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The Wandering Jew (1923)
Character: Inquisitor
'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)
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A Romance of Mayfair (1925)
Character: Sir Dugald MacLean
The son and daughter of a Duke fall in love with an actress and a Socialist MP
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The Great Prince Shan (1924)
Character: Immelmann
An assassinated Lord's daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress.
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The Fruitful Vine (1921)
Character: Dr. Mervynn Ides
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.
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Sen Yan’s Devotion (1924)
Character: Lutan Singh
A disguised servant of a dying Japanese prince saves articles of succession from a rival faction.
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A Daughter of Love (1925)
Character: Lord St. Erth
A Lord objects to his son's love for a bastard until a society doctor is revealed as her father.
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Somebody's Darling (1925)
Character: J.W. Jordan
A squire's novelist son poses as a nurse to save an heiress from her guardian's private asylum.
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Silken Threads (1928)
Character: Gordon Wincliffe
Fourth release in the 'Sexton Blake' series of short crime dramas.
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The Flag Lieutenant (1927)
Character: Maj. William Thesiger
A lieutenant is branded a coward after saving a beleaguered fort for an amnesiac major.
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A Romance of Wastdale (1921)
Character: Austin Hawke
David Gordon is in love and engaged to be married to Kate Nugent. But the sinister figure of Austen Hawke, Gordon's rival, threatens to eclipse the wedding and wreck Gordon's one chance of true happiness. Gordon will throw Austen over a cliff in a climbing excursion in the Scafell Pike area, but finally he will find all was a dream. A vintage love story and a tale of blackmail based on A.E.W. Mason’s book. The film was produced by Stoll Pictures, Britain's biggest studio of the silent era and features Milton Rosmer.
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Boadicea (1927)
Character: Badwallon
The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
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Confessions (1925)
Character: E.H. Slack
Two typists, one attractive, the other efficient, fall in love with the son of one of the firm's partners. The young man makes overtures to the attractive girl but finally finds a match in the plainer one, while the other girl realises the worth of the prim and correct head clerk.
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The Queen of Hearts (1923)
Character: Sir Frazer
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 Copper Beeches (1921)
Character: Toller
There is a dark mystery in Hampshire, near Winchester. Why does this strange couple insist the governess cut her hair short? Why is she told funny stories? And who is in the tower?
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The Gloria Scott (1923)
Character: Justice Trevor
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921)
Character: Barrymore, the Butler
After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the lineage of the Baskervilles, Henry, returned to the old family mansion. The charismatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, investigating the case, and discover the existence of a supernatural hound that in addition murderer according to history, killed many years ago Hugo Baskerville, the first of the line, and it seems that the curse stalks his descendants.
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