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Flying From Justice
''Flying from Justice'' is a 1915 British silent crime film directed by Percy Nash and starring Gregory Scott, Douglas Payne and Joan Ritz.Palmer p.895 Cast * Gregory Scott as Charles Baring * Joan Ritz as Winnie * Douglas Payne as John Gully * Alice Moseley as Mildred Parkes * Fred Morgan (actor), Fred Morgan as James Woodruffe * Cecil Morton York as Rev. Lacarsey * Frank Tennant as John Lacarsey * Jack Denton as Pearly Tanner * Maud Williams as Mrs. Baring * Brian Daly as Maj. Parkes References Bibliography * Palmer, Scott. ''British Film Actors' Credits, 1895-1987''. McFarland, 1988. External links

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Percy Nash
The English surname Percy is of Normans, Norman origin, coming from Normandy to England, United Kingdom. It was from the House of Percy, Norman lords of Northumberland, derives from the village of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy. From there, it came into use as a given name. It is also a short form of the given name Percival, Perseus, etc. People Surname * Alf Percy, Scottish footballer * Algernon Percy (other) * Charles H. Percy (1919–2011), American businessman and politician * Eileen Percy (1900–1973), Irish-born American actress * George Percy (1580–1632), English explorer, author, and colonial governor * Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408), son of Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy, and a descendant of Henry III of England * Henry Percy (Hotspur) (1364–1403), eldest son of Henry Percy * Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland (1742–1817), British lieutenant-general in the American Revolutionary War *James Gilbert Percy (1921–2015), American Ma ...
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Frank Tennant
Frank Tennant (10 August 1876 – 13 January 1971) was a British stage and screen actor Frank Tennant was born Thomas Henry Merriman in Upper Broughton, Nottinghamshire. He died at age 94 in Horsmonden, Kent. Selected filmography * ''The Murdoch Trial'' (1914) * ''In the Ranks'' (1914) * ''The Coal King'' (1915) * '' A Rogue's Wife'' (1915) * ''The Romany Rye'' (1915) * '' The Little Minister'' (1915) * '' Master and Man'' (1915) * ''Flying from Justice'' (1915) * ''Rodney Stone ''Rodney Stone'' is a Gothic fiction, Gothic mystery and boxing novel in Scotland, novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is the son of a sailor and wishes to ...'' (1920) * '' Won by a Head'' (1920) References External links * 1876 births 1933 deaths English male stage actors English male film actors People from Rushcliffe (district) English male silent film actors 19th-century English male actors ...
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British Black-and-white Films
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Films Directed By Percy Nash
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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British Silent Feature Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain The Kingdom of Great Britain (officially Great Britain) was a Sovereign state, sovereign country in Western Europe from 1 May 1707 to the end of 31 December 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of ... (1707– ...
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British Crime Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * B ...
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1915 Crime Films
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. ** Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with 4 civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** '' A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a ''femme fatale''; she quickly becomes one o ...
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1915 Films
The year 1915 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * February 1: Fox Film Corporation founded * February 8: D.W Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks both box office and film length records (running at a total length of over three hours). * February: Metro Pictures, a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is founded * February 22: The Allan Dwan directed film ''David Harum'' is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood. * March 15: Universal Studios Hollywood opens ( 1964). * June 18: The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California. * July: Triangle Film Corporation is founded in Culver City, California and attracts filmmakers D. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Ince and Mack Sennett * September 11: A nitrate fire at Famous Players in New York destroys several compl ...
