Gertrude Claire

AKA:
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1852-07-15

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {69}

Grandma Breede

1925-09-14 0

His Majesty, Bunker Bean

His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bu ...
Genre :Comedy

Aunt Tina Carbery

1919-12-13 0

Jinx

The circus comes to town, and the town's orphans are treated to a day at the circus. The circus troupe's 'Jinx' girl causes so many problems for the performers and performances that, to escape punishm ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Mrs. Cameron

1916-01-02 0

Peggy

The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a public spectacle of herself once too often, Peggy is bundled off to Scotland, where she is to be looked a ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Carmichaael

1924-02-03 0

Ladies to Board

While traveling through the prarie, an elderly and cantankerous lady loses control of her car. One of the locals, Tom Faxton (Mix), comes to her rescue. He receives the full impact of the woman's grat ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Farwell

1921-07-24 0

The Fox

Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a job as a porter in the bank. Santa Fe learns that th ...
Genre :Western

Mrs. Henderson

1922-11-19 0

Ridin' Wild

Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeople when he tries to act tough to impress Grace Nolan, who is allowing Art Jordan, the town bully, to ...
Genre :Western

Mrs. Dawson

1914-07-02 0

His Hour of Manhood

Pete Larson is a brute whose battered wife, Anne, finally finds courage to leave. The woman gets lost in the wilderness and is taken in by a young hunter, who later proposes marriage. Mistakenly belie ...
Genre :Western

Old Woman

1925-12-27 5.9

Tumbleweeds

William S. Hart stars in this 1925 silent film as a cowboy intent on claiming land during the 1889 land rush in the Oklahoma Territory. Though hardened from years of taming the new frontier, he falls ...
Genre :Western, Drama, Romance, Crime

1913-01-22 0

The Boomerang

Simon Watson, devoid of conscience, has become wealthy through the manufacture of "Watson's Remedy." One day he is stricken with terror when he finds a bottle of the medicine in the hands of his littl ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Landlady

1912-11-08 0

Sharps and Chaps

Professor De Risque, anxious to escape for a time the too solicitous attention of Madame De Risque, arrives at Roaring Gulch and, noting that the town numbers some very pretty girls amongst its popula ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Aunt Betty

1913-06-13 0

The Boomerang

Virginia Chester visits her Aunt Betty who resides near an army post. Lieut. Calhoun falls in love with Virginia, and after a whirlwind courtship persuades her to marry him secretly. Helen Brassey, th ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Walden

1916-09-17 0

The Wolf Woman

An narcissistic woman with the ability to charm, Leila Aradella reaps delight from preying upon weak men. Her first victim is John Morton, a talented lawyer, whom she ruins both morally and financiall ...
Genre :Drama

Señora Capella - Juan's Mother

1915-06-09 0

The Tavern Keeper's Son

Juan Capella, the son of a poor Spanish tavern keeper, and his wife, learning of the discovery of gold on the American River near Sacramento, runs away from his parents and sweetheart to make his fort ...
Genre :Drama

The Nurse

1915-06-24 0

The Reward

A poor young boy falls for a chorus girl after he finds out that she is not like the "loose women" she works with. He determines to get her to leave the immoral show-business life and marry him. ...
Genre :Drama

Donna Gonzales - Rosa's Mother

1915-06-24 0

Hearts and Swords

Donna Gonzales has a daughter, Rosa, and a son, Maxim. Maxim is fighting in the Rebel cause, his mother being the widow of a Rebel general. He is pursued while taking important dispatches to the Rebel ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Carey

1916-08-06 0

Honor Thy Name

The pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young man's father then plots to rescue his unwitting son fr ...
Genre :Drama

'Mother' Brown

1921-07-17 0

Greater Than Love

Grace Merrill works as a shill in a gambling hall. Her five roommates are even less honestly employed. One of them, Elsie Brown commits suicide because her main squeeze, Frank Norwood has left her. El ...
Genre :Drama

Grandma

1925-11-29 0

The Wedding Song

A beautiful con artist marries Hayes Hallan, the owner of a pearl-rich island. No sooner has the couple said "I do" than Beatrice's partners in crime show up, claiming to be the bride's parents. ...
Genre :Drama

Mother Slowbell

1923-05-21 0

Double Dealing

The servant girl of a wealthy young man helps him fend off criminals who are trying to steal his property. ...
Genre :Comedy

Anna

1925-08-01 6

Her Sister from Paris

Helen has a twin sister, who is a famous actress named "La Perry". Helen and her sister decide to trick Helen's husband to prove his love. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Elizabeth Winslow

1915-11-14 5.767

The Coward

Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is ter ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

