Sam De Grasse

Sam De Grasse

Born: June 11, 1875
Died: November 29, 1953
in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
From Wikipedia

Sam De Grasse (June 12, 1875 – November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor. He traveled to New York City and in 1912 appeared in his first motion picture.

At first he played standard secondary characters, but when fellow Canadian Mary Pickford set up her own studio with her husband Douglas Fairbanks, he joined them. He portrayed the villainous Prince John in Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood. Afterward, he began to specialize in villainous roles.

De Grasse was the uncle of successful cinematographer Robert De Grasse.

Movies for Sam De Grasse...

Captain of the Guard
Title: Captain of the Guard
Character: Bazin
Released: March 28, 1930
Type: Movie
A captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.
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Wall Street
Title: Wall Street
Character: John Willard
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller McCray, a steelworker turned ruthless tycoon whose tough business methods leads a rival (Philip Strange) to commit suicide. The widow (Aileen Pringle), believing she can ruin Ince by using his own methods, conspires with her husband's former partner (Sam De Grasse), but a strong friendship between Ince and Pringle's young son (Freddie Burke Frederick) changes things dramatically. According to future Three Stooges director Edward Bernds, who worked as a sound mixer on Wall Street, Ince's reaction to his rival's suicidal jump from a window ledge was changed from a sneering "I didn't think he had the guts" to the more respectful "I didn't think he'd do it" due to derisive laughter from the film's crew.
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The Last Performance
Title: The Last Performance
Character: District Attorney
Released: October 13, 1929
Type: Movie
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
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Silks and Saddles
Title: Silks and Saddles
Character: William Morrissey
Released: January 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybil, who made Johnny hold back Mrs. Calhoun's horse, Lady, leaves him, and he becomes a racetrack bum. Johnny returns to Mrs. Calhoun's stable when the new jockey proves unable to manage Lady. Johnny wins the next race, thereby regaining Mrs. Calhoun's confidence and winning the love of her attractive daughter, Lucy.
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The Racket
Title: The Racket
Character: District Attorney Welch
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
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Our Dancing Daughters
Title: Our Dancing Daughters
Character: Freddie's Father
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.
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Honor Bound
Title: Honor Bound
Character: Blood Keller
Released: April 29, 1928
Type: Movie
When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.
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The Man Who Laughs
Title: The Man Who Laughs
Character: King James II
Released: April 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
Title: The Wreck of the Hesperus
Character: Capt. David Slocum
Released: October 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Captain Slocum of the Hesperus arrives on shore in a New England village to find that the girl he loves has been tricked into marrying John Hazzard in his absence. Heartbroken and bitter, the captain, with his daughter, Gale, and second mate, Singapore Jack, returns to sea. He rescues from a burning vessel John Hazzard, Jr., son of his rival, and though he tries to keep the boy from Gale, a romance develops. ...
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The Fighting Eagle
Title: The Fighting Eagle
Character: Talleyrand
Released: August 28, 1927
Type: Movie
The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Ira Harding
Released: August 22, 1927
Type: Movie
A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his happiness through the hostility of the boy's father.
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When a Man Loves
Title: When a Man Loves
Character: Comte Guillot de Morfontaine
Released: August 21, 1927
Type: Movie
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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Captain Salvation
Title: Captain Salvation
Character: Peter Campbell
Released: May 14, 1927
Type: Movie
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
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The King of Kings
Title: The King of Kings
Character: Pharisee
Released: April 19, 1927
Type: Movie
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
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Love's Blindness
Title: Love's Blindness
Character: Benjamin Levy
Released: December 4, 1926
Type: Movie
A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her know that the marriage is strictly a business matter and that he could never have romantic feelings for one of "her kind".
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The Eagle of the Sea
Title: The Eagle of the Sea
Character: Colonel Lestron
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.
