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Lawson Butt
W. Lawson Butt (4 March 1880 – 14 January 1956) was a British actor and film director of the silent era.(7 August 1915)W. Lawson Butt with Kleine ''The Moving Picture World'' Selected filmography Actor * '' The Woman Next Door'' (1915) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1916) * ''The Danger Trail'' (1917) * '' Shackled'' (1918) * ''Playthings of Passion'' (1919) * ''Desert Gold'' (1919) * '' It Happened in Paris'' (1919) * '' The Miracle Man'' (1919) (*uncredited though substantial part in film) * ''The World and Its Woman'' (1919) * '' The Loves of Letty'' (1919) * ''Earthbound'' (1920) * ''The Tiger's Coat'' (1920) * ''The Sting of the Lash'' (1921) * '' Beyond the Crossroads'' (1922) * '' The Masquerader'' (1922) * ''The Flying Dutchman'' (1923) * ''Dante's Inferno'' (1924) * '' The Chicago Fire'' (1925) * ''The Beloved Rogue'' (1927) * ''Old San Francisco ''Old San Francisco'' is a 1927 American silent historical drama film starring Dolores Costello and featuring Warner Oland. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Journal
A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry. The collective term for this area of publishing is the trade press. Overview Trade publications keep industry members abreast of new developments. In this role, it functions similarly to how academic journals or scientific journals serve their audiences. Trade publications include targeted advertising, which earns a profit for the publication and sales for the advertisers while also providing sales engineering–type advice to the readers, that may inform purchasing and investment decisions. Trade magazines typically contain advertising content centered on the industry in question with little, if any, general-audience advertising. They may also contain industry-specific job notices. For printed publications, some trade magazines operate on a subscription b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earthbound (1920 Film)
''Earthbound'' is an American silent drama film from Goldwyn Pictures Corporation that was released on August 11, 1920. The film was written by Edfrid A. Bingham from a story by Basil King, and directed by T. Hayes Hunter. ''Earthbound'' was produced by Basil King with cinematography by André Barlatier, film editing by J.G. Hawks and art direction from Cedric Gibbons. The plot involves the character Daisy Rittenshaw, whose husband murders her lover when he discovers their affair. Her lover's ghost remains, unable to move on until he helps those whom he has wronged. A print is prepared and preserved by MGM. Cast accessed October 16, 2012 * |
1956 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14–February 25, 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880 Births
Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Fuscianus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 941 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 188 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes pro-consul of Africa from 188 to 189. Japan * Queen Himiko (or Shingi Waō) begins her reign in Japan (until 248). Births * April 4 – Caracalla (or Antoninus), Roman emperor (d. 217) * Lu Ji (or Gongji), Chinese official and politician (d. 219) * Sun Shao, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 241) Deaths * March 17 – Julian, pope and patriarch of Alexandria * Fa Zhen (or Gaoqing), Chinese scholar (b. AD 100) * Lucius Antistius Burrus, Roman politician (executed) * Ma Xiang, Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afterwards (1928 Film)
''Afterwards'' is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Lawson Butt and starring Marjorie Hume, Julie Suedo and Joseph R. Tozer. It was made at Bushey Studios, and based on a novel by Kathlyn Rhodes. Cast * Marjorie Hume - Mrs Carstairs * Julie Suedo - Tocati * Joseph R. Tozer - Doctor Anstice * Cecil Barry - Bruce Cheniston * Dorinea Shirley - Iris Wayne * Jean Jay - Hilda Ryder * Pat Courtney - Cherry * Fewlass Llewellyn - Sir Richard Wayne * Frank Perfitt Frank James Robert Perfitt (1880 – 1958) was a British film actor, born in Norwich, Norfolk in 1880. He died in Surrey in 1958. Selected filmography * '' The Flying Fifty-Five'' (1924) * '' Love and Hate'' (1924) * ''The Sins Ye Do'' (1924) * ... - Major Carstairs References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918–1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links * 1928 films 1928 drama films British drama films British silent feature films 1920s English-language film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ringer (1928 Film)
''The Ringer'' is a 1928 British silent crime film directed by Arthur Maude starring Leslie Faber, Annette Benson and Hayford Hobbs. It was based on the 1925 Edgar Wallace novel ''The Gaunt Stranger''. Scotland Yard hunt for a dangerous criminal who has returned to Britain after many years away. A talkie version of '' The Ringer'' followed in 1931. Cast * Leslie Faber as Dr. Lamond * Annette Benson as Cora Ann Milton * Lawson Butt as Maurice Meister * Nigel Barrie as Insp. Wembury * Hayford Hobbs as Insp. Bliss * John F. Hamilton as John Lenley * Charles Emerald as Sam Hackett * Esther Rhodes as Gwenda Milton * Muriel Angelus as Mary Lenley See also * '' The Ringer'' (1931) * '' The Ringer'' (1932) * ''The Gaunt Stranger ''The Gaunt Stranger'' (released as ''The Phantom Strikes'' in the US) is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde. It stars Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson and Alexander Knox. Plot A notorious killer, long believed to have ...'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old San Francisco
