Antonio Moreno

Antonio Moreno

Born: September 24, 1887
Died: February 15, 1987
in Madrid, Spain
Antonio 'Tony' Moreno was a Spanish-born American actor and film director.

Movies for Antonio Moreno...

The Spanish Dancer
Title: The Spanish Dancer
Character: Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: December 18, 2015
Type: Movie
The life story of Antonio Moreno (1887-1967), a Spanish actor and director who triumphed in Hollywood during the Silent Film Era.
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Sigrid Holmquist
Title: Sigrid Holmquist
Character: Swedish Film Producer (archive footage)
Released: October 8, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the silent film medium. It consists of already existing film clips from the 1910s and 20s. Sigrid is played by eight different stars from her era, and she also plays herself. Sigrid Holmquist was born in Borås, Sweden and her stubborn spirit led her to become a movie star in Scandinavia and Hollywood before retiring from the movies in 1926. An experimental film project.
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Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Title: Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Character: Self as Manuel Robledo (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrated by Bibi Andersson.
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Con la música a otra parte
Title: Con la música a otra parte
Character: Guarda
Released: November 17, 1975
Type: Movie
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Un curita cañón
Title: Un curita cañón
Released: April 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Father Saturio is a priest unable to keep his mouth shut if he sees injustices being committed. That is why they have transferred him on various occasions from the parishes where he has been assigned. On this occasion, he will have to face Mrs. Aurora, a rich and powerful woman. The war is served.
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The Telephone Box
Title: The Telephone Box
Character: Glazier
Released: December 13, 1972
Type: Movie
A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.
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El caso del señor vestido de violeta
Title: El caso del señor vestido de violeta
Released: April 7, 1969
Type: Movie
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Jandro
Title: Jandro
Character: Loco
Released: March 8, 1965
Type: Movie
After marrying a rich heiress, a young man from humble origins is dedicated to looking for coal in the surroundings of Gijón.
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Loca juventud
Title: Loca juventud
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Johnny Durán, who is seventeen years old and son of a multimillionaire, arrives to Madrid for hollidays. In the capital he become friend of a group of boys and girls with whom he shares great moments; but soon he realice that they are a clan of thugs and decides to distance themselves. He also meets Paula, daugther of an italian family that is travelling, and they both feel atracted by each other. Since then, started happening a serie of unexpected events which the guy will have to solve with tenacity and responsibility.
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The Salary of Crime
Title: The Salary of Crime
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Mario, the son of a police captain killed in the line of duty, is completely surrendered to the police organization. Instructing some errands meet Elsa, original and fascinating beauty, beginning an illicit affair and exciting. This makes his firmest principles are shaken, transformed his life completely absurd entering a maelstrom revolving around the existence of Elsa surface.
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The Rash One
Title: The Rash One
Released: September 7, 1964
Type: Movie
Paco is the boy buttons a luxury hotel. Usually do small businesses with the resale of tickets to bullfights tourists. By a misunderstanding is fired from his job. There is no use of his taste and wanders the Victoria Street taverns. Finally discovers his only chance in bulls, easy craft that believes and loves. The reality is very different and has to accept the truth which manifests itself in a very dramatic.
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Cavalry Charge
Title: Cavalry Charge
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Two men pretend to the same woman in a fort located in the wilds of Canada. Also, one of them will be the object of desire of an Indian girl.
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Girl from La Mancha
Title: Girl from La Mancha
Released: March 19, 1963
Type: Movie
The story of Dulcinea, the love of Don Quixote, who was only a normal girl named Aldonza that is suddenly involved by the legend of the brave and ingenous gentleman.
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The Twins
Title: The Twins
Character: Don Carlos
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Twins separated at birth are reunited 12 years later.
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Torrejón City
Title: Torrejón City
Character: Sheriff Morris
Released: March 14, 1962
Type: Movie
Tom Rodriguez, a young cowboy, arrives in Torrejón City. However in Torrejón City the unsuspecting Tom is mistaken for the famous outlaw Tim El Malo and the people want to lynch him.
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Margarita se llama mi amor
Title: Margarita se llama mi amor
Released: August 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Margarita is a beautiful and explosive girl studying in the Faculty of Arts somewhere in Galicia. To the chagrin of the rest of the girls in the class, all the boys want to date her, to the point moniker of "the bride of the Faculty". However, who really steals the heart Margarita is another person ...
