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Trilby (1914)
Character: Rev. Bagot
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
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Fires of Fate (1923)
Character: Mansoor
Colonel Egerton, a British officer told he has only one year to live, who finds renewed purpose while traveling in Egypt. He rescues a young woman from an Arab prince and fights to protect tourists from hostile forces in the Libyan Desert.
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General Post (1920)
Character: Albert Smith
An aristocrat allows his daughter to marry a tailor after he wins the VC saving his son's life.
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Darby and Joan (1920)
Character: Malatesta
Features a screenplay written by the original novelist Hall Caine.
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Mist in the Valley (1923)
Character: Douglas Redburn, KC
Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away from her family, but is reluctant to reveal the full story. Intent on concealing her identity from her pursuers, Denis coerces her into marrying him. But when the body of Margaret's missing father is discovered, it leads Denis to suspect his wife of murder.
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The Heart of a Child (1916)
Character: Joe Aarons
A slum orphan, injured by a lady's car, becomes a dancer and marries the lady's brother.
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The Sport of Kings (1921)
Character: James Winter
A man helps a rich girl's slum work and wins the race on her ex-fiancé's horse.
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Rupert of Hentzau (1915)
Character: Bauer
When the king is killed by his rival, his English double takes his place and is shot.
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Tons of Money (1924)
Character: Sprules
Tons of Money is a 1924 British silent comedy film directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Leslie Henson, Flora le Breton and Mary Brough. Aubrey Allington is pursued by creditors and on learning of a family inheritance is persuaded by his wife to fake his own death and return as his own long-lost relative, George Maitland, the rightful claimant. Things get complicated when the real Maitland turns up with another Maitland impersonator, the brother of Aubrey’s butler, Sprules. It is an adaptation of the 1922 play Tons of Money by Will Evans and Arthur Valentine. Both were co-produced with Tom Walls. It was remade as a sound film Tons of Money in 1930
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The Grass Orphan (1922)
Character: Uncle Jeremy
British silent drama film based on the 1913 novel The Paupers of Portman Square by I.A.R. Wylie.
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Arsène Lupin (1916)
Character: Gournay-Martin
Arsène Lupin, alias the Duke of Charmence, is a clever gentleman burglar. Detective Guerchard has vowed to bring Lupin to justice. Given a chance to escape when caught with the goods, Lupin gives up his freedom for the love of a good woman.
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The Bigamist (1921)
Character: Proprietor
Pamela (Duke) and Herbert Arnott (Royce) have been happily married for five years and have had two children. On the day of their wedding anniversary, Pamela receives a letter from another woman signed Lucy Arnott which states that she is the legal wife of Herbert.
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The Lure of Crooning Water (1920)
Character: Yes Smith
A London actress collapses on stage and is sent by her doctor to stay in the country with a farmer and his wife. But when she starts an affair with the farmer, the idyllic life at "Crooning Water" is threatened with tragedy.
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The Persistent Lovers (1922)
Character: John
A Duke's daughter loves an author and follows him to France, discovering her father withheld letters.
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Beauty and the Beast (1922)
Character: Her (Beauty's) Father
The story of a young man's embarrassing contretemps with a young girl's vest at the theatre.
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The Desert Sheik (1924)
Character: Mansoor
Corinne Adams, a young American girl touring Egypt, meets a British soldier, Maj. Egerton, in Cairo, and they fall in love. She doesn't know that the major is suffering from a terminal illness. They and some friends take a trip into the desert and are attacked by a Bedouin tribe. The women are captured and the major is knocked out and left for dead. Can British troops arrive in time to save the women from a fate worse than death?
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Sons of Satan (1915)
Character: N/A
The young boy Normand grows up to become the mastermind of a complex criminal network in London. He runs not only a gang of thieves but also a blackmail operation, a film company, and a newspaper, all in aid of shady dealings. Normand's cunning has helped him evade the law so far, but after his theft of the Littleborough jewels, he finds he may have pushed his luck too far.
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