Charles K. Gerrard

Charles K. Gerrard

Born: December 19, 1883
Died: January 1, 1969
in Carlow, Ireland
Charles K. Gerrard (20 December 1883 – 1 January 1969), also known as Charles Kavanagh, was an Irish-American motion-picture actor, and the elder brother of actor and film director Douglas Gerrard.

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A Criminal at Large
Title: A Criminal at Large
Character: Dr. Amersham
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, Lord William Lebanon, to marry Isla Crane, his cousin. But Isla is reluctant to do so, and is also frightened by the two footmen of the household who she suspects of locking her in her room at night. Following a village dance, the household's chauffeur is found strangled with an Indian scarf.
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A Political Party
Title: A Political Party
Character: Mr. Whitman
Released: July 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
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Facing The Music
Title: Facing The Music
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!
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The Menace
Title: The Menace
Character: Bailiff
Released: January 29, 1932
Type: Movie
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
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Dracula
Title: Dracula
Character: Martin
Released: February 12, 1931
Type: Movie
British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London and is, unbeknownst to Renfield, a vampire. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together, and as Dracula begins preying on London socialites, the two become the subject of study for a supernaturalist professor, Abraham Van Helsing.
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The Man Who Came Back
Title: The Man Who Came Back
Character: Gibson
Released: January 11, 1931
Type: Movie
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
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Another Fine Mess
Title: Another Fine Mess
Character: Lord Leopold Ambrose Plumtree (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
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Anybody's Woman
Title: Anybody's Woman
Character: Walter Harvey
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
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Journey's End
Title: Journey's End
Character: Mason
Released: April 9, 1930
Type: Movie
In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
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Men Without Women
Title: Men Without Women
Character: Cmdr. Weymouth
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example of a hybrid silent-talkie. A disgraced English sub commander changes his name to Burke and joins the American Navy. When the U.S. submarine on which he is serving as a torpedo launcher begins to sink, Burke must make the ultimate sacrifice to save as many crew men as possible..
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Light Fingers
Title: Light Fingers
Character: London Tower
Released: July 29, 1929
Type: Movie
"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.
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Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: Henry Lord (as Charles Gerrard)
Released: April 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, into forging a check. The evidence is framed so that innocent clerk Arthur Rowland is accused of the crime.
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The Lone Wolf's Daughter
Title: The Lone Wolf's Daughter
Character: Count Polinac
Released: February 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Michael Lanyard, a reformed cracks-man, adopts Adrienne, the daughter of an old friend, and goes to Southampton to attend a party celebrating her engagement to Bobby Crenshaw, the son of a wealthy society couple. The Count and Countess Polinac, international jewel thieves, also attend the party, and Count Polinac forces Lanyard to open the safe containing the jewelry of the guests by threatening to expose Lanyard's criminal past. Lanyard forestalls the count, however, and protects the valuables. The count and countess are arrested, and Michael's secret is kept safe.
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Romance of a Rogue
Title: Romance of a Rogue
Character: Leonard Hardingham
Released: October 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A low-key silent drama of a man seeking vengeance on the villain whose lies sent him to prison on the night of his wedding.
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Caught in the Fog
Title: Caught in the Fog
Character: Crook
Released: August 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.
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The Port of Missing Girls
Title: The Port of Missing Girls
Character: DeLeon
Released: March 19, 1928
Type: Movie
Neglected by her moneyed parents and disillusioned with her boyfriend Buddie Larkins, vocalist Ruth King joins a school for stage and fancy dancing, thus playing into the hands of DeLeon, ....
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Painting the Town
Title: Painting the Town
Character: Raymond Tyson (as Charles Gerrard)
Released: August 7, 1927
Type: Movie
Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, headed the cast of Universal's Painting the Town. In his first starring role, Tryon is cast as bucolic inventor Hector Whitmore, who falls for flirtatious city gal Patsy Deveau (Miller). Misinterpreting her fluttering eyelashes as a sign of true and lasting love, Hector follows Patsy to New York, much to the dismay of the girl's wealthy fiance.
