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Three-Fingered Kate - The Wedding Presents (1912)
Character: Sir Douglas Carrington
'Crooks tunnel through fireplace to rob house next door.' (British Film Catalogue). According to BFI, this is the only surviving film of 7 episodes made in the Three-Fingered Kate series
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O.H.M.S. (1913)
Character: Colonel von Harlan
'Spy blackmails commander's wife into stealing treaty.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Tube of Death (1913)
Character: M. Sardies
'Inventor's wife avenges death by posing as anarchist and exploding their den.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Sixty Years a Queen (1913)
Character: Archbishop of Canterbury (etc)
'1837-1901. Main events during Queen Victoria's reign.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Straws in the Wind (1924)
Character: The Husband
A benefactor ejects a tramp who covets his wife and later adopts the child of the girl the tramp saved from suicide.
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East Lynne (1913)
Character: Archibald Carlyle
An aristocratic woman, Lady Isabel, leaves her husband and children when she suspects him of adultery, a notion which had been suggested to her by the scheming and murderous Captain Levison. Life on the continent with Levison does not work out as she had envisaged so, eight years later, she returns to England and finds her husband has remarried. She cannot bear to be away from her family and so dons a disguise, gaining employment with them as a governess. When her young son, Willie, dies she is unable to comfort him as she would like, and she too dies.
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John Halifax, Gentleman (1915)
Character: John Halifax
An apprentice inherits a master's mill, weds a disowned heiress, and remains true to his class.
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Deadwood Dick's Vengeance (1915)
Character: Dick Harris
The film follows the title character—a legendary frontiersman—as he seeks retribution against outlaws. It served as a direct sequel to How Richard Harris Became Known as Deadwood Dick (1915) and was followed by Deadwood Dick and the Mormons (1915).
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Buttons (1915)
Character: Mr. Alendale
A man trailing burglars is saved by a dog in this British short film.
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Aaron's Rod (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
A mysterious murder sets Nayland Smith and Petrie once again on the trail of villainous Fu-Manchu, and seeking a strange old stick with magical powers
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The Call of Siva (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
Fourth release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series. Nayland Smith saves the life of Graham Guthrie, the British Resident in Bhutan, while on a visit to London from a plot by Dr. Fu-Manchu.
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The Silver Buddha (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
Our hero Dr Petrie is caught by evil Fu-Manchu and imprisoned near the British Museum, where he risks a daring escape, high above the London streets.
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The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu. Series of 15 shorts, each with a self-contained story.
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The Clue of the Pigtail (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
Third release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series, where the police has to investigate the clue of the pigtail wig.
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The West Case (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
Second release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series. Plans for an aerial torpedo are stolen from its inventor Frank Norris West, Nayland Smith tries to retrieve them but is defeated by Fu-Manchu.
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The Cry of the Nighthawk (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
n this episode of adventure serial The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie investigate the strange death of a man from Forest Hill found with his face covered with scratches; their enquiries lead them once more to the Devil Doctor, Fu-Manchu. Meanwhile, Petrie’s stiff upper lip begins to quiver, as he grows dangerously fond of Fu-Manchu’s slave girl, Karamaneh...
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The Fiery Hand (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
In this exciting adventure based on the second Fu-Manchu novel, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie investigate a haunted house, but get more of a fright than they expected. Caught by the evil Dr Fu-Manchu, Nayland Smith faces a plague of ravenous Cantonese rats - a torture known as 'The Six Gates of Joyful Wisdom'. Will Petrie end his agony, with the razor-sharp ‘Friend’s Sword’?
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The Fungi Cellars (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
Fu-Manchu’s slave girl Karamaneh leads sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie to her evil master’s lair, where they fall prey to another of the Devil Doctor’s traps. Bound hand and foot, they watch helplessly as a party of policemen are imprisoned in a subterranean vault and poisoned with vile fungal spore vapour, while Fu-Manchu cackles with maniacal glee. Can our heroes escape to save the day?
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The Man with the Limp (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
This action-packed episode features one of the Devil Doctor's most enjoyably silly schemes to do away with his nemesis Nayland Smith. When Smith goes missing, it's up to Dr Petrie to continue the hunt for the Si-Fan, Fu-Manchu's secret society. On the trail of a mysterious man with a limp, Petrie disguises himself as a rough bargee to investigate a smoky riverside drinking den, the Joy-Shop Club.
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The Knocking on the Door (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
The evil Dr Fu-Manchu proves to be a master of disguise as well as villainy in this thrilling episode of the popular adventure serial. Adopting the persona of a long-bearded professor, Fu-Manchu pays a visit to London's Madame Tussauds waxworks. Elsewhere, there's something horribly uncanny going on at a remote country cottage: sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie leave the capital to investigate.
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The Queen of Hearts (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
Based on Sax Rohmer’s third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917), this sensational episode sees Fu-Manchu partly paralysed by a bullet wound. The Devil Doctor snatches eminent surgeon Sir Baldwin Frazer to carry out the delicate operation he needs. Dr Petrie, abducted by Fu-Manchu’s scheming assistant, Zarmi, must assist – and choose a playing card to determine whether he lives or dies...
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The Sacred Order (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
When sleuth Nayland Smith steals evil Dr Fu-Manchu's 'Sacred Order', the Devil Doctor himself faces death at the hands of the Si-Fan organisation.
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The Shrine of the Seven Lamps (1923)
Character: Nayland Smith
In this thrilling final episode, evil Fu-Manchu's pet marmoset leads sleuth Petrie to a secret Si-Fan ceremony. Is the Devil Doctor's game now up?
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The Further Mysteries of Fu-Manchu (1924)
Character: Nayland Smith
Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
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Black Peter (1922)
Character: Peter Carey
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
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The Adventure of the Torture Cage (1928)
Character: Lt. Comdr. John Byrne R. N. of the N. S. S.
Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a lost sacred seal. (The fifth and only surviving episode of a six-part serial about an evil mastermind inspired on Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu.)
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The Rogues of London (1915)
Character: Ralph Most
A cleric's son saves a maid from suicide and she saves him when he is framed for killing a crook's mistress.
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