Acting
Alfred Allen
Born April 8, 1866
Died June 18, 1947 · aged 81
No biography available.
Known For
Shattered Idols · 1922Shattered Idols
★ 8.01922
MovieDrama
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
Desert Driven · 1923Desert Driven
★ 8.01923
MovieWestern
The story of a man -- accused of a crime he didn't commit and wounded by the posse -- who hides out on a desert ranch.
Hot News · 1928Hot News
★ 7.01928
MovieComedy
Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best cameraman, to quit in protest of the hiring of a woman. The Mercury hires Scoop, and there begins a heated rivalry between him and Pat. Pat gets a few lucky breaks and manages to get a beat on Scoop during her brief career. After she exposes the theft of a jewel from the turban of a visiting maharajah, she and Scoop are kidnapped by Clayton, the thief, and taken aboard his yacht. Rescued, she and Scoop find love and happiness.
Loot · 1919Loot
★ 7.01919
MovieCrimeDrama
Wade Hildreth is sent to New York from London to receive a diamond necklace for Lady Gwendolyn from the jeweler Arabin. A gang of crooks led by Pete Fielding, known as "The Shadow," plans to keep Hildreth from going to Arabin's until they have robbed the store. Actress Morn Light, whom the Shadow loves, agrees to entice Hildreth to her apartment to be imprisoned. When she warns Hildreth because she wants to avenge her father's death, which was caused by the Shadow, the Shadow overhears and captures them both.
Burning Daylight · 1920Burning Daylight
★ 7.01920
MovieDrama
A drama directed by Edward Sloman.
The Other Half · 1919The Other Half
★ 5.81919
MovieDrama
Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.
The Red Glove · 1919The Red Glove
1919
MovieActionThriller
On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.
The Mystery Club · 1926The Mystery Club
★ 10.01926
MovieMystery
The Mystery Club, an organization of millionaires, draws up an agreement at the instigation of Cranahan, wagering that crimes can be committed without detection by the police; Inspector Burke serves as arbiter. A forfeiture of $25,000 is set, and the members draw secret lots to decide who is to be the criminal. When Burke himself is reported murdered, the members agree to cancel the agreement but cannot find the document.
Movies
Shattered Idols · 1922Shattered Idols
★ 8.01922
MovieDrama
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
Desert Driven · 1923Desert Driven
★ 8.01923
MovieWestern
The story of a man -- accused of a crime he didn't commit and wounded by the posse -- who hides out on a desert ranch.
Hot News · 1928Hot News
★ 7.01928
MovieComedy
Aspiring newsreel camera girl Pat Clancy, is hired by her father, a publisher, to work on The Sun and causes Scoop Morgan, the paper's best cameraman, to quit in protest of the hiring of a woman. The Mercury hires Scoop, and there begins a heated rivalry between him and Pat. Pat gets a few lucky breaks and manages to get a beat on Scoop during her brief career. After she exposes the theft of a jewel from the turban of a visiting maharajah, she and Scoop are kidnapped by Clayton, the thief, and taken aboard his yacht. Rescued, she and Scoop find love and happiness.
Loot · 1919Loot
★ 7.01919
MovieCrimeDrama
Wade Hildreth is sent to New York from London to receive a diamond necklace for Lady Gwendolyn from the jeweler Arabin. A gang of crooks led by Pete Fielding, known as "The Shadow," plans to keep Hildreth from going to Arabin's until they have robbed the store. Actress Morn Light, whom the Shadow loves, agrees to entice Hildreth to her apartment to be imprisoned. When she warns Hildreth because she wants to avenge her father's death, which was caused by the Shadow, the Shadow overhears and captures them both.
Burning Daylight · 1920Burning Daylight
★ 7.01920
MovieDrama
A drama directed by Edward Sloman.
The Other Half · 1919The Other Half
★ 5.81919
MovieDrama
Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.
The Red Glove · 1919The Red Glove
1919
MovieActionThriller
On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.
The Mystery Club · 1926The Mystery Club
★ 10.01926
MovieMystery
The Mystery Club, an organization of millionaires, draws up an agreement at the instigation of Cranahan, wagering that crimes can be committed without detection by the police; Inspector Burke serves as arbiter. A forfeiture of $25,000 is set, and the members draw secret lots to decide who is to be the criminal. When Burke himself is reported murdered, the members agree to cancel the agreement but cannot find the document.
