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Horace B. Carpenter
Horace B. Carpenter (January 31, 1875 – May 21, 1945) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 330 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Carpenter died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack. Selected filmography Actor * ''The Man on the Box'' (1914) * '' The Call of the North'' (1914) * '' The Virginian'' (1914) * '' The Man from Home'' (1914) * '' The Ghost Breaker'' (1914) * ''The Goose Girl "The Goose Girl" (german: Die Gänsemagd) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and first published in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' in 1815 (KHM 89). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 533. The story was first translated into English b ...'' (1915) * '' The Arab'' (1915) * ''Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film), Carmen'' (1915) * ''The Unknown (1915 Paramount film), The Unknown'' (1915) * ''The Golden Chance'' (1915) * ''The Plow Girl'' (1916) * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is a city and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,917 which ranks it as the List of municipalities in Michigan, second most-populated city in the state after Detroit. Grand Rapids is the central city of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,087,592 and a combined statistical area population of 1,383,918. Situated along the Grand River (Michigan), Grand River approximately east of Lake Michigan, it is the economic and cultural hub of West Michigan, as well as one of the fastest-growing cities in the Midwestern United States, Midwest. A historic furniture manufacturing center, Grand Rapids is home to five of the world's leading office furniture companies and is nicknamed "Furniture City". Other nicknames include "River City" and more recently, "Beer City" (the latter given by ''USA Today'' and adopted by the city a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sowers
''The Sowers'' is a surviving 1916 silent film drama produced by Jesse Lasky, released through Paramount Pictures and directed by William C. deMille. The feature stars Blanche Sweet and Thomas Meighan and is based on the 1896 novel ''The Sowers'' by Henry Seton Merriman. It is preserved in the Library of Congress collections. Cast *Blanche Sweet - Karin Dolokhof *Thomas Meighan - Prince Paul Alexis *Mabel Van Buren - Princess Tanya *Ernest Joy - Count Egor Strannik *Theodore Roberts - Boris Dolokhof *Horace B. Carpenter - Chief of Secret Police *Raymond Hatton - The Peddler *Harold Howard - The Tramp See also *Blanche Sweet filmography __NOTOC__ This is the filmography for Blanche Sweet. According to the Internet Movie Database, Sweet appeared in 161 films between 1909 and 1959. ---- 1909 - 1910 - 1911 - 1912 - 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 - 1917 - 1919 - Later films ... References External linksThe Sowers at IMDb.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Tommy (film)
''Texas Tommy'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Bob Custer, Mary Mayberry and Bud Osborne.McGowan p.167 Cast * Bob Custer as Bob Cooper * Mary Mayberry as Rancher's Daughter * Lynn Sanderson as Unknown * Bud Osborne as Henchman * Horace B. Carpenter as Rancher * Frank Ellis as Henchman * J.P. McGowan John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. McGowan remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directo ... as Texas Tommy References Bibliography * John J. McGowan. ''J.P. McGowan: Biography of a Hollywood Pioneer''. McFarland, 2005. External links * 1928 films 1928 Western (genre) films Films directed by J. P. McGowan American black-and-white films Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films English-language Western (genre) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vultures Of The Sea
''Vultures of the Sea'' is a 1928 American adventure film serial directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is considered to be lost. Cast * Johnnie Walker * Shirley Mason * Tom Santschi * Frank Hagney * Boris Karloff - Grouchy * Horace B. Carpenter (unconfirmed) * George Magrill * Joseph Bennett * Arthur Dewey * Joe Mack (as Joseph Mack) * J. P. Lockney (as John P. Lockney) * Lafe McKee * Leo D. Maloney * Tom Mintz * Jack Perrin Jack Perrin (born Lyman Wakefield Perrin; July 25, 1896 – December 17, 1967) was an American actor specializing in Westerns. Early life Perrin was born in Three Rivers, Michigan. His father worked in real estate and relocated the famil ... References External links * 1928 films 1928 adventure films 1928 lost films American silent serial films American black-and-white films American adventure films Films directed by Richard Thorpe Films produced by Nat Levine Lost American films Mascot Pictures film serials Lost adventure f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silent Stranger (1924 Film)
''The Silent Stranger'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Fred Thomson, Hazel Keener, and Frank Hagney. at silentera.com Plot As described in a film magazine review, Jack Taylor, a supposeddeaf-mute
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Terror Of The Range
''Terror of the Range'' is a 1919 American Western film serial directed by Stuart Paton. The film is considered to be lost. Cast * George Larkin as John Hardwick * Betty Compson as Thelma Grant * Horace B. Carpenter as James Grant (as H.B. Carpenter) * Fred Malatesta as Black John (as Fred M. Malatesta) * Ora Carew as Vampire * True Boardman as Broncho Haryigan * Walter MacNamara * Alice Saunders * William Quinn (as Billy Quinn) See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio * List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. Reas ... References External links * ''Terror of the Range'' at SilentEra 1919 films 1919 Western (genre) films American silent serial films American black-and-white films Pathé Exchange film serials Films directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil-Stone