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Don José, Pepe y Pepito
Title: Don José, Pepe y Pepito
Character: Ujier
Released: April 2, 1961
Type: Movie
The arrival of Francis, who owns a factory of surgical material in New York, caused a real stir in a family composed by her grandfather, Pepe, the son, Jose, and grandson, Pepito. Pepito falls in love with her even though Francis consider him a child. But Don Jose is also in love with the American. This situation creates a difficult situation between parent and child, that Francis seeks to remedy returning to the United States. But the grandfather, Pepe, has the solution ...
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Molokai: la isla maldita
Title: Molokai: la isla maldita
Released: August 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Kingdom of Hawaii, 1866. Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king banishes the sick to the island of Molokai. In 1873, the Belgian Catholic missionary Damien de Veuster arrives on the island to help improve the lives of its unfortunate inhabitants.
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Farmacia de guardia
Title: Farmacia de guardia
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A Pharmacy on night duty is the location for all kinds of episodes that one might imagine to happen in any night in Spain in the fifties.
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Tres vidas en el recuerdo
Title: Tres vidas en el recuerdo
Released: October 9, 1957
Type: Movie
After Lucas discovers that his wife, Reina, is having an affair with his partner and friend, he divorces her and leaves Puerto Rico with their young son Fernando. Placing Fernando in a boarding school, Lucas travels abroad for some time. But after gambling away most of his money, Lucas returns to San Juan.
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The Searchers
Title: The Searchers
Character: Emilio Gabriel Fernandez y Figueroa
Released: May 16, 1956
Type: Movie
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
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Good news
Title: Good news
Released: April 5, 1954
Type: Movie
Beliche, a naive postman, suffers from depression because he has almost no letters to deliver. The neighbors to whom Beliche takes their correspondence decide then to launch a plan to receive many more.
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Saskatchewan
Title: Saskatchewan
Character: Chief Dark Cloud
Released: March 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great White Father.
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Creature from the Black Lagoon
Title: Creature from the Black Lagoon
Character: Dr. Carl Maia
Released: March 5, 1954
Type: Movie
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.
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Wings of the Hawk
Title: Wings of the Hawk
Character: Father Perez
Released: August 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel, then finds there's a price on his head; he becomes romantically involved with her in the course of a series of rescues and ambushes, leading up to Orozco's march on Ciudad Juarez.
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Thunder Bay
Title: Thunder Bay
Character: Dominique Rigaud
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
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Ha desaparecido un pasajero
Title: Ha desaparecido un pasajero
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
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The Mark of the Renegade
Title: The Mark of the Renegade
Character: Jose De Vasquez
Released: July 24, 1951
Type: Movie
An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
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Dallas
Title: Dallas
Character: Don Felipe Robles
Released: December 30, 1950
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, Confederate soldier Blayde Hollister travels to Dallas to avenge the savage murder of his family. Discovering his enemy is now an esteemed citizen, Hollister plots to expose the outlaw and his syndicate.
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Saddle Tramp
Title: Saddle Tramp
Character: Martinez
Released: September 21, 1950
Type: Movie
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.
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Lust for Gold
Title: Lust for Gold
Character: Ramon Peralta (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.
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Captain from Castile
Title: Captain from Castile
Character: Don Francisco De Vargas
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
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Notorious
Title: Notorious
Character: Senor Ortiza (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1946
Type: Movie
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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Sol y sombra
Title: Sol y sombra
Released: March 14, 1946
Type: Movie
A drama film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
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The Spanish Main
Title: The Spanish Main
Character: Commandante
Released: October 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.
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Undercover Man
Title: Undercover Man
Character: Tomas Gonzales
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A bandit who robs both Americans and Mexicans is causing each side of the border to blame the other. Hoppy has to settle matters.
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Valley of the Sun
Title: Valley of the Sun
Character: Chief Cochise
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
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Fiesta
Title: Fiesta
Character: Don Hernandez, Cholita's Uncle
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart José. Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando to whom she is engaged. This makes José and Cholita's uncle more than a little bit put out as Fernando is not only not a Mexican, he is also a city slicker afraid of the country.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Rubio
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
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María de la O
Title: María de la O
Character: Pedro Lucas
Released: November 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous painter returns to Spain under a false name as he once had to run away, to meet his half gypsy daughter, who has become a flamenco dancer. He offers her his house, making popular rumors take flight.
