Nigel De Brulier

Nigel De Brulier

Born: August 8, 1877
Died: January 30, 1948
in Frenchay, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
English born Nigel De Brulier (born Francis George Packer) was an actor of the American screen, who began his career during the silent cinema era.

Movies for Nigel De Brulier...

Title: Western von gestern
Character: Don Manuel Vega
Released: May 5, 1978
Type: TV
Western von gestern is a German television series.
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Tonight We Raid Calais
Title: Tonight We Raid Calais
Character: Danton (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1943
Type: Movie
A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Title: The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Character: The Lo-San [Chs. 2-3, 12-13]
Released: January 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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Wrecking Crew
Title: Wrecking Crew
Character: Father Zachary
Released: November 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.
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Thru Different Eyes
Title: Thru Different Eyes
Character: Maynard
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
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For Beauty's Sake
Title: For Beauty's Sake
Character: Brother
Released: June 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.
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Adventures of Captain Marvel
Title: Adventures of Captain Marvel
Character: Shazam
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself. Back in the US, Billy Batson, as Captain Marvel, wages a battle against an evil, hooded figure, the Scorpion, who hopes to accumulate all five lenses, thereby gaining control of the super-powerful weapon
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Viva Cisco Kid
Title: Viva Cisco Kid
Character: Old Mose
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.
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One Million B.C.
Title: One Million B.C.
Character: Peytow
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.
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The Mad Empress
Title: The Mad Empress
Character: Father Fisher
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Archbishop at St. John's Chapel (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Title: Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Character: Russian Priest (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
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Mutiny in the Big House
Title: Mutiny in the Big House
Character: Convict Mike Faleri
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Character: Cardinal Richelieu
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. After Philippe falls for the king's betrothed, Spanish Princess Maria Theresa, Louis imprisons him, forcing his brother to don an iron mask that will slowly suffocate him -- and it's up to D'Artagnan to rescue him.
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Townsman at Zeke's Recitation (uncredited)
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: The Notting Hill Murderer
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Archbishop (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Joaquin Murrieta
Title: Joaquin Murrieta
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1938
Type: Movie
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, in California in the 1850s.
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Zorro Rides Again
Title: Zorro Rides Again
Character: Don Manuel Vega
Released: November 20, 1937
Type: Movie
The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove their connection to profiteer Marsden. Manuel Vega, aged co-owner, calls in the aid of his nephew James, great-grandson of the original Zorro. Alas, James seems more adept at golf than derring-do; but after he arrives, Zorro rides again! Can one black-clad man on horseback defeat a gang supplied with airplanes and machine guns?
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The Californian
Title: The Californian
Character: Don Francisco Escobar
Released: July 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
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White Legion
Title: White Legion
Character: Father Gonzales
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the workers constructing the canal.
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The Garden of Allah
Title: The Garden of Allah
Character: Lector at Monastery (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
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Mary of Scotland
Title: Mary of Scotland
Character: Judge
Released: July 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Earthquake Survivor (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Down to the Sea
Title: Down to the Sea
Character: Demetrius
Released: May 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
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Half Angel
Title: Half Angel
Character: Dr. Hall
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
Title: Robin Hood of El Dorado
Character: Padre at Wedding (uncredited)
Released: March 17, 1936
Type: Movie
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Aristocrat (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Richelieu
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Charlie Chan in Egypt
Title: Charlie Chan in Egypt
Character: Edfu Ahmad
Released: June 4, 1935
Type: Movie
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
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The Spectacle Maker
Title: The Spectacle Maker
Character: The Man in Black
Released: September 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
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Viva Villa!
Title: Viva Villa!
Character: Political Judge (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1934
Type: Movie
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
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The House of Rothschild
Title: The House of Rothschild
Character: Official (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.
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I'm No Angel
Title: I'm No Angel
Character: Rajah the Fortune Teller (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
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Life in the Raw
Title: Life in the Raw
Character: McTavish
Released: July 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom.
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The Monkey's Paw
Title: The Monkey's Paw
Character: Hindu Fakir (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
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Rasputin and the Empress
Title: Rasputin and the Empress
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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Chandu the Magician
Title: Chandu the Magician
Character: Yogi Teacher (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1932
Type: Movie
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
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Miss Pinkerton
Title: Miss Pinkerton
Character: Coroner James A. Clemp
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
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Alias the Doctor
Title: Alias the Doctor
Character: Autopsy Surgeon (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When Stephan's actions causes the death of Anna, Karl is the one who takes the wrap and three years in prison. When he gets out, he finds Stephan is dead and a sick child needs an operation and he does brilliant surgery. This gets him noticed and his mother tells them that he is Stephan Brenner, not Karl Brenner. She tells Karl that he must cure sickness in the world. But, being that he is Stephan, he can no longer marry Lottie, as she is now his sister.
