Billy Quirk

Billy Quirk

William Andrew 'Billy' Quirk (March 27, 1873 – April 20, 1926) was an American stage and silent film actor. He performed in more than 180 films between 1909 and 1924. Gem Motion Picture Company produced a series of "Billy"-titled pictures starring Quirk. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

  • Title: Billy Quirk
  • Popularity: 0.808
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1873-03-27
  • Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
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  • Also Known As: William A. Quirk, William Quirk, William Andrew Quirk, James Wilson
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Billy Quirk Movies

  • 1923
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    A Bride for a Knight

    A Bride for a Knight

    1 1923 HD

    While having dental work done, Jimmy inhales too much gas and begins believing that he is a detective. He sets out to capture a gang of thieves who...

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  • 1922
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    My Old Kentucky Home

    My Old Kentucky Home

    1 1922 HD

    After serving time in Sing Sing, for which he was unjustly sentenced, and encouraged by two "sharpers," Richard Goodloe returns to the home of his...

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  • 1909
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    To Save Her Soul

    To Save Her Soul

    4 1909 HD

    Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...

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  • 1923
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    Broadway Broke

    Broadway Broke

    1 1923 HD

    Nellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a vaudeville act and is the sole support of the family.

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  • 1912
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    Algie, the Miner

    Algie, the Miner

    4.8 1912 HD

    When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

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  • 1923
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    The Glimpses of the Moon

    The Glimpses of the Moon

    1 1923 HD

    The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.

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  • 1917
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    The Web of Life

    The Web of Life

    1 1917 HD

    Vincent, the lazy son of a wealthy father, travels to the country in an attempt to clean up his act. There he meets Kitty Trent, and he offers to...

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  • 1915
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    Billy the Bear Tamer

    Billy the Bear Tamer

    5 1915 HD

    A young man's girlfriend is forbidden by her father to see him again. When the father takes his family on a hunting trip to the woods, the girl and...

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  • 1909
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    The Mountaineer's Honor

    The Mountaineer's Honor

    4.5 1909 HD

    A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the...

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  • 1918
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    His Day Out

    His Day Out

    3.9 1918 HD

    In this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hardy (doing his best Eric Campell). A barber by...

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  • 1914
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    The Egyptian Mummy

    The Egyptian Mummy

    6 1914 HD

    In order to make money, a man hires a bum to pretend to be a mummy, so he can sell the "body" for scientific experiments.

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  • 1909
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    Pippa Passes

    Pippa Passes

    5.583 1909 HD

    Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.

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  • 1909
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    Getting Even

    Getting Even

    3.75 1909 HD

    All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all...

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  • 1909
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    The Son's Return

    The Son's Return

    6.214 1909 HD

    A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing...

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  • 1912
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    In the Year 2000

    In the Year 2000

    1 1912 HD

    A remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.

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  • 1909
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    A Strange Meeting

    A Strange Meeting

    4.333 1909 HD

    Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment,...

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  • 1909
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    The Broken Locket

    The Broken Locket

    3.5 1909 HD

    George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost,...

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  • 1912
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    A Comedy of Errors

    A Comedy of Errors

    1 1912 HD

    A man mistakes a woman's blown kisses as being directed at him. When he comes over to call on her, she attempts to shoo him away, but must hide him...

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  • 1916
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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    7.08 1916 HD

    The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

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  • 1909
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    Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

    Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

    3.25 1909 HD

    Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a...

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  • 1914
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    Cherry

    Cherry

    1 1914 HD

    A convivial evening at Hoag's Tavern is interrupted by a young companion, William Fentise, declaring to the assembled company that he is very much in...

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  • 1909
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    Sweet and Twenty

    Sweet and Twenty

    3.75 1909 HD

    Alice misunderstands when she sees her sweetheart Frank accidentally kissing her sister, and gets upset. Frank claims he'll kill himself by throwing...

