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John Faulkner (actor)
John Faulkner (13 July 1872 – 13 September 1934) was a British-Australian inventor and actor of theatre and film. He appeared in two early vehicles for sports star Snowy Baker, '' The Enemy Within'' (1918), and '' The Lure of the Bush'' (1918), as well as movies from directors Raymond Longford, Franklyn Barrett, Paulette McDonagh, and Beaumont Smith. Biography Early life Faulkner was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, the 5th of ten children. He was a descendant of Warren Hastings, the first Governor General of Bengal. When he was 13 he was sent to live with relatives in Ontario, Canada. In 1893 he returned to England and worked for several years as a traveller for a brewery. He befriended a young Oscar Asche and the two of them travelled the English countryside selling a fridge that Faulkner had invented. In the early 1900s he was a drinking companion to John Barrymore. He started to act, formed his own theatre company and toured South America and North Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, sometimes spelt Ashby de la Zouch () and shortened locally to Ashby, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. The town is near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire borders. Its 2001 census population of 11,410 rose to 12,370 in 2011. The castle in the town was an important fort in the 15th–17th centuries. In the 19th century the town's main industries were ribbon manufacture, coal mining, and brickmaking. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Shellbrook to the west and Boundary to the north-west. Swadlincote, Burton upon Trent, Melbourne and Coalville are within , with Derby due north. Ashby lies at the heart of The National Forest, about south of the Peak District National Park, on the A42 between Tamworth and Nottingham. In 2018, Ashby Market Street was named "Best Shopping Experience", and in 2019 it made the final of the rising-star category for UK high streets. History The town was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin's childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship. His father was absent and his mother struggled financially — he was sent to a workhouse twice before age nine. When he was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum. Chaplin began performing at an early age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor and comedian. At 19, he was signed to the Fred Karno company, which took him to the United States. He was scouted for the film industry and began appearing in 1914 for Keystone Studios. He soon de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film And Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the Archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kingdom Of Twilight
''The Kingdom of Twilight'' is a 1929 film directed by British author and explorer Alexander MacDonald.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p148 Plot Jim Carrington leaves England with his daughter Dorothy after a scandal, and seeks his fortune as a gold prospector in northern Australia. He learns of a mysterious tribe of aborigines but is wounded and captured by the drive. He is given up for dead by everyone except for Dorothy who continues to search for him. She is captured by the tribe as well and discovers her father is alive. They return together to white civilisation where Dorothy is reunited with a young gold miner who loves her. Cast *Wendy Osborne as Dorothy Carrington * John Faulkner as Jim Carrington *Robert Leslie Shepherd *Rex Arnot as McCrimmon *David Wallace as Reginald Carewe *Len Norman as Tanami *Laurel Macdonald as baby *Herrick Corbett as Puggy Markham *Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odds On (1928 Film)
''Odds On'' is a 1928 Australian silent film starring Arthur Tauchert set in the world of horse racing. It was the first film as director from noted cinematographer Arthur Higgins. It is considered a lost film. Plot Sydney Baxter, a jockey, tries to shield a friend by allowing himself to be suspended for six months for improper riding. He joins up with racecourse urger Grafter Jones and sets of to tour country race meetings. Baxter goes to work in the stables of a family friend, John Grayson, and falls in love with his daughter, Betty. Grayson gives Baxter the chance to ride his horse, Brigade, in a local derby and Baxter is victorious. Cast *Arthur Tauchert as Grafter Jones *Phyllis Gibbs as Betty Grayson *Check Hayes as Sydney Baxter * Stella Southern *Stanley Court *Robert Purdie *John Faulkner *Violet Elliot as the cook *W.H. McLachlan *Gayne Threlkeld Production The female lead, Phyllis Gibbs, had been under contract to Cecil B. de Mille in Hollywood. The movie was shot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Vernon's Silence
''Peter Vernon's Silence'' is a 1926 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford. It was the last film on which Lottie Lyell worked prior to her death in December 1925. It is considered a lost film. Plot Peter Vernon's mother dies and he is adopted by a squatter, Kingston, whose son, Philip, is Peter's age. The two grow up and fall in love with the same girl, Marie (Loretta May). Marie loves Philip but her father forbids the marriage because of his dark reputation and Philip kills the old man in a fit of rage. Peter tries to take the blame by fleeing from the police and is chased through the Snowy Mountains before being caught. He is sent to gaol, and when he gets out Philip confesses to the murder on his death bed. Peter is reunited with Marie. Production The film featured location shooting in and around Moss Vale, Mount Kosciuszko, Kiandra, Adaminaby, Leura and the Blue Mountains. Reception Despite being distributed by Paramount, the film only earned £1,114 at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birth Of New Zealand
