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Charles Byer
Charles Byer (February 28, 1893 – November 28, 1953) was an American film actor of the silent era.Babington & Barr p. 133 He appeared in films for a variety of companies including Fox, Paramount, Tiffany, and First National Pictures. He played a mixture of supporting and leading roles. Selected filmography * ''Headin' Home'' (1920) * '' Ten Nights in a Bar Room'' (1921) * '' The Man Who Paid'' (1922) * '' How Women Love'' (1922) * ''Lost in a Big City'' (1923) * ''Unseeing Eyes'' (1923) * '' The Trail of the Law'' (1924) * ''Week End Husbands'' (1924) * ''Youth for Sale'' (1924) * ''The Unguarded Hour'' (1925) * '' A Man Must Live'' (1925) * ''The Shock Punch'' (1925) * ''The Pace That Thrills'' (1925) * '' The Virgin Wife'' (1926) * ''So's Your Old Man'' (1926) * '' Shanghai Bound'' (1927) * '' New York'' (1927) * ''Cabaret'' (1927) * ''Beautiful But Dumb'' (1928) * ''Taxi 13'' (1928) * ''Clothes Make the Woman'' (1928) * ''Dead Man's Curve'' (1928) * '' A Horseman of the Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unguarded Hour (1925 Film)
''The Unguarded Hour'' is a 1925 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, and Claude King. The film's sets were designed by the art director Milton Menasco. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Bryce Gilbert (King), business man, shows his daughter Virginia (Kenyon) the folly of an intended elopement with a youth. She goes to Italy and meets Duke Andrea d'Arona (Sills), a young and handsome man, who is puzzled by her jazzy American ways and doubts her character. Virginia is found with a certain male flirt in her room and misunderstood until it develops that the duke's sister (Cassinelli) has been misled by the male flirt and is listening in another room. The sister kills herself and the tragedy brings the duke and the young American woman to an understanding of their love. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''The Unguarded Hour'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unseeing Eyes
''Unseeing Eyes'' is a lost 1923 American silent north country drama film produced by William Randolph Hearst and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures. Edward H. Griffith directed Lionel Barrymore, Seena Owen, Louis Wolheim, and Gustav von Seyffertitz in the action packed drama. The movie was filmed in part at the Gray Rocks Resort in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, Canada. at mcleans.ca Cast * as Conrad Dean * as Miriam Helston * |
Taxi 13
''Taxi 13'' is a 1928 silent film comedy produced and distributed by Film Booking Offices of America and directed by Marshall Neilan. The film stars Chester Conklin in what is FBO's first film with a pre-recorded soundtrack. Once thought lost, a copy evidently survives at Cineteca Nazionale, Rome. Critical reception A review in ''Harrison's Reports'' said, "This is neither funny enojugh to be called a comedy nor serious enough to be called a drama.' Despite a few good points, it added, "But on the whole it is not a particularly good picture". Cast *Chester Conklin as Angus Mactavish * Ethel Wales as Mrs. Mactavish *Martha Sleeper as Flora Mactavish *Hugh Trevor as Dan Regan *Lee Moran as Dennis Moran *Jerry Miley as Mason *Charles Byer as Berger ''unbilled'' *Godfrey Craig as Mactavish Child *George Dunning as Mactavish Child *Louise Fazenda *Jackie Sturnberg as Mactavish Child * Billy Watson as Mactavish Child *Coy Watson as Mactavish Child *Delmar Watson as Mactavish Child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beautiful But Dumb
''Beautiful But Dumb'' is a 1928 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, Charles Byer and George E. Stone.Munden p.45 A stenographer has a makeover and schemes to snare her boss. Cast * Patsy Ruth Miller as Janet Brady * Charles Byer as James Conroy * George E. Stone as Tad * Shirley Palmer as Beth * Eileen Sedgwick Eileen Sedgwick (October 17, 1898 – March 15, 1991) was an American actress of the silent era. Biography Born in 1898, Sedgwick was in her first film in 1914 and appeared in more than 110 films during her 15-year career. She was the sist ... as Mae * William Irving as Ward * Harvey Clark as Broadwell References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1928 films 1928 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabaret (1927 Film)
''Cabaret'' is a 1927 American silent crime drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Robert G. Vignola, and starring Gilda Gray. The film was considered a rival to Paramount's own ''Underworld'' released later in 1927. ''Cabaret'' is now presumed to be a lost film. It was the winner of the Photoplay award in 1927. Plot summary Cast * Gilda Gray as Gloria Trask * Tom Moore as Detective Tom Westcott * Chester Conklin as Jerry Trask * Mona Palma as Blanche Howard (*Mona also known as Mimi Palmeri) * Jack Egan as Andy Trask * William Harrigan as Jack Costigan * Charles Byer Charles Byer (February 28, 1893 – November 28, 1953) was an American film actor of the silent era.Babington & Barr p. 133 He appeared in films for a variety of companies including Fox, Paramount, Tiffany, and First National Pictures. He playe ... as Sam Roberts * Anna Lavsa as Mrs. Trask References External links * * * * * two lobby posters ''Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (1927 Film)
''New York'' is a 1927 American drama silent film directed by Luther Reed and written by Barbara Chambers, Becky Gardiner and Forrest Halsey. The film stars Ricardo Cortez, Lois Wilson, Estelle Taylor, William Powell, Norman Trevor and Richard "Skeets" Gallagher. The film was released on January 30, 1927, by Paramount Pictures. It is considered a lost film. Cast *Ricardo Cortez as Michael Angelo Cassidy * Lois Wilson as Marjorie Church *Estelle Taylor as Angie Miller * William Powell as Trent Regan *Norman Trevor as Randolph Church *Richard "Skeets" Gallagher as Buck *Margaret Quimby as Helen Matthews *Lester Sharpe as Izzy Blumenstein * Charles Byer as Jimmie Wharton Preservation status *The film is now lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography * Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland *Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee .... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai Bound
