Willard Louis

Willard Louis

Born: April 19, 1882
Died: July 22, 1926
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Willard Louis...

The Honeymoon Express
Title: The Honeymoon Express
Character: John Lambert
Released: September 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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Don Juan
Title: Don Juan
Character: Pedrillo
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 Passionate Quest
Title: The Passionate Quest
Released: July 10, 1926
Type: Movie
The Passionate Quest is a 1926 American drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Marian Constance Blackton. It is based on the 1924 novel The Passionate Quest by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film stars May McAvoy, Willard Louis, Louise Fazenda, Gardner James, Jane Winton, and Holmes Herbert.
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The Shamrock Handicap
Title: The Shamrock Handicap
Character: Orville Finch
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate. He is forced to sell off part of his racing stable to a wealthy American, who takes along Gaffney's jockey Neil Ross as part of the bargain. When Neil is crippled in a racing accident, Sir Miles and his daughter Sheila sail to America with their prize horse "Dark Rosaleen" in tow. The first film having an Irish motif that John Ford directed, a six reel delight set in Eire's County Kildare and in the United States, with a steeplechase background, mixing charged elements of comedy and sentimental drama.
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Mademoiselle Modiste
Title: Mademoiselle Modiste
Character: Hiram Bent
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Robert Z. Leonard directed Griffith in a story based on a popular 1905 Victor Herbert operetta on Broadway, Mlle. Modiste, with a libretto by Henry Martyn Blossom, which was similar to the MGM film The Merry Widow. The film is now considered a lost film. The story was refilmed in 1930 as the talkie Kiss Me Again.
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The Love Toy
Title: The Love Toy
Character: King Lavoris
Released: February 13, 1926
Type: Movie
The Love Toy is a lost 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Lowell Sherman, Jane Winton, and Willard Louis. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
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Hogan's Alley
Title: Hogan's Alley
Character: Michael Ryan
Released: December 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York's East Side known as "Hogan's Alley." Lefty defeats Battling Savage for the championship, breaking his left hand and leaving his opponent close to death.
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His Secretary
Title: His Secretary
Character: John Sloden
Released: December 6, 1925
Type: Movie
When a secretary overhears her boss disparaging her looks, she decides to show him how wrong he is.
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The Limited Mail
Title: The Limited Mail
Character: Joe Potts
Released: September 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Bob Wilson, who becomes a tramp after being jilted by his fiancée, prevents the Limited Mail from being wrecked during a mountain storm and becomes fast friends with Jim Fowler, a railway mail clerk. Jim gets Bob a job on the railroad, and Bob works himself up to the position of engineer on the Limited. Both of the men fall in love with Caroline Dale, but she prefers Bob.
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Kiss Me Again
Title: Kiss Me Again
Character: Dr. DuBois
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Gaston Fleury's wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice.
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Eve's Lover
Title: Eve's Lover
Character: Austin Starfield
Released: July 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.
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The Man Without a Conscience
Title: The Man Without a Conscience
Character: Amos Mason
Released: June 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Ruthlessly determined to succeed at any cost, Amos Mason ( Willard Louis ) comes to New York with his fiancee, Ann Sherman ( June Marlowe ). By unscrupulous dealings and with the use of Ann's savings, Amos meets with considerable success and casts aside Ann, who is forced to take a job as maid in the Graves mansion. Amos begins to court Shirley Graves ( Irene Rich ) and causes Ann's dismissal. Mrs. Graves ( Helen Dunbar ) persuades Shirley to marry Amos, despite her love for the penniless Douglas White ( John Patrick ). Ann marries James Warren ( Robert Agnew ), an architect, whom Amos hires to build a mansion, and Ann tells Shirley of Amos' previous perfidy. Shirley has an affair with Douglas White but becomes disgusted with illicit sex when she believes him to be unfaithful to her. Amos' schemes fall flat, and he is arrested for swindling. In prison he repents, Shirley's attitude toward him softens, and they are reconciled when he is freed.
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A Broadway Butterfly
Title: A Broadway Butterfly
Character: Charles Gay
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
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The Age of Innocence
Title: The Age of Innocence
Released: November 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Newland Archer is engaged to May Mingott of a prominent New York family. Shortly after the engagement is announced, Newland finds himself attracted to May's older married cousin Countess Ellen Olenska.
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The Lover of Camille
Title: The Lover of Camille
Character: Robillard
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
The Lover of Camille was a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont, and starring Monte Blue. The film was based on the French novel Deburau by Sacha Guitry, which was also adapted into a Broadway play by Harley Granville-Barker.
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Three Women
Title: Three Women
Character: Harvey Craig
Released: August 18, 1924
Type: Movie
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
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Babbitt
Title: Babbitt
Character: George F. Babbitt
Released: June 15, 1924
Type: Movie
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
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Broadway After Dark
Title: Broadway After Dark
Character: Slim Scott
Released: May 19, 1924
Type: Movie
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him to reject the superficial life of his set.
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Beau Brummel
Title: Beau Brummel
Character: Prince of Wales
Released: March 30, 1924
Type: Movie
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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Pal o' Mine
Title: Pal o' Mine
Character: Sam Hermann
Released: March 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford (Josef Swickard) loses his job...and then gives him work secretly paid for by herself. When a temperamental artist Babette Hermann (Pauline Garon) reveals the secret, Verdugo becomes disillusioned. Later, though, his faith in his wife is restored.
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Daddies
Title: Daddies
Character: Henry Allen
