E.H. Calvert
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1863-06-27
Locus Natus: Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Et ut: Elisha Helm Calvert
Dark Streets
Pat and Danny McGlone are identical twin brothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and Pat grows up and becomes a policeman while Danny...
release : 1929.08.11popularis : 0.622
The Virginian
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
release : 1929.11.09popularis : 3.227
The Glory Trail
It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his...
release : 1936.09.25popularis : 1.128
The Hour and the Man
A lawyer defends a woman accused of murdering her husband without knowing that the murdered man was his own brother.
release : 1914.01.09popularis : 1.263
The Legion of the Condemned
Finding his sweetheart, Christine, in the arms of a German officer, Price joins the French Air Legion. Christine is later revealed to be the spy whom...
release : 1928.03.10popularis : 4.886
A Romance of the Night
Bob Halran, while riding in his machine, is struck by a small slipper which is thrown from a passing limousine. He suspects that the owner is in...
release : 1915.02.09popularis : 1.415
Quicksands of Sin
It was mother who through false love had sinned. Years later on her deathbed, as the last sacraments were administered, she confesses the folly of...
release : 1913.11.04popularis : 1.033
Thy Will Be Done
Mrs. Mulligan, although in poor circumstances, taken the child of her neighbor, who has just passed into another world, to live with her. Dolly...
release : 1913.10.28popularis : 0.643
The Clutch of Circumstance
Eli Turner, an unscrupulous lawyer, is defeated in court by Frank Morrison, a young attorney. Frank also has had the temerity to get in Turner's path...
release : 1915.06.05popularis : 0.886
The Love Parade
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
release : 1930.01.18popularis : 4.71
The Canary Murder Case
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the...
release : 1929.02.16popularis : 4.087
The Heart of the Law
Detective William Burke is assigned to capture George Watson, an escaped criminal. Six years of sleuthing discovers nothing, and Burke reports to the...
release : 1913.12.09popularis : 1.689
Life's Weaving
Irene Dupont, the pretty little French girl, in which John Braddon, Sr. had placed his affections, tires him and he casts her aside. Thorwald, a...
release : 1913.12.16popularis : 0.795
The Ghost of Self
Frank Johnson, a wealthy landlord, without a heart, has no mercy for the poor. His cold attitude towards the public in general has a great influence...
release : 1913.12.30popularis : 1.998
An Unplanned Elopement
A young woman lingers too long on the boat seeing her sweetheart off, and the two embark together on an unplanned elopement to Europe.
release : 1914.10.17popularis : 0.384
Pierre, of the North
Pierre, a trapper in the great northwest, catches a season's prize, a silver fox. Rene Bennett is fortunate in catching the mate. The two men are...
release : 1914.04.14popularis : 1.185
The Greene Murder Case
Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.
release : 1929.08.11popularis : 4.596
Prep and Pep
A boy finds it difficult to live up to his father's reputation at his school.
release : 1928.11.18popularis : 2.527
From the Submerged
A destitute man ready to drown himself is rescued by a caring passing woman. Soon thereafter forgiven by his dying father, he inherits great wealth...
release : 1912.11.12popularis : 3.231
The Widow from Chicago
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
release : 1930.11.23popularis : 3.015
Murder at Glen Athol
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters,...
release : 1936.02.27popularis : 2.577
Sealed Lips
The Shadow's third movie short, an adaptation from a Donald Van Riper story, "Dying Lips," which appeared in an issue of Detective Story Magazine.
release : 1931.11.11popularis : 2.318
Behind the Make-Up
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his...
release : 1930.01.18popularis : 1.355
Let 'Er Go Gallegher
Young John Gallagher wants to be a newspaper reporter. One day he witnesses a murder committed by a mysterious man with only four fingers on one...
release : 1928.01.14popularis : 1.886
The Voice of Conscience
An accidental death on a hunting trip results in an innocent young man being accused of murder.
release : 1912.09.27popularis : 0.741
Ella Cinders
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of...
release : 1926.06.06popularis : 6.714
The Conquerors
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
release : 1932.11.18popularis : 4.224
Peacock Alley
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day....
release : 1930.01.04popularis : 2.563
Here Comes the Groom
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes...
release : 1934.06.21popularis : 5.071
The Crimson Wing
The hero is a young soldier who is in love with two girls simultaneously. While on the battlefield, the soldier learns that one of his sweethearts...
