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Tom Wilson (actor)
Tom Wilson (August 27, 1880 – February 19, 1965) was an American film actor. Biography Wilson was born in Helena, Montana, in 1880. Appearing in more than 300 films between 1915 and 1963, Wilson had notable supporting roles in the silent film era, like "The Kindly Officer" in D. W. Griffith's epic '' Intolerance'' (1916), the angry policeman in Charlie Chaplin's ''The Kid'' (1921), and a boxing coach in Buster Keaton's comedy ''Battling Butler'' (1926). After the rise of sound film, he was reduced to small roles for the rest of his long film career. Wilson died in 1965 in Los Angeles, California. Selected filmography * '' Little Marie'' (1915) * '' The Highbinders'' (1915) * ''The Lucky Transfer'' (1915) * ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915) * ''Martyrs of the Alamo'' (1915) * '' The Half-Breed'' (1916) * '' The Children Pay'' (1916) * '' Intolerance'' (1916) * ''Hell-to-Pay Austin'' (1916) * '' The Americano'' (1916) * ''Pay Me!'' (1917) * ''The Yankee Way'' (1917) * '' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kid (1921 Film)
''The Kid '' is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogan as his foundling baby, adopted son and sidekick. This was Chaplin's first full-length film as a director (he had been a co-star in 1914's '' Tillie's Punctured Romance''). It was a huge success, and was the second-highest-grossing film in 1921, behind '' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse''. In 2011, ''The Kid'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Plot With much anguish, an unwed Mother abandons her child, placing him in an expensive automobile with a handwritten note: "Please love and care for this orphan child". Two thieves steal the car and leave the baby in an alley, where he is found by The Tramp. After some attempts to hand off the child on to various passers-by, he finds the note and his heart mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Americano (1916 Film)
''The Americano'' is a 1916 American silent adventure / romantic comedy film directed by John Emerson and stars Douglas Fairbanks in his last production for Triangle Film Corporation. Based on the novel ''Blaze Derringer'', by Eugene P. Lyle, Jr., the scenario was written by John Emerson and Anita Loos who also wrote the film's intertitles. The film was re-released by S.A. Lynch Enterprises on August 21, 1923. Three 16mm prints and one 8mm print of the film still exists. Set in a fictional South American country of Paragonia, it has been described as one of a group of films that supported United States imperialism by providing support to the idea of manifest destiny. Cast *Douglas Fairbanks as Blaze Derringer *Alma Rubens as Juana de Castille *Spottiswoode Aitken as Presidente de Castille *Carl Stockdale as Salsa Espada * Tote Du Crow as Alberto de Castille * Charles Stevens as Colonel Gargaras *Mildred Harris as Stenographer *Lillian Langdon as Senora de Castille *Thomas Jeffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Minutes To Go
''Two Minutes to Go'' is a 1921 American silent sport comedy-drama film directed by Charles Ray and written by Richard Andres. The film stars Charles Ray, Mary Anderson, Lionel Belmore, Lincoln Stedman, Truman Van Dyke, and Gus Leonard. The film was released by Associated First National on October 17, 1921. Cast * Charles Ray as Chester Burnett * Mary Anderson as Ruth Turner *Lionel Belmore as Her Father *Lincoln Stedman as 'Fatty' *Truman Van Dyke as 'Angel' * Gus Leonard as Butler * Tom Wilson as Football Coach *Bert Woodruff William Herbert "Bert" Woodruff (April 29, 1856 – June 14, 1934) was an American actor of the silent era. Woodruff was born in Peoria, Illinois, and was the son of Mrs. Hannah Woodruff. He performed on stage before he began acting on fi ... as Janitor *François Dumas as Dean of Baker University *Phil Dunham as Professor of Spanish (as Phillip Dunham) Preservation ''Two Minutes to Go'' is now considered lost. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrap Iron (film)
''Scrap Iron'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Charles Ray and starring Ray, Lydia Knott and Vera Steadman.Munden p.688 Cast * Charles Ray as John Steel * Lydia Knott as John's Mother * Vera Steadman as Midge Flannigann * Tom Wilson as Bill Dugan * Tom O'Brien as Battling Burke * Stanton Heck as Big Tim Riley * Charles Wheelock as Matt Brady * Claude Berkeley Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ... as John's Chum 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 States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1921 films 1921 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinty (film)
''Dinty'' is a 1920 American silent comedy drama film written by Marshall Neilan and John McDermott specifically for Wesley Barry, a young actor known for his freckled complexion. Prominent among the supporting players were Colleen Moore, Marjorie Daw, Pat O'Malley, and Noah Beery. Together with the African American Aaron Mitchell and the Chinese-American Walter Chung, Barry creates the prototype of the multi-ethnic baby gang which will serve as a model for the successful series of '' Our Gang'' (1922–44) and in other feature films like '' Little Annie Rooney '' (1925) with Mary Pickford.Gevinson, Alan. ''Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960'', University of California Press, 1997. The film is extant, archived in the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Plot In a village in the Irish woods, young Doreen Adair ( Colleen Moore) falls in love with a young man, Danny O'Sullivan (Tom Gallery). One day, Danny receives notice that he is offered a job in America. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Professor (1919 Film)
''The Professor'' is a 1919 American silent comedy film made at the Chaplin Studios for the First National film company starring Charlie Chaplin. However, the film was never released or even completed. Chaplin abandoned production after finishing only one sequence: a single reel. Chaplin appears not as his usual Tramp character but as "Professor Bosco," a slovenly showman who brings his flea circus with him when staying at a flophouse. The fleas get loose during the night and create havoc. The surviving film is included in ''Unknown Chaplin'' and on the Criterion Collection '' Limelight'' Blu-ray and release. Cast * Charlie Chaplin - Professor Bosco * Albert Austin - Man in flophouse * Henry Bergman - Bearded man in flophouse * Loyal Underwood - Flophouse proprietor * Tom Wilson - Man in flophouse * Tom Wood - Fat man in flophouse See also * List of American films of 1919 * '' Her Friend the Bandit'' - a 1914 lost film A lost film is a feature Feature may refer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunnyside (film)
