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The Man Of Courage
''The Man of Courage'' is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by E.K. Lincoln and starring Lincoln, Spottiswoode Aitken and Frederick Vroom.Serna, p. 282. Cast * E.K. Lincoln as William Gregory * Spottiswoode Aitken as Stephen Gregory * Frederick Vroom as Morgan Deane * Millicent Fisher as Dorothy Deane * Helen Dunbar as Mrs Deane * John Eberts as Johnny Rivers * James Young Deer as Aquila * George Gebhardt George Gebhardt (September 21, 1879 – May 2, 1919) was an American silent film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1908 and 1922. He was born in Basel, Switzerland and died in Edendale, Los Angeles from tuberculosis. Selecte ... as El Cholo References Bibliography * Laura I. Serna. ''"We're Going Yankee": American Movies, Mexican Nationalism, and Transnational Cinema, 1917-1935''. Harvard University, 2006. External links * 1922 films 1922 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Silent American Western (genre) films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Hirsh
Nathan J. Hirsh (Romania, 1872 - New York City, March 19, 1956) was an American film producer who co-founded Aywon Film Corporation and Pioneer Film Corporation.''Prominent Jews of America: A Collection of Biographical Sketches'' 1918 "NATHAN HIRSH Born in Roumania some forty-five years ago, Mr. Nathan Hirsh of the Pioneer Film Corporation, 126-130 West 46th street, New York, came to America at the tender age of thirteen. His father was already dead, and he landed here with his mother and sister. " He produced or co-produced twenty features of the 20s and 30s, and featured in a dozen movies as presenter. Selected filmography *''The Evolution of Man'', also known as ''Jack the Man-Ape'' (1920) * ''Western Racketeers'' (1934) * ''The Outlaw Tamer ''The Outlaw Tamer'' is a 1935 American western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Lane Chandler, Blanche Mehaffey and George 'Gabby' Hayes.Pitts p.151 Synopsis A posse on the trail of masked bandit loses the trail of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eberts
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Silent American Western (genre) Films
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American Black-and-white Films
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1922 Western (genre) Films
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1922 Films
The following is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top nine films released in 1922 by U.S. gross are as follows: Events * June 11 – United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's ''Nanook of the North'', the first commercially successful feature length documentary film. * November 26 – '' The Toll of the Sea'', starring Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan, debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (''The Gulf Between'' was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed). Notable films released in 1922 United States unless stated A *''At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern'' (lost), directed by Lloyd Ingraham, based on the 1905 novel by Myrtle Reed B *''The Bachelor Daddy'' (lost), directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan *''The Beautiful and Damned'' (lost), directed by William A. Seiter, starring Marie Prevost * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gebhardt
George Gebhardt (September 21, 1879 – May 2, 1919) was an American silent film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1908 and 1922. He was born in Basel, Switzerland and died in Edendale, Los Angeles from tuberculosis. Selected filmography * '' Balked at the Altar'' (1908) * '' After Many Years'' (1908) * ''The Fight for Freedom'' (1908) * ''Romance of a Jewess'' (1908) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1908) * '' Money Mad'' (1908) * '' A Calamitous Elopement'' (1908) * ''The Greaser's Gauntlet'' (1908) * '' The Man and the Woman'' (1908) * '' The Fatal Hour'' (1908) * '' For Love of Gold'' (1908) * ''The Call of the Wild'' (1908) * ''For a Wife's Honor'' (1908) * '' Betrayed by a Handprint'' (1908) * ''Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court'' (1908) * ''The Girl and the Outlaw'' (1908) * ''Behind the Scenes'' (1908) * ''The Red Girl'' (1908) * '' The Heart of O'Yama'' (1908) * ''Where the Breakers Roar'' (1908) * ''A Smoked Husband'' (1908) * '' The Stole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Young Deer
