''His Father's Son'' is a 1917
silent film drama directed by
George D. Baker
George Duane Baker (April 22, 1868 – June 2, 1933) was an American motion picture director whose career began near the dawn of the silent film era.
Early life
He was born at Champaign, Illinois on April 22, 1868.
He was the second son and third ...
and starring
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''A Free Soul'' (1931) ...
. It was produced and distributed by
Metro Pictures
Metro Pictures Corporation was a Film, motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leas ...
.
Cast
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Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''A Free Soul'' (1931) ...
- J. Dabney Barron
*Irene Howley - Betty Arden
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Frank Currier
Frank Currier (September 4, 1857 – April 22, 1928) was an American film and stage actor and director of the silent era.
Career
Similar to Theodore Roberts, Kate Lester, Ida Waterman, and William H. Crane, Currier had a long and successfu ...
- John Arden
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Charles Eldridge
Charles Eldridge (September 25, 1854 – October 29, 1922) was an American stage and screen actor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He appeared in over 100 films, although the majority of those were film shorts. He began on the stage ...
- Adam Barron
*George A. Wright - Perkins
*Phil Sanford - Jim Foley
*Walter Horton - Lord Lawrence
*Hugh Jeffrey -
*Florence Natol -
*Ilean Hume -
*Marien Dennis -
Preservation status
*A print exists in Archives Du Film Du CNC, Bois d'Arcy.
See also
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Lionel Barrymore filmography
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; 1878–1954) was an American actor of stage, screen, and radio. He also directed several films, wrote scripts, created etchings, sketches, and composed music. He was the eldest child of the actors Mauri ...
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1917 films
American silent feature films
Films directed by George D. Baker
American black-and-white films
Silent American drama films
1917 drama films
Metro Pictures films
1910s American films
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