Maurice Costello
Ezaguna: Acting
Urtebetetzea: 1877-02-20
Jaioterria: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Ezaguna ere: Maurice George Costello
The Love of Chrysanthemum
A little tragedy of Japan wherein a tourist fails to realize that love is a sacred thing the world round.
Askatu : 1910.05.28Ospea : 1.337
The Story Without a Name
Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma wants to get his hands on the...
Askatu : 1924.10.27Ospea : 0.902
A Man Betrayed
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is...
Askatu : 1941.03.07Ospea : 1.906
Siren of the Sea
Fantasy short starring Annette Kellerman as a Siren.
Askatu : 1911.01.01Ospea : 0.738
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
An orphan is adopted by a kindly old racehorse owner. He decides to pay back his benefactor by training to ride the horse so he can win an important...
Askatu : 1927.01.15Ospea : 1.646
Man and Wife
Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr. Howard Fleming, a famed brain surgeon....
Askatu : 1923.03.25Ospea : 0.929
Alice in Movieland
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes...
Askatu : 1940.03.03Ospea : 3.711
The Inherited Taint
Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another man. Warning takes to drinking. When he meets...
Askatu : 1911.03.31Ospea : 2.498
How She Won Him
Some possess youth; others good looks, and still others have money, but Muriel Hanson has all three and she is engaged to be married to a fine young...
Askatu : 1910.09.09Ospea : 1.288
Barriers Burned Away
John and Edwin Martin, two brothers, occupy, each with his own family, a double house; they are all very much united. Each one of the brothers has a...
Askatu : 1911.06.24Ospea : 1.38
The Sleep Walker
A young woman does strange things, which are explained when it is discovered she is a sleep walker.
Askatu : 1911.06.23Ospea : 2.058
For Her Brother's Sake
The black sheep of the family is protected by his sister.
Askatu : 1911.06.06Ospea : 0.476
A Quaker Mother
Mrs. Pearson is a little different from most mothers, at least in her general appearance, for she has that sweetness and calmness of disposition,...
Askatu : 1911.06.27Ospea : 0.949
A Princess of Bagdad
A caliph imprisons the cobbler's son his daughter has fallen in love with, but the cobbler's discovery of a treasure cave may be the key to freeing...
Askatu : 1913.09.01Ospea : 1.288
She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
Rose Leigh is a young schoolteacher. She sees a paragraph in the paper, saying that in a certain small village they have had in six months, three...
Askatu : 1911.07.26Ospea : 0.496
For Love and Glory
Young Lieut. Osmond, of the British Army, is engaged to be married to Rose Seaton. His father objects. Later they are married, and Lieut. Osmond is...
Askatu : 1911.08.14Ospea : 0.616
Richard III
Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
Askatu : 1908.09.26Ospea : 0.583
The Last Alarm
Firemen Tom and Joe each loves the other's sister, although neither is able to support a wife. Tom's troubles are compounded by a rival for his...
Askatu : 1926.06.15Ospea : 1.845
Conscience
More a cautionary moral tale than anything else, Conscience makes use of a setting that was to become a horror movie favourite: the chamber of...
Askatu : 1912.07.15Ospea : 0.802
A Midsummer Night's Dream
An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
Askatu : 1909.12.25Ospea : 3.439
Fellow Voyagers
Miss Marbury comes on deck and looks haughtily at Mrs. Cray, an attractive young widow, half suspecting that she has her steamer chair. When she...
Askatu : 1913.11.26Ospea : 1.792
Some Steamer Scooping
The Baron Lafitte is in love with and proposes to Adelaide Burton, daughter of Andrew Burton, a wealthy manufacturer. Clara Lane, a newspaper...
Askatu : 1914.02.12Ospea : 0.349
The Geranium
One glance at the poor and disordered home of the Tunisons shows us there is something still lacking. Mrs. Tunison is obliged to provide for her...
Askatu : 1911.07.15Ospea : 2.612
His Sister's Children
Harry Burton's sister and her husband are suddenly called away for a few days on business and telegraph him to come to their home and take care of...
Askatu : 1911.09.26Ospea : 1.998
Etta of the Footlights
Etta Lang, a chorus girl, is the principal support of an invalid mother and her sister and brother, not only working at the theater, but looking...
Askatu : 1914.05.23Ospea : 0.787
Too Much Burglar
An exceptionally capable girl, Trixie Joyce, proves a great help, to her mother, a widow with a large family of girls. They receive a proposition...
