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The Spindle Of Life
''The Spindle of Life'' is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by George Cochrane and starring Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber and Jessie Pratt.Goble p.963 Cast * Ben F. Wilson as 'Alphabet' Carter * Neva Gerber as Gladsome * Jessie Pratt as Mrs. Harrison * Ed Brady as Jason * Dick La Reno as Hooky * Winter Hall as James Bradshaw * Hayward Mack Hayward Seaton Mack (March 20, 1882 – December 24, 1921) was an American actor of the silent era. Born in Albany, New York, in 1882, Mack appeared in more than 80 films between 1910 and 1921. Mack's motion picture career began in 1910; he app ... as Vincent Bradshaw References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1917 films 1917 comedy films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films 1910s American films {{1910s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cochrane (director) (1781–1852), Scottish bibliographer
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George Cochran or Cochrane may refer to: * George Cochran (baseball) (1889–1960), Major League Baseball player * George M. Cochran (1912–2011), Virginia State Supreme Court Justice *George Cochrane (ice hockey) (1881–1952), ice hockey player * George Cochrane (footballer) (1877–1914), Australian rules football player * George Cochrane (politician) (1762–?), Scottish soldier and politician *George Cochran (footballer) (1870–1929), Scottish football pioneer in Spain See also *George Cochrane Hazelton (1832–1922), U.S. representative from Wisconsin *John George Cochrane John George Cochrane (1781–1852) was a Scottish editor and bibliographer, also a librarian, with a general knowledge of literary history. Life Cochrane was born in Glasgow, where his father was engaged in the law. Having received some educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick La Reno
Dick La Reno (October 31, 1863 – July 26, 1945) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1914 and 1931. He was born in Ireland and died in Hollywood, California. Selected filmography * '' Rose of the Rancho'' (1914) * '' The Man from Home'' (1914) * '' The Virginian'' (1914) * '' The Master Mind'' (1914) * ''Brewster's Millions'' (1914) * '' The Squaw Man'' (1914) * '' The Cheat'' (1915) * '' The Buzzard's Shadow'' (1915) * '' The Blot on the Shield'' (1915) * '' The Love Route'' (1915) * '' The Warrens of Virginia'' (1915) * ''The Other Side of the Door The Other Side of the Door may refer to: * The Other Side of the Door (1916 film), an American silent romantic drama film * The Other Side of the Door (2016 film), a supernatural horror film * The Other Side of the Door, a song by Taylor Swift fr ...'' (1916) * '' Black Orchids'' (1917) * '' Pay Me!'' (1917) * '' The Spindle of Life'' (1917) * '' The Reward of the Faithless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Black-and-white Films
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Silent American Comedy Films
Silent may mean: People * Brandon Silent (born 1973), South African former footballer * Charles Silent (1842-1918), German-born American jurist * List of people known as the Silent Music * Silent (band), a Brazilian rock band * The Silents, an Australian psychedelic rock band * Silent, a song by Gerald Walker, from the album I Remember When This All Meant Something... Other uses * Silent film A silent film is a film without synchronized 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, w ..., a film with no sound * Dark (broadcasting) or silent, an off-air radio or TV station * Air Energy AE-1 Silent, a German self-launching ultralight sailplane * Buffalo Silents, a 1920s exhibition basketball team whose members were deaf and/or mute * Silent Pool, a lake in Surrey, United Kingdom * Silent (TV series), a 2022 Japanese te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Silent Feature Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910s English-language Films
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1917 Comedy Films
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party are rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million (equivalent to $ million in ). * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 – WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. * January 26 – The se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Films
1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913 in film, 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as Classical Hollywood cinema, "Classical Hollywood". __TOC__ Events *January – ''Panthea (film), Panthea'' is released, the first film from the company that Joseph Schenck formed with his wife, Norma Talmadge, after leaving Loews Theatres, Loew's Consolidated Enterprises. *February – Buster Keaton first meets Roscoe Arbuckle, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in New York and is hired as a co-star and gag man. *April 9 – Supreme Court of the United States rule in Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Manufacturing Co. which ends the Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayward Mack
Hayward Seaton Mack (March 20, 1882 – December 24, 1921) was an American actor of the silent era. Born in Albany, New York, in 1882, Mack appeared in more than 80 films between 1910 and 1921. Mack's motion picture career began in 1910; he appeared in films of many leading motion picture companies of the time. He had also worked in vaudeville and in stage productions. Before embarking on an entertainment career Mack was a civil engineer and also worked as a newspaper man. Mack died in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ..., in 1921. Mack committed suicide in Los Angeles' Lafayette Park by taking poison. Selected filmography References External links * 1882 births 1921 deaths 1921 suicides American male film actors American mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter Hall
Winter Amos Hall (21 June 1872 – 10 February 1947) was a New Zealand actor of the silent film, silent era who later appeared in sound films. He performed in more than 120 films between 1916 and 1938. Prior to that, he had a career as a stage actor in Australia and the United States. In sound films, he was frequently typecast as a clergyman. Biography Hall was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and died in Los Angeles, California. Hall was married to fellow-New Zealander, Katherine Young, a concert pianist. Their Australian-born son, Desmond Winter Hall, was a science fiction writer, magazine editor, and the author of ''I Give You Oscar Wilde'' (1965), a novel about the nineteenth century dramatist and wit."Desmond W. Hall, 82, Author and Ex-Editor", ''The New York Times'', 2 November 1992 Filmography * ''The Pioneers (1916 film), The Pioneers'' (1916) - Dan Farrell (film debut) * ''The Joan of Arc of Loos'' (1916) * ''The Gift Girl'' (1917) - Usun Hassan * ''The Bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Brady (actor)
Edwin J. Brady (December 6, 1889 – March 31, 1942) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 350 films between 1911 and 1942. On Broadway, he appeared in ''The Spy'' (1913). Filmography *'' The Heart of a Cracksman'' (1913) * '' The Test'' (1914) * ''A Child of the Prairie'' (1915) - The Gambler * '' Neal of the Navy'' (1915) - Hernandez * '' Spellbound'' (1916) - Katti Hab * ''The Twin Triangle'' (1916) - Marco * '' The Sultana'' (1916) - Count Strelitso * '' The Mainspring'' (1916) - Jerviss * '' The Double Room Mystery'' (1917) - Bill Greely * '' God's Crucible'' (1917) - Wilkins * ''Mutiny'' (1917) - Eben Wiggs * '' The Flame of Youth'' (1917) - McCool * '' The Reed Case'' (1917) - 'Red' * '' The Stolen Paradise'' (1917) - Leroux * '' The Spindle of Life'' (1917) - Jason * '' Wild Sumac'' (1917) - John Lewisa * '' Indiscreet Corinne'' (1917) - P.A. Britton * '' The Learnin' of Jim Benton'' (1917) - Harvey Knowles * '' The High Sign'' (1917) - Hugo Mackensen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl R
Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl of Austria, last Austrian Emperor * Karl (footballer) (born 1993), Karl Cachoeira Della Vedova Júnior, Brazilian footballer * Karl (surname) In myth * Karl (mythology), in Norse mythology, a son of Rig and considered the progenitor of peasants (churl) * ''Karl'', giant in Icelandic myth, associated with Drangey island Vehicles * Opel Karl, a car * ST ''Karl'', Swedish tugboat requisitioned during the Second World War as ST ''Empire Henchman'' Other uses * Karl, Germany, municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * ''Karl-Gerät'', AKA Mörser Karl, 600mm German mortar used in the Second World War * KARL project, an open source knowledge management system * Korean Amateur Radio League, a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in South Korea * KARL, a radio station in Minnesota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
