''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

- J. Dabney Barron *Irene Howley - Betty Arden *

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 *

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.

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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 {{1910s-drama-film-stub

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