Charles Ogle

Charles Ogle

Born: June 5, 1865
Died: October 11, 1940
in Steubenville, Ohio, USA
Charles Ogle was an American stage and silent screen actor. In 1910 he appeared as the Frankenstein monster in the first-ever film adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.

Movies for Charles Ogle...

The Flaming Forest
Title: The Flaming Forest
Character: Donald McTavish
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming Forest stars Antonio Moreno as RCMP sergeant David Carrigan.
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One Minute to Play
Title: One Minute to Play
Character: John Wade
Released: September 12, 1926
Type: Movie
"Red" Wade, a star high-school football player, has intentions of going to Claxton College, which has a powerhouse football team, but changes his mind when he meets the sister of the pitiful Paramlee team and goes to college there, just as his father, an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Wade, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton. This puts "Red" between a rock and a hard place.
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Code of the West
Title: Code of the West
Character: Henry Thurman
Released: April 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Code of the West (1925)
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The Thundering Herd
Title: The Thundering Herd
Character: Clark Hudnall
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
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Merton of the Movies
Title: Merton of the Movies
Character: Mr. Montague
Released: November 3, 1924
Type: Movie
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.
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The Garden of Weeds
Title: The Garden of Weeds
Character: Henry Poulson
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Harvey Roberts
Released: October 19, 1924
Type: Movie
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.
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The Alaskan
Title: The Alaskan
Character: Lawyer
Released: September 14, 1924
Type: Movie
An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.
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The Bedroom Window
Title: The Bedroom Window
Character: Butler
Released: June 8, 1924
Type: Movie
William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collaborator, scenarist Clara Beranger, for the 7-reel silent The Bedroom Window. Essentially a by-the-book mystery tale, the film is lifted from the ordinary by the expertise of DeMille and the charm of leading lady May McAvoy. She plays the daughter of a murder victim, while Ricardo Cortez co-stars as the Accused. Cortez is saved from the chair by his aunt Ethel Wales, a mystery writer. The real culprit is...well, keep your eye on the least likely, most cooperative member of the cast.
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Triumph
Title: Triumph
Character: James Martin
Released: April 27, 1924
Type: Movie
At the center of the story is Ann Land. Ann is a small factory worker and has only ever dreamed of great fame, recognition as an artist and applause ...
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Secrets
Title: Secrets
Character: Dr. McGovern
Released: March 24, 1924
Type: Movie
An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. They live a hardscrabble life there and suffered deprivation, hunger, Indian attacks, and the death of her baby. Although they eventually make a go of it, her husband becomes involved with another woman. Now that he is on his deathbed, will she forgive her husband after 40 years.
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The Ten Commandments
Title: The Ten Commandments
Character: The Doctor
Released: November 23, 1923
Type: Movie
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Jeff Tuttle
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Charles Ogle
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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The Covered Wagon
Title: The Covered Wagon
Character: Mr. Wingate
Released: March 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?
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Kick In
Title: Kick In
Character: John Stephens
Released: December 17, 1922
Type: Movie
After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool pigeon for the cops, they hound him mercilessly. Hewes witnesses a car accident in which Jerry Brandon, the son of the district attorney, runs over a child. He also meets Molly, the D.A.'s daughter. Because he feels the child's mother was treated unfairly, Hewes decides to pull one last heist to square things.
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Thirty Days
Title: Thirty Days
Character: Judge Hooker
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
John Cadwalader Floyd gets himself into a lot of trouble when hot-headed Italian Giacomo Polenta finds him in the arms of his wife, Rosa.
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The Young Rajah
Title: The Young Rajah
Character: Joshua Judd
Released: November 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Doctor
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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North of the Rio Grande
Title: North of the Rio Grande
Character: Colonel Haddington
Released: May 14, 1922
Type: Movie
Son of Colonel Haddington, Bob leads a posse against raiders in a settlement. During his absence, one of the prize horses is stolen and his father is killed. Bob swears revenge and becomes known as Velantrie, leader of a band of semi-outlaws, and befriends a priest, Father Hillaire. At a mission, he meets Val, daughter of John Hannon, a wealthy ranch-owner.
