Frank Evans

AKA: Frank L Evans, Frankie Evans
0.2903

1848-12-30

USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {62}

Wagon Owner

1912-04-10 4.3

Help! Help!

A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the heroine, thinking that burglars are trying to break i ...
Genre :Comedy

A Farmhand (uncredited)

1910-07-11 4.2

What the Daisy Said

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. When the gypsy tells the fortune so as ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Mill Foreman

1915-12-26 1

Destruction

Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies before he can change his will. She next tries to kill the son who inherits, but he outfoxes her. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Wedding Guest / In Bar

1911-10-26 0

The Long Road

Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family. ...
Genre :Drama

Party Guest

1909-12-30 2.75

The Day After

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next mo ...
Genre :Comedy

In Bar / Among Rescuers (uncredited)

1912-06-10 4

A Temporary Truce

A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian; The son, a b ...
Genre :Action, Western

A Cowboy (uncredited)

1912-03-25 0

The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

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. His chances, however, are slim for B ...
Genre :Romance, Western

Second Federal Agent

1913-06-15 5

The Switchtower

"He was a regular boy and his father a switchman. The boy determined to be like his dad and spent his play hours around the switch-tower. Thus at the crucial moment he was able to save his father's ho ...
Genre :Drama

A Fireman

1912-05-08 0

When the Fire-Bells Rang

They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the "Opry House." A traveling dramatic company arrives, and. in putting on a Roman tragedy, needs twent ...
Genre :Comedy

Pete McGill

1917-07-09 0

The Love That Lives

When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children. ...
Genre :Drama

First Hotel Detective

1913-02-27 0

Love in an Apartment Hotel

In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment. He was her ideal, and the all-adoring bell-boy was firmly but gently given to understand ...
Genre :Drama

Prison Official

1913-09-22 0

The Law and His Son

In this film one is shown the contrast of two fathers. One father refuses to believe his son guiltless, while the other, fully realizing the weakness of his son, struggles to save him from further dis ...
Genre :Drama

First Policeman

1913-11-01 0

The Stopped Clock

No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was reported by the detective and he was discharged. In truth ...
Genre :Drama

Policeman

1913-11-20 0

The Detective's Stratagem

In his moment of weakness, the bank thieves prevented the young cashier from becoming that against which his heart rebelled, a thief. Evidence however, was against him. The detective's clever unwindin ...
Genre :Drama

Detective Ellis

1918-02-01 6

The Knife

Kate Tarleton grows up on a Southern plantation and becomes engaged to her guardian, Dr. Robert Manning, a famous surgeon. When Robert, Kate, and her younger sister Mary Lou visit New York, where the ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

1914-11-30 5

The Woman in Black

Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as "The Woman in Black," she vows revenge. Meanwhile ...
Genre :Drama

The Landlord

1912-04-24 5.8

One Is Business, the Other Crime

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a ...
Genre :Drama

Jack's Father

1911-07-23 4.5

A Country Cupid

Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. Without her knowledge, one of her students fishes it out of ...
Genre :Romance

Policeman

1910-06-06 4.5

A Child of the Ghetto

After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She fl ...
Genre :Drama

In Posse

1909-11-24 4.6

The Mountaineer's Honor

A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the brother and prepares to lynch him. Mother interven ...
Genre :Drama

Doc Roper

1923-04-30 0

Backbone

When Yvonne de Chausson comes home from a trip to France, she is told that her grandfather, lumber magnate Andre de Mersay, has been stricken with an undisclosed illness. He is sequestered in a room a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Magnate's Aide

1913-11-22 0

By Man's Law

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. ...
Genre :Drama

The Policeman

1910-06-03 0

A Midnight Cupid

Perry Dudley, a rich eligible bachelor, is bored with his life and longs for a change. Nick, a penniless tramp, has received a letter from the town where he lived as a child, asking him to return home ...
Genre :Comedy

A Policeman

1911-11-30 0

A Woman Scorned

Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house, the doctor's wife and daughter are trapped. One of the thieves has jilted his sweetheart, who tell ...
Genre :Drama

1912-02-21 4.7

Under Burning Skies

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. An angry Joe eventually gets hi ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Mr. Hurley

1917-02-06 0

The Argyle Case

When multi-millionaire banker John Argyle is found brutally murdered in his home, suspicions are cast upon Mary Mazuret, his adopted daughter who became the sole beneficiary of his estate under his wi ...
Genre :Mystery

At Dance (uncredited)

