|
Edward Cecil (actor)
Edward Cecil (September 13, 1878 – December 13, 1940) was an American film actor.Munden p. 57 During the silent era he played supporting roles and the occasion lead. Following the introduction of sound, he mainly appeared in more minor roles until his death. Selected filmography * '' The Beast'' (1916) * ''The Love Thief'' (1916) * '' The Show Down'' (1917) * ''The Yankee Way'' (1917) * '' The Wildcat of Paris'' (1918) * ''Bread'' (1918) * ''Fast Company'' (1918) * '' A Girl in Bohemia'' (1919) * ''The Price of Redemption'' (1920) * ''Blackmail'' (1920) * '' Big Game'' (1921) * '' The Love Gambler'' (1922) * '' My Wild Irish Rose'' (1922) * '' The Scarlet Car'' (1923) * '' The Fast Express'' (1924) * '' Secrets of the Night'' (1924) * ''Hidden Loot'' (1925) * '' The Canvas Kisser'' (1925) * ''Wild Horse Canyon'' (1925) * ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (1925) * '' What Happened to Jones'' (1926) * '' The Stolen Ranch'' (1926) * '' The Fighting Doctor'' (1926) * ''The Smoke Eaters'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and ''Baghdad by the Bay''. San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Price Of Redemption
''The Price of Redemption'' is a lost 1920 American silent crime film directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald and starring Bert Lytell, Seena Owen and Cleo Madison. at silentera.com Cast * as Leigh Dering * as Jean Dering * as Anne Steel * |
The Stolen Ranch
''The Stolen Ranch'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by William Wyler and starring Fred Humes, Louise Lorraine, and William Bailey. The future star Janet Gaynor appeared as an extra in the film. Plot As described in a film magazine, Breezy Hart takes charge of his war buddy, Frank Wilcox, who has shell shock so badly that he goes out of his head every time he hears a noise. Breezy leaves Frank in a deserted cabin near the ranch formerly owned by his dead uncle and now possessed by Sam Hardy, although Frank has good reason to believe that his uncle intended to leave the place to him. Breezy gets a job on the ranch as pot scraper and supports Frank in his hideout while Frank becomes friendly with June Marston, daughter of a neighboring rancher. Breezy at the same time has fallen in love with Mary Jane, his kitchen pal at the ranch. Hardy is alarmed when he receives word from the government that Frank Wilcox, believed dead, has been discharged from the service als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Happened To Jones (1926 Film)
''What Happened to Jones'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Reginald Denny. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is based on the 1897 Broadway play '' What Happened to Jones'' by George Broadhurst. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Tom Jones (Denny), who is to be married the next day to Lucille Bigbee (Nixon), goes home but is inveigled into a poker game. The place is raided and Tom and a fat elderly friend, Ebenezer Goodly (Harlan), escaping down a fire escape land in a ladies' Turkish bath establishment, where they naturally create a hullabaloo and finally make a getaway in women's clothes, reaching Goodly's home in a milk wagon the next morning. When Tom dons the clothes of Goodly's brother, a bishop, who is expected that morning, he is seen by Mrs. Goodly (Fitzroy) and has to pose as the bishop. Complications follow thick and fast including the jealousy of a chap because Tom kisses h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom Of The Opera (1925 Film)
''The Phantom of the Opera'' is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ''Le Fantôme de l'Opéra'', directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star. The film remains most famous for Chaney's ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film's premiere. The picture also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis and Snitz Edwards. The last surviving cast member was Carla Laemmle (died 2014), niece of producer Carl Laemmle, who played a small role as a "prima ballerina" in the film when she was about 15 years old. The film was released on September 6, 1925, premiering at the Astor Theatre in New York. The film's final budget was $632,357. In 1953, the film entered the public domain in the United States because th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Horse Canyon (1925 Film)
''Wild Horse Canyon'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Ben F. Wilson and starring Yakima Canutt, Helene Rosson and Edward Cecil.Pitts p.399 Cast * Yakima Canutt as Yak Dawson * Helene Rosson as Marie Wolcamp * Edward Cecil as Rodney Roland * Slim Talbot as Ted Edland * Cliff Lyons Cliff Lyons (born 19 October 1961) is an indigenous Australian former international rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A Clive Churchill Medalllist and two-time Dally M Medallist, he made 309 first-grade appearances wit ... as Ranch Hand * Boy asStallion Boy - a Wild Horse References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. * Pitts, Michael R. ''Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films''. McFarland, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canvas Kisser
