Otis Turner

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Won in the Clouds

Won in the Clouds

1928

Story

6.0
Writing

A Swahili village is affected by disease. The nearby diamond mine is using this as an excuse not to ship diamonds back to HQ in South Africa. The mine...

The Whirlpool of Destiny

The Whirlpool of Destiny

1916

Director

Directing

George Bell, a wild young man, lives with his rancher father, Thomas Bell, in Paradise Valley, California. When George sells his father's favorite hor...

The Pool of Flame

The Pool of Flame

1916

Director

Directing

J. Warren Kerrigan plays the standard Vance hero, a devil-may-care Irish mercenary named Terrence O'Rourke. While knocking about in India, O'Rourke co...

From Broadway to a Throne

From Broadway to a Throne

1916

Director

Directing

Just before a big bout, Jimmie, a New York prize fighter, gets a lucky medal from his friend Billy. Herman Marlex, a chronic teller of tall tales info...

The Seekers

The Seekers

1916

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

The quiet life style of Ruth Heck and her brother Lem, who belong to a religious sect called the Seekers, is disrupted when a judge imprisons Lem for ...

A Son of the Immortals

A Son of the Immortals

1916

Director

Directing

A general ousts the king of Kosnovia, and makes the king's idle son ruler. Unexpectedly, the new ruler begins instituting democratic reforms, angering...

A Youth of Fortune

A Youth of Fortune

1916

Director

Directing

At the urging of his wealthy grandfather, Willie O'Donovan is sent to boarding school by his preoccupied parents, neither of whom shows much interest ...

The Gay Lord Waring

The Gay Lord Waring

1916

Director

Directing

Though a spendthrift and a layabout, Lord Arthur Waring (J. Warren Kerrigan) is universally loved by his tenants. The same cannot be said for Arthur's...

The Road to Paradise

1915

Director

Directing

Third episode in the New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke series of 2-reel shorts.

The Frame-Up

The Frame-Up

1915

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Richard Sears, "The Power" of the city, arranges for alderman Luke Simms to be elected mayor so that he can control him, but Simms refuses to go again...

Business Is Business

1915

Director

1.0
Directing

Nouveau riche Isidore Lechat, who lives in a castle in the south of France, believes that business is the most important thing, but remains attached t...

A Little Brother of the Rich

A Little Brother of the Rich

1915

Director, Writer

1.0
Directing Writing

While working his way through college, Paul Potter acquires a flock of wealthy friends who encourage him to give up his hometown fiancée, Sylvia Castl...

The Scarlet Sin

The Scarlet Sin

1915

Director

Directing

Against the wishes of Cecelia, his wife, the Reverend Eric Norton leaves his position in a fashionable New York congregation to preach in a poor minin...

Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen

1915

as Self

6.0
Acting

A look behind the scenes at Universal Studios in 1915.

From Italy's Shores

From Italy's Shores

1915

Director

Directing

Tony Gardella and his pretty wife, Angelica, sailed from Italy in the steerage of a Mediterranean liner for New York. They had a small sum saved up to...

The Black Box

The Black Box

1915

Director

6.0
Directing

Science fiction serial, presumed lost.

The Flash

1915

Director

7.5
Directing

Blind Carl Bauer is on the verge of regaining his sight. But in a moment of impulsive action tears off his bandages in order to save his daughter from...

Damon and Pythias

Damon and Pythias

1914

Director

5.0
Directing

The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.

The Opened Shutters

The Opened Shutters

1914

Director

Directing

When the story opens Sylvia Lacey has been left an orphan.

The Spy

The Spy

1914

Director

Directing

An American agent exchanges places in prison with a condemned British officer and brother of a woman he greatly admires and goes to the gallows.

Neptune's Daughter

Neptune's Daughter

1914

Assistant Director

1.0
Directing

The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love ...

One of the Bravest

One of the Bravest

1914

Director

5.0
Directing

A romantic drama about love and jealousy. Two firefighters want the same girl. She almost gets married to Harry, but John sneakily keeps her from doin...

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

1913

Director

Directing

Draga, the Gypsy

1913

Director

Directing
Sheridan's Ride

Sheridan's Ride

1913

Director

Directing

A re-enactment of Gen. Sheridan's ride from Winchester Cedar Creek to rally retreating Union soldiers and defeat Gen. Early. A love story involving th...

The Tribal Law

1912

Director

Directing

The basis of the story is an old edict, issued as the result of one of the tribal differences, that death shall be meted out to the Hopi woman who mar...

Hunted Down

1912

Director

Directing

John Dayton is shot by George Willis in a saloon quarrel. The deed is seen by Arline Marsdon, who gives Willis money and a marked timetable, whereby h...