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  • 1912
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    Canned Harmony

    Canned Harmony

    6 1912 HD

    The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to...

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  • 1910
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    The Woman from Mellon's

    The Woman from Mellon's

    1 1910 HD

    Harry Townsend, a young stock broker, is in love with the pretty daughter of James Petersby, a Wall Street magnate, and as Harry is a very promising...

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  • 1910
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    A Rich Revenge

    A Rich Revenge

    1 1910 HD

    Two young fellows are rivals for the hand of a pretty girl of the village, and after her marriage with the one of her choice, the other swears to be...

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  • 1910
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    The Smoker

    The Smoker

    1 1910 HD

    A young bride wonders at her husband's frequent absences. Suspicion mounts. What can the young man find more alluring than she, herself?

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  • 1910
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    May and December

    May and December

    5 1910 HD

    The quartet comprising this story are of ages as the months are to each other. June, a young college boy, finds his resources in depletion, and to...

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  • 1910
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    Never Again

    Never Again

    4 1910 HD

    Clarence McKnight and Felix De Grosse are rivals for the heart of pretty little Letitia Mooney, but it is evident that Clarence is the favored one....

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  • 1910
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    Muggsy's First Sweetheart

    Muggsy's First Sweetheart

    5 1910 HD

    A scrappy lad from the skids attempts to court a well-to-do maiden. During his visits to her family estate, he upsets the Uplift committee that's...

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  • 1910
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    Muggsy Becomes a Hero

    Muggsy Becomes a Hero

    5 1910 HD

    Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends...

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  • 1910
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    When We Were in Our 'Teens

    When We Were in Our 'Teens

    5 1910 HD

    Diplomacy was not Tom's strong suit. So when May showed to him her latest painting he poured scorn on it. He was anxious to discourage her from...

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  • 1909
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    His Wife's Visitor

    His Wife's Visitor

    0.5 1909 HD

    Harry leaves his new wife at home while he goes out to play poker. Angry, his wife fakes evidence that she has had a male caller while he was gone.

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  • 1909
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    The Mexican Sweethearts

    The Mexican Sweethearts

    0.5 1909 HD

    A Mexican spitfire romances an American soldier to make her Mexican lover jealous. When the lover is about to kill his rival, she convinces him it...

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  • 1909
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    They Would Elope

    They Would Elope

    4.5 1909 HD

    Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when...

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  • 1909
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    Oh, Uncle!

    Oh, Uncle!

    2.25 1909 HD

    Harry's rich old bachelor uncle thinks Harry is still single. When Uncle announces a visit, Harry's wife has to play the part of the housekeeper so...

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  • 1909
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    A Midnight Adventure

    A Midnight Adventure

    0.5 1909 HD

    Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order...

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  • 1909
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    The Test

    The Test

    4.25 1909 HD

    Harry, preparing to leave on a business trip, tells Bessie that her photograph will always be with him. To test his sincerity she removes the photo...

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  • 1923
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    Success

    Success

    1 1923 HD

    The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping his grown daughter in the bargain.

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  • 1913
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    Billy's Strategy

    Billy's Strategy

    1 1913 HD

    Billy and his sweetheart have had a little quarrel, and just to make him jealous, she accepts the attentions of another suitor. When she thinks she...

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  • 1909
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    The Little Darling

    The Little Darling

    4.55 1909 HD

    This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position....

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  • 1910
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    Serious Sixteen

    Serious Sixteen

    1 1910 HD

    When young Tom and Adele learn they must wait four years before they can marry, they agree to kill themselves. They reconsider, and then decide to...

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  • 1912
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    Fra Diavolo

    Fra Diavolo

    1 1912 HD

    Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.

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  • 1909
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    Pranks

    Pranks

    2.5 1909 HD

    Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.

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  • 1912
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    A Terrible Lesson

    A Terrible Lesson

    1 1912 HD

    The story involves a man who goes to a gambling den regardless of the protestations of his wife. He is extremely lucky and his luck attracts...

