John Cossar

John Cossar

Born: January 1, 1858
Died: April 28, 1935
in London, England, UK

Movies for John Cossar...

The House Without a Key
Title: The House Without a Key
Character: District Attorney
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
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His Wooden Wedding
Title: His Wooden Wedding
Released: December 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
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My Lady of Whims
Title: My Lady of Whims
Character: James Severn
Released: December 9, 1925
Type: Movie
Aspiring author Prudence "Prue" Severn leaves her staid home for the wild life in New York's artistic Greenwich Village community. Her concerned family hires two thrill-seeking ex-doughboys, bow-tied Bartley "Bart" Greer and his trigger-happy buddy Lee, to look after her and, hopefully, persuade her to come home. They move into Prue's apartment building, where she lives with a sculptress pal. Although interested in Bart, Prue senses he is being paid to watch over her-- so she decides to elope with the handsome Rolf.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Judge of the Court
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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When Husbands Deceive
Title: When Husbands Deceive
Character: Andrew Singleton
Released: August 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Grand Larceny
Title: Grand Larceny
Character: Emerson
Released: February 26, 1922
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Watch Your Step
Title: Watch Your Step
Character: Henry Slocum
Released: February 16, 1922
Type: Movie
Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews.....
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Voices of the City
Title: Voices of the City
Character: Garrison
Released: December 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Voices of the City is a 1921 American silent crime drama film starring Leatrice Joy and Lon Chaney that was directed by Wallace Worsley. It is considered to be a lost film.
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The Poverty of Riches
Title: The Poverty of Riches
Character: Edward Phillips Sr
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson, decide to start a family right away. While John works his way up to a position of power at a steel firm, Katherine begins to question the wisdom of their decision.
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Doubling for Romeo
Title: Doubling for Romeo
Character: Foster / Capulet
Released: October 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Slim Cody works in the movie industry, doubling for the performers. He has a dream in which he portrays Romeo in a movie version of "Romeo and Juliet," and arranges for someone to double for him when the fight scenes get scary. ....
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Made in Heaven
Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Mr. Hadden
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
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Edgar's Feast Day
Title: Edgar's Feast Day
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Episode 11 of the series of 2-reel comedies “The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy”.
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The Feud
Title: The Feud
Character: Horace Summers
Released: December 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Two Southern clans, the Lynches and the Summers, have been at odds with each other since long before Civil War times. But that hasn't stopped Jere Lynch and Betty Summers from falling in love.
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The Long Arm of Mannister
Title: The Long Arm of Mannister
Character: John Dyack
Released: November 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Walking aimlessly in the desert, crazed by thirst and hunger, Lucy Mannister and Gaston Sinclair are overtaken by her husband George, who has pursued them around the world.
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Home
Title: Home
Character: John Deering
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
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When Fate Decides
Title: When Fate Decides
Character: Egan
Released: June 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Vera Loudon is unhappily married to the wealthy but profligate Herbert Loudon who openly makes advances to Mrs. Alicia Carteret at a dinner party. Donald Cavendish, a former admirer of Vera's, witnesses her humiliation and advises her to leave her husband, which she is unwilling to do.
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Common Clay
Title: Common Clay
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Highest Trump
Title: The Highest Trump
Character: General Graham
Released: February 3, 1919
Type: Movie
Secret Service officer Richard Paget receives a letter from his twin brother John imploring him to take over his identity after he commits suicide, so that Richard can subvert the plans made by the airplane company which John had financed, to make defective planes for the United States to use in the war.
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The Game's Up
Title: The Game's Up
Character: P. Van Rennselear Neyland (as John Hay Cossar)
Released: January 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Struggling young painter Ruth Elliott has written her Eastern friend Mildred Colburn that she has gained fame in the West as an artist. When Mildred stops to visit on her way to Honolulu, Ruth hires Peter Neyland to pose as her chauffeur for five hours. Peter is actually a wealthy young man who accepts the offer as a lark.
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Her Country First
Title: Her Country First
Character: Franklin Grant
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, young Dorothy Grant comes home from finishing school and informs her parents that she is going to contribute to the war effort by organizing a "Girls Aviation Corps". She has uniforms made and hires a veteran of the Spanish-American War to teach her "cadets" military routines and drills. Her father owns a munitions factory and is always telling her to be on the lookout for spies. She convinces herself that the family butler, Williams, is a spy because he cuts his grapefruit in an odd way. It turns out that Williams isn't a spy but the people whom Dorothy least suspects are in fact spies, and they discover that Dorothy knows the password to get into the factory after hours.
