Gibson Gowland
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1877-01-03
Locus Natus: Spennymoor, Durham, England, UK
Et ut: Thomas Gowland, T.H. Gowland, T.H. Gibson-Gowland, T.H. Gibson Gowland, G.H. Gowland
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
Greed
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
release : 1924.12.04popularis : 9.553
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
release : 1927.11.04popularis : 11.81
Gun Cargo
A Maritime Board of Inquiry investigates the loss of the merchant ship, the Black Rover . Its captain, Jim Parker, offers the following testimony on...
release : 1949.10.05popularis : 1.55
Jewel
When her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Mrs. Lawrence Evringham moves in with her wealthy but grim father-in-law and schemes to marry Eloise,...
release : 1915.08.30popularis : 0.845
The Father of Her Child
Marion, who has kept house for her father since her mother's death, has two suitors, Rufus Strong, the village blacksmith, and Eph Little, the...
release : 1916.09.23popularis : 0.922
The Wolf Man
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten...
release : 1941.12.12popularis : 11.549
The Broken Gate
In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a son by townsman Lucius Henderson, who refuses to...
release : 1927.02.15popularis : 4.047
The Four-Gun Bandit
A woman holds up an Eastern millionaire, who then tells a big story of his encounter with a bandit, and afterward gives a large check to keep from...
release : 1919.07.05popularis : 2.008
The Border Legion
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the...
release : 1924.10.19popularis : 0.879
The Private Life of Don Juan
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five...
release : 1934.01.01popularis : 4.186
Blind Husbands
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends...
release : 1919.10.21popularis : 4.95
Hutch Stirs 'em Up
A cowboy saves a village girl from a mad squire's torture chamber.
release : 1923.08.01popularis : 3.34
Without Honors
Jack Marian isa gambler with an unsavory past. Suspected of being an outlaw, Jack plays along with this misconception, the better to infiltrate a...
release : 1932.01.02popularis : 1.365
Mutiny in the Arctic
A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off...
release : 1941.04.17popularis : 3.408
S.O.S. Iceberg
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. The English language version of this German film was made at the same...
release : 1933.08.30popularis : 1.981
The Fighting Shepherdess
A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranchers.
release : 1920.03.01popularis : 1.939
The Promise
After an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home. His girlfriend Ethel is mad at him because of his...
release : 1917.02.19popularis : 1.207
Raffles
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in...
release : 1939.11.11popularis : 5.398
Hell Harbor
Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the...
release : 1930.03.14popularis : 5.143
Arrowsmith
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
release : 1931.12.07popularis : 7.272
The Sea Bat
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
release : 1930.07.05popularis : 2.665
The Wife of General Ling
In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous...
release : 1937.04.07popularis : 2.897
It Happened Tomorrow
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his...
release : 1944.03.31popularis : 4.498
Cleaning Up
Two street cleaners save the life of the police commissioner. In gratitude, he gives them jobs as policemen. Their first assignment? Capture the #1...
release : 1930.09.27popularis : 1.385
The Secret of the Loch
A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young...
release : 1934.05.07popularis : 5.013
The Land Beyond the Law
Deputy Marshal Jerry Steele (Ken Maynard) heads off to Oklahoma where a gang of nasty cattle rustlers is terrorizing the local ranchers. After a bit...
release : 1927.06.05popularis : 0.616
The Red Lily
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor...
release : 1924.09.08popularis : 3.997
The First Auto
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
release : 1927.06.27popularis : 1.371
The Night of Love
Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duke de la Garda demands his right as feudal...
release : 1927.01.22popularis : 1.658
S.O.S. Iceberg
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. This is the English language version of the German film S.O.S. Eisberg...
release : 1933.09.22popularis : 2.736
The Stoker
British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce.
release : 1935.01.01popularis : 1.259
Sundown
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
release : 1941.10.31popularis : 4.183
The Moon Is Down
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
release : 1943.03.14popularis : 5.908
Breakers Ahead
After young Ruth Bowman's mother dies, the child is raised by Agatha Pixley, and in time, the girl falls in love with Agatha's son, Eric. While Eric...
release : 1918.03.25popularis : 0.838
King of the Damned
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special...
release : 1935.12.31popularis : 2.684
Henry Goes Arizona
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
release : 1939.12.08popularis : 1.953
A House Divided
A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.
release : 1931.12.05popularis : 1.61
Going My Way
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a...
release : 1944.01.01popularis : 11.637
Gaslight
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
release : 1944.05.04popularis : 16.362
Wolves of the Sea
A young socialite, marooned on a desert island after her passenger ship sinks, is rescued by a sailing vessel looking for salvage and finds herself...
release : 1936.06.05popularis : 1.61
Doomed to Die
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of...
release : 1940.08.12popularis : 8.182
The Lodger
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
release : 1944.01.19popularis : 7.454
Northwest Passage
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force...
release : 1940.02.23popularis : 9.636
The House of the Spaniard
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence...
release : 1936.11.01popularis : 3.125
The Ape
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his...
release : 1940.09.30popularis : 4.826
Love and Glory
During an uprising in Algeria in 1869, two Frenchmen--Anatole, the brother of Gabrielle, and Pierre, her sweetheart--join the colors and are later...
release : 1924.12.07popularis : 0.001
The Mysterious Island
On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the...
release : 1929.10.05popularis : 3.921
Behind the Door
Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is drawn into the war with Germany, he enlists and...
release : 1919.12.14popularis : 2.269
Broadway Limited
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was...
release : 1941.06.13popularis : 4.787
Mrs. Miniver
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the...
release : 1942.07.03popularis : 8.314
Crossroads
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
release : 1942.07.23popularis : 5.127
Ladies Must Live
A societal romance drama based on an Alice Duer Miller novel.
release : 1921.10.29popularis : 1.501
Cotton Queen
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
release : 1937.06.01popularis : 2.778
The Remarkable Andrew
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he...
release : 1942.03.05popularis : 0.825
Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
release : 1943.04.01popularis : 7.513
A Guy Named Joe
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to...
release : 1943.12.24popularis : 8.059
Topsy and Eva
Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel.
release : 1927.07.26popularis : 5.306
The Prairie Wife
While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She returns to the United States and meets Duncan...
release : 1925.02.23popularis : 0.905
Under Handicap
Greek Conniston, after living a life of ease and comfort, is forced by his millionaire father to get a job and earn his own living. While traveling...
release : 1917.09.03popularis : 0.711
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 : 3.562
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 : 1920.02.29popularis : 1.579
The Outsider
1926 film starring Jacqueline Logan, Lou Tellegen, and Walter Pidgeon.
release : 1926.01.17popularis : 1.803
The Doomed Battalion
During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.
release : 1932.04.30popularis : 1.715
Rose-Marie
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim...
release : 1928.02.11popularis : 1.509
Kitty
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later...
release : 1945.10.16popularis : 3.733
Bashful
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
release : 1917.12.23popularis : 0.515
Land of Wanted Men
A cowboy takes a job as sheriff in a small town and finds that one of his first jobs is trying to stop trouble between newly arrived sheepmen and...
release : 1931.10.30popularis : 2.051