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Henry Otto
Henry Otto (August 8, 1877 – August 3, 1952) was an American silent film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Otto contributed to over 150 films throughout his career working as an actor and a director throughout. He directed many films in 1914, in films such as ''When a Woman Waits'', '' In Tune'', '' The Archeologist'', and '' The Redemption of a Pal'' working with actors such as Edward Coxen, Charlotte Burton and George Field. He retired from film in 1942. Otto was found dead on August 4, 1952, in Los Angeles. Selected filmography Actor * ''Harbor Island'' (1912, Short) - General Arieno - Owner of Harbor Island * ''The Lipton Cup: Introducing Sir Thomas Lipton'' (1913) * ''Margarita and the Mission Funds'' (1913, Short) - Padre Sandez of the Mission * ''Through the Centuries'' (1914, Short) - Amos Willing * ''Elizabeth's Prayer'' (1914) - Richard Lee, A Sporty Acquaintance * ''The Zaca Lake Mystery'' (1915, Short) - The Hunter * ''Half a Rogue'' (1916) - Ex-Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of intertitle, title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a piano, pianist, theatre organ, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or musical improvisation, improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here's Flash Casey
''Here's Flash Casey'' is a 1937 American film directed by Lynn Shores and starring Eric Linden and Boots Mallory. Plot Flash Casey is able finally to get the job as photographer at Globe Press. And he would like to marry newspaper woman Kay Lanning. Some blackmailing-crooks are stealing pictures from people who bring them in to be developed in the shop run by the same crooks, to blackmail socialites. Then Kay is kidnapped and Flash is able with some help to find her. Cast *Eric Linden as "Flash" Casey *Boots Mallory as Kay Lanning *Cully Richards as Tom Wade *Holmes Herbert as Major Rodney Addison *Joseph Crehan as Blaine (City Editor) *Howard Lang as "Pop" Lawrence *Victor Adams as "King" Ricker * Harry Harvey as Gus Payton * Suzanne Kaaren as Mitzi LaRue *Matty Kemp as Rodney Addison Jr. * Dorothy Vaughan as Mrs.O'Hara (Landlady) *Maynard Holmes as Joe (Roommate) * unbilled players include Sven Hugo Borg, Lynton Brent, Don Brodie, Leonard Carey, Virginia Dabney, and Spec O'Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Willow Tree (1920 Film)
''The Willow Tree'' is a surviving 1920 American silent film directed by Henry Otto and distributed by Metro Pictures. The film is based on a Broadway play, ''The Willow Tree'', by J. H. Benrimo and Harrison Rhodes. Fay Bainter starred in the Broadway play in 1917. The film stars Viola Dana and is preserved in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection. Plot As described in a film magazine, O-Riu (Dana), daughter of a Japanese image-maker, rebels at his command that she marry a wealthy merchant in order to provide funds for her brother to attend an American college. Due to a coincidence, her flight is misinterpreted as a suicide, and her father sells to an Englishman living in the neighborhood his most prized image. Seeking refuge, O-Riu poses as the image and then "comes to life" apparently by magic. The Englishman falls in love with her and will not answer his country's call to arms until she has apparently disappeared. While he is away for four years, she lives at h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Victory
''The Great Victory'' or ''The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns'' is a 1919 American silent war drama film directed by Charles Miller and starring Creighton Hale, Florence Billings and Helen Ferguson.Balogh p.189 It was made as anti-German propaganda during World War I, although it was released after the end of the conflict. Synopsis A young Alsatian is forced to enlist in the German Army on the outbreak of the war. Appalled by the atrocities committed by his colleagues, including against his own sister, he deserts having fallen in love with an American nurse. Vowing revenge, he travels to the United States and joins the American Army along with other Alsatians. They return to Europe and secure victory. Partial cast * Creighton Hale as Conrad Le Brett * Florence Billings as Vilma Le Brett * Edward Connelly as Paul Le Brett * Helen Ferguson as Amy Gordon * Frank Currier as William Gordon * Frederick Truesdell as Woodrow Wilson * Henry Kolke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Microbe
