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Lionel D'Aragon
Lionel d'Aragon (5 July 1863 - 1941) was a British actor of the silent era. He was born in Paris, France and died in Camberwell, London. Selected filmography * '' Heroes of the Mine'' (1913) * '' A Fair Impostor'' (1916) * ''The Valley of Fear'' (1916) * '' It Is for England'' (1916) * ''Little Women'' (1917) * ''Drink'' (1917) * ''The Sorrows of Satan'' (1917) * '' The Key of the World'' (1918) * ''The Great Impostor'' (1918) * '' Pallard the Punter'' (1919) * '' Love's Boomerang'' (1922) * '' A Lost Leader'' (1922) * '' The Spanish Jade'' (1922) * ''Guy Fawkes'' (1923) * ''Lily of the Alley'' (1923) * '' Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight'' (1923) * '' The Virgin Queen'' (1923) * ''The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots'' (1923) * ''The Fair Maid of Perth'' (1923) * ''Mist in the Valley ''Mist in the Valley'' is a 1923 British silent crime film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, G. H. Mulcaster and James Carew. It was based on a novel by Dorin Craig. Cast * Alma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spanish Jade (1922 Film)
''The Spanish Jade'' is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is considered to be lost. It was shot at Islington Studios in London by the British subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. The story had previously been made into a 1915 film of the same title. Cast * David Powell as Gil Pérez * Marc McDermott as Don Luis Ramónez de Alavia * Charles de Rochefort as Esteban * Evelyn Brent as Mañuela * Lionel d'Aragon as Mañuela's Stepfather * Frank Stanmore as Tormillo, Don Luis' servant * Roy Byford as Esteban's Spy and Confident * Harry Ham as Oswald Manvers See also * Alfred Hitchcock filmography * '' The Spanish Jade'' (1915) * List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. Reas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Male Silent Film Actors
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1941 Deaths
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January– August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Aktion T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1863 Births
Events January * January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate States of America an official war goal. The signing proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's four million slaves and immediately frees 50,000 of them, with the rest freed as the Union Army advances. This event marks the start of America's Reconstruction era, Reconstruction Era. * January 2 – Master Lucius Tar Paint Company (''Teerfarbenfabrik Meister Lucius''), predecessor of Hoechst AG, Hoechst, as a worldwide Chemical, chemical manufacturing brand, founded in a suburb of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. * January 4 – Founding date of the New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, in a schism with the Catholic Apostolic Church in Hamburg, Germany. * January 7 – In the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of Ticino, the village of Bedretto is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventurous Youth
''Adventurous Youth'' is a 1928 British silent Western film directed by Edward Godal and starring Derrick De Marney, Renee Clama and Dino Galvani. It depicts an Englishman (Derrick de Marney) who is voluntarily caught up in the Mexican Revolution. He tries to help save a village, where he has been working, from being sacked and destroyed. The film was made as a quota quickie and distributed in the United States by Warner Brothers. Cast * Derrick De Marney as the Englishman * Renee Clama as Mary Ferguson * Dino Galvani as Don Esteban * Sybil Wise as the Vamp * Loftus Tottenham as Mr Ferguson * Julius Kantorez as Father O'Flannigan * Harry Bagge * Lionel d'Aragon Lionel d'Aragon (5 July 1863 - 1941) was a British actor of the silent era. He was born in Paris, France and died in Camberwell, London. Selected filmography * '' Heroes of the Mine'' (1913) * '' A Fair Impostor'' (1916) * ''The Valley of Fear' ... * Harry Peterson References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flying Fifty-Five (1924 Film)
