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William Quinn (actor)
William Quinn (13 December 1884 – 12 November 1965) was a Canadian actor of stage and film, primarily of the silent era. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1914 and 1935. He was born in Canada and died in Glen Ellen, California at the age of 80. Partial filmography * '' Called Back'' (1911) * '' Called Back'' (1914) - Signor Macari * ''The Heart of Lincoln'' (1915) - The Southern Colonel * ''For Cash'' (1915, Short) - Lee Varick - an Artist * ''Under the Crescent'' (1915) - Said Pasha - the Khedive * '' The Oyster Dredger'' (1915, Short) - Vera's Lawyer * ''The Violin Maker'' (1915, Short) - Maurice Puello * '' The Trust'' (1915, Short) - Bill * ''Drugged Waters'' (1916) - Weary * ''Love's Lariat'' (1916) - Allan Landers * ''Is Any Girl Safe?'' (1916) * ''The Heritage of Hate'' (1916) - Bradley * ''The Voice on the Wire'' (1917) - Emil LaRoux * ''Sirens of the Sea'' (1917) - Hartley Royce * ''The Curse of Eve'' (1917) - Dr. Burton * '' The Marriage Lie'' (1918) - ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirens Of The Sea (film)
''Sirens of the Sea'' is a 1917 American silent fantasy film directed and written by Allen Holubar based upon a screen story by Grace Helen Bailey. Featuring Louise Lovely, it was distributed by the Jewel Productions division of Universal Film Manufacturing Company. It is not known whether the film currently survives. Plot As described in a film magazine, a little girl, cast up from the sea in a fisherman's net from a wrecked ship, is adopted by the wealthy Wellington Stanhope (Deane) and his wife (Wright). The girl is the only survivor of the lost ship and no one knows anything about her. Eighteen years elapse and the child appears as the young debutante Sybil (Lovely) at a birthday party where she meets Hartley Royce (Quinn) and Gerald Waldron (Mulhall), who both fall in love with her. Julie (Myers) is jealous of Sybil, and plots with Harley to keep her separated from Gerald. Sybil tries to have Hadji (Selbie) tell the fortunes of the guests. While on an errand Sybil is followed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chorus Girl's Romance
''The Chorus Girl's Romance'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed by William C. Dowlan and starring Viola Dana, Gareth Hughes, and William Quinn. It is based on the 1920 short story " Head and Shoulders" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.Goble p. 712 Cast * Viola Dana as Marcia Meadows * Gareth Hughes as Horace Tarbox * Phil Ainsworth as Steve Reynolds * William Quinn as P.P. Anderson * Jere Sundin as Betty Darrell * Sidney De Gray as Fred Ward * Lawrence Grant as Jose Brasswine * Tom Gallery as Charlie Moon * Edward Jobson as Dr. Tarbox * Martin Best as F.W. Jordon * Anne Schaefer as Aunt Emma * Dorothy Gordon as Miss Wilson * William V. Mong William V. Mong (June 25, 1875 – December 10, 1940) was an American film actor, screenwriter and director. He appeared in almost 200 films between 1910 and 1939. His directing (1911–1918) and screenwriting (1911–1922) were mostly for ... as Professor Dillinger References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idaho (serial)
''Idaho'' is a 1925 American silent Western film serial directed by Robert F. Hill. The film is considered to be lost. Cast Chapter titles # Road Agents # Hands Up # The Stampede # Forbidden Testimony # Lawless Laws # Aroused # The Trap # The White Streak # Unmasked # Vigilantes See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio This is a list of film serials by studio, separated into those released by each of the five major studios, and the remaining minor studios. The five major studios produced the greater number of serials. Of these the main studios are consider ... * List of lost films References External links * Stillat lostmediawiki.com 1925 films 1925 Western (genre) films 1925 lost films American silent serial films American black-and-white films Films directed by Robert F. Hill Lost American Western (genre) films Pathé Exchange film serials Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s American films {{silent-film-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The No-Gun Man
''The No-Gun Man'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Harry Garson and starring Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn, William Quinn, and Gloria Grey. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, following the robbery of a suburban bank, the small town of Red Rock is terrorized by the appearance of a gang led by Bill Kilgore (Quinn). After failing to impress Carmen Harroway (Grey), who runs a small store, he will not allow the townspeople to trade with her. Bob Vincent (Flynn), a stranger to town, wins the friendship of Carmen and shows that he does not fear Bill. The populace is mystified when Bob becomes friendly with Bill and joins the Kilgore gang. Bill plans the robbery of the train and kidnapping of Carmen. Bob saves her, but she does not trust him, which makes his job more difficult. The townspeople finally arise and defeat the Kilgore gang, and Bob, who is knocked out and left on the railroad track, saves himself and the train. It is revealed that Bob is the presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbidden Paradise
''Forbidden Paradise'' is a 1924 American silent drama film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, produced by Famous Players-Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a 1922 Broadway play, ''The Czarina'', by Edward Sheldon, who adapted the Hungarian-language book by Melchior Lengyel and Lajos Bíró. The play starred Doris Keane, in one of her last stage roles, as Catherine the Great. Basil Rathbone costarred with Keane. The film stars Pola Negri as Catherine the Great and Rod La Rocque in the Rathbone role. Clark Gable makes his second appearance on film. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, Catherine (Negri), the Czarina of a small European country, decides to give audience in person to the French Ambassador (Malatesta) when she learns he is a favorite with the Parisian ladies. In the meantime, Alexei (La Rocque), a young officer in a border town discovers a revolution is in progress and hurries to the palace, forcing an entrance into the Cza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Came Back (1924 Film)
