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John Stuart Robertson (14 June 1878 in London, Ontario – 5 November 1964 in California) was a Canadian born actor and later film director perhaps best known for his 1920 screen adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore. He broke into filmmaking in 1915 with Vitagraph, then with Famous Players-Lasky, making 57 features in his career. Robertson left film in 1935, amid the increasing prevalence of sound pictures.
The Byrds song "Old John Robertson" was about Robertson.
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26 February 1917
While traveling to meet her sweetheart, Richard Carr, in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Bonaluria, Peggy Dare's train compartment door is thrust open and a little boy is thrown at her feet.
18 September 1916
Muriel Flemming secretly marries Graydon Burton before he heads West to make his fortune. Later, when he is about to board a train to return to his wife, he is accused of a murder that was actually committed by crooked attorney Herman Slade.
31 August 1933
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York.
19 November 1924
Duncan, the son of a village postmaster, is in love with Sylvia, daughter of a rich and snobbish family.
17 November 1918
Several young couples have gathered at a vacation home in the mountains. The group of friends go climbing, but Phyllis Ashbrook and John Manning leave the others behind.
10 May 1927
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
01 July 1920
Prudence, a young society woman and aviatrix, is forbidden to continue flying by her fiancé Hewitt and her father.
12 September 1931
Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.
10 April 1922
When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom.
07 September 1919
The Misleading Widow is a 1919 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke as Betty Taradine. It was based on the 1917 stage play Billeted by F.
01 March 1935
Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane.
22 April 1923
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.
08 October 1927
The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtable José Armando arrives from Spain to effect her rescue.
02 October 1921
Exotic Russian actress Lisa Parsinova tires of her glamorous life on the New York stage and returns, under her actual identity as Lizzie Parsons, to her small New England hometown.
16 February 1925
A young husband is left at home looking after a new baby when his wife leaves him to return to her career as a dancer.
30 September 1920
The eldest daughter of a poor preacher, Penelope Penn leaves her country home to seek her fortune in the big city.
10 August 1934
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
26 October 1934
A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.
25 November 1930
Directed by John S. Robertson. With Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames, Ivan Linow, Josephine Dunn.
11 May 1919
Olivia Dangerfield and her brother are hired as servants in the household of the meticulous Mrs. Falkner.
16 April 1919
After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.
03 April 1931
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
01 January 1935
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another.
28 March 1930
In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's symbolic leader.
19 January 1919
A young man with little means wants to marry a rich girl, and thinks up a scheme to get rich.
18 March 1920
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
14 May 1927
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
05 September 1925
"Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small harbor who has never had a boyfriend.
20 February 1917
Charming melodrama by the Vitagraph Company about the friendship between a boy (Bobby Connelly) and the grumpy Captain Barnacle(William Shea).
15 January 1935
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
27 July 1929
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
30 May 1925
Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States.
26 March 1921
Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel is ostracized by the other children of the town.
23 September 1917
Madge Kennedy plays a young bride whose husband walks out after a quarrel. Hoping to make him come crawling back, Kennedy pretends to have given birth to a baby.
17 November 1929
Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh.
22 October 1917
Stanley Deane, raised by a British governor, defends mill workers and falls for Alice, daughter of mill owner Amos Buckingham.
29 December 1918
Little Miss Hoover is a 1918 American silent romantic drama film directed by John S. Robertson and stars Marguerite Clark.
12 November 1922
Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom.
16 November 1919
Barnabetta Dreary's grim life of slaving for her Pennsylvania Dutch father Barnaby and her two brothers, is surprisingly changed when Barnaby marries Juliet Miller.
10 September 1923
In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his lady-love, the fair Thomsine Musgrove, and prove his nettle, and that his blade is made of the finest metal.
04 November 1932
Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie.
14 March 1934
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
23 September 1918
During World War I, the beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jack Wynn, a young man not yet taken by the draft, and Dr.
16 July 1920
Although loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome.
19 February 1922
In France a man frames his daughter for poisoning her rich husband.
12 January 1930
Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery.
05 June 1916
Canadian Mountie Philip Curtis is telling Josephine McCloud, with whom he is in love, about a hermit who once saved his life and nursed him back to health.
23 March 1924
The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him.
01 January 2015
Synthwave and Dr Jekyll together at last! Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side.
04 April 1921
Mary Malloy works as a scullery maid in a hotel. She meets reporter Bob Norton, who soon falls in love with her.
26 November 1916
When Julie De Varion's old father is imprisoned for harboring fugitive Huguenots, she goes to the authorities and begs for his freedom, declaring that he only did it out of kindness of heart.
23 April 1919
Author Hilary Farrington and his wife Eloise have been married about a year, and although Hilary loves his wife, he has become engrossed in his writing and doesn't realize how lonely his wife has become.
22 January 1917
Polly Biggs helps care for her younger brother and sisters, while her widowed mother works hard as a seamstress to earn a living.
21 January 1918
Owing a twenty-year jail sentence to Dr. Burnell, Morgan returns after serving his term to find his son has been adopted by the Burnells.
17 December 1923
The McCulloughs agree to separate when Julian is seven years of age. His mother raises him according to her own ideas and fourteen years pass.
