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Common Sense (1920)
Character: Reggie Barrett
Dan Bowers, embittered and disillusioned by an unhappy marriage, seeks solitude in the Maine woods, with a lame dog as his only companion. One day he meets Violet Manners who, with her invalid mother Marion, is visiting in a nearby village. Marion is haunted by memories of the past, and one day when Violet takes Dan to meet her mother, she discovers that he is the husband who deserted her years ago. The shock causes Marion's death, but before she dies, she justifies her past behavior toward Dan. -From the AFI Catalog of Feature FIlms.
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Who Cares (1925)
Character: Dr. Harry Oldershaw
Who Cares is a 1925 silent film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures and starring Dorothy Devore. It is preserved in the Library of Congress's collection. It is based upon a novel by Cosmo Hamilton which had been previously filmed in 1919 as Who Cares? Real-life husband and wife, actors Vera and Ralph Lewis, play grandparents.
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High Society (1932)
Character: Wilberforce Strangeways
A British comedy film directed by John Rawlins
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Swim Girl, Swim (1927)
Character: Mr. Spangle PhD.
Serious university co-ed Alice Smith, is wholly engrossed, it would appear, in chasing butterflies and rare insects under the guidance of her friend, Mr. Spangle, Ph. D., though she secretly yearns to be an athlete and thus win the admiration of Jerry Marvin, a popular schoolmate. She takes up swimming, making herself the campus joke because of her ideas on the subject.
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The Fifty-Fifty Girl (1928)
Character: Engineer
Strong-willed Kathleen O'Hara, believes in equality of sexes, makes a pact with her sweetheart, Jim Donahue, when they become joint owners of a California gold mine. According to the agreement, Donahue will do the housekeeping while Kathleen runs the mine; the first to call for help loses his share of the mine.
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Seven Days (1925)
Character: Dal Brown
Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is compelled to locate a temporary wife. His friend, Kit Eclair, is happy to fill in, but during a party, his home is quarantined for smallpox. To complicate matters, a burglar is hiding from a cop in Wilson's home, and wacky Anne Brown is busy trying to hold a seance.
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Handle with Care (1922)
Character: Peter Carter
Handle with Care is a 1922 silent comedy of marital complications and mix-ups.
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The Cowboy King (1922)
Character: Wilbur
"Hadley, owner of a nearby ranch, had fenced off a water hole belonging to Miss Dunlap, thus depriving her stock of water. Undaunted, the young Eastern woman and her two-fisted fighting foreman fought back...
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Along Came Youth (1930)
Character: Lord Eustace
An American sportsman stranded in London poses as a cook to remain close to the aristocratic lady he would woo.
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Alias Mr. Twilight (1946)
Character: Forbes (uncredited)
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
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The Reckless Age (1924)
Character: Lord Allan Harrowby
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.
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Renfrew of the Royal Mounted (1937)
Character: Constable Holly
Counterfeit bills are being printed in Canada and shipped across the border hidden in blocks of ice. When the counterfeiters force engraver Bronson to make a new plate, he inscribes a tiny help message on it. Renfrew catches a henchman who has one of the new bills. A magnifying glass lets him read the message and he heads out alone to round up the counterfeiters.
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Corsair (1931)
Character: Richard Bentinck
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
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The Goose and the Gander (1935)
Character: Arthur Summers
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
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Drums of Love (1928)
Character: Raymond of Boston
A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.
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A Tailor-Made Man (1931)
Character: Jellicott
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.
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Charley's Aunt (1941)
Character: Spectator
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
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Red Hair (1928)
Character: Dr. Eustace Gill
A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also happen to be the guardians of a wealthy young man to whom she is attracted. Only a small fragment of this film survives.
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Batman (1943)
Character: Alfred
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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The Night Club (1925)
Character: Gerly - The Valet
After having been stood up at his own wedding, a young man vows that he will have nothing more to ever do with women. However, he soon discovers that he has been left a fortune--on condition that he gets married. Deciding that being rich and married would be preferable to being broke and single, he goes in search of a wife, but things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
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The Return of the Vampire (1943)
Character: Detective Gannett
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
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The Flirting Widow (1930)
Character: James Raleigh
An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.
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The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)
Character: Barnaby
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. Things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on Our Hero's behalf.
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The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Character: Sneed, Hammle's Butler (Uncredited)
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
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The Marriage Playground (1929)
Character: Lord Wrench
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
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Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
Character: Mr. Belknap-Jackson
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
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Alice in Wonderland (1933)
Character: Gryphon
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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Sweetie (1929)
Character: Prof. Percy Willow
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
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The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Character: Cyril Glossop
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
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The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929)
Character: Sylvester Wadsworth
A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.
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The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
Character: Sylvester Wadsworth
The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
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Redheads on Parade (1935)
Character: Trelawney Redfern
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Character: Duke of Cleves
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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What Happened to Jones (1926)
Character: Henry Fuller
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
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Head Winds (1925)
Character: Theodore Van Felt
Peter kidnaps Patricia to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.
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The Man from Blankley's (1930)
Character: Mr. Poffley
When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
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Fig Leaves (1926)
Character: Andre's Assistant
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
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Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
Character: Musician (uncredited)
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Character: Inquisitive Stranger
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
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Duck Soup (1927)
Character: Lord Tarbotham
Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.
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Let's Go Native (1930)
Character: Basil Pistol
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
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Imitation of Life (1934)
Character: Englishman at Party (uncredited)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Illusion (1929)
Character: Mr. Z
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudeville partner, Claire, has chosen a new partner, but her "heart isn't in it" because she is disconsolate over Carlee. Curious about her new act, Carlee attends a performance and sees Claire nearly killed when she fails to substitute fake bullets for real ones. Rushing to her aid, Carlee realizes how much Claire means to him.
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$1,000 a Minute (1935)
Character: Salesman
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
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The Best People (1925)
Character: Arthur Rockmere
Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "within their class". They, however, have different plans--Bertie is in love with chorus girl Sally O'Neil and Marian loves Henry Morgan, the family chauffeur. The family finds out about the impending marriages and determines to stop them. Complications ensue.
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Three Men in a Boat (1933)
Character: Harris
An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames.
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The Garden of Weeds (1924)
Character: Archie
The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them
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Live, Love and Learn (1937)
Character: Bob's Butler (uncredited)
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
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Doctor Rhythm (1938)
Character: Mr. Martingale
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
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National Velvet (1945)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
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County Hospital (1932)
Character: Ollie's Hospital Roommate
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.
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It (1927)
Character: Monty Montgomery
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."
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Just Married (1928)
Character: Percy Jones
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
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The World At Her Feet (1927)
Character: Det. Hall
In a reversal of the usual situation, it is the wife, not the husband, who is the neglectful one. As hubby sits at home twiddling his thumbs, Jane starts her own prosperous business, becoming so absorbed that she has no time for anything else. Not unexpectedly, her husband begins keeping time with a gorgeous blonde, whereupon Jane wins back her mate by simultaneously inaugurating an affair with the blonde's husband.
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The Flaming Forest (1926)
Character: Alfred Wimbledon
North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict to trial and woos the lovely Jeanne-Marie.
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