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A Homespun Vamp
Title: A Homespun Vamp
Character: Donald Craig
Released: February 12, 1922
Type: Movie
The story of Meg Mackenzie, the orphaned niece of two stingy Scotsmen, Donald and Duncan Craig. She's kept busy taking care of their home in the country, while they plan to marry her off to Joe Dobbs (Lincoln Stedman), the son of the village blacksmith. A wrench is thrown in the Craigs' plan when author Stephen Ware comes to the little hamlet in search of a quiet place to work. Meg immediately develops a crush on him and Ware's stay proves to be anything but quiet when there's a robbery and he is assumed to be the guilty party. A mob attacks him, and Meg steps in and saves his life. Her uncles happen to be away, and she takes him in while he recovers from his injuries. When they return, Donald and Duncan are infuriated to find Ware in their home, and they insist that he marry Meg to save her reputation.
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Her Husband’s Trademark
Title: Her Husband’s Trademark
Character: Father Berkeley
Released: February 1, 1922
Type: Movie
James Berkeley (who wants to get rich) and Allan Franklin (determined to be a great engineer) are rivals for the hand of Lois Miller. Berkeley marries her, and 15 years later, though he has not realized his ambition, he keeps his wife luxuriously attired as a "trademark" of his prosperity. Allan, who has obtained a large tract of oil land from the Mexican Government, visits the Berkeleys; and James, hoping to profit from his wealth, goes to Mexico with him, accompanied by Lois, who unwillingly agrees to help her husband. When Allan and Lois realize their love for each other, James, refusing to become angry, is denounced by his wife. A band of Mexican bandits attempt to capture Lois, and in the attack James is slain. Allan rescues Lois, and they escape across the border.
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Miss Lulu Bett
Title: Miss Lulu Bett
Character: Station Agent
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Theodore Roberts (as Dwight Deacon); running the house with an iron fist, he is both a dentist and a Justice of the Peace. As the latter, he accidentally marries Ms. Wilson to his visiting brother Clarence Burton (as Ninian Deacon) while they are out for dinner. Schoolteacher Milton Sills (as Neil Cornish) is also interested in Wilson...
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After the Show
Title: After the Show
Character: Pop O'Malley
Released: October 30, 1921
Type: Movie
After the Show was adapted from Rita Weiman's story "The Stage Door." Lila Lee plays Eileen, a starry-eyed young girl employed as a chorus dancer in New York. Eileen can never be certain if the men in her life are sincere, or if they perceive her as mere temporary plaything. Among the "stage door johnnies," "tired businessmen" and "sugar daddies" surrounding Eileen are Jack Holt and Carlton S. King.
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The Affairs of Anatol
Title: The Affairs of Anatol
Character: Dr. Bowles
Released: September 25, 1921
Type: Movie
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
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Crazy to Marry
Title: Crazy to Marry
Character: Cement man
Released: August 28, 1921
Type: Movie
A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.
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Gasoline Gus
Title: Gasoline Gus
Character: Nate Newberry
Released: August 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Based on the comic strip character and his auto obsessed life.
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A Wise Fool
Title: A Wise Fool
Character: Judge Carcasson
Released: June 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Jean, a wealthy young Canadian back from a trip to Europe, meets and falls for Carmen, a pretty young Spanish girl. They marry and have a daughter, but soon afterward Jean discovers his wife is having an affair. She takes her daughter and leaves him, and Jean's luck gets even worse--he loses his business in a fire and his thieving father-in-law steals what little money he has left.
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What Every Woman Knows
Title: What Every Woman Knows
Character: Alick Wylie
Released: April 24, 1921
Type: Movie
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
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Brewster's Millions
Title: Brewster's Millions
Character: Colonel Drew
Released: January 28, 1921
Type: Movie
Monte Brewster learns that he has inherited $10 million from his late grandfather, but then learns that he must spend $2 million in less than a year and remain unmarried to inherit the rest of the money.
