Sidney Bracey

Sidney Bracey

Born: December 17, 1877
Died: August 5, 1942
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Sidney Bracey (18 December 1877 – 5 August 1942) was an Australian-born American actor. After a stage career in Australia, on Broadway and in Britain, he appeared in 321 films between 1909 and 1942.

Bracey was born in Melbourne, Victoria, with the name Sidney Bracy, later changing the spelling of his last name. He was the son of Welsh tenor Henry Bracy and English actress Clara T. Bracy. His aunt was actress and dancer Lydia Thompson.

He began his stage career in Australia in the 1890s, with J. C. Williamson's comic opera companies. On Broadway, in 1900, he appeared as the tenor lead, Yussuf, in the first American production of The Rose of Persia at Daly's Theatre in New York. He then moved to England, appearing as Moreno in the Edwardian musical comedy hit The Toreador at the Gaiety Theatre, London in June 1901. He next joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company on tour in Britain, playing Terence O'Brian in The Emerald Isle from September 1901 to May 1902. He then left the D'Oyly Carte, continuing his stage career in Britain. He appeared in Amorelle at London's Comedy Theatre in 1904, The Winter's Tale in 1904–05, and A Persian Princess at Queen's Theatre in 1909.

Back on Broadway, in 1912, he played as Sir Guy of Gisborne in a revival of Reginald de Koven's Robin Hood at the New Amsterdam Theatre, followed by Rob Roy at the Liberty Theatre in 1913. He then moved into film acting, making first silent films and then "talkies", until his death in 1942. Early in his film career, he wrote and directed a silent movie called Sid Nee's Finish, (Thanhouser Company (1914), in which he played the title character. In 1916, he changed the spelling of his last name to "Bracey". Silent film authority Diane MacIntyre gave this description of him: "Bracey, a stately looking character man, was in big demand for authority like roles; such as movie directors, bosses and, most of the time, the most respectable and poised butler in all of Hollywood. He was thin, dark haired and had an earnest, yet sober, face that could break into a look of wide-eyed exasperation."

Bracy died in Hollywood, California on 5 August 1942, aged 64.

Movies for Sidney Bracey...

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Character: Wigged Courtier (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
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Dangerously They Live
Title: Dangerously They Live
Character: Sidewalk Onlooker (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
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This Woman Is Mine
Title: This Woman Is Mine
Character: Clerk
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
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Bullets for O'Hara
Title: Bullets for O'Hara
Character: Lamson
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: Beggar
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Title: Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Character: Limey
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
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No Time for Comedy
Title: No Time for Comedy
Character: Waiter at Wyler's Party (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
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My Love Came Back
Title: My Love Came Back
Character: Butler
Released: July 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple and then son Paul thinks that Tony and Amelia are a couple as he is sending her the money. The worst part is that Amelia might leave classical music for swing music with classmates Dusty, Joy and the band.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Steward Bringing Briefcase (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Invisible Stripes
Title: Invisible Stripes
Character: Bank Guard (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Four Wives
Title: Four Wives
Character: Extra at Wedding Reception (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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A Child Is Born
Title: A Child Is Born
Character: Third Drugstore Clerk (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
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We Are Not Alone
Title: We Are Not Alone
Character: Ben, the Lamplighter
Released: November 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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Smashing the Money Ring
Title: Smashing the Money Ring
Character: Pop Dryden
Released: October 21, 1939
Type: Movie
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: Night Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Ship Steward
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Nick's First Customer (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Everybody's Hobby
Title: Everybody's Hobby
Character: Mr. Ferris
Released: August 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
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The Bill of Rights
Title: The Bill of Rights
Character: Colonist
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
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The Old Maid
Title: The Old Maid
Character: Charles the Butler (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
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Indianapolis Speedway
Title: Indianapolis Speedway
Character: Spectator
Released: August 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Professor Listening to Radio (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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The Sun Never Sets
Title: The Sun Never Sets
Character: Minister of Colonial Affairs
Released: May 31, 1939
Type: Movie
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
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Sweepstakes Winner
Title: Sweepstakes Winner
Character: Mr. Simpkins (as Sidney Bracy)
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Title: Torchy Runs for Mayor
Character: Dolan's Butler (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Dark Victory
Title: Dark Victory
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Race Official / Spectator (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Joe Burke
Released: April 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
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The Little Princess
Title: The Little Princess
Character: Pedestrian Discussing the War
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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Secret Service of the Air
Title: Secret Service of the Air
Character: John 'Joe' Vicary
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
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King of the Underworld
Title: King of the Underworld
Character: Bert - the Farmer (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: Soupy
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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The Dawn Patrol
Title: The Dawn Patrol
Character: Major Brand's Orderly
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.