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  • 1912
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    Parson Sue

    Parson Sue

    5 1912 HD

    A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road...

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  • 1912
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    A Man's a Man

    A Man's a Man

    6 1912 HD

    A Jewish man is treated poorly by a member of the upper-class. When tragedy strikes, the Jewish man has an opportunity for revenge, but he turns the...

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  • 1913
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    Cousins of Sherlocko

    Cousins of Sherlocko

    6 1913 HD

    Two mediocre detectives try and catch a notorious pickpocket. Meanwhile, an innocent man is mistaken for the pickpocket and is forced to put on a...

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  • 1910
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    An Affair of Hearts

    An Affair of Hearts

    2.5 1910 HD

    Two eccentric Frenchmen argue for the hand of an eligible American girl, who finally discouraged both of them by introducing her betrothed.

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  • 1924
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    The Dixie Handicap

    The Dixie Handicap

    1 1924 HD

    Tale of a man and his horse.

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  • 1910
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    A Simple Mistake

    A Simple Mistake

    4 1910 HD

    Mr. Hallate is leaving for a trip and his loving wife is helping him to get his belongings out with him. At last everything is ready and she goes on...

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  • 1914
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    The Evolution of Percival

    The Evolution of Percival

    1 1914 HD

    Because of his effeminacy, Percival and Mildred are humiliated wherever they go. After some very distressing incidents in a restaurant, on the...

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  • 1915
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    The Green Cat

    The Green Cat

    1 1915 HD

    Within twenty-four hours after Bedelia, an old maid, has lost her green cat, she is begging Boggs, of the National Detective Agency, to find her lost...

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  • 1914
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    The Maid from Sweden

    The Maid from Sweden

    1 1914 HD

    In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and...

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  • 1914
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    Father's Timepiece

    Father's Timepiece

    1 1914 HD

    Through the carelessness of his office-boy, Stillwell drops his watch and puts a dent in the case. He arrives home in a rage to find his daughter...

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  • 1914
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    In Bridal Attire

    In Bridal Attire

    1 1914 HD

    A young man finds himself forced to take a trolley car and a motorcycle in order to get to his wedding. Complications ensue.

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  • 1914
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    Forcing Dad's Consent

    Forcing Dad's Consent

    1 1914 HD

    Constance and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. and Mrs. Boggs, her parents, are both prim, straitlaced people. Pa Boggs has little use for young men of the...

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  • 1915
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    The Master of His House

    The Master of His House

    1 1915 HD

    Becoming extremely tired of his wife's propensity for indulging in bridge whist parties and other social functions, to the sad neglect of her...

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  • 1915
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    The Young Man Who 'Figgered'

    The Young Man Who 'Figgered'

    1 1915 HD

    Bobby Tucker, while strolling about a Railroad Station, spies Nan Tubbs, a charming young lady whom her father and mother are very anxious to marry...

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  • 1915
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    A Study in Tramps

    A Study in Tramps

    1 1915 HD

    Because of a family feud, Bobby Scrawn's love for Mary Stretch seems hopeless, particularly after the young man has been spanked with a fence picket...

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  • 1915
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    Spades are Trumps

    Spades are Trumps

    1 1915 HD

    At the reading of her uncle's will, Honoria Spavin, a spinster lady, learns that his entire fortune is to be left to her on condition that she marry...

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  • 1915
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    The Vanishing Vault

    The Vanishing Vault

    1 1915 HD

    While stopping at the Bronzegilt Hotel, Slick and Slim, two high-class and well-dressed burglars, overhear Baroness Vodka tell the manager she wishes...

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  • 1915
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    Burglarius Billy

    Burglarius Billy

    1 1915 HD

    Finding that his attentions to Nellie are undesirable in the eyes of Jenkins, her father. Billy tries to elope with the girl, but the young people's...

