who has become the recipient of affections by the Baron.
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A Cafe in Cairo
Title: A Cafe in Cairo
Character: Evelyn
Released: December 7, 1924
Type: Movie
When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought up as an Arab known as Nadia. The bandit who killed Nadia's parents wishes to marry her. She is ordered to steal some documents from a British secret service agent. Lost film.
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Fifty Candles
Title: Fifty Candles
Character: Carlotta Drew
Released: December 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Sentenced to be deported from Hawaii, Hung Chin Chung pledges twenty years of service to Henry Drew to escape the certain death that awaits him in China. Rage at his humiliation and inability to marry as a free man smolders in him throughout his servitude, near the end of which he sails to San Francisco with the Drew family. Also on board is Ralph Coolidge, who tries to retrieve from Drew his share of their gold mine, and who loves Drew's secretary, Mary-Will Tellfair. Shortly after their arrival, Henry Drew is murdered; suspicion falls on Ralph, the owner of the murder weapon, a curious Chinese dagger; but subsequent events lead Hung Chin Chung to confess to the crime.
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The Cheater Reformed
Title: The Cheater Reformed
Character: Mrs. Edinburgh
Released: January 2, 1921
Type: Movie
Thomas Edinburgh is secretly in love with Carol, wife of the Reverend Luther McCall, and produces evidence that her husband was once an embezzler. Leaving for Cleveland, the minister meets his twin brother, Jordan, the real embezzler, who is evading the law. Luther is killed in a train wreck, and Jordan, assumes his brother's identity....
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Dangerous Love
Title: Dangerous Love
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Devil's Passkey
Title: The Devil's Passkey
Character: Yvonne, His Wife
Released: August 8, 1920
Type: Movie
The wife of an American playwright in Paris becomes ensnared in the seductive wiles of an American Army officer, but her devotion to her husband convinces the officer to try to extricate her from the gossip and scandal that have ensued.
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For the Soul of Rafael
Title: For the Soul of Rafael
Released: May 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Men of the Desert
Title: Men of the Desert
Character: May
Released: September 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Some of the most sanguinary feuds in America have been fought out, not in the mountains of the south, but on the deserts of the great west, where cattlemen and sheepmen often dealt out death to each other with the aid of their old friends, Winchester and Colt. Such a feud is in progress between the men of the desert when Jack, a nomadic cowboy, wanders into the scene. He is outspoken against the outlawry, and the sheriff, in jest, hands him his badge and asks him if he can do any better. Jack accepts the challenge and arrests one of the most recent slayers.
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The Land of Long Shadows
Title: The Land of Long Shadows
Character: Jeanne Verette
Released: June 18, 1917
Type: Movie
The Land of Long Shadows is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Jack Gardner, Ruth King and Carl Stockdale. It marked the directorial debut of Van Dyke. Joe Mauchin meets Jeanne Verette. He is a trapper, come down to the little post of Mead's Pocket, a vicious mining town, for supplies. She, the daughter of a saloonkeeper who compels her to "drum up trade" among his maudlin patrons. Joe falls in love with Jeanne.
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The Evil Eye
Title: The Evil Eye
Character: Rosa
Released: January 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Leonard Sheldon is the manager of a Mexican vineyard which is suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. Sheldon calls for a doctor and gets Katherine, much to the chagrin of the Mexicans. They've never seen a woman doctor, and their peasant superstitions lead them to believe that her forehead-mirror is "the evil eye," and that it's making their children die even faster.