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Herbert Prior was an English-born stage and screen actor, his film career (which occurred entirely in the United States) spanning the years 1907 to 1934.
Total trailers found: 110
12 November 1915
Helen Moore (Grace Williams) runs off with the nephew of Senator Foote, but when their car breaks down, they go to a hotel.
20 December 1913
Lizette loves Jean but a 10,000 franc dowry insisted upon by Jean's father is keeping them apart. Paul, Lizette's "black sheep" brother, begs that she gives him her saved money so he can increase it for her - at the gaming table!! He does win but there are a few who are determined he shall not reach home with his money.
01 August 1920
Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing.
12 April 1925
Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer.
09 November 1930
A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.
15 June 1919
Railroad magnate Gordon Rogers agrees to allow his daughter, Helen, to marry wealthy idler Billy Deering, Jr.
30 September 1929
From the Universal synopsis: Retired Inspector Blake of Scotland Yard learns that Lord Blanton has acquired the sacred "Love Ring"---a cursed jewel that has brought grief to its previous owners.
01 January 1921
A drama of a fugitive from justice and a fugitive from love.
17 June 1909
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.
01 March 1926
Trusting country girl Marie Downey falls in love with touring stage-actor Clifford Dudley. As he becomes a matinee idol on Broadway, she turns a chorus girl.
03 May 1909
One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself.
15 April 1909
Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her.
18 November 1932
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
14 January 1913
This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found in David Belasco's influential play, THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, produced a decade earlier.
26 April 1930
A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.
01 July 1918
Madame Gerve is a famous opera singer at the prime donna at the Opera Comique in Paris. When the French Prime Minister proposes marriage, however, she refuses and then sings at a benefit for war orphans.
15 March 1930
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman.
11 January 1920
Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again. But when her dancing skills are needed by her lover's father to help quell a native uprising on the East Indian frontier, she determines to dance whatever the cost.
13 October 1915
Ralph Valentine, a penniless pianist, goes to Paris to pursue his career. He is attracted to two women: Pauline, the sweet and innocent daughter of his landlady, and Flora Margot, a woman of loose morals who runs with a wild crowd.
06 June 1926
Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American Nancy Burton from a brutal peddler.
27 March 1931
An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
16 March 1925
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
18 January 1920
When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt.
02 September 1964
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
01 March 1925
John Carleton is living a carefree jazz lifestyle, much to the annoyance of his father. When he can take it no longer, Carleton senior sends John to his ranch in the West, hoping that the experience will make a man of him.
24 May 1929
Skyball Smith is a Texas Ranger, assigned to investigate a series of ranch bombings.
14 August 1927
12 part silent serial- 1. The Castle of Fear 2. The Spider's Web 3. The Vanishing Heiress 4. The Room Without a Door 5.
31 May 1922
Delmar Spavinaw, an educated "half-breed," loves Evelyn Huntington, daughter of a racist judge. Evelyn's other suitor is Ross Kennion, a widower with one child, and owner of a vast tract of land which Spavinaw insists belongs to his Indian mother.
11 April 1926
Bradley Blatchford, returning to his father's ranch from college, meets Sybil Hamilton, who is coming to the ranch town as a schoolteacher.
04 May 1934
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression.
01 July 1909
Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr.
01 July 1927
On his way to Steer City, Buddy Hale rescues Janet Lane from a runaway horse. Unknown to Buddy, the woman's brother Ward just shot the sheriff.
24 March 1928
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
04 October 1923
Poet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.
14 June 1930
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
15 September 1911
The old lighthouse keeper lives peacefully with his two daughters, who are both engaged to fisherman.
22 November 1910
This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city.
10 November 1915
Mr. Danbury, a theatrical manager, is visited by Ellis Harcourt, who seeks a position with one of Danbury's companies.
10 June 1909
A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children.
05 March 1917
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy.
08 January 1917
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman.
02 October 1926
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines.
24 May 1925
Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America.
01 October 1920
Spaulding Nelson moves into an apartment after his uncle has been driven from it by the sounds of screams and whispers.
14 November 1931
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
30 December 1930
Mary Turner gets a three year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
19 April 1909
A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician.
03 June 1909
A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.
10 December 1909
The rancher whom Tom works for has entrusted Tom with a bag of gold to take to the bank. But on arriving at the bank, Tom finds that it is closed for the day.
12 August 1923
Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart in order to make Johnny throw the race.
01 May 1921
William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself.
21 September 1919
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.
26 April 1909
Two boys, twins, leave the old homestead to seek their fortune in the world. They go divergent roads, and are soon widely separated one from the other, but they grow lonesome and try to find each other's whereabouts, without success.
10 February 1919
Dearie Lane refuses to marry Fred Millard, whom she loves, because of her previous affair with roué Mark Winfield.
02 June 1918
An important customer at Armande's, where Iva Seldon works as a model, is Billy Ravensworth, who purchases expensive gowns for a heartless vampire named Rita Challoner.
10 October 1926
While vain Lenore Hastings busies herself with her romantic pursuits, Lenore's kid sister Mildred tries to keep the family of her boyfriend Thomas from going broke.
25 February 1909
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic turn of mind and her soul soared above plebeianism and her aspirations were romantic.
18 February 1909
The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses' residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch 'the acting bug' in this split-reel subject.
