Florence Turner

AKA:

1.332

1887-01-06

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Crew Roles

The Hero

Story

Daisy Doodad's Dial

Writer

Daisy Doodad's Dial

Producer

Daisy Doodad's Dial

Director

A Welsh Singer

Producer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {88}

Mrs. Jordan

1913-05-02 0

The Skull

Just as the bead clerk and his assistants are closing up the jewelry store for the day, a package containing a very costly necklace arrives by special messenger. The large safe deposit vault has been ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller

1910-07-23 3

Hako's Sacrifice

Poor Hako, a Japanese boy, is sold into bondage to a cruel fisherman who makes his life a burden and even more wretched than his physical deformities and weakness. ...

Genre :Drama

Nuanua

1921-01-01 0

Passion Fruit

Filmed on location at Monterey, CA, and starring exotic stage dancer Mlle. Doraldina, this long-lost South Seas romance featured Stuart Holmes as a vicious plantation overseer who poisons his boss (W. ...

Genre :Romance

Julia

1925-09-13 6

Never the Twain Shall Meet

Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas. ...

Genre :Drama

Joan

1914-08-01 0

For Her People

A millgirl is loved by the owner's son and the socialist foreman, who incites a strike and burns the mill. ...

Genre :Drama

Ma Warren

1931-05-31 0

The Ridin' Fool

The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Boston Harry from being hanged by a group of vigilantes who accuse him of having killed Jim Beckworth. T ...

Genre :Western

Mrs. Walters

1924-01-01 0

The Boatswain's Mate

A retired boatswain hires an ex-soldier to rob a widow's inn. ...

Genre :Comedy

The Girl

1910-09-19 3.2

Jean the Match-Maker

Bent on having a summer’s vacation, two working girls hire a tent and pitch their camp on the shore of a beautiful lake. As fate would have it, two farmer lads, living with their widowed mother and th ...

Genre :Romance

Marie Petrini

1912-01-02 0

A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli

Lieutenant Troyano, a young Italian officer, bids his sweetheart, Marie Petrini, a fond farewell and then rushes to war. In reading a detailed newspaper account of the battle, Marie sees an appeal for ...

Genre :Drama

The Country Girl

1912-01-06 0

The Path of True Love

Among the green hills and running brooks, we follow the country boy and girl, who are happy in the contentment of their hearts and a ripening love for each other. In contrast we see another picture of ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Florence Hart

1912-01-23 0

Jean Intervenes

"Love me, love my dog," does not appeal to Billy Hallock. He is very jealous of his wife's attentions to her dog "Jean." ...

Genre :Comedy

Ethona / Juliet

1912-01-30 0

Indian Romeo and Juliet

Oniatare, a young brave of the tribe of the Hurons, and Kowa, a chief of the Mohicans, are in love with Ethona, or "The River Flower," an Indian Princess. The Hurons and the Mohicans are sworn enemies ...

Genre :Romance, Western

1908-09-28 3

Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III. ...

Genre :Drama

Warehouse Proprietor's Wife

1926-06-15 0

The Last Alarm

Firemen Tom and Joe each loves the other's sister, although neither is able to support a wife. Tom's troubles are compounded by a rival for his sweetheart's hand. In a drawn out fight he bests the riv ...

Genre :Drama

The Old Man's Daughter

1913-04-29 5

A Window on Washington Park

From his apartment, where he lives a cheerless widower's life, overlooking Washington Park, Alan Dale sees a refined, but poverty-stricken old gentleman on one of the park benches. Calling his butler, ...

Genre :Drama

Titania

1909-12-25 4.844

A Midsummer Night's Dream

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play. ...

Genre :Fantasy, Comedy

Kitty Mallory

1912-08-09 0

Wanted... a Grandmother

Kitty Mallory, the young actress, finds herself in straightened circumstances. Looking for the immediate dollar, she sees an "ad" in the newspaper, for an elderly lady as companion to a little invalid ...

Genre :Drama

Virginia Jameson

1912-09-28 0

The Irony of Fate

Virginia Jameson, a girl of lovely disposition, is wooed by a man much older than herself whom she very much dislikes, but who stands very high in the favor of her parents. She might have married anot ...