''The Canvas Kisser'' is a 1925 American silent sports drama film directed by Duke Worne and starring Ashton Dearholt, Ruth Dwyer and Edward Cecil.Munden p.109 Synopsis A boxer makes his living by betting on opponents and then deliberately losing to them. However under the influence of a woman he sets out to reform. Cast * Ashton Dearholt as Jimmy O'Neil * Ruth Dwyer Ruth Dwyer may refer to: * Ruth Dwyer (politician) * Ruth Dwyer (actress) {{hndis, Dwyer, Ruth ... as Ruth Harkness * Garry O'Dell as Crock Wiggins - Jimmy's Manager * Edward Cecil as Harkness - Ruth's Father 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 * 1925 films 1925 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films American boxing films Silent American drama films Films directed by Duke Worne 1920s sports drama f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidden Loot
''Hidden Loot'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Robert North Bradbury and written by Harry Dittmar. The film stars Jack Hoxie, Olive Hasbrouck, Edward Cecil, Jack Kenny, Buck Connors and Bert De Marc. The film was released on October 31, 1925, by Universal Pictures. Cast * Jack Hoxie as Cranner * Olive Hasbrouck as Anna Jones * Edward Cecil as Dick Jones * Jack Kenny as 'Big Bill' Angus * Buck Connors as Buck * Bert De Marc as Manning * Charles Brinley Charles Brinley (November 15, 1880 – February 17, 1946) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 140 films between 1913 and 1939. He was born in Yuma, Arizona and died in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, ... as Jordan References External links * 1925 films 1925 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films 1920s English-language films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Robert N. Bradbury Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secrets Of The Night
''Secrets of the Night'' is a 1924 American silent film directed by Herbert Blaché and made at Universal Pictures. The black-and-white “murder mystery-melodrama comedy” stars James Kirkwood Sr., Madge Bellamy, and ZaSu Pitts. It was adapted from the play ''The Nightcap'' written by Guy Bolton and Max Marcin. The film was thought lost until a print of the film was rediscovered in a basement in Mississauga, Ontario, in 2017. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Robert Andrews (Kirkwood), president of a bank, invites the bank examiner and several directors to his home for a house party in order to keep him from examining the books and discovering a big shortage. Andrews quarrels with young Hammond (Ricketts), who is in love with his ward, Anne Maynard (Bellamy), and also with Lester Knowles (Hull), who is jealous of the friendship between Andrews and his wife Margaret (Theby). Andrews courts death as his insurance money will cover the shortage. A little later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fast Express
''The Fast Express'' is a 1924 American drama film serial directed by and starring William Duncan. The film is considered to be lost, though a "fragmentary print" exists. Cast Chapter titles #Facing the Crisis #Vanishing Diamonds #Woman of Mystery #Haunted House #Perils of the City #Cipher Message #Bandit Raiders #Impostor's Scheme #Falsely Accused #Path of Danger #The Abduction #The Trial Run #The False Summons #Black Treasure #Retribution See also * List of American films of 1924 * List of film serials A list of film serials by year of release. 1910s 1920s 1930s Films still exist from this point on unless noted otherwise: 1940s 1950s See also * Serial (film) * List of film serials by studio References {{reflist External linksSerial ... * List of film serials by studio References External links * 1924 films 1924 drama films 1924 lost films American silent serial films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Universal Pictu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarlet Car (1923 Film)
''The Scarlet Car'' is a lost 1923 American silent drama film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Herbert Rawlinson, Claire Adams, and Edward Cecil.Palmer p. 654 It is based on a novel by Richard Harding Davis, which had previously been turned into a 1917 Lon Chaney film of the same title. Plot As described in a film magazine, Billy (Rawlinson) is fired after being arrested for speeding thirty times in thirty days, and is shipped home to his father Jim Winthrop (Tom McGuire). His father has backed Ernest Peabody (Cecil) for mayor. Ernest has betrayed Violet Gaynor (Johnson), Jim's secretary. Beatrice Forbes (Adams), whom Billy likes and would like Billy if she only knew it, has fallen for Ernest's grandiloquent line of bunk and promised to marry him. Violet has learned that Ernest has double-crossed Jim in politics about the time her father Jerry Gaynor (Robbins) has discovered her condition (pregnancy) and, believing Billy guilty of being the father, attempts to blackmail him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Wild Irish Rose (1922 Film)
''My Wild Irish Rose'' is a lost 1922 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and based on Dion Boucicault's 19th century play ''The Shaughraun''. It was produced and released by the Vitagraph Company of America. Plot Based on the play ''The Shaughraun'', this is the story of Robert Ffolliat, a young Irish lad, who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the greedy Kinchella. Conn the Shaughraun comes to his rescue, helps him to escape from the prison ship and return to Ireland where he is united with his sweetheart. Cast * Pat O'Malley as Conn, The Shaughraun * Helen Howard as Arte O'Neale * Maude Emory as Claire Ffolliott (credited as Maud Emery) * Pauline Starke as Moya * Edward Cecil as Robert Folliott * Henry Herbert as Capt. Molineaux (credited as Henry Hebert) * Jim Farley as Corry Cinchella (credited as James Farley) * Bobbie Mack as Harvey Duff (credited as Bobby Mack) * Frank Clark as Fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
_still.jpg "Click for more on -> The Phantom Of The Opera (1925 Film)")