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Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Title: Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Character: Defense Attorney
Released: August 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her daughter, Betty Ann, has won a beauty contest, and heads for Hollywood. They end up in the same, film, with Mom playing her Mom. Marshall tries to take advantage of the naive Betty. Somebody gets shot. Somebody is put on trial.
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Mike
Title: Mike
Character: Brush
Released: May 10, 1926
Type: Movie
A Modest Comedy Drama
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The Black Pirate
Title: The Black Pirate
Character: Pirate Lieutenant
Released: March 8, 1926
Type: Movie
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Title: Sally, Irene and Mary
Character: Officer O'Dare
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.
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Sun-Up
Title: Sun-Up
Character: Sheriff Weeks
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to kill the deserter who she learns is the son of a murderous revenue agent.
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One Year to Live
Title: One Year to Live
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Virgin
Title: The Virgin
Character: Ricardo Ruiz
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
The Virgin (1924)
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Painted People
Title: Painted People
Character: Henry Parrish
Released: January 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film directed by Clarence G. Badger.
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
Title: The Courtship of Miles Standish
Character: John Carver
Released: December 30, 1923
Type: Movie
A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower.
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Tiger Rose
Title: Tiger Rose
Character: Dr. Cusick
Released: December 9, 1923
Type: Movie
Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading post In the peaceful Loon River Valley, deep in the Canadian Northwest comes a story of love, vengeance and sacrifice. Having lived at the trading post following the death of her father, Rose will soon fall in love. But when her new love is in trouble, Rose will discover that she is capable of much more than she thought in order to keep him safe.
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The Dancer of the Nile
Title: The Dancer of the Nile
Character: Pasheri
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Judge Stillman
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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Circus Days
Title: Circus Days
Character: Lord
Released: July 30, 1923
Type: Movie
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
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Slippy McGee
Title: Slippy McGee
Character: Father De Rance
Released: June 11, 1923
Type: Movie
The title is also the moniker of a renowned safe-cracker, Slippy McGee, who has always managed to evade capture until his latest job, when he is wounded. He escapes aboard a freight train, bound for parts unknown, and finds himself in the town of Appleborro. There, he is discovered and cared for by Father De Rance and Mary Virginia. His leg is amputated, and during his recovery in Appleborro, the town's influence causes him to reform.
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Forsaking All Others
Title: Forsaking All Others
Character: Dr. Mason
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where he is easy prey for designing Enid Morton. After some near-disastrous situations with Enid's suspicious husband, Penelope comes to Oliver's rescue at Mrs. Newell's request.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Prince John
Released: October 18, 1922
Type: Movie
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
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The Cheater Reformed
Title: The Cheater Reformed
Character: Thomas Edinburgh
Released: January 2, 1921
Type: Movie
Thomas Edinburgh is secretly in love with Carol, wife of the Reverend Luther McCall, and produces evidence that her husband was once an embezzler. Leaving for Cleveland, the minister meets his twin brother, Jordan, the real embezzler, who is evading the law. Luther is killed in a train wreck, and Jordan, assumes his brother's identity....
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The Broken Gate
Title: The Broken Gate
Character: 'Hod' Brooks
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an illegitimate child and with the earnings from her millinery shop, she has sent him away to be educated. When Don, her son (Arnold Gregg), returns from college, he finds he has to defend his mother constantly. He is accused of murdering a man who made a snide remark about Aurora and is put on trial.
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Unseen Forces
Title: Unseen Forces
Character: Capt. Stanley
Released: November 29, 1920
Type: Movie
In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her psychic powers by locating children who went missing during the war. Her childhood love Clyde Brunton (Conrad Nagel) is unhappily married to a social climber, but Miriam’s ability to commune with the spirits of the dead (“those we love are always with us”) finds a way to resolve the problem.
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The Skywayman
Title: The Skywayman
Character: Dr. Wayne Leveridge
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
Suffering from amnesia, Captain Norman Craig is embroiled in a doctor's plot to steal both a cache of jewels and Craig's own doting girlfriend. A lost film.