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Chasing Choo Choos
Title: Chasing Choo Choos
Character: Scott's son
Released: June 21, 1927
Type: Movie
Virginia Craig will become super-wealthy and gain sole control of her factory, unless insubordinate schemers can trick her into marrying one of their clique. Unfortunately for them, she loves Monty, one of her employees. When the schemers' plot is discovered, a chase starts away from the factory and onto a runaway train.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: Arthur Remsen
Released: June 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent film drama..
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The Heart Thief
Title: The Heart Thief
Character: Count Lazlos
Released: April 26, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Cheerful Fraud
Title: The Cheerful Fraud
Character: Steve
Released: December 27, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man fakes his identity to impress a girl.
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The Better 'Ole
Title: The Better 'Ole
Character: Major Russett
Released: October 23, 1926
Type: Movie
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
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The Nervous Wreck
Title: The Nervous Wreck
Character: Reggie De Vere
Released: October 9, 1926
Type: Movie
Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.
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Accused
Title: Accused
Character: Lait Rodman
Released: December 3, 1925
Type: Movie
Cyrus Braidwood has a secret. His daughter Helen isn't actually his daughter--her father is a murderer, and Braidwood has been raising her as his own because he has her father's written confession hidden. One day her father manages to get ahold of the confession. Helen shows up at his apartment looking for it, which culminates in her and a young man she meets there being taken prisoner by a criminal gang.
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The Wedding Song
Title: The Wedding Song
Character: Paul Glynn
Released: November 29, 1925
Type: Movie
A beautiful con artist marries Hayes Hallan, the owner of a pearl-rich island. No sooner has the couple said "I do" than Beatrice's partners in crime show up, claiming to be the bride's parents.
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California Straight Ahead
Title: California Straight Ahead
Character: Creighton Deane
Released: September 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.
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Circe the Enchantress
Title: Circe the Enchantress
Character: Ballard 'Bal' Barrett
Released: October 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Mae Murray as a Jazz Age baby who treats men like swine until she falls for the upright doctor living next door.
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Lilies of the Field
Title: Lilies of the Field
Character: Ted Conroy
Released: February 29, 1924
Type: Movie
A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
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Loving Lies
Title: Loving Lies
Character: Tom Hayden
Released: January 22, 1924
Type: Movie
A tug boat skipper never informs his nervous wife when he has a dangerous job to do. This leads to complications when he rescues a young girl and her baby from the sea.
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The Dangerous Maid
Title: The Dangerous Maid
Character: Sir Peter Dare
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
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Richard the Lion-Hearted
Title: Richard the Lion-Hearted
Character: Saladin
Released: October 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the previous year.
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The Glimpses of the Moon
Title: The Glimpses of the Moon
Character: 'Streffy' (Lord Altringham)
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
Title: When Knighthood Was in Flower
Character: Sir Adam Judson
Released: September 15, 1922
Type: Movie
Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.
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Heroes and Husbands
Title: Heroes and Husbands
Character: Martin Tancray
Released: August 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Susanne Danbury and Walter Gaylord, the man she loves, are among the weekend guests of her publisher, Hugh Bemis, and his wife Agatha, who also loves Walter. Lost film.
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French Heels
Title: French Heels
Character: Keith Merwyn (as Charles Gerard)
Released: January 29, 1922
Type: Movie
Returning from France after the war, John Tabor informs Palma May of her brother's death and offers the penniless girl his help, but she refuses it, preferring to work as a cabaret dancer. Later, John and Palma meet again, marry, and go west to manage a lumber camp, as instructed by John's wealthy father, Jarvis Tabor. Displeased by John's choice of wife, the elder Tabor tests the couple with difficult living conditions, which eventually discourage Palma, and she accepts the party invitation of Keith Merwyn, manager of the cabaret where she starred. Meanwhile, Merwyn effects a disturbance among the lumbermen, endangering John.
