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Colonel Blood (1934)
Character: Duke of Ormond
'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Fires of Fate (1923)
Character: Stephen Belmont
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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Every Mother's Son (1918)
Character: An American Father
When the United States enters World War I, a mother sends her two eldest sons off to the battlefields with a smile, although her heart is breaking.
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His Wife’s Child (1913)
Character: John - the Husband
Florence Lawrence plays a woman who remarries and has a child, believing her first husband died, only for him to return.
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The Coryphee (1914)
Character: N/A
An actress assumes a guilty appearance in order to save her faithless cousin's marriage.
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The Song of the Soul (1918)
Character: Fenton
Young, innocent, confiding, it is a shock to Ann Fenton to learn that her supposed husband is not a business man, but a gambler, and that her marriage is bigamous. The child is taken from her by a Helping Hand Society and apprenticed to a brutal farmer. She is left upon her own resources. Seven years later Fenton again crosses her path, but she finds happiness in honorable marriage while her betrayer is taken away to face a murder charge, and the Song of the Soul now rises in full, pure tones from the breast of the happy wife and mother.
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Should a Husband Forgive? (1919)
Character: Rex Burleigh
After Mary Carroll's husband learns that she has had an affair, he challenges her former lover to a duel and is killed. Mary is thrown out by her husband's wealthy family and separated from her little boy, John Carroll, Jr. Years later, John Jr. falls in love with Ruth Fulton, the daughter of the horse trainer for Rex Burleigh. When her father dies, Ruth accepts Rex's offer to care for her, but she leaves the expensive apartment he has provided when she learns his true motives.
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A Modern Salome (1921)
Character: James Vandam
When her father's death leaves Virginia Hastings facing a life of poverty, she breaks her engagement to Robert Monti to marry millionaire James Vandam. Unaccustomed to wealth, she entertains lavishly and flirts with many men, although her husband's secretary remains immune to her wiles.
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The Miracle of Love (1919)
Character: George - Duke of Cheshire
Clive Herbert, the Duke of Cheshire's younger brother, about to leave England to relieve his boredom, falls in love with Helena, the unhappy Duchess of Harwich who was forced to marry a corrupt duke to save her father's name.
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The Business of Life (1918)
Character: Harry Clydesdale
Carrying on with the antique business of her deceased father, Jacqueline Nevers is asked to catalog James Desboro's collection. When they fall in love, it induces the jealousy of Elena Clydesdale, a married woman who is also in love with James.
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Aaron's Rod (1923)
Character: Abel Slattin
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 Final Problem (1923)
Character: Prof. Moriarty
Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Professor Moriarty's vengeance.
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A Game with Fate (1918)
Character: Richard Shields
After Henry Dawson and Robert Harwell quarrel at Elaine Huntington's garden party, Henry disappears and Robert is accused of murder. Although Robert is found guilty and sentenced to death, Elaine, who loves him, believes he is innocent and does everything in her power to help him.
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Becket (1924)
Character: Sir Reginald Fitzurse
The fatal encounter between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
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The Bribe (1914)
Character: N/A
A woman is commanded under hypnosis to break into her father's safe.
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Kaiser's Finish (1918)
Character: Richard Busch
During World War I, an illegitimate son of the German Kaiser, who had been raised in the US--and is a double for the Kaiser's son, the Crown Prince--is sent to Germany as a spy in order to kill both the Kaiser and his son.
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Life Without Soul (1915)
Character: The Creation
A young man gives life to a statue with disastrous results. Early adaptation of Frankenstein with the names changed.
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The Captain's Captain (1919)
Character: Cap'n Joab
Louise Grayling escapes from a straight-laced aunt on a plea that she wants to visit her uncle, Captain Abe, on Cape Cod. Abe is henpecked by his housekeeper and rather looked down upon by the villagers who haunt his store. To give himself a fictitious glory he invents a fictitious brother, Amzon, who is a composite of all the pirates from Blackbeard to the food profiteers. Louise penetrates the deception and induced Abe to go away and come back as the fictitious brother.
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Everybody's Girl (1918)
Character: Bill
Florence is a little milliner who shares a room in "Brick Dust Row" with Ella, a fellow worker. It is all the home she has and the girls have to receive their company in the parks because there is no reception room, the millionaire owner of the Row having sublet the parlors. They see no harm in chance acquaintances. Then Florence meets Blinker, and real love comes into her life; but Blinker learns of what to him seems her promiscuous acquaintances and makes it plain that he cannot marry such a woman.
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Her Fighting Chance (1917)
Character: Cpl. Blake
Corporal Blake is sent to apprehend the murderer of François Breault. All evidence points to Jan Thoreau as the guilty man. Blake arrives at Thoreau's cabin while he is away and is greeted by his wife Marie. Posing as a friend of her husband, Blake learns that Thoreau and Breault had quarreled shortly before the murder. This, together with Breault's dying accusation that Thoreau was his murderer, seems undeniable evidence. Blake, fascinated by Marie, agrees to let Thoreau escape, providing that she become his mistress. After much anguish, she consents. When Thoreau arrives, Blake arrests him but during the night Marie helps him escape. Blake goes in pursuit.
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My Four Years in Germany (1918)
Character: Undersecretary Zimmerman
The experiences of the American ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, are recounted in this semi-documentary.
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The Desert Sheik (1924)
Character: Stephen Belmont
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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The Flame of Love (1930)
Character: Col. Moravjev
A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.
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Bonds of Love (1919)
Character: Daniel Cabot
A young woman is hired as a governess for the son of a man grieving the loss of his wife. The governess's presence is unwelcome to the rest of the family, especially after the governess develops a romantic attachment to her employer.
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The Fall of a Nation (1916)
Character: Charles Waldron
A sequel to DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, by the same author, and now lost. It is considered the first film sequel ever made and recounts a fictional invasion of America by a united army from Europe.
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The Final Judgment (1915)
Character: Henry Strong (as Percy G. Standing)
Actress Jane Carleson has three admirers: Henry Strong (a millionaire), Hamilton Ross (a chemist), and Murray Campbell (a district attorney). When Jane weds Campbell, Ross writes an anonymous letter to Campbell, warning him that Strong is after his wife.
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Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases (2025)
Character: Prof. Moriarty
Eille Norwood stars as the Great Detective in three episodes from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia, wherein Holmes falls for ‘the woman’; The Golden Pince-Nez, which features Holmes’ deductive powers at work; and The Final Problem, featuring the sinister Professor Moriarty. The episodes are accompanied by newly commissioned scores by Joanna MacGregor, Neil Brand and Joseph Havlat.
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Harmony Heaven (1930)
Character: Spiller, the Producer
The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.
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