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The Great Ruby
''The Great Ruby'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Barry O'Neil Barry O'Neil (September 24, 1865 – March 23, 1918) was a film director and writer. His real name was Thomas J. McCarthy. He directed several Thanhouser films including the production company's first two-reeler,https://www.thanhouser.org/TCOCD/Nar ..., based on the play of the same name by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton. The film stars Beatrice Morgan, Octavia Handworth, and Eleanor Barry. Cast list References {{DEFAULTSORT:Great Ruby, The 1915 films 1915 drama films Films directed by Barry O'Neil American silent feature films 1910s American films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry O'Neil
Barry O'Neil (September 24, 1865 – March 23, 1918) was a film director and writer. His real name was Thomas J. McCarthy. He directed several Thanhouser films including the production company's first two-reeler,https://www.thanhouser.org/TCOCD/Narrative_files/c2s9.htm/ ''Romeo and Juliet''. He went on to work for Lubin and then World Film Corporation. He was born in New York City. O'Neil married actress Nellie Walters. In 1913 O'Neil was elected to The Lambs as a non-resident member. He died of apoplexy. In 1910 and 1911 he filmed adaptations of a couple William Shakespeare plays. In 1915 he filmed a version of ''McTeague'' in Death Valley released as '' Life's Whirlpool''. William E. Hamilton was an assistant director to O'Neil. Filmography Director *''The Actor's Children'' (1910) *''The Mad Hermit'' (1910) *''Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910 film)'' *''The Writing on the Wall'' (1910) *''The Girl of the Northern Woods'' (1910) *''The Winter's Tale'' (1910) *'' St. Elmo'' (1910) *''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lang (actor)
Peter Lang (1859 – August 20, 1932) was an American actor. He played in many silent films, including ''An American Citizen'' and '' The Valley of Lost Hope''. Filmography *''The Port of Doom'' (1913) *'' A Lady of Quality'' (1913) *''An American Citizen'' (1914) *'' The Valley of Lost Hope'' (1915) *'' The College Widow'' (1915) *''The Great Ruby'' (1915) *'' The Evangelist'' (1916) *'' The Dawn of Love'' (1916) *''The Auction Block'' (1917) *'' The Harvest Moon'' (1920) *''Dangerous Money ''Dangerous Money'', also known as ''Hot Money'', is a 1946 American film directed by Terry O. Morse, featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. This is the second and last appearance of Willie Best as Chattanooga Brown, the cousin of Charlie ...'' (1924) References External links * 1859 births 1932 deaths American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors {{US-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Barry O'Neil
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Drama Films
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. ** Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with 4 civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** '' A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a ''femme fatale''; she quickly becomes one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Films
The year 1915 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * February 1: Fox Film Corporation founded * February 8: D.W Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks both box office and film length records (running at a total length of over three hours). * February: Metro Pictures, a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is founded * February 22: The Allan Dwan directed film ''David Harum'' is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood. * March 15: Universal Studios Hollywood opens ( 1964). * June 18: The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California. * July: Triangle Film Corporation is founded in Culver City, California and attracts filmmakers D. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Ince and Mack Sennett * September 11: A nitrate fire at Famous Players in New York destroys several compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Law (actor)
Walter Law (March 26, 1876 – August 9, 1940) was an American actor. He appeared in 47 films between 1915 and 1936. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, and died in Hollywood, California Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, .... Filmography References External links * * 1876 births 1940 deaths Male actors from Dayton, Ohio American male film actors American male silent film actors 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Siegel (actor)
