Bertram Grassby
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1880-12-23
Locus Natus: Lincolnshire, England, UK
Et ut:
Rasputin, the Black Monk
The story of the rise and fall of Rasputin, the so-called "mad monk" who dominated the court of the Russian czar in the period prior to the Russian...
release : 1917.10.05popularis : 1.365
A Parisian Scandal
Without social or romantic interests, young Basil Hammond goes to Paris to study paleontology and to bring back a report to his guardian on the...
release : 1921.12.05popularis : 1.21
The Prisoner
While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo...
release : 1923.03.18popularis : 1.387
The Fighting Chance
Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing. Avarice is the only emotion that Sylvia feels...
release : 1920.08.01popularis : 0.977
Fifty Candles
Sentenced to be deported from Hawaii, Hung Chin Chung pledges twenty years of service to Henry Drew to escape the certain death that awaits him in...
release : 1921.12.11popularis : 2.024
One Law for the Woman
A naive youngster is sold a phony mine.
release : 1924.05.25popularis : 1.47
The Dancer of the Nile
An Egyptian Princess is infatuated with Karmet, a Syrian prince who is disguised as a merchant. He, however, loves Arvia, a dancer. The Princess...
release : 1923.10.28popularis : 1.492
The Lone Wolf's Daughter
At a London auction, Princess Sonia bids against her husband, exiled Prince Victor, for a Corot landscape in which incriminating letters Sonia wrote...
release : 1919.12.21popularis : 0.323
His Hour
Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia, is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except for a young but cold British widow,...
release : 1924.09.29popularis : 1.266
Salome
Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet...
release : 1918.08.10popularis : 5.759
What Every Woman Wants
Poor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as a result she incurs great debts.
release : 1919.02.23popularis : 1.838
Golden Dreams
Oil is discovered on the Countess de Elberca's estate in a mythical Spanish American country. Mercedes McDonald, her niece, falls in love with Sandy...
release : 1922.06.11popularis : 0.318
The Man from Brodney's
A drama of the India Seas that has Hollingsworth Chance, a young American, tangled in court intrigue to, is put to the supreme test to save the girl...
release : 1923.12.16popularis : 0.932
Conscience
Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish...
release : 1917.01.01popularis : 1.179
Mid-Channel
The story has been adapted from the Sir Arthur Wing Pinero play. The title means nothing more than the mid-channel of married life, through a...
release : 1920.09.26popularis : 1.844
The Beloved Rogue
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
release : 1927.03.12popularis : 2.999
The Hope Chest
Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer's candy shop, where she delights the...
release : 1918.12.29popularis : 0.881
Serenade
In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When the town is captured by brigands led by...
release : 1921.08.01popularis : 0.375
Dangerous Days
Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive...
release : 1920.03.14popularis : 1.28
Battling Jane
Jane is a rootless young lady who finds an abandoned child and adopts it as her own. The decision, however, leads to great conflict with the child's...
release : 1918.09.28popularis : 0.72
Made for Love
A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it...
release : 1926.01.26popularis : 1.258
The Road to Paradise
Third episode in the New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke series of 2-reel shorts.
release : 1915.12.06popularis : 0.883
The Delicious Little Devil
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich...
release : 1919.05.01popularis : 4.001
The Young Rajah
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
release : 1922.11.11popularis : 3.102
A Romance of Happy Valley
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and...
release : 1919.01.26popularis : 3.995
Her Social Value
A shop girl has ambitions of marrying up.
release : 1921.10.24popularis : 0.863
When a Man Loves
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
release : 1927.08.21popularis : 4.425
Havoc
A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace it chronicles two Englishmen, Dick Chappell...
release : 1925.09.27popularis : 4.048
The Midnight Express
Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad...
release : 1924.06.01popularis : 1.058
A Son of the Immortals
A general ousts the king of Kosnovia, and makes the king's idle son ruler. Unexpectedly, the new ruler begins instituting democratic reforms,...
release : 1916.05.22popularis : 0.584
Even as You and I
Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to...
release : 1917.04.01popularis : 1.239
The Gay Lord Waring
Though a spendthrift and a layabout, Lord Arthur Waring (J. Warren Kerrigan) is universally loved by his tenants. The same cannot be said for...
release : 1916.04.24popularis : 0.92
The Mysterious Mrs. M
A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire.
release : 1917.02.05popularis : 0.604
It Happened in Honolulu
Story of a pretty girl whose ambitious mother wants to marry her off to an English nobleman. The girl, however, loves a plain American, the son of a...
release : 1916.06.26popularis : 0.709
The Pool of Flame
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...
release : 1916.08.21popularis : 0.859
Captain Blood
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of...
release : 1924.09.21popularis : 1.509
The Whirlpool of Destiny
George Bell, a wild young man, lives with his rancher father, Thomas Bell, in Paradise Valley, California. When George sells his father's favorite...
release : 1916.09.10popularis : 1.309
For the Defense
Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness...
release : 1922.06.04popularis : 0.633
The Tiger's Claw
Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but...
release : 1923.04.22popularis : 3.44
Liberty
A 20 part 2-reel Western film serial.
release : 1916.08.20popularis : 1.465
Pioneer Trails
Jack is orphaned as a young child when his wagon train is ambushed by Indians. Twenty years later, he rescues Rose from a runaway stagecoach. The two...
release : 1923.05.01popularis : 2.068
Straight from Paris
A young man takes a trip to Europe, and when he returns home he brings along the woman he fell in love with and became engaged to. However, his...
release : 1921.04.09popularis : 1.037
The Beautiful Cheat
A motion picture producer has press agent Jimmy Austin take Mary Callahan, a pretty shopgirl, to Europe. After an extensive publicity campaign, Mary...
release : 1926.02.21popularis : 0.442
The Shadow of the East
Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a...
release : 1924.01.27popularis : 1.426