''Old San Francisco'' is a 1927 American silent historical drama film starring Dolores Costello and featuring Warner Oland. The film, which was produced and distributed by Warner Bros., was directed by Alan Crosland. Plot Chris Buckwell, cruel and greedy czar of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, is heartless in his persecution of the Chinese, though he himself is secretly a half-caste, part Chinese and part European. Buckwell, eager to possess the land of Don Hernández Vásquez, sends Michael Brandon, an unscrupulous attorney, to make an offer. Brandon's nephew, Terrence, meets the grandee's beautiful daughter, Dolores, while Vásquez refuses the offer. Terry tries to save the Vásquez land grants, but when Chris causes the grandee's death, Dolores takes an oath to avenge her father. Learning that Chris is half Chinese, Dolores induces his feeble-minded dwarf brother to denounce him; he captures her and Terry, but they are saved from white slavery by the great earthquake o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beloved Rogue
''The Beloved Rogue'' is a 1927 American silent romantic adventure film, loosely based on the life of the 15th century French poet, François Villon. The film was directed by Alan Crosland for United Artists. François Villon is played by John Barrymore, and other cast members include Conrad Veidt as King Louis XI and Marceline Day as Charlotte de Vauxcelles. The story had been filmed in 1920 as ''If I Were King'' with William Farnum. The film was later re-made in the sound era again reverting to its original title ''If I Were King'' (1938) with Ronald Colman. And as an operetta, ''The Vagabond King'' (1930), and again in 1956. Plot François Villon is a poet and avid patriot whose father was burned at the stake. François is particularly committed to helping the oppressed and the weak. The Duke of Burgundy is out for the French throne. With cunning and deceit he tries to deceive the superstitious king, who is warned by his astrologers about a war with Burgundy. So the k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chicago Fire
''Barriers Burned Away'' is a 1925 American silent historical drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Mabel Ballin, Eric Mayne, and Frank Mayo. It is set at the time of the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. The film is loosely adapted from the 1872 novel of the same name by Edward Payson Roe. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Wayne Morgan (Mayo), an artist, learns from his mother that a valuable painting has been stolen. In order to track it down, he takes a job as a porter in the Randolph Art Shop. He eventually discovers the picture has been copied and denounces the copy as lacking inspiration, claiming the original. Mellon (Morey), who stole it, is sent to prison and Wayne gets his position as store manager. Christine Randolph (Ballin), painter of the copy, whom Wayne falls in love with, then tells him it was all a plot to get even with him. The great Chicago fire breaks out, due to Mrs. Leary’s (Craig) cow kicking over a lantern, setting fire to the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante's Inferno (1924 Film)
''Dante's Inferno'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Henry Otto that was released by Fox Film Corporation and adapted from ''Inferno'', part of Dante Alighieri's epic poem ''Divine Comedy''. The film mixes material from Dante's "Inferno" with plot points from Charles Dickens' ''A Christmas Carol''. The book was filmed earlier in 1911 in Italy as ''L'Inferno'', and Fox later remade the film in 1935, again as ''Dante's Inferno'', starring Spencer Tracy in the lead role. Plot The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman named Mortimer Judd finally drive a distraught man named Eugene Craig, whom he has forced into bankruptcy, to commit suicide. He constantly refuses requests for charity and treats his bedridden wife very badly. The businessman receives a copy of Dante's ''Inferno'' in the mail and reads it. In the story, a floating angel raises its sword and parts a legion of demons to allow Dante to pass, naked sinners burn in boiling tar and suicides ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flying Dutchman (1923 Film)
''The Flying Dutchman'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lloyd B. Carleton and starring Lawson Butt, Nola Luxford and Ella Hall.Munden p.256 It is inspired by the legend of The Flying Dutchman. Cast * Lawson Butt as Philip Vanderdecker * Nola Luxford as Melissa * Ella Hall as Zoe * Edward Coxen Albert Edward Coxen (8 August 1880 – 21 November 1954) was an English-born American actor. He appeared in over 200 films during his career. Personal life Coxen was born in London, England. He came to the United States as a child and lived mu ... as Robert * Walter Law as Peter Van Dorn References Bibliography * 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 * 1923 films 1923 drama films American black-and-white films American silent feature films Films directed by Lloyd B. Carleton Film Booking Offices of America films 1920s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Masquerader (1922 Film)
''The Masquerader'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by James Young and starring Guy Bates Post, Ruth Cummings, and Edward Kimball.Goble p.861 A jaded British politician arranges for his place to be taken by his doppelganger cousin. The film was based on the 1904 novel '' The Masquerader'' by Katherine Cecil Thurston. It was remade in 1933 with Ronald Colman in the lead roles. This film is now considered lost Cast * Guy Bates Post as John Chilcote M.P. / John Loder * Ruth Cummings as Eve Chilcote * Edward Kimball as Brock * Herbert Standing as Herbert Fraide * Lawson Butt as Mr. Lakely * Marcia Manon as Lady Lillian Astrupp * Barbara Tennant Barbara Tennant (19 May 1892 – 18 March 1982) was an English actress. She appeared in over a hundred silent films between 1912 and 1928. Early life Barbara Tennant was born in London, and began performing there. She moved to North America a ... as Bobby Blessington References Bibliography * Goble, Ala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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