George Hernandez I (June 6, 1863 – December 31, 1922) was an American
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...
actor.
Hernandez was born , in
Placerville, California
Placerville (, ; formerly Old Dry Diggings, Dry Diggings, and Hangtown) is a city in and the county seat of El Dorado County, California. The population was 10,747 as of the 2020 census, up from 10,389 as of the 2010 census. It is part of the Sa ...
. From late 1897 through May 1899, Hernandez was a traveling Shakespearean actor with the Janet Waldorf Company, appearing in ''
As You Like It'' and ''
Romeo and Juliet''.
Hernandez was a member of the
William Nicholas Selig
William Nicholas Selig (March 14, 1864 – July 15, 1948) was a pioneer of the American motion picture industry. In 1896 he created one of the first film production companies, Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago. Selig produced a string of co ...
stock company, which pioneered filmmaking in Southern California. Later, he supported actress
Myrtle Gonzalez
Myrtle Gonzalez (September 28, 1891 – October 22, 1918) was an American actress. She starred in at least 78 silent era motion pictures from 1913 to 1917, of which 66 were one and two-reel shorts. She is regarded as a movie star.[Anna Dodge
Anna Dodge (October 18, 1867 – May 4, 1945) was an American silent film actress.
Anna Dodge married silent film actor George Hernandez and was frequently credited as Anna Hernandez.
Filmography
1910s
* ''Making a Man of Him'' (1911)
* ''O ...]
. He died in
Los Angeles
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in 1922 due to complications after
surgery.
Filmography
* ''
The Sanitarium'' (1910)
* ''The Little Widow'' (1911)
* ''The Maid at the Helm'' (1911)
* ''A Diamond in the Rough'' (1911)
* ''A Spanish Wooing'' (1911)
* ''
The New Superintendent
''The New Superintendent'' is a 1911 American short drama film directed by Francis Boggs, featuring Hoot Gibson as an extra.
Cast
* Herbert Rawlinson
* Tom Santschi
* Fred Huntley
* George Hernandez
* Nick Cogley
* Edward H. Philbrook
* Major ...
'' (1911)
* ''The Bootlegger'' (1911)
* ''Old Billy'' (1911)
* ''Captain Brand's Wife'' (1911)
* ''Out-Generaled'' (1911)
* ''The Rival Stage Lines'' (1911)
* ''The Heart of John Barlow'' (1911)
* ''Through Fire and Smoke'' (1911)
* ''The Regeneration of Apache Kid'' (1911)
* ''The Profligate'' (1911)
* ''The Craven Heart'' (1911)
* ''The White Medicine Man'' (1911) .... Professor A. Leclerque
* ''A Sacrifice to Civilization'' (1911)
* ''Told in the Sierras'' (1911)
* ''Where There's a Will, There's a Way'' (1911)
* ''Stability vs. Nobility'' (1911)
* ''Harbor Island'' (1912) .... Winters Banks
* ''Sammy Orpheus''; or, ''The Pied Piper of the Jungle'' (1912)
* ''The Millionaire Vagabonds'' (1912) .... Pike A. Long
* ''The Vintage of Fate'' (1912)
* ''When Helen Was Elected'' (1912)
* ''Between the Rifle Sights'' (1912)
* ''Shanghaied'' (1912)
* ''Carmen of the Isles'' (1912)
* ''Her Educator'' (1912)
* ''Monte Cristo'' (1912) .... Napoleon
* ''Euchred'' (1912)
* ''How the Cause Was Won'' (1912)
* ''The Great Drought'' (1912)
* ''The Indelible Stain'' (1912)
* ''The Box Car Baby'' (1912)
* ''The Polo Substitute'' (1912)
* ''His Masterpiece'' (1912)
* ''The Old Stagecoach'' (1912)
* ''A Child of the Wilderness'' (1912)
* ''The Lost Hat'' (1912)
* ''Brains and Brawn'' (1912)
* ''A Humble Hero'' (1912)
* ''The New Woman and the Lion'' (1912)
* ''The End of the Romance'' (1912)
* ''Tenderfoot Bob's Regeneration'' (1912)
* ''A Waif of the Sea'' (1912)
* ''The Hobo'' (1912)
* ''The 'Epidemic' in Paradise Gulch'' (1912)
* ''A Crucial Test'' (1912)
* ''The Danites'' (1912)
* ''Disillusioned'' (1912)
* ''A Broken Spur'' (1912)
* ''The Little Stowaway'' (1912)
* ''A Night Out'' (1912)
* ''The Cowboy's Adopted Child'' (1912)
* ''The Probationer'' (1913) .... Scroggins, the Baker
* ''As a Father Spareth His Son'' (1913)
* ''Man and His Other Self'' (1913)
* ''The Trail of Cards'' (1913/II)
* ''The Beaded Buckskin Bag'' (1913)
* ''The Fighting Lieutenant'' (1913)
* ''Buck Richard's Bride'' (1913)
* ''In the Days of Witchcraft'' (1913)
* ''Margarita and the Mission Funds'' (1913) .... Gov. Luira Estrada
* ''The Spanish Parrot Girl'' (1913) .... Pedro Hernandez
* ''A Black Hand Elopement'' (1913)
* ''The Wasp'' (1914) .... John Ward
* ''
The Making of Bobby Burnit
''The Making of Bobby Burnit'' is a lost 1914 American silent drama film directed by Oscar Apfel and written by George Randolph Chester and Winchell Smith. The film stars Edward Abeles, Bessie Barriscale, Howard Hickman, George Hernandez, Theodor ...
