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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 cine...
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Complete Filmography

I Am Not a Racist
2019
as the businessman
A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of the classic movie and recreates its dialogues to cr...

Born to Be Bad
1950
Additional Director of Photography
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master o...

Captain of the Guard
1930
as Bazin
In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's sym...

Wall Street
1929
as John Willard
A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller M...

The Last Performance
1929
as District Attorney
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns ...

Silks and Saddles
1929
as William Morrissey
Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybil, who made Johnny hold back Mrs. Calhoun's horse,...

The Racket
1928
as District Attorney Welch
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Our Dancing Daughters
1928
as Freddie's Father
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.

Honor Bound
1928
as Blood Keller
When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisio...

The Man Who Laughs
1928
as King James II
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine ...

The Wreck of the Hesperus
1927
as Capt. David Slocum
Captain Slocum of the Hesperus arrives on shore in a New England village to find that the girl he loves has been tricked into marrying John Hazzard in...

The Fighting Eagle
1927
as Talleyrand
The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.

The Country Doctor
1927
as Ira Harding
A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his happiness through the hostility of the boy's father.

When a Man Loves
1927
as Comte Guillot de Morfontaine
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.

Captain Salvation
1927
as Peter Campbell
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.

The King of Kings
1927
as Pharisee
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywoo...

Love's Blindness
1926
as Benjamin Levy
A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the g...

The Eagle of the Sea
1926
as Colonel Lestron
Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.

Broken Hearts of Hollywood
1926
as Defense Attorney
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in smal...
Mike
1926
as Brush
A Modest Comedy Drama

The Black Pirate
1926
as Pirate Lieutenant
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single...

Sally, Irene and Mary
1925
as Officer O'Dare
The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.

Sun-Up
1925
as Sheriff Weeks
When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to k...
One Year to Live
1925
as Dr. Lucien La Pierre
Young Elsie Duchanier, maid of the star dancer in the French Brunel's Follies, is deceived by a lascivious doctor into believing she has only one year...

The Virgin
1924
as Ricardo Ruiz
The Virgin (1924)
A Self-Made Failure
1924
as Cyrus Cruikshank
Young Sonny's dying father leaves him in the care of Breezy, a hobo he has mistaken for a wealthy businessman.

Painted People
1924
as Henry Parrish
Ellie Byrne and Don Lane, chums, living in the poor section of a factory town, go away to make their fortunes. Ellie wishes to become a lady so that s...

The Courtship of Miles Standish
1923
as John Carver
A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecuti...

Tiger Rose
1923
as Dr. Cusick
Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading p...

The Dancer of the Nile
1923
as Pasheri
An Egyptian Princess is infatuated with Karmet, a Syrian prince who is disguised as a merchant. He, however, loves Arvia, a dancer. The Princess plots...

The Spoilers
1923
as Judge Stillman
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

Circus Days
1923
as Lord
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.

Slippy McGee
1923
as Father De Rance
The title is also the moniker of a renowned safe-cracker, Slippy McGee, who has always managed to evade capture until his latest job, when he is wound...

Forsaking All Others
1922
as Dr. Mason
Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where he is easy prey for designing Enid Morton. After some ...

Robin Hood
1922
as Prince John
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, gras...

The Cheater Reformed
1921
as Thomas Edinburgh
Thomas Edinburgh is secretly in love with Carol, wife of the Reverend Luther McCall, and produces evidence that her husband was once an embezzler. Lea...

The Broken Gate
1920
as 'Hod' Brooks
Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an illegitimate child and with the earnings from her...

Unseen Forces
1920
as Capt. Stanley
In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her psychic powers by locating children who went missing du...

The Skywayman
1920
as Dr. Wayne Leveridge
Suffering from amnesia, Captain Norman Craig is embroiled in a doctor's plot to steal both a cache of jewels and Craig's own doting girlfriend. A lost...

The Devil's Passkey
1920
as Warren Goodwright
The wife of an American playwright in Paris becomes ensnared in the seductive wiles of an American Army officer, but her devotion to her husband convi...

Heart o' the Hills
1919
as Steve Honeycutt
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.

Blind Husbands
1919
as Dr. Armstrong
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surp...

The Mother and the Law
1919
as Arthur Jenkins
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the fil...

