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James O'Neill (actor, Born 1863)
James O'Neill (July 21, 1863 – October 8, 1938) was an American actor. Before his silent film career he was a vaudeville stage actor. Filmography * ''Ben Bolt'' (1913) * ''The Star of India'' (1913) * ''The Rogues of Paris'' (1913) * ''The Fight for Millions'' (1913) * ''The Temptations of Satan'' (1914) * '' The Lure'' (1914) * ''The Million Dollar Robbery'' (1914) * ''A Fight for Freedom; Or, Exiled to Siberia'' (1914) * ''My Madonna'' (1915) * ''Her Own Way'' (1915) * ''The Heart of a Painted Woman'' (1915) * ''The Honor of Mary Blake'' (1916) * ''The Traveling Salesman'' (1916) * ''The Raggedy Queen'' (1917) * ''House of Cards'' (1917) * ''The Boy Girl'' (1917) * ''Miss Arizona'' (1919) * ''The Whisper Market'' (1920) * ''The Courage of Marge O'Doone'' (1920) * ''Captain Swift'' (1920) * '' The Kickback'' (1922) * ''Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre ''Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre'' (also known as ''With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Whisper Market
''The Whisper Market'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by George L. Sargent and starring Corinne Griffith, George MacQuarrie and Eulalie Jensen.Connelly p.432 Cast * Corinne Griffith as Erminie North * George Howard as Basil North * George MacQuarrie as Burke * James O'Neill as Hobson * Eulalie Jensen as Juliet Saltmarsh * Howard Truesdale as George Saltmarsh * Jacob Kingsbury Colonel Jacob Kingsbury (1756–1837) was a career officer in the United States Army. He was one of the few U.S. Army officers who was a veteran of both the American Revolution and the War of 1812. He was a Federalist. Biography He was born in ... as Doucer 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. External links * 1920 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Deaths
Events January * January 1 ** The new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime. ** State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France ( SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. General Werner von Fritsch is forced to resign as Commander of Chief of the German Army following accusations of homosexuality, and replaced by General Walther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1863 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states an official war goal. It proclaims the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's four million slaves and immediately frees 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as Union armies advance. * January 2 – Lucius Tar Painting Master Company (''Teerfarbenfabrik Meirter Lucius''), predecessor of Hoechst, as a worldwide chemical manufacturing brand, founded in a suburb of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. * January 4 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany. * January 7 – In the Swiss canton of Ticino, the village of Bedretto is partly destroyed and 29 killed, by an avalanche. * January 8 ** The Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the Adelphi Hotel, in Sheffield, England. ** American Civil War – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitting Bull At The Spirit Lake Massacre
''Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre'' (also known as ''With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre'') is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury, and starring Bryant Washburn as Donald, Chief Yowlachie as Sitting Bull, and Anne Schaefer as Mame Mulcain. Cast See also * Spirit Lake Massacre The Spirit Lake Massacre (March 8–12, 1857) was an attack by a ''Wahpekute'' band of Santee Sioux on scattered Iowa frontier settlements during a severe winter. Suffering a shortage of food, the renegade chief Inkpaduta (Scarlet Point) led 14 S ... External links * * * With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre' at SilentEra 1927 films 1920s English-language films Films directed by Robert N. Bradbury 1927 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Silent American Western (genre) films Cultural depictions of Sitting Bull 1920s American films {{silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kickback (film)
''The Kickback'' is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Val Paul and starring Harry Carey and Henry B. Walthall. Plot Aaron (Walthall) wishes to make Harry's land and girl his own. To do this, he sends Harry to Mexico with false papers for some horses. Harry gets arrested in Mexico, but soon escapes and returns home, where he is also arrested. Before he can be lynched, a Mexican girl brings the Texas Rangers to rescue him. Cast * Harry Carey as White Horse Harry * Henry B. Walthall as Aaron Price * Charles Le Moyne as Chaaalk Eye (credited as Charles J. Le Moyne) * Vester Pegg as Ramon Pinellos * Mignonne Golden as Conchita Pinellos * Ethel Grey Terry Ethel Grey Terry (October 2, 1882 – January 6, 1931) was an American actress of the silent era. She is best remembered for her role in '' The Penalty'' with Lon Chaney. Early years Ethel Grey Terry was born in Oakland, California, the ... as Nellie * James O'Neill See also * Harry Carey filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Swift
''Captain Swift'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Tom Terriss and Chester Bennett and starring Earle Williams, Florence Dixon and Edward Martindel. It is based on the 1898 play of the same title by C. Haddon Chambers.Goble p.704 Synopsis A notorious Australian outlaw manages to escape with the law close on his heels and heads to England where he lives under an assumed name, and becomes a fixture in London's high society. Cast * Earle Williams as Captain Swift * Florence Dixon as Stella Darbisher * Edward Martindel as Gardiner * Adelaide Prince as Lady Seabrook * Downing Clarke as Sir Hugh Seabrook * Barry Baxter as Harry Seabrook * Alice Calhoun Alice Beatrice Calhoun (November 21, 1900 – June 3, 1966) was an American silent film actress. Film star Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she made her film debut in an uncredited role in 1918 and went on to appear in another forty-seven films betw ... as Mabel Seabrook * James O'Neill as Marshall * H.H. Pattee as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courage Of Marge O'Doone
''The Courage of Marge O'Doone'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and featuring Pauline Starke, Billie Bennett, Niles Welch and Boris Karloff (as Buck Tavish, a mountain man). It was written by Robert N. Bradbury, based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood. The film is considered to be lost. The film had the following tagline: "SEE THE FEROCIOUS FIGHT BETWEEN TWO BIG GRIZZLY BEARS! A REAL THRILL - SEE THIS!" (Print ad in the Syracuse Journal, 21 May 1921) Plot Michael O'Doone (George Stanley), his wife Margaret (Billie Bennett) and daughter Marge (Pauline Starke) are settlers living in the Northwest. While traveling on a winter day, Michael meets with an accident and never returns home. Thinking that her husband is dead, Margaret begins to lose her grip on sanity which enables Buck Tavish (Boris Karloff), a mountain man who always admired her, to abduct her and take her to his cabin. When she finally regains her senses, she departs on a search for Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Madonna
''My Madonna'' is a lost film, lost 1915 American silent drama film directed by Alice Guy and starring Olga Petrova. Cast *Olga Petrova - Lucille *Guy Coombs - Robert *Evelyn Dumo - The Baroness *Albert Howson - The Baron *James O'Neill (actor, born 1863), James O'Neill - The Art Merchant *Albert Derbil *Yahne Fleury - References External links *Lobby poster 1915 films Lost American films Films directed by Alice Guy-Blaché 1915 drama films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films based on works by Robert W. Service Films based on poems American silent feature films Metro Pictures films 1915 lost films Lost drama films 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lure (1914 Film)
''The Lure'' is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Alice Guy Blaché starring James O'Neill, Fraunie Fraunholz, Kirah Markham, and Claire Whitney.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Lure'' at silentera.com ''The Lure'' was an adaptation of a controversial play by George Scarborough that gives a sympathetic depiction of social pressures leading women into . Cast * James O'Neill * |