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Ambush
Title: Ambush
Character: Captain Mike Gonzalez
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
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Rose of the Rio Grande
Title: Rose of the Rio Grande
Character: Captain Lugo
Released: March 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The story, based on a novel by Johnston (Zorro) McCulley, concerns a group of aristocratic vigilantes, who go about trying to restore their prominence in Mexico by killing anyone who stands in their way.
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The Bohemian Girl
Title: The Bohemian Girl
Character: Devilshoof
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
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Storm Over the Andes
Title: Storm Over the Andes
Character: Maj. Tovar Rojas
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.
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Insure Your Wife
Title: Insure Your Wife
Released: March 11, 1935
Type: Movie
This Fox Film comedy – based on a play by Argentinean writer Julio Escobar – features an international cast that includes actor and singer Raúl Roulien and his fiancée in both the movie and real life, actress and dancer Conchita Montenegro. The plot centers on Ricardo Randall (Roulien), who concocts a scheme to establish an insurance policy to protect men from their wives’ infidelity. The plot thickens when Ricardo’s secretary and love interest, Camelia Cornell (Montenegro), is faced with the return of Rita Martín (Maris), a former lover of Ricardo, whose husband Eduardo (Moreno) has purchased an insurance policy on her. The film features tango songs performed by Roulien, with lyrics by Spanish playwright Enrique Jardiel Poncela, who also collaborated on the film’s screenplay.
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The Wide Open Spaces
Title: The Wide Open Spaces
Character: John Smith - Government Agent
Released: December 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
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Those who dance
Title: Those who dance
Character: Daniel Hogan / Frank 'Cicatriz' Turner
Released: December 5, 1930
Type: Movie
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The Will of the Dead Man
Title: The Will of the Dead Man
Character: Pablo
Released: November 16, 1930
Type: Movie
This is the Spanish-language version of The Cat Creeps, shot at the same time and on the same sets.
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One Mad Kiss
Title: One Mad Kiss
Character: Don Estrada
Released: July 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Estrada, the chief government official of the region, has put a price on the head of José Savedra for causing the local people to rebel against his tax collectors. Dancer Rosario Montes also thinks that the tax levied against her "Fandango Café" is excessive and is not inclined to pay.
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Rough Romance
Title: Rough Romance
Character: Loup La Tour
Released: June 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.
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Romance of the Rio Grande
Title: Romance of the Rio Grande
Character: Juan
Released: November 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico, specifically fabulously wealthy Don Fernando. Intending to bequeath his vast fortune and estate to his long-estranged grandson Pancho, Don Fernando must contend with his ne'er-do-well nephew Juan.
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Careers
Title: Careers
Character: Victor Gromaire
Released: June 2, 1929
Type: Movie
In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of his subordinates to sleep with him if they wanted their husbands to get promoted. What he also didn't know was that his wife was in the boss' office when he was killed. Complications ensue.
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Synthetic Sin
Title: Synthetic Sin
Character: Donald Anthony
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a role in his next production. Unfortunately the production is a disaster and her husband proclaims her unfit for the role. Rather then return home in defeat, she stays in New York and accidentally gets involved with some vicious gangsters.
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Adoration
Title: Adoration
Character: Prince Serge Orloff
Released: December 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
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The Midnight Taxi
Title: The Midnight Taxi
Character: Tony Driscoll
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
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The Whip Woman
Title: The Whip Woman
Character: Count Michael Ferenzi
Released: February 5, 1928
Type: Movie
A different kind of a story about a different kind of a girl---a modern, young cavewoman who whipped her way into the heart of a man who wanted to forget about love!
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Madame Pompadour
Title: Madame Pompadour
Character: Rene Laval
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.
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Venus of Venice
Title: Venus of Venice
Character: Kenneth Wilson
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.
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It
Title: It
Character: Cyrus Waltham Jr.
Released: February 5, 1927
Type: Movie
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."
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Love's Blindness
Title: Love's Blindness
Character: Hubert Culverdale, 8th Earl of St. Austel
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 Flaming Forest
Title: The Flaming Forest
Character: Sergeant David Carrigan
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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The Temptress
Title: The Temptress
Character: Manuel Robledo
Released: October 3, 1926
Type: Movie
A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
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Beverly of Graustark
Title: Beverly of Graustark
Character: Dantan prince of Dawsberg
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.
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Mare Nostrum
Title: Mare Nostrum
Character: Ulysses Ferragut
Released: February 15, 1926
Type: Movie
The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.
