Ivo Dawson

Movies

White Ensign
'Santa Barbara. British battleship quells rebellion promoted by big business.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Hate Ship
Colonel Paget
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
After the Verdict
Vivian's father
A British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen
The First Born
Derek Findlay
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.
Straws in the Wind
The Brute
A benefactor ejects a tramp who covets his wife and later adopts the child of the girl the tramp saved from suicide.
Diana of the Crossways
Sir Lukyne Dunstane
A sensuous woman trapped in a loveless relationship has an affair with a leading politician which threatens to bring down the government.
Bentley's Conscience
Murdoch
A secretary takes the blame when his fiancée's father ruins his oil company.
The Other Person
Squire Grain
A séance proves a ghost compelled a spiritualist to kill his rich father.
The Great Adventure
Duncan Farll
An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.
The Truth About Husbands
Love Without Question
Carlos Paredes
Old Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his butler and his ward Katherine. One night, Katherine discovers Silas murdered in the room where three generations of Blackburns have mysteriously died. Silas' grandson Robert, whom Katherine loves, comes to visit the next day, suffering from amnesia.
Footlights and Shadows
Peter Shaw
A fortune-hunting follies star Gloria Dawn ( Olive Thomas ), begins to question her engagement to wealthy Peter Shaw after meeting an amnesiac young man who stumbles into her apartment one night. The doctor instructs that he not be moved, so Gloria nurses the stranger back to health, although his memory fails to return. Gloria falls in love with her patient and, upon discovering that he is millionaire sportsman Jerry O'Farrell, rushes home to restore his identity, only to find that he has gone. Amnesia continues to plague Jerry, and he soon forgets both Gloria's name and address. While he is attending a show at the follies, a fire breaks out, and Gloria, recognizing her lover in the audience, rushes to save him. Meanwhile, Shaw, who has discovered Gloria's feelings for Jerry, accosts her. Jerry, who has finally regained his memory, intercedes and rescues Gloria, and the two fall in love.
The Broken Melody
Leroy Clemons
Stewart, an art student in the "bohemian" Greenwich Village in New York City, lives next door to his girlfriend Hedda, who wants to be a singer. One night while they are dining at their favorite cafe, a wealthy woman, Mrs. Trask, comes up to them with a proposition: she knows he is an artist and wants to go to Paris in order to study and develop his talent, and she will pay all his expenses to allow him to do that. He refuses because he doesn't want to leave Hedda, but she eventually persuades him to agree. It turns out that she as an ulterior motive for what she's doing--as does Mrs. Trask.