''The Devil-Stone'' is a 1917 American silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, co-written by his mother Beatrice deMille and Jeanie MacPherson, and starring Geraldine Farrar. The film had sequences filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process"). Only two of six reels are known to survive, in the American Film Institute Collection at the Library of Congress. This was the last of Farrar's films for Paramount Pictures. Plot As described in a film magazine, Silas Martin (Marshall), a miser, marries Marcia Manot (Farrar) in order to gain possession of a valuable emerald she owns that once belonged to a Norse queen and is now cursed. After the wedding Marcia learns the true side of her husband and realizes that the marriage was a mistake. Silas steals the stone and places Marcia and Guy Sterling (Reid), his business partner, in a false light in order to get a divorce. Marcia sneaks in one night and discovers that Silas has the stone. She ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nan Of Music Mountain
''Nan of Music Mountain'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and Cecil B. DeMille (who receives no screen credit). The film is based on Frank H. Spearman's novel of the same name and stars Wallace Reid and Anna Little. Plot As described in a film magazine, Henry de Spain (Reid) is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider with Duke Morgan's (Roberts) gang, cattlemen, and outlaws. Nan (Little), daughter of the head of the clan, secretly loves Henry and when he is wounded in a fight with the Morgan clan, she helps him escape. This angers her father and he declares that she shall marry her cousin. Nan dispatches a message to Henry for assistance and he brings her safely to his clan. Nan then learns that her father was the murder of Henry's father. She returns to her father to learn the truth and together they go to Henry and reveal the murder's name. After a thorough understanding and forgiving, Henry and Nan a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castles For Two
''Castles for Two'' is an American 1917 silent drama film directed by Frank Reicher and starring Marie Doro and Elliott Dexter. It is based on an original story for the screen, ''Rich Girl - Poor Girl'', by Beatrice C. deMille and Leighton Osmun. A copy of the film is preserved at the Library of Congress.''Catalog of Feature Films The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' (<-book title) p. 27 c.1978 by The American Film Institute Cast * - Patricia Calhoun * - Brian O'Neil * - Patricia's Secretary * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan The Woman
''Joan the Woman'' is a 1916 American epic silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Geraldine Farrar as Joan of Arc. The film premiered on Christmas Day in 1916. This was DeMille's first historical drama. The screenplay is based on Friedrich Schiller's 1801 play ''Die Jungfrau von Orleans'' ('' The Maid of Orleans'').Aberth, John. "Chapter 6. Movies and the Maid: Joan of Arc Films". ''A Knight at the Movies''. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012. 264–306. This film was considered to be the "first cinematic spectacle about Joan of Arc." This was the first film to use the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "Wyckoff-DeMille Process") for certain scenes. This process is especially noticeable in the scene of Joan burning at the stake, the use of red and yellow gave this a heightened dramatic effect. A print of the film still exists. DeMille has said that in the weeks before shooting he became obsessed with historical research, costume and set design, and castin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heir To The Hoorah
''The Heir to the Hoorah'' is a surviving 1916 silent film produced by Jesse Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by William C. deMille. A print survives in the Library of Congress. Cast *Thomas Meighan - Joe Lacy * Anita King - Geraldine Kent *Edythe Chapman - Mrs. Kent *Horace B. Carpenter - Bud Young * Charles Ogle - Bill Ferguson *Ernest Joy Ernest C. Joy (January 20, 1878 – February 12, 1924) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 76 films between 1911 and 1920. Selected filmography * '' Article 47, L (1913) * '' Salomy Jane'' (1914) * '' ... - Mr. Marshall *Joane Woodbury - Mrs. Marshall References External links * * 1916 films American silent feature films Paramount Pictures films Films based on short fiction 1916 drama films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by William C. deMille 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Ground (1916 Film)
''Common Ground'' is a 1916 silent film drama produced by Jesse Lasky, directed by William C. deMille and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is an original story for the screen and stars Thomas Meighan and Marie Doro. A print is held by British Film Institute National Film and Television Archive. Cast *Marie Doro as The Kid *Thomas Meighan as Judge David Evans *Theodore Roberts as James Mordant *Mary Mersch as Doris Mordant *Horace B. Carpenter Horace B. Carpenter (January 31, 1875 – May 21, 1945) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 330 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934. Born in Grand Rapids, ... as Burke *Florence Smythe as Mrs. Dupont *Mrs. Lewis McCord as Housekeeper *Dr. Keller as Jones References External links * *still of a scene with Thomas Meighan and Marie Doro 1916 films American silent feature films Films directed by William C. deMille 1916 drama films Silent A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