1912-10-31 6.221

The Musketeers of Pig Alley

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

The Sheriff / In First Audience / At Dance / In Second Audience

1911-10-04 6.3

The Making of a Man

A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home... ...
Genre :Drama

Amos Barker

1927-06-10 5.8

Running Wild

Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can l ...
Genre :Comedy

Jack's Partner

1912-03-14 5

Iola's Promise

Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other ...
Genre :Romance, Western, Drama

First Oil Rig Foreman

1913-06-07 4.8

A Timely Interception

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. ...
Genre :Drama

The Blacksmith

1913-05-19 0

Olaf—An Atom

Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby. Olaf is able to ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Brown

1925-08-23 0

The Knockout

A Lambert Hillyer silent romantic love triangle boxing sports lumberjack logging melodrama about a world champion boxer who must retire due to an arm injury. He becomes a lumberjack, and becomes invo ...
Genre :Drama

In Lee's Tent

1910-08-08 5.2

The House with Closed Shutters

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. Their mother, ...
Genre :Drama, War

The Gambler

1912-05-09 5.7

A Lodging for the Night

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. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl ...
Genre :Drama

The Stage Manager

1909-12-27 5.25

To Save Her Soul

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to ...
Genre :Drama

The Butler

1909-11-01 5

What's Your Hurry?

Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry sees Papa walk in with a shotgun he misunderstands an ...
Genre :Comedy

1909-12-13 6.141

A Corner in Wheat

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts ...
Genre :Drama

At Wedding

1909-10-18 2

His Lost Love

Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary and leaves her newborn daughter motherless. Luke of ...
Genre :

The Policeman

1910-08-15 5

The Usurer

A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations. ...
Genre :Drama

1912-09-22 5.5

Friends

The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners. ...
Genre :Western, Romance

Matthew Owens

1919-10-12 0

The Open Door

After serving fifteen years of a twenty-year prison term for embezzlement, Joe Moore is released early for good behavior. In New York, he finds Matthew Owens and James Horton, his former business asso ...
Genre :Mystery

Mr. Carrigan

1918-05-01 0

Conquered Hearts

Nora, a girl of the lower East Side of New York City, marries a rising ward politician. A child is born. They are happy, but the young politician is running for office against the old ward boss and ha ...
Genre :Drama

Tiger

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The Tiger's Cub

Queen of the serials Pearl White gets herself into plenty of trouble up Klondike way as a young maiden named Tiger's Cub. ...
Genre :Drama

Work

1921-08-07 0

Experience

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of ...
Genre :Drama

Helen's Father

1924-11-23 0

Flying Fists

Genre :Drama

Helen's Father

1925-04-01 0

The Jazz Fight

Genre :Documentary

Helen's Father

1925-03-15 0

The Surprise Fight

Genre :Documentary

Helen's Father

1925-03-01 0

The Come-Back

Genre :Documentary

Helen's Father

1925-02-15 0

Soft Muscles

Genre :Documentary

Helen's Father

1925-02-01 0

Hitting Hard

Genre :Documentary

Helen's Father

1925-01-15 0

Breaking In

Genre :Documentary

Ship Captain

1916-09-03 0

The Unwelcome Mother

Ellinor, who was unofficially adopted as an orphan by 'Old Peter,' who maintained a lighthouse on a virtually deserted beach, has grown up wild and nearly silent. As she blossoms into full womanhood, ...
Genre :Drama

Hardy

1916-11-20 0

Beyond the Wall

Genre :Drama

Amos Matson

1916-05-08 0

Her Maternal Right

Genre :Drama

Frankie

1924-06-30 0

Love of Women

Genre :Drama

Fisherman in First Port

1909-10-27 3.2

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a different port. Emily waits faithfully for six years, fin ...
Genre :Drama

Man on Pier

1909-11-01 4.1

The Gibson Goddess

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her ...
Genre :Comedy

At the Ball

1909-11-11 4.1

The Light That Came

A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored? ...
Genre :Drama

In Mob

1909-11-03 4.2

Nursing a Viper

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by dis ...
Genre :Drama

Servant

1909-11-08 4.5

The Restoration

A husband suspects his wife of an affair. The wife's cousin borrows a shawl to meet her lover in the garden. The husband spies the couple embracing, and, thinking it's his wife, he strikes the lover. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Confederate Soldier (uncredited)

1910-06-13 5.5

In the Border States

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. The ...
Genre :Drama, War