''The Microbe'' is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film, directed by Henry Otto. It stars Viola Dana, Kenneth Harlan, and Arthur Maude, and was released on July 21, 1919. Cast list * Viola Dana as Happy O'Brien, aka "The Microbe" * Kenneth Harlan as DeWitt Spense * Arthur Maude Arthur John Maude (23 July 1880 – 9 January 1950) was an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. Biography Maude was born Arthur John Maud on 23 July 1880 in Pontefract, West Riding, Yorkshire, to William Robert Maud (1849–1919) and ... as Robert Breton * Bonnie Hill as Judith Winthrope * Ned Norworth as Norman Slade * Lucy Donahue as Mrs. Risden References External links * * * Metro Pictures films Films directed by Henry Otto Films based on short fiction American silent feature films American black-and-white films American comedy-drama films 1919 comedy-drama films 1919 films 1910s American films Silent comedy-drama films Silent American drama films Silent Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair And Warmer (1919 Film)
''Fair and Warmer'' is a lost 1919 American silent film directed by Henry Otto starring May Allison and Eugene Pallette. The film was based upon the 1915 play '' Fair and Warmer'' by Avery Hopwood. Plot As described in an adaptation published in the film magazine ''Shadowland'', Billy Bartlett (Pallette) suspects his wife Laura (Mayo), who has been spending time with Philip Evans (Buckley), is having an affair. When upstairs neighbors Jack and Blanny Wheeler (Trenton and Allison) visit to play cards, Jack confides in Billy that, whenever he needs an explanation for his absence, he tells his wife he is going to the Mystic Shrine. Jack and Laura leave separately, and Billy and Blanny discuss their mutual suspicions and get drunk. Jack, Laura, and Philip return to the apartment and Billy and Blanny are wrongly accused of being unfaithful. Laura storms out. Two days later, after having movers go to get the furniture, she returns to the apartment after becoming jealous, and discovers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Romance (film)
''The Great Romance'' is a 1919 American silent romance film directed by Henry Otto and starring Harold Lockwood, Rubye De Remer and Frank Currier.Darby p.43 Main cast * Harold Lockwood as Rupert Danza * Rubye De Remer as Althea Hanway * Joseph Granby as Prince Boris * Frank Currier as King Rudolph * Helen Lindroth as Olga Marie * Franklyn Hanna as John P. Hanway * Clare Grenville Clare may refer to: Places Antarctica * Clare Range, a mountain range in Victoria Land Australia * Clare, South Australia, a town in the Clare Valley * Clare Valley, South Australia Canada * Clare (electoral district), an electoral district * Cl ... as Mrs. Hanway References Bibliography * Darby, William. ''Masters of Lens and Light: A Checklist of Major Cinematographers and Their Feature Films''. Scarecrow Press, 1991. External links * 1919 films 1910s romance films American romance films Films directed by Henry Otto American silent feature films Metro Pictures films American bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Amateur Adventuress
''The Amateur Adventuress'' is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Henry Otto and starring Emmy Wehlen. It is based on a short story by Thomas Edgelow that appeared in ''Young's Magazine'' (Oct. 1918). Maxwell Karger produced with release through Metro Pictures. Cast *Emmy Wehlen as Norma Wood *Allan Sears as Oliver Morley *Eugene Pallette as George Goodie *William V. Mong as William Claxtonbury *Marian Skinner as Mrs. Claxtonbury *Lucille Ward as Mrs. Sentel *Victor Potel as Gregory Charles Sentel *Rosemary Theby Rosemary Theresa Theby (born Rose Masing, April 8, 1892 – November 10, 1973) was an American film actress. She appeared in some 250 films between 1911 and 1940. Early life and career The daughter of George and Katherine Masing, Theby ... as Flossie *Bonnie Hill as Bit Part (uncredited) References External links * * 1919 films American silent feature films Metro Pictures films Lost American films Films directed by Henry Otto Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Island Of Intrigue
