Ethel Grey Terry

Ethel Grey Terry

Born: October 1, 1882
Died: January 6, 1931
in Oakland, California, USA

Movies for Ethel Grey Terry...

Sharp Tools
Title: Sharp Tools
Released: September 12, 1928
Type: Movie
The head of a quartet of jewel thieves tries to make a getaway with the one female in the gang.
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Hard Boiled
Title: Hard Boiled
Character: Mrs. Sarah Morton
Released: June 6, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Mix plays an Eastern dandy who finds himself banished to a Western ranch in this silent Western
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The Love Toy
Title: The Love Toy
Character: Queen Zita
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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What Fools Men
Title: What Fools Men
Character: Violet Williamson
Released: September 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Joseph Greer is a wealthy businessman in New York City with all the trappings including a prim-and-proper secretary, Jenny McFarlan, who takes dictation during working hours and, at night, minus her eyeglasses, serves as his nightclub companion and mistress. Then his daughter,Beatrice, whom he has never seen, shows up and moves in with him. Beatrice is a grown-up flapper who loves jazz, pool parties, flaunting prohibition and carrying-on in general. Most of her carrying-on is with the family chauffeur and her father does not approve, says so, and fires the chauffeur. His parental-guidance technique backfires as Beatrice ups and elopes with the chauffeur. Later, the father has some problems with his business associates and loses his business and most of his fixtures and disappears. But Beatrice locates him and there is a happy reunion between father and daughter, especially since daughter has brought along Jenny to cheer him up.
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Old Shoes
Title: Old Shoes
Released: April 8, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Fast Worker
Title: The Fast Worker
Character: Edith Medcroft
Released: October 25, 1924
Type: Movie
Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and their daughter. When Terry falls in love with Edith's sister, a scandal erupts at the resort.
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Wild Bill Hickok
Title: Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Calamity Jane
Released: December 18, 1923
Type: Movie
The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
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The Unknown Purple
Title: The Unknown Purple
Character: Mrs. Freddie Goodlittle
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft. Making himself invisible, Marchmont gradually ruins Dawson. He so wins Jewel's confidence and love that she is willing to kill Dawson at Marchmont's request. Finally, Marchmont leaves the scheming couple to their own misery and marries Jewel's sister, Ruth Marsh.
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A Self Made Wife
Title: A Self Made Wife
Character: Corrie Godwin
Released: July 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.
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Peg o' My Heart
Title: Peg o' My Heart
Character: Ethel Chichester
Released: December 17, 1922
Type: Movie
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead. While a bit too old for the character supposedly in her late teens or early twenties, Laurette was tailor made for it.
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Under Two Flags
Title: Under Two Flags
Character: Princess Corona d'Arague
Released: November 6, 1922
Type: Movie
On the run from punishment for a crime committed by his brother, Bertie Cecil (alias Lewis Victor) joins the French Foreign Legion. In Algeria, he becomes the hated rival of his commander, Chateauroy, who despises Victor's breeding and also competes for the same woman. Victor is beloved of Cigarette, an Algerian camp follower, who saves his life, though he loves another.
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The Kickback
Title: The Kickback
Character: Nellie
Released: June 30, 1922
Type: Movie
A silent Western about a rough rider, that winds up in jail and the adventure begins.
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The Crossroads of New York
Title: The Crossroads of New York
Character: Grace St. Clair
Released: June 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
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Travelin' On
Title: Travelin' On
Character: Susan Morton
Released: March 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A Western involving William S Hart as an outlaw who comes to the aid of a preacher in a small town through his infatuation with the preacher's wife. Rarely screened but considered one of his best; the version at the Library of Congress is missing one of the middle reels.
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Shattered Idols
Title: Shattered Idols
Character: Jean Hurst
Released: February 6, 1922
Type: Movie
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
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The White Mouse
Title: The White Mouse
Character: Erimine Reeves
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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The Northern Trail
Title: The Northern Trail
Released: July 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Short starring Lewis Stone and Wallace Beery.
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Suspicious Wives
Title: Suspicious Wives
Character: Helen Warren
Released: January 9, 1921
Type: Movie
A melodrama of misunderstandings in which a rich couple grow more and more suspicious of each other fidelities after the groom’s father is shot dead on their wedding night.
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The Penalty
Title: The Penalty
Character: Rose
Released: August 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Title: The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Character: Mathilde Strangerson
Released: October 19, 1919
Type: Movie
The intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille becomes involved in the investigation of a hideous crime committed in a room painted yellow, whose door was locked from the inside…
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Phil-for-Short
Title: Phil-for-Short
Character: Angelica Wenworth
Released: June 2, 1919
Type: Movie
A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is devastated by the sudden death of her father. The town's banker, an arrogant stuffed shirt, wants to marry Phil and has himself declared her guardian. Not wanting to marry him, she quickly leaves town and lands a job at a nearby university as an assistant to a professor of Greek literature (an area in which her father trained her) who is bitter and resentful after the breakup of his engagement to a woman who, it turned out, had been lying to him. "Phil", however, is determined to win him over.
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The Carter Case
Title: The Carter Case
Character: Cleo Clark
Released: March 17, 1919
Type: Movie
Science fiction serial.
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Just for Tonight
Title: Just for Tonight
Character: Lady Roxenham
Released: September 16, 1918
Type: Movie
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A Doll's House
Title: A Doll's House
Character: Mrs. Linden
Released: June 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Differing considerably from Henrik Ibsen's classic play, the basic story of a woman who forges her father's name and comes to grief therefore is retained.
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The Secret of the Storm Country
Title: The Secret of the Storm Country
Character: Madelene Walderstricker
Released: November 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Charles Miller.
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Apartment 29
Title: Apartment 29
Character: The Girl
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Apartment 29 is a mystery story.
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Arsene Lupin
Title: Arsene Lupin
Character: Sonia
Released: March 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Story of the gentleman thief.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Favorite of the Harem (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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The Sign of the Cross
Title: The Sign of the Cross
Character: Berenice
Released: December 21, 1914
Type: Movie
In 64 A.D., Marcus Superbus is Prefect of Rome. When the Emperor Nero decides to renew persecution of the Christians, Marcus opposes him, fearing for the safety of Mercia, the Christian woman whom he loves. Through the machinations of the Empress Poppaea and other women at court, Tigellinus, Nero's agent in the war against the Christians, convinces Nero to have Mercia arrested. Marcus appeals to the emperor for mercy, but is told that she can be saved only by renouncing Christianity. Waiting to enter the arena to be killed, Mercia steadfastly refuses to reject her religion, despite Marcus' pleas. Finally, Marcus is converted by her and they enter the arena to face death together.