Charles Wellesley

Charles Wellesley

Born: November 17, 1873
Died: July 24, 1946
in Dublin, Ireland

Movies for Charles Wellesley...

His Destiny
Title: His Destiny
Character: Ben Baker
Released: December 10, 1928
Type: Movie
A 1928 Western
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Sumuru
Title: Sumuru
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
1927 picture starring Carmel Myers and Walter Pidgeon.
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The Stolen Bride
Title: The Stolen Bride
Character: The Regiment Pater
Released: August 10, 1927
Type: Movie
The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
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The Unholy Three
Title: The Unholy Three
Character: John Arlington (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
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The Lost World
Title: The Lost World
Character: Maj. Hibbard
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 Perfect Flapper
Title: The Perfect Flapper
Character: Joshua Pember
Released: May 25, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
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Cytherea
Title: Cytherea
Character: William Grove
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris. When he meets her married aunt, Savina Grove, she appears to be the woman he imagines whenever he gazes at a doll he has christened Cytherea, goddess of love -----Cytherea features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.
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The Wolf Man
Title: The Wolf Man
Character: Sam Gordon
Released: February 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). But Stanley's personality changes whenever he drinks, and his brother (who also loves Beatrice) uses this to his advantage.
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The Acquittal
Title: The Acquittal
Character: Andrew Prentice
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
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Don't Marry for Money
Title: Don't Marry for Money
Character: Alec Connor
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Don't Marry for Money is a 1923 silent drama
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Outcast
Title: Outcast
Character: John Moreland
Released: December 7, 1922
Type: Movie
A down-on-her luck streetwalker is ultimately redeemed by the love of a decent man.
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The Rapids
Title: The Rapids
Character: Bishop Sullivan
Released: October 30, 1922
Type: Movie
Robert Fisher Clarke is a promoter who comes to a small Canadian town. He harnesses the power of the rapids and builds a pulp mill. One of his employees, Jim Belding, has a fiancée, Elsie Worden, with whom Clarke falls in love.
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His Greatest Sacrifice
Title: His Greatest Sacrifice
Character: John Reed
Released: April 17, 1921
Type: Movie
Richard Hall is a successful writer, while his wife, Alice, is interested in pursuing a career as a singer. She meets James Hamilton, a musical agent, who arranges an opera engagement with Rimini, an impresario. Hall quarrels with his wife over this, and they separate, with Hall taking their daughter Grace.
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The Song of Songs
Title: The Song of Songs
Character: Mrs. Atwell
Released: February 18, 1918
Type: Movie
When composer Anselm Kardos leaves his alcoholic wife, he gives his daughter Lily an unfinished love ode entitled "The Song of Songs" and warns her to keep her artistic temperament in check.
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By Right of Purchase
Title: By Right of Purchase
Character: Donald Nugent
Released: February 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A 1918 film directed by Charles Miller.
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Redemption
Title: Redemption
Character: Stephen Brooks (as Charles Wellsley)
Released: June 2, 1917
Type: Movie
An actress with a wild reputation finally settles down to a sedate and pleasant marriage. One of her former lovers, an architect, arrives to disrupt her happiness by renewing their affair. She humiliates this suitor in public with her rejection, and he seeks revenge, revenge that catapults her into tragedy.
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Her Better Self
Title: Her Better Self
Character: Mr. Tyler
Released: May 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Even though society debutante Vivian Tyler (Pauline Frederick) is engaged to Count Belloto (Frank deRheim), she finds herself attracted to Dr. Robert Keith (Thomas Meighan). Keith works amongst the poor, and his wealthy benefactors include Vivian's father (Charles Wellesley). But when Vivian meets streetwalker Aggie May (Alice Hollister), she mistakenly believes that Keith is responsible for the woman's downfall.
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
Title: The Poor Little Rich Girl
Character: Gwendolyn's Father
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
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The Daring of Diana
Title: The Daring of Diana
Character: Jason Briscoe
Released: July 24, 1916
Type: Movie
To assuage his grief over the death of his wife during childbirth, newspaper publisher John Briscoe resettles in Paris. Twenty-five years pass, during which time Briscoe's estranged son Jason has taken charge of his dad's newspaper. When Jason refuses to support crooked politician Stange in an upcoming election, he receives a cablegram from Briscoe Sr., who overrides his son's decision.
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The Hero of Submarine D-2
Title: The Hero of Submarine D-2
Character: Captain McMasters
Released: March 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Commander Colton, U.S.N., is in love with Caroline Austen, daughter of a prominent political power in Washington. Colton has a rival in James Archer, a journalist of prominence, unscrupulous and secretly in league with the Ruanian Ambassador, who is endeavoring to obtain for his country inside information as to the United States naval resources.
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Writing on the Wall
Title: Writing on the Wall
Character: Payne
Released: February 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Irving Lawrence owns some of the most decrepit tenements in town and is an all-around bad guy. He won't cooperate with the efforts of his wife, Barbara, to help the poor and sees other women behind her back. Muriel, one of his cast-offs, meets and marries Barbara's brother, Payne. Lawrence makes trouble for Muriel and fabricates a scandal involving his kindly brother Schuyler and Barbara.
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The Goddess
Title: The Goddess
Character: Martin Semmes (Second Millionaire)
Released: May 9, 1915
Type: Movie
A young girl is reared on a desert island by natives and led to believe that she is a goddess. One day an outsider comes to the island, and persuades her to accompany him to preach about the kindness and love she has experienced. She agrees, but she's soon confronted by the problems and travails of the "outside" world.
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A Fortune Hunter
Title: A Fortune Hunter
Released: March 31, 1915
Type: Movie
When Rupert's uncle tells him he must quit his writing and offers him a real job in his tannery, the young man rises in his wrath and dramatically leaves his uncle's home, saying that he will go forth to the big city and carve out his fortune with his pen. After many hardships and cold rebuffs from the cruel publishers and editors he begins to despair
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A Wireless Rescue
Title: A Wireless Rescue
Released: March 23, 1915
Type: Movie
A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a disaster to an express train.
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My Official Wife
Title: My Official Wife
Character: Constantine Weletsky
Released: July 12, 1914
Type: Movie
This LOST film was Clara Kimball Young's first feature, and her last film for Vitagraph, where she had made all of her short films. It was a sensational success and launched her as the most popular star that year. Its Russian setting was drawn upon by Young for many more of her features. Two short clips of the film exists in Warner Brother's 1931 Vitaphone short "The Movie Album," and have been mounted on Internet Archive and Google Video. One scene shows the meeting of Helene's terrorist cell with an extra alleged to be Leon Trostky. The other clip appears to be when she and Lennox are visiting the Weletsky's. (cont. http://web.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/CKY/reviews/mow.htm)
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Tangled Tangoists
Title: Tangled Tangoists
Released: April 23, 1914
Type: Movie
John and Flora meet at a ball, but neither can do these modern dances, so they sit out… and run into each other later at a dance studio. Bunny exudes his usual Pickwickian charm. Miss Finch gets involved in a nice bit of physical comedy when her gawkiness makes the dance lesson less than successful.
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An Officer and a Gentleman
Title: An Officer and a Gentleman
Character: Col. Cavendish
Released: March 14, 1914
Type: Movie
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The Diver
Title: The Diver
Character: Rupert Bracken
Released: November 8, 1913
Type: Movie
Rita, who is in love, makes a false accusation against the “Nymph”, one of her rivals in love. But when the “Nymph” rescues Rita's daughter from the water, she has regrets, and retracts her accusation.