release : 1915.11.01popularis : 1.239
Death from a Distance
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough...
release : 1935.07.03popularis : 4.634
Western Courage
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken...
release : 1935.10.29popularis : 1.709
The Social Lion
Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most...
release : 1930.06.21popularis : 1.173
East of Suez
After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that...
release : 1925.01.12popularis : 2.744
The Kibitzer
In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in...
release : 1930.01.11popularis : 2.547
The Border Legion
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the...
release : 1930.06.28popularis : 0.993
Darkened Rooms
Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium...
release : 1929.11.23popularis : 2.178
West Point
Arrogant and wise-cracking Brice Wayne enrolls at the United States Military Academy at West Point and adjusts to life as a plebe. He tries out for...
release : 1928.01.07popularis : 3.024
Back to the Old Farm
Frank Clayton, a young city chap, plans a vacation on Uncle Barnes' farm. Going to his friend, George Randall, Clayton shows him Barnes' letter...
release : 1912.09.02popularis : 1.194
The Wizard
A mad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body.
release : 1927.11.27popularis : 1.424
Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...
release : 1939.05.05popularis : 6.408
Thunderbolt
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and...
release : 1929.06.20popularis : 3.055
Ghosts
Colonel de Valpeau lives alone with his negro servant, Zeno. Being pressed for funds, the Colonel is refused a loan on the hereditary estate, and is...
release : 1912.10.01popularis : 0.437
A Man from Wyoming
A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society...
release : 1930.07.12popularis : 0.528
Horse Feathers
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival...
release : 1932.08.19popularis : 6.972
Duck Soup
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
release : 1933.11.12popularis : 6.399
Let's Go Native
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
release : 1930.08.15popularis : 3.269
The Studio Murder Mystery
Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated,...
release : 1929.06.01popularis : 1.725
The Oregon Trail
Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father.....
release : 1936.01.18popularis : 1.59
The Price of Gold
A girl falls in love with a rich passerby. She breaks off her engagement, marries the rich man and moves to the city. After five years she feels very...
release : 1913.04.01popularis : 1.231
Only the Brave
Cooper is a Union Army officer who after being jilted by girlfriend, Virginia Bruce, volunteers on what could be a suicide mission. He volunteers to...
release : 1930.03.07popularis : 2.841
The First Auto
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
release : 1927.06.27popularis : 1.297
The Benson Murder Case
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there; he decides to find...
release : 1930.04.13popularis : 2.64
Affinities
Two sets of young marrieds, Day & Fanny Illington and Ferd & Ida Jackson take a weekend trip together. Avid golfer Day ignores Fanny as Ida does...
release : 1922.09.24popularis : 1.322
The Mighty
In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that...
release : 1929.11.16popularis : 0.808
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
Graft
Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
release : 1931.09.21popularis : 3.725
Beyond Victory
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
release : 1931.04.03popularis : 1.706
The Only Woman
A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott.
release : 1924.10.25popularis : 1.299
Wild Horse Mesa
Chane Weymer, an Arizona rancher, goes after a gang that is trapping wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures.
release : 1932.11.25popularis : 5.217
Why Men Leave Home
John and Irene Emerson's marriage begins well enough, but it is not long before John becomes less attentive. Feeling neglected, Irene spends more...
release : 1924.03.03popularis : 2.017
The House Without a Key
A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to...
release : 1926.11.21popularis : 2.371
Blue Skies
Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films as Fox's Blue Skies....
release : 1929.03.16popularis : 1.798
The Girl from Montmartre
A Parisian cabaret dancer Emilia finds herself under the scrutiny of aristocratic British military officer Jerome Hautrix, who catches her act while...
release : 1926.01.31popularis : 2.858
According to the Code
Basil Breckenridge, a broken old man on the verge of starvation, but concealing it because of his proud southern ancestry, is set upon by young...
release : 1916.07.10popularis : 2.253
Inez from Hollywood
Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But images are deceiving -- the parties (and...
release : 1924.12.14popularis : 0.911
The Talker
Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells and his wife, Maud, have...
release : 1925.05.24popularis : 2.584
The Mysterious Rider
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he...
release : 1933.01.30popularis : 2.598
Sally
Sally is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore.
release : 1925.03.29popularis : 2.719