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Complete Filmography

Won in the Clouds
1928
Story
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
1916
Director
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
1916
Director
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
1916
Director
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
1916
Director, Writer
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
1916
Director
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
1916
Director
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
1916
Director
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
Third episode in the New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke series of 2-reel shorts.

The Frame-Up
1915
Director, Writer
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
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
1915
Director, Writer
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
1915
Director
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
1915
as Self
A look behind the scenes at Universal Studios in 1915.

From Italy's Shores
1915
Director
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
1915
Director
Science fiction serial, presumed lost.
The Flash
1915
Director
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
1914
Director
The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.

The Opened Shutters
1914
Director
When the story opens Sylvia Lacey has been left an orphan.

The Spy
1914
Director
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
1914
Assistant Director
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
1914
Director
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
1913
Director
Draga, the Gypsy
1913
Director

Sheridan's Ride
1913
Director
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
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
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
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
1912
Director
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
1912
Director
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
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
1911
Director
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
1911
Director
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
1911
Director
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
1911
Writer, Director
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
1911
Director
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
1911
Director, Story
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
1911
Director
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
1911
Director
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
1911
Director, Writer
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
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
1910
Scenario Writer, Director
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
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
1910
Director
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
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
1910
Scenario Writer, Director
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
1910
Scenario Writer, Director
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
A secret message is dispatched by the young daughter of a Southern family to Col. Morgan's camp.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1910
Director, Scenario Writer
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
A short silent film based on the poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Cowboy Millionaire
1909
Director
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
1909
Director
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
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
1908
Director, Writer
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
1908
Director, Director of Photography