Birth is the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring, also referred to in technical contexts as parturition. In mammals, the process is initiated by hormones which cause the muscular walls of the uterus to contract, expelling the fetus at a developmental stage when it is ready to feed and breathe. In some species the offspring is precocial and can move around almost immediately after birth but in others it is altricial and completely dependent on parenting. In marsupials, the fetus is born at a very immature stage after a short gestation and develops further in its mother's womb pouch. It is not only mammals that give birth. Some reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates carry their developing young inside them. Some of these are ovoviviparous, with the eggs being hatched inside the mother's body, and others are viviparous, with the embryo developing inside her body, as in the case of mammals. Mammals Large mammals, such as primates, cattle, horses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Mountains Mystery
''The Blue Mountains Mystery'' is a lost 1921 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford and co-directed by Lottie Lyell. The film was derived from the 1919 novel '' The Mount Marunga Mystery'' by Harrison Owen. It is considered a lost film. Plot ''The Blue Mountains Mystery'' involves the alleged murder of a wealthy businessman, Henry Tracey, and the eventual discovery that the victim was an underworld look-alike impersonator. The main suspects are Tracey's ward, Pauline, Mrs Tracey, and Pauline's boyfriend, Hector, and his rival, Richard Maxim. Eventually the supposedly dead Henry Tracey reappears and announces that he had been kidnapped. The corpse was Stephen Rodder, a man with a strong resemblance to Tracey. Cast *Marjorie Osborne as Mrs Tracey *John Faulkner as Henry Tracey/Stephen Rodder *Vivian Edwards as Hector Blunt * Bernice Vere as Pauline Tracey *Billy Williams as Richard Maxim *Redmond Barry as detective *John de Lacey as Captain Banks *Ivy Shilling as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silks And Saddles (1921 Film)
''Silks and Saddles'' is a 1921 Australian silent film set in the world of horse racing that was directed by John K. Wells. The film is also known as ''Queen o' Turf'' or ''Queen of the Turf'' in the United States. Plot summary On the stud farm of Kangarooie, squatter's daughter Bobbie wants her weak brother Richard to come home for her birthday, but she prefers the charms of the city, in particular the high society adventuress, Mrs Fane. Tubby Dennis O'Hara, who is in love with Bobbie, persuades Richard to come home and he brings Mrs Fane with him. O'Hara gives Bobbie his horse, Alert, as a present. Bobbie enters it in a race and Mrs Fane tries to stop her winning. Bobbie falls in love with a handsome man and rides Alert to victory. Cast * Brownie Vernon as Bobbie Morton * Robert MacKinnon as Richard Morton Jr * John Cosgrove as Dennis O'Hara *John Faulkner as Richard Morton Sr *Tal Ordell as Phillip Droone *Evelyn Johnson as Myra Fane * Raymond Lawrence as Jeffrey Manners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From Snowy River (1920 Film)
''The Man from Snowy River'' is a 1920 film made in Australia. The film was silent and filmed in black and white, and was based on the Banjo Paterson The Man from Snowy River (poem), poem of the same name. It is considered a lost film. Plot A country boy, Jim Conroy, is living a dissolute life in the city, running around with Femme fatale, vamp Helen Ross. When his father cuts him off, he is dumped by Helen and returns to the bush. Jim works for a corrupt Squatting (Australian history), squatter, Stingey Smith, and falls in love with Kitty Carewe, daughter of John Carewe, the squatter next door. John is impressed with Jim's skill with a horse and invites him to train his finest horse, "Swagman", hoping to win enough prize money to save his farm. A jealous farm hand plots with Smith to fix the race so that the latter can take over the Carewe farm, letting "Swagman" go and run with the Brumby, brumbies. However Jim rescues the horse and rides it to victory. Smith frames Jim fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Breaking Of The Drought
''The Breaking of the Drought'' is a 1920 Australian silent film from director Franklyn Barrett based on the popular play by Bland Holt and Arthur Shirley. According to Graham Phillips, this film is one of the most damaged films in Australia's film archive, although few sequences have severe damage in the film. Plot Drought causes Jo Galloway to lose possession of Wallaby Stationn to the bank. He moves to the city with his wife and daughter Marjorie to stay with his son Gilbert only to discover that Gilbert has been embezzling family funds, and fallen in with conman Varsy Lyddleton and femme fatal Olive Lorette. Lyddleton murders Olive then kills himself. Marjorie's boyfriend Tom Wattleby saves Gilbert from a bushfire, just as the drought breaks, restoring the family's fortunes. Cast *Trilby Clark as Marjorie Galloway *Dunstan Webb as Tom Wattleby *Charles Beetham as Jo Galloway *Marie La Varre as Olive Lorette *John Faulkner as Varsy Lyddleton * Rawdon Blandford as Gilbert Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
£500 Reward
''£500 Reward'' is a 1918 Australian silent film starring, written, produced, financed and directed by Claude Flemming who later described it as "a very lurid melodrama". Synopsis A "five-act" drama about a couple who travel from the Rocky Mountains to Seattle then wind up shipwrecked en route to Queensland. The heroine Irene is kidnapped by a ship captain and winds up wrecked on the Queensland coast. She is rescued by the hero. Cast * Claude Flemming as Jack * John Faulkner as Captain Wolff Forrest * Renée Adorée as Irene * Barry Lupino *Lorna Ambler *David Edelsten Production The film was written, produced, directed and financed by Claude Flemming. It was reported to be the first feature film to include footage of Mount Kosciuszko, which stood in for Canada. Scenes were also shot at Bermagui, on board an American sailing ship visiting Sydney, and at Rushcutters Bay studio. The cast included Renée Adorée, who was then a dancer touring Australia on the Tivoli ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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