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Son of India
Title: Son of India
Character: Rao Rama
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Elijah
Released: September 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
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Golden Dawn
Title: Golden Dawn
Character: Hasmali the Witch Doctor (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.
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Redemption
Title: Redemption
Character: Petushkov
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
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The Green Goddess
Title: The Green Goddess
Character: Temple Priest
Released: February 13, 1930
Type: Movie
An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India.
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The Wheel of Life
Title: The Wheel of Life
Character: Tsering Lama
Released: June 15, 1929
Type: Movie
British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat does the gentlemanly thing by suppressing his own emotions for the sake of the Regiment. He goes so far as to resign from his commission and returns to India as a civilian.
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Thru Different Eyes
Title: Thru Different Eyes
Character: Maynard
Released: April 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the prosecuting and the defense attorneys put forward sharply different versions of the character of Manning and his wife, Viola, and of the events leading up to the murder. The jury returns a verdict of guilty, but a young girl then comes forward and confesses that she killed Winfield for having wronged her.
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The Iron Mask
Title: The Iron Mask
Character: Cardinal Richelieu
Released: February 21, 1929
Type: Movie
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.
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The Red Dance
Title: The Red Dance
Character: Bishop (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: Soldier / High Priest
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
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Me, Gangster
Title: Me, Gangster
Character: Danish Louie
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
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Loves of an Actress
Title: Loves of an Actress
Character: Samson
Released: August 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval....
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The Divine Sinner
Title: The Divine Sinner
Character: Minister of Police
Released: July 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police prefect Nigel De Brulier, Lillia agrees to seduce a politically important foreign prince Ernest Hilliard in exchange for her freedom.
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Two Lovers
Title: Two Lovers
Character: The Prince of Orange
Released: March 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the guise of "Leatherface," a swashbuckling masked avenger, Van Ryke performs his derring-do on behalf of the Prince of Orange (Nigel de Brulier). Naturally, Van Ruke considers beautiful Spanish aristocrat Donna Leonora de Vargas (Vilma Banky) to be a bitter enemy, and the feeling is mutual. To no one's surprise, however, Van Ryke and Donna Leonara eventually fall in love (hence the title). The pulse-pounding climax finds Van Ryke riding hell-for-leather through a rainstorm to warn the Flemish troops about the Spaniards' plans to burn the city of Ghent to the ground. Two Lovers was based on Madame Orczy's novel Leatherface, and adapted for the screen by Alice Duer Miller.
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The Gaucho
Title: The Gaucho
Character: The Padre
Released: November 21, 1927
Type: Movie
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.
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My Best Girl
Title: My Best Girl
Character: Crippled Pencil Peddler (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.
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The Patent Leather Kid
Title: The Patent Leather Kid
Character: The French Doctor
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I. Eventually, he is drafted, is shipped overseas, and performs a heroic act, which results in his being severely wounded.
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Soft Cushions
Title: Soft Cushions
Character: The Notary
Released: August 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
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Wings
Title: Wings
Character: Peasant (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
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The Beloved Rogue
Title: The Beloved Rogue
Character: Astrologer
Released: March 12, 1927
Type: Movie
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
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Surrender
Title: Surrender
Character: Rabbi Mendel Lyon
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is overrun with the Imperial troops of the Russian Czar, with Constantine in Imperial command. He is attracted by the beauty of Lea and commands her to come to his quarters. She refuses and he is outraged. He orders the townspeople barred behind their doors and the village burned. Though she loves her honor above everything else, she can not bear to see the villagers suffer, and makes the lonely walk through the village to the Inn.
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Don Juan
Title: Don Juan
Character: Marchese Rinaldo
Released: August 6, 1926
Type: Movie
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
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The Greater Glory
Title: The Greater Glory
Character: Dr. Hermann von Berg
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
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Yellow Fingers
Title: Yellow Fingers
Character: Rajah Jagore
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Ralph Ince stars as Brute Shane, a South Pacific trader who has adopted native girl Saina (Olive Broden). When Shane rescues English lass Nona Deering (Claire Adams) from white slavers, the jealous Saina begins plotting Nona's demise.
