Jules Cowles

Jules Cowles

Born: October 17, 1877
Died: May 22, 1943
in Farmington, Connecticut, USA

Movies for Jules Cowles...

Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: Man in Museum (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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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Man at Flower Show (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Crazy Man at the Clinic (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1942
Type: Movie
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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Two-Faced Woman
Title: Two-Faced Woman
Character: Dance Watcher (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
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Johnny Eager
Title: Johnny Eager
Character: Man on Betting Line in Front of Mr. Verne (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Vagrant #1 (uncredited) (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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A Failure at Fifty
Title: A Failure at Fifty
Character: Member of the Senate (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
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The Ghost Comes Home
Title: The Ghost Comes Home
Character: Townsman on Street (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Man with Finch (uncredited)
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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An Hour for Lunch
Title: An Hour for Lunch
Character: Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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Stablemates
Title: Stablemates
Character: Singer at Beulah's (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Citizen at Tribunal (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Rich Man, Poor Girl
Title: Rich Man, Poor Girl
Character: Man With Radio (voice, uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
Title: Love Finds Andy Hardy
Character: Court Attendant (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Derelict on Train (Uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Love Is a Headache
Title: Love Is a Headache
Character: Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
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Double Wedding
Title: Double Wedding
Character: Gus, Waiter at Spike's (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Bidder (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Every Sunday
Title: Every Sunday
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from happening, Judy and Edna gather a crowd the following Sunday; and to keep its attention, they themselves perform with the orchestra. Edna sings an aria and Judy sings 'Americana'.
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How to Vote
Title: How to Vote
Character: Man on Platform (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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Mississippi
Title: Mississippi
Character: Bartender
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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Law Beyond the Range
Title: Law Beyond the Range
Character: Printer Lockjaw Nelson
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: $100 Recipient (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Title: The Pursuit of Happiness
Character: The Drunk
Released: September 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
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The Scarlet Letter
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: Beadle
Released: September 18, 1934
Type: Movie
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
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Young Eagles
Title: Young Eagles
Character: Pinardo Henchman-Guard (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Two Boy Scouts win an around-the-world trip with a crack aviator, and find themselves crash-landed in the South American jungles after the ace forgets to refuel in Ecuador.
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The Fighting Parson
Title: The Fighting Parson
Character: J.A. Darby
Released: August 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and the man who is being hanged knows his real identity.
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Cross Fire
Title: Cross Fire
Character: Whitney T. Wilson
Released: May 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
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Renegades of the West
Title: Renegades of the West
Character: Marshal
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
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Heroes of the West
Title: Heroes of the West
Character: Missouri
Released: June 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
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Heaven on Earth
Title: Heaven on Earth
Character: Buffalo
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
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The Prodigal
Title: The Prodigal
Character: Hobo (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1931
Type: Movie
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
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Sea Devils
Title: Sea Devils
Character: Attorney
Released: January 15, 1931
Type: Movie
An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.
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Reducing
Title: Reducing
Character: Man on Train with Big Mustache (uncredited)
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
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His First Command
Title: His First Command
Character: Cpl. Jones
Released: December 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
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One Hysterical Night
Title: One Hysterical Night
Character: William Tell
Released: October 5, 1929
Type: Movie
The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.
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The Leatherneck
Title: The Leatherneck
Character: Cook
Released: February 24, 1929
Type: Movie
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.
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Sal of Singapore
Title: Sal of Singapore
Character: Cook
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
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Isle of Lost Men
Title: Isle of Lost Men
Character: Ship's Cook
Released: October 2, 1928
Type: Movie
The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers.
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Dog Law
Title: Dog Law
Character: Hawkins
Released: September 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Ranger races to the rescue when Jim is framed on a murder charge.
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Bringing Up Father
Title: Bringing Up Father
Character: Dinty Moore
Released: March 18, 1928