James Young Deer (April 1, 1876 – April 6, 1946), also known as J. Younger Johnson or Jim Young Deer, was actually born James Young Johnson in Washington, D.C. Although he was identified in the early Hollywood trade paper Moving Picture World as of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, his ancestry is of the Nanticoke people of Delaware. He became an early film actor, director, writer, and producer. He is believed to be the first Native American filmmaker/producer in Hollywood. Together with his wife and partner Lillian St. Cyr, Winnebago, the couple were labeled an "influential force" in the production of one-reel Westerns during the first part of the silent film era. Their films, along with several others of the silent era, were notable for portraying Native Americans in a positive light. Questions were raised about Young Deer's Winnebago background when film historians were unable to verify much about his origins, and he was not listed on the Winnebago tribal rolls in the early 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Dunbar
Helen Dunbar (born Katheryn Burke Lackey; October 10, 1863 – August 28, 1933) was an American theatrical performer and silent film actress. Career Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dunbar first appeared with the Weber & Fields Stock Company, when it began its career on the New York stage. In 1899 she appeared in ''Whirl-i-gig'' and ''The Other Way'' at the Weber and Fields Broadway Music Hall. She also worked with the Charles Dillingham Company and the Boston Opera Company. She appeared in motion pictures beginning in 1912 and continued until 1926. Her stage and screen career extended over thirty-five years. Dunbar's film career started with ''Out of the Depths'' (1912). The production starred Francis X. Bushman. She became a leading lady for the old Essanay Studios. For a number of years she was under contract to Famous Players-Lasky. Aside from Bushman, Dunbar made films with stars like Harry Cashman, Richard Carroll, Ruth Stonehouse, Beverly Bayne, Frank Keenan, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spottiswoode Aitken
Frank Spottiswoode Aitken (16 April 1868 – 26 February 1933) was a Scottish-American actor of the silent era. He played Dr. Cameron in D. W. Griffith's epic drama ''The Birth of a Nation''. Early years Aitken was born 16 April 1868 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Acting In his book, ''The King of the Movies: Film Pioneer Siegmund Lubin'', Joseph P. Eckhardt wrote that Aitken was "trained as a Shakespearean actor, with many years of experience under his belt." His film debut came in 1911. He eventually appeared in 81 feature films between 1914 and 1927. Businessman Aitken was one of the first actors to settle in Los Angeles when the film industry was still at its strongest in New York. He invested most of his earnings in real estate, buying up orange groves around what would become Hollywood. Personal life Aitken was involved in a controversy in 1922 when, after suing his wife Marion Dana Jones for divorce for alleged infidelity, she countersued. A United Press news story repo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millicent Fisher
Millicent or Milicent is a female given name that has been in use since the Middle Ages. The English form Millicent derives from the Old French '' Melisende'', from the Germanic ''amal'' "work" and ''swinth'' "strength".Withycombe, E.G., comp. (1950) ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names'' 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 209. People * Millicent Armstrong (1888–1973), Australian playwright * Milicent Bagot (1907–2006), British intelligence officer * Millicent Bandmann-Palmer (1845–1926), English actress * Millicent Baxter (1888–1984), New Zealand pacifist * Millicent Borges Accardi, Portuguese-American poet and writer * Millicent Browne (1881-1975), British suffragate * Millicent Dillon (born 1925), American writer * Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929), English suffragist, feminist, intellectual, political and union leader and writer * Millicent Fenwick (1910–1992), American fashion editor and politician * Millicent S. Ficken (1933–2020), American o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre Setting (narrative), set in the American frontier and commonly associated with Americana (culture), folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West" and depicted in Western media as a hostile, sparsely populated frontier in a state of near-total lawlessness patrolled by outlaws, sheriffs, and numerous other Stock character, stock "gunslinger" characters. Western narratives often concern the gradual attempts to tame the crime-ridden American West using wider themes of justice, freedom, rugged individualism, Manifest Destiny, and the national history and identity of the United States. History The first films that belong to the Western genre are a series of short single reel silents made in 1894 by Edison Studios at their Edison's Black Maria, Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. These featured vet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