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The Ancient Mariner
Title: The Ancient Mariner
Character: Skipper
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Doris Matthews, a beautiful, innocent young girl, forsakes her sweetheart, Joel Barlowe, in favor of Victor Brant, a wealthy roué. On the night before they are to elope, an old sailor gives Brant a strange potion to drink and then unfolds before his eyes "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Deeply touched by this story about the consequences of the wanton destruction of innocent beauty, Brant leaves without Doris. After some time, he returns and finds to his pained satisfaction that Doris, having overcome her infatuation for him, has again turned her tender attentions toward Joel.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Title: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Character: Simonides
Released: December 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
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He's a Prince!
Title: He's a Prince!
Character: Revolutionary
Released: October 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Prince Alexis is the son of the king of a small European country. His duties, though fairly unimportant, nevertheless keep him so busy that he has no time for anything else. One day he meets and falls in love with a pretty young girl and wants to spend as much time with her as possible, but the royal advisers won't allow it, as it would take away from his duties. To make matters worse, his father dies and Alexis becomes king. Frustrated at his position and his inability to spend time with the woman he loves, he comes up with a novel plan to solve his problems.
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Title: Mademoiselle Midnight
Character: Dr. Sanchez
Released: April 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
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A Boy of Flanders
Title: A Boy of Flanders
Character: Jehan Daas
Released: April 6, 1924
Type: Movie
An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.
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Three Weeks
Title: Three Weeks
Character: Dimitri
Released: February 10, 1924
Type: Movie
A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
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Wild Oranges
Title: Wild Oranges
Character: Litchfield Stope
Released: January 20, 1924
Type: Movie
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie. One day widower John Woolfolk, sailing on his yacht, happens upon the island. Soon he and Millie fall in love. Will jealous Nicholas stand for this?
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St. Elmo
Title: St. Elmo
Character: Rev. Alan Hammond
Released: September 30, 1923
Type: Movie
St. Elmo is a man who killed his romantic rival in a brawl. Traveling the world as a confirmed misogynist, St. Elmo returns to home and hearth only to fall in love with the daughter of the local blacksmith. The film is based on the 1867 novel of the same name written by Augusta Jane Evans. Today, St. Elmo is a lost film.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Don Claudio
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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The Eleventh Hour
Title: The Eleventh Hour
Character: Mordecai Newman
Released: July 19, 1923
Type: Movie
An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world.
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Rupert of Hentzau
Title: Rupert of Hentzau
Character: Herbert
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania, to play the King once more. Lost Adaptation of the eponymous Anthony Hope nove, the sequel of the Prisoner of Zenda.
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Salomé
Title: Salomé
Character: Jokaanan, the Prophet
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist.
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Omar the Tentmaker
Title: Omar the Tentmaker
Character: Nizam ul Mulk
Released: December 22, 1922
Type: Movie
About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to marry the shah, but she eventually escaped and, with help of grand Vazir, joined Omar Khayyam. Hollywood made a film based on the same story with Connell Wilde, the life and adventures of Omar Khayyam.
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A Doll's House
Title: A Doll's House
Character: Dr. Rank
Released: February 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed.
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Foolish Wives
Title: Foolish Wives
Character: Monk (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
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The Devil Within
Title: The Devil Within
Character: Dr. Philiol
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Director Bernard J. Durning's silent seafaring romantic melodrama
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Cardinal Richelieu
Released: August 28, 1921
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Without Benefit of Clergy
Title: Without Benefit of Clergy
Character: Pir Khan
Released: June 19, 1921
Type: Movie
A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Character: Tchernoff
Released: March 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
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His Pajama Girl
Title: His Pajama Girl
Character: Manuel Lopez
Released: May 10, 1920
Type: Movie
Planning to fleece wealthy Henry Dodd, Blackie Blaisdell and his band of crooks convince the millionaire that they have located the deposed president of San Salvador, a country in which Dodd holds mining interests.
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That Something
Title: That Something
Released: May 2, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Virgin of Stamboul
Title: The Virgin of Stamboul
Character: Capt. Kassan
Released: March 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.
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The Mystery Of 13
Title: The Mystery Of 13
Character: Raoul Ferrar
Released: August 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A man comes by a map that shows the location of a secret treasure, but runs afoul of a criminal organization known as the "13". Chapter ten, eleven and twelve are still missing from this 15 episode serial.
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Sahara
Title: Sahara
Character: Mustapha
Released: June 29, 1919
Type: Movie
Actress Mignon is the toast of Paris until she marries young American engineer John Stanley. He is commissioned to go to work in the Sahara desert, and Mignon accompanies him with their baby. But it isn't long before she is lonely and horribly bored. When a wealthy Russian, Baron Alexis, passes through the camp, he offers to take her away to Cairo. She goes with him, and he surrounds her in luxury. Years pass, but the situation does not bring her happiness.
