''The Imp'' is a 1919 American silent

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by Robert Ellis and starring

Elsie Janis Elsie Janis (born Elsie Bierbower, March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American actress of stage and screen, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and radio announcer. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "Forces ...

, Joe King, and Ethel Stewart.Slide p. 268

Cast

as Jane Morgan * Joe King as The Leopard * Ethel Stewart as Jane's Mother *

E. J. Ratcliffe Edward J. Ratcliffe (10 March 1863 – 28 September 1948) was an English actor of stage and screen. He had an established stage career behind him when he came to films in 1915. He then spent nearly twenty years before the cameras before making hi ...

as Jane's Father *

Duncan Penwarden Duncan Penwarden (born William Duncan Penwarden; February 9, 1880 – September 13, 1930) was a Canadian-American film and stage actor. Penwarden was born in Mabou, British Nova Scotia, the eldest of seven siblings raised by English immigrants, R ...

as Dr. James * Arthur Marion as The Butler * John Sutherland as The Deacon * William Frederic as The Warden * Edith Forrest as Maid *

Joseph Granby Joseph Granby (March 24, 1885 – September 22, 1965) was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1915 to the 1960s. Born in Boston he started in movies in 1915, mostly shorts, acting for Universal, its predecessor Independent Motion Pi ...

as Hampden * Jack Ridgeway as Comedian *

Ricardo Cortez Ricardo Cortez (born Jacob Kranze or Jacob Krantz; September 19, 1900 – April 28, 1977) was an American actor and film director. He was also credited as Jack Crane early in his acting career. Early years Ricardo Cortez was born Jacob K ...

as Extra

References

Bibliography

Anthony Slide Anthony Slide (born 7 November 1944) is an English writer who has produced more than seventy books and edited a further 150 on the history of popular entertainment. He wrote a "letter from Hollywood" for the British ''Film Review'' magazine from ...

. ''The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville''. University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

External links

* 1919 films 1919 crime films American crime films Films directed by Robert Ellis (actor, born 1892) American silent feature films 1910s English-language films Selznick Pictures films American black-and-white films 1910s American films {{1910s-US-film-stub