''The Derby Winner'' is a 1915 British silent sports drama film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring

Edna Flugrath Edna Marie Flugrath (December 29, 1892 – April 6, 1966) was the eldest of three sisters who found fame as silent film stars. Early life Flugrath was the first born of Emil and Mary (née Dubois) Flugrath. Her father, a printer by trade, was ...

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 ...

and

Mary Dibley Mary Dibley (21 February 1883 in London – 11 September 1968) was a British film actress. She was married to the actor Gerald Ames. Selected filmography * '' The Christian'' (1915) * '' The Shulamite'' (1915) * '' Sally in Our Alley'' (1916) * ...

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/ref> It is an adaptation of an 1895 play '' The Derby Winner'' by Henry Hamilton,

Augustus Harris Sir Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (18 March 1852 – 22 June 1896) was a British actor, impresario, and dramatist, a dominant figure in the West End theatre, West End theatre of the 1880s and 1890s. Born into a theatrical family, Harris brief ...

and

Cecil Raleigh Cecil Raleigh was the pseudonym of Abraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands (27 January 1856 – 10 November 1914), an English actor and playwright. Personal life Abraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands was born on 27 January 1856 in Monmo ...

(which was retitled as ''The Sporting Duchess'' in the United States).

Cast

as May Aylmer *

as Captain Douglas Desburn *

as Lady Muriel Fortescue *

Lewis Gilbert Lewis Gilbert (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as '' Reach for the Sky'' (1956), '' Sink the Bismarck! ...

as Colonel Donnelly *

Christine Rayner Christine Rayner (born 21 October 1888 — 26 September 1973) was a British actress of the silent era.

as Annette Donnelly *

Wyndham Guise Wyndham Guise (né William Windham Guise Cutler) was a British actor who appeared on stage in Edwardian musical comedies beginning in the 1890s and became a film actor during the silent era. He is sometimes credited as Windham Guise. Selected ...

as Joe Aylmer *

Gwynne Herbert Gwynne Herbert (11 September 1859 – 17 February 1946) was a British stage and film actress. Partial filmography * ''Liberty Hall'' (1914) * '' The Christian'' (1915) * ''The Firm of Girdlestone'' (1915) * '' The Shulamite'' (1915) * ''Annie La ...

as Duchess * J. L. Mackay as Captain Geoffrey Mostyn * George Bellamy as Rupert Leigh *

Winifred Dennis Winifred is a feminine given name, an anglicization of Welsh ''Gwenffrewi'', from ''gwen'', "fair", and ''ffrew'', "stillness". It may refer to: People * Saint Winifred, 7th century Welsh saint * Winifred Atwell (1914–1983), British pianist * Wi ...

as Mrs. Donnelly * Harry Hargreaves as Doctor Cyprian Streatfield * Will Asher as Dick Hand

References

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* 1915 films 1910s sports drama films Films directed by Harold M. Shaw Silent British sports drama films British silent feature films British black-and-white films 1915 drama films 1910s English-language films 1910s British films English-language sports drama films {{sport-film-stub