Genre :Drama

Lucie Manette

1911-02-20 5

A Tale of Two Cities

A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Florence Turner

1912-09-17 4.8

A Vitagraph Romance

After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the Vitagraph Company as an actress. After waiting wistfully for her return, Senator Carter passes a the ...

Genre :Romance, Drama, Comedy

Dollie - the Absent-Minded Sweetheart

1911-09-08 0

Cherry Blossoms

Billie and Dollie are very much in love with each other, and they declare their love under the cherry trees. In later years Billie receives news of his appointment as a cadet at West Point: he promise ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Dolly Dillard

1912-12-09 0

The Signal of Distress

Dolly Dillard jumps at the conclusion that George Gordon is playing her false, as he affectionately greets his sister at the train when she comes to pay him a visit. Dolly, who is not acquainted with ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Mrs. Downes

1911-06-09 10

The Sacrifice

During Nick Austin's imprisonment, his wife passes away. Before she dies, she writes a note to her husband, asking him to put her little girl in the care of an orphan asylum. Mrs. Downes, while bringi ...

Genre :Drama

Bit Role (uncredited)

1936-05-13 4.818

One Rainy Afternoon

Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking P ...

Genre :Comedy

Constance Barnes

1921-01-01 0

The Old Wives' Tale

A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war. ...

Genre :Drama, War

1911-12-05 0

Hypnotizing the Hypnotist

As a woman consults a professional hypnotist, her father goes to another hypnotist and picks up a few tricks of his own.. ...

Genre :

Mrs. Simpson

1927-08-15 0

Stranded

When a pretty small-town girl with no talent goes to Hollywood, what could go wrong? She could get Stranded! ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1908-02-08 0

Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers

Francesca, surrounded by ladies-in-waiting at the palace. Her father enters, and together they read a letter from Lanciotto, asking for the hand of Francesca. Both are overjoyed at the union of the tw ...

Genre :Drama

Alice Gregg

1927-01-31 0

The Overland Stage

At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout for the Overland Stage Co., and Kunga-Sunga, a wiza ...

Genre :Western

(archive footage)

2014-08-01 7.5

A Night at the Cinema in 1914

Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses nationwide offered a sociable, lively environment in which to relax and escape from the daily grind ...

Genre :Documentary

A Mother

1927-09-10 6.8

College

A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Mrs. Lawrence

1930-01-15 0

The Rampant Age

Wealthy playboy Sandy Benton falls for pretty but decidedly less wealthy neighbor Doris Lawrence. She rebuffs his attentions, but scheming golddigger Estelle has her own plans for Sandy. When Doris he ...

Genre :Drama

Jenny

1910-10-18 0

Auld Robin Gray

Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry old Robin Gray. ...

Genre :

Trial Spectator (uncredited)

1931-12-29 6.8

Taxi!

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competiti ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Victoria Vickers

1916-09-02 4.4

East Is East

Victoria Vickers, a little East End Cockney girl, is left a vast fortune by an uncle in America. She is finally discovered hop-picking in Kent by her solicitor, who has given up the search and gone of ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

The Anarchist's Wife

1912-11-17 4

The Anarchist's Wife

In this Vitagraph short, anarchism threatens to ruin lives and families. Luigi and Rosa are a couple with an adorable child, but trouble is afoot – Luigi has become an anarchist! ...

Genre :Drama

Eva Bundy

1921-03-28 5.5

All Dolled Up

The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Nell

1908-12-04 10

Miss Sherlock Holmes

Nell, the boss's daughter, uses Sherlock Holmes' detective work, to choose between the two suitors at her dad's broker's office. ...

Genre :Comedy

Beth

1910-12-06 4

A Tin-Type Romance

Two nice young people become acquainted at the beach; A romance develops. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

1911-06-20 0

The Stumbling Block

A man is rejected by a woman, and then decides to have her dog stolen. The dog is very approachable, and although he at first wants nothing to do with the man, they ultimately become good friends. Fin ...