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Learning to Love
Title: Learning to Love
Character: Scott Warner
Released: January 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
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The Story Without a Name
Title: The Story Without a Name
Character: Alan Holt
Released: October 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma wants to get his hands on the invention and he sends his henchmen to attack Holt in his laboratory.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Jim Cleve
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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Hello, 'Frisco
Title: Hello, 'Frisco
Character: Antonio Moreno
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
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Tiger Love
Title: Tiger Love
Character: The Wildcat
Released: June 30, 1924
Type: Movie
Tiger Love silent film
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The Spanish Dancer
Title: The Spanish Dancer
Character: Don Cesar de Bazan
Released: October 6, 1923
Type: Movie
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Maritana wishes to be a Countess. Her ambitions are realized when she meets the handsome Count Don Cesar de Bazán, if only the King of Spain would stay out of their way!
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The Exciters
Title: The Exciters
Character: Pierre Martel
Released: June 3, 1923
Type: Movie
Ronnie Rand, Required to marry before she is 21 or lose her inheritance, Ronnie Rand meets Pierre Martel, member of a gang of thieves, and, convinced that he is a "real man," she marries him. Pierre's confederates attempt to blackmail Ronnie, and when she refuses to sign a check they try to kill Pierre; but police arrive in time to save him. Pierre is revealed to be a U. S. Intelligence Service agent. Ronnie, though somewhat disappointed that her husband is not at all a crook, accepts the situation.
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Character: John Hale
Released: April 15, 1923
Type: Movie
June Tolliver is a Kentucky mountain girl whose family is feuding with the Falins. But their differences are temporarily put on hold when revenue officer John Hale (Antonio Moreno) comes around. He falls in love with June and sends her to the city to get an education. When she returns and the feud breaks out once again, June tries to become a peacemaker between the two families.
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Look Your Best
Title: Look Your Best
Character: Carlo Bruni
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
Perla Quaranta, a half-starved "daughter of Little Italy," is given the place in Carlo Bruni's "Butterfly Act" that is vacated by a chorus girl who has become overweight. Although Perla becomes friendly with Krug, the wire-man, she rejects him as a suitor, and in revenge Krug causes Perla's wire to break.
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Lost and Found on a South Sea Island
Title: Lost and Found on a South Sea Island
Character: Lloyd Warren
Released: February 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Faulke, a swindling white trader who persuaded Madge to leave Captain Blackbird, insists that her daughter, Lorna, marry Waki, a native leader, although Lorna loves Lloyd Warren. While in search of a doll for his other daughter, Baby Madge, Captain Blackbird comes to Pago Pago and gruffly refuses to aid Lloyd and Lorna, whom he does not recognize. A chance encounter with Faulke, however, reveals the trader's evil doings and Lorna's identity. The captain and his men rush to the island and rescue Lorna from the warring natives.
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My American Wife
Title: My American Wife
Character: Manuel La Tessa
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 film.
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The Invisible Hand
Title: The Invisible Hand
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
The conflict between the Secret Service and a powerful combination of crooks who would wreck society. Every known device is employed in the pursuit of crime and of crime detection: Underground tunnels and secret vaults under the bay, chests of jewels and disappearing walls, submarine dips and airplane fights - these are just a few of the thousand thrills that sprinkle the action of... The Invisible Hand!
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Perils of Thunder Mountain
Title: Perils of Thunder Mountain
Character: John Davis
Released: May 17, 1919
Type: Movie
movie serial
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The First Law
Title: The First Law
Character: Hugh Godwin
Released: July 28, 1918
Type: Movie
When her surgeon father loses his fortune, Norma Webb (Castle) turns her family home into a boarding house.
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The Naulahka
Title: The Naulahka
Character: Nicholas Tarvin
Released: February 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel known as the Naulahka, which he plans to present to Mrs. Mutrie, the railroad president's wife.
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The House of Hate
Title: The House of Hate
Character: Harvey 'Harry' Gresham
Released: January 2, 1918
Type: Movie
A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...
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The Angel Factory
Title: The Angel Factory
Character: David Darrow
Released: September 15, 1917
Type: Movie
In the slums of New York, David Darrow runs a settlement house called "The Angel Factory" in which he tries to help those oppressed by tenement life. In the course of his work, Darrow meets Florence, an innocent young girl of the slums, and is attracted to her sweetness. Betty, Darrow's snobbish fiancée, becomes jealous and invites Florence to a reception, hoping to embarrass the girl. Florence comports herself admirably, however, and wins the respect of all present. The next day, on his way to the settlement house, Darrow is followed by gangster Tony Podessa, a jealous man from Florence's past. As Florence watches the two men confront each other, Tony is killed by a mysterious shot. The police arrive and arrest Darrow for the murder.
