Billy Quirk

Billy Quirk

William Andrew 'Billy' Quirk (March 27, 1873 – April 20, 1926) was an American stage and silent film actor. He performed in more than 180 films between 1909 and 1924. Gem Motion Picture Company produced a series of "Billy"-titled pictures starring Quirk. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

  • Title: Billy Quirk
  • Popularity: 1.177
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1873-03-27
  • Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
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  • Also Known As: William A. Quirk, William Quirk, William Andrew Quirk, James Wilson
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Billy Quirk Movies

  • 1923
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    A Bride for a Knight

    A Bride for a Knight

    1 1923 HD

    While having dental work done, Jimmy inhales too much gas and begins believing that he is a detective. He sets out to capture a gang of thieves who...

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  • 1922
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    My Old Kentucky Home

    My Old Kentucky Home

    1 1922 HD

    After serving time in Sing Sing, for which he was unjustly sentenced, and encouraged by two "sharpers," Richard Goodloe returns to the home of his...

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  • 1909
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    To Save Her Soul

    To Save Her Soul

    4 1909 HD

    Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...

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  • 1923
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    Broadway Broke

    Broadway Broke

    1 1923 HD

    Nellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a vaudeville act and is the sole support of the family.

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  • 1912
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    Algie, the Miner

    Algie, the Miner

    4.8 1912 HD

    When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

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  • 1923
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    The Glimpses of the Moon

    The Glimpses of the Moon

    1 1923 HD

    The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.

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  • 1917
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    The Web of Life

    The Web of Life

    1 1917 HD

    Vincent, the lazy son of a wealthy father, travels to the country in an attempt to clean up his act. There he meets Kitty Trent, and he offers to...

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  • 1915
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    Billy the Bear Tamer

    Billy the Bear Tamer

    5 1915 HD

    A young man's girlfriend is forbidden by her father to see him again. When the father takes his family on a hunting trip to the woods, the girl and...

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  • 1909
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    The Mountaineer's Honor

    The Mountaineer's Honor

    6 1909 HD

    A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the...

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  • 1918
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    His Day Out

    His Day Out

    3.9 1918 HD

    In this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hardy (doing his best Eric Campell). A barber by...

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  • 1914
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    The Egyptian Mummy

    The Egyptian Mummy

    6 1914 HD

    In order to make money, a man hires a bum to pretend to be a mummy, so he can sell the "body" for scientific experiments.

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  • 1909
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    Pippa Passes

    Pippa Passes

    6.2 1909 HD

    Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.

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  • 1909
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    Getting Even

    Getting Even

    4.2 1909 HD

    All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all...

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  • 1909
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    The Son's Return

    The Son's Return

    6.2 1909 HD

    A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing...

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  • 1912
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    In the Year 2000

    In the Year 2000

    1 1912 HD

    A remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.

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  • 1909
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    A Strange Meeting

    A Strange Meeting

    4.5 1909 HD

    Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment,...

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  • 1909
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    The Broken Locket

    The Broken Locket

    4 1909 HD

    George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost,...

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  • 1912
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    A Comedy of Errors

    A Comedy of Errors

    1 1912 HD

    A man mistakes a woman's blown kisses as being directed at him. When he comes over to call on her, she attempts to shoo him away, but must hide him...

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  • 1916
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    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    7.1 1916 HD

    The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

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  • 1909
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    Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

    Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

    4 1909 HD

    Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a...

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  • 1914
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    Cherry

    Cherry

    1 1914 HD

    A convivial evening at Hoag's Tavern is interrupted by a young companion, William Fentise, declaring to the assembled company that he is very much in...

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  • 1909
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    Sweet and Twenty

    Sweet and Twenty

    3 1909 HD

    Alice misunderstands when she sees her sweetheart Frank accidentally kissing her sister, and gets upset. Frank claims he'll kill himself by throwing...

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  • 1912
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    Canned Harmony

    Canned Harmony

    6 1912 HD

    The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to...

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  • 1910
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    The Woman from Mellon's

    The Woman from Mellon's

    1 1910 HD

    Harry Townsend, a young stock broker, is in love with the pretty daughter of James Petersby, a Wall Street magnate, and as Harry is a very promising...

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  • 1910
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    A Rich Revenge

    A Rich Revenge

    1 1910 HD

    Two young fellows are rivals for the hand of a pretty girl of the village, and after her marriage with the one of her choice, the other swears to be...

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  • 1910
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    The Smoker

    The Smoker

    1 1910 HD

    A young bride wonders at her husband's frequent absences. Suspicion mounts. What can the young man find more alluring than she, herself?

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  • 1910
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    May and December

    May and December

    5 1910 HD

    The quartet comprising this story are of ages as the months are to each other. June, a young college boy, finds his resources in depletion, and to...

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  • 1910
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    Never Again

    Never Again

    4 1910 HD

    Clarence McKnight and Felix De Grosse are rivals for the heart of pretty little Letitia Mooney, but it is evident that Clarence is the favored one....