Genre :

Mrs. Phillmore

1927-10-23 0

The Chinese Parrot

The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan. ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

1907-10-04 4.7

The Gipsy's Warning

The story centers on a gregarious but rather undependable man whose attentions to a young gypsy woman lead to complications for them both. ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs. Baggott

1928-12-01 0

Jazzland

Fighting the invasion of their small New England town by a big city--type nightclub, the Jazzland, a young newspaperman and his brother endeavor to learn the identity of the club's owner... ...

Genre :Drama

Bit

1924-12-08 5

Janice Meredith

It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Wa ...

Genre :Drama, History, Romance, War

Daisy Doodad

1914-03-31 6

Daisy Doodad's Dial

Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins instead. When the next opportunity comes around, s ...

Genre :Comedy

The new stenographer

1911-02-18 4

The New Stenographer

A capable but homely new hire becomes ill and recommends her beautiful cousin during leave. The bosses and clerk get a surprise at the end. ...

Genre :Comedy

1910-12-31 0

Where the Winds Blow

Hugh gives his dog to Nancy while he goes to sea. When Nancy's father runs out of money, he must return to the sea with Hugh. ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs. Bradley

1928-12-01 4.5

The Pace That Kills

Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister; both of them get involved with drug dealers and become opium/cocaine addicts. ...

Genre :Drama

Jessica

1908-12-22 0

The Merchant of Venice

Genre :Drama

Alice

1925-01-30 0

The Mad Marriage

Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by marrying a wealthy old colonel. As a young adult, Mary Jane meets and falls in love with reclusive ...

Genre :Drama

1911-01-01 0

Hypnotising the Hypnotist

As a bonus to this year’s screening of The Boatswain’s Mate, festival attendees can also enjoy “Vitagraph Girl” Florence Turner in this short comedy produced in 1911, when Turner was at the height of ...

Genre :

Doris Myhtle

1912-05-12 4

Aunty's Romance

Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is deceased, Stephen Fiske travels to New York, where he lea ...

Genre :Drama

Sylvia

1912-09-12 4

The Loyalty of Sylvia

The daughter of an old friend is staying with Dr. Laurence. Sylvia is a naughty girl; she puts sneezing powder into a bunch of flowers to make everyone in the house sneeze. After the doctor introduces ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Mary Carter

1913-09-14 0

Pumps

A short romantic comedy about a woman and a man who both have shoes that are too small, and who meet as they are taking off their shoes; a pair of wedding slippers is the result. ...

Genre :Comedy

The Boss's Wife

1913-02-06 6

Stenographer Troubles

A comic one-act film featuring the character Bunny, which takes place in an office. ...

Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Canfield

1928-03-23 6

The Road to Ruin

A controversial, low-budget drama about the life of a young teenage girl that goes on the "road to ruin." Sally is a 16-year-old New York City teen who, neglected by her parents, takes up smoking and ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs. Renfrew

1911-05-18 6

The Show Girl

Audrey, a charming actress, but classed among the show girls, is invited with some of her stage companions, to have lunch with an old friend, by the name of Dr. Renfrew. The doctor and Audrey, eating ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Mame

1912-10-02 4

She Cried

A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory. ...

Genre :

Dorothy Ellis

1912-10-08 4

When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet

Short comedy about a arguing couple in which the man is doing everything to make up with his girlfriend. Henri has a fight with his girlfriend, Dora. He tries to make excuses by phone and by mail, but ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Francesca da Polenta

1910-11-19 0

Francesca di Rimini

The story of Canto V of the Inferno is briefly summarized. The film is a remake of The Two Brothers (a.k.a. Francesca di Rimini), and based on the play Francesca da Rimini by Gabriele D'Anunzio. Both ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs. Seaton

1924-06-01 0

Women and Diamonds

In Africa a typist is framed for killing a diamond smuggler who betrayed her father. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Mrs. Schuyler

1928-05-21 7.8

Walking Back

Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed au ...

Genre :Drama

1908-01-18 4.8

The Last Cartridge, An Incident of the Sepoy Rebellion in India

Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest she be taken. ...

