Edwin August

Born: 1883-11-10

Edwin August (born Edwin August Phillip von der Butz; November 10, 1883 – March 4, 1964) was an American actor, director, and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1909 and 1947. He also directed 52 films between 1912 and 1919. August co-founded Eaco Films in 1914. He wrote novels under the pen name Montague Lawrence. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]


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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Senator (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-19

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his...

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The Pride of the Yankees

as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Released: 1942-07-14

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

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The Magnificent Ambersons

as Citizen (uncredited)
Released: 1942-07-10

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the...

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Gentleman Jim

as Olympic Club Member (uncredited)
Released: 1942-11-14

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and...

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Marked Woman

as Juror (uncredited)
Released: 1937-04-10

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful...

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Mr. Lucky

as Blood Bank Donor (uncredited)
Released: 1943-07-01

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his...

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The House with Closed Shutters

as uncredited
Released: 1910-08-08

During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to...

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The Lure of the Gown

as uncredited
Released: 1909-03-15

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

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Over My Dead Body

as Bailiff
Released: 1942-01-15

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish...

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The Old Actor

as The Old Actor's Daughter's Sweetheart
Released: 1912-05-06

An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because...

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The Rage of Paris

as Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: 1938-06-09

Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to...

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One Is Business, the Other Crime

as Rich Husband
Released: 1912-04-24

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich,...

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The Lesser Evil

as The Young Woman's Sweetheart
Released: 1912-04-29

A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of...

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An Evil of the Slums

as uncredited
Released: 1914-01-02

A young man who visits a shady bar and gets involved with the criminals there, by a...

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The Rose of Kentucky

as uncredited
Released: 1911-08-24

A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After...

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Safety in Numbers

as Customer
Released: 1938-05-30

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich...

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The Courage of the Commonplace

as The Sister's Sweetheart
Released: 1913-08-01

A farmer's daughter, who devotedly endlessly gives selflessly of herself to her parents and...

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The Eternal Mother

as John, the Husband
Released: 1912-01-10

John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the...

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Under Burning Skies

as uncredited
Released: 1912-02-21

Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young...

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Getting Even

as uncredited
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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Side Street

as Henchman Mac (uncredited)
Released: 1929-09-14

Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.

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The Failure

as The Woman's Sweetheart
Released: 1911-12-07

A man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a...

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The Son's Return

as uncredited
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 Golden Supper

as Prince Julian
Released: 1910-12-12

Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend...

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Youth Takes a Fling

as Railroad Conductor
Released: 1938-09-22

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves...

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A Beast at Bay

as The Young Woman's Ideal
Released: 1912-05-26

Mary Pickford as "The Young Woman", is quite taken with Edwin August; in fact, he is her...

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The Long Road

as At Party
Released: 1911-10-26

Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him...

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The Song That Reached His Heart

as uncredited
Released: 1910-10-10

A Story of the Lumber Regions of Western Canada: a lumberjack remember his past while he listens...

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The City of Tears

as Tony Bonchi
Released: 1918-06-29

Chorus girl Rosa Carillo (Carmel Myers) finds herself in dire straits when the troupe she works...

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The Blonde Vampire

as Martin Kent
Released: 1922-04-01

Marcia Saville, thought to be a hopeless flirt by her sweetheart, Martin Kent, shows him that...

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Winning Back His Love

as A Friend
Released: 1910-12-25

A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.

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When It Strikes Home

as Richard 'Dick' Hartley
Released: 1915-05-17

Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him,...

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The Making of a Man

as Young Woman's Family
Released: 1911-10-04

A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She...

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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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His Daughter

as William Whittier
Released: 1911-02-23

William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's...

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The Revenue Man and His Girl

as The Revenue Man
Released: 1911-09-24

In the Kentucky backwoods, Dorothy West helps her moonshiner father take some jugs to his still;...

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The Sands of Dee

as Artist
Released: 1912-02-21

A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One...

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The Fugitive

as John, Union son
Released: 1910-11-07

Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a...

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Lena and the Geese

as Lena's Father
Released: 1912-06-17

A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman,...

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Muggsy Becomes a Hero

as One of Muggsy's Friends
Released: 1910-09-01

Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is...

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The School Teacher and the Waif

as The School Teacher
Released: 1912-06-26

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends...

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Madame Rex

as uncredited
Released: 1911-04-17

Located in the south of France, a woman, who, after the death of her husband, is forced to...

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A Broadway Scandal

as David Kendall
Released: 1918-06-01

Having been misinformed that all French girls are morally suspect, American soldier David...

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A Country Cupid

as Jack
Released: 1911-07-23

Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him...

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Simple Charity

as The Doctor
Released: 1910-11-10

A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a...

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The Good for Nothing

as Dick Evans - the Good for Nothing
Released: 1912-11-18

A social comedy in which the young Dick Evans is seen as a failure, and then tries to prove...

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