''Shanghai Bound'' is a lost 1927 American silent adventure film directed by Luther Reed and written by John F. Goodrich, Ray Harris, Julian Johnson, and E.S. O'Reilly. The film stars Richard Dix, Mary Brian, Charles Byer, George Irving, Jocelyn Lee, Tom Maguire, and Frank Chew. The film was released on October 15, 1927, by Paramount Pictures. Cast *Richard Dix as Jim Bucklin *Mary Brian as Sheila *Charles Byer as Payson * George Irving as Louden * Jocelyn Lee as Shanghai Rose *Tom Maguire as Smith *Frank Chew as Yen *Allan Cavan *Tom Gubbins as Local Agent *Arthur Hoyt as Algy *Tetsu Komai (23 April 1894 – 10 August 1970), also known as Tetsuo Komai, was a Japanese-American actor, known for his minor roles in Hollywood films. Biography Born in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Komai had small parts in over 50 films from the 1920s until the ... as Scarface References External links * *Stillsat richarddix.org 1927 films American adventure films 1927 adventure films Para ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So's Your Old Man
''So's Your Old Man'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring W. C. Fields and Alice Joyce. It was written by J. Clarkson Miller based on the story "Mr. Bisbee's Princess" by Julian Leonard Street as adapted by Howard Emmett Rogers. It was filmed at Astoria Studios in Queens, New York City. The film was remade as a talkie in 1934, with W. C. Fields again starring, under the title ''You're Telling Me!'' In 2008, ''So's Your Old Man'' was added to the United States National Film Registry. Plot Sam Bisbee (W. C. Fields) is a small-town glazier who's always trying to get rich quick, and his schemes are driving his wife (Marcia Harris) crazy. When he invents an unbreakable glass windshield, his attempt to demonstrate it at a convention of automobile manufacturers is ruined when his car gets switched with another, and instead of bouncing off, the brick he throws at it smashes the windshield to pieces. On the train ride home, Bisbee considers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virgin Wife (1926 Film)
''The Virgin Wife'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Pauline Garon, Niles Welch and Kenneth Harlan.Munden p.859 Cast * Pauline Garon as Mary Jordan * Niles Welch as Thomas Lattimer * Kenneth Harlan as Dr. Everett Webb * Jane Jennings as Virginia Jamieson * Fritzi Brunette as Mrs. Henry Lattimer * Joseph Allen Sr. as Henry Lattimer * Charles Byer * Orville Caldwell * Ricca Allen Ricca Allen (June 9, 1863 – September 13, 1949) was a Canadian-born stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1913 and 1941. Allen was born in Victoria, British Columbia, to John Allen of Oakland, California. All ... * Marie Schaefer * William Walcott References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1926 films 1926 drama films American silent feature films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pace That Thrills (1925 Film)
''The Pace That Thrills'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Webster Campbell and starring Ben Lyon, Mary Astor, and Charles Byer. It was released by First National. Plot As described in a film magazine review, a motion picture actor, whose mother is in prison for the murder of her drunken husband, refuses to take chances with his life on the lot and is considered a coward. He dare not risk accident and the consequent curtailment of his earning power because he needs money to secure his mother’s pardon. He is secretly in love with his producer’s daughter, but she too thinks him cowardly. However, he proves himself in a quick succession of events, and frees his mother and wins the affections of the young woman. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''The Pace That Thrills'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature Feature may refer to: Computing * Feature (CAD), could be a hole, pocket, or notch * Feature (computer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shock Punch
''The Shock Punch'' is a 1925 American silent boxing drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It starred Richard Dix and Frances Howard. Plot Coming face-to-face with a couple of ruffians, champion boxer Terrence O'Rourke and construction worker Bull Mallarkey, the equally tough Randall Savage flattens each with a single punch. Randall has a romantic interest in Dorothy Clark, whose father is erecting a new building. To get closer to her, Randall lands a job as a riveter. He then learns that not only is Bull Malarkey foreman of the crew, but is plotting to ruin Dorothy's father in business as well. Randall makes sure that does not happen. Cast Preservation A print of ''The Shock Punch'' is preserved at the Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Man Must Live
''A Man Must Live'' is a 1925 American silent adventure film directed by Paul Sloane and written by James Ashmore Creelman based upon the novel ''Jungle Law'' by I. A. R. Wylie. The film stars Richard Dix, Jacqueline Logan, George Nash, Edna Murphy, Charles Byer, and Dorothy Walters. The film was released on January 19, 1925, by Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, back from World War I and finding a soldier's welcome, Geoffrey Farnell (Dix), while waiting the outcome of a lawsuit against a corporation, finds an uncongenial place on the staff of a scandal-hunting newspaper. Editor Job Hardcastle (Nash) gives Geoffrey a warning that his stories lack the hectic pep that his readers demand. He is sent to find a racy society divorcee 'Mops' Collins (Logan) who has sunk to the level of working as a cabaret dancer at a cheap concert hall. He finds her begging the manager (Ricciardi) not to send her off to a hospital to die. Geoffrey is touched with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |