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Charles Rock
Charles Rock (30 May 1866 – 12 July 1919) was a British actor. He was born Arthur Charles Rock de Fabeck. Rock also wrote at least one play: ''The Ghost of Jerry Bundler'', adapted from W. W. Jacobs' story ''Jerry Bundler''. It was cast at the Haymarket Theatre on 9 September 1902, with Rock starring as the character George (waiter). Biography Arthur Charles Rock de Fabeck was born in Vellore, India on 30 May 1866. He died at his home in St John's Wood on 12 July 1919. Selected filmography * '' She Stoops to Conquer'' (1914) * '' The Third String'' (1914) * '' The Black Spot'' (1914) * '' Called Back'' (1914) * '' The Christian'' (1915) * ''The Firm of Girdlestone'' (1915) * '' The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1915) * '' Rupert of Hentzau'' (1915) * '' Beau Brocade'' (1916) * '' A Fair Impostor'' (1916) * ''Esther Esther (; ), originally Hadassah (; ), is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. According to the biblical narrative, which is set in the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vellore
Vellore ( ), also spelled Velur, is a sprawling city and the administrative headquarters of Vellore district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the banks of the Palar River and surrounded by the Javadi Hills in the northeastern part of Tamil Nadu and is separated into four zones that are further subdivided into 60 wards, covering an area of 153.14 km2 and housing a population of 315,128 as reported by the 2011 census. The Vellore city along with its sub urban areas is spread across approximately 200 km² with a population of 484,690 as of 2011. It is located about west of Chennai, and about east of Bangalore. Vellore is located on the Mumbai–Chennai arm of the Golden Quadrilateral. Vellore is governed under a mayor and the Vellore Municipal Corporation. It is a part of both the Vellore (Lok Sabha constituency), Lok Sabha and Vellore (State Assembly Constituency), state assembly constituencies of Vellore. Vellore is the home to the Christian Medic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fair Impostor (film)
''A Fair Impostor'' is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Madge Titheradge, Gerald McCarthy and Charles Rock. It was made at Isleworth Studios.Harris p.201 It was based on a 1909 novel of the same title by Charles Garvice. Outline The daughter of a lord discovers that a maid is her missing sister. She poses as the maid, to gain her inheritance. Cast * Madge Titheradge as Lady Irene * Gerald McCarthy as Terence Castleford * Charles Rock as Lord Mercia * Alice De Winton as Elsa Graham * Edward O'Neill as Mayne Redmayne * Harry Lofting as Vicar * Lionel d'Aragon Lionel d'Aragon (5 July 1863 - 1941) was a British actor of the silent era. He was born in Paris, France and died in Camberwell, London. Selected filmography * '' Heroes of the Mine'' (1913) * '' A Fair Impostor'' (1916) * ''The Valley of Fear' ... * Florence Nelson References Bibliography * Harris, Ed. ''Britain's Forgotten Film Factory: The Story of Isleworth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Male Film Actors
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1919 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Bratislava, Pressburg (later Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY Iolaire, HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2–January 22, 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation (1918–1919), Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Faisal I of Iraq, Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionism, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine (region), Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The '' Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. February * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chinese Puzzle (1919 Film)
''The Chinese Puzzle'' is a 1919 British silent crime film directed by Fred Goodwins and starring Leon M. Lion, Lilian Braithwaite and Milton Rosmer. It was an adaptation of the play '' The Chinese Puzzle'' written by Lion and Marion Bower. Plot A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers. Cast * Leon M. Lion as Marquis Li Chung * Lilian Braithwaite as Lady de la Haye * Milton Rosmer as Sir Roger de la Haye * Sybil Arundale as Naomi Melsham * Dora De Winton as Mrs Melsham * Charles Rock as Sir Aylmer Brent * Reginald Bach as Henrik Stroom * Sam Livesey Samuel Livesey (14 October 1873 – 7 November 1936) was a Welsh stage and film actor. Life Livesey's father, Thomas, had been a railway engineer before leaving the industry to establish a travelling theatre with his wife Mary. The two had six ... as Paul Markatel * Alexander Sarner as Raoul d'Armand References External links * 1919 films Films directed by Fred Goodw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Romany Lass
''A Romany Lass'' is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by F. Martin Thornton and starring James Knight, Marjorie Villis and Bernard Dudley. It included "gipsy" scenery and Marjorie Villis as a "gipsy".https://books.google.com/books?id=F3ZIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA50&dq=harma+photo-plays%C2%A0&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqqanX5rSOAxVoQzABHYBsFnYQ6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q=harma%20photo-plays%C2%A0&f=false page 213 Cast * James Knight as Donald MacLean * Marjorie Villis as Rilka * Bernard Dudley as Wolf * Charles Rock as Colonel MacLean * Arthur M. Cullin as Dr. Harris * F.G. Thurstans as Reverend Angus MacTavish * Adeline Hayden Coffin * James Reardon James Reardon (1885–?) was a British stage and film actor of the silent era A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, ... References Bibliograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Romance Of Old Bill
''The Romance of Old Bill'' is a 1918 British silent film, silent comedy film, comedy war film, war directed by George Pearson (filmmaker), George Pearson and starring Charles Rock, Arthur Cleave and Hugh E. Wright. It was made at Twickenham Studios. It is based on the play ''The Better 'Ole'', with the setting updated to the First World War.Goble p.21 Cast * Charles Rock as Old Bill * Arthur Cleave as Bert * Hugh E. Wright as Alf * Mary Dibley as Maggie Busby * Hayford Hobbs as Jim * Lillian Hall-Davis as Lil * Alfred Phillips (actor), Alfred Phillips as Spy * Michelin Potous as Victoire * Marguerite Blanche as Suzette * J.M. Wright as Singer * Sid Jay as Juggler * Mansell Fane as Grouser * Frank Adair as Colonel * Meggie Albanesi as Waitress * Mercy Hatton * Micrommelynck as Colonel * Fernand Leone as Peasant References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice Versa (1916 Film)
''Vice Versa'' is a 1916 British silent fantasy and comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Charles Rock, Douglas Munro and Guy Newall. It is an adaptation of the 1882 novel '' Vice Versa'' by Thomas Anstey Guthrie. The screenplay concerns a schoolboy who magically swaps places with his pompous father. Cast * Charles Rock – Paul Bultitude * Douglas Munro – Marmaduke Paradine * Guy Newall Guy Newall (25 May 1885 – 25 February 1937) was a UK, British actor, screenwriter and film director in a career that encompassed the silent film, silent era of film-making to the early years of sound film, sound films. Newall was a theatre act ... – Dick Bultitude * Edward O'Neill – Doctor Grimstone References External links * 1916 films British silent feature films 1910s English-language films Films directed by Maurice Elvey 1910s fantasy films British fantasy films Silent British comedy films British black-and-white films Films about body swapping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hypocrites (1916 Film)
'' The Hypocrites'' is a 1916 British silent drama film directed by George Loane Tucker and starring Elisabeth Risdon, Charles Rock and Cyril Raymond. It is also known by the alternative title ''The Morals of Weybury''.Goble p.247 Plot A squire tries to make his son deny he fathered a villager's child, and wed an heiress. Cast * Elisabeth Risdon as Rachel Neve * Charles Rock as Squire Wilmore * Cyril Raymond as Leonard Wilmore * Douglas Munro as Sir John Plugenet * Hayford Hobbs as Reverend Edgar Linnell * Barbara Everest as Helen Plugenet * Gerald Ames Gerald Ames (12 September 1880 – 2 July 1933) was a British actor, film director and Olympic fencer. Ames was born in Blackheath, London in 1880 and first took up acting in 1905. He was a popular leading man in the post-First World War cinema ... as Aubrey Viveash References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1916 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partners At Last
''Partners at Last'' is a 1916 British silent crime film directed by Ralph Dewsbury and starring Amy Brandon Thomas, Charles Rock and Chappell Dossett.Palmer p.902 Cast * Amy Brandon Thomas as Muriel Wright * Charles Rock as Edward Bradston * Chappell Dossett as William Wright * Hubert Willis Hubert Willis (1862 – 13 December 1933) was a British actor best known for his recurring role as Dr. Watson, Doctor Watson in a Sherlock Holmes (Stoll film series), series of silent Sherlock Holmes films co-starring with Eille Norwood. St ... as Joseph Trood References Bibliography * Palmer Scott. ''British Film Actors' Credits, 1895-1987''. McFarland, 1988. External links * 1916 films 1916 crime films British silent feature films British crime films Films directed by Ralph Dewsbury British black-and-white films 1910s English-language films 1910s British films Silent crime films English-language crime films {{1910s-crime-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther (1916 Film)
''Esther'' is a 1916 British silent historical film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Elisabeth Risdon, Fred Groves and Charles Rock.Murphy p.179 The film portrays the biblical story of Esther. Cast * Elisabeth Risdon as Esther * Fred Groves as Haman * Charles Rock as Mordecai * Ruth Mackay as Vashti * Franklin Dyall * Guy Newall Guy Newall (25 May 1885 – 25 February 1937) was a UK, British actor, screenwriter and film director in a career that encompassed the silent film, silent era of film-making to the early years of sound film, sound films. Newall was a theatre act ... * Beatrix Templeton References Bibliography * Murphy, Robert. ''Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion''. British Film Institute, 2006. External links * 1916 films British silent feature films 1910s English-language films Films directed by Maurice Elvey 1910s historical drama films British black-and-white films 1916 drama films 1910s British films Sile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
