Sam De Grasse

Sam De Grasse

1875-06-11 Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada 75 Credits

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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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I Am Not a Racist

I Am Not a Racist

2019

as the businessman

Acting

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

Born to Be Bad

1950

Additional Director of Photography

5.9
Directing

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

Captain of the Guard

1930

as Bazin

Acting

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

Wall Street

1929

as John Willard

6.0
Acting

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

The Last Performance

1929

as District Attorney

6.2
Acting

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

Silks and Saddles

1929

as William Morrissey

Acting

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

The Racket

1928

as District Attorney Welch

6.6
Acting

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Our Dancing Daughters

Our Dancing Daughters

1928

as Freddie's Father

6.5
Acting

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

Honor Bound

1928

as Blood Keller

Acting

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

The Man Who Laughs

1928

as King James II

7.3
Acting

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

The Wreck of the Hesperus

1927

as Capt. David Slocum

Acting

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

The Fighting Eagle

1927

as Talleyrand

5.0
Acting

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

The Country Doctor

The Country Doctor

1927

as Ira Harding

6.0
Acting

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

When a Man Loves

1927

as Comte Guillot de Morfontaine

6.4
Acting

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

Captain Salvation

1927

as Peter Campbell

6.8
Acting

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

The King of Kings

1927

as Pharisee

6.5
Acting

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

Love's Blindness

1926

as Benjamin Levy

Acting

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

The Eagle of the Sea

1926

as Colonel Lestron

Acting

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

Broken Hearts of Hollywood

Broken Hearts of Hollywood

1926

as Defense Attorney

6.5
Acting

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

Acting

A Modest Comedy Drama

The Black Pirate

The Black Pirate

1926

as Pirate Lieutenant

6.7
Acting

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

Sally, Irene and Mary

1925

as Officer O'Dare

5.5
Acting

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

Sun-Up

Sun-Up

1925

as Sheriff Weeks

Acting

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

Acting

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

The Virgin

1924

as Ricardo Ruiz

Acting

The Virgin (1924)

A Self-Made Failure

1924

as Cyrus Cruikshank

Acting

Young Sonny's dying father leaves him in the care of Breezy, a hobo he has mistaken for a wealthy businessman.

Painted People

Painted People

1924

as Henry Parrish

Acting

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

The Courtship of Miles Standish

1923

as John Carver

Acting

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

Tiger Rose

1923

as Dr. Cusick

4.5
Acting

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

The Dancer of the Nile

1923

as Pasheri

Acting

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

The Spoilers

1923

as Judge Stillman

Acting

Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

Circus Days

Circus Days

1923

as Lord

6.5
Acting

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

Slippy McGee

Slippy McGee

1923

as Father De Rance

Acting

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

Forsaking All Others

1922

as Dr. Mason

Acting

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

Robin Hood

1922

as Prince John

6.4
Acting

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

The Cheater Reformed

1921

as Thomas Edinburgh

Acting

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

The Broken Gate

1920

as 'Hod' Brooks

Acting

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

Unseen Forces

1920

as Capt. Stanley

5.2
Acting

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

The Skywayman

1920

as Dr. Wayne Leveridge

6.0
Acting

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

The Devil's Passkey

1920

as Warren Goodwright

Acting

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

Heart o' the Hills

1919

as Steve Honeycutt

6.0
Acting

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

Blind Husbands

Blind Husbands

1919

as Dr. Armstrong

6.4
Acting

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

The Mother and the Law

1919

as Arthur Jenkins

6.9
Acting

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

The Exquisite Thief

1919

as Shaver Michael

6.0
Acting

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

The Silk Lined Burglar

1919

as Boston Blackie

Acting

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

Sis Hopkins

1919

as Vibert

Acting

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

The Hope Chest

1918

as Ballantyne, Sr.

Acting

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

The Narrow Path

1918

as Malcolm Dion

Acting

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

A Law Unto Herself

1918

as Kurt Von Klassner (as Samuel DeGrasse)

Acting

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

A Woman's Fool

1918

4.0
Acting

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

Winner Takes All

1918

as Mark Thorne

Acting

Saul Chadron, a brutal cattle baron, is distressed that homesteaders are intruding on his domain and hires outlaws to drive them away.

Smashing Through

Smashing Through

1918

as Earl Foster

Acting

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

Brace Up

1918

as National Jim

Acting

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

Six-Shooter Andy

1918

as Tom Slade

Acting

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

The Scarlet Car

1917

as Ernest Peabody

4.5
Acting

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

The Winged Mystery

1917

as Mortimer Eddington

Acting

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

Anything Once

1917

as Herbert Wendling

Acting

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

Acting

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

Wild and Woolly

1917

as Steve Shelby

6.2
Acting

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

Acting

A 1917 filmd riected by Chester Withey.

An Old Fashioned Young Man

1917

as Harold T. King

Acting

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

Her Official Fathers

1917

as Ethan Dexter

Acting

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

Jim Bludso

1917

as Ben Merrill

Acting

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

Acting

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

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

1916

as Arthur Jenkins (Modern Story)

7.1
Acting

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

The Half-Breed

1916

as Sheriff Dunn

6.1
Acting

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

An Innocent Magdalene

1916

as Forbes Stewart

Acting

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

The Good Bad-Man

1916

as Bud Frazer / The Wolf

6.3
Acting

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

Acquitted

Acquitted

1916

as Ira Wolcott

Acting

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

Acting

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

Martyrs of the Alamo

1915

as Silent Smith

5.2
Acting

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

5.0
Acting
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

1915

as Senator Charles Sumner (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting