Sheldon Lewis
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1868-04-19
Locus Natus: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Et ut:
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
release : 1920.04.01popularis : 2.296
Firebrand Jordan
'Firebrand' Jordan is a ranger sent into the high Sierras to assist the local Sheriff Ed Burns in capturing a mysterious band of counterfeiters.
release : 1930.01.28popularis : 1.517
Terry of the 'Times'
Terry Macy (Reed Howes), the son of a newspaper's founder, is assigned to investigate a mysterious warning signed '30' (newspaper term for 'The...
release : 1930.08.11popularis : 0.701
Tarzan the Tiger
After Tarzan's estate is destroyed by Arabs Jane is sold into slavery by a man posing as a friendly scientist. Tarzan develops amnesia after a blow...
release : 1929.12.08popularis : 2.989
The Little Wild Girl
Vacationing in the Canadian Northwest, a playwright and a songwriter both fall in love with Marie Cleste and take her back with them to New York when...
release : 1928.08.01popularis : 1.469
Seven Footprints to Satan
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before...
release : 1929.01.27popularis : 1.424
Driven from Home
A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by...
release : 1927.01.15popularis : 1.283
The Dangerous Flirt
The naïve Sheila Fairfax (Brent) plays with men’s emotions without fully comprehending the risks leading to several dangerous situations...
release : 1924.10.19popularis : 1.921
The Hidden Hand
15 chapter adventure serial starring Doris Kenyon. Episode titles: 1. The Gauntlet of Death 2. Counterfeit Faces 3. The Island of Dread 4. The False...
release : 1917.11.23popularis : 0.738
The Monster Walks
Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died...
release : 1932.02.07popularis : 4.29
The Chinatown Mystery
Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought...
release : 1928.09.01popularis : 0.857
Silent Sanderson
When Silent Sanderson's brother kills himself over the rejection of a woman, Silent blames Judith Benson and leaves the family homestead to begin a...
release : 1925.04.13popularis : 3.102
Tombstone Canyon
A range lawman (Ken Maynard) unmasks a black-cloaked phantom killer (Sheldon Lewis).
release : 1932.12.25popularis : 1.983
The Chorus Kid
Having been in show biz since infancy, Broadway chorus girl Beatrice regrets her lack of formal education, so when she unexpectedly falls heir to a...
release : 1928.04.09popularis : 0.587
Bride of the Storm
An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and her mother have washed ashore on a rocky island...
release : 1926.02.20popularis : 0.762
The Iron Claw
Only Episode 7, "The Hooded Helper," of this 20-Episode Serial is known to survive. All other episodes are believed to be lost.
release : 1916.02.28popularis : 2.559
The King's Game
The story tells of the adventures of an unusual young duke, whose father, the old Grand Duke of Kiev, coveted the wife of Count Dardinilis, his...
release : 1916.01.07popularis : 0.539
Gun Justice
Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the imposter,...
release : 1933.12.11popularis : 2.502
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 : 1.266
Senor Daredevil
Don Luis O'Flagherty (Ken Maynard), a daredevil comes to the rescue of his long-lost father, "Tiger" O'Flagherty (George Nichols), the supervisor of...
release : 1926.08.01popularis : 1.903
The Overland Stage
At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout...
release : 1927.01.31popularis : 0.599
The Code of the Scarlet
Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang....
release : 1928.07.01popularis : 2.687
Top Sergeant Mulligan
During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his...
release : 1928.01.15popularis : 1.181
Orphans of the Storm
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents'...
release : 1921.12.28popularis : 6.977
The Warfare of the Flesh
Melodrama in which the rich arrogant George gives money to poor Frank and Jane, so he may spend a night with Jane. Jane goes along with it because...
release : 1917.05.22popularis : 0.363
The Mysterious Stranger
Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage...
release : 1925.07.05popularis : 1.219
Those Who Dare
Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected...
release : 1924.11.15popularis : 1.178
The Red Kimona
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
release : 1925.11.16popularis : 3.552
Kit Carson Over the Great Divide
When the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the heroism of the foremost Indian scout of the day...Kit...
release : 1925.09.02popularis : 0.983
With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
When Buffalo Bill Cody learns that the Union Pacific railroad is making its way through Kansas, he and other heroes of the Wild West join forces to...
release : 1926.03.01popularis : 0.699
The Darling of New York
Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their...
release : 1923.12.03popularis : 1.292
Black Magic
On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the...
release : 1929.07.06popularis : 2.085
Wolves of Kultur
Alice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two...
release : 1918.10.13popularis : 0.876
The Phantom
An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
release : 1931.11.01popularis : 5.799
The Enemy Sex
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party,...
release : 1924.08.25popularis : 1.522
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Sheldon Lewis plays the title role of Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alter-ego Mr. Hyde in this ten-minute short film.
release : 1934.03.01popularis : 0.637
Accused
Cyrus Braidwood has a secret. His daughter Helen isn't actually his daughter--her father is a murderer, and Braidwood has been raising her as his own...
release : 1925.12.03popularis : 0.84
Dangerous Pleasure
This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of...
release : 1925.02.11popularis : 0.518
In Fast Company
Richard Talmadge as a man who loves to live the fast life which often results in him getting in trouble. Be it throwing wild parties, losing money,...
release : 1924.07.15popularis : 0.41
The River Woman
A drama of the underworld of the old Mississippi River
release : 1928.12.01popularis : 1.256
The Gilded Highway
After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the...
release : 1926.03.13popularis : 0.428
Turn Back the Hours
Turn Back the Hours is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, and Sam Hardy.
release : 1928.03.01popularis : 1.602
Don Juan
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and...
release : 1926.08.06popularis : 2.544
The Two-Gun Man
Dean Randall is a hero of the Great War who comes home to his horse and his father's ranch. When back he saves a family in a wagon train -- a father,...
release : 1926.06.13popularis : 1.817
New Lives for Old
Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence...
release : 1925.02.22popularis : 0.547
The Exploits of Elaine
Elaine Dodge is the beautiful young daughter of Taylor Dodge, president of the Consolidated Insurance Company. When Mr Dodge is murdered by a...
release : 1914.12.29popularis : 3.396
Lightning Hutch
A scientist invents a poison gas; the villain and his gang will do anything to get the formula; our hero, "Lightning Hutch", is sent to save the...
release : 1926.04.18popularis : 2.538
The House of Fear
On the advice of his friend Pendleton, Ashton Kirk, a scholar and amateur detective, pays a visit to a house whose occupants, Charles Cramp and his...
release : 1915.12.03popularis : 0.423
Impossible Catherine
The head of the Kimberly household rules it with an iron fist. Unfortunately the head of the Kimberly household isn't Grant (J.H. Gilmore), the...
release : 1919.10.05popularis : 0.825