Frank Bennett

Frank Bennett

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The Eyes of Mystery
Title: The Eyes of Mystery
Character: Seth Megget
Released: January 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Carma Carmichael, who lives with her uncle Quincy, is kidnapped by her renegade father Roger and taken to his ancestral Southern home. Uncle Quincy sends young Jack Carrington to investigate and goes into hiding, leading the Carmichaels to believe he is dead. Carma is at first suspicious of Jack's intentions but soon learns that the man who abducted her is actually an impostor who had murdered her father and now lives in the plantation with a group of thugs. Despite "Roger's" attempts to take Jack's life, the young man incites the thugs against him and they attack the house.
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The Jury of Fate
Title: The Jury of Fate
Character: François Leblanc
Released: August 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Henri Labordie (Tavernier) is the father of twins. Jeanne (Taliaferro) is sweet and winsome while her brother Jaques (Taliaferro), pampered by her father, is ill-tempered. When Jaques dies through his own caddishness, Jeanne, to spare her father from the shock, clips off her hair and dons boys clothing so that her father will think that it was her and not Jaques who drowned in a stream. When Labordie dies, Jeanne's deception ends when she goes to Montreal to fulfill an ancient pact, and there she finds happiness
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Her Official Fathers
Title: Her Official Fathers
Character: Steven Peabody
Released: April 7, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Elmer Clifton, Joseph Henabery, and Dorothy Gish.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Jack Martin
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Edward Morrissey.
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The Little Yank
Title: The Little Yank
Character: Captain Johnnie
Released: January 14, 1917
Type: Movie
Sallie is a beautiful Kentucky girl who belongs to a family of Union sympathizers. Her brother is a lieutenant in the Union army, and on a visit home brings Major Rushton, his superior officer, who falls in love with Sallie, "the little Yank."
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The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
Title: The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
Character: Carl Miller
Released: December 23, 1916
Type: Movie
"Waffles," the waitress at "Coffee Dan's" hash-house, is selected by Bert Gallagher and Clara Johnstone, a pair of crooks, to be represented as a missing heiress whose story they have read about in the papers. "Waffles" herself believes the story, as she was orphaned early and remembers little of her childhood, and by adroit coaching is able to convince the estate's none too bright lawyers of the validity of her claim. With this unlimited money, poor little "Waffles" nevertheless has only three desires: to buy the little restaurant for her old benefactor, Shorty Olson, to publish the music written by her lover, Carl Miller, a young, eccentric, absent-minded musical genius, and to adopt the baby that a Mrs. O'Shaughnessy is too poor to care for.
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A Sister of Six
Title: A Sister of Six
Character: Joaquin Sepulveda
Released: October 29, 1916
Type: Movie
A young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their father over gold found on his ranch. Together the seven offspring fight against their greedy neighbors to keep what is rightfully theirs.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Charles IX
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Hotel Proprietor
Released: July 23, 1916
Type: Movie
H. Ulysses Watts is a traveling Shakespearean actor whose career is on the decline, as his audiences are more interested in cinema and vaudeville. When the troupe is robbed by Stoner, Watts cares for an injured young trapeze artist.
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Sold for Marriage
Title: Sold for Marriage
Character: Jan
Released: April 15, 1916
Type: Movie
A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her lover, an returning immigrant visiting Russia from the U.S., sails on the same ship. When they arrive he learns, to his surprise, that the American police, unlike those of his native country, are not oppressors of the poor, but friends that will aid in securing the release of his beloved Marfa.
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The Little Catamount
Title: The Little Catamount
Character: Pete
Released: July 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Hattie, a moonshiner's daughter, plays with her weird dog, Fanny, and rules her father with a rod of iron. To their mountain cabin comes Neighbor Dawson, another moonshiner, and arranges with Hattie's father to marry her. This does not agree with Hattie's ideas at all.
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The Mountain Girl
Title: The Mountain Girl
Character: The Stranger
Released: July 11, 1915
Type: Movie
In a primitive log cabin buried among the rugged pines deep in the California mountains lives the Mountain Girl with her grandfather, a man of hoary age.
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The Lost Lord Lowell
Title: The Lost Lord Lowell
Character: Herbert - the Butler
Released: February 21, 1915
Type: Movie
Molly, a slavey in a New York boarding house, is in love with Herbert, the butler at the house next door. They are engaged to be married. Molly is a sort of Cinderella, whom everybody in the boarding house picks on, especially Beth, an actress in search of a rich husband. A mysterious man comes to the place, and both Molly and Beth, because of his resemblance to a picture they have seen in the paper of the lost Lord Lovell, believe him to be none other than this titled Englishman, whom the trustees of his estate are seeking. Beth gets the stranger a place in her company, and the manager makes money featuring "the lost Lord Lovell." Meanwhile, Molly and the butler have been married. To celebrate their honeymoon they go to the theater. Coming out, they read in the paper about the hit Lord Lovell is making on Broadway and the story of his disappearance from England.
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How Hazel Got Even
Title: How Hazel Got Even
Released: February 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Hazel, a cashier in a restaurant, is engaged to Patsy, a bus driver. Patsy earns some extra money by going in on preliminary bouts at the Athletic Club pugilistic exhibitions, and gains a local reputation as a boxer. When a big fighter is suddenly taken ill on the eve of a public contest, Patsy substitutes, wins the match, and suddenly finds himself in line for a bout with the champion of the world. On receipt of an offer for a long tour, he gets a swelled head and repudiates Hazel, who is forced to go back to work in the restaurant. She plans to get even with Patsy.
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Cigar Butts
Title: Cigar Butts
Released: April 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Short film telling the story of diamond smuggling.
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The Hand Bag
Title: The Hand Bag
Character: Tom Fredericks
Released: November 9, 1912
Type: Movie
A comedy in which the unattractive young woman De Roseville loses her handbag. The bag is found by a pretty girl, but then she also forgets about it. When a young man brings the bag back, he expects to find the cute girl, instead of the ugly Ms. De Roseville.