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The Devil's Passkey
Title: The Devil's Passkey
Character: Warren Goodwright
Released: August 8, 1920
Type: Movie
The wife of an American playwright in Paris becomes ensnared in the seductive wiles of an American Army officer, but her devotion to her husband convinces the officer to try to extricate her from the gossip and scandal that have ensued.
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Heart o' the Hills
Title: Heart o' the Hills
Character: Steve Honeycutt
Released: November 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
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Blind Husbands
Title: Blind Husbands
Character: Dr. Armstrong
Released: October 21, 1919
Type: Movie
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
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The Mother and the Law
Title: The Mother and the Law
Character: Arthur Jenkins
Released: August 18, 1919
Type: Movie
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The second of these was 'The Mother and the Law', which demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans.
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The Exquisite Thief
Title: The Exquisite Thief
Character: Shaver Michael
Released: April 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high society world with the help of her pal Shaver Michael (De Grasse). Billie gains admission to the Vanderhoof dinner at which the engagement of their daughter to Lord Chesterton (Hall) will be announced. While the dinner is in progress, Billie gags and handcuffs special officer Detective Wood (Ross), and proceeds to make a wholesale robbery of the guests. She flees in an automobile and none succeed in tracking her save Lord Chesterton. She makes a prisoner of him, but a police raid follows and she must flee. Once more Lord Chesterton succeeds in following her and again she makes him her prisoner, but she learns to trust and love him. The special agent and Shaver Michael arrive at the scene with resulting complications, but a happy end results for all.
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The Silk Lined Burglar
Title: The Silk Lined Burglar
Character: Boston Blackie
Released: March 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Gentleman crook Boston Blackie answers a want ad for an expert safecracker placed by Doris Macon, who claims a moral right to the safe's contents. She hires Blackie, and they break into the house where the safe is kept. Blackie blows up the safe just as owner Captain von Hoffmeier returns home. Doris disappears with papers from inside the safe, while Blackie takes phonograph records, which, when played with a special needle, reveal secrets that implicate von Hoffmeier as a German political spy.
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Sis Hopkins
Title: Sis Hopkins
Character: Vibert
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Sis is an eccentric young girl in a small rural village. While most around Sis view her as a joke, she is loved by Ridy Scarboro, the clerk at the general store. One day Sis's dog knocks an oil can into the Hopkins well and when wealthy old Vibert tastes the water, he believes the Hopkins have an oil strike.....
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The Hope Chest
Title: The Hope Chest
Character: Ballantyne, Sr.
Released: December 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer's candy shop, where she delights the customers with her tomboyish antics. Tom Ballantyne, the proprietor's son realizes that Sheila is excessively fond of dancing, asks her out without the benefit of a proper introduction, and she indignantly refuses. Soon afterwards, however, the two fall in love and secretly marry.
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The Narrow Path
Title: The Narrow Path
Character: Malcolm Dion
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Marion Clark, a manicurist, is unimpressed by the wealthy but dissipated men who frequent her shop, preferring city editor Dick Strong, who lives in her boardinghouse. Dick's sister Gladys, however, is intrigued by the wilder side of life in New York and allows one of the boarders to take her to a lively party.
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A Law Unto Herself
Title: A Law Unto Herself
Character: Kurt Von Klassner (as Samuel DeGrasse)
Released: August 19, 1918
Type: Movie
The daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat Kurt Von Klassner, even though her heart belongs to Bertrand Duroc, the humble overseer of her father's estate. His pride wounded, Von Klassner murders Duroc and shifts the blame to marauding poachers.
