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Almost A Wild Man
''Almost a Wild Man'' is a 1913 Canadian silent short black and white film directed by Dell Henderson, written by William Beaudine and starring Dorothy Gish. Cast * Charles Murray as McDoo * Gus Pixley as The Wild Man * Edward Dillon as Rooly, Pooly, Dooly * Clarence L. Barr as Guppy (of Guppy and Fugg) * Bud Duncan as Fugg (of Guppy and Fugg) / Sideshow Patron * Kathleen Butler as Actress in The Rise & Fall of McDoo * Florence Lee as Actress in The Rise & Fall of McDoo * Dorothy Gish as Miss Smart / Sideshow Patron * William J. Butler as Policeman / In Audience * Gertrude Bambrick as Member of Lizzy and Her Dancing Girls Troupe / Blackface Sideshow Patron * Viola Barry as In Audience * Lionel Barrymore as In Audience * George Beranger as In Audience * Adelaide Bronti as In Audience * Christy Cabanne as In Audience * William A. Carroll as In Audience * Nan Christy as Member of Lizzy and Her Dancing Girls Troupe * John T. Dillon as In Audience * Charles Gorman as At St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dell Henderson
George Adelbert "Dell" Henderson (July 5, 1877 – December 2, 1956) was a Canadian-American actor, film director, director, and writer. He began his long and prolific film career in the early days of silent film. Biography Born in the southwestern Ontario city of St. Thomas, Ontario, St. Thomas, Dell Henderson started his acting career on the stage, but appeared in his first movie ''Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court'' in 1908. Henderson was a frequent associate of film pioneer D. W. Griffith since 1909 and appeared in numerous early Griffith shorts in Hollywood. Henderson also acted on a less prolific basis in the movies of producer Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios. In addition to acting, Henderson directed nearly 200 silent films between 1911 and 1928. Most of those films are forgotten or lost, but he also directed movies with silent stars like Harry Carey (actor), Harry Carey and Roscoe Arbuckle. Henderson also worked as a writer on numerous screenplays. After reti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in '' A Free Soul'' (1931) and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film '' It's a Wonderful Life''. He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of ''A Christmas Carol'' during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr Leonard Gillespie in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's nine Dr Kildare films, a role he reprised in a further six films focusing solely on Gillespie and in a radio series titled ''The Story of Dr Kildare''. He was a member of the theatrical Barrymore family. Early life Lionel Barrymore was born Lionel Herbert Blyth in Philadelphia, the son of actors Georgiana Drew Barrymore and Maurice Barrymore (born Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blyth). He was the elder brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Silent Short Films
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Toncray
Kate Toncray (1867 – December 6, 1927) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1905 and 1925. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died in Manhattan, New York City. Retrieved October 20, 2017 Selected filmography * '' A Smoked Husband'' (1908) * '' A Flash of Light'' (1910) * '' His Trus ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Paget
Alfred Paget (2 June 1879 – 8 October 1919) was an English silent film actor best known for his portrayal of Prince Belshazzar in D.W. Griffith's 1916 historical epic ''Intolerance''. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1908 and 1918. Prior to his film career, he had served from 1899 to 1903 in the Royal Horse Guards of the British Army. He served in South Africa during the Second Boer War from July to November 1900, receiving the Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal. In April 1918 he travelled to Canada and enrolled in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, being assigned to the 34th Fort Garry Horse Depot Squadron in Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. It is centred on the confluence of the Red River of the North, Red and Assiniboine River, Assiniboine rivers. , Winnipeg h ... as an instructor, being quickly promoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hill Mailes
Charles Hill Mailes (25 May 1870 – 17 February 1937) was a Canadian actor of the silent era. Biography Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1870, Mailes appeared in 290 films between 1909 and 1935. He married the actress Claire McDowell in 1906 and the happy couple appeared in numerous silent films together including '' The Mark of Zorro'' (1920). They had two sons, Robert and Eugene. He died in Los Angeles, California, in 1937. Selected filmography * '' At the Altar'' (1909 short) * '' May and December'' (1910 short) * '' A Mohawk's Way'' (1910 short) - Indian * '' Out from the Shadow'' (1911 short) - At Dance * '' Swords and Hearts'' (1911 short) - Bushwhacker (uncredited) * '' The Battle'' (1911 short) - The Union Commander * ''The Miser's Heart'' (1911 short) - Second Crook * '' A Woman Scorned'' (1911 short) - A Policeman * '' The Eternal Mother'' (1912 short) - Mary's Father * '' For His Son'' (1912 short) - The Father - a Physician * '' An Unseen Enemy'' (1912) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolph Lestina