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Beans
Title: Beans
Released: September 16, 1918
Type: Movie
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The Marriage Ring
Title: The Marriage Ring
Character: James Ward
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brute. When the two struggle over a gun, Hugo is shot. Anne, thinking he is dead, flees to Hawaii, where she falls in love with Rodney Heathe (Jack Holt), who owns a sugar plantation.
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The Dream Doll
Title: The Dream Doll
Character: Her Father
Released: December 10, 1917
Type: Movie
A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls. He shows his invention to the Toy King and his lovely daughter, and Ruby is overcome by the fumes and is changed into a doll, eloping with a doll lover and undergoing many strange adventures.
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Fools For Luck
Title: Fools For Luck
Character: Mr. Lamkin
Released: October 8, 1917
Type: Movie
Philander has embraced every superstition imaginable, from hoarding rabbit's foots and horseshoes to avoiding the third light on a match. But his luck manages to run out anyway -- he loses his girl, Brunhilda and his job.
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Pants
Title: Pants
Character: Father of Poor Boy
Released: September 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Little Betty has a luxurious home, an army of servants and the costliest of toys. But she hasn't what a child wants most of all, other children to play with. The result is that she runs away and joins a group of children from the ghetto district on the beach. In play she exchanges clothing with a little boy. That evening Betty doesn't return home. Her maiden aunt, an over-zealous guardian, is frantic. She notifies the police. The same evening the father of the boy, who has lost his position and is facing starvation, decides to turn burglar. He steals into the home of Betty's father. The household is awakened and the intruder captured.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Released: June 23, 1917
Type: Movie
Robert Strickland, the self-confessed murderer of Gerald Trask, refuses to defend himself on the witness stand. His attorney, however, cross-examines Strickland's wife.
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Do Children Count?
Title: Do Children Count?
Character: William Erling
Released: March 6, 1917
Type: Movie
"Do Children Count?" was a series of 12 films, each completely independent of the other.
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The Chaperon
Title: The Chaperon
Character: Mr. Combs
Released: November 20, 1916
Type: Movie
Jim Ogden, secretly engaged to Madge Hemmingway, wealthy heiress, becomes sensitive over his lack of money and breaks the engagement. In a moment of pique she marries Count Van Tuyle. After six months she returns from Europe, minus her husband. Trying to forget her error, she goes to the country.
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The Prince of Graustark
Title: The Prince of Graustark
Character: Baron Douglas
Released: November 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Graustark needs thirty million dollars to satisfy a Russian loan. The Prince of Dawsbergen, ruler of the adjoining principality, will advance the money if the young Prince of Graustark marries his daughter. Prince Robin, however, inherits an independent spirit, his father having been an American. He refuses absolutely to marry a Princess whom he has never seen. His councilors plead in vain. With the ruin of his country imminent, the boy ruler hastily sails for America to negotiate the loan, hoping at the same time to meet the girl of his dreams. The money is readily advanced by William W. Blithers, a self-made millionaire anxious to have his daughter marry into royalty. The daughter, however, avoids the Prince and he does not see her. He rescues a girl from drowning and falls in love with her. He believes her to be Blithers' daughter, but she does not reveal her identity.
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The Return of Eve
Title: The Return of Eve
Character: John Raymond
Released: October 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took two unrelated orphan children, a boy and a girl, and placed them in a wilderness, there in the care of an old tutor, David Winters, to grow up as a new Adam and Eve, and become path-breakers of a better race.
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The Strange Case of Mary Page
Title: The Strange Case of Mary Page
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: January 24, 1916
Type: Movie
A 15-episode movie serial.
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The Misleading Lady
Title: The Misleading Lady
Character: John W. Cannell
Released: January 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her proposition of giving her the leading part in his new production, "The Siren." Believing that she can get Parker to consent if she is persuasive enough, Helen has her fiancé, Henry Tracey, invite the theatrical manager to the party to be given by John W. Cannell so that she may work upon him. At the affair Helen manages to obtain Parker's consent to give her a trial it she is successful in having Jack Craigen, a friend of Cannell, who has been living in Patagonia for a long time and who is a woman hater, propose to her.
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The Crimson Wing
Title: The Crimson Wing
Character: Paul D'Arblay
Released: November 1, 1915
Type: Movie
The hero is a young soldier who is in love with two girls simultaneously. While on the battlefield, the soldier learns that one of his sweethearts has committed suicide. Only temporarily taken aback, he begins to dream of the blissful domesticity which he will enjoy with the other girl upon his return.