Askatu : 1914.11.19Ospea : 0.794
The Evil Men Do
As childhood sweethearts, David Horton and Beatrice Elton are inseparable. Fifteen years later Beatrice goes abroad and while there is heartbroken to...
Askatu : 1915.01.19Ospea : 1.177
For the Honor of the Family
On account of his extravagance and dissipation, Col. Ryder disowns his son and casts him off. Guy, resolved to redeem himself, joins an Indian...
Askatu : 1912.01.27Ospea : 0.615
Some Good in All
John Lane is a prosperous businessman, a widower, who lives in a large house with his seven-year-old daughter Betty. Lane has an enemy, one Ben...
Askatu : 1911.12.25Ospea : 0.498
The Money Kings
The Money Kings is a 1912 silent short film.
Askatu : 1912.07.15Ospea : 1.243
The Heart of Jim Brice
Jovial and big-hearted, Jim Brice, of the Howard Detective Agency, is sent to trap bribetakers in a nearby city.
Askatu : 1915.04.01Ospea : 0.573
Wanted... a Grandmother
Kitty Mallory, the young actress, finds herself in straightened circumstances. Looking for the immediate dollar, she sees an "ad" in the newspaper,...
Askatu : 1912.08.09Ospea : 0.897
Bobby's Father
Dick Ramsay is a "cracksman" and burglar. His wife, Jane, is a good woman and tries to persuade her husband to give up his dishonest ways. They have...
Askatu : 1912.09.23Ospea : 1.726
Her Grandchild
Mrs. Grant, a widow, has one son, Donald. He is not really a bad fellow, but is full of devilment and always getting himself into mischief. One day,...
Askatu : 1912.08.19Ospea : 0.441
The Hindoo Charm
Advised by his friends to seek a second wife so that his children, Helen and Dolores, may know a mother's care, Sir Edward Tilbury marries Phyllis,...
Askatu : 1913.09.17Ospea : 1.299
A Tale of Two Cities
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
Askatu : 1911.02.20Ospea : 0.945
A Vitagraph Romance
After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the Vitagraph Company as an actress. After waiting...
Askatu : 1912.09.17Ospea : 2.906
Roulette
Before he can avenge a crooked card game, Dan Carrington suffers heart failure and dies in his chair. John Tralee, the cheater, feels a pang of guilt...
Askatu : 1924.01.19Ospea : 1.022
The First Violin
Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from the theater the old musician finds little Helen...
Askatu : 1912.02.02Ospea : 0.711
The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
A gang of crooks are employed to get possession of valuable papers of international importance, held by the French Ambassador, Vicomte de Jarlais....
Askatu : 1913.01.10Ospea : 1.26
On the Pupil of His Eye
The household of Senator Walker consists of himself, his ward, Mary, and his nephew, Herbert. The other members of his household are John, an old...
Askatu : 1912.07.05Ospea : 1.012
The Two Battles
Just previous to his departure for South Africa and the Boer War, Gordon Frazier, a young officer in the English Army, bids an affectionate farewell...
Askatu : 1912.08.17Ospea : 0.829
The Black Sheep
You would think that the death of his wife through his dissipation and neglect would have brought Jack Moreland to his senses. Instead he is more...
Askatu : 1912.07.19Ospea : 1.26
The Sacrifice
During Nick Austin's imprisonment, his wife passes away. Before she dies, she writes a note to her husband, asking him to put her little girl in the...
Askatu : 1911.06.09Ospea : 0.977
Getting Up a Practice
Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his misery, his sweetheart's father, Mr. Irving,...
Askatu : 1913.03.27Ospea : 0.63
The Sale of a Heart
To avoid ruin, an impoverished count arranges a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy man she does not love. After an accident, she is taken in...
Askatu : 1913.07.18Ospea : 2.142
Iron and Steel
Herr Ludwig Kronitz is a king in his own works and rules with a controlling hand. He is known as the "Man of Iron." He has made a fortune out of the...
Askatu : 1914.02.21Ospea : 0.809
Lady from Louisiana
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...
Askatu : 1941.04.22Ospea : 3.58
Water Lilies
Albertina is a celebrated dancer whose fame is widespread. However, she has overtaxed her strength, is forbidden to appear in public and is obliged...
Askatu : 1911.01.13Ospea : 0.745
The Wagon Show
Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous competitor Vicarino, the young Bob Mason takes the...
Askatu : 1928.02.19Ospea : 1.211
Little Nemo
Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor...
Askatu : 1911.04.08Ospea : 4.812
Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning,...