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Sheltered Daughters
Title: Sheltered Daughters
Character: French Pete
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
New York police sergeant Jim Dark is determined that his daughter, Jenny, will be shielded from any knowledge of evil. Consequently, she lives in a dream world, imagining herself to be a descendant of Saint Jeanne d'Arc, but has a loyal friend in reporter Pep Mullins. Her school friend, Adele, also raised by overly protective parents, is ejected from her home when she becomes inebriated after spending an evening with a disreputable young man.
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The Gilded Lily
Title: The Gilded Lily
Character: John Stewart
Released: March 27, 1921
Type: Movie
A hostess at a Broadway cafe marries one of her many suitors, and finds out her new husband is prone to drinking heavily.
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The Passionate Pilgrim
Title: The Passionate Pilgrim
Character: Qualters (as Charles Gerard)
Released: January 2, 1921
Type: Movie
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The World and His Wife
Title: The World and His Wife
Released: July 18, 1920
Type: Movie
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Mary Ellen Comes to Town
Title: Mary Ellen Comes to Town
Character: William Gurson, aka 'Will the Weasel'
Released: March 21, 1920
Type: Movie
A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.
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Counterfeit
Title: Counterfeit
Character: Vincent Cortez
Released: November 30, 1919
Type: Movie
In order to secretly replenish the family's failing fortunes, Virginia Griswold secures a position in the Secret Service to apprehend a group of counterfeiters and gain the reward money.
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The Teeth of the Tiger
Title: The Teeth of the Tiger
Character: Gordon Savage
Released: November 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Living quietly under the assumed name Paul Sernine, reformed gentleman crook Arsene Lupin is summoned to protect his invalid, wealthy friend Henry Forbes.
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The Isle of Conquest
Title: The Isle of Conquest
Character: Van Surdam
Released: October 26, 1919
Type: Movie
A 1919 film directed by Edward José.
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The New Moon
Title: The New Moon
Character: Theo Kameneff
Released: May 11, 1919
Type: Movie
When anarchist bombs disrupt the engagement ball of Princess Marie Pavlovna, her fiancé, Prince Michail Koloyar, helps her to escape in a carriage. Then Theo Kameneff, secretly in the pay of a foreign government, becomes dictator and, desiring the princess, issues an edict that all women between the ages of seventeen and thirty-two must register and become state property.
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The Pest
Title: The Pest
Character: John Harland
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady John Harland is courting the judge's daughter Blanche because of her father's money and position. To amuse herself, Blanche invites Jigs to a party with her "sophiscated" friends, intending to humiliate and embarrass Jigs. Things don't quite go the way Blanche planned.
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Beans
Title: Beans
Released: September 16, 1918
Type: Movie
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The Hun Within
Title: The Hun Within
Character: Karl Wagner
Released: September 8, 1918
Type: Movie
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and America. The son becomes involved with German agents plotting against U.S., and the father must decide between his son and his adopted homeland.
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The Fair Barbarian
Title: The Fair Barbarian
Character: Capt. Francis Barold
Released: December 17, 1917
Type: Movie
An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England.
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Down to Earth
Title: Down to Earth
Character: Charles Riddles - Ethel's Lover
Released: August 16, 1917
Type: Movie
A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their "illnesses" are all in their minds, he hatches a scheme to take them on a boat ride, then get them stranded in the wilderness, where he can show them that they can live without their pills, doctors and "cures".
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A Woman's Awakening
Title: A Woman's Awakening
Character: Lawrence Topham (as Charles Gerard)
Released: March 24, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Chester Withey.
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Miss Petticoats
Title: Miss Petticoats
Character: Count Renier
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.
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His Brother's Wife
Title: His Brother's Wife
Released: June 4, 1916
Type: Movie