Donald Crisp
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1882-07-26
Locus Natus: Bow, London, England, UK
Et ut: George William Crisp, James Needham, Дональд Крисп
Broken Blossoms
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
release : 1919.05.13popularis : 9.913
The Birth of a Nation
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is...
release : 1915.02.08popularis : 13.223
Lassie Come Home
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling...
release : 1943.12.01popularis : 10.764
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible...
release : 1941.08.12popularis : 11.071
Wuthering Heights
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged...
release : 1939.04.07popularis : 10.85
Jezebel
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
release : 1938.03.26popularis : 15.494
Pollyanna
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
release : 1960.05.19popularis : 14.066
City for Conquest
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...
release : 1940.09.21popularis : 4.472
Mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent...
release : 1935.11.22popularis : 13.983
Brother Orchid
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents...
release : 1940.06.07popularis : 2.794
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.
release : 1940.08.10popularis : 9.258
The Avenging Conscience
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle....
release : 1914.08.02popularis : 2.511
Home Town Story
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's...
release : 1951.05.18popularis : 3.448
The Escape
A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.
release : 1914.06.01popularis : 1.976
How Green Was My Valley
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
release : 1941.10.28popularis : 14.477
The Life of Emile Zola
Biopic of the famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair.
release : 1937.09.09popularis : 9.261
Ramrod
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey,...
release : 1947.05.02popularis : 4.285
Challenge to Lassie
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
release : 1949.10.31popularis : 1.987
Son of Lassie
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?
release : 1945.04.20popularis : 4.102
Knute Rockne All American
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
release : 1940.10.05popularis : 2.674
The Valley of Decision
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the...
release : 1945.05.03popularis : 4.365
Beloved Enemy
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is...
release : 1936.12.25popularis : 2.178
The Little Minister
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one...
release : 1934.12.28popularis : 2.961
The Charge of the Light Brigade
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances...
release : 1936.10.20popularis : 6.494
The Long Gray Line
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States...
release : 1955.01.04popularis : 5.668
Red Dust
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives...
release : 1932.10.22popularis : 6.364
Spencer's Mountain
Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the...
release : 1963.05.16popularis : 5.033
The Old Maid
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
release : 1939.08.16popularis : 5.043
Svengali
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
release : 1931.05.20popularis : 3.698
The Uninvited
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is...
release : 1944.02.24popularis : 15.728
Greyfriars Bobby
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to...
release : 1961.07.17popularis : 5.38
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
release : 1939.11.11popularis : 11.201
Prince Valiant
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
release : 1954.04.05popularis : 10.174
Stand and Deliver
Our heroine, Miss Velez (despite the fact that she seems to be just along for the ride) is much her usual over-eloquent self (how fortunate she has...
release : 1928.02.18popularis : 3.247
The Dawn Patrol
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty...
release : 1938.12.24popularis : 5.173
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and...
release : 1938.07.20popularis : 6.725
National Velvet
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter,...
release : 1945.01.26popularis : 14.581
The Crime Doctor
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well...
release : 1934.03.14popularis : 1.982
The Oklahoma Kid
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money...
release : 1939.03.11popularis : 3.406
The Man from Laramie
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself...
release : 1955.08.19popularis : 19.314
The Black Pirate
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he...
release : 1926.03.08popularis : 6.328
The Key
A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
release : 1934.06.09popularis : 1.389
Bright Leaf
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
release : 1950.06.16popularis : 7.491
The Battle of Midway
The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox...
release : 1942.09.14popularis : 6.626
The Last Hurrah
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle,...
release : 1958.12.31popularis : 8.908
Confession
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's...
release : 1937.08.19popularis : 3.032
Pirate Gold
Elusive as is the pursuit of pirate gold it is found in this picture and brought to the ship by the very mutineers themselves. Here fate intervenes...
release : 1913.01.13popularis : 1.002
Near To Earth
This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger brother, Giuseppe, on a small truck farm in the...
release : 1913.03.20popularis : 0.922
The Gay Sisters
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.
