Charles Byer (February 28, 1893 – November 28, 1953) was an American
film actor
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of the
silent era
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.
[Babington & Barr p. 133] He appeared in films for a variety of companies including
Fox
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Twelve species ...
,
Paramount
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* Paramount Global, also known simply as Paramount, an American mass media company formerly known as ViacomCBS.
**Paramount Picture ...
,
Tiffany, and
First National Pictures
First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc., an association of independent theatre owners in the United States, and became the count ...
. He played a mixture of
supporting and
leading roles.
Selected filmography
* ''
Headin' Home
''Headin' Home'' is a 1920 American silent film, silent biopic sports film directed by Lawrence C. Windom. It attempts to create a mythology surrounding the life of baseball player Babe Ruth.
The screenplay was written by Arthur "Bugs" Baer f ...
'' (1920)
* ''
Ten Nights in a Bar Room'' (1921)
* ''
The Man Who Paid'' (1922)
* ''
How Women Love
''How Women Love'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Kenneth S. Webb and starring Betty Blythe, Gladys Hulette and Julia Swayne Gordon.Munden p.367
Plot
A promising singer his signed up by a backer for the new opera he is pro ...
'' (1922)
* ''
Lost in a Big City
''Lost in a Big City'' is a 1923 American silent film, silent drama film directed by George Irving (American actor), George Irving and starring John Lowell (actor), John Lowell, Charles Byer and Jane Thomas (actress), Jane Thomas.Munden p.452
Ca ...
'' (1923)
* ''
Unseeing Eyes'' (1923)
* ''
The Trail of the Law'' (1924)
* ''
Week End Husbands'' (1924)
* ''
Youth for Sale
''Youth for Sale'' is a 1924 silent American drama film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring May Allison, Sigrid Holmquist, and Richard Bennett. It was released on August 1, 1924.
Plot
Cast
* May Allison as Molly Malloy
* Sigrid Holmquist ...
'' (1924)
* ''
The Unguarded Hour
''The Unguarded Hour'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by Sam Wood and starring Loretta Young, Franchot Tone and Roland Young. In England, a prominent young prosecutor in a murder trial is unaware that his wife is involved.
It is based ...
'' (1925)
* ''
A Man Must Live
''A Man Must Live'' is a 1925 American silent adventure film directed by Paul Sloane and written by James Ashmore Creelman based upon the novel ''Jungle Law'' by I. A. R. Wylie. The film stars Richard Dix, Jacqueline Logan, George Nash, Edna Mu ...
'' (1925)
* ''
The Shock Punch
''The Shock Punch'' is a 1925 American silent boxing drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It starred Richard Dix and Frances Howard.
Plot
Coming face-to-face with a couple of ruffians, champion ...
'' (1925)
* ''
The Pace That Thrills'' (1925)
* ''
The Virgin Wife'' (1926)
* ''
So's Your Old Man
''So's Your Old Man'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring W. C. Fields and Alice Joyce. It was written by J. Clarkson Miller based on the story "Mr. Bisbee's Princess" by Julian Leonard Street as ad ...
'' (1926)
* ''
Shanghai Bound'' (1927)
* ''
New York
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* ...
'' (1927)
* ''
Cabaret
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'' (1927)
* ''
Beautiful But Dumb
''Beautiful But Dumb'' is a 1928 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, Charles Byer and George E. Stone.
The film is believed to be lost.
Plot
A stenographer has a makeover and scheme ...
'' (1928)
* ''
Taxi 13
''Taxi 13'' is a 1928 sound part-talkie film comedy produced and distributed by Film Booking Offices of America and directed by Marshall Neilan. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchroni ...
'' (1928)
* ''
Clothes Make the Woman'' (1928)
* ''
Dead Man's Curve
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Examples
* A curve on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles memorialized in the hit song " Dead Man's Curve" by Jan and Dean. ...
'' (1928)
* ''
A Horseman of the Plains
''A Horseman of the Plains'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Tom Mix, Sally Blane and Heinie Conklin.Jensen, p. 234.
Cast
* Tom Mix as Tom Swift
* Tony the Wonder Horse as Tom's Horse
* Sally Bl ...
''(1928)
* ''
Alex the Great'' (1928)
* ''
Red Riders of Canada
''Red Riders of Canada'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, Rex Lease and Harry Woods.Munden, p. 641
Cast
* Patsy Ruth Miller as Joan Duval
* Charles Byer as RCMP Sergeant ...
'' (1928)
* ''
'' (1929)
* ''
The Delightful Rogue
''The Delightful Rogue'' is a 1929 pre-Code romantic adventure film produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. The film was directed by A. Leslie Pearce, with the screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on his short story, ''A Woman Decides''. The ...
'' (1929)
* ''
Molly and Me'' (1929)
* ''
Red Hot Speed'' (1929)
* ''
Romance of the Rio Grande
''Romance of the Rio Grande'' (also: En kärleksnatt vid Rio Grande) is a 1929 American sound ( All-Talking) pre-Code Western musical film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Warner Baxter, Mona Maris, Mary Duncan, and Antonio Moreno. It wa ...
'' (1929)
References
Bibliography
* Bruce Babington & Charles Barr. ''The Call of the Heart: John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama''. Indiana University Press, 2018.
External links
*
1893 births
1953 deaths
American male film actors
Male actors from Newark, New Jersey
American male silent film actors
20th-century American male actors
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