Woman in West

1910-05-23 4.75

Ramona

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only t ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Western

Granny

1926-03-06 0

The Little Irish Girl

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother' ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mrs. Blake

1920-11-01 0

The Forbidden Thing

Puritanical Abel Blake is planning to marry the domestically oriented Joan when she is called away to a neighboring fishing village to care for her sick uncle. In her absence, Abel falls under the cor ...
Genre :Drama

Mother Grady - Holds May prisoner

1915-07-14 0

The Ruse

"Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business deal with a mine promoter who turns out to be crooked. ...
Genre :Action, Western

Mother Kelly

1920-09-19 6.3

The Cradle of Courage

Former crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of his comrades-in-arms convinces him to join the police force. But Kelly finds himself confronting the ver ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, War

1922-03-27 6

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

An 18-part silent American adventure film serial now considered to be lost. Chapter Titles: 1. The Sea Raiders 2. Shipwrecked 3. The Cannibals' Captives 4. Hidden Gold 5. The Ship of Despair 6. Frida ...
Genre :Adventure

Lady Rockett

1927-07-17 0

Married Alive

James Duxbury (Lou Tellegen) is an exponent of polygamy, which may not be legal but certainly provides him with several evenings of entertainment. Professor Charles Orme (Matt Moore) falls in love wit ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Beresford

1921-11-28 0

Hail the Woman

Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than determine whether the stories are true, he bans her fr ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Maylie

1922-10-30 6.3

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Brent

1922-09-09 0

The Crusader

Veteran action hero William Russell starred opposite his offscreen wife Helen Ferguson in this typical Fox oater about a miner who finds himself up against a master swindler (George Webb). ...
Genre :Western

Granny Mary

1924-09-15 8

Wine of Youth

Based on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young generation" and how they think they know it all. It's also a play about love and marriage. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mother Hilgard

1918-02-01 5.7

'Blue Blazes' Rawden

Rawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and younger brothe ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Aunt Tiny Colvin

1919-02-02 0

Hard Boiled

A musical-comedy troupe headed by prima donna Corinne Melrose is stranded in the little town of Nilesburg, Arizona, when the show's manager leaves town with all the money. When Corinne spends her last ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mere Felice

1919-06-14 6

The Crimson Gardenia

Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is mistaken for e ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Laila

1916-10-01 0

The Jungle Child

After her family dies in the jungle, Ollante is raised by Brazilian Indians, and, from her rugged lifestyle, she grows into a woman of uncommon strength and courage. Then, she rescues Ridgeway Webb, a ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Hardy

1917-11-26 4.5

The Silent Man

A hard-working prospector enters the town of Bakeoven to stake his claim, only to have his rights stolen and his face on "Wanted" posters. He plans reprisal. ...
Genre :Western

Mrs. Hall

1915-03-24 0

In the Switch Tower

IN THE SWITCH TOWER stars Walter Edwards (who also directed) as Bill Wharton, a middle-aged alcoholic who was once a leading engineer with a railroad. Wharton is estranged from his son Joel (Frank Bor ...
Genre :Drama

Ma Logan

1922-08-19 0

Human Hearts

Innocent country boy Tom Logan is taken in by the scheming Barbara Kay, a city woman who knows Tom is set to inherit his fathers farm which sits on a rich coal field. Toms father sees through her plot ...
Genre :Drama

Grandma Brewster

1922-11-19 0

The Super-Sex

The Super-Sex is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Robert Gordon, Charlotte Pierce and Tully Marshall. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Minor Role (uncredited)

1928-03-10 7

Red Hair

A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also happen to be the guardians of a wealthy young man to ...
Genre :Comedy

Mom Todd

1915-02-26 5

The Sheriff's Streak of Yellow

One of the earliest westerns directed by William S. Hart. In this film Sferiff Hale (Hart) lets a villain escape to pay his 'debt' to him, at the risk of designation. ...
Genre :Western

Mrs. Denton

1916-04-09 5.5

The Aryan

Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rage, he kidnaps the woman most responsible and makes her his slave in a desert hideaway. ...
Genre :Western

Mrs. McCarver

1927-09-03 0

We're All Gamblers

The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between Meighan and director James Cruze. Based on Lucky Sam McCarver, a play by Sidney ...
Genre :Drama

Character Lady

1920-10-01 0

Madame Peacock

Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. Returning home from a performance one night, Jane is disgusted to find her husband Robert McNaughton ...
Genre :Drama

Stella's mother

1919-08-03 0

A Petal on the Current

A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Kerran

1921-02-18 0

Society Secrets

Amos Kerran and his wife live a traditional, old-fashioned life on a Connecticut farm, while their son and daughter, Arthur and Maybelle, are successes in New York society. The children want to invite ...
Genre :Comedy

