Robert Harron

Born: 1893-04-12

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert "Bobby" Harron (April 12, 1893 – September 5, 1920) was an American motion picture actor of the early silent film era. Although he acted in scores of films, he is possibly best remembered for his roles in the Griffith-helmed films Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation. He was also the older brother of film actor John Harron and actress Mary Harron.


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The Birth of a Nation

as Tod
Released: 1915-02-08

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons,...

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

as The Boy (Modern Story)
Released: 1916-09-04

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven...

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The Musketeers of Pig Alley

as Rival Gang Member / In Alley / At Dance
Released: 1912-10-31

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an...

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The Greatest Question

as Jimmie Hilton
Released: 1919-12-27

Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man...

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The Massacre

as In Cavalry
Released: 1912-12-19

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

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The Burglar’s Dilemma

as Young Burglar
Released: 1912-12-16

In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a...

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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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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 Avenging Conscience

as The Grocery Boy
Released: 1914-08-02

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark...

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Ramona

as uncredited
Released: 1910-05-23

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love...

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A Romance of Happy Valley

as John L. Logan Jr
Released: 1919-01-26

John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the...

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Hearts of the World

as The Boy - Douglas Gordon Hamilton
Released: 1918-03-11

A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace...

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The Old Actor

as The Messenger
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 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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The Battle

as A Union soldier (uncredited)
Released: 1911-11-06

Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the...

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Judith of Bethulia

as Nathan
Released: 1914-03-08

Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of...

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Death's Marathon

as The Messenger
Released: 1913-06-14

Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the...

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Home, Sweet Home

as The Eastener, Robert Winthrop
Released: 1914-05-16

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his...

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Friends

as uncredited
Released: 1912-09-22

The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners.

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The Mother and the Law

as The Boy
Released: 1919-08-18

After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his...

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So Near, Yet So Far

as The Rival / In Club
Released: 1912-09-29

It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other...

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An Unseen Enemy

as The Boyfriend
Released: 1912-09-09

The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to...

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The Yaqui Cur

as Strongheart, a Yaqui Youth
Released: 1913-05-16

The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the...

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True Heart Susie

as William Jenkins
Released: 1919-06-01

Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their...

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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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A Child of the Paris Streets

as Jimmie Parker
Released: 1916-05-21

When the son of a leader of a Paris underworld family known as The Apaches is arrested and tried...

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The Battle of the Sexes

as John Andrews, the son
Released: 1914-04-12

Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of...

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A Calamitous Elopement

as Bellboy
Released: 1908-08-06

A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father...

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Man's Genesis

as Weakhands
Released: 1912-07-10

An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a...

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The Last Drop of Water

as In Wagon Train
Released: 1911-07-26

A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by...

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1776, or The Hessian Renegades

as Farmer
Released: 1909-09-06

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

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Brute Force

as Harry Faulkner (Prologue) / Weakhands (The Old Days)
Released: 1914-04-24

A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's...

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Enoch Arden: Part II

as uncredited
Released: 1911-06-15

Annie remains faithful to her husband, Enoch, even though he's been lost at sea for many years....

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The Coming of Angelo

as uncredited
Released: 1913-01-01

Young Theresa was thought to be much favored in the love of Guido, the leader of the Italian...

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The Girl and Her Trust

as uncredited
Released: 1912-03-28

A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits.

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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

as The Young Father
Released: 1913-12-01

Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events...

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The Escape

as Larry Joyce
Released: 1914-06-01

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own...

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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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Hoodoo Ann

as Jimmie Vance
Released: 1916-03-26

A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and...

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A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

as A Brother
Released: 1912-10-03

The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together....

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Enoch Arden

as Enoch's Teenage Son
Released: 1911-06-15

Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the...

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The Primal Call

as On Ship
Released: 1911-06-21

A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a...

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A Drunkard's Reformation

as Theatre Usher
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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Her Terrible Ordeal

as At Station
Released: 1910-01-10

A young secretary is locked in an airtight vault by a robber. Only her boss knows the...

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The Greatest Thing in Life

as Edward Livingston
Released: 1918-12-22

A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a...

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The Italian Barber

as Buying Newspapers
Released: 1911-01-09

Tony, the barber, on his way to the shop meets little Alice, the newsgirl, who runs a stand on a...

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A Temporary Truce

as The Murdered Indian's Son
Released: 1912-06-10

A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps...

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The Life of General Villa

as American lover
Released: 1914-05-09

Silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself. The movie incorporates...

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The Girl Who Stayed at Home

as James Grey
Released: 1919-03-23

Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the...

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The New York Hat

as Youth Outside Church
Released: 1912-12-05

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a...

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Heredity

as Indian
Released: 1912-11-04

Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots...

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For His Son

as At Soda Fountain
Released: 1912-01-21

A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called...