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The Girl Downstairs
Title: The Girl Downstairs
Character: Second Butler (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
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Comet Over Broadway
Title: Comet Over Broadway
Character: English Porter (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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The Declaration of Independence
Title: The Declaration of Independence
Character: Congress Clerk (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1938
Type: Movie
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
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Hard to Get
Title: Hard to Get
Character: Carl - Richards' Butler (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Police Chemist (uncredited)
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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My Bill
Title: My Bill
Character: Jenner
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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The Rage of Paris
Title: The Rage of Paris
Character: Opera House Usher (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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Invisible Enemy
Title: Invisible Enemy
Character: Kamarov's Butler
Released: April 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
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Merrily We Live
Title: Merrily We Live
Character: 2nd Butler
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Title: Arsène Lupin Returns
Character: Squad Car Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
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The Baroness and the Butler
Title: The Baroness and the Butler
Character: Member of Parliament
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
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Love Is a Headache
Title: Love Is a Headache
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Title: Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Character: Steward
Released: December 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
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A Night at the Movies
Title: A Night at the Movies
Character: Movie Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
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Fight for Your Lady
Title: Fight for Your Lady
Character: Densmore's Servant (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
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The Firefly
Title: The Firefly
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...
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Breakfast for Two
Title: Breakfast for Two
Character: Clarence - Blair's Butler
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
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The Wrong Road
Title: The Wrong Road
Character: Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
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The Littlest Diplomat
Title: The Littlest Diplomat
Character: Adjutant Potter
Released: September 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Young Sybil visits her grandfather, a British Colonel stationed at a garrison in India, and she helps negotiate a diplomatic truce between him and the local natives.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Hornsby - Mary's Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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She Had to Eat
Title: She Had to Eat
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Maria's Footman (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Rhythm in the Clouds
Title: Rhythm in the Clouds
Character: Butler
Released: June 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
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Three Smart Boys
Title: Three Smart Boys
Character: O.T. Hertz, the veterinary doctor
Released: May 13, 1937
Type: Movie
When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an epidemic will allow the school to be closed for a week, the Our Gang conspire to fake illness.
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Shall We Dance
Title: Shall We Dance
Character: First Steward (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Burke's Butler (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
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Call It a Day
Title: Call It a Day
Character: Flower Shop Owner (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Townsman (Uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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Criminal Lawyer
Title: Criminal Lawyer
Character: Wilson - Walker's Butler (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Lampier's Butler (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Isle of Fury
Title: Isle of Fury
Character: Sam
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
An island fugitive and his bride make room for a shipwrecked detective.
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Title: Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Character: Waiter on ship
Released: August 7, 1936
Type: Movie
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Burley's Butler Allen (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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Changing of the Guard
Title: Changing of the Guard
Character: Grayson, the Butler
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
On New Year's Eve, a girl is told a story by her grandfather about his days in a military regiment; then, the girl dreams she's at the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
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Trouble for Two
Title: Trouble for Two
Character: Noel's Henchman (Uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
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One Rainy Afternoon
Title: One Rainy Afternoon
Character: George, Butler (Uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Smythe - Sutter's Accountant
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Title: The Preview Murder Mystery
Character: DuBeck's Valet (Uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
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Murder at Glen Athol
Title: Murder at Glen Athol
Character: Jenkins - Butler (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
Title: The Voice of Bugle Ann
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
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Magnificent Obsession
Title: Magnificent Obsession
Character: Butler
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Jackson's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
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Let 'em Have It
Title: Let 'em Have It
Character: Butler at Spencer Home
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
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The Winning Ticket
Title: The Winning Ticket
Character: Bank Employee
Released: February 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
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Forsaking All Others
Title: Forsaking All Others
Character: Paula's Chauffeur (Uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
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Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: Higgins' 2nd Butler (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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What Every Woman Knows
Title: What Every Woman Knows
Character: Constituent Shouting 'Three Cheers' (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
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Our Daily Bread
Title: Our Daily Bread
Character: Rent Collector
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
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Outcast Lady
Title: Outcast Lady
Character: Napier's Butler
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
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He Was Her Man
Title: He Was Her Man
Character: Waiter
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
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Many Happy Returns
Title: Many Happy Returns
Character: Movie Butler (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
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Back Page
Title: Back Page
Character: Edgar Ashe
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
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The Vanishing Shadow
Title: The Vanishing Shadow
Character: Denny
Released: April 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
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A Very Honorable Guy
Title: A Very Honorable Guy
Character: Waiter
Released: April 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.