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The Blindness of Virtue
Title: The Blindness of Virtue
Character: Lord Aberlady
Released: July 19, 1915
Type: Movie
The Hon. Archibald Graham is expelled from college and his indignant father sends him to a little English village to study under the Rev. Harry Pemberton. Misunderstood by his father, he has grown up somewhat reckless and dissipated. All this is changed under the tutelage of the minister and he enters into the spirit of his studies with zeal.
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The Clutch of Circumstance
Title: The Clutch of Circumstance
Character: The Governor
Released: June 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Eli Turner, an unscrupulous lawyer, is defeated in court by Frank Morrison, a young attorney. Frank also has had the temerity to get in Turner's path over a girl. Now Turner plots to send Morrison to prison, but Nance, a mountain girl, who admires Frank, warns him of his danger.
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The Misjudged Mr. Hartley
Title: The Misjudged Mr. Hartley
Character: Mr. Worthington
Released: January 19, 1915
Type: Movie
In honor of his return from abroad, Mrs. Worthington invites her cousin, Brian Hartley, to dinner that evening, but forgets to tell him she has moved from her old address. He goes to the old home where he is met at the door by Celia Thayer, a guest of the Holbrooks, who now occupy the residence. None of the family being at home, Ceclia admits him, thinking he has been invited to dinner. When her hostess does not arrive the two have dinner together and become quite infatuated. Later it develops that the house was robbed while Mr. Hartley was there and, of course, he is suspected.
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Mrs. Trenwith Comes Home
Title: Mrs. Trenwith Comes Home
Character: Ralph Eccles
Released: December 8, 1914
Type: Movie
Mrs. Trenwith is a typical shallow, thoughtless society woman. Her husband is wrapped up in business and as a result their little daughter, Marjory, suffers greatly from neglect. Her old nurse, Franchette, loves her dearly. Mr. Trenwith leaves town on a business trip while his wife goes to a house party, where she meets Ralph Eccles, a typical society tempter. She leads him on.
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The Buffer
Title: The Buffer
Character: Newton - the Forger
Released: December 1, 1914
Type: Movie
John Harms, a corporation magnate, has two motherless sons, Bobby and Sam. Bobby is a cute little youngster of six, and Sam is of age and spends his father's money with recklessness. Richard Freely, an arch-enemy of Harms', is continually trying to dissolve the corporation, and not until Newton, a half-brother to Freely, has forged some checks on a good friend of Harms', does the financier secure a wedge with which to ruin Freely. Harms threatens to expose his enemy for defending Newton, and Freely is saved from bodily injury by Bobby, who has come to ask his father for candy. Meantime Sam has forged his father's name to a check and handed it to Newton in payment of gambling debts. Harms is about to sacrifice his son to down Freely, when the little "Buffer' again bursts in and drags Sam away to play horse.
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Beyond Youth's Paradise
Title: Beyond Youth's Paradise
Character: Lord Fiennis
Released: November 24, 1914
Type: Movie
Captain Fane, an English army officer stationed at Cairo, is in love with Lady Fiennis, who is treated most cruelly by her husband. Fane returns to England when he finds that she refuses to leave him. Five years later Fane's sister summons him to tell him that her son Frankie, who is only twenty-two years old, has decided to marry a widow many years his senior.
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Within Three Hundred Pages
Title: Within Three Hundred Pages
Character: Lawyer Smirney
Released: November 10, 1914
Type: Movie
A necklace belonging to Mrs. Stuyvesant is stolen from Lawyer Smirney's office. It was smuggled in from China years before. Chief Knox is notified and believes Smirney guilty when he finds a diagram in his pocket, and following it, finds a necklace. Ho Fing-Tang, a Chinaman, studying law in the office, is not suspected by Knox, but Spider, a newspaper reporter, believes differently. Ho Fing-Tang is injured and in a delirium keeps repeating "Huns 764." Spider goes to the office and from a book called "Hun's 129 Reports," he extracts the real necklace. The stones Knox found prove to be paste.
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The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar
Title: The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar
Character: Club Members
Released: March 11, 1914
Type: Movie
Thomas Terpin. James Riding and Jack Hazard are sitting in the club when the talk drifts to a daring housebreaker, whom the police are powerless to capture. Jack makes a wager with Terpin that he can rob and get away with it. Terpin takes him up and agrees to pay a forfeit of $100 of Jack returns to the club within three hours with something valuable he has stolen. The adventures he has are screamingly funny and the climax comes with most amazing and amusing results.
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Into Society and Out
Title: Into Society and Out
Character: His Secretary
Released: February 4, 1914
Type: Movie
This amusing and diverting comedy depicts the trials and tribulations of a French nobleman to win the hand of a rich American girl. He is about to succeed when Fate, in the form of two tramps, steps in and he has to abdicate in favor of the higher power.