''The Island of Intrigue'' is a lost 1919 American silent drama film, directed by Henry Otto. It stars May Allison, Jack Mower, and Frederick Vroom, and was released on April 7, 1919. Cast list * May Allison as Maida Waring * Jack Mower as Gilbert Spear * Frederick Vroom as Thomas Waring * Lucille Ward as Mrs. Juliet Smith * Gordon Marr as Alaric Smith * Lillian West as Yorna Smith * Hector Sarno as Count Pellessier * Tom Kennedy Thomas or Tom Kennedy may refer to: Politics *Thomas Kennedy (Scottish judge) (1673–1754), joint Solicitor General for Scotland 1709–14, Lord Advocate 1714, Member of Parliament for Ayr Burghs 1720–21 * Thomas Kennedy, 9th Earl of Cassilis ... as Jackson, the butler * Chance Ward as Mr. Gobel * Edward Alexander as Jones, a sailor References External links * * * 1919 drama films 1919 films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films American silent feature films Metro Pictures films Films directed by Henry Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Life (1918 Film)
''Wild Life'' is a 1918 American silent Western film directed by Henry Otto and written by Charles J. Wilson Jr. and M. V. Dearing. The film stars William Desmond, Josie Sedgwick, and Ed Brady Ed John Brady (born June 17, 1962) is a former American football player. Brady was raised in Morris, Illinois, and attended Morris Community High School, where he led the Morris Redskins football team to a state championship. Brady played for .... Cast list References External links * {{IMDb title, id=0190143 1918 films 1918 Western (genre) films Films directed by Henry Otto Silent American Western (genre) films 1910s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The River Of Romance (1916 Film)
''The River of Romance'' is a 1916 silent film drama directed by Henry Otto and distributed by Metro Pictures. The film starred Harold Lockwood and May Allison. Cast *Harold Lockwood - William Kissam Kellogg, aka Sam *May Allison - Rosalind Chalmers * Lester Cuneo - Reginald Williams *A. H. Busby - Henry Davidson (*as Bert Busby) *Lee Walker - Stephen Witherbee *Mathilde Brundage Mathilde Brundage (September 22, 1859 – May 6, 1939) was an American actress. She appeared in 87 films between 1914 and 1928. Also known as Bertha Brundage, she was born in Louisville, Kentucky. For much of her life, her family thwarted her de ... - Mrs. Stephen Witherbee (*as Mrs. Mathilde Brundage) *Lilliam Halperin - Polly Witherbee *Philip W. Masi - Tom Witherbee (*as Phil Masi) *Dan Hanlon - Butler Preservation status *A copy is held in the foreign archive, Archives du Film du CNC Bois d'Arcy. References External links The River of Romance at IMDb.com* 1916 films American silent featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Tremaine
''Big Tremaine'' is a 1916 American silent romantic drama film directed by Henry Otto and starring Harold Lockwood, May Allison, Lester Cuneo, Albert Ellis, Lillian Hayward, and William Ehfe. It is based on the 1914 novel of the same name by Marie Van Vorst. The film was released by Metro Pictures on November 20, 1916. Plot Cast * Harold Lockwood as John Tremaine, Jr. * May Allison as Isobel Malvern * Lester Cuneo as Redmond Malvern *Albert Ellis as Judge Tremaine *Lillian Hayward Lillie Hayward (born Lillian Olenda Auen, September 12, 1891 – June 29, 1977) was an American screenwriter whose Hollywood career began during the silent era and continued well into the age of television. She wrote for more than 70 films ... as Mrs. Tremaine *William Ehfe as David Tremaine * Andrew Arbuckle as Samuel Leavitt *Josephine Rice as Mammy * William De Vaull as John Nolan *Virginia Southern as Julia Cameron Preservation The film is now considered lost. See also * List of lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