Adolph Lestina (1861 – August 23, 1923) was an American stage and film actor who was a member of D. W. Griffith's stock company of film actors. Career He received positive notice for his performance in Justin McCarthy's ''If I Were King'' and in Laurence Irving's ''The Fool Hath Said There Is No God''. Lestina's performance in the play ''A Citizen's Home'' was noted as being "sympathetic". Lestina was credited with "discovering" D. W. Griffith. "This gentleman saw to it that young Griffith played the role of Old Man Marks in '' The Lights o' London'' with the Meffert company ..The gentleman who "discovered Griffith as an actor, Adolphe Lestina, later appeared in many D. W. Griffith film productions, including '' Hearts of the World'' (1918) and '' The Love Flower'' (1920)". Griffith, speaking of his time with the Meffert Stock Company, said that Lestina told him that to be a playwright, one first had to be an actor. Personal life Adolph Lestina was married to Bessie Lee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Lee (American Actress)
Mary Jane Lee (September 4, 1848 – August 5, 1925; known professionally as Jennie Lee) was an American actress of the stage and screen. Lee appeared in more than 50 films between 1912 and 1924, working especially in character parts under the directors John Ford and D. W. Griffith. She began her stage career at age nine and went on to support such actors as John Edward McCullough, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, and Helena Modjeska.Motion Picture Studio Directory, 1921, p. 146 She and her husband, actor William Courtright, appeared together in Griffith's ''Intolerance (film), Intolerance'' (1916). Lee portrayed Mammy archetype, Mammy in ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915). Another notable performance of the actress occurs in Lloyd Ingraham's ''A Child of the Paris Streets'', in which she portrays Madame Dufrane. Selected filmography * ''The Mothering Heart'' (Griffith, 1913, Short) - The Wash Customer * ''The Sorrowful Shore'' (Griffith, 1913, Short) - On Shore (uncredited) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Hyde (actor)
Harry Hyde () was a silent film actor who appeared in 73 American films during the decade from 1910 to 1920, most notably as Mabel Normand's character's suitor in D.W. Griffith's 1911 drama ''Her Awakening''. He also wrote the screenplay for ''The Sentimental Sister'', a Blanche Sweet vehicle produced in 1914. Biography As was frequently the case during the dawn of cinema, Hyde's roles ran the gamut from leading man to unbilled extra, sometimes in the same week. He portrayed Mary's suitor in D.W. Griffith's '' The Perfidy of Mary'' (1913) with Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, and Lionel Barrymore. He played Blanche Sweet's character's cuckolded husband in Griffith's '' Blind Love'' (1912), in which she deserts her marriage for another man, has a baby, then realizes that she should have stayed with her husband (Hyde) and attempts to return to him. He was gay. Filmography *'' The Lesser Evil'' (1912) *'' A Voice from the Deep'' (1912) *''The Root of Evil (film)'' (1912) *'' Death's Mara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gorman (actor)
Charles Gorman (1865 – January 25, 1928), was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1908 and 1929. Selected filmography * '' The Fatal Hour'' (1908) * '' For Love of Gold'' (1908) * '' For a Wife's Honor'' (1908) * '' Father Gets in the Game'' (1908) * '' An Awful Moment'' (1908) * ''The Cord of Life'' (1909) * '' The Girls and Daddy'' (1909) * '' At the Altar'' ( 1909) * '' The Blind Princess and the Poet'' (1911) * ''The Old Bookkeeper'' (1912) * '' Under Burning Skies'' (1912) * '' The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch'' (1912) * '' The Lesser Evil'' (1912) * '' A Temporary Truce'' (1912) * '' The Inner Circle'' (1912) * ''With the Enemy's Help'' (1912) * ''The Chief's Blanket'' (1912) * '' The Painted Lady'' (1912) * '' A Sailor's Heart'' (1912) * '' The God Within'' (1912) * '' Broken Ways'' (1913) * '' The Left-Handed Man'' (1913) * ''A Timely Interception'' (1913) * '' Red Hicks Defies the World'' (1913) * '' The Ene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John T
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William A
William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will or Wil, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, Billie, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie). Female forms include Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *''wiljô'' "will, wish, desire" and *''helmaz'' "helm, helmet".Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