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Laughing Boy
Title: Laughing Boy
Character: White Father
Released: April 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.
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The Poor Rich
Title: The Poor Rich
Character: Arbuthnot
Released: February 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
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The 9th Guest
Title: The 9th Guest
Character: Hawkins
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
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Massacre
Title: Massacre
Character: Norma's Butler (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Mrs. Teasdale's Butler (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Second Butler (Uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Broken Dreams
Title: Broken Dreams
Character: Hopkins
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue his medical studies. Morley returns to his hometown six years later, now a successful doctor and engaged to be married to a beautiful socialite. He also feels differently about the boy and attempts to gain custody from his aunt and uncle.
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Saturday's Millions
Title: Saturday's Millions
Character: Butler
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
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Corruption
Title: Corruption
Character: Dr. Robbins
Released: June 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
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The Phantom of the Air
Title: The Phantom of the Air
Character: James Munson
Released: May 21, 1933
Type: Movie
An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phantom,' to protect his new anti-gravity invention, the Contragrav, from theft.
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The Little Giant
Title: The Little Giant
Character: Butler
Released: May 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: Carlo - Valet
Released: March 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
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What! No Beer?
Title: What! No Beer?
Character: Dr. Smith (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
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Little Orphan Annie
Title: Little Orphan Annie
Character: Butler (as Sidney Bracy)
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.
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Queen Kelly
Title: Queen Kelly
Character: Prince Wolfram's Lackey
Released: October 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.
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Tangled Destinies
Title: Tangled Destinies
Character: McGinnis, posing as Professor Marmont
Released: October 17, 1932
Type: Movie
An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a nearby deserted house. Soon some of the passengers are found murdered, and one of the passengers reveals himself to be a detective who was guarding one of the murdered passengers, who was carrying a bag of diamonds--which is now missing. The detective must find out which of the passengers is the killer.
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The Washington Masquerade
Title: The Washington Masquerade
Character: Benedict
Released: July 9, 1932
Type: Movie
An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a very good start he has to face the subtle temptations and innocent looking traps of Washington.
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Red-Headed Woman
Title: Red-Headed Woman
Character: Man Wanting to Use Phone Booth (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
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Letty Lynton
Title: Letty Lynton
Character: Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
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The Airmail Mystery
Title: The Airmail Mystery
Character: Driscoll
Released: March 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A pilot and a gold mine owner go up against the evil Black Hawk, who has invented a plane that can take off and land without using a runway.
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Freaks
Title: Freaks
Character: Hans' Butler (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
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The Monster Walks
Title: The Monster Walks
Character: Herbert Wilkes
Released: February 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. Now it's her turn, as her deranged and relentless uncle targets her for death with the help of his wife and son, plus a very unhappy ape.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Title: The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Character: The Waiter
Released: February 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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A Dangerous Affair
Title: A Dangerous Affair
Character: Plunkett
Released: September 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.
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The Phantom of Paris
Title: The Phantom of Paris
Character: Volunteer from Audience (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.
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Sporting Blood
Title: Sporting Blood
Character: The Tout (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
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Subway Express
Title: Subway Express
Character: Herman Stevens
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
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The Avenger
Title: The Avenger
Character: Windy
Released: March 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Title: Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Character: Butler
Released: February 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie "how to treat a woman right", but he turns to be a disastrous learner.
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Thundering Tenors
Title: Thundering Tenors
Character: The Butler
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act, yet he wants to impress his young lady.
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Dance, Fools, Dance
Title: Dance, Fools, Dance
Character: Albert (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
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Inspiration
Title: Inspiration
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau and Judith Vosselli. It is a romantic melodrama, portraying a Parisian belle with a past returning to haunt her. The film is the only one where Montgomery played opposite Garbo.
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Ten Cents a Dance
Title: Ten Cents a Dance
Character: Wilson, Carlton's Butler
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Reducing
Title: Reducing
Character: Beasley's Butler
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
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Along Came Youth
Title: Along Came Youth
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1930
Type: Movie
An American sportsman stranded in London poses as a cook to remain near the aristocratic lady he would woo.
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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: Butler
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
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Playboy of Paris
Title: Playboy of Paris
Character: Irate Customer (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
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Follow Thru
Title: Follow Thru
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
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Doughboys
Title: Doughboys
Character: Recruiter (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.
