Charles Lane
Nacimiento : 1869-01-25, Madison, Illinois, USA
Muerte : 1945-10-17
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Charles Willis Lane (January 25, 1869–October 17, 1945) was an American stage and film actor, active in movies from 1914 to 1929. Like many film performers born before 1900, Lane had extensive prior Broadway stage or regional theatrical experience.
Lane can be seen in silent films usually as a silver-haired other man or confidant. Two of his best-known roles are Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) and Dr. Angus McPhail in Sadie Thompson (1928).
Dr. Lanyon (Archive Footage)
A chemist and physician concocts a solution he believes will separate good and evil parts of the human soul, thus creating a being of moral purity and a being that can indulge in its deepest desires.
Manager
Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
Mr. Henry Halevy
Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
Charles Spottswoode
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer. Written by Tony Fontana
Dr. Angus McPhail
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
Colonel Duval
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, en Francia, una mujer ve la granja de su familia convertida en campo para prisioneros alemanes por orden del gobierno francés. La convivencia con ellos hará surgir una historia de amor entre ella y uno de los prisioneros.
Mr. Fountain
James Duxbury (Lou Tellegen) is an exponent of polygamy, which may not be legal but certainly provides him with several evenings of entertainment. Professor Charles Orme (Matt Moore) falls in love with Duxbury's fourth wife Amy (Margaret Livingston). Things get dicey indeed as Orme tries to figure out whether Amy is still married to Duxbury or not -- in fact, Duxbury isn't sure either.
Jim Hawthorne
Jefferson Worth
Willard Holmes, ingeniero, colabora con su padrastro, banquero de escasos escrúpulos, en la construcción de una presa en el río Colorado para la irrigación de las tierras desérticas que posee Jefferson Worth, padre de Barbara. Tanto Holmes como el ingeniero local, Abe Lee, se enamoran de Barbara. El banquero estafa en los materiales para la presa, Worth lo descubre e intenta terminar él mismo el proyecto, pero se queda sin dinero para pagar a los trabajadores. La naturaleza, a través del desierto, las montañas y el agua, cobra un espectacular protagonismo.
Sir John
1926 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter McGrail.
Monte Hermann
Judge
Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife walked out on him 20 years before and his daughter, Moira, believes she is dead. Moira falls in love with Hugh Dillon, a handsome young attorney, and Devens gets him a job in the district attorney's office. One night, Devens' wife, now an old, decrepit woman known as Aileen Clayton, returns to ask forgiveness.
Stephen Dallas, Sr.
Stella, una chica pueblerina, se casa con Stephen Dallas, miembro de la alta sociedad, con quien no tiene nada en común. El matrimonio es un fracaso y, tras el nacimiento de una hija, Laurel, los Dallas se separan y Stephen vuelve a Nueva York. Conforme Laurel va creciendo, Stella se da cuenta de que ella no puede darle todo lo que necesita y la envía a vivir con Stephen y su nueva familia.
Sir Hubert Vane
Alan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vilma Bánky) have grown up together, as close playmates When World War I starts, both Alan and Gerald enlist in the British Army as officiers, and Kitty sees them off to war. Many months later, Alan and Gerald come back to Kitty, on a short furlow. Alan and Kitty reveal their love for each other. Gerald (who's in love with Kitty, too) congratulates his friends. But before Kitty and Alan can arrange to be married the next day, the furlow is cut short and both men head back to the front lines. Weeks later, Gerald will not give Alan leave to marry Kitty. Still arguing, both men volunteer for a reconiscience raid into enemy lines, where a grenade goes off near Alan and appears to kill him. Gerald and Kitty mourn Alan's death. After the war ends, Gerald and Kitty become engaged to be married.
Baldassar Calvo
En el siglo XV, Romola, hija de un sabio florentino ciego, se casa con Tito Melema, hombre de escasos escrúpulos. Utilizando todos los recursos turbios a su disposición, Tito alcanza el puesto de Jefe de la Magistratura, aprovechando cualquier oportunidad para el abuso de poder, lo que le hace muy impopular. Uno de sus actos más despreciables es su matrimonio fingido con la campesina Tessa.
Prince Chiaromonte
Angela Chiaromonte, la hija de un conde italiano que muere al caer de su caballo, podría heredar una gran fortuna, pero su hermana mayor se queda con todo y la deja en la pobreza. Afortunadamente, ella está comprometida con el apuesto oficial Giovanni Severini, pero este es capturado por los árabes en una expedición a África. Dedicando su vida a su memoria, Lillian se convierte en una monja, sin saber que su amante se ha escapado de sus captores y regresa a Italia.
Ogden Ward
silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
Peter Thompson
Rosalie Lawrence, a dancing star on Broadway, falls for rich Hugh Thompson. His parents disapprove and want him to marry Barbara Royce, so he and Rosalie marry secretly. However, Hugh isn't quite the man he seems, as Rosalie is soon to find out.
Clement Palter
Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son of a clergyman (Frank Currier), is seduced by the earthly delights of drinking and gambling. While intoxicated he proposes to Ember Edwards (Nilsson), and she accepts because he has told her he is rich and she is sick of her poverty-stricken life. At a gambling house run by Clement Palter (Charles Lane), David takes a 25 dollar check from Bunny Fish (Robert Schable), changes the amount to 2,500 dollars, and proceeds to lose the whole sum at faro.
Charles Oxford
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.
John Cleland
A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)
Herbert Averill
A 1920 film directed by Albert Parker.
Mr. Thorne
Prudence, a young society woman and aviatrix, is forbidden to continue flying by her fiancé Hewitt and her father. In defiance, she stages her own kidnapping, but Hewitt discovers the ruse and arranges a real abduction to teach her a lesson. His plan backfires, and the kidnappers rob him and capture Prudence. In order to save herself, Prudence pretends to join the gang.
Dr. Richard Lanyon
Famosa adaptación del clásico de Robert Louis Stevenson. En esta ocasión, es John Barrymore el amable doctor Jekyll, que sufre de un terrible trastorno de doble personalidad que le hace convertirse de vez en cuando en el terrible Mr. Hyde.
Earl of Brinstead
Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-ready westerner and taken to Red Gap ultimately to become its social mentor and chief caterer, and there is sheer delight in the story of how the Earl, brought over to save his younger brother from the vampirish clutches of Klondike Kate, makes the lady his Countess and once more stands Red Gap upon its somewhat dizzy head.