F.A. Turner

F.A. Turner

Born: October 10, 1858
Died: February 13, 1923
in New York City, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. F. A. Turner (12 October 1858 – 13 February 1923) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 68 films between 1914 and 1922. He was born in New York.

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Tropical Love
Title: Tropical Love
Character: The Seeker
Released: October 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Tropical Love is a 1921 Romance film
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The Jack-Knife Man
Title: The Jack-Knife Man
Character: Peter Lane
Released: July 31, 1920
Type: Movie
A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.
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Terror Island
Title: Terror Island
Character: Mr. West
Released: April 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Inventor Harry Harper travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West. Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns to them with a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. The climax consists of Harper saving Beverly from a safe which has been lowered into the sea.
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The Miracle Man
Title: The Miracle Man
Character: Mr. Higgins
Released: August 26, 1919
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang. Lost film, only the most famous scene has survived.
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The Heart of Wetona
Title: The Heart of Wetona
Character: Pastor David Wells (as Fred Turner)
Released: January 5, 1919
Type: Movie
After the half-breed daughter of a Comanche chief falls for a young engineer who deserts her, she turns to a white Indian agent who marries her.
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The Velvet Hand
Title: The Velvet Hand
Character: Russo Russelli (as Fred Turner)
Released: September 30, 1918
Type: Movie
On a beach in southern Italy, Gianna Russelli practices her dancing with her devoted brother Russino, looking forward to the day when she will begin formal dance studies. One day the beautiful Countess Michetti comes to the village and engages in a flirtation with Russino, but when her former lover, Prince Viscomte, arrives with his closest friend, Count Paul Trovelli, the countess resumes her affair with the prince.
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Title: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Character: Mustapha, the Tailor
Released: October 11, 1917
Type: Movie
In Bagdad, Princess Badr al-Budur, the daughter of the Sultan, falls in love with Aladdin, the son of a poor tailor, and rejects the suit of evil alchemist al-Talib, her father's choice. Al-Talib consults his Evil Spirit, who advises him to find the magic lamp hidden in an underground cave. Unable to get it himself, al-Talib hires Aladdin, who secures the lamp but keeps it when he realizes al-Talib's wickedness. With wealth obtained through wishes, Aladdin courts the princess. After the lamp changes hands between al-Talib and Aladdin, al-Talib steals it and abducts the princess to the desert. Aladdin follows with only a gourd of water. Suffering from thirst and exhaustion, Aladdin nearly succumbs, but the horsemen of the Sultan, who learned of his daughter's abduction, ride up and rescue Aladdin.
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Madame Bo-Peep
Title: Madame Bo-Peep
Character: Colonel Beaupree
Released: May 26, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 filmd riected by Chester Withey.
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Her Official Fathers
Title: Her Official Fathers
Character: John Webster
Released: April 7, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Elmer Clifton, Joseph Henabery, and Dorothy Gish.
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A Love Sublime
Title: A Love Sublime
Character: The Professor (as Fred A. Turner)
Released: March 11, 1917
Type: Movie
A Greek man falls for an injured French woman. When he is informed of her death, he continues to sing under her hospital window every night.
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A Girl of the Timber Claims
Title: A Girl of the Timber Claims
Character: Jess's Father
Released: February 11, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
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The Little Yank
Title: The Little Yank
Character: Wilson Carver
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 Microscope Mystery
Title: The Microscope Mystery
Character: Ira Dayton
Released: November 19, 1916
Type: Movie
When a wealthy hypochondriac is dissatisfied by the care of the town doctor (Doc Arnold), he consults with a new physician in town who swindles him out of a large sum of money. When his daughter tries to retrieve the check, the quack (Dr. Bell) turns up dead with a gun shot wound to the chest. Doc Arnold lends his expertise to the investigation and solves the case by finding microscopic evidence on the murder weapon left at the scene.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: The Girl's Father (Modern Story)
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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The Devil's Needle
Title: The Devil's Needle
Character: Marshall Devon
Released: August 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Renee is a French artist's model who uses morphine as an escape from the dull reality of her life. She recommends it to a neurotic artist because "it kindles the fires of genius." The artist quickly becomes addicted to the drug and the quality of his work begins to disintegrate. He takes on a new model, marries her, and starts her on the same path of moral degradation, until a guilt-ridden Renee decides to intervene in order to save them both. According to silent film historian Kevin Brownlow, THE DEVIL'S NEEDLE was banned by the state of Ohio, but the censor board reversed its decision after recognizing the positive message beneath the film's scandalous surface. This special edition was mastered from a 35mm preservation print of the 1923 re-release version. The only known surviving copy, the element suffers significant nitrate decomposition during some scenes.
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Little Meena's Romance
Title: Little Meena's Romance
Character: Meena's Uncle
Released: April 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of a Mennonite family. Meena treats Jacob as a joke in spite of the arrangement their parents have made that they should wed. The Mennonite simplicity has no charms for Meena, who proceeds to fall in love with Count Fredrick von Ritz
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Her Mother's Daughter
Title: Her Mother's Daughter
Character: Marie's Grandfather
Released: December 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Marie is a village girl, very religious. Her mother, fearing some man will make her unhappy (as she had been made by a man) made her promise on her deathbed that she would enter a nunnery. Marie considers that promise sacred and will allow nothing to interfere with her keeping that promise.
