Really cool - One Clear Call movie
Movie Is being made - in 1922.
Novel: Greene, Frances Nimmo. One Clear Call
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Runtimes: 80
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:2270 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:May 1922, Finland:28 October 1923
In movie have been taken:
Nick Cogley (actor)
Death Notes: Santa Monica, California, USA (following operation)
Height: 5' 7 1/2"
Birth Notes: New York City, New York, USA
Other Works: Stage actor and film director.
Birth Name: Cogley, Nicholas P.J.
Entered films with 'Selig'.
Death Date: 20 May 1936
Birth Date: May 1869
Joseph J. Dowling (actor)
Probably best remembered for his portrayal of the patriarch in "The Miracle Man" (1919).
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA
Birth Notes: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth Name: Dowling, Joseph Johnson
Spouse: 'Myra Davis (I)' (qv) (? - 8 July 1928) (his death), 'Sarah J. Hassen' (May 1882 - ?); 1 child
Death Date: 8 July 1928
Birth Date: 4 September 1850
Stanley Goethals (actor)
Death Notes: Redding, California, USA
Birth Notes: Los Angeles County, California, USA
Death Date: 3 March 2000
Birth Date: 1 December 1916
Fred Kelsey (actor)
He played the same role in _The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)_ (qv) and in its remake, _If a Body Meets a Body (1945)_ (qv), which starred 'The Three Stooges' (qv)., Son: Robert Miller Kelsey., Character actor who built up a hefty resume of over 200 movies, including silents and talkies, even directing a few. He found a comfortable niche in broad, vivid comedy roles, especially that of the bumbling, bungling, not particularly bright detective (in _Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)_ (qv) he even played an actor playing a bumbling, bungling, not particularly bright detective!). He livened up everything from 'The Three Stooges' (qv) two-reel shorts to "The Green Archer" and "Superman" serials. He even inspired cartoon characters.
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA
Height: 5' 11"
Birth Notes: Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Birth Name: Kelsey, Frederick Alvin
Spouse: 'Katharine Miller' (? - 2 September 1961) (his death); 1 child
Death Date: 2 September 1961
Birth Date: 20 August 1884
Donald MacDonald (actor)
Articles: "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), March 1919, pg. 22-23, 71-72, by: Mary Keane Taylor, "The Den of a Modern Villain; Donald MacDonald and His Hollywood Castle", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 December 1913, pg. 1154, "DDonald MacDonald, New Poers Director"
Death Notes: New York City, New York, US
Birth Notes: Denison, Texas, USA
Spouse: 'Ruth Hammond' (? - 9 December 1959) (his death), 'Maudie Gifford' (? - ?)
Death Date: 9 December 1959
Birth Date: 13 March 1898
Albert MacQuarrie (actor)
Death Notes: Hollywood, California, USA
Height: 5' 9"
Birth Notes: San Francisco, California, USA
Brother of actors 'Frank MacQuarrie' (qv) and 'Murdock MacQuarrie' (qv).
Death Date: 17 February 1950
Birth Date: 8 January 1882
William Marion (actor)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: California, USA
Death Date: 3 January 1957
Birth Date: 12 January 1878
Milton Sills (actor)
Articles: "Films of the Golden Age" (USA), Spring 1997, No. 8, pg. 80-86, "Classic Images" (USA), March 1986, Iss. 129, pg. 13-15, 60, by: George Katchmer, "Milton Sills, the Intellect", "Variety" (USA), 17 September 1930, "Milton Sills Drops Dead at Tennis Game", "Paris and Hollywood Screen Secrets" (USA), August 1927, pg. 36, by: June Lee, "Dan Cupid's Bulletin Board [birth of son]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 28 May 1927, pg. 257, "Milton Sills", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 14 May 1927, pg. 113, "Sills Speaks at Harvard", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 30 October 1926, pg. 2, "Niagara Falls!", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 2 October 1926, pg. 280, "Sills Elected President", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 25 September 1926, pg. 2, "Sills-Kenyon", "Photoplay Magazine" (USA), June 1926, pg. 41, by: Carol Bird, "A Man of Talents; Student, actor, artist, philosopher, liguist--Milton Sills is a seeker of beauty in life", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 26 September 1925, pg. 30, "On the Set and Off [wife charges desertion and asks custody of 14-yr-old daughter]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 March 1925, pg. 284, "Milton Sills", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 29 November 1924, pg. 11-12, 30, "Why Milton Sills Became an Actor", "Movie Weekly" (USA), 26 April 1924, pg. 12, 26, by: Ruth Mabrey, "Milton Sills Tells How 'The Sea Hawk' Was Made", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 31 January 1920, pg. 764, "Metro Engages Milton Sills", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 19 April 1919, pg. 358, "Returns to Goldwyn", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 27 July 1918, pg. 547, "Milton Sills Leading Man for Farrar", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 July 1917, pg. 470, "Milton Sills Joins Ivan"
Daughter Dorothy Sills., Son Kenyon Clarence Sills (6 May 1927 - 11 April 1971), One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), Fluent in Italian, Russian, French, and German, His principal heir was his nephew, Frederick (Fritz) Sills, who went on to become a world-famous body-builder. Fritz was lured to Hollywood in the 1960s where he was offered the starring role in Tarzan. He turned down the role when he learned that the salary was $1,750 a week, less than he was receiving from his uncles Trust Fund. Fritz Sills died in Hollywood in 1968.