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The Romance of Tarzan
Title: The Romance of Tarzan
Character: Priest
Released: October 17, 1918
Type: Movie
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes to their ranch near San Francisco. Tarzan shows up in a tuxedo and rescues Jane from outlaws...
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Kultur
Title: Kultur
Character: Danilo
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Just prior to World War I, the Kaiser sends Baron von Zeller to inform Emperor Franz Josef of Austria that he is ready to declare war on France. Sensing the impending crisis, the French War Office dispatches secret agent René de Bornay to investigate the situation, and upon his arrival, he cultivates the friendship of Franz Josef's mistress, the Countess Griselda von Arenburg.
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
Title: The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
Character: Capt. von Neigle
Released: January 2, 1918
Type: Movie
A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end.
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The Girl o' Dreams
Title: The Girl o' Dreams
Character: Phillip Fletcher
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
After his young wife dies, Phillip Fletcher, a millionaire and sculptor, makes his home on an uncharted desert island. Harry LeRoy, a cad who is courting the widow Mrs. Hansen, desires the widow's convent-bred daughter Norma and persuades mother and daughter to accompany him on a sea cruise. When the ship catches fire, Norma, abandoned by LeRoy and her mother in the confusion, is washed ashore on Phillip's island.
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Triumph
Title: Triumph
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1917
Type: Movie
This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera.
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The Bond Between
Title: The Bond Between
Character: Feole Zelnar
Released: April 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Pierre Duval is a night watchman at a museum of art who dotes on his art student son, Jacques. One evening at the museum, Pierre finds a highly valuable painting missing, and since Jacques had just left, he believes his son stole it.
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The Voice on the Wire
Title: The Voice on the Wire
Character: Professor Duval
Released: March 18, 1917
Type: Movie
A silent action movie serial.
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Joan the Woman
Title: Joan the Woman
Character: Man at Trial (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Extra (uncredited)
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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Purity
Title: Purity
Character: Thorton Darcy
Released: July 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Purity, a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modelling to publish his poetry. (IMDb)
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
Title: The Dumb Girl of Portici
Character: Father Francisco
Released: January 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
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Ghosts
Title: Ghosts
Character: Pastor Manders
Released: May 31, 1915
Type: Movie
Captain Alving, a notorious rake and financially irresponsible, seeks wealthy heiress Helen's hand in marriage. The family doctor protests to the marriage, on the grounds of Alving's hereditary illness, but both parties disregard all warnings; Urged on by her ambitious parents, Helen marries Alving. Later Helen discovers a liaison between her husband and a young, married woman. Soon the sins of the father are visited upon all members of the Alving clan. Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.
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The Spanish Jade
Title: The Spanish Jade
Character: Don Luis
Released: April 11, 1915
Type: Movie
In a provincial Spanish town, during the mid-nineteenth century, Manuela is sold as a dancing girl to a strolling musician. In their wanderings, she meets Don Bartolome, who left his poor father Don Luis to become a highwayman. Bartolome falls in love with Manuela and takes her with him after killing the musician. When they meet Osmund Manvers, an English squire, Bartolome wants to use Manuela to rob him, but Manvers rescues Manuela from a gang of drifters and carries her into the country. Later, Manuela stabs and kills Bartolome after he threatens her. Manuela flees and Manvers searches for her. When Don Luis learns about Bartolome's death, he challenges Manvers to a duel.
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Hypocrites
Title: Hypocrites
Character: Distraut Man in Church (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
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The Pursuit of the Phantom
Title: The Pursuit of the Phantom
Character: The Poet
Released: October 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Accompanied by his dog Skookum, artist Richard Alden goes to work painting the beauty of Laguna Beach. There he courts a city woman, much to the delight of a whimsical waif who weaves fantasies about the lovers. The idyll is interrupted, though, when Wyant Van Zandt, an ambitious millionaire, steals the artist's sweetheart. Alden marries the waif, who later bears him six children. Years pass, and Van Zandt's son falls in love with Helen, the artist's daughter. Indignant at the unsuitability of the match, the millionaire forces his son to break with Helen. Thinking that his daughter's honor has been compromised, Alden attacks and chokes the youth, but at young Van Zandt's bedside, all are reconciled. An allegorical epilogue contrasts the lots of Van Zandt and Alden. To the left, the millionaire embraces a skeleton in black, while, to the right, the artist holds his wife. -From TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.