'' (1914) .... David Applerod
* ''Willie'' (1914)
* ''The Squatters'' (1914) .... Mr. Ralston
* ''The Fire Jugglers'' (1914)
* ''The Midnight Call'' (1914) .... Lawler, Sr.
* ''While Wifey Is Away'' (1914) .... Mr. Jones
* ''Tested by Fire'' (1914) .... Old Man Carroll, Mountaineer
* ''Unto the Third and Fourth Generation'' (1914)
* ''Rosemary'' (1915) (as George F. Hernandez) .... Capt. Cruickshank
* ''The Landing of the Hose Reel'' (1915)
* ''The Circular Staircase'' (1915) .... Paul Armstrong
* ''The Rosary'' (1915) .... Barrister
* ''Retribution'' (1915)
* ''The Lady of the Cyclamen'' (1915)
* ''The Chronicles of Bloom Center'' (1915)
* ''The End of the Rainbow'' (1916) .... Elihu Bennett
* ''A Romance of Billy Goat Hill'' (1916) .... Colonel Bob Carsey
* ''His Mother's Boy'' (1916)
* ''From the Rogue's Gallery'' (1916)
* ''The Girl of Lost Lake'' (1916) .... Judge West
* ''
The Secret of the Swamp
''The Secret of the Swamp'' is a 1916 American Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Lynn Reynolds. The film stars George Hernandez, Myrtle Gonzalez, Fred Church (actor), Fred Church, Frank MacQuarrie, Val Paul and Count ...
'' (1916) .... Major Burke
* ''
It Happened in Honolulu
''It Happened in Honolulu'' is a 1916 American silent film, silent comedy film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Myrtle Gonzalez, Val Paul and George Hernandez.Connelly p.367
Cast
* Myrtle Gonzalez as Mabel Wyland
* Val Paul as Larry Crane
* ...
'' (1916) .... Mr. Wyland
* ''A Son of the Immortals'' (1916) .... Sergius Nesimir
* ''The Purple Maze'' (1916)
* ''
Unto Those Who Sin
''Unto Those Who Sin'' is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by William Robert Daly and starring Fritzi Brunette, Earle Foxe and Lillian Hayward.Walker p.543
Cast
* Fritzi Brunette as Nadia
* Al W. Filson as Pierre Duprez
* Lillian Ha ...
'' (1916) .... Jules Villars
* ''The Making of Crooks'' (1916)
* ''
Up or Down?'' (1917) .... Mike
* ''A Prairie Romeo'' (1917)
* ''
Broadway Arizona
''Broadway Arizona'' is a 1917 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Olive Thomas, George Chesebro and George Hernandez.
Cast
* Olive Thomas as Fritzi Carlyle
* George Chesebro as John Keys
* George Hernandez as U ...
'' (1917) .... Uncle Isaac Horn
* ''
Mr. Opp'' (1917) .... Jimmy Fallows
* ''
The Show Down
''The Show Down'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Myrtle Gonzalez, George Hernandez and Arthur Hoyt.Spehr & Lundquist p.287
Cast
* Myrtle Gonzalez as Lydia Benson
* George Hernandez as John Benson
...
'' (1917) .... John Benson
* ''
The Greater Law
''The Greater Law'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Myrtle Gonzalez, Gretchen Lederer and George Hernandez.Connelly p.100
Cast
* Myrtle Gonzalez as Barbara Henderson
* Gretchen Lederer as 'Seattle' Lou
...