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Anybody's Woman
Title: Anybody's Woman
Character: Butler
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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Wild Company
Title: Wild Company
Character: Waiter
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
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The Flirting Widow
Title: The Flirting Widow
Character: The Second Butler (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1930
Type: Movie
An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.
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Children of Pleasure
Title: Children of Pleasure
Character: Miles the Butler (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1930
Type: Movie
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
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The Second Floor Mystery
Title: The Second Floor Mystery
Character: Alfred
Released: April 26, 1930
Type: Movie
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.
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Redemption
Title: Redemption
Character: Waiter
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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Oh Darling!
Title: Oh Darling!
Released: February 15, 1930
Type: Movie
At a small hotel, Judith Barrett and Norman Peck are eloping; John Litel and Addie MacPhail are quarreling because of his constant jealousy; and Eva Thacher and Al Thompson are tracking down their eloping daughter. It's a constant barrage of slamming doors and such trapping of the stage farce.
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The Bishop Murder Case
Title: The Bishop Murder Case
Character: Pyne (as Sydney Bracey)
Released: December 31, 1929
Type: Movie
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
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Sioux Blood
Title: Sioux Blood
Character: Cheyenne Jones
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
One of John Waters' two Tim McCoy westerns made with MGM in the last years of the silent era. A print is preserved at the George Eastman House in New York but it hasn't been made available to the public and there don't seem to be any plans for it.
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His Captive Woman
Title: His Captive Woman
Released: February 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom McCarthy, a New York detective, is sent after Anna and arrests her, chartering a steamer to bring her back to the United States. The steamer sinks, and Anna and Tom are stranded on a small island. They fall in love, and Tom's influence brings about a benign change in Anna's character. They are rescued, however, and Anna is placed on trial for her life. Tom takes the stand in her defense and informs the judge of Anna's conversion in the solitude of the island. The judge instructs Tom to marry Anna and then sentences them to life--on the island where they found happiness together.
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Show People
Title: Show People
Character: Dramatic Director
Released: November 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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The Haunted House
Title: The Haunted House
Character: Tully
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.
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The Wedding March
Title: The Wedding March
Character: Navratil
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
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Home, James
Title: Home, James
Character: Haskins (the butler)
Released: October 3, 1928
Type: Movie
An artistic salesgirl falls in love with a chauffeur not realising he is actually the heir to a huge fortune.
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Win That Girl
Title: Win That Girl
Character: Larry Brawn I
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
A gridiron rivalry between two colleges is entering its third generation, and the Norton family (father and grandfather were members of teams defeated by rival squads captained by members of the Brawn family) rears Johnny Norton, 3d, to be a star football player. The lad is underweight, however, and initially shows a talent only for drop kicking. During the big game, Johnny is substituted for another player and leads his team to victory, winning for himself the love of Gloria Havens.
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The Cameraman
Title: The Cameraman
Character: Editor
Released: September 10, 1928
Type: Movie
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
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Man-Made Women
Title: Man-Made Women
Character: Owens
Released: September 9, 1928
Type: Movie
The man who loved her showed her how to hold the man she loved. A novel picture story packed with drama, thrills and laughs.
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Midnight Madness
Title: Midnight Madness
Character: Bream's Valet
Released: March 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.
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The Matinee Idol
Title: The Matinee Idol
Character: Don's Valet (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1928
Type: Movie
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don?
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The Crowd
Title: The Crowd
Character: John's Supervisor (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1928
Type: Movie
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
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While the City Sleeps
Title: While the City Sleeps
Character: Short Order Cook
Released: February 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
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The 13th Juror
Title: The 13th Juror
Character: The Butler
Released: November 13, 1927
Type: Movie
A 1927 American mystery film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue and Walter Anthony. It is based on the 1908 play Counsel for the Defense by Henry Irving Dodge. Richard Marsden is a long-time friend of Henry Desmond, a powerful and successful attorney. The district attorney plan to break Desmond by having George Quinn infer that Marsden's wife is having an affair with the lawyer.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Title: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Character: Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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My Best Girl
Title: My Best Girl
Character: Butler Serving Dinner (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 Woman on Trial
Title: The Woman on Trial
Character: Brideaux
Released: October 28, 1927
Type: Movie
A story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long flashbacks of her testimony and life.
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Painting the Town
Title: Painting the Town
Character: Secretary
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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Birds of Prey
Title: Birds of Prey
Character: Gaston
Released: March 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Helen Wayne and Archie Crossley, two clever pickpockets, rob J. Hamilton Smith, a well-known metropolitan banker, and he is later recognized by one of their gang as a former prisonmate; they demand a price for their silence, and he is forced to accede.
