Edward Cecil
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1878-09-12
Locus Natus: San Francisco, California, USA
Et ut:
Under Two Flags
Tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the...
release : 1915.07.21popularis : 0.715
Fast Company
Lawrence Percival Van Huyler, a society fop, protests against the necessity of living up to his snobbish family's blue-blooded traditions. His...
release : 1918.04.01popularis : 0.695
Speed
A suspense thriller with Lightning the Dog hunting down crooks.
release : 1927.10.09popularis : 1.854
His Fighting Blood
A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his...
release : 1935.10.14popularis : 2.607
Jazzland
Fighting the invasion of their small New England town by a big city--type nightclub, the Jazzland, a young newspaperman and his brother endeavor to...
release : 1928.12.01popularis : 0.552
Resurrection
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a...
release : 1931.01.27popularis : 1.817
Love Time
Romaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.
release : 1934.11.03popularis : 1.94
The Eagle's Talons
An unscrupulous gang attempts to corner the wheat market.
release : 1923.04.30popularis : 1.769
The Love Gambler
Drifter Dick Manners arrives at a ranch owned by Colonel Angus McClelland. When he wagers that he will be able to ride a wild bronco and kiss the...
release : 1922.11.12popularis : 3.436
Queen of the Northwoods
The villain of this serial, the "Wolf Devil", who's head covering amazingly looks to be a REAL wolf's head, is determined to eradicate the non native...
release : 1929.05.21popularis : 0.919
The Desert of the Lost
Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into Mexico where he recuperates with the Wolfes. When Murray...
release : 1927.12.17popularis : 2.983
The Girl Who Came Back
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to...
release : 1935.09.20popularis : 1.503
The Beast
Mildred Manning wants to experience the Wild West firsthand with her beau, Sir Charles Beverly. While Charles is gambling, Mildred is saved from two...
release : 1916.07.24popularis : 0.88
Conscience
Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish...
release : 1917.01.01popularis : 0.842
Secrets of the Night
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
release : 1924.11.12popularis : 1.47
The Solitary Sin
Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently...
release : 1919.07.01popularis : 2.158
The Kaiser's Shadow
French scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray and ultra violet rays, called a "Ray Rifle." Miss...
release : 1918.07.01popularis : 1.432
The Love Thief
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
release : 1916.12.17popularis : 1.196
The Man Who Wouldn't Tell
During World War I, young Englishman Hawtrey Burke captivates New York society with his charming manner and his skill at polo, but he incurs the...
release : 1918.12.09popularis : 0.878
The Cattle Thief
Ken, sent to investigate cattle rustlers, poses as a peddler during the day but the Masked Rider at night.
release : 1936.05.26popularis : 1.772
Sink or Swim
A silent comedy Sink or Swim edited from the 1917 film The Yankee Way (1917)
release : 1920.08.01popularis : 1.193
The Yankee Way
Dick Mason is arrested for defending a girl's honor in a Chicago restaurant brawl, and his father sends him to Lithuania where his family owns a...
release : 1917.09.15popularis : 2.083
There Are No Villains
In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence against suspected opium smuggler George Sala. She then...
release : 1921.11.14popularis : 0.85
Bread
Bread is a socially engaged drama which follows the fate of a woman struggling to pull herself out of poverty as she’s ruthlessly exploited by...
release : 1918.08.31popularis : 1.436
Westbound Stage
A wagon train crossing the plains comes across the remains of other wagon trains that have been attacked by looters. Soon they too are attacked.
release : 1939.12.15popularis : 2.12
The Defense Rests
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
release : 1934.07.15popularis : 4.45
Riders of the Frontier
The Rancho Grande, a Texas border ranch, cut off from the law by a gang of outlaws led by ranch foreman Bart Lane, who is holding the elderly owner...
release : 1939.08.15popularis : 1.337
Port of Hate
A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group...
release : 1939.08.21popularis : 1.138
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...
release : 1936.08.20popularis : 1.585
Ferocious Pal
A stray German shepherd, a runaway teenage boy, and a runaway teenage girl end up at her uncle's place in Oregon, where an epidemic of sheep rustling...
release : 1934.04.03popularis : 0.801
The Lady Objects
A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get...
release : 1938.10.12popularis : 2.212
The Burglar and the Lady
A gentleman burglar is a detective, which acts as a shield to his more shady pastime.
release : 1914.11.06popularis : 4.865
The Man from Tumbleweeds
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
release : 1940.05.02popularis : 5.223
My Wild Irish Rose
Based on the play The Shaughraun, this is the story of Robert Ffolliat, a young Irish lad, who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony...
release : 1922.08.30popularis : 0.85
Wild Horse Canyon
The foreman of a ranch owned by a pretty young girl captures a herd of wild horses, but the herd's lead horse manages to break them free. The foreman...
release : 1925.05.30popularis : 1.362
Deadwood Dick
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
release : 1940.07.19popularis : 2.763
Florian
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
release : 1940.06.05popularis : 2.288
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...
release : 1940.10.11popularis : 6.278
The Stolen Ranch
Returning home from the Great War, "Breezy" Hart (Fred Humes) and his shell-shocked buddy Frank Wilcox (Ralph McCullough) discover the Wilcox...
release : 1926.12.26popularis : 4.995
Juvenile Court
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the...
release : 1938.09.10popularis : 1.799
Say It in French
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are...
release : 1938.11.25popularis : 1.753
Wolves of the North
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.
release : 1924.09.21popularis : 0.708
Public Deb No. 1
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...
release : 1940.09.13popularis : 2.198
The Risky Road
Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Park would direct films with actress and producer...
release : 1918.04.08popularis : 0.711
3 Kids and a Queen
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in...
release : 1935.10.21popularis : 1.472
The Girl from Bohemia
Alice Paige lives the Bohemian life in New York's Greenwich Village until she receives a letter informing her that she soon will inherit a fine...
release : 1918.08.25popularis : 0.559
The Phantom of the Opera
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
release : 1925.09.22popularis : 8.342
One More River
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
release : 1934.08.06popularis : 3.176
The Top of New York
Hilda lives in a tenement apartment with her aunt, Mrs. Brady, and her crippled younger brother Micky, and works in a department store where her boss...
release : 1922.06.18popularis : 1.24
Parted Curtains
A young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. Broke and hungry, he steals money off of a...
release : 1920.04.02popularis : 2.117
The Wildcat of Paris
A girl from Paris' underworld fights for love and survival during a time of international turmoil.
release : 1918.12.15popularis : 1.205