''The Flying Fifty-Five'' is a 1924 British silent sports film directed by A. E. Coleby and starring Lionelle Howard, Frank Perfitt and Lionel d'Aragon. It is based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace, and was remade as a sound film in 1939. Cast * Lionelle Howard as Reggie Cambrey * Stephanie Stephens as Stella Barrington * Brian B. Lemon as Lord Fountwell * Frank Perfitt as Joanh Urquhart * Lionel d'Aragon as Sir Jacques Gregory * Bert Darley as Honourable Claude Barrington * Adeline Hayden Coffin as Aunt * John Alexander as Jebson * Johnny Butt * Annie Esmond See also * List of films about horses * List of films about horse racing The following is a list of films featuring horse racing. List See also *List of films about horses * List of highest grossing sports films * List of sports films References {{Horse topics * Films about animals playing sports Horse ra ... Further reading * Low, Rachael. ''The History of the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mist In The Valley
''Mist in the Valley'' is a 1923 British silent crime film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, G. H. Mulcaster and James Carew. It was based on a novel by Dorin Craig. Cast * Alma Taylor - Margaret Yeoland * G. H. Mulcaster - Denis Marlow * James Carew - Justin Courtney * Esme Hubbard - Nurse Merrion * John MacAndrews - Job Pennyquick * Gwynne Herbert - Mrs. Grick * Maud Cressall - Mother Superior * Charles Vane Charles Vane (c. 1680 – 29 March 1721) was an English pirate who operated in the Bahamas during the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. Vane was likely born in the Kingdom of England around 1680. One of his first pirate ventures was under the l ... - Squire Yeoland * Douglas Munro - Prosecution * Lionel d'Aragon - Defence * Bertram Terry - Mr. Moon * Fred Rains - Mr. Warren References External links * 1923 films 1923 crime films 1920s English-language films Films directed by Cecil Hepworth British silent feature films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fair Maid Of Perth (film)
''The Fair Maid of Perth'' is a 1923 British silent film, silent adventure film directed by Edwin Greenwood and starring Russell Thorndike, Sylvia Caine and Lionel d'Aragon. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios, and based on the 1828 novel ''The Fair Maid of Perth'' by Sir Walter Scott.Low p.174 Cast * Russell Thorndike as Dwining * Sylvia Caine as Catherine * Lionel d'Aragon as Black Douglas * Tristan Rawson as Harry Gow * Charles Barratt (actor), Charles Barratt * Lionelle Howard * Donald Macardle * Sidney Paxton * Wallace Bosco * Jack Denton * Leal Douglas * Kate Gurney References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. 1923 films 1920s historical adventure films British historical adventure films British silent feature films Films set in Scotland Films set in the 15th century Films shot at Beaconsfield Studios Films directed by Edwin Greenwood Films based on works by Walter Scott Films based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Loves Of Mary, Queen Of Scots
''The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots'' is a 1923 British silent historical film directed by Denison Clift and starring Fay Compton, Gerald Ames and Ivan Samson. The film depicts the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her eventual execution. It was one of the final films made by Ideal, one of the leading British studios, before they were hit by the Slump of 1924. It is most likely considered a lost film. Cast * Fay Compton as Mary Stuart * Gerald Ames as Bothwell * Ivan Samson as Lord Dudley * John Stuart as George Douglas * Ellen Compton as Queen Elizabeth I of England * Lionel d'Aragon as Moray * Harvey Braban as Ruthven * Irene Rooke as Catherine de' Medici * Donald Macardle as Francis II * René Maupré as Rizzio * Ernest A. Douglas as Cardinal * Sydney Seaward as Lord Douglas * Edward Sorley as John Knox * Betty Faire as Mary Beaton * Dorothy Fane as Mary Beaton * Nancy Kenyon as Mary Fleming * Julie Hartley-Milburn as Mary Seaton * Basil Rathbone (uncredited) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Virgin Queen (1923 Film)
'' The Virgin Queen'' is a 1923 British silent historical film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Diana Manners, Carlyle Blackwell and Walter Tennyson. Production background The film is a biopic of the life of the English Queen Elizabeth I and had sequences filmed in Prizmacolor. Cast * Diana Manners - Queen Elizabeth * Carlyle Blackwell - Lord Robert Dudley * Walter Tennyson - Viscount Hereford * Hubert Carrer - Sir William Cecil * A.B. Imeson - Borghese * William Luff - Bishop de Quadra * Lionel d'Aragon - Earl of Northumberland * Norma Whalley - Countess Lennox * Maisie Fisher - Queen Mary * Marian Constance Blackton - Mary Arundel * Violet Virginia Blackton - Lettice Knollys * Ursula Jeans - Bit Part (uncredited) See also *List of early color feature films A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