Askatu : 1941.04.17Ospea : 52.092
A Man to Remember
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Askatu : 1938.10.14Ospea : 4.216
The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...
Askatu : 1939.10.28Ospea : 15.527
The Crimson Stain Mystery
In attempting to develop a chemical which would make a person super-intelligent, Dr. Montrose fails and the subjects of his experiments metamorphose...
Askatu : 1916.08.21Ospea : 1.127
It's a Wonderful World
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by...
Askatu : 1939.05.19Ospea : 13.365
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He...
Askatu : 1939.10.19Ospea : 13.899
The Picture Idol
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her...
Askatu : 1912.05.31Ospea : 1.236
Practically Yours
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...
Askatu : 1944.12.20Ospea : 2.674
Comet Over Broadway
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Askatu : 1938.12.03Ospea : 4.215
Hollywood Boulevard
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...
Askatu : 1936.08.20Ospea : 1.585
Dr. LaFleur's Theory
Dr. Lafleur is convinced that crime is an illness and can be treated like that.
Askatu : 1912.05.05Ospea : 0.778
The Glass Key
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Askatu : 1942.09.08Ospea : 7.848
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his...
Askatu : 1941.08.07Ospea : 10.409
All This, and Heaven Too
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King...
Askatu : 1940.07.05Ospea : 6.437
The New Stenographer
A capable but homely new hire becomes ill and recommends her beautiful cousin during leave. The bosses and clerk get a surprise at the end.
Askatu : 1911.02.18Ospea : 0.986
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children....
Askatu : 1939.08.22Ospea : 2.468
Search for Beauty
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and...
Askatu : 1934.02.02Ospea : 4.425
Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...
Askatu : 1940.05.10Ospea : 5.076
The Mad Marriage
Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by marrying a wealthy old colonel. As a young...
Askatu : 1925.01.30Ospea : 2.194
The Way of the Cross
A story of ancient Rome. The scene of this story is laid in Rome in the days of Nero. Rome has recently suffered conflagrations and other disasters,...
Askatu : 1909.08.21Ospea : 1.344
The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
During the French Revolution, the Duke and Duchess of Bérac are captured by a mob. The Duchess agrees to marry one of their leaders in order...
Askatu : 1912.06.13Ospea : 1.572
Aunty's Romance
Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is...
Askatu : 1912.05.12Ospea : 1.968
The Loyalty of Sylvia
The daughter of an old friend is staying with Dr. Laurence. Sylvia is a naughty girl; she puts sneezing powder into a bunch of flowers to make...
Askatu : 1912.09.12Ospea : 3.713
Delayed Proposals
It is sometimes decidedly difficult to get a little privacy on shipboard. Several times Jack Hardy almost reaches the proposal point with Marion Van...
Askatu : 1913.06.19Ospea : 2.705
As You Like It
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her...
Askatu : 1912.10.06Ospea : 0.979
The Lonely Princess
A young American millionaire in Venice falls in love with the beautiful princess Ione.
Askatu : 1913.09.03Ospea : 4.004
Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Askatu : 1908.12.01Ospea : 3.436
Eagle of the Night
1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action serial from Pathe was one of the studio's last. Some...
Askatu : 1928.10.20Ospea : 0.528
Foreign Correspondent
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...
Askatu : 1940.08.16Ospea : 11.213
Tin Pan Alley
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...
Askatu : 1940.11.29Ospea : 2.109
The Sea Hawk
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Askatu : 1940.08.10Ospea : 5.89
Third Finger, Left Hand
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...
Askatu : 1940.10.11Ospea : 6.278
Johnny Apollo
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...
Askatu : 1940.04.19Ospea : 1.226
It All Came Out in the Wash
A romance between Mr. Wall and the girl from the laundry, who encounter each other for the first time on a train station platform.
Askatu : 1912.12.29Ospea : 0.668
Lulu's Doctor
Magde leaves her fiancé Lewis in order to take care of Lulu, the child of her deceased sister, in New York. After some time, chance brings the...
Askatu : 1912.06.09Ospea : 0.335
The Meeting of the Ways
Tom and Dick are brothers and are being educated at the same college. Tom is a studious fellow and graduates with honors, while Dick is expelled from...
Askatu : 1912.01.12Ospea : 0.67
Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins
Noah Clayton, an old coster, who has made a bit of money, lives with his daughter Liza. He is very cranky and very gouty. Henry Hawkins, a young...
Askatu : 1912.03.13Ospea : 0.681
The Show Girl
Audrey, a charming actress, but classed among the show girls, is invited with some of her stage companions, to have lunch with an old friend, by the...
