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Ward McAllister (actor)
Ward McAllister (1891–1981) was an American film actor of the silent era. He was born in Apollo, Pennsylvania, as Ward David McAllister. In 1922 he appeared as the villain (based on Brilliant Chang) in the controversial British crime film ''Cocaine''. Selected filmography * '' General John Regan'' (1921) * ''A Woman of No Importance'' (1921) * ''Cocaine'' (1922) * ''Trapped by the Mormons'' (1922) * '' Repentance'' (1922) * ''The Engineer's Thumb "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the ninth of the twelve stories collected in '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''. The story was first published in '' ...'' (1923) References External links * * 1891 births 1981 deaths American male silent film actors Male actors from Pennsylvania People from Armstrong County, Pennsylvania 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Era
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of intertitle, title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a piano, pianist, theatre organ, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or musical improvisation, improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo, Pennsylvania
Apollo is a borough in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States, northeast of Pittsburgh in a former coal-mining region. Apollo was settled in 1790, laid out in 1816, and incorporated as a borough in 1848. The population was 1,410 at th2020 census History The area was sectioned in 1769, following the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, as a farm known as "Warren's Sleeping Place", named after a Native American trader from the area named Edward Warren. It was soon surveyed and divided into lots, with the town of Warren officially being added to the Greensburg register on 9 November 1816. The log cabin home of the Drake family still stands in the area, and is one of the oldest buildings in Armstrong County. With the introduction of the post office, the area was officially renamed from Warren to Apollo in 1848 to avoid confusion with the post office of another town in Pennsylvania of the same name. The present name is after Apollo, the Greek and Roman god of music, healing, light, pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brilliant Chang
Brilliant (Billy) Chang (real name Chan Nan; born c. 1886, death date unknown) was a Chinese restaurateur and drug dealer who was implicated in supplying the drugs that killed Freda Kempton in 1922.Tragic Punishment of London's "Dope King" '''', 8 December 1928, p. 9.Brilliant Chang ''The Daily News'', 28 June 1922, p. 3. The British popular press portrayed him as an international drug mastermind and the "Dope King" of London. Background ...
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Cocaine (film)
''Cocaine'' is a 1922 British crime film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Hilda Bayley, Flora Le Breton, Ward McAllister and Cyril Raymond. It depicts the distribution of cocaine by gangsters through a series of London nightclubs and the revenge a man seeks after his daughter's death. Because of its depiction of drug use, it was the most controversial British film of the 1920s. Authorities feared that it might encourage the spread of narcotics. However, as it had a clear message about the dangers of drugs, censors eventually passed it in June 1922 and it was released in cinemas under the alternative title ''While London Sleeps''. The Chinese gangster Min Fu was reportedly based on real-life criminal Brilliant Chang.Sweet p. 48 Cast * Hilda Bayley as Jenny * Flora Le Breton as Madge Webster * Ward McAllister as Min Fu * Cyril Raymond as Stanley * Tony Fraser as Loki * Teddy Arundell Teddy Arundell (1873 in Devon – 5 November 1922, in London) was a British film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General John Regan (1921 Film)
''General John Regan'' is a 1921 British comedy film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring Milton Rosmer, Madge Stuart and Ward McAllister. The film was made by Stoll Pictures at Cricklewood Studios. It is based on the play '' General John Regan'' by George A. Birmingham. It was remade as a sound film '' General John Regan'' in 1933. Cast * Milton Rosmer as Doctor O'Grady * Madge Stuart as Mary Ellen Doyle * Edward O'Neill as Tim Doyle * Ward McAllister as Horace P. Billings * Bertie Wright as Thady Gallagher * Teddy Arundell as Police Const. Moriarty * Robert Vallis as Sergeant Colgan * Judd Green as Kerrigan * Gordon Harker William Gordon Harker (7 August 1885 – 2 March 1967) was an English stage and film actor. Harker was one of the sons of Sarah Elizabeth Harker, née Hall, (1856–1927), and Joseph Harker (1855–1927), a much admired set painter for the ... as Maj. Kent * Wyndham Guise as Father McCormack References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman Of No Importance (film)
''A Woman of No Importance'' is a 1921 British drama film directed by Denison Clift and starring Fay Compton, Milton Rosmer, Ward McAllister, Lillian Walker, and Henry Vibart. It is based on the play ''A Woman of No Importance'' by Oscar Wilde. It is not known whether the film currently survives, at silentera.com and it may be a . Cast * as Rachel Arbuthnot * |
Trapped By The Mormons
''Trapped by the Mormons'' (also released as ''The Mormon Peril'') is a 1922 silent British drama film directed by H. B. Parkinson and starring Evelyn Brent. This anti-Mormon film involves the taking of young virginal English women to Utah to become wives. The film survives in several archives, and a copy of the film has been released on video. Cast * Evelyn Brent as Nora Prescott * Louis Willoughby as Isoldi Keene * Ward McAllister as Elder Kayler * Olaf Hytten as Elder Marz * Olive Sloane as Sadie Keane * George Wynn as Jim Foster * Cecil Morton York Cecil Morton York (29 April 1857 – 23 February 1935) was a British actor of the silent era. Born Cecil Morton Smith in Kensington, West London, UK, he died at age 77 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London. Selected filmography * '' Flying fro ... as Mr. Prescott See also *'' Married to a Mormon'' References External links * 1922 films 1922 drama films British drama films British silent feature films Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repentance (1922 Film)
''Repentance'' is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Edward Gordon and starring Peggy Hathaway, Roy Raymond and Geoffrey Benstead.Low p.434 Cast * Peggy Hathaway as Queenie Creedon * Roy Raymond as Frank Hepburn * Hetta Bartlett as Lady Hepburn * Geoffrey Benstead as Toby * Ray Lankester as Dr. Smith * Fabbie Benstead * Ward McAllister Samuel Ward McAllister (December 28, 1827 – January 31, 1895) was a popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of late 19th-century America. He was widely accepted as the authority as to which families could be classified as the cream o ... References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links * 1922 films 1922 drama films British silent feature films British black-and-white films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent British drama films {{1920s-UK-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Engineer's Thumb (film)
"The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the ninth of the twelve stories collected in ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''. The story was first published in ''The Strand Magazine'' in March 1892. Within the narrative of the story, Dr. Watson notes that this is one of only two cases which he personally brought to the attention of Sherlock Holmes. Synopsis The story, set in the summer of 1889, mainly consists of a young London consultant hydraulic engineer, Mr. Victor Hatherley, recounting strange happenings of the night before, first to Dr. Watson. Hatherley had been visited in his office by a man who identified himself as Colonel Lysander Stark. He offered Hatherley a commission at a country house, in Eyford, Berkshire to examine a hydraulic press used, as Stark explains, to compress fuller's earth into bricks. Stark warned Hatherley to keep the job confidential, offering him 50 guineas (£, ). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** Paying of old age pensions begins in German Empire, Germany. ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **German Empire, Germany takes formal possession of its new African territories. * January 2 – A. L. Drummond of New York City, New York is appointed Chief of the Treasury Secret Service. * January 4 – The Earl of Zetland issues a declaration regarding the famine in the western counties of Ireland. * January 5 **The 1891 Australian shearers' strike, Australian shearers' strike, that leads indirectly to the foundation of the Australian Labor Party, begins. **A fight between the United States and Indians breaks out near Pine Ridge agency. **Henry B. Brown, of Michigan, is sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court. **A fight between railway strikers and police breaks out at Motherwell, Scotland. * January 6 &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