1920-06-01 0

Paris Green

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mrs. Denton

1917-12-24 0

His Mother's Boy

After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to discover the truth. But he has been spoiled by his mother and he has a hard time adjusting to his rough ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Bagley

1916-05-28 0

The Market of Vain Desire

A young girl is betrothed to a rich Count by her family who have hopes of partaking in the Count's fortune. A parson who loves her uses his pulpit in a scheme to shame the family into allowing the gir ...
Genre :Drama

Aunt Effie

1919-02-15 0

Romance and Arabella

Romance and Arabella is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Walter Edwards and starring Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, and Monte Blue. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Letitia Jane Adams

1917-06-24 6

Madcap Madge

The social climbing Flower family is comprised of Mr. Flower, a banker who has overextended himself financially, Mrs. Flower, a socially ambitious mother, Julia Flower, a marriage-minded elder daughte ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1918-10-13 0

When Do We Eat?

Impersonating Little Eva in a third-rate travelling production of Uncle Tom's Cabin fails to earn Nora enough for a square daily meal, and to make thing worse, her stage career comes to a sudden end w ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mrs. Clary

1918-07-28 0

A Nine O'Clock Town

David Clary runs a sleepy little dry-goods store in a sleepy little town. A vamp from the big city shows up, intent on taking Clary for everything he's worth by a combination of seduction and blackmai ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Susanne's Aunt

1920-12-10 0

Her Beloved Villain

Genre :Comedy

Angelica Pennington

1919-09-28 0

Widow by Proxy

Spinster sisters Sophronia and Angelica Pennington of Massachusetts refuse to meet Dolores, the bride of their nephew Jack, because she formerly was an actress. After Dolores receives word that Jack d ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mrs. Warner - the Governor's Mother

1914-12-09 0

The City of Darkness

John Warner, the newly elected governor, as district attorney, had ordered the execution of Horgan's sons, thus making him his worst enemy. Horgan, head of the First District, owns a fancy saloon. Don ...
Genre :Drama

'Mom' Lewis

1914-11-04 0

The Desperado

Genre :Western

Mrs. Jim Reed

1914-05-27 0

The Wharf Rats

Genre :Drama

Ma Vandegrift

1924-02-02 0

Daughters of Today

Mabel Vandergrift moves from the country to the city and enrolls in an upscale college. She starts to hang around with a "fast" crowd, and one night at a party a young man picks her for his "conquest" ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Rand

1924-01-24 0

The Heart Bandit

A kindly old woman named Mrs. Rand takes in wayward girl and petty crook Molly O'Hara, known as "Angel Face" to her gang. Mrs. Rand eventually gets Molly to see the error of her ways and she reforms. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Hubbard

1919-03-30 0

Little Comrade

Little Comrade is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Chester Withey. ...
Genre :Comedy

Grandma MacLaren

1922-12-01 0

Environment

The rehabilitation of "Chicago Sal," a lady crook, is seemingly realized when probation officers send her to the country home of Steve MacLaren to work off money stolen from him by her partner. She fa ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Robert's Mother

1919-09-21 0

Stepping Out

A young wife slaves for her cad of a husband. When she learns that he has been "stepping out" with his secretary, she gets revenge by going after the attentions of her husband's employer. ...
Genre :Drama

The Mevrouw

1917-08-20 0

Wooden Shoes

Pampy lives in a quaint little Dutch village, where she supports her invalid father by selling flowers to tourists. Pampy is so beautiful that she provides inspiration to Donald Luther, an American ar ...
Genre :Drama

Mother Marie

1916-12-02 0

The Criminal

A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs of her tenement, with a note attached explaining the baby is illegitimate. A young newspaper reporte ...
Genre :Drama

Granny

1925-03-30 0

The Goose Hangs High

Having a municipal position, Bernard Ingals has almost bankrupted himself sending his three children to college. The youngsters all arrive home for Christmas Eve, and their parents do their utmost to ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

'Grannie' Hanley

1926-09-26 0

Out of the West

John O'Connor and Jim Rollins, rival ranchmen, each has a baseball team, though Rollins' usually wins because O'Connor's foreman and pitcher, Bide Goodrich, is paid by Rollins to throw the game. When ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Elspeth Strong

1925-10-25 0

The Storm Breaker

John Strong, a fearless and boasting Nova Scotia sea captain, weds Lysette DeJon, a refined and dreamy young woman. During his long absences at sea, Lysette becomes increasingly attached to John's you ...
Genre :Drama