Askatu : 1911.05.18Ospea : 0.952
When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet
Short comedy about a arguing couple in which the man is doing everything to make up with his girlfriend. Henri has a fight with his girlfriend, Dora....
Askatu : 1912.10.08Ospea : 1.303
Camille
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
Askatu : 1927.09.04Ospea : 1.721
The Crown Prince's Double
A prince, aiming to avoid an unwanted marriage, hires an American as a double to evade his pursuing father.
Askatu : 1916.02.07Ospea : 2.086
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude...
Askatu : 1942.02.13Ospea : 3.806
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as...
Askatu : 1939.07.21Ospea : 2.234
The Shamrock and the Rose
The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.
Askatu : 1927.04.14Ospea : 2.818
Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian
A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and...
Askatu : 1908.11.03Ospea : 2.233
Du Barry was a Lady
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When...
Askatu : 1943.08.13Ospea : 3.222
Happily Buried
For some unexplained reason, sales of waffle irons have plummeted. Evelyn Foster, president of the Magic Circle Waffle Iron Company, and Richard...
Askatu : 1939.04.14Ospea : 1.004
The Bride of Lammermoor
Sir Walter Scott adaptation, existing in fragmentary form in the Library of Congress paper print collections.
Askatu : 1909.06.17Ospea : 0.647
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
This patriotic and historic picture portrays the writing of the famous national hymn by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. In the early part of the Civil War...
Askatu : 1911.06.30Ospea : 0.459
Rose Leaves
Mrs. String, sitting under the rose bushes with her baby, Helen, on her knee, is approached lovingly by her husband, who lovingly speaks to his...
Askatu : 1910.08.27Ospea : 0.307
Auld Lang Syne
Among the green hills of Scotland dwelt two farmer lads, Tammas and Geordie, fast friends tried and loyal as members of the same clan. They are both...
Askatu : 1911.11.07Ospea : 0.355
The Adventure of the Italian Model
Master detective, Lambert Chase, unravels a case of poisoning
Askatu : 1912.09.21Ospea : 3.668
The Old Silver Watch
Mary Collins dies leaving two children; Mildred ('Lucie') and Frank. On her deathbed, she gives Frank a silver watch that belonged to his father. The...
Askatu : 1912.03.19Ospea : 0.909
The Glimpses of the Moon
The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
Askatu : 1923.03.25Ospea : 2.926
Proving His Love; or, The Ruse of a Beautiful Woman
An unfortunate twist of fate provides the opportunity for a reporter to demonstrate the depth of his love for a beautiful actress.
Askatu : 1911.06.16Ospea : 1.106
What a Change of Clothes Did
Tired of being sought only for his money, a rich man goes on a fishing trip.
Askatu : 1913.01.20Ospea : 0.572
The Moonstone of Fez
While touring Algiers, Mrs. Osborne and her daughter, Winnifred, make the acquaintance of Schuyler Van Norden, a young American banker. At a little...
Askatu : 1914.07.07Ospea : 0.514
The Mysterious Lodger
Returning home from a matinee, Ralph Brent, a poor actor, finds his step-child dead. The child's mother returns intoxicated, having purchased drink...
Askatu : 1914.08.27Ospea : 0.882
Salome (The Dance of Seven Veils)
King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.
Askatu : 1908.08.29Ospea : 1.256
The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain
A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.
Askatu : 1908.12.19Ospea : 0.645
The Climax
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad...
Askatu : 1944.10.20Ospea : 6.617
The Ghost Comes Home
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Askatu : 1940.03.08Ospea : 2.24
His Mother
Donald Gray, living with his mother in Scotland, through the friendship of the family physician, is offered an opportunity to go to America to study...
Askatu : 1911.05.09Ospea : 0.511
Dead Man’s Honor
Hugh and Henry Watson, two brothers, are in love with Helen Mallory. She rejects Hugh and accepts Henry. Hugh, broken-hearted, goes west, leaving a...
Askatu : 1911.05.23Ospea : 1.781
Over the Garden Wall
Making the best of her genteel poverty, our heroine prepares to attend the dance to which she has been invited, and, after surveying the general...
Askatu : 1910.06.10Ospea : 1.638
The Changing of Silas Warner
Silas Warner dictates a letter commanding his son Harry to leave college at once and enter his office as an employee. Furthermore, Mr. Warner has in...
Askatu : 1911.06.10Ospea : 2.4
A Fig Leaf for Eve
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
Askatu : 1944.07.04Ospea : 3.743