Death Notes: Santa Barbara, California, USA (heart attack)
American chief man of voiceless pictures. Born into affluence in Chicago, he attend the University of Chicago by award and remain nearby in glue of a professor of psychology and line. A chance look in to the university via actor- officer Donald Robertson lead to Sills abandon his conscious and joining Robertson's horses camaraderie as an recitalist in 1905. Three years subsequent he go to New York and be an instantaneous Broadway glory. After nearly twenty production, he was woo into films by company 'William A. Brady' (qv). Sills debuted in _The Pit (1914)_ (qv) and was basically as lacking beating about the bush a success in pictures. His stalwart self and handsome look bring him a succeeding, and his talent across-the-board to a cavernous mixed bag of role in an as one wide variety of genre. Although he free-lanced all for lots years, in use at almost all studio, he sign next to First National in 1924 and made a two of a considerate dozen films there. Still common at the advent of blare, he seem assured of a harassing career, but geological, work wakeful, and economic difficulties disrupt his go in the overdue 1920s. He die quickly of a heart hunt while playing tennis in 1930 at the age of 48. He was survive by his second wife, actress 'Doris Kenyon' (qv), and his two immature., Son of stock broker and mineral dealer William Henry and banking heiress Josephine Antoinette Troost Sills, Milton Sills started out as a philosophy professor before joining Donald Robertson's stock company in 1906. By 1908, he was starring on Broadway. His film career commenced in 1914, and he became a steady box office draw until his sudden death in 1930.
Birth Notes: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Other Works: Values: a Philosophy of Human Needs (U Chicago Pr., 1932) (book)
Spouse: 'Gladys Wynne' (qv) (1910 - 1925) (divorced), 'Doris Kenyon' (qv) (1926 - 15 September 1930) (his death)
Death Date: 15 September 1930
Birth Date: 12 January 1882
Henry B. Walthall (actor)
Articles: "Classic Images" (USA), January 1989, Iss. 163, pg. 42-45, by: George A. Katchmer, "Remembering the Great Silents", "Classic Images" (USA), June 1966, Iss. 252, pg. 44, 46, by: George Katchmer, "Remembering the Great Silents", "New York Times" (USA), 18 June 1936, pg. 23:3, "Henry Walthall, Film Actor, Dead; Veteran of Early Cinema, 58, Made Reputation in 'The Birth of a Nation'; Entered Movies in 1909; Played in a Picture with Mary Pickford--Stricken After Finishing New Role", "Variety" (USA), 24 January 1936, "Henry B. Walthall", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), November 1925, pg. 40-41, 71, by: Dorothy Donnell, "'I Remember When--' Henry Walthall Compares the Screen of the Old Days with the Films of 1925", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 8 November 1924, pg. 154, "Henry B. Walthall Signed", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 23 July 1921, pg. 413, "Walthall with Vitagraph", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 3 April 1920, pg. 128, "Walthall Returns to Screen in 'The Splendid Hazard'", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 23 August 1919, pg. 1120, "Walthall Leaves National", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 3 May 1919, pg. 671, "Walthall to Appear in Six Pictures Made by Pioneer", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 23 November 1918, pg. 822, "Walthall Signs with National Film", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 28 September 1918, pg. 1862, "Walthall Registers [brother Junius had d. 15 Jul 1918, Battle of the Marne]", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 25 May 1918, pg. 1146, "Henry Walthall with Griffith", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 6 October 1917, pg. 94, "Walthall Announces Picture", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 8 September 1917, pg. 1544, "Walthall to Have His Own Company", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 6 May 1916, pg. 963, "Walthall Takes a Vacation", "Motion Picture Classic" (USA), April 1916, pg. 55-56, by: Richard Willis, "'The Edison Booth of the Screen'; Henry B. Walthall Has Earned That Title for Himself, and Has But Few Competitors", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 7 July 1915, pg. 39:1, "Briefs of Biography", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 26 June 1915, pg. 2084, "Walthall at Essanay Studio", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 5 June 1915, pg. 1585, "Walthall with Essanay", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 27 March 1915, pg. 1914f, "Walthall Still with Balboa", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 17 March 1915, pg. 24:1, "Latest on Walthall; Will Be with Griffith, Says 'Mirror' Correspondent [William E. Wing] on the Coast", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 12 December 1914, pg. 1540, "Henry Walthall Joins Balboa", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 10 March 1914, pg. 24:2, "Walthall in Mix-Up; Balboa Says He's Still Their Star--Woods Declares He's a Griffith Brilliant", "Moving Picture World" (USA), 10 January 1914, pg. 175, by: George Blaisdell, "At the Sign of the Flaming Arcs"