Type: Movie
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
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London After Midnight
Title: London After Midnight
Character: Gallagher (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1927
Type: Movie
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. (This movie was lost in 1965 during a fire.)
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Mockery
Title: Mockery
Character: Peasant Who Robs Tatiana (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1927
Type: Movie
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
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The Show
Title: The Show
Character: Robin's Dressing Aide (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
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The Scarlet Letter
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: The Beadle
Released: January 8, 1927
Type: Movie
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
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Lord Jim
Title: Lord Jim
Character: Yankee Joe
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a job at a trading post, and eventually works his way up to managing the business. He falls in love with the owner's daughter, and shares leadership of the local village with the son of the Rajah. One day, however, a band of pirates attacks the village, and the man is astonished to see that the pirates are none other than the tyrannical captain of his former ship and his crew.
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Love on the Rio Grande
Title: Love on the Rio Grande
Released: July 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A 1925 silent Western.
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The Ace of Clubs
Title: The Ace of Clubs
Character: Jake McGill
Released: July 14, 1925
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jack Horton searches for the killer of his father and brother, both of whom were found with an ace of clubs pinned to their bodies.
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The Were-Tiger
Title: The Were-Tiger
Released: May 31, 1925
Type: Movie
A jungle drama about a woman who befriends a tiger.
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Seven Chances
Title: Seven Chances
Character: The Hired Hand
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
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The Lost World
Title: The Lost World
Character: Zambo
Released: February 2, 1925
Type: Movie
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
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The Ne'er-Do-Well
Title: The Ne'er-Do-Well
Character: Allen Allan
Released: April 29, 1923
Type: Movie
The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)
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The Bootleggers
Title: The Bootleggers
Character: The Hermit
Released: April 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Jose Fernand seems interested in luring Helen Barnes onto his ship than he is in smuggling. The innocent orphan miss goes, accompanied by her younger sister Alice. With the boat out to sea, Fernand proceeds to attack the girls.
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Tangled Trails
Title: Tangled Trails
Character: Robert Kingston
Released: December 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New York City. The killer is an unscrupulous promoter who is selling worthless stock in a gold mine. Borden, with the help of Blanche Hall, locates the man in a Bowery dive, but he escapes and Borden tracks him back to Canada. Along the way, he discovers that Blanche and his sweetheart, Milly, are long-separated sisters and brings about a reconciliation.
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The Oakdale Affair
Title: The Oakdale Affair
Character: Jeb Case
Released: October 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Refusing to marry her stepmother's choice, Gail Prim leaves her life of luxury, after cutting her hair, dressing in her butler's clothes and stealing money and jewels from her father's safe. Spending the night in a barn, she introduces herself to the thieves already there as the Oskaloosa Kid, a wanted criminal, and barely escapes their struggle to get her loot. Meanwhile, the real Oskaloosa Kid kills Reginald Paynter and throws Nettie Penning, whom Reginald was trying to seduce, onto the highway.
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The Poor Rich Man
Title: The Poor Rich Man
Character: Hobo
Released: December 23, 1918
Type: Movie
Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile, leads a fine upstanding life -- or at least he appears to, so he can curry favor with his wealthy uncle, Vantyne's father. One day, the senior Carter, fed up with his son's antics, decides to play a trick on both Vantyne and Teddy. The old man and his lawyer go off on a hunting trip, and then the lawyer returns with news that Carter was killed in an accident.
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The Girl Philippa
Title: The Girl Philippa
Character: Asticot
Released: January 21, 1917
Type: Movie
About the year 1900 in a midnight raid on the palace of a Balkan king, emissaries of a great power slay the royal pair, and carry off the infant crown princess. The time shifts to the present. Foreign agents steal the plans of a new shell loaned Great Britain by America. Halkett and Gray, English officers, recover the plans; and the foreign agents endeavor to gain possession of them again.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Seth Moore
Released: July 10, 1916
Type: Movie
When his friends decide that "Happy Jack" Lewis needs a wife, they place an ad in the paper for one. Glad Mason replies and sends her picture. Jack's pals decide she is the one, and after he sees her picture, Jack thinks so too -- until the saloon proprietor points out that maybe she doesn't look anything like her photo. In fact, she could be an old hag!
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Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph
Title: Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph
Character: Michael Gallagher
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged that he has almost forgotten how to get angry. One night the gaiety going on in Judge Winters' home attracts him, and he crouches on the fire-escape to watch it. He becomes interested in the Judge, in his pretty daughter Peggy, in her cousin Flo, in Flo's admirer, the Count, and in Bob Ewing, a struggling young lawyer.
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Emmy of Stork's Nest
Title: Emmy of Stork's Nest
Character: Hicky Price (as Mr. Cowles)
Released: October 11, 1915
Type: Movie
Through the death of his father, Benton Cabot is left with nothing but a small mountain cabin which he has never seen. He goes to take up his property and in the mountains meets Emmy Garrett, an untutored but attractive girl, just budding into womanhood.