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  • 1914
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    Our Fairy Play

    Our Fairy Play

    1 1914 HD

    The Payne family of Lonesomeville set up a Fairy Play, founded upon the story of "The Sleeping Beauty," and Helene Payne secures the wealthy Mrs....

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  • 1915
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    Bertie’s Stratagem

    Bertie’s Stratagem

    1 1915 HD

    Just out of college, in love with Letty Grey, whose father is quick-tempered and opposed to him, also possessing a wealthy rival, Bertie feels he...

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  • 1915
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    Billy's Wager

    Billy's Wager

    1 1915 HD

    The wealthy Mr. Billy gives a party at his palatial residence. He is in love with the handsome widow, Mrs. Constance, and has a deadly rival, the...

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  • 1914
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    Uncle Bill

    Uncle Bill

    1 1914 HD

    On his way to New York to visit his relatives, the Masons, for the first time, Uncle Bill meets "Oiley" Curley, a crook. John Mason, Uncle Bill's...

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  • 1915
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    The Boarding House Feud

    The Boarding House Feud

    1 1915 HD

    Aching for an opportunity to get square with strong-willed Mrs. Drexel, boarding house mistress and mother of his sweetheart, Constance, Billy sees...

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  • 1909
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    1776, or The Hessian Renegades

    1776, or The Hessian Renegades

    5.167 1909 HD

    During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....

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  • 1909
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    What's Your Hurry?

    What's Your Hurry?

    5 1909 HD

    Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry...

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  • 1909
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    The Faded Lilies

    The Faded Lilies

    2.25 1909 HD

    A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.

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  • 1909
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    A Corner in Wheat

    A Corner in Wheat

    6.156 1909 HD

    On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...

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  • 1909
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    The Necklace

    The Necklace

    4 1909 HD

    Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to...

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  • 1909
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    The Renunciation

    The Renunciation

    4.375 1909 HD

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

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  • 1909
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    The Gibson Goddess

    The Gibson Goddess

    4.063 1909 HD

    A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the...

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  • 1909
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    Nursing a Viper

    Nursing a Viper

    4.2 1909 HD

    During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat...

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  • 1910
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    The Last Deal

    The Last Deal

    1 1910 HD

    Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwood, his brother-in-law, shows up and cures him of...

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  • 1910
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    Faithful

    Faithful

    4.5 1910 HD

    Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp...

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  • 1910
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    The Oath and the Man

    The Oath and the Man

    4.5 1910 HD

    A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest...

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  • 1910
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    The Two Brothers

    The Two Brothers

    1 1910 HD

    In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother...

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  • 1910
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    Wilful Peggy

    Wilful Peggy

    4.6 1910 HD

    Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce...

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  • 1909
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    The Redman's View

    The Redman's View

    5.154 1909 HD

    An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one...

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  • 1909
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    The Light That Came

    The Light That Came

    4.125 1909 HD

    A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?

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  • 1909
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    Through the Breakers

    Through the Breakers

    4.25 1909 HD

    A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of...

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  • 1912
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    The Hater of Women

    The Hater of Women

    4 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Playing Trumps

    Playing Trumps

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Phantom Paradise

    Phantom Paradise

    1 1912 HD

    The melodrama where there's a mad inventor with a pretty daughter and where the rich hero buys the worthless invention, telling the girl and her...

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  • 1921
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    The Man Worthwhile

    The Man Worthwhile

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1912
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    Planting Time

    Planting Time

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    A Solax Celebration

    A Solax Celebration

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Mignon

    Mignon

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Lend Me Your Wife

    Lend Me Your Wife

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Hubby Does the Washing

    Hubby Does the Washing

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    The Glory of Light

    The Glory of Light

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Father and the Boys

    Father and the Boys

    1 1912 HD

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    Between Two Fires

    Between Two Fires

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Treasures on the Wing

    Treasures on the Wing

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    The Idol Worshipper

    The Idol Worshipper

    1 1912 HD

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