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My Official Wife
Title: My Official Wife
Character: Valet to Sascha
Released: October 16, 1926
Type: Movie
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: Danilo's Footman (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1926
Type: Movie
When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
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You Never Know Women
Title: You Never Know Women
Character: Manager
Released: September 20, 1926
Type: Movie
On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who persists in his efforts to win the girl. Foster engages the troupe to perform at his home, and Vera, stunned by a fall, awakens to find Foster pleading his love, while Norodin, her partner who loves her, sees them embrace. Norodin, who performs an underwater stunt, asks Vera not to be present for his act and causes her to believe him dead; heartbroken, Vera tells Foster of her mistake; and enraged, he attempts to seize her. The magician appears, pins Foster to the wall with knives, and advises him to leave before the last blade is thrown.
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A Man Four-Square
Title: A Man Four-Square
Character: Homer Webb
Released: May 9, 1926
Type: Movie
A Man Four-Square is a screen version of William McLeod Raine's popular tale of a rancher who finds himself falsely accused of murder while attempting to help a friend in need.
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The Blackbird
Title: The Blackbird
Character: Bertie's No. 1 Man
Released: February 13, 1926
Type: Movie
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
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A Bankrupt Honeymoon
Title: A Bankrupt Honeymoon
Character: The Butler
Released: February 6, 1926
Type: Movie
A Bankrupt Honeymoon is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring Harold Goodwin and featuring Oliver Hardy.
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A Slave of Fashion
Title: A Slave of Fashion
Character: Hobson (as Sidney Bracy)
Released: August 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Katherine Emerson, an Iowa girl hungry for the good things in life, leaves her small hometown and sets out for New York. En route, she is involved in a train wreck in which another woman is killed. Katherine finds the woman's purse and, among its contents, discovers an invitation for the woman to spend 6 months in an unoccupied luxury apartment in Manhattan. Katherine seizes this opportunity and sets up housekeeping in the elegant suite, living well and dressing in the newest fashions.
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Her Market Value
Title: Her Market Value
Character: Banks
Released: February 9, 1925
Type: Movie
Her Market Value is a 1925 American silent melodrama film directed by Paul Powell and starring Agnes Ayres. Powell produced the picture and distributed through Producers Distributing Corporation.
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So This Is Marriage?
Title: So This Is Marriage?
Character: Hawkins
Released: November 26, 1924
Type: Movie
The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
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Her Night of Romance
Title: Her Night of Romance
Character: Butler
Released: November 24, 1924
Type: Movie
An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
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Being Respectable
Title: Being Respectable
Character: Philip Deaby
Released: July 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, and marries Suzanne, after which Valerie leaves town. Years later, after Charles and Suzanne have had a child, Valerie comes back to town and Charles realizes he is still in love with her, and she with him. Complications ensue.
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Why Men Leave Home
Title: Why Men Leave Home
Character: Sam Neilson
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
John and Irene Emerson's marriage begins well enough, but it is not long before John becomes less attentive. Feeling neglected, Irene spends more time with her girl friends, and John, consequently, falls prey to the vamping wiles of his secretary, Jean Ralston. When John comes home from the theater smelling of Jean's perfume, Irene procures a divorce; John then marries Jean.
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By Divine Right
Title: By Divine Right
Character: The Hireling
Released: February 17, 1924
Type: Movie
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Leap Year
Title: Leap Year
Character: Loris Keene's Press Agent (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1924
Type: Movie
A young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle, and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble when he gives advice on marriage to his girlfriends.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Sam Henshaw
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
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Merry-Go-Round
Title: Merry-Go-Round
Character: Gisella's Groom
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Member of the Jury (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Henry Bolton
Released: June 25, 1922
Type: Movie
A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her home country and his adventures there. He ends up helping her father become dictator of the entire country, and is rewarded with marriage to her and he is named Minister of Finance!
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Morals
Title: Morals
Character: Stinson
Released: October 31, 1921
Type: Movie
Reared in a Turkish harem and threatened with marriage to a man she does not love, Carlotta escapes to London with an English adventurer. When he is killed, she is left destitute and attaches herself to Sir Marcus Ordeyne and begs his protection. He takes her home out of pity, and her charm and innocence cause him to fall in love with her. When he plans to marry her, Judith Mainwaring, who looks upon Carlotta as a rival, tells her he merely pities her and is marrying her to avoid a scandal. Carlotta runs away with Pasquale, a friend of Sir Marcus, though she loves her guardian. Later, Mrs. Mainwaring meets Carlotta in Paris and tells the girl the truth--that Sir Marcus is searching for her. Realizing his love for her, Carlotta is reunited with her benefactor.