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A Woman's Fool
Title: A Woman's Fool
Released: August 17, 1918
Type: Movie
Cowboy Lin McLean's restlessness takes him to Denver, where he becomes enamored of a waitress named Katie. Intending to marry her, Lin accompanies Katie back to the ranch, but a traveling rainmaker arrives in the little town, and Katie departs with him after revealing that he is her husband. Visiting Denver for Christmas, Lin adopts Katie's abandoned son Billy, and soon afterwards, the cowboy meets and falls in love with the new station agent, Jessamine "Jessie" Buckner. Lin and Jessie marry, and the little family is happy until Katie, determined to be rid of her neglectful husband and marry Lin instead, appears and drives Jessie away. Realizing that Lin does not love her, Katie poisons herself, and Jessie returns to Lin and Billy.
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Winner Takes All
Title: Winner Takes All
Character: Mark Thorne
Released: July 20, 1918
Type: Movie
Saul Chadron, a brutal cattle baron, is distressed that homesteaders are intruding on his domain and hires outlaws to drive them away.
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Brace Up
Title: Brace Up
Character: National Jim
Released: March 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Hero Henry Court (Herbert Rawlinson) is very much his parents' child, having inherited the predominant character traits of both his go-getting father and his shy, retiring mother. The "father" side of his nature manifests itself on the college football field, where Henry excels. Unfortunately, the "mother" side is evidenced by a streak of cowardice, which surfaces at all the wrong times. Hoping to expunge the cowardly part of his make-up, Henry hires a bunch of self-styled mentalists to "concentrate" his problems away. Pretty soon, Henry is a virtual slave to the whims of the mentalists, who push his emotional buttons with reckless abandon.
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Six-Shooter Andy
Title: Six-Shooter Andy
Character: Tom Slade
Released: February 24, 1918
Type: Movie
Susan Allenby's father is killed during a robbery staged by Bannack's corrupt sheriff, Tom Slade, and his men, leaving the girl to care for her eight brothers and sisters. Andy Crawford and his father William take the orphans in, but after Andy's father is killed, the young prospector vows to avenge his death and clean up the town.
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The Scarlet Car
Title: The Scarlet Car
Character: Ernest Peabody
Released: December 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.
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The Winged Mystery
Title: The Winged Mystery
Character: Mortimer Eddington
Released: November 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Louis and August Siever, the twins sons of a German father and American mother, are traveling in Europe when war breaks out. August joins the Kaiser's army, but Louis, a supporter of the United States, is practically made a prisoner in Berlin for a year while he tries to prove his American citizenship. After a violent confrontation with Louis, August steals his brother's passport and leaves for New York with Gerda Anderson, a German spy.
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Anything Once
Title: Anything Once
Character: Herbert Wendling
Released: October 8, 1917
Type: Movie
A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from reaching the goal, but he, no longer the wastrel of yore, persists and becomes full owner of the property.
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The Empty Gun
Title: The Empty Gun
Character: Jim
Released: September 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Frank, riding through the storm, approaches the station, to give ten thousand dollars worth of gold, which he has just brought from the mine, into safe keeping. Dave the agent hears him, and when he finally appeared, disappointment awaited Frank. "I can't take charge of the money," says Dave. "I'm sorry, Frank, but the train is late, and the gold can't go on tonight. I saw two suspicious-looking characters hanging around here, and I won't take the responsibility."
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Wild and Woolly
Title: Wild and Woolly
Character: Steve Shelby
Released: June 24, 1917
Type: Movie
A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now. The townsmen, not wanting to lose a rich potential resident, contrive to make over the town to suit the young man's fantasy.
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Madame Bo-Peep
Title: Madame Bo-Peep
Character: Jose Alvarez
Released: May 26, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 filmd riected by Chester Withey.
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An Old Fashioned Young Man
Title: An Old Fashioned Young Man
Character: Harold T. King
Released: April 14, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Lloyd Ingraham.
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Her Official Fathers
Title: Her Official Fathers
Character: Ethan Dexter
Released: April 7, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Elmer Clifton, Joseph Henabery, and Dorothy Gish.