Bernard Siegel (April 19, 1868 – July 9, 1940) was an Austro-Hungarian born American character actor, whose career spanned both the silent film era, as well as carrying over into the beginning of sound pictures. His career spanned over 25 years, during which time he performed in over 50 films. Life and career Siegel was born in the city of Lemberg (today known as Lviv, Ukraine), in the province of Galicia in the Austria-Hungarian Empire on April 19, 1868. His film career began with a small featured role in the 1913 silent film, ''The Third Degree'' (which would be remade in 1919, and again in 1926, the latter film being the first film directed by Michael Curtiz). Over the next 26 years he would appear in almost 70 films, most of those films taking place during the silent era. He would only act in thirteen sound films. In 1940 Siegel, age 72, died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. Selected filmography (Filmography based on the AFI AFI may refer to: * ''Address-family ident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William H
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Brandt (actor)
Charles Brandt is an American former investigator, writer, and speaker. He wrote Frank Sheeran's memoir '' I Heard You Paint Houses'', the basis for the 2019 film ''The Irishman'', directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci Joseph Frank Pesci ( , ; born February 9, 1943) is an American actor and musician. He is known for portraying tough, volatile characters in a variety of genres and for his collaborations with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese in the films ''Ra .... Books * * * * * Suppressing the Truth in Dallas: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and International Complications in the JFK Assassination Case (2022) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Brandt, Charles Living people Organized crime novelists Organized crime memoirists Non-fiction writers about organized crime in the United States People from Brooklyn Male novelists American male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Mitchell
Howard Mitchell (11 March 1911 in Lyons, Nebraska – 22 June 1988 in Ormond Beach, Florida) was an American cellist and conductor. He was principal conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra from 1949 to 1969. According to music critic Ted Libbey, Mitchell "''personified the optimism that permeated Washington and America after World War II; he socialized, schmoozed and charmed the ladies of high Washington society, fitting right in, playing the role of music director as he played the cello. He saw the symphony as a necessary component of the city's social and cultural life, an institution to be supported by the enlightened few and used to educate and enrich the many."'' Born in Nebraska, Mitchell attended the Peabody Conservatory and graduated with honors from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1935. Mitchell joined the National Symphony Orchestra as principal cellist in 1933. In addition to playing with the NSO, Mitchell made his conducting debut with the ensemble in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Hitchcock
Walter Edwin Hitchcock (1872 – June 23, 1917) was an American actor. He appeared on stage, in silent films, and had several leading roles. Career Hitchcock was born in 1872 in Malden, Massachusetts or New Castle, Maine. In his youth, Hitchcock acted in amateur theatricals. He eventually moved on to becoming an actor in many silent films. ''Variety'' called his performance in ''The Idler'' (1915) "very good, indeed". He was known for his role in ''The Auction Block'' (1917)."Obituary." ''The Billboard''. Vol. 29, Iss. 26, (Jun 30, 1917): 88-89. Via Proquest. In 1916, his maid discovered some fake money in his hotel room that he had taken from the set of ''The House of Tears'' (1915). It was reported to federal agents, who investigated and "enjoyed a good laugh". Hitchcock died on June 23, 1917, at Hotel Somerset in New York City of heart failure. Personal life He married fellow actress Donna Barrell, also known as Teresa Michelene. Michelene was with him at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Soule Spencer
George Soule Spencer (1874–1949) was an American actor who appeared on stage and in silent films including in lead roles. He was married to Lillian White Spencer. They wrote ''The Flower of Chivalry'' in 1901. He starred in the film '' The Evangelist'' (1916) with Gladys Hanson. He also starred in '' The College Widow'' (1915) with Ethel Clayton. Partial filmography *'' The Third Degree'' (1913) as Richard Brewster *'' The Wolf'' (1914) as Jules Beaubien Ferdinand *'' The Daughters of Men'' (1914) as John Stedman *''The Fortune Hunter'' (1914) as Harry Kellogg *''The Lion and the Mouse'' (1914) as John Burkett Ryder *'' The Sporting Duchess'' (1915) as Lord Desborough *'' The Climbers'' (1915) as Ned Warden *'' The College Widow'' (1915) as Billy Bolton *''The Great Ruby ''The Great Ruby'' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Barry O'Neil Barry O'Neil (September 24, 1865 – March 23, 1918) was a film director and writer. His real name was Thomas J. McCar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