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A Capable Lady Cook
Title: A Capable Lady Cook
Character: The Ice Man
Released: November 17, 1916
Type: Movie
A Capable Lady Cook
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The Devil's Prize
Title: The Devil's Prize
Character: Hugh Roland
Released: November 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Social-climbing Arnold St. Clair abandons his pregnant lover Myra to marry wealthy Adeline Stratton. Myra, looking to protect her child, marries Hugh Roland. Adeline's uncle Mark discovers Arnold's secret, and to keep him quiet, Arnold kills him.
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The Shop Girl
Title: The Shop Girl
Character: Peter Rolls
Released: June 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Peter is smitten with Winifred, a model, whom he met on board the steamer returning from Europe, but is discouraged by his sister, Ena, who is more ambitious for him. Peter is the son of Peter Rolls, the wealthy New Yorker. Ena tells Winifred that Peter is engaged to Eileen, sister of Lord Ravglan and that he is just trifling with her.
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Kennedy Square
Title: Kennedy Square
Character: Harry Rutter
Released: February 21, 1916
Type: Movie
At a dance on his parents' plantation in the early nineteenth century, Harry Rutter wins a duel with Langdon Willetts, but loses his fiancée, Kate Seymour, who disapproves of fighting. He is thrown out of his family home and forced to stay with others. Tired of accepting charity, Harry leaves for South America. Now he returns a rich man to a ruined home.
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The Dust of Egypt
Title: The Dust of Egypt
Character: Geoffrey Lascelles
Released: October 4, 1915
Type: Movie
Geoffrey's relationship with his fiancée is threatened by Ameuset, a princess of Egypt awakened after five thousand years. Originally a six reel feature, only short fragments of The Dust of Egypt survive today.
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In the Latin Quarter
Title: In the Latin Quarter
Character: Andrew Lenique
Released: January 2, 1915
Type: Movie
In the Latin Quarter is a 1915 silent short film directed by Lionel Belmore and starring Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno. It was produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America.
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The Peacemaker
Title: The Peacemaker
Released: October 14, 1914
Type: Movie
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John Rance, Gentleman
Title: John Rance, Gentleman
Character: John Rance
Released: July 28, 1914
Type: Movie
A young woman, Lesbia (Norma Talmadge), who has a summer flirtation with a young doctor named John Rance (Antonio Moreno). She then throws him over. Later his best friend returns from a tour of the world with his new wife, the very same Lesbia.
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Strongheart
Title: Strongheart
Character: Frank Nelson
Released: March 8, 1914
Type: Movie
STRONGHEART (1914) is a Native American Indian drama. Based on a famous play of the time, the film features an all-star cast. Originally five reels, the film was reissued at three reels in 1916.
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The House of Discord
Title: The House of Discord
Character: The Sister-in-Law's Sweetheart
Released: December 13, 1913
Type: Movie
In her youth the mother was saved from the fatal mistake by an accident, but it caused her years of separation from child and husband. It had occurred primarily through her self-righteous sister-in-law's domination and interference. A like fate and downfall threatened the daughter, now reaching maturity. The mother's insistence separated the child from her environment. Love and understanding did the rest.
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By Man's Law
Title: By Man's Law
Character: Procurer / Slaver
Released: November 22, 1913
Type: Movie
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of white slavers.
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A Cure for Suffragettes
Title: A Cure for Suffragettes
Released: November 17, 1913
Type: Movie
Caroline Spankhurst and her suffragette brigade conclude to stop at nothing, so in their dauntless enthusiasm they forget their babies peacefully reposing on the sidewalk. The babies fall into the hands of the traffic squad, ordered to keep clear streets. A small-sized riot is taking place, but every mother's a suffragette so why cry "Help?"
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Title: The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Character: Musketeers Gang Member / At Dance (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1912
Type: Movie
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
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So Near, Yet So Far
Title: So Near, Yet So Far
Character: In Club
Released: September 29, 1912
Type: Movie
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love. Unknowingly, the Boy and the young woman of his fancy both stay at the home of mutual friends-- But all is not well, as robbers lurk outside the house.
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An Unseen Enemy
Title: An Unseen Enemy
Character: On Bridge (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1912
Type: Movie
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.