Arthur V. Johnson

Born: 1876-02-01


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The Voice of the Violin

as Herr von Schmidt
Released: 1909-03-18

A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he...

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A Corner in Wheat

as uncredited
Released: 1909-12-13

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price...

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The Lonely Villa

as uncredited
Released: 1909-06-10

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and...

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Those Awful Hats

as Theatre Audience
Released: 1909-01-25

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

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The Thread of Destiny

as uncredited
Released: 1910-03-07

The orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is...

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Edgar Allan Poe

as uncredited
Released: 1909-02-08

As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.

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Faithful

as John Dobbs [Adonese]
Released: 1910-03-20

Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a...

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The Adventures of Dollie

as Father
Released: 1908-07-14

On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a...

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The Sealed Room

as The Count
Released: 1909-09-02

The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one...

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The Gibson Goddess

as An Admirer
Released: 1909-11-01

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a...

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The Unchanging Sea

as The Fisherman
Released: 1910-05-05

In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young...

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The Violin Maker of Cremona

as In Crowd
Released: 1909-06-07

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the...

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The Greaser's Gauntlet

as Tom Berkeley
Released: 1908-08-11

Jose, a handsome young Mexican, leaves his home in the Sierra Madre Mountains to seek his...

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The Taming of the Shrew

as Petruchio
Released: 1908-11-10

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change...

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The Song of the Shirt

as Waiter
Released: 1908-11-17

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

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At the Altar

as Policeman
Released: 1909-02-25

At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the...

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1776, or The Hessian Renegades

as Hessian
Released: 1909-09-06

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington...

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The Cricket on the Hearth

as The Minister
Released: 1909-05-27

After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement...

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The Usurer

as uncredited
Released: 1910-08-15

A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.

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The Curtain Pole

as Man in bar / Vegetable vendor / Party guest
Released: 1909-02-15

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a...

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The Little Darling

as In Boarding House
Released: 1909-09-01

This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple...

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Where the Breakers Roar

as Tom Hudson
Released: 1908-09-22

A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby...

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The Son's Return

as On Stairs / In Bank
Released: 1909-06-14

A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his...

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The Indian Runner's Romance

as uncredited
Released: 1909-08-22

An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him...

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His Chorus Girl Wife

as Oliver Brompton - Son of a Millionaire
Released: 1911-11-13

A young man's parents refuse to accept his new wife, but a reconciliation is eventually brought...

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The Cord of Life

as Policeman
Released: 1909-01-28

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an...

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The Lure of the Gown

as At Dance
Released: 1909-03-15

"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when...

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What Drink Did

as uncredited
Released: 1909-06-02

A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially...

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The Day After

as Mr. Hilton
Released: 1909-12-30

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves,...

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The Mended Lute

as Indian
Released: 1909-08-05

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

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The Necklace

as In Pawnshop / Doctor / Party Guest
Released: 1909-07-01

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The...

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The Redman's View

as Conqueror
Released: 1909-12-09

An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary...

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The Girl and the Outlaw

as Indian
Released: 1908-09-08

Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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The Stolen Symphony

as Paul Romig
Released: 1912-01-01

A beautiful story of a poor young musician who has composed an exquisite symphony. Adjoining his...

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The Renunciation

as uncredited
Released: 1909-07-19

Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the...

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Money Mad

as Bank Clerk
Released: 1908-12-04

The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his...

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The Way of Man

as Tom Hearne
Released: 1909-06-28

A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to...

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Balked at the Altar

as uncredited
Released: 1908-08-25

A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a...

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Pippa Passes

as Luca
Released: 1909-10-03

Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing...

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A Drunkard's Reformation

as John Wharton
Released: 1909-04-01

A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take...

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Two Memories

as Party Guest
Released: 1909-05-23

Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years...

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Through the Breakers

as At the Ball / At the Soiree
Released: 1909-12-06

A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl...

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The Light That Came

as The Younger Doctor
Released: 1909-11-11

A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still...

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Rose o' Salem Town

as uncredited
Released: 1910-09-25

A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by...

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The White Caps

as uncredited
Released: 1905-09-14

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home....

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A Strange Meeting

as Reverend John Stanton
Released: 1909-08-01

Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into...

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Lady Helen's Escapade

as The Diner Guest
Released: 1909-04-19

A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with...

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Mr. Jones at the Ball

as Guest
Released: 1908-12-25

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular...