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Jim Bludso
Title: Jim Bludso
Character: Ben Merrill
Released: February 4, 1917
Type: Movie
At the end of the Civil War, engineer Jim Bludso, accompanied by his friend, Banty Tim, returns home to the town of Gilgal, and discovers that his wife Gabrielle has deserted him and their son Breeches for another man. Jim is welcomed by Kate Taggart, the village storekeeper's daughter, and their attachment deepens until Gabrielle returns after being deserted by her paramour, and Jim forgives her for their son's sake. Meanwhile, Ben Merrill, an unscrupulous contractor who has built the town levee, fears that the structure will not hold the coming flood waters. Merrill destroys the levee and attempts to place the blame on Jim and Banty Tim. In the flood, Gabrielle is killed, but before dying, she exposes Merrill as the man for whom she had deserted her home. This information reaches Jim when he and Merrill are aboard the boat The Prairie Bell . In the ensuing fight, the ship catches fire and explodes. Rescued from the debris by Banty Tim, Jim marries Kate and begins a new life.
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Diane of the Follies
Title: Diane of the Follies
Character: Phillips Christy
Released: September 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Phillips Christy an amateur sociologist from a wealthy family, subscribes to the theory that people are shaped by their environment. When he falls in love with Diane, a showgirl from the follies, he sees a chance to prove his theory, but fate intervenes .......
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Arthur Jenkins (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 Half-Breed
Title: The Half-Breed
Character: Sheriff Dunn
Released: July 30, 1916
Type: Movie
In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by Allan Dwan. Fairbanks stars as Lo Dorman, who has been ostracized from society because of this mixed ethnicity - his Native American mother was abandoned by his white father. When Lo catches the eye of the rich white debutante Nellie (Jewel Carmen), he becomes a target for the racist Sheriff Dunn (Sam De Grasse), who wants to break them up and take Nelli for his own. This love triangle becomes a quadrangle with the arrival of Teresa (Alma Rubens), who is on the run from the law. Through fire and fury Lo must decide who and what he truly loves.
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An Innocent Magdalene
Title: An Innocent Magdalene
Character: Forbes Stewart
Released: June 18, 1916
Type: Movie
When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Dorothy soon thereafter becomes pregnant, Forbes vows to reform, but authorities arrest him on a gambling charge, and he serves a year in prison. During that time, and just before the birth of the baby, a woman comes to Dorothy and claims to be Forbes' wife. Stunned, Dorothy returns to her father, but the colonel throws her out, and so, on her own, she has her baby, whom the community believes to be illegitimate. Convinced that she has sinned, Dorothy is about to kill herself when Forbes, just out of jail, finds her and explains that the other woman simply had been an ex-sweetheart trying to win him back.
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The Good Bad Man
Title: The Good Bad Man
Character: Bud Frazer / The Wolf
Released: April 21, 1916
Type: Movie
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
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Acquitted
Title: Acquitted
Character: Ira Wolcott
Released: February 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban cottage with a potted lily for his loving wife and two daughters. The Carters live happily until cashier Charles Ryder is murdered by the night watchman, a "coke sniffer" in need of money, and Carter is accused because he worked with Ryder that evening.
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The She-Devil
Title: The She-Devil
Released: January 6, 1916
Type: Movie
The She-Devil is a 1916 short starring Constance Talmadge.
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Martyrs of the Alamo
Title: Martyrs of the Alamo
Character: Silent Smith
Released: November 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.
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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 Birth of a Nation
Title: The Birth of a Nation
Character: Charles Sumner
Released: February 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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I Am Not a Racist
Title: I Am Not a Racist
Character: the businessman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of the classic movie and recreates its dialogues to criticize the racism in it and also in the world today. Freemenville is a little city somewhere in the USA. A city ashamed because of its past of slavery, but proud of being the first in the country to end it. There is an annual ball to celebrate this fact. And this year's ball may be the biggest ever, because of the possible presence of a big celebrity, who is coming to town to see the premiere of a play. However, the play happens to be D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", a racist work that starts a series of events exposing the racism that still exists in the city, culminating in the recreation of the KKK.