Riders of Vengeance · 1919Riders of Vengeance
★ 6.51919
MovieWestern
Harry's bride is murdered at their wedding along with Harry's mother and father, and the good-hearted outlaw turns grimly malevolent.
Perils of the Wild · 1925Perils of the Wild
★ 10.01925
MovieAdventure
Movie serial Perils of the Wild
The Unattainable · 1916The Unattainable
1916
MovieDrama
An actress falls in love with a shepherd, to the dismay of a wealthy suitor.
Bustin' Thru · 1925Bustin' Thru
★ 10.01925
MovieDramaWestern
Jack Savage, a rancher, refuses to sell his property to John Merritt, a millionaire newly interested in ranching. Jack later meets Helen Merritt and falls in love with her, not knowing that she is the wealthy man's daughter.
Underworld · 1927Underworld
★ 7.01927
MovieDramaCrime
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
The Pride of Palomar · 1922The Pride of Palomar
★ 7.01922
MovieDrama
A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral land in the hands of strangers.
The Flying Fleet · 1929The Flying Fleet
★ 6.91929
MovieAdventureDrama
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
The Grub Stake · 1923The Grub Stake
★ 6.51923
MovieDramaAdventure
A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
The Guilt of Silence · 1918The Guilt of Silence
1918
MovieCrimeDrama
During the Alaskan gold rush, two unscrupulous fortune-seekers, Amy and her husband Gambler Joe, rob Mathew Smith, who has offered them shelter from a snow storm. Mathew pursues them but loses his way, and by the time Harkness finds him, he is nearly dead from exposure. Mathew, nicknamed "Silent" Smith because the storm has robbed him of his voice, lives in friendship with Harkness until the latter marries Amy, who has found employment in a local dance hall.
A Girl of the Limberlost · 1924A Girl of the Limberlost
★ 9.01924
MovieDrama
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A Girl of the Limberlost is a 1924 American silent film, produced by Gene Stratton-Porter and directed by James Leo Meehan. It stars Gloria Grey, Emily Fitzroy, and Arthur Currier, and was released on April 28, 1924. The first adaptation of Stratton-Porter's famous novel, this silent film is considered lost.
White Tiger · 1923White Tiger
★ 5.31923
MovieDramaCrime
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
Dangerous Innocence · 1925Dangerous Innocence
★ 8.01925
MovieRomanceComedy
Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Liverpool to Bombay, India, and falls in love with him. Her love appears to be unrequited, though, because the major thinks she is far too young--and also, unknown to her, because he had once been in love with her mother. When a fellow passenger on the ship takes advantage of the naive girl the major comes to her rescue, but in the process the girl finds out about the past relationship between he and her mother.
A Society Sensation · 1918A Society Sensation
★ 5.81918
MovieDramaComedy
A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a meek 24 minutes so the lead would be in every scene. Title cards tried to make up for the lost scenes.
Barriers of Society · 1916Barriers of Society
1916
MovieDrama
When penniless Westie Phillips briefly meets wealthy Martha Gorham, he falls in love, but Martha forgets the encounter. Harry Arnold, courting Martha, invites her out sailing and arranges to have the yacht wrecked near an uncharted island so that he can be alone with her until rescuers arrive. Meanwhile, without knowing Martha is on board, Westie secures a position on the yacht.
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln · 1924The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
★ 10.01924
MovieHistoryDrama
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
His Divorced Wife · 1919His Divorced Wife
★ 10.01919
MovieDrama
In an Eastern Kentucky mountain town, illiterate Asa Whipple, the village blacksmith, marries beautiful Nance Haws over the objections of her father. A former aristocrat who was financially ruined, Jethro Haws wanted Nance to marry lawyer Rufus Couch. After Sandy Orr, an escaped convict employed by the kind-hearted Asa, kills Luke Andrews for implying that Nance's expected child is Couch's, Asa takes the blame. He is convicted by Couch, now district attorney, who destroyed the confession Orr left before running away.