George C. Pearce
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1865-06-26
Locus Natus: New York City, New York, USA
Et ut: George Pearce, George Pierce, G. Pierce, George C. Pierce
A Hollywood Theme Song
During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.
release : 1930.12.07popularis : 2.565
Road to Hollywood
Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to...
release : 1947.07.04popularis : 3.277
Wandering Husbands
Diana Moreland, suspecting that her husband is cheating on her with Marilyn Foster, catches the two of them having a rendezvous at a roadhouse....
release : 1924.04.20popularis : 1.648
A Jewel in Pawn
Widow Martin struggles to rear her little daughter Nora amid the squalor of the slums yet imbue her with the refinement to which she had been...
release : 1917.04.16popularis : 1.642
The Revenge Rider
Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.
release : 1935.03.18popularis : 0.478
Hold 'er Sheriff
A sheriff's daughter, and deputy sheriff, falls for a handsome stranger. who cracks a joke about robbing a bank. When a robbery then takes place, he...
release : 1931.06.07popularis : 1.337
The Lone Rider
Lanning heads a vigilante group till Farrell digs up some dirt which turns the vigilantes on him. To save his own reputation, Lanning must bring...
release : 1930.07.13popularis : 2.249
British Agent
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
release : 1934.09.15popularis : 3.675
Lone Cowboy
Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family friend Dobe Jones. Unaware of his...
release : 1933.12.02popularis : 3.863
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never...
release : 1934.10.28popularis : 3.009
Masquerade
The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl. The story of a wealthy world traveler and his evil lookalike, the...
release : 1929.07.14popularis : 0.879
Traveling Salesman
A practical joke makes a man get off before his intended stop, leading to all sorts of trouble.
release : 1921.06.05popularis : 1.357
The Drop Kick
College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
release : 1927.09.25popularis : 3.017
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventures of the humans who surround the horse.
release : 1921.01.01popularis : 3.627
Dynamite Ranch
Howell breaks up a train robbery only to find that it's a fake. However the money is missing and he is blamed. He escapes and sets out to find the...
release : 1932.07.07popularis : 2.647
Quarantined Rivals
Quarantined Rivals is a 1927 silent Comedy
release : 1927.02.28popularis : 4.501
Vengeance
John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a...
release : 1930.02.22popularis : 1.282
The Midnight Alarm
Shortly after being made the executor of a wealthy man's estate, a man murders his benefactor. He then makes a play for the widow, who rebuffs him....
release : 1923.08.19popularis : 3.342
A Fair Rebel
Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares...
release : 1914.05.21popularis : 1.721
Little Meena's Romance
Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of a Mennonite family. Meena treats Jacob as a joke...
release : 1916.04.09popularis : 0.635
Watch Your Step
Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers...
release : 1922.02.16popularis : 2.254
Daring Youth
On the eve of the marriage of her daughter, Alita, Mrs. Allen, unhappily married for 25 years, advocates writer Fannie Hurst's widely publicized mode...
release : 1924.02.01popularis : 0.894
Three Word Brand
Ben Trego dies defending his twin sons from Indian attack. Separated, the two boys grow up very differently, one as Paul Marsden, the other as a...
release : 1921.10.15popularis : 0.855
Scandal Sheet
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
release : 1931.01.31popularis : 1.744
The Valiant
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
release : 1929.05.19popularis : 2.376
The Man Called Back
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement...
release : 1932.07.16popularis : 0.959
Nerve Tonic
Jimmie Adams comedy produced by Al Christie.
release : 1924.05.17popularis : 1.434
'49–'17
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The...
release : 1917.10.15popularis : 1.447
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...
release : 1938.09.01popularis : 9.755
The Awful Truth
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
release : 1937.10.21popularis : 20.21
Heart of the Rockies
Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain family. But the Three Mesquiteers are wise to the...
release : 1937.09.06popularis : 1.356
Billboard Girl
Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of...
release : 1932.03.20popularis : 2.436
The Children in the House
A woman is stuck with an unfaithful husband until he is killed robbing a bank.
release : 1916.04.29popularis : 1.051
The Primitive Lover
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
release : 1922.04.30popularis : 3.537
Martha's Vindication
A 1916 film directed by Chester M. Franklin.
release : 1916.02.20popularis : 1.082
Hold Your Breath
When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot...
release : 1924.05.24popularis : 1.507
The Right of Way
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with...
release : 1930.12.11popularis : 1.968
The Right to Love
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.
release : 1930.12.27popularis : 3.003
Home, James
An artistic salesgirl falls in love with a chauffeur not realising he is actually the heir to a huge fortune.
release : 1928.10.03popularis : 1.14
Woman in Distress
Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper...
release : 1937.01.17popularis : 2.236
Daphne and the Pirate
Philip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing...
release : 1916.03.04popularis : 3.044
Court Plaster
Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
release : 1924.09.28popularis : 1.413
The Sea Flower
A secret service agent disguises himself as a sailor.
release : 1918.12.23popularis : 1.177
Treason
The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous position. The spy is intercepted and killed by...
release : 1917.05.14popularis : 0.317
A Wife on Trial
Phyllis Narcissa, an underpaid children's librarian, eagerly accepts a dinner invitation from Horace de Guenther, one of her patrons, and happily...
release : 1917.07.30popularis : 0.909
The Narrow Street
Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is...
release : 1925.01.04popularis : 0.37
The Sable Lorcha
In China, a man is arrested and tortured for a crime committed years before by his twin brother.
release : 1915.11.28popularis : 1.203
Every Woman's Husband
A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits...
release : 1918.07.17popularis : 1.221
This Reckless Age
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that...
release : 1932.01.09popularis : 1.454
Man's Desire
Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists...
release : 1919.07.20popularis : 3.615
Fresh from the Farm
William Beaudine silent romantic slapstick comedy short
release : 1921.11.27popularis : 0.618
The Country Kid
Ben Applegate's father dies, leaving him and his brothers Joe and Andy orphans and having to run the family farm. Their Uncle Grimes is their legal...
release : 1923.10.29popularis : 0.557
The Printer's Devil
Brick Hubbard, a "printer's devil", convinces his friend Sid Fletcher to invest in "The Gazette", a local newspaper. Sid pens an editorial that...
release : 1923.08.23popularis : 1.735
A Yankee Princess
A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was directed by David...
release : 1919.04.21popularis : 0.785
The Reed Case
When, after three years of active service, ace detective Jerry Brennon is ordered by his doctor to take a rest, Senator Reed, Jerry's staunch...
release : 1917.07.09popularis : 1.186
Easy Payments
Jimmy, who buys everything on the Easy Payment plan, wants to marry Betty, whose dad believes Cash Is King.
release : 1919.01.26popularis : 1.75