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The Two Brothers

as Jose
Released: 1910-05-12

In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel....

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Confidence

as The Doctor
Released: 1909-04-15

Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of...

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To Save Her Soul

as Paul Redmond
Released: 1909-12-27

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her...

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The Planter's Wife

as John Holland
Released: 1908-10-20

John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The...

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Fate's Turning

as uncredited
Released: 1911-01-22

A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich...

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Over Silent Paths

as The Marshal
Released: 1910-05-15

In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young...

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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

as Guest
Released: 1909-01-21

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had...

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The Slave

as Deletius House Guest
Released: 1909-07-29

A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she...

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In Old California

as Cortes
Released: 1910-03-10

An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned...

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The Snare of Society

as Arthur Williams
Released: 1911-07-10

A society woman gambles at cards.

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The Cardinal's Conspiracy

as Comic Cutthroat
Released: 1909-07-12

A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave...

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The Awakening

as The Major
Released: 1909-09-29

A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries,...

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Nursing a Viper

as The Husband
Released: 1909-11-03

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs....

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The Zulu's Heart

as A Zulu Warrior
Released: 1908-10-06

A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.

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Getting Even

as Party Guest
Released: 1909-09-12

All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a...

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The Mountaineer's Honor

as A Traveler From The Valley
Released: 1909-11-24

A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down...

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Resurrection

as Prince Dmitri
Released: 1909-05-20

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial,...

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Love Among the Roses

as The Gardener
Released: 1910-05-08

In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their...

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The Oath and the Man

as uncredited
Released: 1910-09-21

A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which...

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They Would Elope

as uncredited
Released: 1909-08-09

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them...

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After Many Years

as Member of the rescue party
Released: 1908-11-03

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she...

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The Newlyweds

as Dick Harcourt
Released: 1910-03-03

A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and...

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The Peachbasket Hat

as Policeman/In Store
Released: 1909-06-24

Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid...

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The Broken Locket

as Mr. Joplin
Released: 1909-09-16

George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal...

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Taming a Husband

as uncredited
Released: 1910-02-24

Neglected by a husband too engrossed by his activities and social obligations, a woman convinces...

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A Child's Devotion

as Bert Hackett - The Father
Released: 1912-09-18

A melodrama about a boy who initially wants nothing to do with his stepmother.

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Her Child's Honor

as The Second Husband
Released: 1911-03-26

Unable to bear the abuse of her drunken soldier husband, the wife left her home and went to the...

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The Beloved Adventurer

as uncredited
Released: 1914-09-14

In Chapter 8, "A Partner To Providence", His lordship rides a train that is mistakenly rerouted...

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Pranks

as Tom
Released: 1909-08-30

Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and...

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Tender Hearts

as The Hunter
Released: 1909-07-19

A country boy and a city boy are both courting the same girl. The girl sees the country boy's...

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All on Account of the Milk

as The Young Contractor
Released: 1910-01-13

The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is...

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Comata, the Sioux

as Bud Watkins
Released: 1909-09-09

This story of the Black Hills consistently tells of the unrequited love of a Sioux brave for his...

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The Girls and Daddy

as At Black & Tan Ball / Policeman
Released: 1909-02-01

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.

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Flicker Flashbacks #2

as uncredited
Released: 1943-06-01

A collection of old-time silent movies, re-scored and narrated, featuring the most popular...

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Love Finds a Way

as The Duke
Released: 1909-01-11

Mack Sennett appears as a footman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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The District Attorney's Conscience

as Will Mason - the District Attorney
Released: 1913-05-20

Tony Gazeco, one of the workers in the factory, is an anarchist and agitator. Being of excitable...

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Aunt Jane’s Legacy

as Dick Worthing - the Son
Released: 1911-11-06

Aunt Jane's nieces and nephews bicker over an anticipated legacy.

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A Timely Rescue

as John Bronson
Released: 1913-01-13

John Bronson, Mr. Daly's farmhand, has ambitions and decides to go to the city. He breaks the...

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The Tenderfoot's Triumph

as The Tenderfoot
Released: 1910-04-21

"It's in the surprise" that great plays are made and battles won, and our tenderfoot friend,...

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One on Reno

as Mr. Appleby
Released: 1911-11-03

When a bored wife seeks a Reno divorce, she regains the attentions of her inattentive husband.

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