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Midsummer Madness
Title: Midsummer Madness
Character: Caretaker
Released: January 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. One night, while Meredith is at the office, family friend Julian Osborn (Conrad Nagel) -- whose own spouse (Lila Lee) is out of town -takes Margaret to a dance. They wind up at a hunting lodge and begin to get carried away, but stop before things get out of hand. The pair agree to keep their encounter a secret, but unfortunately, they've been seen and word gets back to their spouses.
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Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Title: Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Character: Dobson
Released: November 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he expected nor what he hoped for.
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What's Your Hurry?
Title: What's Your Hurry?
Character: Patrick MacMurran
Released: August 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Truckdriver Dusty Rhoades leads a team of truckers over dangerous roads to deliver emergency supplies before a crucial dam breaks.
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Jack Straw
Title: Jack Straw
Released: March 14, 1920
Type: Movie
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Long John Silver
Released: January 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Title: Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Character: Col. Radulski
Released: November 30, 1919
Type: Movie
A light-hearted romantic adventure.
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Cardigan
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.
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Alias Mike Moran
Title: Alias Mike Moran
Character: Peter Young
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Department-store clerk Larry Young is determined to marry a rich girl. He falls for Elaine Debaux, whom he believes to be the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder. However, when war breaks out Larry is drafted into the army. Before he is taken in, though, he and Elaine are rescued from gangsters by an ex-con named Mike Moran. It turns out that Moran wants to join the army but they won't take him because of his record. Larry, who doesn't want to go into the army because it will interfere with his plans to marry Elaine, comes up with an idea he thinks will work out for all concerned. Complications ensue.
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The Dub
Title: The Dub
Character: George Markham
Released: January 19, 1919
Type: Movie
John Craig is a struggling young contractor who falls into a crooked business scheme. A trio of unsavory partners on the verge of dissolving their company have hired him for a job, assuming that he will fail.
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Under the Top
Title: Under the Top
Character: Otto B. Shott
Released: January 4, 1919
Type: Movie
Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus passing through town. he falls in love with Pansy, the daughter of the circus' tightrope walker, after he saves her from a gang of thugs...
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Bull Cowan
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
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Too Many Millions
Title: Too Many Millions
Character: Garage Keeper
Released: December 8, 1918
Type: Movie
Walsingham Van Dorn has a fancy name but no money until he inherits 40 million dollars from a pair of wealthy, but wicked, uncles.
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The Source
Title: The Source
Character: 'Sim-Sam' Samuels
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A young man of social standing chooses instead to live as a hobo. He gets work in a lumber camp, and there uncovers intrigue by German agents.
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Less Than Kin
Title: Less Than Kin
Character: Overton
Released: July 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Lewis Vickers accidentally kills a man and goes to Central America. Here he meets Robert Lee, who bears a remarkable resemblance to him. Lee is a worthless young chap whose father is anxious to have him return to the United States. On his death bed Lee turns his papers over to Vickers and begs him to assume his name. Arriving in New York, Vickers goes to the Lee home as Robert Lee, and discovers that the dead man has willed him a badly blotted past that includes a wife and two children and a large collection of debts. He also finds a beautiful adopted daughter in the Lee household and promptly falls in love with her. The only way he can stand any chance of winning the girl is by telling the truth about himself.
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We Can't Have Everything
Title: We Can't Have Everything
Character: Kedzie's Father
Released: July 7, 1918
Type: Movie
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.
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The Firefly of France
Title: The Firefly of France
Character: Von Blenheim (aka Jenkins)
Released: June 23, 1918
Type: Movie
The "Firefly of France" is an elusive master criminal of uncertain loyalties. When the Firefly disappears from view with a satchel of important government documents in his possession, his sister Esme Falconer is suspected of beings in cahoots with him. Dashing aviator Devereaux Bayne believes in Esme's innocence and accordingly dons civilian garb and heads to Paris' Latin Quarter to get the low-down on the Firefly's whereabouts.