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Crazy to Marry
Title: Crazy to Marry
Character: Col. Landis
Released: August 28, 1921
Type: Movie
A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.
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Passion Fruit
Title: Passion Fruit
Character: The Ancient
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Filmed on location at Monterey, CA, and starring exotic stage dancer Mlle. Doraldina, this long-lost South Seas romance featured Stuart Holmes as a vicious plantation overseer who poisons his boss (W.A. Bainbridge) in order to possess both the unfortunate man's estate and his daughter.
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The Invisible Ray
Title: The Invisible Ray
Character: Jean Deaux
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who soon finds herself hunted by criminals looking to steal the deadly mineral.
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The House of Mirth
Title: The House of Mirth
Character: Percy Gryce
Released: August 5, 1918
Type: Movie
Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Ragged Princess
Title: The Ragged Princess
Character: Toby Rice
Released: October 16, 1916
Type: Movie
After running away from an orphanage, young Alicia Jones disguises herself as a boy and gets a job on a farm. She falls in love with Harry Deigan, a farmhand who knows her secret, but when the farm's owner finds out, he fires her. Alicia is forced to return to the city, where she meets up with a wealthy man who adopts her. He turns out to be Thomas Deigan, the half-brother of Alice's love Harry Deigan. Harry finds out that Thomas is his half-brother, but also finds out something that could change his, Thomas' and Alicia's lives forever.
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Temptation and the Man
Title: Temptation and the Man
Released: July 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Jim Crosby, the product of a broken home, becomes a gangster and goes to prison. Meanwhile, Ann Payton, an heiress, converts a saloon into a mission. She is engaged to her father's secretary, Temple Vaughn, a gambler. Jim is released from prison and seeks shelter at the mission. Temple becomes indebted to gambler Phil Johnson and is forced to arrange a crooked poker game involving some of his wealthy friends. Jim overhears the plot and, realizing that Temple is Ann's fiancé, robs the poker game and puts a check Temple forged into Temple's own pocket.
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Elusive Isabel
Title: Elusive Isabel
Character: Luiigi
Released: May 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle.
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The Huntress of Men
Title: The Huntress of Men
Character: Ned Ashley
Released: May 8, 1916
Type: Movie
Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming Harcourt decides he can domesticate her and they marry. He takes her to settle down in a mining town, however she soon becomes bored and returns to the city and her lavish parties with plenty of adoring male admirers. Fleming decides to make her jealous by flirting with other women. When the Huntress hears the rumors of his affairs, she soon realizes her one true love is Fleming, and they are happily reunited.
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The Path of Happiness
Title: The Path of Happiness
Released: January 31, 1916
Type: Movie
Sick of life in the city after his fiancée deserts him, Merrill Day goes to the country for a rest with his sister and niece. There he meets Joan, who has lived in the hills for her whole life, and they quickly begin a romance. Grekko, however, a hunchback who has loved Joan for years, convinces her that Merrill's sister is really Merrill's wife.
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Zudora
Title: Zudora
Character: Tom Hunt
Released: November 20, 1914
Type: Movie
Zudora, not knowing she's an heiress to a $20 million fortune, lives with her uncle, a mystic and detective, who covets her inheritance. She wants to marry John Storm but her uncle is against it. However, the uncle makes a bargain; if Zudora can solve the next twenty mysteries brought to him, she can marry as she chooses. Episodes 1,2 and 8, plus another unidentified chapter, survive. The rest is believed to be lost.
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The Million Dollar Mystery
Title: The Million Dollar Mystery
Character: Jones - Hargreave's Butler / Stanley Hargreave
Released: January 2, 1914
Type: Movie
This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollars.
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Uncle's Namesakes
Title: Uncle's Namesakes
Character: Uncle John
Released: December 11, 1913
Type: Movie
An American family in need of some money decides to pull a little innocent scam on a wealthy English relative.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: The Baron
Released: September 23, 1913
Type: Movie
Robin Hood and his followers aid the poor and oppressed from their hideout in Sherwood Forest, pursued by the Sheriff of Nottingham.
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The Strategy of Ann
Title: The Strategy of Ann
Released: July 29, 1911
Type: Movie
A Short comedy starring Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.