''The Blood of His Fathers'' is a 1917 American silent

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directed by

Harrish Ingraham Harrish Ingraham (1881– ?), was a British film director, screenwriter and actor during the era of silent movies. Life Ingraham was born in London in 1881. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and the University of London. After the Univers ...

and starring

Crane Wilbur Crane Wilbur (November 17, 1886 – October 18, 1973) was an American writer, actor and director for stage, radio and screen. He was born in Athens, New York. Wilbur is best remembered for playing Harry Marvin in '' The Perils of Pauline''. He ...

Jode Mullally Joseph T. "Jode" Mullally (November 19, 1886–December 29, 1918) was an early American silent film actor born in New Orleans. He appeared in several productions by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. Upon America's entry into World War I, Mullally ...

and Ruth King.Connelly p.324 The film begins shortly after the

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when a renegade

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soldier commits three murders before jumping on to 1917.

Cast

as Morgan Gray / Abel Gray *

as Kane Gray * Gene Crosby as Hope Halliday * Don Bailey as William Halliday *

Jacob Abrams Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jac ...

as Isaac in 1917 *

Joseph Hazelton Joseph H. Hazelton (c. 1853 – October 6, 1936), aka Joseph Hazleton, was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1912 and 1922. As a boy program giver at Ford's Theatre, he witnessed the assassination of U.S. President A ...

as Anderson *

Doc Crane Doc Crane (1847 – April 17, 1920) was an American silent film actor. Crane was a medical doctor in Boston who served in the Civil War and returned to his practice after its end. When he was 65, he moved to California to retire. After financia ...

as John Graham * Ruth King as Amity Graham * Richie Carpenter as Isaac in 1865 * Ray Thomson as Lieutenant Wilfred Torrance * Julia Jackson as Mrs. Graham

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998.

External links

* 1917 films 1917 drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films directed by Harrish Ingraham Films set in the 1860s American historical drama films 1910s historical drama films 1910s English-language films 1910s American films Silent American drama films {{Silent-film-stub