''Won by a Head'' is a 1920 British silent

sports film A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme. It is a production in which a sport, sporting event, athlete (and their sport), or follower of sport (and the spor ...

directed by

Percy Nash The English surname Percy is of Normans, Norman origin, coming from Normandy to England, United Kingdom. It was from the House of Percy, Norman lords of Northumberland, derives from the village of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy. From there, it came i ...

and starring

Rex Davis Captain Reginald Graham Davis (7 November 1890 – 1 December 1951), known as Rex Davis, was a British soldier, silent film actor and sportsman. Biography Davis was born in Keymer, Sussex, in 1890. According to one source, he got his start ...

Frank Tennant Frank Tennant (10 August 1876 – 13 January 1971) was a British stage and screen actor Frank Tennant was born Thomas Henry Merriman in Upper Broughton, Nottinghamshire. He died at age 94 in Horsmonden, Kent. Selected filmography * ''The Mur ...

and

Vera Cornish Vera Cornish was a British stage and film actress Born 1893 died 1945? Spouse Kenneth Webb Married London 1914. Selected filmography * '' A London Flat Mystery'' (1915) * '' Broken Barrier'' (1917) * ''The Woman Wins ''The Woman Wins'' is a ...

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world.

Cast

as Chester Lawton *

as Milton Bell *

as Phyllis Reid *

Wallace Bosco Wallace Charles Bosco (31 January 1880 in St Pancras, London – 1973 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey) was an English film actor and screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer ...

as Jim Kort *

Douglas Payne Douglas Payne (1875 in England – 3 August 1965 in London, England) was a British actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * '' Maria Marten'' (1913) * '' The Harbour Lights'' (1914) * ''In the Ranks'' (1914) * ''Enoch Arden'' (1914) * '' ...

J. Edwards Barker ''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'', formerly known as ''Jweekly'', is a weekly print newspaper in Northern California, with its online edition updated daily. It is owned and operated by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications In ...

Madge Tree Madge Tree (1875–1947) was a British actress of the silent era. She was born in West Derby, Liverpool and died in Paddington, London. Selected filmography * '' Hard Times'' (1915) * '' What Every Woman Knows'' (1917) * ''The Garden of Resurr ...

References

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* 1920 films 1920s sports films British silent feature films British horse racing films Films directed by Percy Nash British black-and-white films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent sports films {{sport-film-stub