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His Brother's Wife (1916)
Character: Richard Barton
When Richard Barton's health fails, his wife Helen, desperate for money to pay the medical bills, agrees to spend the night with the wealthy Howard Barton, without knowing that he is Richard's long-absent brother. However, after she tells Howard that she is selling herself in order to help her husband, he calls off the rendezvous and sends her home with enough money to pay for Richard's care.
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The Whip (1917)
Character: Baron Sartoris
The story of the training of a racehorse, the Whip, of the amnesiac nobleman who loves the horse, and of the villains who attempt to keep it from racing.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife (1923)
Character: Dr. Konrad Saneck
Edith sets out to prove that a wife can never be fooled by her husband - but will she succeed?
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The Scales of Justice (1914)
Character: Robert Darrow
Robert Darrow, a district attorney is in love with young widow, Edith Russell Dexter. Her wealthy grandfather, Judge Philip Russell, wants her to marry his business manager, Walter Elliot, who actually has been embezzling from Russell's company. During a garden party, Edith and the judge fight over her attentions to Robert
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For Woman's Favor (1924)
Character: The Wolf
A modern love story is the framework for a costume love story, based on Boccaccio's "The Falcon."
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A Stage Romance (1922)
Character: Count Koefeld
A silent film about the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, whose life intertwines with a young woman, Anna Damby, and Countess Koefeld. Kean, inspired by the Countess, becomes entangled in a plot involving Anna, her guardian, and a roué named Lord Melville. The story culminates in a benefit performance where Kean's passionate denouncement of the Prince of Wales leads to his downfall.
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Jamestown (1923)
Character: Don Diego de Molina
The founding of the first English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1612 and the many problems that confronted the struggling colonists are depicted.
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Noah's Ark (1928)
Character: Minister / Noah
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
Character: Dean Lawton
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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Beau Ideal (1931)
Character: Sergeant Frederic
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
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The Big Killing (1928)
Character: Old Man Hicks
The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.
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Christopher Columbus (1923)
Character: King John II of Portugal
Everyone knows what happened after he "discovered" America, but in this film we learn about Columbus' multi-year struggle to secure funding for the journey. Prior explorers journey's to the North American continent also get a nod in this story.
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Inspiration (1931)
Character: Jouvet
Yvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists.
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Yolanda (1924)
Character: Jules d'Humbercourt
The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves, Prince Maximilian of Styria. But when the Swiss threaten war, the duke is compelled to take back his word and he arranges for Mary to wed the half-witted dauphin of France's King Louis XI .
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
Character: Corporal Sacht (as Paul MacAllister)
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.
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Trilby (1915)
Character: Gecko
The hypnotic Svengali controls the singing voice of a young starlet, but he cannot control her heart.
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Evangeline (1929)
Character: Benedict Bellefontaine
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.
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Fury (1936)
Character: Passerby (uncredited)
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Sorrell and Son (1927)
Character: Dr. Orange
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
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Manhandled (1924)
Character: Paul Garrettson
A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
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The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
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The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
Character: The Seer
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
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Via Wireless (1915)
Character: Marsh
Crime drama about the rivalry over a new invention and a nice girl.
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Beau Geste (1926)
Character: St. Andre
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
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The Invisible Ray (1936)
Character: Papa LaCosta (uncredited)
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
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She's a Sheik (1927)
Character: Sheik Yusif ben Hamad
The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.
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