The Exquisite Thief
1919
as Shaver Michael
Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high...

The Silk Lined Burglar
1919
as Boston Blackie
Gentleman crook Boston Blackie answers a want ad for an expert safecracker placed by Doris Macon, who claims a moral right to the safe's contents. She...

Sis Hopkins
1919
as Vibert
Sis is an eccentric young girl in a small rural village. While most around Sis view her as a joke, she is loved by Ridy Scarboro, the clerk at the gen...

The Hope Chest
1918
as Ballantyne, Sr.
Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer's candy shop, where she delights the custo...

The Narrow Path
1918
as Malcolm Dion
Marion Clark, a manicurist, is unimpressed by the wealthy but dissipated men who frequent her shop, preferring city editor Dick Strong, who lives in h...

A Law Unto Herself
1918
as Kurt Von Klassner (as Samuel DeGrasse)
The daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat Kurt Von Klassner, even though her heart belongs to Ber...

A Woman's Fool
1918
Cowboy Lin McLean's restlessness takes him to Denver, where he becomes enamored of a waitress named Katie. Intending to marry her, Lin accompanies Kat...

Winner Takes All
1918
as Mark Thorne
Saul Chadron, a brutal cattle baron, is distressed that homesteaders are intruding on his domain and hires outlaws to drive them away.

Smashing Through
1918
as Earl Foster
Claim jumper Dave Marco and his boss Earl Foster, a crooked investment broker, hire chemist Ralph Brandon to falsify papers that a certain worthless m...

Brace Up
1918
as National Jim
Hero Henry Court (Herbert Rawlinson) is very much his parents' child, having inherited the predominant character traits of both his go-getting father ...

Six-Shooter Andy
1918
as Tom Slade
Susan Allenby's father is killed during a robbery staged by Bannack's corrupt sheriff, Tom Slade, and his men, leaving the girl to care for her eight ...

The Scarlet Car
1917
as Ernest Peabody
Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with ...

The Winged Mystery
1917
as Mortimer Eddington
Louis and August Siever, the twins sons of a German father and American mother, are traveling in Europe when war breaks out. August joins the Kaiser's...

Anything Once
1917
as Herbert Wendling
A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from reachi...
The Empty Gun
1917
as Jim
Frank, riding through the storm, approaches the station, to give ten thousand dollars worth of gold, which he has just brought from the mine, into saf...

Wild and Woolly
1917
as Steve Shelby
A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gon...
Madame Bo-Peep
1917
as Jose Alvarez
A 1917 filmd riected by Chester Withey.
An Old Fashioned Young Man
1917
as Harold T. King
Frank Trent, raised by his father with an old-fashioned reverence for women, goes to the city where he obtains a job as an aide to corrupt politician ...

Her Official Fathers
1917
as Ethan Dexter
A 1917 film directed by Elmer Clifton, Joseph Henabery, and Dorothy Gish.
Jim Bludso
1917
as Ben Merrill
At the end of the Civil War, engineer Jim Bludso, accompanied by his friend, Banty Tim, returns home to the town of Gilgal, and discovers that his wif...
Diane of the Follies
1916
as Phillips Christy
Phillips Christy an amateur sociologist from a wealthy family, subscribes to the theory that people are shaped by their environment. When he falls in ...

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916
as Arthur Jenkins (Modern Story)
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

The Half-Breed
1916
as Sheriff Dunn
In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama wr...

An Innocent Magdalene
1916
as Forbes Stewart
When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Doro...

The Good Bad-Man
1916
as Bud Frazer / The Wolf
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

Acquitted
1916
as Ira Wolcott
Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban cottage with a potted lily for his loving wife and two da...
The She-Devil
1916
Secretly engaged to Bernice, Albert becomes infatuated with the gypsy Mina. The rich and jealous Renard is in love with Mina enticing her father to ta...

Martyrs of the Alamo
1915
as Silent Smith
The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.
A Man and His Mate
1915

The Birth of a Nation
1915
as Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is capture...
The Tardy Cannon Ball
1914
as Floss
The "Cannon Ball" express train is running late, so the station agent has the opportunity to play seven up with a waiting passenger who turns out to b...
The Badge of Office
1914
as The New Sheriff