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Believe Me, Xantippe
Title: Believe Me, Xantippe
Character: Wrenn Wrgley
Released: June 2, 1918
Type: Movie
George MacFarland, a wealthy young man who loves adventure, bets his friends Thornton Brown and Arthur Sole $20,000 that he can commit a crime and elude the police for a year. After he forges a check, George heads West and does escape arrest for nearly a year, despite the proliferation of police circulars bearing his name and his favorite expression, "Believe me, Xantippe." In a Colorado hunting lodge, he meets Sheriff Kamman's pretty daughter Dolly, who recognizes and tries to arrest him. According to the terms of the bet, however, he must be captured by a genuine officer of the law, which Dolly is not.
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Old Wives for New
Title: Old Wives for New
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: Yuba Bill
Released: May 5, 1918
Type: Movie
M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
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The Thing We Love
Title: The Thing We Love
Character: Adolph Weimer
Released: February 11, 1918
Type: Movie
Just prior to America's declaration of war, Margaret Kenwood of the Kenwood Manufacturing Company determines that the plant should produce munitions to support the Allies. Rodney Sheridan, her sweetheart and a vice president of the company, remains unimpressed with Margaret's patriotism until he begins to suspect that the plant's president is involved with a group of German spies.
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Rimrock Jones
Title: Rimrock Jones
Character: Hassayamp Hicks
Released: January 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Rimrock Jones is the toughest and most likeable prospector in a thriving Arizona copper camp. Having already been cheated out of several valuable copper strikes, Rimrock nonetheless forges ahead optimistically, hoping to strike it rich just once more. Unfortunately, he can't find anyone to finance his latest expedition -- except for a pretty public stenographer who uses her life savings to grubstake our hero. When Rimrock finally hits pay dirt, he tries to repay the girl for her generosity, only to find that she wants to be a full partner in his copper mine. While he mulls this over, Rimrock's rivals try to bamboozle him out of his mine with the help of a sexy "vamp".
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The Fair Barbarian
Title: The Fair Barbarian
Released: December 17, 1917
Type: Movie
An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England.
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Nan of Music Mountain
Title: Nan of Music Mountain
Character: Sassoon
Released: December 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Henry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider with Duke Morgan's gang, cattlemen, and outlaws. Nan, daughter of the head of the clan, secretly loves Henry and when he is wounded in a fight with the Morgan clan, she helps him escape. This angers her father and he declares that she shall marry her cousin. Nan dispatches a message to Henry for assistance and he brings her safely to his clan. Nan then learns that her father was the murder of Henry's father. She returns to her father to learn the truth and together they go to Henry and reveal the murder's name. After a thorough understanding and forgiving, Henry and Nan are married.
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The Secret Game
Title: The Secret Game
Character: Dr. Ebell Smith
Released: December 3, 1917
Type: Movie
In the office of Major Northfield, the quartermaster of the Pacific Coast, a leak has been discovered which may endanger the safety of American transports that are secretly carrying troops across the Pacific. Nara-Nara, a Japanese detective, is assigned to the case because his country has guaranteed safety to these transport ships. Nara-Nara believes that Northfield is guilty, although in reality it is Northfield's secretary Kitty Little, a girl of German ancestry, who is passing information to Dr. Ebell Smith, a German agent. Nara-Nara falls in love with Kitty, but soon after discovers that she is the leak in the quartermaster's office.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Character: Mr. Cobb
Released: September 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated like a prisoner by her strict Aunt, yet she gamely does her best to get an education. When spoiled girls at school mock the spirited Rebecca as "missy poor-house," she soon makes them come to eat their words. Despite many difficulties, Rebecca manages to help the less fortunate and spread joy in Riverboro, dreaming that her reward will come when she is "all growed up." This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.
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A Romance of the Redwoods
Title: A Romance of the Redwoods
Character: Jim Lyn
Released: May 14, 1917
Type: Movie
A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.
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The Cost of Hatred
Title: The Cost of Hatred
Character: McCabe
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he returns home from a business trip, he finds his wife Elsie (Kathlyn Williams) in the arms of another man (J.W. Johnston). Graves shoots and wounds the man, then hides with his little daughter in Mexico.