Released: February 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for adopted orphans when six orphaned children are suddenly foisted on them.
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A Lady of Quality
Title: A Lady of Quality
Character: The Tavern Keeper
Released: January 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorinda accidentally kills Sir John when he, infuriated by her forthcoming marriage, threatens to blackmail her. She buries the body in the cellar and admits her act to the forgiving Osmonde before marrying him.
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The Marriage Market
Title: The Marriage Market
Character: Seibert Peckham
Released: October 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
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The French Doll
Title: The French Doll
Character: Joseph Dumas
Released: September 3, 1923
Type: Movie
The French Doll (1923)
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Daddy
Title: Daddy
Character: Impresario
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Believing her husband to be unfaithful, Helene Savelli takes her son, Jackie, to the Holdens' farm and dies shortly afterward. The Holdens keep Jackie, but he eventually goes to the city when the elderly couple lose their farm and retire to the poorhouse. Jackie next is befriended by Cesare Gallo, a sidewalk musician who was also the teacher of Paul Savelli--now a famous violinist. A chance meeting with Savelli by Jackie reunites him with Gallo just before the old man dies. Savelli takes Jackie home with him, happily discovers the boy to be his son, and restores the farm to the Holdens.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Joseph Sedley
Released: February 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Vanity Fair (1923)
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Only a Shop Girl
Title: Only a Shop Girl
Character: James Watkins
Released: December 15, 1922
Type: Movie
Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culprit is the least-suspected person, who makes a deathbed confession.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Friar Tuck
Released: October 18, 1922
Type: Movie
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
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The Man Unconquerable
Title: The Man Unconquerable
Character: Governor of Papeete
Released: July 2, 1922
Type: Movie
A conservative young man inherits his uncle's pearl fishery concession in the South Pacific. Upon his arrival there, he becomes involved with a woman and a mystery.
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The White Mouse
Title: The White Mouse
Character: Sing Lu
Released: November 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Sergeant Blake of the Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the border to break up a ring of smugglers who are bringing illegal Chinese immigrants into Canada. The ring is led by Ah Ming, a "half-breed" who goes by the name of Dr. Lawler. When Blake encounters Lawler, he is experimenting on a white mouse.
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Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Title: Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Character: Senator Baldwin
Released: July 1, 1921
Type: Movie
When an Arizona ranchman (Willard Louis) is elected senator, he heads for Washington with his daughter, Judith Baldwin (Mary Miles Minter). But they leave behind ranch hand Tod Musgrove (Monte Blue), who is in love with Judith. In Washington, two men propose to Judith -- Congressman Hamill (Guy Oliver) and Robert Courtney (William Boyd). Since she doesn't know which one to pick, she puts them to a test at her aunt's woodland cabin.
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Dollars and Sense
Title: Dollars and Sense
Character: Geoffrey Stanhope
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Destitute, Hazel Farron is offered employment and comfort from bakery owner David Rogers. When Rogers' bakery slips into debt, he collapses from exhaustion and anxiety, forcing Hazel to turn to former admirer Geoffrey Stanhope for financial aid. Stanhope consents in return for a night alone with Hazel, but when she arrives at his hotel room for the appointed tryst, she discovers Stanhope waiting with Rogers and a minister so that Hazel can marry her employer.
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Jubilo
Title: Jubilo
Character: Punt
Released: December 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful machinations of a sinister villain.
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What Am I Bid?
Title: What Am I Bid?
Character: Abner Grimp
Released: April 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Betty Yarnell lives with her drunkard father in the North Woods mountains. Betty is shunned by the villagers whenever she ventures out to pick up her father from Abner Grimp's saloon, and her only friend is a little lamb. In debt to Abner, John Yarnell signs a note turning over his daughter to Abner in return for unlimited drinks. When Abner goes to the cabin to claim Betty, revenue officer Ralph McGibbon arrives from the city and rescues her. Abner sends his Indian partner Dark Cloud, but Ralph rescues Betty again, although he is badly beaten up.
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Kultur
Title: Kultur
Character: Baron von Zeller
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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Madame du Barry
Title: Madame du Barry
Character: Guillaume du Barry
Released: December 30, 1917
Type: Movie
After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entre to the royal court. She soon becomes the favorite of the King and Jean du Barry becomes a regular around the court too. But all this is disturbed when Madame du Barry falls for Conte Brissac of the King's Guard. Jean du Barry's attempts to expose her affair only get him banished from the court.
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A Branded Soul
Title: A Branded Soul
Character: Pedro
Released: November 25, 1917
Type: Movie
Conchita Cordova sings in the cathedral choir in her village of San Miguelito near the Rio Grande. Millionaire oil man John Rannie, whose oil fields have displaced the peasants, desires Conchita, and when he learns that her fiance, Juan Mendoza, has been employed by Adolf Wylie, a German spy, Rannie threatens to expose Juan unless Conchita gives herself to him.
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American Methods
Title: American Methods
Released: April 30, 1917
Type: Movie
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Mr. CJ Stryver
Released: March 10, 1917
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.
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The Love Thief
Title: The Love Thief
Character: William Nelson
Released: December 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
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Fires of Conscience
Title: Fires of Conscience
Character: Doc Taylor
Released: September 25, 1916
Type: Movie
George Baxter presents his new wife, Margery. Paul Sneed, Baxter's neighbor, knew Margery before the marriage. When Baxter returns home unexpectedly one night, he finds Sneed and his wife together. As Sneed runs away, Baxter shoots and kills him. Both Margery and Sneed's father, Judge Randolph Sneed, witness the shooting.