Francelia Billington

Francelia Billington

Born: February 1, 1895
Died: November 24, 1934
in Dallas, Texas, USA

Movies for Francelia Billington...

The Mounted Stranger
Title: The Mounted Stranger
Character: Mrs. Coy
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A boy's father is murdered. As an adult, he tracks down the killers.
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The White Sin
Title: The White Sin
Character: Grace Van Gore
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an act so heinous as to defy belief, has the captain of his yacht perform a fake marriage ceremony. He ruins poor Hattie Lou, and then abandons her ashore the very next morning. A year later, the destitute girl and her starving baby are wandering the streets. When she sees a newspaper headline announcing that Grant has drowned at sea, Hattie Lou hatches a desperate plan for survival. She will present herself to the wealthy Van Gore's, who cannot fail to provide for their late son's widow and child!
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Phyllis Harland
Released: May 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Bat "No Limit" Carson, U.S. deputy marshal has to battle all types of varmints, including crooked dance hall proprietor "Con" Norton and his star entertainer, Fay La Cross. The booty is various gold shipments, and the beautiful heroine hails from the East.
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Desert Love
Title: Desert Love
Character: Barbara Remington
Released: April 20, 1920
Type: Movie
Murderous bandits shoot up a town and kill the sheriff. But before he dies, the lawman leaves behind a list of the men responsible for his murder. Twenty-five years later, his son, Buck Marston has grown up and followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a sheriff.
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The Great Air Robbery
Title: The Great Air Robbery
Character: Beryl Caruthers
Released: December 28, 1919
Type: Movie
A daredevil flyer delivers the night mail despite threats from weather and robbers.
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The Day She Paid
Title: The Day She Paid
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Manhattan model Marion Buckley hesitates to accept a marriage proposal from wealthy upstate department store owner Warren Rogers, a widower with two daughters, because of her previous affair with her employer Leon Kessler, who had promised to marry her.
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Blind Husbands
Title: Blind Husbands
Character: Margaret Armstrong
Released: October 21, 1919
Type: Movie
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
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The Masked Heart
Title: The Masked Heart
Character: Catherine Villiers
Released: July 2, 1917
Type: Movie
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Heart Strings
Title: Heart Strings
Character: Johanna
Released: January 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Hartley, fascinated by the vampish Leonie, steals and serves a term in prison. Not satisfied with this downfall, Leonie again works her womanly charms upon Dr. Gerald, who is engaged to Johanna, the adopted daughter of Dr. McLean. Learning of the woman's designs on the young doctor, Hartley denounces her in Gerald's presence. In response, Gerald foolishly renounces Johanna and his friendship with Dr. McLean. However, when Leonie discovers that Johanna is her own daughter whom she had deserted as a child, she becomes conscience-stricken, gives up the young man and begs forgiveness.
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A Rough Shod Fighter
Title: A Rough Shod Fighter
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A Rough Shod Fighter
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The Right to Be Happy
Title: The Right to Be Happy
Character: Scrooge's Sweetheart
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
Considered to be lost.
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The Mainspring
Title: The Mainspring
Character: Jesse Craven (as W.J. Higby)
Released: November 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Finding himself penniless, Lawrence Ashmore, whose late father was ruined on the stock exchange, obtains a position as a reporter. Ashmore is assigned to investigate the reported fatal illness of Jesse Craven, one of Wall Street's financial monarchs.
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The Black Sheep of the Family
Title: The Black Sheep of the Family
Character: Esther Saunders
Released: October 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Although Kenneth Carmont and Esther Saunders, criminal Bert Saunders' sister, love each other, Esther marries detective Elwood Collins, who agrees to stop pursuing Bert if she accepts his proposal. One night, Kenneth and Esther hide Bert, who has escaped from the police. The same night, Kenneth's father is murdered. The evidence implicates Kenneth, who cannot supply his whereabouts at the time of the crime, as that would give away Bert. Esther cannot clear Kenneth for the same reason, and because it would let her husband know that she was with her former sweetheart.
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The Evil Women Do
Title: The Evil Women Do
Released: September 25, 1916
Type: Movie
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Bettina Loved a Soldier
Title: Bettina Loved a Soldier
Character: Suzie Scott
Released: August 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Very wealthy Bettina is also very reluctant to get married. She changes her mind in a hurry when she meets Reynaud, the nephew of Abbe Constantin, the poverty-stricken religious leader of the small French village of Longueval.
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Naked Hearts
Title: Naked Hearts
Character: Maud
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Maud's domineering brother, disapproves of a marriage between them. Instead, he has chosen English nobleman Lord Lovelace as the ideal fiancé for Maud. On the night that the engagement is to be announced, however, she elopes with Cecil. The runaways are caught, though, after which, because of her loyalty to her brother, Maud sends Cecil away. When the Civil War begins, Howard, Lovelace and Cecil all volunteer, and are all soon reported killed in action. Heartbroken, Maud decides to become a nun, and takes her vows just moments before Cecil, whose death was mistakenly reported, returns from the battlefield and comes to the convent to ask her to marry him.
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The Different Man
Title: The Different Man
Released: May 5, 1914
Type: Movie
The Different Man is a silent Western from 1914
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Ruy Blas
Title: Ruy Blas
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: Don José's Sweetheart, Micaëla
Released: May 26, 1913
Type: Movie
A three-reel version of the famous stage production. Don Jose, the hero of the famous book by Prosper Merimee, and Bizet's celebrated opera, was born in the Basque Provinces of Spain. He was a young, good-looking peasant, devoted to his old mother, and greatly in love with his pretty sweetheart, Mercedes. The plans of Jose and Mercedes for an early marriage were rudely dissipated by the news that the young man had been drafted for service in the Spanish army. Jose comforted his mother and Mercedes, telling them that he would soon return and they would never be separated again.
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The Boomerang
Title: The Boomerang
Character: John's Wife
Released: January 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Simon Watson, devoid of conscience, has become wealthy through the manufacture of "Watson's Remedy." One day he is stricken with terror when he finds a bottle of the medicine in the hands of his little child, Helen, and he warns her never to touch it. But the little one's curiosity is aroused and when her father has left for his office, she tastes the medicine and becomes violently ill. John Smith, a young workman, has a little daughter, Margaret, who is taken sick and the mother secures a bottle of the "remedy" at a drug store. Instead of relieving the child's pain, the medicine causes her to lose consciousness and when the horrified father learns the cause, he determines to seek Watson's life.