''The Man Who Came Back'' is a 1924 silent film drama directed by Emmett J. Flynn and starring George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation. Fox brought the story to the screen again in 1931 as an early talkie, '' The Man Who Came Back''. Plot Cast * George O'Brien - Henry Potter *Dorothy Mackaill - Marcelle *Cyril Chadwick - Captain Trevelan * Ralph Lewis - Thomas Potter *Emily Fitzroy Emily Fitzroy (24 May 1860 – 3 March 1954) was an English theatre and film actress who eventually became an American citizen. She was at one time a leading lady in London for Sir Charles Wyndham. She made her film debut in 1915. Her debut i ... - Aunt Isabel * Harvey Clark - Charles Reisling * Edward Peil, Sr. - Sam Shu Sin *David Kirby - Gibson * James Gordon - Captain Gallon *Walter Wilkinson - Henry Potter (4 years of age) *Winston Miller - Henry Potter (12 years of age) Preservation status *Incomplete or fragment held at Narodni Filmov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Those Who Dance (1924 Film)
''Those Who Dance'' is a 1924 American silent drama film produced by Thomas H. Ince and directed by Lambert Hillyer. Released by Associated First National, the film stars Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love, and Warner Baxter. It is based on a story by George Kibbe Turner. Warner Bros. later inherited First National in a merger and remade the film in 1930 as ''Those Who Dance'', which exists at the Library of Congress. It is not known whether the 1924 film currently survives, and it may be a lost film. Plot When a young lawyer (Baxter)'s sister is killed in a bootleg liquor-related accident, he seeks justice by joining the prohibition force. A young man (Agnew) is wrongfully suspected of a crime, so his sister (Sweet) seeks evidence to set him free. The lawyer and young woman pose as a couple to infiltrate the underworld. Cast Reception The film received positive reviews. Blanche Sweet's performance was praised, and Bessie Love's received even higher praise for playing—again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Mystery Girl
''His Mystery Girl'' is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Herbert Rawlinson, Ruth Dwyer, and Margaret Campbell. Plot As described in a film magazine, the friends of Kerry Reynolds (Rawlinson) think he should be a more human young man and scare him into going to his doctor. The doctor, who is in on the joke, tells him that he is a very sick man. Leaving the doctor's office he sees a beautiful young woman apparently in distress and she wins his heart. Seeing her again at a hotel lobby, he notes that she drops a beaded handbag and takes it home. Seeing her advertisement about her handbag, he meets her and finds that the handbag contains valuable diamonds. Rushing to his apartment to check the bag's contents, he finds that it is gone. Then the woman appears at his door and demands the bag, and she is followed by a man claiming to be her husband. Kerry gets a message that she is a prisoner in a deserted house, and after some adventures he arri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Darling Of New York
''The Darling of New York'' is a 1923 American silent comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ... directed by King Baggot and written by Adrian Johnson and Raymond L. Schrock. The film stars Diana Serra Cary, Baby Peggy, her first feature film. The film was released on December 3, 1923, by Universal Pictures. In the film, Baby Peggy plays Santussa, who after she is taken by a gang of jewel smugglers is able to reform them. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Italian orphan Santussa is sent to New York City to be cared by for her grandfather. Accompanying Santussa is her Governess. In order to protect themselves and perhaps collect a large ransom, a gem smuggler separates her from her Governess and steals little Baby Peggy. Some stolen gems have been sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ghost City
''The Ghost City'' is a 1923 American silent Western film serial directed by Jay Marchant. It is considered to be a lost film. Plot As described in a film magazine, in Sunshine Valley, California, there is trouble aplenty brewing. Laughing Larry Laughton (Morrison) and his pal, Sagebrush Hilton (Rice), are informed that unless the ranch owners place ten thousand dollars in a designated spot on a certain day, the reservoir supplying the valley with water will be drained. To show that they are in earnest, they have taken two feet of water already. At the same time, Austin Sinclair (Allen), wealthy California ranch owner, having purchased Ghost City Ranch in Sunshine Valley, receives word in his home in New Orleans that a conspiracy is in progress to take the ranch away from him. Unable to go to California himself on account of a disabled foot, his daughter Alice (Morris) offers to go for him and gets her cousin Raymond Moreton (Wilson), a daring young aviator, to take her in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tango Cavalier
''The Tango Cavalier'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Charles R. Seeling and starring George Larkin, Frank Whitson and Ollie Kirkby. Plot U.S. Secret Service agent Don Lawson goes on an undercover assignment as Don Armingo in a Mexican smuggling ring. Before he can make arrests, his love interest Doris is kidnapped, and Don is captured. Carmelita, a tango dancer enamored of Don, releases and tries to seduce him, but he rebuffs her. Don rescues Doris by picking her out of an automobile in an airplane as it crashes off an embankment. Cast * George Larkin as Don Armingo * Frank Whitson as Colonel Pomeroy * Dorris Dare as Doris * Ollie Kirkby Ollie Kirkby (September 26, 1886 – October 7, 1964) was an American stage, screen, and vaudeville actress. Biography She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1886 and died in 1964 at Glendale, California. Her entire career, from 1914 t ... as Carmelita * William Quinn as Brute Morgan * Mike Tellegen as St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Law
''Wolf Law'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Stuart Paton and starring Frank Mayo, Sylvia Breamer and Tom Guise.Connelly p.310 Cast * Frank Mayo as Jefferson De Croteau * Sylvia Breamer as Francine Redney * Tom Guise as Etienne De Croteau * Richard Cummings as Enoch Lascar * William Quinn as Simon Santey * Nick De Ruiz as Samson Bender * Harry Carter as 'Dandy' Dawson * Paul Wismer Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ... as Mountaineer 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 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