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The Burned Hand
Title: The Burned Hand
Released: June 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Three college boys graduate. One is in love with a girl, whose mother and father have domestic difficulties. They go to court and are divorced. Father is refused the request for his daughter, and in turn kidnaps her and takes her to another state, where he becomes a great political factor. Bill, one of the graduated college boys who is in love with the girl, with his two companions, traces the girl and steal her away. In doing so his hand is burned with a poker and the father uses that as a means of identification in tracing him.
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Out of Bondage
Title: Out of Bondage
Character: Jim McRae - Mary's Father
Released: May 30, 1915
Type: Movie
Jim McRae and his pal, Clancy, two crooks, perform many robberies and divide the loot equally. Clancy wants to marry McRae's daughter, Mary. She does not want to marry him, but is forced to do so by her father. After the marriage, Clancy and McRae have a quarrel over the division of some loot. Clancy refuses to give McRae his share.
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A Man and His Mate
Title: A Man and His Mate
Released: April 12, 1915
Type: Movie
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The Lost House
Title: The Lost House
Character: Dosia's Uncle
Released: March 25, 1915
Type: Movie
Before his niece and ward, Dosia Dale, comes of age, her uncle, who has spent her entire fortune, must think of a way to account for his actions. He proposes marriage, and when Dosia indignantly refuses him, he conspires with his evil friend, Dr. Protheroe, to do away with her. Declaring Dosia insane, the two men lock her up in the doctor's insane asylum, but she manages to drop a note from the window. Her plea for help is found by a reporter named Ford, who feigns insanity in order to gain admittance to the asylum. Dr. Protheroe becomes suspicious of Ford and locks him up with Dosia, whereupon Ford, knowing that his friend Cuthbert will notify the police if he and Dosia do not emerge safely by twelve, barricades the door and waits. In a furious battle with the police and the militia, Dosia's uncle and Dr. Protheroe are killed and the house set ablaze, but Ford and Dosia escape, leaping from the roof into a fire net below. All danger passed, Ford and Dosia become engaged.
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The Better Way
Title: The Better Way
Character: Sunbeam's Father
Released: December 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Sunbeam's father is sent to prison, and on his release promises to remain honest. He secures a job as a night watchman, but his prison record being discovered, he is fired, and finds it impossible to secure work. Sunbeam gets a job in a a family as a "slavey" in order to support the father and herself, but her father chafes at the idea of his daughter working, although he does not know what her job is nor where. In desperation, he decides to turn crook again, and breaks into the house where his daughter is working.
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The Niggard
Title: The Niggard
Character: J. Henry Taylor
Released: November 10, 1914
Type: Movie
The clerk has money to pay the last installment on his home, occupied by his old mother and himself, but meeting a fellow clerk and two girls is "forced" to treat in order to show that he really is no tightwad.
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The Tavern of Tragedy
Title: The Tavern of Tragedy
Character: Bell - the Innkeeper
Released: August 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he abuses and who has to do all the hard work around the place. One day, Bob Jamison, really an American spy in the service, comes to the inn and stops overnight. He falls in love with the daughter of the innkeeper. She is infatuated with him, as he is the first human being who has ever been kind to her. He goes away but promises to return. While he is away a large reward is offered for his capture, dead or alive. The innkeeper tells the messenger of the news that if Bob ever comes back, he will put him into room seven and hold him. The daughter overhears this, and when Bob returns, unable to warn him, she changes the number on the door of room seven to that of six. When Bob is sent up to his room by Corto, he goes in what he thinks is seven but the daughter afterwards shifts the door numbers back to their original positions. Corto decides to kill Bob in his sleep and steals upstairs.
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Their First Acquaintance
Title: Their First Acquaintance
Character: Charles Talbot
Released: June 16, 1914
Type: Movie
Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the good round sum which his new clerk had handed him that evening for a real estate deal he had made in Talbot's absence. It was after banking hours and Talbot slept with the money under his pillow. The next morning he went off in a tearing hurry and forgot the roll of bills.
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Home, Sweet Home
Title: Home, Sweet Home
Released: May 16, 1914
Type: Movie
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
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The Life of General Villa
Title: The Life of General Villa
Character: American girl's father
Released: May 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself. The movie incorporates both staged scenes and authentic live footage from real battles during the Mexican Revolution.
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The Quicksands
Title: The Quicksands
Released: May 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the latter wins Gladys, General Fields' daughter.
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The Hunchback
Title: The Hunchback
Character: A Hunchback Peddler
Released: April 12, 1914
Type: Movie
"The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of his deformity, there is no one who cares for him. Although a great lover of children, they flee at his approach. Taking pity on a little girl whose doll has been broken, he spends all his earnings to replace her plaything, and in consequence, the people with whom he boards, order him out. Tired and despairing, he gets, unobserved, into a freight car, and is carried to a western mining town. There the wanderer finds friends in a miner and his little girl. An accident renders the little girl fatherless, and the hunchback brings the child to womanhood. As the years pass the cripple grows to care for his ward, but when he tells her of his love, he finds that it is not returned. The girl falls in love with a young prospector, and the jealous hunchback seeks to take his life, and then weakens in his resolve. Later the prospector is in deadly danger and the hunchback decides to let him die.