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Alfred Paget (1880–1925) was an English silent film actor. He appeared in 239 films between 1908 and 1918. Paget was married to Leila Halstead. In the summer of 1919, he contracted a form of malarial fever, and died in Winnipeg on 8 October 1919.
Total trailers found: 120
14 March 1912
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector.
21 January 1917
Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, which she sells at a flower-stand.
01 January 1916
A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the white roses instead of the red.
12 April 1913
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home.
24 August 1911
A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband.
04 July 1917
Stella Benton, a young society girl who has lost her beautiful voice through the death of her father, goes to live with her brother Charles, in the lumber camp.
19 December 1912
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
25 March 1912
The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her.
21 November 1912
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow.
06 January 1913
D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewels.
25 December 1910
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
23 December 1912
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal.
20 December 1913
From the dungeon where the lean beasts prowled, Hassan Bey summoned from her young lover's arms the old rug maker's daughter.
29 April 1912
A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.
06 May 1912
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old.
26 May 1912
A young woman is quite taken with a man she met; in fact, he is her “ideal”. However, after her new suitor refuses to get mixed up in a street brawl, the young woman views him as a coward.
19 April 1913
Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisters made fun of her and his love.
10 October 1912
When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred blanket is covered over it and a sentinel left to watch that this, his last resting place, is not desecrated.
16 January 1911
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant.
05 September 1916
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
16 February 1911
A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.
13 February 1911
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age.
26 July 1911
A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
20 March 1911
Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father.
23 July 1911
Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away.
14 November 1912
When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to leave her father, but soon she too is departing for a new home.
18 October 1911
Little Billy, the bootblack, finding luck against him, decides to move to some other town. To do this he must walk, as he hasn’t the wherewithal for a railroad ticket.
11 July 1910
Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals off of a flower, while the other has her fortune told by a gypsy.
01 December 1913
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
10 September 2002
In the span of five years, pioneering director D.W. Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per week.
17 April 1911
Located in the south of France, a woman, who, after the death of her husband, is forced to assume the management of the Gambling Casino, of which he was proprietor.
27 June 1910
Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the several professions, actors, artists, musicians, etc.
21 February 1912
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke.
13 June 1910
During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his daughters.
13 September 1911
Wild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is witnessed by Silver Fawn, who mistakenly thinks Wild Flower is stealing her fiancé.
26 June 1912
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame.
09 May 1910
In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain.
14 October 1912
A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of two trappers, Bob Cole and Jim Watson, who hunt in the neighborhood.
09 May 1912
Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to steal it.
14 July 1913
The brother at cards failed to make up the shortage at the express office, but the gambler determined to save him.
21 April 1913
The thief was clever and he forged around the girl's sweetheart a chain of circumstantial evidence that seemingly had no flaw.
01 September 1910
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 Muggsy a note asking him to meet her after the service so he may walk home with her.
18 July 1910
An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place.
15 October 1916
Senator John Coburn's son Steve, who associates more with gamblers, criminals and drug addicts than with his father's congressional cronies, impulsively murders his mistress' new lover.
10 June 1912
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife.
08 August 1910
During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's place in the battle, and is killed.
23 January 1913
A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness.
22 September 1910
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.
08 September 1913
It is house cleaning time. Mother-in-law leaves, but insists that husband must be put to work, but husband hires a man, while he goes fishing.
21 July 1919
A re-edited version of the second episode of Intolerance (1916); a mountain girl who loves Belshazzar strives to protect him against the evil High Priest of Bel and his treacherous cohorts.
10 October 1910
In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail.
26 September 1910
A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, declares to a council of elders that the girl and her mother are witches.
05 May 1910
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident.
07 June 1913
A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired from his job on the oil rig, the wedding must be postponed and the money put to the more pressing need.
31 October 1912
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
01 August 1910
A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.
02 December 1912
An abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece does to his family exactly what he is doing to his own family.
22 November 1913
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of white slavers.
14 July 1910
A loving father favors a prosperous young man as his daughter’s suitor but disowns her when she chooses a working-class man.
21 January 1912
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine.