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Jack Denton
John Fleming St. Andrew Denton (11 September 1872 – 19 April 1949) was a British actor and film director of the silent era. Denton was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire and died at age 76 in Redhill, Surrey. Selected filmography Actor * ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (1914) * ''In the Ranks'' (1914) * '' The World, the Flesh and the Devil'' (1914) * '' Flying from Justice'' (1915) * ''She'' (1916) * ''The Bachelor's Club'' (1921) * ''The Card'' (1922) * ''The Fair Maid of Perth'' (1923) * ''The York Mystery'' (1924) * '' Old Bill Through the Ages'' (1924) * '' The Notorious Mrs. Carrick'' (1924) * '' Tons of Money'' (1924) * ''The Gay Corinthian'' (1924) Director * ''Barnaby'' (1919) * ''A Lass o' the Looms'' (1919) * ''The Heart of a Rose'' (1919) * '' Ernest Maltravers'' (1920) * '' The Twelve Pound Look'' (1920) * ''Lady Audley's Secret'' (1920) * ''Sybil Sibyls were oracular women believed to possess prophetic powers in ancient Greece. Sybil or Sibyl may also refe ...
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Cecil Morton York
Cecil Morton York (29 April 1857 – 23 February 1935) was a British actor of the silent era. Born Cecil Morton Smith in Kensington, West London, UK, he died at age 77 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London. Selected filmography * '' Flying from Justice'' (1915) * ''Disraeli'' (1916) * '' Beau Brocade'' (1916) * '' The Key of the World'' (1918) *''The First Men In The Moon'' (1919) as the Grand Lunar * ''Pallard the Punter'' (1919) * '' The Autumn of Pride'' (1921) * ''The God in the Garden'' (1921) * ''Trapped by the Mormons'' (1922) * '' A Sister to Assist 'Er'' (1922) * ''A Gamble with Hearts'' (1923) * ''The Starlit Garden'' (1923) * '' Hornet's Nest'' (1923) * '' In the Blood'' (1923) * ''What Price Loving Cup?'' (1923) * '' Lights of London'' (1923) * ''Young Lochinvar'' (1923) * '' The Uninvited Guest'' (1923) * '' Old Bill Through the Ages'' (1924) * '' The Alley of Golden Hearts'' (1924) * '' What the Butler Saw'' (1924) * ''Trainer and Temptress ''Trainer and Temptre ...
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Mark Melford
Mark Melford (c.1850 - 4 January 1914) born in Fareham, Hampshire, was a British "dramatic author, actor and variety artiste". His career encompassed the era of the late Victorian farce, the music halls and early British cinema. Mark Melford was a prolific playwright and wrote not only dramas, farces, melodramas and comic sketches, but also a musical drama, and a comic opera. He was also an accomplished comic actor often taking the leading role in his own works. As a playwright, the genre in which he was most prolific was farce; Jeffrey H. Huberman in his ''Late Victorian Farce'' writes that Mark Melford wrote and had produced more full-length original farces than any other Victorian playwright.Huberman, Jeffrey H. ''Late Victorian Farce'' Michigan:UMI Research Press 1986 The hand-list of plays in Allardyce Nicoll's six-volume ''A History of English Drama, 1660-1900'' lists thirty nine works by Mark Melford up to 1900. From 1912 onwards he also wrote, directed, and acted in many s ...
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Fred Morgan (actor)
Fred Lees Morgan (June 1878 – 11 May 1941) was a British actor of the silent era. He was born in Islington, London, England, UK and died at age 62 in London. Selected filmography * ''East Lynne'' (1913) * '' The Harbour Lights'' (1914) * '' The King's Romance'' (1914) * '' Flying from Justice'' (1915) * ''Disraeli'' (1916) * '' The Grit of a Jew'' (1917) * '' Fettered'' (1919) * '' The Beetle'' (1919) * ''The Land of Mystery'' (1920) * '' The Pride of the Fancy'' (1920) * ''The Breed of the Treshams'' (1920) * '' Colonel Newcome'' (1920) * ''Rodney Stone'' (1921) * ''Safety First ''Safety First'' is a 1926 British silent comedy film directed by Fred Paul and starring Brian Aherne, Queenie Thomas and Mary Brough. It was based on a novel of the same name by Margot Neville.Goble p.344 Cast * Brian Aherne as Hippocrates ...'' (1926) References External links * 1878 births 1941 deaths People from Islington (district) Male actors from London English male film a ...
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