''Sunnyside'' is a 1919 American short silent film written by, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. It was his third film for First National Pictures. Plot Charlie works on a farm from 4 a.m. until late at night at the run-down Evergreen Hotel in the rural village of Sunnyside. He has endless duties inside the hotel as well as farm chores to undertake. Chaplin's boss is the local preacher who mistreats him badly. He gets his food and the boss' on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding a chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). Charlie has to lead the cows to an upper pasture on a Sunday. He wanders off-road on a dusty corner and loses the cows. They materialise in the village: mainly in the church. Charlie rides a longhorn out of the church and falls off as they cross a bridge. In his daze he sees dancing nymphs. His boss kicks him all the way home. Charlie's love interest in the village is the girl played by Edna Purviance. He loves her, but is disliked by h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Day's Pleasure
''A Day's Pleasure'' (1919) is Charlie Chaplin's fourth film for First National Films. It was created at the Chaplin Studio. It was a quickly made two-reeler to help fill a gap while working on his first feature ''The Kid''. It is about a day outing with his wife and the kids and things do not go smoothly. Edna Purviance plays Chaplin's wife and Jackie Coogan one of the kids. The first scene shows the Chaplin Studio corner office in the background while Chaplin tries to get his car started. Plot summary Cast * Charles Chaplin as Father * Edna Purviance as Mother * Marion Feducha as Small Boy (''uncredited'') * Bob Kelly as Small Boy (''uncredited'') * Jackie Coogan as Smallest Boy (''uncredited'') * Tom Wilson as Large Husband (''uncredited'') * Babe London as His Seasick Wife (''uncredited'') * Henry Bergman as Captain, Man in Car and Heavy Policeman (''uncredited'') * Loyal Underwood as Angry Little Man in Street (''uncredited'') Plot After an initial scene featuring a For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Greatest Question
''The Greatest Question'' is a 1919 American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. Based upon a novel by William Hale, the film has a plot involving spiritualism. Plot As described in a film magazine, Nellie Jarvis (Gish), daughter of a wandering couple, when very young witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and his wife. Years later, "Little Miss Yes'm," as Nellie is known, returns to the scene of the crime as an orphan. Mr. Hilton (Fawcett) and his wife (Besserer), though poverty stricken, take her into their family. Finding the Hiltons are in financial straits, she goes to a nearby farmhouse and gets employment from Martin Cain (Nichols) and his wife (Crowell). Here she is persecuted, beaten and tormented. The farmer seeks to assault her and she recognizes in him the man who murdered the woman years before. In the meantime, Mrs. Hilton has appealed to her dead son and God to relieve the family from poverty. The spirit of the dead son returns and on the following day oil is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bond
''The Bond'' is a propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Loan Committee for theatrical release to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I. Made in 1918 with Edna Purviance, Albert Austin and Sydney Chaplin, the film has a distinctive visual motif set in a simple plain black set with starkly lit simple props and arrangements. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating various bonds like the bond of friendship and of marriage and, most important, the Liberty Bond, to K.O. the Kaiser which Charlie does literally. That theme is made explicit when Charlie meets Uncle Sam and a laborer representing industry. Charlie buys a liberty bond and the industrial laborer supplies a rifle for an American soldier. Charlie is sufficiently impressed by the result of his patriotic contribution that he reveals more funds he had hidden in his pants to buy another bond and an American Naval sailor is thus equipped with a rifle hims ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheating The Public
''Cheating the Public'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Richard Stanton and starring Enid Markey, Ralph Lewis and Bertram Grassby.Solomon p.245 Cast * Enid Markey as Mary Garvin * Ralph Lewis as John Dowling * Bertram Grassby as Chester Dowling * Tom Wilson as 'Bull' Thompson * Edward Peil Sr. as Mary's Attorney * Charles Edler as Martin * Wanda Hawley as Grace Martin * Carrie Clark Ward as Mrs. O'Toole * Fanny Midgley as Mary's Mother * Frankie Lee Frankie Lee (December 31, 1911 – July 29, 1970), was an American child actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1916 and 1925. Best remembered in the 1919 film '' The Miracle Man'', he was the little boy on crutches healed by the phony fait ... as Frankie Garvin * Barbara Conley as Bobby * James Titus as The Judge * Henry Peal as The District Attorney * Joseph Hartley as The Twelfth Juror * James Morgan as Warden * Arthur Glynn as The Governor * James P. McNeill as Dowling's Butler * Arth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dog's Life
''A Dog's Life'' is a 1918 American Comedy short silent film written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. This was Chaplin's first film for First National Films. Chaplin plays opposite an animal as "co-star". "Scraps" (the dog) was the hero in this film, as he helps Charlie and Edna towards a better life. Edna Purviance plays a dance hall singer and Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp. Sydney Chaplin (Chaplin's brother) had a small role in this film; this was the first time the two brothers were on screen together. Charles Lapworth, a former newspaper editor who had met Chaplin when he interviewed him, took a role as a consultant on the film. Synopsis Charlie is jobless and has few prospects for employment. He tries to steal food from a lunch cart and is nearly caught by a police officer, avoiding arrest by doing some fancy rolling back and forth under a fence. Later, Charlie saves a stray dog (Scraps) from other dogs. Charlie and Scraps become fast friends and partners in pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