release : 1942.08.01popularis : 2.548
The Great O'Malley
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...
release : 1937.02.13popularis : 5.66
Juarez
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
release : 1939.06.10popularis : 4.658
Saddle the Wind
Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the...
release : 1958.03.20popularis : 4.336
That Certain Woman
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
release : 1937.08.30popularis : 3.725
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.
release : 1940.02.23popularis : 5.337
Down the Hill to Creditville
Marcus Down makes only $15 a week. He has always paid spot cash for everything, until he meets Mamie New and they are wed. Then Mamie shows him how...
release : 1914.09.18popularis : 1.996
Her Awakening
An attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an attractive office worker.
release : 1911.09.28popularis : 0.441
Another Chance
Mason, discharged from jail, promises his wife to lead a new life. While searching for work, he rescues Curly, a newsboy, from the clutches of a...
release : 1914.11.24popularis : 0.813
Over the Ledge
A poor widow dies, leaving her two young children, Bob and Mabel, in the care of a poor neighbor, who later is forced by circumstances to give them...
release : 1914.12.12popularis : 1.821
Drango
A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the...
release : 1957.01.01popularis : 4.347
The Adventures of Mark Twain
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
release : 1944.07.20popularis : 2.631
A Woman Rebels
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
release : 1936.11.06popularis : 3.204
The Sisters
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
release : 1938.10.14popularis : 4.246
The Mysterious Shot
A feud between the families of Gourd and Fork Ranches
release : 1914.04.04popularis : 2.387
Don Q Son of Zorro
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the...
release : 1925.06.15popularis : 6.797
Hills of Home
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to...
release : 1948.11.25popularis : 5.394
A Dog of Flanders
The emotional story of a boy, his grandfather, and his dog. The boy's dream of becoming a great classical painter appears shattered when his loving...
release : 1959.03.17popularis : 5.618
Daughters Courageous
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband...
release : 1939.06.23popularis : 7.684
The Miser's Heart
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who...
release : 1911.11.20popularis : 2.137
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job...
release : 1911.02.13popularis : 1.498
The Battle
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his...
release : 1911.11.06popularis : 3.552
The Viking
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse...
release : 1928.11.02popularis : 3.153
Sergeant Murphy
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
release : 1938.01.01popularis : 2.52
The Pagan
Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with...
release : 1929.04.26popularis : 5.491
Vanessa: Her Love Story
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
release : 1935.03.01popularis : 2.253
The Life of Vergie Winters
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues...
release : 1934.06.14popularis : 6.747
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...
release : 1983.02.25popularis : 8.78
Valley of the Giants
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
release : 1938.09.17popularis : 4.548
Trent's Last Case
Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.
release : 1929.03.31popularis : 2.805
The Beloved Brat
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...
release : 1938.04.30popularis : 2.246
Oil for the Lamps of China
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
release : 1935.06.08popularis : 2.995
What Every Woman Knows
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must...
release : 1934.10.18popularis : 4.529
Parnell
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...
release : 1937.06.04popularis : 1.774
Comet Over Broadway
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
release : 1938.12.03popularis : 3.011
Scotland Yard
A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a...
release : 1930.10.19popularis : 0.924
Shining Victory
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia praecox. He falls for his altruistic female lab...
release : 1941.05.30popularis : 4.823
Sons of Liberty
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American...
release : 1939.05.20popularis : 7.801
Fate's Turning
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However,...
release : 1911.01.22popularis : 1.238
Broadway Bad
Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
release : 1933.02.24popularis : 1.617
By Man's Law
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of...
release : 1913.11.22popularis : 1.595
The Different Man
The Different Man is a silent Western from 1914
release : 1914.05.05popularis : 0.707
The Newer Woman
The Newer Woman is a 1914 silent film.
release : 1914.06.02popularis : 1.138
Their First Acquaintance
Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the good round sum which his new clerk had handed him...
release : 1914.06.16popularis : 0.441
The Tavern of Tragedy
Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he abuses and who has to do all the hard work around...