Genre :Drama

The Anarchist's Wife

1913-03-13 0

The One Good Turn

A political crime film in which a militant, anarchist father allows his political ideals to prevail over human dignity. The father uses his young daughter to carry out an attack on Princess Louise. Af ...

Genre :Drama

Hettty Hutter

1913-05-06 6.2

The Deerslayer

Wah-Ta-Wah, or Hist, the lady-love of Chingachgook, a Delaware chief, has been captured by the warlike Hurons. Chingachgook asks the aid of Deerslayer, a white man brought up among the Indians, in res ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama

Janet

1923-12-01 0

Sally Bishop

A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry. ...

Genre :Romance

Viola

1910-02-04 5

Twelfth Night

When Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and separated, Viola dresses in her brother's clothes and becomes a page in the palace of the Duke of Orsino. Thinking Viola is a boy, the Duk ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Topsy

1910-07-26 0

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central figure in the drama is Uncle Tom, a slave initially in ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs. Williams

1927-09-02 0

Sally in Our Alley

Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy preparing their meals and keeping the house, while the ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

1910-08-27 0

Rose Leaves

Mrs. String, sitting under the rose bushes with her baby, Helen, on her knee, is approached lovingly by her husband, who lovingly speaks to his family and then shakes the rose bushes over their heads, ...

Genre :Drama

Jennie

1911-11-07 0

Auld Lang Syne

Among the green hills of Scotland dwelt two farmer lads, Tammas and Geordie, fast friends tried and loyal as members of the same clan. They are both very much in love with Jenny, a little Scottish las ...

Genre :Drama

Mrs. Welby

1926-03-13 0

The Gilded Highway

After inheriting a fortune from an uncle they barely and carelessly cared for during his last years, the Welbys become social-climbing snobs to the point of ignoring old friends and breaking off marri ...

Genre :Drama

1910-12-17 0

A Dixie Mother

Set during and after the Civil War, a Southern mother deals with the loss of both of her sons as one dies and the other marries a Northern nurse. ...

Genre :

Men Haters Club Member

1910-08-26 5

The Men Haters' Club

When a letter from another woman falls from her boyfriend's pocket, she and her friends form the Men Haters Club. The boys quickly arrange into the Follow the Girls Club in the hopes of winning them b ...

Genre :Comedy

Alice Gordon

1911-06-16 0

Proving His Love; or, The Ruse of a Beautiful Woman

An unfortunate twist of fate provides the opportunity for a reporter to demonstrate the depth of his love for a beautiful actress. ...

Genre :

Mrs. Gilbert

1926-08-02 6

Padlocked

Genre :Drama, Romance

1913-01-20 0

What a Change of Clothes Did

Tired of being sought only for his money, a rich man goes on a fishing trip. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1907-09-28 0

The Mill Girl, a Story of Factory Life

A girl who works in a textile mill suffers unwanted advances from her boss. Her boyfriend, who also works there, sees it and knocks the boss down. In retaliation, the boss hires two thugs to beat up t ...

Genre :Drama

Banquet Guest

1908-04-19 4

Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Sublime Tragedy

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor. ...

Genre :Drama

Miss Julia

1927-02-15 0

The Broken Gate

In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a son by townsman Lucius Henderson, who refuses to marry her or even admit that he's the father. Shun ...

Genre :Drama

1910-06-10 0

Over the Garden Wall

Making the best of her genteel poverty, our heroine prepares to attend the dance to which she has been invited, and, after surveying the general effect of her plain and somewhat passé attire, goes on ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Miss Blair

1928-01-01 0

The Law and the Man

A silent film from the end of the silent era. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Alice

1911-01-31 0

Jean Rescues

Alice is in an unhappy relationship with her fiance. She falls for a new man, but he goes swimming and starts to drown. Can Jean save the day? ...

Genre :

Charmis Graham

1920-07-10 0

The Ugly Duckling

Genre :Comedy

Myfanwy

1916-08-14 0

A Welsh Singer

A shepherdess becomes an opera star. A shepherd becomes a sculptor. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Olga - A Poor Russian Dressmaker

1913-03-14 0

Sisters All

Genre :Drama

1908-04-11 5

Tale the Autumn Leaves Told

A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks. ...