Brother of 'Anna Mae Walthall' (qv)., Presented an Honorary award for lifetime achievement to 'D.W. Griffith' (qv) at the 1936 Academy Awards ceremony., Dubbed the "Edwin Booth of the Screen.", At the zenith of his career under 'D.W. Griffith' (qv), Walthall earned the huge sum of $175 per week., Both wives were actresses. Second wife 'Mary Charleson' (qv) bore him a daughter, 'Patricia Walthall' (qv), in 1918., Studied law at Howard College but dropped out after six months to pursue theater in New York, making his debut in 1901 and performing in numerous Southern melodramas., As part of the cast of the Broadway show "The Great Divide" in 1906, he befriended fellow cast member 'James Kirkwood' (qv). Kirkwood went on to direct films and introduced Walthall to 'D.W. Griffith' (qv). Walthall appeared in a number of Kirkwood's films., Born in affluence on a plantation near Shelby County, Alabama, one of eight children. His father, Junius Leigh Walthall, was a Virginia native who served as captain in the Confederate Army and later became a respected figure in Alabama politics., His middle name, Brazeale, was passed on to him. It was his grandmother's Irish maiden name., Walthall enlisted in the First Alabama Regiment with the United States Army at the beginning of the Spanish-American War. Serving eleven months, a bout of malarial fever while in camp at Jacksonville, Florida kept him from seeing action.
Death Notes: Monrovia, California, USA (influenza & nervous condition)
Height: 5' 7"
Quotes: "I hadn't planned to leap Holofernes because I wasn't the nature substantially. I stay towards the external the studio, but Griffith send in siding beside of me. I said, 'I can't play the bit; I'm as capably considerably of a shrimp.' But he enjoy try out close to batty of actor, and sooner or afterwards verified that I could make the part to be fitting him enhanced than all and sundry else could. So he found a method, morally in plonk of he always do. He deposit me against a support and put brass armor on me. I look like a giant. I stayed wakeful here any on my throne or on a couch all the circumstance. I had two broadswords, and I fling those broadswords nigh on like a giant. The separate other time you saw me I be ride in a chariot across the battlefield and, of curriculum, that made me form high-ceilinged. No, Griffith never said to me, 'You're too slight!'" HW - referring to his role in Griffith's "Judith of Bethulia"
Birth Notes: Shelby City, Alabama, USA
Salary History: _The Birth of a Nation (1915)_ (qv)::$175 a week, _Chandu the Magician (1932)_ (qv)::$1000
Other Works: Performed on Broadway in the following productions:, The Great Divide (1906). Drama. Written by William Vaughn Moody. Directed by Henry Miller. Princess Theatre: 3 Oct 1906- 24 Mar 1907 (238 performances). Cast: Margaret Anglin, William J. Butler, 'Laura Hope Crews' (qv) (as "Polly Jordan"), Robert Cummings, Nolan Gagne, Charles Gotthold, 'Bertram Harrison' (qv) (as "An Architect"), Henry Miller, Frederick Moore, Leon Roberts, 'Henry B. Walthall' (qv) (as "Burt Williams"), 'Mrs. Thomas Whiffen' (qv) (as "Mrs. Jordan"), Arnold Wilbur, Charles Wyngate. Produced by Henry Miller., Pippa Passes (1906). Written by Robert Browning. Directed by Henry Miller. Majestic Theatre: 12 Nov 1906- 7 Dec 1906 (9 performances). Undetermined role., The Great Divide (1907). Drama. Written by 'William Vaughn Moody' (qv). Daly's Theatre (moved to The Academy of Music from 17 Feb 1908 to close): 31 Aug 1907- Mar 1908 (closing date unknown/119 performances/return engagement). As "Burt Williams." Cast: Margaret Anglin, Frank Brownlee, William J. Butler, 'Laura Hope Crews' (qv), Nolan Gagne, Arthur Garston, Charles Gotthold, James Kirkwood, Henry Miller (also producer), Frederick Moore, 'Mrs. Thomas Whiffen' (qv), Arnold Wilbur, Charles Wyngate.
Shannon Day (actress)
Annette DeFoe (actress)
Doris Pawn (actress)
Irene Rich (actress)
Claire Windsor (actress)
Edith Yorke (actress)
Frances Nimmo Greene (writer)
Bess Meredyth (writer)
Ernest Palmer (cinematographer)
John M. Stahl (director)
Madge Tyrone (editor)
Louis B. Mayer (miscellaneous crew)
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