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  • 1910
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    Muggsy's First Sweetheart

    Muggsy's First Sweetheart

    5 1910 HD

    A scrappy lad from the skids attempts to court a well-to-do maiden. During his visits to her family estate, he upsets the Uplift committee that's...

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  • 1910
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    Muggsy Becomes a Hero

    Muggsy Becomes a Hero

    5 1910 HD

    Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends...

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  • 1910
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    When We Were in Our 'Teens

    When We Were in Our 'Teens

    5 1910 HD

    Diplomacy was not Tom's strong suit. So when May showed to him her latest painting he poured scorn on it. He was anxious to discourage her from...

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  • 1909
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    His Wife's Visitor

    His Wife's Visitor

    1 1909 HD

    Harry leaves his new wife at home while he goes out to play poker. Angry, his wife fakes evidence that she has had a male caller while he was gone.

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  • 1909
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    The Mexican Sweethearts

    The Mexican Sweethearts

    1 1909 HD

    A Mexican spitfire romances an American soldier to make her Mexican lover jealous. When the lover is about to kill his rival, she convinces him it...

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  • 1909
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    They Would Elope

    They Would Elope

    5 1909 HD

    Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when...

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  • 1909
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    Oh, Uncle!

    Oh, Uncle!

    4 1909 HD

    Harry's rich old bachelor uncle thinks Harry is still single. When Uncle announces a visit, Harry's wife has to play the part of the housekeeper so...

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  • 1909
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    A Midnight Adventure

    A Midnight Adventure

    1 1909 HD

    Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order...

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  • 1909
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    The Test

    The Test

    5 1909 HD

    Harry, preparing to leave on a business trip, tells Bessie that her photograph will always be with him. To test his sincerity she removes the photo...

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  • 1923
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    Success

    Success

    1 1923 HD

    The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping his grown daughter in the bargain.

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  • 1913
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    Billy's Strategy

    Billy's Strategy

    1 1913 HD

    Billy and his sweetheart have had a little quarrel, and just to make him jealous, she accepts the attentions of another suitor. When she thinks she...

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  • 1909
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    The Little Darling

    The Little Darling

    4.8 1909 HD

    This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position....

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  • 1910
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    Serious Sixteen

    Serious Sixteen

    1 1910 HD

    When young Tom and Adele learn they must wait four years before they can marry, they agree to kill themselves. They reconsider, and then decide to...

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  • 1912
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    Fra Diavolo

    Fra Diavolo

    1 1912 HD

    Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.

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  • 1909
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    Pranks

    Pranks

    1 1909 HD

    Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.

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  • 1912
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    A Terrible Lesson

    A Terrible Lesson

    1 1912 HD

    The story involves a man who goes to a gambling den regardless of the protestations of his wife. He is extremely lucky and his luck attracts...

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  • 1912
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    Parson Sue

    Parson Sue

    5 1912 HD

    A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road...

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  • 1912
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    A Man's a Man

    A Man's a Man

    6 1912 HD

    A Jewish man is treated poorly by a member of the upper-class. When tragedy strikes, the Jewish man has an opportunity for revenge, but he turns the...

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  • 1913
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    Cousins of Sherlocko

    Cousins of Sherlocko

    6 1913 HD

    Two mediocre detectives try and catch a notorious pickpocket. Meanwhile, an innocent man is mistaken for the pickpocket and is forced to put on a...

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  • 1910
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    An Affair of Hearts

    An Affair of Hearts

    1 1910 HD

    Two eccentric Frenchmen argue for the hand of an eligible American girl, who finally discouraged both of them by introducing her betrothed.

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  • 1924
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    The Dixie Handicap

    The Dixie Handicap

    1 1924 HD

    Tale of a man and his horse.

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  • 1910
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    A Simple Mistake

    A Simple Mistake

    4 1910 HD

    Mr. Hallate is leaving for a trip and his loving wife is helping him to get his belongings out with him. At last everything is ready and she goes on...

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  • 1914
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    The Evolution of Percival

    The Evolution of Percival

    1 1914 HD

    Because of his effeminacy, Percival and Mildred are humiliated wherever they go. After some very distressing incidents in a restaurant, on the...

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  • 1915
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    The Green Cat

    The Green Cat

    1 1915 HD

    Within twenty-four hours after Bedelia, an old maid, has lost her green cat, she is begging Boggs, of the National Detective Agency, to find her lost...

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  • 1914
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    The Maid from Sweden

    The Maid from Sweden

    1 1914 HD

    In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and...

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  • 1914
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    Father's Timepiece

    Father's Timepiece

    1 1914 HD

    Through the carelessness of his office-boy, Stillwell drops his watch and puts a dent in the case. He arrives home in a rage to find his daughter...

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  • 1914
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    In Bridal Attire

    In Bridal Attire

    1 1914 HD

    A young man finds himself forced to take a trolley car and a motorcycle in order to get to his wedding. Complications ensue.

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  • 1914
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    Forcing Dad's Consent

    Forcing Dad's Consent

    1 1914 HD

    Constance and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. and Mrs. Boggs, her parents, are both prim, straitlaced people. Pa Boggs has little use for young men of the...

