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Robert Gordon (actor)
Robert Gordon (March 3, 1895 – October 26, 1971), born Robert Gordon Duncan, was an American silent film actor. He was born in Belleville, Kansas and died at the age of 76 in Victorville, California. He is credited with appearances in 35 films from 1917 to 1949. Partial filmography * ''The Varmint'' (1917) * ''Tom Sawyer'' (1917) * ''The Hired Man'' (1918) * '''Blue Blazes' Rawden'' (1918) * ''Huck and Tom'' (1918) * ''The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin'' (1918) * ''Missing'' (1918) * '' A Pair of Silk Stockings'' (1918) * '' Captain Kidd, Jr.'' (1919) * '' A Yankee Princess'' (1919) * ''The Blood Barrier'' (1920) * '' The Vice of Fools'' (1920) * '' Respectable by Proxy'' (1920) * '' My Husband's Other Wife'' (1920) * '' If Women Only Knew'' (1921) * '' The Rosary'' (1922) * '' The Super-Sex'' (1922) * '' The Mysterious Witness'' (1923) * '' The Greatest Menace'' (1923) * '' Main Street'' (1923) * ''Borrowed Husbands'' (1924) * '' The Measure of a Man'' (1924) * '' His People'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photoplay
''Photoplay'' was one of the first American film (another name for ''photoplay'') fan magazines. It was founded in 1911 in Chicago, the same year that J. Stuart Blackton founded '' Motion Picture Story,'' a magazine also directed at fans. For most of its run, ''Photoplay'' was published by Macfadden Publications. In 1921 ''Photoplay'' established what is considered the first significant annual movie award. The magazine ceased publication in 1980. History ''Photoplay'' began as a short fiction magazine concerned mostly with the plots and characters of films at the time and was used as a promotional tool for those films. In 1915, Julian Johnson and James R. Quirk became the editors (though Quirk had been vice president of the magazine since its inception), and together they created a format which would set a precedent for almost all celebrity magazines that followed. By 1918 the circulation exceeded 200,000, with the popularity of the magazine fueled by the public's increasing inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Respectable By Proxy
''Respectable by Proxy'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Sylvia Breamer, Robert Gordon and William R. Dunn.Darby p.3 Cast * Sylvia Breamer as Betty Blair * Robert Gordon as John Stanley Hale * William R. Dunn as Clinton Hale * Bessie Stinson as Rita Middleton * Eulalie Jensen Eulalie Jensen (December 24, 1884 – October 7, 1952) was an American actress on the New York stage and in silent films. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she was selected as one of six extra girls from the 200 applicants responding to a ... as Elizabeth Roddard * Margaret Barry as Madame Hale * Morgan Thorpe as Clayton Walpole References Bibliography * Darby, William. ''Masters of Lens and Light: A Checklist of Major Cinematographers and Their Feature Films''. Scarecrow Press, 1991. External links * 1920 films 1920 drama films Silent American drama films Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton American silent feature films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Pack
''King of the Pack'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent adventure film directed by Frank Richardson (director), Frank Richardson and starring Charlotte Stevens, Robert Gordon (actor), Robert Gordon and Vera Lewis.Connelly p.369 Produced by the independent film, independent Gotham Pictures, it was designed as a vehicle for Peter the Great, one of several dog stars to appear in films during the 1920s. Cast * Peter the Great as King, a Dog * Charlotte Stevens as Selah Blair * Robert Gordon (actor), Robert Gordon as Clint Sifton * Vera Lewis as 'Widder' Gasper * Mary Cornwallis as Kitty Carlyle * Danny Hoy as Bud Gasper * Frank Brownlee as Chuck Purdy * W.H. Davis as Sam Blair * Frank Norcross (actor), Frank Norcross as Dr. Joe Stoddard References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