Before the White Man Came

1912

Director

Directing

This story deals with the lives of the Indians who ruled primeval North America for centuries before the white man came. Meene-o-Wa, the fairest maide...

Up Against It

Up Against It

1912

Director

4.0
Directing

Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to part with the furniture of his little apartment in ...

A Cave Man Wooing

A Cave Man Wooing

1912

Director

4.0
Directing

George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, however, a strap...

Shamus O'Brien

1912

Director

Directing

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

Lost in the Jungle

Lost in the Jungle

1911

Director

5.0
Directing

Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare in...

The Two Orphans

The Two Orphans

1911

Director

Directing

REEL ONE: Diane Eleanor De Vaudrey secretly marries a man beneath her. A child is born, Louise, the blind girl. Diane's father kills her husband and f...

The Wheels of Justice

The Wheels of Justice

1911

Director

Directing

James Hazen, one-time crook, now wealthy and reformed, is recognized on his wedding day, by a former pal, Florrie Cook, who follows the young couple t...

Dad's Girls

Dad's Girls

1911

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

Dad, a likable old pioneer character, lived among the foot hills of the western mining region, on a ranch with his two daughters, Rose and Madge. As s...

Life on the Border

Life on the Border

1911

Director

4.0
Directing

Life on the Border is a true story of life in the early days of America. It is the terrible experience of a young pioneer mother left alone for the da...

Captain Kate

Captain Kate

1911

Director, Story

4.0
Directing Writing

Two caravans meet on the desert, one headed by Howell and Clancy, two New York men, who are gathering animals for circus purposes, the other is led by...

The Rose of Old St. Augustine

The Rose of Old St. Augustine

1911

Director

4.0
Directing

Captain Lafitte receives word that Alicante, a young Spaniard, is to wed Dolores, the Rose of St. Augustine, whom he has not seen since childhood. He ...

Back to the Primitive

Back to the Primitive

1911

Director

4.0
Directing

John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and apprises her of the fact that Lord Thurlow sails on the sam...

The Witch of the Everglades

The Witch of the Everglades

1911

Director, Writer

4.0
Directing Writing

White Cloud, the war chief of the Seminoles of the Everglades, in the beginning of the last century, starts a war on the "whites," for the brutal and ...

Justinian and Theodora

1910

Director

Directing

Justinian's life is saved and his heart is lost to Theodora. Ursus, the gladiator, vows to devote his life to Theodora's service. The reign of Emperor...

John Dough and the Cherub

John Dough and the Cherub

1910

Scenario Writer, Director

Writing Directing

John Dough gives his assistance in the celebration of the Fourth. No end of trouble results from the invasion of his peaceful rest by the much-despise...

Two Boys in Blue

1910

Director

Directing

The lure of the white-top and the music of the band is food for the bronco buster and he is happy with plaudits of the gathered throng. The grand entr...

Lost in the Soudan

Lost in the Soudan

1910

Director

Directing

Captain Iris and Lieutenant Payne, brother officers in the British army, are commanded to report for duty in the Soudan. Hasty preparations are made a...

The Range Riders

1910

Director

Directing

Each year the unique surroundings and novel characters of this great and typical American custom is becoming more and more obsolete and in a few short...

The Land of Oz

The Land of Oz

1910

Scenario Writer, Director

Writing Directing

The Emerald City in all its splendor with all the familiar characters so dear to the hearts of children - Little Dorothy, the scarecrow, the woodman, ...

Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz

Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz

1910

Scenario Writer, Director

3.0
Writing Directing

Dorothy and the Scarecrow are now in the Emerald City. They have become friendly with the Wizard, and together with the woodman, the cowardly lion, an...

A Common Enemy

1910

Scenario Writer, Director

3.5
Writing Directing

A secret message is dispatched by the young daughter of a Southern family to Col. Morgan's camp.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

1910

Director, Scenario Writer

5.4
Directing Writing

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.

The Courtship of Miles Standish

1910

Scenario Writer, Director

Writing Directing

A short silent film based on the poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Cowboy Millionaire

The Cowboy Millionaire

1909

Director

5.0
Directing

Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the...

Hunting Big Game in Africa

Hunting Big Game in Africa

1909

Director

Directing

A lion run is discovered, and, unmindful of promises which must be fulfilled, they prepare to secure a fine specimen. A fake documentary that it had ...

Stirring Days in Old Virginia

1909

Director

Directing

This picture story is a series of stirring war scenes occurring in 1865, at the homestead of Captain Warren, Confederate officer, near St. Petersburg,...

The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays

The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays

1908

Director, Writer

1.2
Directing Writing

L. Frank Baum would appear in a white suit and present his live actors, slide shows and films as a live travelogue presentation of his popular fantasi...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1908

Director, Director of Photography

Directing