James Cruze

Born: 1884-03-27


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Hidden Pearls

as Koro Leon
Released: 1918-02-18

Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in...

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Cymbeline

as Leonatus
Released: 1913-03-27

Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical...

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David Copperfield

as Steerforth
Released: 1911-10-17

Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's...

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The Source

as Langlois
Released: 1918-09-01

A young man of social standing chooses instead to live as a hobo. He gets work in a lumber camp,...

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde
Released: 1912-01-16

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and...

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Tannhäuser

as Tannhauser
Released: 1913-07-14

Dramatic three-reel film based on Wagner's opera of chivalry and spiritual struggle. Wandering...

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Rejuvenation

as The Millionaire
Released: 1912-04-22

A rich man who finds that there is nothing in life worth living for, is worse off than is a poor...

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Less Than Kin

as Jinx
Released: 1918-07-21

Lewis Vickers accidentally kills a man and goes to Central America. Here he meets Robert Lee,...

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The Call of the East

as Janzo
Released: 1917-10-15

While visiting Alan, who works in Tokyo, she attends a festival with her Japanese maid while...

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Zudora

as Hassam Ali / Jim Baird, Reporter
Released: 1914-11-20

Zudora, not knowing she's an heiress to a $20 million fortune, lives with her uncle, a mystic...

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Under the Top

as 'Foxy' Stillmore
Released: 1919-01-04

Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus passing through town. he falls in love with...

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Star of Bethlehem

as Micah / Joseph
Released: 1912-12-24

Following a bright wandering star, three magi from the East travel to Bethlehem of Judea to meet...

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The Cry of the Children

as The working father
Released: 1912-04-30

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of...

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Nan of Music Mountain

as Gale Morgan
Released: 1917-12-12

Henry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an...

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East Lynne

as Archibald Carlyle
Released: 1912-01-26

Based on the novel of the same name by Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood).

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The Snowbird

as Bruce Mitchell
Released: 1916-05-08

John Wheeler (Warren Cook) gets himself in some financial hot water and needs to prove that he...

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The City of Dim Faces

as Wing Lung
Released: 1918-07-15

Chinese merchant Wing Lung and Elizabeth Mendall, an American, marry and have a son named Jang...

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The Million Dollar Mystery

as Jim Norton - Newspaper Reporter
Released: 1914-01-02

This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and...

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The Girl of the Grove

as uncredited
Released: 1912-04-04

The girl was young, pretty, and also a good businesswoman; When her father died she took up the...

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The Marble Heart

as Raphael
Released: 1913-05-11

Outside the door of the home of a sculptor and his mother, fell a poor, friendless young girl....

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Johnny Get Your Gun

as The Duke of Bullconia
Released: 1919-03-09

While Bill Burnham is jailed for drunkenly shooting up the town, he receives a letter saying...

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Believe Me, Xantippe

as Simp Calloway
Released: 1918-06-02

George MacFarland, a wealthy young man who loves adventure, bets his friends Thornton Brown and...

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Jess

as Captain John Neil
Released: 1912-05-21

Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two...

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The Tiniest of Stars

as The Musician
Released: 1913-01-13

Family drama of a a brother and sister who take to the stage.

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She

as Leo Vincey / Kallikrates
Released: 1911-12-25

She was the first attempt in film to depict the story of H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A...

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Flying to Fortune

as The Daughter's Sweetheart
Released: 1912-03-12

A wealthy old man, who has been a semi-invalid for years, is informed by his physician that his...

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The Forest Rose

as Albert as an Older Man, Rose's Lover
Released: 1912-11-29

Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their...

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When the Studio Burned

as Self
Released: 1913-02-03

A recreation of the Thanhouser Studio fire of 13 January 1913, it includes the rescue of a small...

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Love's Miracle

as The Convict / Lover
Released: 1912-05-09

Wealth does not always bring happiness. The girl was young, rich, but an invalid, and the noted...

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The Legend of Provence

as Sir Henry
Released: 1913-12-01

A foundling is raised in a convent and becomes a nun there, until she falls in love with a...

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The Web of Life

as Tom Wilson
Released: 1917-04-01

Vincent, the lazy son of a wealthy father, travels to the country in an attempt to clean up his...

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When Ghost Meets Ghost

as Ghost in Armor
Released: 1913-04-06

If you were a studious man, accustomed to burning the midnight oil, wouldn't it annoy you if...

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Good Morning, Judge

as A Young Clubman
Released: 1913-02-09

A young clubman, who prided himself upon his popularity, made a wager with a friend that he...

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The Ring of a Spanish Grandee

as uncredited
Released: 1912-05-24

A romantic young girl, visiting St. Augustine, finds that she must make the choice which means...

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Joseph in the Land of Egypt

as Joseph
Released: 1914-02-01

Film realization of the Biblical story of Joseph, played here by future director James Cruze.

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In a Garden

as Jack as an adult
Released: 1912-10-24

Over the years, an old gardener observes a romance develop between a young boy and girl. 20...

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The Slave Mart

as Jack Spaulding
Released: 1917-01-01

Immigrants drama where a poor Italian girl almost falls into the hands of white slave traders...

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The Cat's Paw

as Lord Trevor
Released: 1914-03-16

In this adventure the diplomatic free-lance and his brilliant aid in war, Nan Tremain, are again...

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Put Yourself in His Place

as Edith's Husband
Released: 1912-10-29

The story concerns the love of Henry Little for Grace Carden and its reciprocal sentiment, with...

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The Idol of the Hour

as The Young Artist
Released: 1913-05-14

The young artist had searched Paris for a suitable model to pose as a shepherdess in a new...

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The Dog in the Baggage Car

as The Actor
Released: 1913-04-13

The actor and his wife suddenly found themselves "at liberty" because the manager of their...

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