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Those Without Sin
Title: Those Without Sin
Character: Colonel Dackens
Released: March 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Melaine is captured by a northern soldier while she is carrying secret southern messages. She falls into the hands of her father's former superior who attempts to compromise her. She is saved by a successful Confederate attack.
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The Years of the Locust
Title: The Years of the Locust
Character: McKenzie, Mead's Mine Manager
Released: November 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Despite her love for penniless Dirck Mead, Lorraine marries wealthy Aaron Roth to save her family from financial ruin.
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The Woman Who Lied
Title: The Woman Who Lied
Released: October 6, 1915
Type: Movie
After a stirring performance, Cleo Martell, a renowned stage actress, is visited in her dressing room by Gordon Trent, a too ardent admirer. When Cleo's husband enters, a fight ensues, and Trent kills his rival in the struggle. Jack Stanley arrives on the scene to help but is accused of the murder by Cleo and is sent off to prison. The opportunistic Trent marries Jack's rich fiancée Helen Forde, who believes that her former lover is guilty of unfaithfulness. Jealous of the arrangement, Cleo eventually tells Helen the truth about the killing, causing Betty, Helen's daughter, to cry over her mother's unhappiness. Moved by the girl's tears, Cleo joins forces with Helen against Trent, and the two women go West where Jack, escaped from prison, works as a cowboy.
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Under Southern Skies
Title: Under Southern Skies
Character: Major Crofton
Released: September 20, 1915
Type: Movie
Lelia Crofton, a Louisiana belle of the 1860s, loves Burleigh Mavor. By chance, she sees one of her father's black stablemen making love to a neighbor's maid, whom she supposed was white. The incident shocks Lelia and leaves a great impression upon her. When she rejects suitor Steve Daubeney, he threatens to expose a damaging secret about her mother, whom she has never met. Remembering the incident with the neighbor's maid, Lelia worries that her mother might be black, and when Daubeney learns of her fears, he leads her to believe that they are well-founded.
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The Heart of the Hills
Title: The Heart of the Hills
Released: December 19, 1914
Type: Movie
Lisbeth Ann is a child of the wilds. In a gingham gown and bare feet she roams the mountain sides as care-free as the birds which carol in the pine trees above her. Creeping along the mountain trail one morning she overhears two men discussing a land deal in which her father has been concerned. To her dismay she learns that her father has disposed of a valuable piece of land underneath which are rich coal veins. Realizing that her father has been duped, the girl is about to shoot the man who has bought the property, when his kindly face restrains her.
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The President’s Special
Title: The President’s Special
Character: John Farley - the Telegrapher
Released: August 7, 1914
Type: Movie
John Farley and his wife were in very comfortable circumstances. They owned their own little farm and, as a result, were able to live very nicely on John's income as a railroad switchman, and to put money in the bank as well. The one great drawback to the farm, was the fact that it was so far from the tower in which John worked.
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The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Title: The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Character: James Malone
Released: January 31, 1914
Type: Movie
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
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Alexia's Strategy
Title: Alexia's Strategy
Character: James Trexel - Alexia's Father
Released: December 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Walter Young and John Osgood are both in love with Alexia Trexell, daughter of the president of the trust company where both young men work.
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The Doctor's Duty
Title: The Doctor's Duty
Character: Dr. Strong
Released: November 11, 1913
Type: Movie
A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.
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A Proposal from the Duke
Title: A Proposal from the Duke
Character: Mr. McGregor
Released: July 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Episode of a romantic serial starring Mary Fuller. Mary is looking for a man, and this time she wants an aristocratic gentleman.
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With The Eyes Of The Blind
Title: With The Eyes Of The Blind
Character: John McLane
Released: April 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Short silent drama
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The Doctor's Photograph
Title: The Doctor's Photograph
Character: Bill Smart
Released: February 14, 1913
Type: Movie
An East Side doctor is ready to move to the country when a burglar intervenes.
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Title: The Ambassador's Daughter
Character: Foreign conspirator
Released: January 21, 1913
Type: Movie
The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.
