When his play closes down, an actor returns home to find that his children are gone. He's then notified that a wealthy relative has died and left him a substantial amount of money. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
Watch the official The Actor's Children 1910 trailer in HD below.
Yale Boss as The Actor's Son
Orrilla Smith as The Actor's Daughter
Frank Hall Crane as The Actor
Nicholas Jordan as Comedian
United States 14 March 1910
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