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William Wolbert
William Wolbert (1883–1918) was an American actor and film director of the silent era.Wlaschin p.26 He directed for Vitagraph Studios, Vitagraph and Universal Pictures before his career was cut short by his death. Selected filmography Actor * ''The Burned Hand'' (1915) * ''The Dumb Girl of Portici'' (1916) Director * ''Aladdin from Broadway'' (1917) * ''The Divorcee (1917 film), The Divorcee'' (1917) * ''The Flaming Omen'' (1917) * ''Captain of the Gray Horse Troop'' (1917) * ''The Magnificent Meddler'' (1917) * ''When Men Are Tempted'' (1917) * ''Sunlight's Last Raid'' (1917) * ''Money Magic'' (1917) * ''By Right of Possession'' (1917) * ''That Devil, Bateese'' (1918) * ''The Light of Victory'' (1919) References Bibliography *Ken Wlaschin. ''Silent Mystery and Detective Movies: A Comprehensive Filmography''. McFarland, 2009. External links * 1883 births 1918 deaths American male film actors Film directors from Virginia People from Petersburg, Virginia {{US-film-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petersburg, Virginia
Petersburg is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 33,458 with a majority black American population. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines Petersburg (along with the city of Colonial Heights, Virginia, Colonial Heights) with Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Dinwiddie County for statistical purposes. The city is south of the commonwealth (state) capital city of Richmond, Virginia, Richmond. It is located at the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, fall line (the head of navigation of rivers on the East coast of the United States, U.S. East Coast) of the Appomattox River (a tributary of the longer larger James River which flows east to meet the southern mouth of the Chesapeake Bay at the Hampton Roads harbor and the Atlantic Ocean). In 1645, the Virginia House of Burgesses ordered Fort Henry (Virginia), Fort Henry built, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Of The Gray Horse Troop
''Captain of the Gray Horse Troop'' is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by William Wolbert and starring Antonio Moreno, Edith Storey and Otto Lederer. Plot The character Capt. George Curtis is sent to an Indian reservation in order to stabilize conditions after a Native-America kills a Caucasian rancher and a lynch mob ensues. Cast * Antonio Moreno as Capt. George Curtis * Edith Storey as Elsie * Mrs. Bradbury as Jennie * Otto Lederer Otto Lederer (May 17, 1886 – September 3, 1965) was a Czech-American film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1912 and 1933, most notably ''The Jazz Singer'', the first full-length film to have sound sequences, and the Laurel and Har ... as Crawling Elk * Al J. Jennings as Cut Finger * Neola May as Cut Finger's Wife * Bob Burns as Cal Streeter * Henry A. Barrows as Ex-Sen. Brisbane References Bibliography * John T. Weaver. ''Twenty Years of Silents, 1908-1928''. Scarecrow Press, 1971. External links * 1917 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Male Film Actors
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 tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 Deaths
The ceasefire that effectively ended the World War I, First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people worldwide. In Russia, this year runs with only 352 days. As the result of Julian to Gregorian calendar switch, 13 days needed to be skipped. Wednesday, January 31 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was immediately followed by Thursday, February 14 ''(Gregorian Calendar)''. Events World War I will be abbreviated as "WWI" January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Sweden, German Empire, Germany and France. * January 8 – American president Woodrow Wilson presents the Fourteen Points as a basis for peace negotiations to end the war. * January 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1883 Births
Events January * January 4 – ''Life (magazine), Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A Newhall House Hotel Fire, fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * January 16 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States civil service, is passed. * January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey, United States, installed by Thomas Edison. February * February 15 – Tokyo Electrical Lightning Grid, predecessor of Tokyo Electrical Power (TEPCO), one of the largest electrical grids in Asia and the world, is founded in Japan. * February 16 – The ''Ladies' Home Journal'' is published for the first time, in the United States. * February 23 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an Competition law, antitrust law. * February 28 – The first vaudeville th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Light Of Victory
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Devil, Bateese