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Her Awakening

as On Street / Accident Witness
Released: 1911-09-28

An attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an...

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The Painted Lady

as Beau at Ice Cream Festival
Released: 1912-10-24

A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an...

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To Save Her Soul

as Stagehand / Usher
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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A Cry for Help

as Witness to Accident
Released: 1912-12-23

Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received...

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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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A Pueblo Legend

as The Great Brother's Friend
Released: 1912-08-29

A love story set among Native Americans.

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A Lodging for the Night

as The Victim / In Gambling Hall
Released: 1912-05-09

Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn....

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The House of Darkness

as Asylum Guard
Released: 1913-05-10

A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the...

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Fighting Blood

as The Old Soldier's Son
Released: 1911-06-28

After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son...

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The Lesson

as Young Boy
Released: 1910-12-19

Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".

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Sunshine Sue

as Sweatshop Employee
Released: 1910-11-14

A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.

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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

as A Messenger
Released: 1909-01-21

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

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One Is Business, the Other Crime

as The Delivery Boy
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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Two Daughters of Eve

as At Stage Door
Released: 1912-09-19

Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this...

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The Missing Links

as Henry Gaylord
Released: 1916-01-16

A 1916 film directed by Lloyd Ingraham.

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Fate's Interception

as The Errand Boy
Released: 1912-04-08

The representative of an American Syndicate comes to Mexico to look over some land. While there,...

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The Little Darling

as uncredited
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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Home Folks

as The Young Woman's Brother
Released: 1912-06-06

Griffith interweaves two tales of one family: A stern father rules his family by what he thinks...

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The School Teacher and the Waif

as Schoolboy
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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The Adopted Brother

as The Adopted Brother
Released: 1913-08-29

A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who...

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The Great Love

as Jim Young
Released: 1918-08-11

Jim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist...

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The Broken Locket

as Outside Company Office
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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The Sands of Dee

as Bobby
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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Through the Breakers

as At the Club
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 Sheriff's Baby

as The Deputy
Released: 1913-03-29

After the death of his wife the baby was all the sheriff had left, the promise of hope in the...

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The Song of the Shirt

as Stock Boy
Released: 1908-11-17

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

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Where the Breakers Roar

as On Boardwalk
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 Lady and the Mouse

as The Young Friend
Released: 1913-04-26

The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter...

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The Little Tease

as Jim
Released: 1913-04-12

The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was...

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At the Altar

as On Street
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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A Timely Interception

as The Farmer's Adopted Son
Released: 1913-06-07

A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired...

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The Marriage of Molly-O

as Larry O'Dea
Released: 1916-08-06

Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her...

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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1998-01-01

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are...

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Bobby the Coward

as Bobby
Released: 1911-07-13

Bobby's girlfriend thinks he's a coward when he refuses to fight a gang of toughs after they...

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At the Crossroads of Life

as Messenger
Released: 1908-07-02

At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to...

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The Informer

as The Southern Boy
Released: 1912-11-21

The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his...

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The Rebellion of Kitty Belle

as Joe Belle
Released: 1914-06-14

Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband...

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Near To Earth

as Gato's Brother
Released: 1913-03-20

This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger...

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The Boy Detective, or The Abductors Foiled

as Swifty
Released: 1908-03-11

As a newsboy is playing a game on the sidewalk with a friend, two men come near to them, and...

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A Beast at Bay

as A Farmer
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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When a Man Loves

as uncredited
Released: 1911-01-05

Mr. Bach, a wealthy man, visits the scenes of his boyhood days in his auto and meets farmer...

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Fate

as The Beloved Son
Released: 1913-03-22

Sim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called...

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The Miser's Heart

as Bakery Assistant
Released: 1911-11-20

Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for...

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Two Memories

as uncredited
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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The Long Road

as Family Friend
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 Newlyweds

as Boy with Drum
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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Mixed Babies

as Boy in Front of Store
Released: 1908-06-12

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The Reformers

as The Son
Released: 1913-07-06

Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all...

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The Bad Boy

as Jimmie Bates
Released: 1917-02-18

Small town youth Jimmie Bates is a well-intentioned, but troubled youth. Jimmie is a rowdy boy...

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Her First Adventure

as Extra in Crowd
Released: 1908-03-18

A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though...

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Billy's Stratagem

as A Settler
Released: 1912-02-12

While their mother is away from home, Billy and his sister are set upon by marauding Indians,...

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Pranks

as One of the Boys
Released: 1909-08-30

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

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Sunshine Alley

as Ned Morris
Released: 1917-11-03

In the poorest section of the city lives Nell, who spends her days at her grandfather's bird...

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The Diving Girl

as The Bellboy
Released: 1911-08-21

With her uncle she visits the seashore and goes bathing with a party of her brother's friends....

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A Sailor’s Heart

as On Porch
Released: 1912-11-25

A short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.

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