Acting
Violet Heming
Born January 27, 1895 · Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Died July 4, 1981 · aged 86
No biography available.
Known For
The Man Who Played God · 1932The Man Who Played God
★ 7.21932
MovieRomanceDrama
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously and becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God".
When the Desert Calls · 1922When the Desert Calls
★ 7.01922
MovieDrama
British bank cashier Eldred Caldwell lives with his wife on the edge of the Arabian desert. One day a man named Richard Manners appears at their doorstep. He has some incriminating information about Eldred, who is so devastated he disappears, an apparent suicide. His wife flees into the desert, with Manners in hot pursuit. She is taken in by an unlikely rescuer and years later, after she becomes a nurse when World War I ends, she makes a startling discovery.
Almost Married · 1932Almost Married
★ 10.01932
MovieThriller
Russian beauty Anita Mellikovna, traveling by train with a forged passport and carrying jewels, finds the police on her tail.
The Cost · 1920The Cost
★ 4.01920
MovieDrama
Against her father's wishes, Pauline Gardner marries John Dumont, a young philanderer, on his promise that he will reform.
The Turn of the Wheel · 1918The Turn of the Wheel
★ 1.01918
MovieDramaMystery
While visiting Monte Carlo with her aunt, Rosalie Dean meets a young man, Maxfield Gray who is ready to kill himself because of his losses at the roulette wheel. She stops him from doing so, and lends him some money to win back what he's lost. He does, but they're only happy for a short while before Max is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife in the States.
Everywoman · 1919Everywoman
★ 8.01919
MovieDrama
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne.
Winning His Wife · 1919Winning His Wife
★ 10.01919
MovieDrama
Cyril makes wife Violet angry and finds himself trying to win his wife back!
Danger Trail · 1917Danger Trail
1917
MovieDrama
John Howland travels to the frozen North to build a branch of the Hudson Bay Railroad. There he meets and falls in love with Meleese Thoreau who warns him that her three bloodthirsty brothers, Max, Pierre and François, have sworn vengeance against a man named John Howland, the son of a man who killed their mother, and that torture and death await him along the route to his station.
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