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  • 1915
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    The Master of His House

    The Master of His House

    1 1915 HD

    Becoming extremely tired of his wife's propensity for indulging in bridge whist parties and other social functions, to the sad neglect of her...

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  • 1915
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    The Young Man Who 'Figgered'

    The Young Man Who 'Figgered'

    1 1915 HD

    Bobby Tucker, while strolling about a Railroad Station, spies Nan Tubbs, a charming young lady whom her father and mother are very anxious to marry...

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  • 1915
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    A Study in Tramps

    A Study in Tramps

    1 1915 HD

    Because of a family feud, Bobby Scrawn's love for Mary Stretch seems hopeless, particularly after the young man has been spanked with a fence picket...

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  • 1915
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    Spades are Trumps

    Spades are Trumps

    1 1915 HD

    At the reading of her uncle's will, Honoria Spavin, a spinster lady, learns that his entire fortune is to be left to her on condition that she marry...

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  • 1915
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    The Vanishing Vault

    The Vanishing Vault

    1 1915 HD

    While stopping at the Bronzegilt Hotel, Slick and Slim, two high-class and well-dressed burglars, overhear Baroness Vodka tell the manager she wishes...

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  • 1915
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    Burglarius Billy

    Burglarius Billy

    1 1915 HD

    Finding that his attentions to Nellie are undesirable in the eyes of Jenkins, her father. Billy tries to elope with the girl, but the young people's...

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  • 1914
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    Our Fairy Play

    Our Fairy Play

    1 1914 HD

    The Payne family of Lonesomeville set up a Fairy Play, founded upon the story of "The Sleeping Beauty," and Helene Payne secures the wealthy Mrs....

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  • 1915
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    Bertie’s Stratagem

    Bertie’s Stratagem

    1 1915 HD

    Just out of college, in love with Letty Grey, whose father is quick-tempered and opposed to him, also possessing a wealthy rival, Bertie feels he...

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  • 1915
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    Billy's Wager

    Billy's Wager

    1 1915 HD

    The wealthy Mr. Billy gives a party at his palatial residence. He is in love with the handsome widow, Mrs. Constance, and has a deadly rival, the...

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  • 1914
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    Uncle Bill

    Uncle Bill

    1 1914 HD

    On his way to New York to visit his relatives, the Masons, for the first time, Uncle Bill meets "Oiley" Curley, a crook. John Mason, Uncle Bill's...

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  • 1915
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    The Boarding House Feud

    The Boarding House Feud

    1 1915 HD

    Aching for an opportunity to get square with strong-willed Mrs. Drexel, boarding house mistress and mother of his sweetheart, Constance, Billy sees...

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  • 1909
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    1776, or The Hessian Renegades

    1776, or The Hessian Renegades

    5.8 1909 HD

    During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....

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  • 1909
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    What's Your Hurry?

    What's Your Hurry?

    5.5 1909 HD

    Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry...

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  • 1909
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    The Faded Lilies

    The Faded Lilies

    4 1909 HD

    A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.

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  • 1909
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    A Corner in Wheat

    A Corner in Wheat

    6.2 1909 HD

    On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...

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  • 1909
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    The Necklace

    The Necklace

    5 1909 HD

    Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to...

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  • 1909
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    The Renunciation

    The Renunciation

    4.3 1909 HD

    Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her...

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  • 1909
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    The Gibson Goddess

    The Gibson Goddess

    4.3 1909 HD

    A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the...

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  • 1909
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    Nursing a Viper

    Nursing a Viper

    5 1909 HD

    During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat...

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  • 1910
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    The Last Deal

    The Last Deal

    1 1910 HD

    Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwood, his brother-in-law, shows up and cures him of...

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  • 1910
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    Faithful

    Faithful

    4.5 1910 HD

    Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp...

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  • 1910
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    The Oath and the Man

    The Oath and the Man

    4.5 1910 HD

    A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest...

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  • 1910
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    The Two Brothers

    The Two Brothers

    1 1910 HD

    In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother...

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  • 1910
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    Wilful Peggy

    Wilful Peggy

    4.6 1910 HD

    Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce...

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  • 1909
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    The Redman's View

    The Redman's View

    5.2 1909 HD

    An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one...

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  • 1909
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    The Light That Came

    The Light That Came

    5 1909 HD

    A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?

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  • 1909
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    Through the Breakers

    Through the Breakers

    4 1909 HD

    A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of...

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  • 1912
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    The Hater of Women

    The Hater of Women

    4 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Playing Trumps

    Playing Trumps

    1 1912 HD

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  • 1912
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    Phantom Paradise

    Phantom Paradise

    1 1912 HD

    The melodrama where there's a mad inventor with a pretty daughter and where the rich hero buys the worthless invention, telling the girl and her...

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  • 1921
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    The Man Worthwhile

    The Man Worthwhile

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1912
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    Planting Time

    Planting Time

    1 1912 HD

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