'' (1917) .... Tully Winkle
* ''
Southern Justice'' (1917) .... Judge Morgan
* ''The Smoldering Spark'' (1917)
* ''
Mutiny'' (1917) .... Grandfather Whitaker
* ''
God's Crucible'' (1917) .... Lorenzo Todd
* ''
You Can't Believe Everything'' (1918) .... Henry Pettit
* ''The Man Who Woke Up'' (1918) .... Thomas Foster
* ''The Vortex'' (1918) .... Lew Herford
* ''The Hopper'' (1918) .... Wilbur Talbot
* ''Betty Takes a Hand'' (1918) .... James Bartlett
* ''Tin Pan Alley'' (1919) .... Simon Berg
* ''The Lost Princess'' (1919) .... Samuel Blevins, Sr.
* ''Be a Little Sport'' (1919) .... Dunley Faulkner
* ''Mary Regan'' (1919) .... Peter Loveman
* ''Miss Adventure'' (1919) .... Captain Barth
* ''The Silver Girl'' (1919) .... Chuck Wilson
* ''The Rebellious Bride'' (1919) .... Tobe Plunkett
* ''A Taste of Life'' (1919) .... Jonas Collamore
* ''
The Courageous Coward'' (1919)
* ''Just Out of College'' (1920) .... Septimus Pickering
* ''
The Village Sleuth
''The Village Sleuth'' is a 1920 American silent comedy drama film directed by Jerome Storm and written by Agnes Christine Johnston. The film stars Charles Ray, Winifred Westover, Dick Rush, Donald MacDonald, George Hernandez, and Betty Scha ...
'' (1920) (as George F. Hernandez) .... Mr. Richley
* ''
Seeds of Vengeance
''Seeds of Vengeance'' is an American film released in 1920. It was directed by Ollie Sellers. It was an adaptation of Margaret Prescott's ''The Sowing of Alderson Cree''. The film starred Bernard Durning. It was a C. R. Macauley Photoplay.
It ...
'' (1920) .... George Hedrick
* ''
The House of Toys
''The House of Toys'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by George L. Cox and starring Seena Owen, Pell Trenton, and Helen Jerome Eddy.Goble p. 803
Cast
* Seena Owen as Shirley Lord
* Pell Trenton as David Quentin
* Helen Jerome E ...
'' (1920) .... Jonathan Radbourne
* ''
The Honey Bee'' (1920) .... Ed Johnson
* ''The Third Woman'' (1920) .... James Riley
* ''The Daredevil'' (1920) .... Buchanan Atkinson
* ''
The Money Changers
''The Money Changers'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Robert McKim, Claire Adams, and Roy Stewart. It is based on a 1908 novel by Upton Sinclair.
Cast
* Robert McKim as Hugh Gordon
* Claire Adams ...
'' (1920) .... James Hegan
* ''
First Love
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First or 1st may also refer to:
*World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement
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* 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and rec ...
'' (1921) .... Tad O'Donnell
* ''
The Innocent Cheat'' (1921) .... Tim Reilly
* ''
After Your Own Heart'' (1921) .... Luke Bramley
* ''
The Lure of Egypt
''The Lure of Egypt'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Howard C. Hickman and starring Robert McKim, Claire Adams and Joseph J. Dowling.Munden p.468
Plot
‘’The Lure of Egypt’’ is an adaptation of the novel ‘’There ...
'' (1921) .... Mr. Botts
* ''
The Road Demon'' (1921)
* ''
Tom Mix in Arabia
''Tom Mix in Arabia'' is a 1922 American silent adventure film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Tom Mix, Barbara Bedford and George Hernandez.Solomon p.280
Cast
* Tom Mix as Billy Evans
* Barbara Bedford as Janice Terhune
* George ...
'' (1922) .... Arthur Edward Terhune
* ''Flaming Hearts'' (1922)
* ''
Man Under Cover
''Man Under Cover'' is a 1922 American crime film directed by Tod Browning and starring Herbert Rawlinson and George Hernandez. A copy of ''Man Under Cover'' is housed at the Museum of Modern Art.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Paul Port ...
'' (1922) .... Daddy Moffat
* ''Bluebeard, Jr.'' (1922) .... The Lawyer
* ''
Billy Jim
''Billy Jim'' is a 1922 American silent comedy western film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Fred Stone, Marian Skinner and George Hernandez.Munden p.61
Cast
* Fred Stone as Billy Jim
* Millicent Fisher as Marsha Dunforth
* George Hernan ...
'' (1922) .... Dudley Dunforth
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American male Shakespearean actors
Male actors from California
American male silent film actors
19th-century American male actors
American male stage actors
20th-century American male actors
1863 births
1922 deaths