Sam De Grasse

Born: 1875-06-11

From Wikipedia Sam De Grasse (June 12, 1875 – November 29, 1953) was a Canadian actor. He traveled to New York City and in 1912 appeared in his first motion picture. At first he played standard secondary characters, but when fellow Canadian Mary Pickford set up her own studio with her husband Douglas Fairbanks, he joined them. He portrayed the villainous Prince John in Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood. Afterward, he began to specialize in villainous roles. De Grasse was the uncle of successful cinematographer Robert De Grasse.


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The Black Pirate

as Pirate Lieutenant
Released: 1926-03-08

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he...

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The Birth of a Nation

as Charles Sumner
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 Arthur Jenkins (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 Man Who Laughs

as King James II
Released: 1928-04-27

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in...

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Robin Hood

as Prince John
Released: 1922-10-18

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince...

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The King of Kings

as Pharisee
Released: 1927-04-19

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In...

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Blind Husbands

as Dr. Armstrong
Released: 1919-10-21

An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men...

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Our Dancing Daughters

as Freddie's Father
Released: 1928-09-01

A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.

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The Racket

as District Attorney Welch
Released: 1928-11-01

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.

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When a Man Loves

as Comte Guillot de Morfontaine
Released: 1927-08-21

A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he...

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The Spoilers

as Judge Stillman
Released: 1923-08-26

Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

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I Am Not a Racist

as the businessman
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A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes...

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The Good Bad Man

as Bud Frazer / The Wolf
Released: 1916-04-21

An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some...

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Sun-Up

as Sheriff Weeks
Released: 1925-09-20

When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a...

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Anything Once

as Herbert Wendling
Released: 1917-10-08

A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months....

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The Mother and the Law

as Arthur Jenkins
Released: 1919-08-18

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

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Tiger Rose

as Dr. Cusick
Released: 1923-12-09

Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and...

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Wild and Woolly

as Steve Shelby
Released: 1917-06-24

A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western...

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Captain Salvation

as Peter Campbell
Released: 1927-05-14

A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own...

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Sis Hopkins

as Vibert
Released: 1919-03-02

Sis is an eccentric young girl in a small rural village. While most around Sis view her as a...

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Honor Bound

as Blood Keller
Released: 1928-04-29

When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and...

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Painted People

as Henry Parrish
Released: 1924-01-28

A 1924 film directed by Clarence G. Badger.

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Wall Street

as John Willard
Released: 1929-12-01

A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph...

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Slippy McGee

as Father De Rance
Released: 1923-06-11

The title is also the moniker of a renowned safe-cracker, Slippy McGee, who has always managed...

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Brace Up

as National Jim
Released: 1918-03-18

Hero Henry Court (Herbert Rawlinson) is very much his parents' child, having inherited the...

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Forsaking All Others

as Dr. Mason
Released: 1922-12-10

Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where...

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The Devil's Passkey

as Warren Goodwright
Released: 1920-08-08

The wife of an American playwright in Paris becomes ensnared in the seductive wiles of an...

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Unseen Forces

as Capt. Stanley
Released: 1920-11-29

In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her...

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The Eagle of the Sea

as Colonel Lestron
Released: 1926-10-17

Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.

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The Half-Breed

as Sheriff Dunn
Released: 1916-07-30

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks...

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The Skywayman

as Dr. Wayne Leveridge
Released: 1920-09-05

Suffering from amnesia, Captain Norman Craig is embroiled in a doctor's plot to steal both a...

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Silks and Saddles

as William Morrissey
Released: 1929-01-20

Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named...

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The Last Performance

as District Attorney
Released: 1929-10-13

A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is...

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Heart o' the Hills

as Steve Honeycutt
Released: 1919-11-30

Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit...

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The Virgin

as Ricardo Ruiz
Released: 1924-08-01

The Virgin (1924)

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The Scarlet Car

as Ernest Peabody
Released: 1917-12-24

Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns...

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Six-Shooter Andy

as Tom Slade
Released: 1918-02-24

Susan Allenby's father is killed during a robbery staged by Bannack's corrupt sheriff, Tom...

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Broken Hearts of Hollywood

as Defense Attorney
Released: 1926-08-14

Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a...

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Winner Takes All

as Mark Thorne
Released: 1918-07-20

Saul Chadron, a brutal cattle baron, is distressed that homesteaders are intruding on his domain...

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Love's Blindness

as Benjamin Levy
Released: 1926-12-04

A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in...

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An Innocent Magdalene

as Forbes Stewart
Released: 1916-06-18

When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes...

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Captain of the Guard

as Bazin
Released: 1930-03-28

A captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.

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A Woman's Fool

as uncredited
Released: 1918-08-17

Cowboy Lin McLean's restlessness takes him to Denver, where he becomes enamored of a waitress...

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The Hope Chest

as Ballantyne, Sr.
Released: 1918-12-29

Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate...

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Martyrs of the Alamo

as Silent Smith
Released: 1915-11-20

The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming...

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Circus Days

as Lord
Released: 1923-07-30

10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.

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Sally, Irene and Mary

as Officer O'Dare
Released: 1925-12-27

The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.

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The Exquisite Thief

as Shaver Michael
Released: 1919-04-28

Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the...

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The Country Doctor

as Ira Harding
Released: 1927-08-22

A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his...

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The Cheater Reformed

as Thomas Edinburgh
Released: 1921-01-02

Thomas Edinburgh is secretly in love with Carol, wife of the Reverend Luther McCall, and...

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The Broken Gate

as 'Hod' Brooks
Released: 1920-12-01

Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She...

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Acquitted

as Ira Wolcott
Released: 1916-02-06

Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban...

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Her Official Fathers

as Ethan Dexter
Released: 1917-04-07

A 1917 film directed by Elmer Clifton, Joseph Henabery, and Dorothy Gish.

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The Courtship of Miles Standish

as John Carver
Released: 1923-12-30

A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is...

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The Narrow Path

as Malcolm Dion
Released: 1918-12-15

Marion Clark, a manicurist, is unimpressed by the wealthy but dissipated men who frequent her...

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A Law Unto Herself

as Kurt Von Klassner (as Samuel DeGrasse)
Released: 1918-08-19

The daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat...

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The Winged Mystery

as Mortimer Eddington
Released: 1917-11-26

Louis and August Siever, the twins sons of a German father and American mother, are traveling in...

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The Silk Lined Burglar

as Boston Blackie
Released: 1919-03-31

Gentleman crook Boston Blackie answers a want ad for an expert safecracker placed by Doris...

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