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The Wandering Jew (1923)
Character: Juan de Texada
'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)
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Huntingtower (1927)
Character: Father
Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captors and proves a hero, in spite of his qualms.
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Palais De Danse (1928)
Character: Sir William King
The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer
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Build Thy House (1920)
Character: John Dawson
A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.
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Dombey and Son (1917)
Character: Carker
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
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Don Quixote (1923)
Character: Don Quixote
Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.
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The Sins Ye Do (1924)
Character: Sir Philip Athol
A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
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A Royal Divorce (1923)
Character: Talleyrand
Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.
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Guy Fawkes (1923)
Character: James I
Papists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.
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The Apache (1925)
Character: Albert d'Harcourt
In Paris an Apache dancer weds his ex-fiancée's sister for revenge but learns to love.
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Kitty (1929)
Character: The Artist
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
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Bolibar (1928)
Character: The Marquise of Bolibar
Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.
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Tommy Atkins (1928)
Character: Earl
A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
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Downhill (1927)
Character: The Rev. Henry Wakeley
When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
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She (1925)
Character: Billali
Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.
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Rembrandt (1936)
Character: Museum Director (uncredited)
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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