''That Devil, Bateese'' is a 1918 American silent action-drama film directed by William Wolbert and starring Monroe Salisbury, Ada Gleason, and Lon Chaney. The screenplay was written by Bernard McConville, based on a story written by Bess Meredyth. Even though this film was released before some of his earlier Universal films (''Danger - Go Slow'', ''The Talk of the Town'', etc.), it was actually Chaney's final film from his first stint at Universal Studios. Filming took place at Big Bear Lake and the San Bernardino National Forest in California. The film is considered lost. Plot Kathleen St. John (Gleason) of Montreal goes to the village of Montrouge in the North Woods to teach school and forget an unfortunate love affair with a man named Martin Stuart. After leaving the train station, she is attacked by a mountain man named Louis Courteau (Lon Chaney) in the woods, and Bateese Latour (Salisbury), a local lumberjack, saves her from Courteau's unwanted embraces. Bateese is k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
By Right Of Possession
''By Right of Possession'' is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by William Wolbert and starring Mary Anderson, Antonio Moreno and Otto Lederer.Langman, p. 107. Cast * Mary Anderson as Kate Saxon * Antonio Moreno as Tom Baxter * Otto Lederer as Bells * Leon De La Mothe Leon De La Mothe (born Louis Kent; December 26, 1880 – June 12, 1943) was an American film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent film, silent era. He directed 40 films between 1915 and 1925. He also appeared in 28 films between 1915 ... as Trimble References Bibliography * Langman, Larry. ''American Film Cycles: The Silent Era''. Greenwood Publishing, 1998. External links * 1917 films 1917 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Films directed by William Wolbert Silent American Western (genre) films Vitagraph Studios films 1910s English-language films 1910s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{1910s-US-Western-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Money Magic
''Money Magic'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by William Wolbert and starring Antonio Moreno, Laura Winston and Edith Storey.Goble p.872 Cast * Antonio Moreno as Ben Fordyce * Laura Winston Laura may refer to: People and fictional characters * Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name * Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cno ... as Mrs. Gilman * Edith Storey as Bertha Gilman * William Duncan as Marshall Haney * Florence Dye as Alice Heath References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Vitagraph Studios films Films directed by William Wolbert 1910s American films English-language drama films {{1910s-US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunlight's Last Raid
''Sunlight's Last Raid'' is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by William Wolbert and starring Gayne Whitman, Mary Anderson and Vincente Howard.Weaver, p. 499. Cast * Mary Anderson as Janet Warned * Gayne Whitman as Jack Conway * Vincente Howard as Captain Sunlight * Fred Burns as Bill Warned * Al Ernest Garcia Allan Ernest Garcia (11 March 1887 – 4 September 1938) was an American actor and casting director, best known for his long association with Charlie Chaplin. Life and career Al Ernest Garcia appeared in over 120 films between 1911 and 1938, mos ... as Pedro References Bibliography * John T. Weaver. ''Twenty Years of Silents, 1908-1928''. Scarecrow Press, 1971. External links * 1917 films 1917 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Vitagraph Studios films Films directed by William Wolbert Silent American Western (genre) films 1910s English-language films 1910s American films English-language Western (genre) films {{1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When Men Are Tempted
''When Men Are Tempted'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by William Wolbert and starring Mary Anderson, Gayne Whitman and Robert N. Bradbury.Weaver p.499 Plot Cast * Mary Anderson as Jessie Garden * Gayne Whitman as John Burt * Robert N. Bradbury as Peter Burt * Otto Lederer Otto Lederer (May 17, 1886 – September 3, 1965) was a Czech-American film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1912 and 1933, most notably ''The Jazz Singer'', the first full-length film to have sound sequences, and the Laurel and Har ... as General Garden * S.E. Jennings as Kinsley References Bibliography * John T. Weaver. ''Twenty Years of Silents, 1908-1928''. Scarecrow Press, 1971. External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Vitagraph Studios films Films directed by William Wolbert Films with screenplays by George H. Plympton 1910s Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Magnificent Meddler
''The Magnificent Meddler'' is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by William Wolbert and starring Antonio Moreno, Mary Anderson and Otto Lederer.Ness p.25 Cast * Antonio Moreno as Montague Emerson * Mary Anderson as Jess Roth * Otto Lederer as Bob Gill * Leon De La Mothe Leon De La Mothe (born Louis Kent; December 26, 1880 – June 12, 1943) was an American film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent film, silent era. He directed 40 films between 1915 and 1925. He also appeared in 28 films between 1915 ... as Pete Marillo * George Kunkel as Big Joe Roth References Bibliography * Ness, Richard. ''From Headline Hunter to Superman: A Journalism Filmography''. Scarecrow Press, 1997. External links * 1917 films 1917 comedy films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films American black-and-white films Vitagraph Studios films Films directed by William Wolbert 1910s American films English-language co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