release : 1914.08.09popularis : 0.895
Her Mother's Necklace
A two-reel story of domestic life.
release : 1914.08.16popularis : 0.788
May Blossom
May Blossom loves Richard Ashcroft, a Southern officer, and accepts his proposal of marriage immediately after receiving one from her father's...
release : 1915.04.15popularis : 0.282
A Lesson in Mechanics
Ruth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merriam. who is a motorboat enthusiast. Unknown to...
release : 1914.08.21popularis : 0.878
The Warning
Dorothy, flighty little country girl, dissatisfied with humdrum country life. longs for the gaiety of the cities. She meets a man from city on...
release : 1914.10.13popularis : 0.59
The Sisters
May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Carol is wooed by Frank, a country boy. George, a...
release : 1914.11.29popularis : 1.277
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Abigail, the pretty daughter of a village school teacher, and Jared Guild are lovers. Bertha comes from the city to visit in the little town. Her...
release : 1915.02.02popularis : 0.733
A Passport to Hell
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is...
release : 1932.08.25popularis : 3.014
Laddie
A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
release : 1935.03.18popularis : 1.147
Mary of Scotland
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
release : 1936.07.28popularis : 6.298
Whispering Smith
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go...
release : 1948.12.09popularis : 3.68
The White Angel
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness....
release : 1936.06.25popularis : 2.21
The Primal Call
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
release : 1911.06.21popularis : 2.297
Black and White
They were two hobos, black and white, master and man, a regular slave driver white, while black went off for the eats. But Cleopatra and her...
release : 1913.08.27popularis : 2.033
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
release : 1912.10.31popularis : 5.379
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.
release : 1929.10.26popularis : 6.563
The Italian Barber
Tony, the barber, on his way to the shop meets little Alice, the newsgirl, who runs a stand on a neighboring corner. He at once becomes smitten and...
release : 1911.01.09popularis : 1.319
Ramona
Silent version of the 1884 Helen Hunt Jackson novel originally ran 3 hours but all but 50 minutes of that are now lost.
release : 1916.04.05popularis : 1.204
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
release : 1916.09.04popularis : 8.197
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
release : 1943.01.21popularis : 2.311
The Bonnie Brier Bush
A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.
release : 1921.11.27popularis : 1.288
Kick In
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted...
release : 1931.05.22popularis : 3.391
Home, Sweet Home
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a...
release : 1914.05.16popularis : 4.662
The Making of a Man
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father...
release : 1911.10.04popularis : 1.372
A Girl of Yesterday
A lost film. A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.
release : 1915.10.07popularis : 1.323
The Adventures of Billy
Billy witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up and decide that he must be killed, too.
release : 1911.10.18popularis : 1.239
The Long Road
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps...
release : 1911.10.26popularis : 0.324
Sunshine Sue
A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.
release : 1910.11.14popularis : 0.876
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the...
release : 1954.09.28popularis : 1.544
The Battle of the Sexes
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself...
release : 1914.04.12popularis : 2.99
The Failure
A man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a similarly-downtrodden young woman. She works behind...
release : 1911.12.07popularis : 1.183
Olaf—An Atom
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where...
release : 1913.05.19popularis : 0.889
Hamlet, Act I: Scenes IV and V
A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.
release : 1933.04.04popularis : 2.037
The Red, White and Blue Line
A promotional film for United States Savings Bonds
release : 1955.06.01popularis : 2.319
The River Pirate
This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective.
release : 1928.08.26popularis : 1.146
The Blue or the Gray
It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern girl's heart. The gallantry of the young southern...
release : 1913.11.29popularis : 1.229
Through the Breakers
A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of...
release : 1909.12.06popularis : 1.295
Winning Back His Love
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
release : 1910.12.25popularis : 0.698
The Golden Supper
Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after...
release : 1910.12.12popularis : 0.671
Heart Beats of Long Ago
A feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents to intrude into the opposing house. The Lord of the...
release : 1911.02.06popularis : 0.679