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The Man He Might Have Been
Title: The Man He Might Have Been
Character: The Boy's Father
Released: January 20, 1913
Type: Movie
A son wants more out of life, but Dad does not.
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The Totville Eye
Title: The Totville Eye
Character: Squire Jenkins, a hardhearted landlord
Released: November 27, 1912
Type: Movie
A printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away.
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Tim
Title: Tim
Character: Bill Ryan
Released: November 18, 1912
Type: Movie
It's time for Tim to get a job.
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The Usurer's Grip
Title: The Usurer's Grip
Character: Manager of the Loan Office
Released: October 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama.
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What Happened to Mary
Title: What Happened to Mary
Character: Richard Craig - Mary's Uncle
Released: July 25, 1912
Type: Movie
The forerunner of all serials, What Happened to Mary was a series of twelve monthly one reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic problems within the framework of a single episode and designed more for story and suspense situations than action.
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The Butler and the Maid
Title: The Butler and the Maid
Released: April 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Jennie, a coquettish housemaid, flirts with the grocer's delivery boy and thereby incites the jealousy of her sweetheart, Frank, the butler. Frank goes to his station in the hall and, in his anger, tells the marble statue that is a part of the furnishings of the handsome home, that his sweetheart is as cold as the stone of which it is made. He quiets down, and as he is not very busy, soon becomes drowsy, and dreams that the statue comes to life and goes with him to a ball. While they are walking along the street, a policeman meets them and questions Frank. He gets frightened, they run and as they rush back into the hall, the statue falls and breaks into a thousand pieces. His sweetheart comes down the steps and wakes him up and tells him to answer the bell. Frank's surprise at seeing the statue whole is plainly shown and his delight that is has all been a dream causes him to make up with his sweetheart.
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Everything Comes to Him Who Waits
Title: Everything Comes to Him Who Waits
Character: Cud McGiven - the Waiter
Released: February 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Cud McGiven applies for employment in a Bowery restaurant. The restaurant is conducted by a German, who engages Cud. Whenever Cud finds himself alone in the pantry he exercises his mania for juggling plates with disastrous results to the crockery. Every time the proprietor bears a crash he is Johnny-on-the-spot and takes out his little book to jot down the damage and charge it to Cud. At last the proprietor loses all patience and decides to discharge Cud. Accordingly he summons him to his private office and demands a settlement of the broken dishes and spoiled food. Cud is unable to see the situation this way at all. The disagreement waxes hot and furious and Cud in revenge breaks all the dishes in the pantry. The riot brings the frightened guests to their feet, where they stand spellbound at seeing a half of the waiters flee before the burly Cud, who is flinging plates after them with the accuracy of a baseball pitcher.
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A Question of Seconds
Title: A Question of Seconds
Character: Jim Collins - the Ranchman
Released: January 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Hardwell, a young engineer, running a new railroad through a tough western section, falls in love with Bonita, daughter of Jim Collins, a wealthy ranchman. Haligo Laderez, a wealthy Mexican, also has his eye on Bonita. When he sees that Bonita is favoring Hardwell, he invites the gang of Mexicans working for Hardwell to strike for more money. They are refused, so Haligo sets about capturing Hardwell, who has escaped and is on his way to the sheriff. As he is making his way through a narrow railway cut, Hardwell is hemmed in at both sides by Haligo's men, so he takes refuge behind a barricade of rocks. Unable to get at Hardwell, Haligo places a can of gun powder in front of the rocks and lights the fuse. Just before the flame reaches the can, Bonita and the sheriff arrive, putting the Mexicans to flight. The next day Bonita's father agrees to let her become the wife of Hardwell.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Bob Cratchit
Released: December 23, 1910
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Michael Strogoff
Title: Michael Strogoff
Released: April 1, 1910
Type: Movie
A graphic reproduction of Jules Verne's famous story under the above title. It deals with a secret mission in Russia
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Frankenstein
Title: Frankenstein
Character: The Monster (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1910
Type: Movie
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Released: August 3, 1909
Type: Movie
Directed by J. Searle Dawley.